Monthly Archives: January 2015
Outsourced Hosting Support vs. In-House Hosting Support
There are many things to consider when you run a hosting company. Support is a vital part of your company. You may need to decide between outsourced hosting support and in-house hosting support. Both have advantages and disadvantages. Here’s a comparison of both. Cost Since many smaller hosting companies are concerned about cost, it’s the …
How to enable Passive FTP mode on cPanel
If passive mode is not enabled on your FTP server, then a customer who’s trying to use passive mode will timeout when trying to get a directory listing. To enable passive mode on your ftp server on a cPanel server, do the following: Pure-FTP SSH to the server as root (or another user, then su …
How to enable Passive FTP mode on Plesk in Linux
If passive mode is not enabled on your FTP server, then a customer who’s trying to use passive mode will timeout when trying to get a directory listing. To enable passive mode on your ftp server in the Linux flavor of Plesk, do the following. SSH to the server as root Edit the proftpd.conf file. …
Reset Plesk permissions for a windows account
Let’s face it, we’ve all had that customer that adjusts permissions on folders until the point it just will not work any further. Resetting permissions on a windows Plesk server is pretty easy to fix. Here’s how. First, you need to make a remote connection to the server via RDP, VNC, TeamViewer, or however …
Setup quota on OpenVZ VPS containers
It seems that out of the box, OpenVZ with cPanel, disk quotas do not work. You can set quotas on clients accounts inside the WHM, but they don’t actually calculate, so essentially, everybody on that server has unlimited disk space. To correct this, you need to make the following changes on the VPS hardware node. …
Avoid Outages and Performance Issues with Expert Server Monitoring
A data center plays a number of roles and one of them is to make sure the servers can perform at the highest possible level. The right server monitoring can male all the difference. If you run a hosting company or you have servers you need monitored, you need an expert. Trusting Remote Server Monitoring …
Deciphering CSF blocked messages on a cPanel server
Often a client will get their IP address blocked on CSF (http://configserver.com/cp/csf.html). The blocked messages will tell you why it was blocked, however it’s usually quite vague stating it was blocked for failed passwords to the POP3 server. What it doesn’t tell you however is which account caused the block. Here is my cheat sheet …
Find outdated versions of WordPress on your Cpanel or Plesk server
In my opinion, one of the most vulnerable software packages out there has to be wordpress. Not a day goes by that I don’t come across a hacked wordpress site. More often then not, the reason the site was hacked is the client did not keep their wordpress updated. Hacked wordpress sites will not only …
How to get a listing of all Joomla installs on your server, and their versions.
This how to applies to Linux based, cPanel, and Plesk servers. If you are looking to find out who on your server is running old insecure versions of Joomla, then the following commands will help to track them down. This will scan through all your users home directories, find out who has Joomla installed, and …
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