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JetBackup Remote Backup Documentation

Last Updated: November 14, 2025

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This documentation is to help you configure your server’s JetBackup configuration for remote destinations. While this guide is intended to be paired with our remote storage solution, this guide can be used to implement other additional destinations as it covers the basic functionality of the remote destination system that JetBackup utilizes. JetBackup bases its destinations […]

cPanel Remote Backup Documentation

Last Updated: December 19, 2022

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This documentation is to help you configure your servers backup configuration for remote destinations. While this guide is intended to be paired with our remote storage solution, this guide can be used to implement other additional destinations as it covers the basic functionality of the remote destination system that cPanel has implemented. More information about […]

Checking the Domain Access Logs for Abuse and Resource Usage

Last Updated: January 5, 2023

This article is going to be thoroughly detailed in covering the different methods of checking domain access logs; why you should check them and how to protect yourself from further incidents. Remember; the goal is mitigation – reducing the impact your server experiences from such incidents – there is no method of 100% prevention. Why […]

AutoSSL

Last Updated: December 10, 2021

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In modern versions of cPanel/WHM, it is easier than ever to get free signed SSL Certificates for your domains! Since version 58, cPanel has had a feature called AutoSSL to automatically install for you Domain-Validated (DV) SSL certificates for your domains, to use in Apache, Dovecot, and Exim (i.e., the websites and email). The cPanel’s AutoSSL supports both […]

How to quick-allow an IP with CSF (WHM)

Last Updated: September 27, 2021

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There will be times that you have an IP address that is static and you want toe nsure that you no longer experience firewall blocks against your IP. They may be times that you have a developer that needs to be let in due to their incorrect password attempts. Does this sound like you? If […]

How to quick-block an IP with CSF (WHM)

Last Updated: November 18, 2021

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If you’ve been getting a lot of alerts for a specific IP that’s listed in a CSF e-mail but CSF hasn’t blocked the IP and you want to block the IP, these are the steps that will help resolve the noisy e-mails as well as keeping your server safe from attacks such as SQL injections […]

How To Allow An IP to Access A Closed Port

Last Updated: September 20, 2021

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In a firewall sometimes you only want to allow an IP through on a certain port without fully whitelisting them. To do so in CSF is pretty straight forward and the concept is the same as on many home routers. This tutorial will show you how to do it both via WHM’s CSF GUI and via command […]

How to set mail signatures for Horde & Roundcube

Last Updated: December 1, 2021

In this guide; we will be showing how to set Webmail signatures for the available webmail services for cPanel servers. Signature for Horde Here we are going to document the steps to set up a horde webmail signature for those who primarily use email over webmail. Step 1. Login to your Horde Webmail; if this […]

Training SpamAssassins accuracy with sa-learn

Last Updated: November 16, 2021

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This is a guide to effectively use SpamAssassins sa-learn to help train tokens for spam flagging accuracy. What is ‘sa-learn’? Given a typical selection of your incoming mail classified as spam or ham (non-spam), this tool will feed each mail to SpamAssassins, allowing it to ‘learn’ what signs are likely to mean spam, and which are likely […]

How to configure cPanel MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL for remote connections?

Last Updated: January 23, 2026

MySQL/MariaDB It is very simple to set up remote connections in MySQL/MariaDB thanks to the WHM and cPanel interfaces. You will need to known advance what IP/hostname, or IPs/hostnames, require database access because you will need to specify them in the panel. If your IP is dynamic, you may be able to inquire your ISP […]