When you upgrade from cPanel 11.24 to 11.25, your users may notice that in cPanel, their MySQL databases show 0MB of disk space used, when they know their databases are much larger. This is due to an option in cPanel that you specifically have to enable. To enable MySQL disk usage tracking: 1) Edit /var/cpanel/cpanel.config…
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Maildir (run by Courier IMAP or Dovecot) is a mail format used in conjunction with an MTA to store email on the server as separate files within folders. This post covers Courier IMAP as a service, not in terms of mail client usage. Directory Structure A user’s email is store in ”’/home/user/mail/<domain>/<emailuser>/…”’. Below is a…
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If you’ve been running servers for a few years, you probably have at least one server or VPS in your fleet that’s running Redhat 9. Redhat 9 is old, but it’s stable (probably since there are never any updates for it), and the customers lingering on buy zithromax those servers are usually happy… …until you…
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Cpanel 11.24 comes with an Autofixer that allows you to fix common problems that may prevent access to certain parts of your system. …
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I’ve seen several features of cPanel appear to malfunction, and upon reviewing /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log, I’d see something similar to this: Out of memory during request for 2180 bytes, total sbrk() is 130234368 bytes! Common places this has been known to occur: In Webmail (Horde and Roundcube) when opening large attachments Using cPanel’s perl module installer You…
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Sometimes out of nowhere cPanel will just break. You don’t know why, you don’t know when, and you don’t know how…it just happens. In my experience it’s usually when a cPanel update fails for some reason or perl is borked, but either way – it just sucks. This article will go over how to fix…
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