August 7, 2019

Steps to manage your skeleton directory in WHM

Linux General,

The skeleton directory or skel, is a feature available in WHM.  Anything placed in the skeleton directory of the reseller account is automatically copied to the home directory of any new cPanel account created. The skeleton directory will allow you to easily copy the same files in to every new account’s public_html when the you…

Read more
July 22, 2019

CloudLinux and its usage in shared hosting

Linux General,

One of the most popular technologies for web hosting and specially for shared servers is CloudLinux . It provides a secure and stable hosting environment for sysadmins and web hosting companies to work on a secure environments. So what is CloudLinux  ? – It is linux based OS and the leading platform to improve server…

Read more
July 19, 2019

Rebuild corrupted userdata files in Cpanel

Cpanel,

The userdata directory is one of the important directories of cPanel which stores the user account configuration of the cPanel or WHM accounts. It defines various info like parked, addon, subdomains as well as the VirtualHost. cPanel & WHM utilizes data from the files within /var/cpanel/userdata/ where account-related data is stored or read from. The…

Read more
June 17, 2019

Steps to Backup and Restore cPanel Accounts via SSH

Cpanel,

cPanel provides some great ready made scripts which will make your tasks more easy. Commands such as pkgacct is basically used for backing up cpanel web hosting accounts and restorepkg for restoring cpanel accounts via the SSH or command line interface. You can simply follow these steps as cPanel allows you to backup and restore cPanel accounts easily. How to create…

Read more
June 3, 2019

Steps to Manage or Create parked domains in cPanel

Cpanel,

The domains that you own but that do not contain any content is parked domains. You can use parked domains to hold a domain that is for sale or redirect traffic to another domain. You must register a parked domain name before visitors can access it. Now let’s go straight into the steps to Manage or…

Read more
May 23, 2019

Convert Addon Domain to Primary cPanel Domain

Cpanel,

To convert an Addon Domain to a Primary cPanel Domain you must create a backup of your web content and MySql database. At first you need to: Login to WHM with root user Once logged in – on your left hand side pane search for the option of “Transfers” and then click on “Convert Addon Domain to Account” option. On…

Read more
May 7, 2019

Email alert ! when someone logs into your server as root

Server Management,

Email Alert: It’s very crucial to keep track of what is happening with servers and who logs into the server as far as the security of the server is concerned. Any user who gains root access can do whatever he wants. So its highly necessary to Setup an Email alert when something anonymous takes place.…

Read more
April 26, 2019

Guide to Install PIP on CentOS 7

Linux General,

PIP is one of the best tool for you to install and manage Python packages. Moreover PIP is a package management system used to install and manage software packages written in Python. With this guide you can easily Install PIP on CentOS 7 . You can install PIP either by using YUM or with Curl…

Read more
April 11, 2019

Check if your Linux server is Under DDOS Attack or not!

Linux General,

When your server is under DDoS(Distributed Denial of Service) attack it experiences high inflow of data that depletes the server performance or even leads to server crash. Hence you can login to your server as root and fire the following command, using which you can check if your Linux server is under DDOS attack or…

Read more
March 15, 2019

WordPress Site Scanning – Quick help guide for system administrators

Content management system,

With the increasing use of Internet in the world, the data threats are doubling and more severe too. If you are serious about your website, you need to pay attention to WordPress security. In this guide, we share a quick help guide for System Administrators on WordPress site scanning. Hosting facts says that there are…

Read more