A simple tweak to your system’s hosts file can allow immediate access to a website without waiting for DNS propagation.
Encountering the "/usr/bin/crontab permissions are wrong. Please set to 4755" error in cPanel? Follow this simple guide to resolve it on RedHat, CentOS, or Fedora servers.
This alert comes from cPanel's service monitor (chkservd) when it cannot reach the SSH service. First check whether SSH really is down: systemctl status sshd. If it is stopped, test the configuration with sshd -t, fix the error it shows, and start it with /scripts/restartsrv_sshd. If SSH works but the alert continues, the monitor is probably checking the wrong port after a port change. Use your provider's console if you cannot log in at all.
As root, run /scripts/pkgacct USERNAME /backup to package one cPanel account (files, databases, email and settings) into /backup/cpmove-USERNAME.tar.gz. Copy the file off the server. To restore it on the same or another cPanel server, put the file in /home and run /scripts/restorepkg /home/cpmove-USERNAME.tar.gz. Restoring over an existing account replaces its data, so test first.
Protect your server from DDoS attacks with DDoS-Deflate. Learn how to install, configure, and optimize this simple yet powerful bash script for automated IP blacklisting using iptables or APF.
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