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What is CloudLinux?

You may have heard the term “CloudLinux” in a support ticket or in your own research into different webhosting related products and wondered what exactly is it? CloudLinux is a service that replaces your operating system. Essentially, CloudLinux becomes your new operating system. CloudLinux’s design to make shared web hosting environments more secure. It does […]

How to Install Python 3 on a VPS Server?

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Installing Python 3 on a VPS server is a relatively straightforward task that varies slightly based on the operating system behind the VPS. The steps below will assume you’ve logged in to a terminal session on the VPS. Let’s learn How to Install Python on a VPS Server? Step 1 : Update Your Packages Ubuntu/Debian […]

How to disable/enable php_functions?

In many cases, your web application might not work as expected due to certain enabled/disabled php_functions; at that time, you need to submit the request with the server administrator or the host to disable/enable the specific php_functions. If you have cPanel or DirectAdmin control panel’s root-level access, then this article will help you with how […]

How to Check Server Memory Usage?

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Every Linux administrator has a crucial job to monitor, manage and deploy the webserver and its services. RAM is one of the top priority components that Linux administrators take a look at frequently, using any monitoring tool or manual methods. There are a few different ways of accomplishing this, depending on your preference and system […]

Confirming mod_rewrite is enabled

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What is mod_rewrite? The mod_rewrite module uses a rule-based rewriting engine based on a PCRE regular-expression parser to rewrite requested URLs on the fly; by default, mod_rewrite maps a URL to a filesystem path. However, it can also redirect one URL to another URL or invoke an internal proxy fetch. mod_rewrite provides a flexible and […]

View the body and/or header of a queued exim message

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Email headers are nothing but HTML snippet which contains information of the sender, recipient, email’s route. This article will learn how to view the body and the header of a queued Exim message. How to view exim queued email header? Use the following command to check the Exim email header, Example, How to view exim […]

Introduction to LiteSpeed

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LiteSpeed is an enterprise web server solution offered to accelerate web application performance. Traditional Apache server is ruling the market due to their open-source availability and community support. Still, LiteSpeed is the competitive web server available in the market, estimated to be used by approximately 10% of websites as per July 2021 data (Source: Wikipedia). […]

Log4j vulnerability and does it affect you?

A security bulletin was shared regarding a 0-day vulnerability for the Apache java logging library ‘log4j’ version 2+. What was shared was a discovery that this library could be severely exploited through Remote Code Execution (RCE) by handling a specific string within the library. This vulnerability has been considered critical, obtaining a 10/10 on the […]

How to connect with SSH?

If you’re looking to manage Linux operating system-based machines remotely, you can take the help of SSH protocol like we do RDP for Windows-based machines. In this article, we will be covering multiple platforms and a guide on how to connect with SSH? Windows For the Windows operating system, we don’t have a direct application […]

Once our support team migrates hosting accounts from a third-party service provider, you need to update the nameservers. Sometimes, the new hosting provider may lack some features, which might commerce consequences for the website. Best, what if we have a solution to check the website post-migration without updating nameservers or DNS? On every system, you […]