Quick reference guides for various hosting a server management tasks. This is mostly and information dump for the many things I run into as a server manager.
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”
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…
General information about IIS: http://www.iis.net/learn/get-started/introduction-to-iis Installing IIS for website management on a Windows Server: http://www.iis.net/learn/install/installing-iis-7/installing-iis-7-and-above-on-windows-server-2008-or-windows-server-2008-r2 Website creation in IIS https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772350(v=ws.10).aspx https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/323972 FTP access in IIS http://www.iis.net/learn/install/installing-publishing-technologies/installing-and-configuring-ftp-7-on-iis-7
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…
http://www.wikihow.com/Find-a-File-in-Linux 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 -exec du -h {} \; Search within files for specific text:…
https://100tb.com/community/knowledgebase/display/HOW/Configuring+SMTP+Relay+Server Key points of trouble– Make sure the hostname on each server and relay is different and had correct DNS records. Make sure that you have added a valid SPF records for every domain as described in our article.
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…
http://superuser.com/questions/170866/how-to-run-a-cron-job-as-a-specific-user crontab -u <username> -e 0 6 * * * /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/exim_tidydb > /dev/null 2>&1 30 5 * * * /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/optimize_eximstats > /dev/null 2>&1 35 3 * * * /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/upcp –cron 0 1 * * * /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/cpbackup 0 2 * * * /usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup 35 * * * * /usr/bin/test -x /usr/local/cpanel/bin/tail-check && /usr/local/cpanel/bin/tail-check 45 */4 *…
https://engintron.com/ – nginx fro WHM/cpanel 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/