I don’t mean to offend anyone who still uses Fantastico. Some people prefer to stick to what they’re used to, and Fantastico is the original open-source auto-installer built for cPanel and has a pretty solid name in the hosting industry. But geez – what happened? Where did all their developers go, and what are the…
Read moreThis may seem pretty simple, but I see a lot of questions about how to get a user’s disk space usage on a cPanel user. I put together a quick list of 5 simple ways for the average admin: 1) Good ole’ cPanel/WHM. You can see the usage on the left-hand side of cPanel,…
Read moreUpdate: Please be advised that this post does not apply to you if you’re running EasyApache 4, because EA4 uses PHP RPMs and MySQL client compatibility libraries. Please make sure you are following the instructions below that pertain to your system! There’s a dilemma among system administrators of high-traffic servers when it comes to doing…
Read moreI’ve seen several cases in the last few months where database users seemingly “disappear” or privileges appear to become invalid when restoring MySQL data or an entire server from raw backups. This may commonly be attributed to a MySQL version mismatch, for example, when a server is running MySQL 5.0 and then is suddenly running…
Read moreAfter switching several servers over from APF to CSF, my colleagues and I noticed that there are times during the day that LFD just chews away CPU, even while the process claims it’s “sleeping”: root 15785 35.6 0.1 194496 buy cheap levitra 93104 ? Ss 00:00 474:54 lfd – sleeping 35.6% CPU? What is it…
Read moreUpdate 2/14/14: These instructions have been updated to apply to 11.36+. If at all possible, you should use WHM to install MySQL, however, if you need a version of MySQL outside of what they are offering in current cPanel versions, it is possible to install your own versions. These instructions can also be used to…
Read moreIf your server is approaching 99% disk space, your users may be aware of this before you are. At the 1% free margin, the following error will pop up when accessing certain features in cPanel and WHM: Sorry for the inconvience! The filesystem mounted at / on this server is running out of disk space.…
Read moreWith spam continuing to be an increasing problem, hosting providers are always looking for ways to filter out junk so their customers remain as spam free as possible. SpamAssassin, the anti-spam software bundled with cPanel, will do a sufficient job in filtering some spam, but to truly get bragging rights as a spam-free host, you…
Read moreNote: It is mentioned in the comments that recent versions of cPanel include an Email Archiving feature that stores copies of email on the server for you. If this is what you’re trying to do, this feature is probably the better option. However, if you’re trying to forward copies of outgoing email to other addresses, the…
Read moreWhen running a cPanel update, you may get the following error: /scripts/upcp /scripts/upcp syntax OK Running Futex Check/Fix……Done Undefined subroutine &Cpanel::Update::automatic_updates_enabled called at /scripts/upcp line 273. To fix this, run the following command: wget -O /root/updatenow.static http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/cpanelsync/RELEASE/scripts/updatenow.static && perl /root/updatenow.static –manual Then you can proceed running a cPanel update: /scripts/upcp –force…
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