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How to calculate linux permissions
Have you ever wondered why permissions in linux are typically listed as a 3 or 4 digit number? Here’s why. There are 4 groups of permissions. Special, User, Group, and Other. Special Three special types of permissions are available for executable files and public directories. When these permissions are set, any user who runs that …
Internet Archive – More then just the wayback machine
This is a short (13 minute) documentary about the Internet archive. It features Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of books, and Alexis Rossi, director of web collections discussing their attempt to offer free universal knowledge to everyone! Their mission includes archiving the Internet as a whole, as …
cPanel/WHM logs and locations
Many times you will run across an issue and are unsure what is happening/happened. cPanel has many logs available to the user, but it’s finding the location of these logs that is important. In this post, we will be talking about cPanel logs, and what is in the logs. You can always use the grep …
How to migrate an OpenVZ container to another hardware node
If you have a container that you want to move to another hardware node to help load balance your servers, this walk-through will explain how. The first thing you need to do is setup SSH keys. On the server that you are going to move a container FROM, run the following command: wget http://files.soluslabs.com/solusvm/scripts/keyput.sh chmod …
How to Start Your Own Web Hosting Company
If you’ve dreamed of starting a web hosting company, it’s important to understand the best way to go about it. There are many things you will need and multiple ways to go about getting them. Below you find a simple overview about how you can start your own web hosting company. Gain an Understanding of …
Installing ImageMagick on a cPanel server
If you have a client asking for ImageMagick to be installed on a server, do the following. First, make sure that it is not already installed. To do this, SSH to the server, and type the following: which convert This command will tell you where the convert (the main image magick binary) file is located …
Why Should you Outsource Your Hosting Infrastructure and Support?
When you go into business for yourself, you realize very quickly that it’s a balancing act between providing excellent service/products and keeping costs down. This is just part of business and becomes even more evident when the economy isn’t exactly strong. If you run a hosting business or have a need for a datacenter, one …
How to reset the Miva Admin password in Miva 4.x and 5.x
If you have a client that has lost their Miva admin password, you can reset it quite easily. To do so, do the following. Miva Merchant 4.x In /home/$username/mivadata (or where ever they have their mivadata setup) create a file called pre-provide.dat In this file, put the following line MERCHANT|||ACTION|DOMAIN_ADD_UPDATE_USER|,|temp,Hg8nFi!23,Y,Y,N,1000,N Set the ownership to …
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