Fixing Quotas on a cPanel Server

If you go into WHM > List Accounts and all your accounts are showing an unlimited quota and 0 disk space usage, you probably have a quota problem. First thing, try running /scripts/fixquotas This’ll take a while depending on your current disk usage, but will usually fix the problem. If it doesn’t, make sure that…

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User Databases Missing from cPanel

After upgrading to cPanel 11.28, a number of our users indicated that databases were missing from their cPanels, despite the actual databases existing on the server. There are a number of things that can cause this, including corrupted Perl modules and MySQL not running, but the major cause that I’ve seen is from the new…

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Cron

The following is a guest post from Gwen Davis of hostingobserver.com. History The first cron was written in the early 1970s for Version 7 UNIX as a system service (also known in UNIX as a daemon). The algorithm, invoked from the /etc/inittab location whenever the OS entered a multi-user mode, was simple — every minute,…

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