CentOS has introduced a free Web Hosting control panel (CWP: Centos Web Panel) which is designed for easy management of servers including both Dedicated & VPS without the help of ssh console. During the installation procedure, CWP installs full LAMP stack (Apache, PHP, phpMyAdmin, webmail, mail server etc.) on your server. List of softwares installed and configured during CWP installation are as below: =========== Apache Web Server PHP 5.4 MySQL + phpMyAdmin Postfix + Dovecot + roundcube webmail CSF Firewall Backups; AutoFixer for server configuration Varnish Cache server suPHP & …
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The International Earth Rotation & Reference Systems Service (IERS) has mentioned that an extra second is to be added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) at 23:59:59 on 30 June 2015 and this is to make sure the alignment of astronomical and atomic time. Coordinated Universal Time, UTC is one of the basic time conventions used by most of the world’s local time zones. This UTC time convention has been derived from a bunch of atomic clocks that are distributed across several countries globally. The rotation of our earth is not …
Round Robin is a balancing mechanism used by the DNS servers which are usually used for sharing the network load and managing the load of geographically distributed Web servers. The DNS server that uses the round-robin mechanism will provide alternates for each client request. Concept:- Suppose, you have a domain name and three identical home pages hosted on three servers with three different IP addresses. By using Round Robin DNS, when one user accesses the home page, the request will be sent to the first IP address. The second user who …
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor has been involving in all of its dynamics in the recent years. In recent times it has involved included and engulfed many of the recent development and api that has been introduced to the computer world especially web developing. Switching to higher version of PHP is always good but before proceeding the switch we recommend to test the code in the new version and be well satisfied on the code execution. In this doc we will be taking an overlook on the changes and precaution one should …
Lighttpd is an open-source web server which is more optimized for speed-critical environments than common products. It is a high quality lightweight web server which is well suited for hosting dynamic content websites. It supports CGI, FastCGI, SCGI and HTTP protocols. Lighttpd is a secure, light, fast and very flexible web server which is designed and optimized for high-performance environments. This web server can be used in a low memory servers, because it uses very low amount of main memory than other web servers such as Apache and nginx. That …
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), provides developers and IT teams with secure, durable, highly-scalable object storage. Amazon S3 is easy to use, with a simple web services interface to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. This article is explain about of how to take cPanel backup to amazon s3. First thing you need to setup your S3 server and create a bucket to dump stuff in. Get your secret key ID and access ID by the following steps. 1. Login to your Amazon …
Vesta control panel is a free and open source control panel in Linux. Using the Vesta control panel administrator can manage the website in his VPS and which support different flavors of Linux, supporting operating systems are RHEL 5 & 6, CentOS 5 & 6, Debian 7, Ubuntu 12.04/12.10/13.04/13.10/14.04. The last version of Vestacp released on 2014/08/05 and which has plenty of useful features. Features of Vestacp Simple and Clean graphical user interface License on GPL Auto update DKIM support Fast backups AntiSpam / Antivirus SSL certificates and System Monitoring …
Wine makes it possible to run Windows programs alongside any Unix-like operating system, particularly Linux. Wine is an implementation of the Windows Application Programming Interface (API) library, acting as a bridge between the Windows program and Linux. When a Windows program tries to perform a function, Wine will translate that program’s instruction and make it suitable for Linux. The Wine development release 1.7.35 is now available. New features in this release: – Beginnings of support for OpenGL core contexts. – Initial support for glyph placement in DirectWrite. – Some more …
On accessing PHPMyAdmin via cpanel, we will be getting an error as given below if the ownership/permission of the tmp folder for the particular cpanel user is wrong. “Access Denied Unable to establish a PHP session. If you believe that this is in error or inadvertent, contact your system administrator and ask them to review your server settings.” The fix for this error is as follows:
The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (AMANDA), is a backup solution that allows the IT administrator to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts over network to tape drives/changers or disks or optical media. Amanda can back up a large number of servers and workstations running multiple versions of Linux or Unix and Windows servers and desktops by using a native windows client. Features Client-server architecture: Automatic backup level selection: A consistent backup window and resource utilization An intelligent backup scheduler: Data encryption and …