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Quick links for cpanel Optimization

ByReuben February 6, 2018March 3, 2018

Optimizing an Entry Level WHM/Cpanel VPS Server

https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/2521

How To Enable GZIP Compression In cPanel WHM

https://nixcp.com/free-cpanel-plugins/

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IPMI firmware Updates

ByReuben February 27, 2018March 3, 2018

Supermicro IPMI firmware source: http://www.supermicro.com/support/bios/firmware0.aspx Manual: ftp://supermicro.com/CDR-X9-UP_1.22_for_Intel_X9_UP_platform/IPMI/IPMICFG/Supermicro_Utility_User_Guide_IPMICFG.pdf ===================================================== Find your motherboard info Windows—- launch dxdiag tool from the start menu Linux—- # dmidecode -t 2 yum -y install OpenIPMI service ipmi start chkconfig ipmi on mkdir /ipmi cd /ipmi wget “ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/utility/IPMICFG/IPMICFG_1.27.0_build.170620.zip” unzip IPMICFG_1.27.0_build.170620.zip chmod -R u+rwx IPMICFG_1.27.0_build.170620/Linux/64bit/IPMICFG-Linux.x86_64 cd IPMICFG_1.27.0_build.170620/Linux/64bit/ ./IPMICFG-Linux.x86_64 -dhcp off ./IPMICFG-Linux.x86_64 -m ./IPMICFG-Linux.x86_64…

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Give an account SSH access in WHM

ByReuben March 3, 2018April 1, 2018

First you will need to login to WHM Then go to “Home »Account Information »List Accounts” Click the “+” to the left of the account you want to have SSH Select “Modify Account” from the list. Then scroll down to the “Privileges” section and select “Shell Access” Now hit “Save”

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Diagnosing Hard Drive read

ByMike February 27, 2018March 3, 2018

https://www.lisenet.com/2014/measure-and-troubleshoot-linux-disk-io-resource-usage/ smartctl -a /dev/sda SMART attributes to watch out for: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always – 0 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline – 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 100 100 001 Pre-fail Always – 12029 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032…

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Finding stuff in linux

ByReuben February 6, 2018March 3, 2018

ttp://www.wikihow.com/Find-a-File-in-Linux find / -type f -iname “<file you want to find>” Examples find / -type f -iname “libphp5.so” find / -type d -iname “ibdata1” find / -type f -iname “*arcconf” grep -R ‘AllowNoPassword’ / egrep ‘User’ /etc/apache2/apache2.conf grep DocumentRoot /etc/apache2/apache2.conf To find files larger than 100MB, use this command: find / -type f -size +100000k…

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Fixing “Sorry, the domain is already pointed to an IP address that does not appear to use DNS servers associated with this server.”

ByReuben February 27, 2018March 3, 2018

First access the server command line. I used SSH over Putty (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) But you can use the terminal/console if supported by your host, ftp or winSCP (https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_install) which may be easier. then access the file /etc/ips.remotedns For SSH I used the command: nano /etc/ips.remotedns you will need to know the nameservers for your domain I…

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Blacklist removal links

ByReuben February 27, 2018March 3, 2018

Unfortunately due to the limited availability of IP addresses sometimes they are re-used from sources that have been black listed in the past. Generally blacklists are updated within 30 days of an IP not being reported for spam. However many services like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and others, have taken to using their own systems…

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