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Check and verify cpanel license details
cPanel and WHM is the #1 leading control panel in the web hosting market. And time ago we posted a post about how to get a free cpanel license for test purposes, now… one of the things you may face when you are using cPanel is the need to verify cPanel license details. After testing your free 15…
Read More »Reset SSH port from WHM
This is a new way I found to reset ssh port from WHM control panel if you ever lost SSH access because you forgot what is the port you are running, or something got screwed up in the middle of your sshd configuration. On Linux servers the default SSH port is 22, this also applies to cPanel based…
Read More »Nginx upstream timed out
Upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out) while reading response header from upstream, that was the exact message I saw on my system logs today. I knew I already fixed this many times, but haven’t any documentation about it, that’s why today I’m writing this post, to have a definitive and fast way to search for Nginx upstream timed…
Read More »Allow / deny ping on Linux server using CSF Firewall
On this post we will learn how to allow / deny ping on Linux servers, this is useful for both plain CentOS / Ubuntu servers running CSF Firewall, as well as cPanel based servers. But first, let’s learn what is ICMP after all. What is ICMP? ICMP means Internet Control Message Protocol, it is an important part of the part…
Read More »Flush Nginx PageSpeed Cache on CentOS Linux | Delete ngx_pagespeed cache
Today I was working on a particular dedicated cluster that was an image http cluster, it was designed to serve massive images from a high level traffic website. The images are balanced across the three nodes, with a basic LEMP stack. Nginx was compiled manually with mod_pagespeed (known as ngx_pagespeed). Everything on the servers was working fine, however…
Read More »Disable directory indexes on Apache using cPanel/WHM for increased security
How can I disable directory indexes for all websites on cPanel server? Answer: yes, there is a very simple method to completely disable the indexes directive from Apache web server for all websites inside a cPanel / WHM server. On this post we will learn about what is directory index or indexes, and how to disable indexes using…
Read More »Anti DDOS Mitigation using CSF firewall
DDOS mitigation using csf firewall can help you to against low / mid level DOS and DDOS attacks on your Linux firewall. CSF is a complete security suite for Linux and cPanel servers, and can help you to deal with small attacks. Let’s learn more about DDOS mitigation configuration using CSF firewall on CentOS Linux. Denial of Service (DOS) and Distributed…
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