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Managing CageFS with cagefsctl

Posted on March 27, 2017 by admin

To enable CageFS for a user, run

Get access to Cpanel/WHM using whmapi1

Posted on March 27, 2017 by admin

whmapi1 is a command line tool in cpanel server, that can be used for many WHM API call. To get WHM access to an account using root SSH, run Getting Cpanel Access from root SSH Replace USERNAME with your user

DirectAdmin Hosting Control Panel

Posted on March 27, 2017 by admin

DirectAdmin is a Hosting Control Panel for linux and FreeBSD servers. https://directadmin.com/ Common Urls Direct Admin http://server-ip:2222/ Webmail http://server-ip/roundcube Find MySQL password in DirectAdmin Server Apache configuration Apache configs are stored in folder /etc/httpd/conf/ Some of the config files are

Finding Disk Usage with du

Posted on March 27, 2017 by admin

du is a command line tool used to check disk space usage in a directory. -h will show directory size in human readable format, default is byte. You can use -k for size in KB. -x Only show disk usage

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Securing WordPress With .htaccess

Posted on March 27, 2017 by admin

To secure wordpress using .htaccess add following to your main .htaccess file that is in root folder of your wordpress installation. To limit access to wp-admin folder, create an .htaccess file in wp-admin folder Add following content To disable execution

Amazon Elastic File System

Posted on March 26, 2017 by admin

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) a scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2. This is a network file system, that you can mount on multiple EC2 instances to share your application files. Very useful when you need to

GlusterFS – Storage for your Cloud

Posted on March 25, 2017 by admin

GlusterFS is a scalable network filesystem. Using common off-the-shelf hardware, you can create large, distributed storage solutions for media streaming, data analysis, and other data- and bandwidth-intensive tasks. GlusterFS is free and open source software. https://www.gluster.org/ To install GlusterFS on

KernelCare – Update Kernel with out rebooting

Posted on March 25, 2017 by admin

KernelCare allows you to update kernel with out rebooting. This work with many popular distributions. This is a product by CloudLinux, you can purchase license from https://www.cloudlinux.com/all-products/product-overview/kernelcare To install KernelCare, run To activate you license key, run Example [root@localhost ~]#

Managing Virtual Machines with virt-manager

Posted on March 25, 2017 by admin

The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but also manages Xen and LXC (linux containers). https://virt-manager.org/ To install on Ubuntu, run To connect to remote KVM or Xen

Hyper-V Failed Secure Boot Verification

Posted on March 25, 2017 by admin

When installing CentOS on a Hyper-V server, i get following error Boot Failed. EFI SCSI Device. Failed Secure Boot Verification This is because the VM is created with Generation 2. Solution 1 Disable secure boot under Settings. Solution 2 Use