When we own a website, we may want to analyze on how many people visits our website. cPanel has several in-built statistical analysis programs and one of the most important ones is Awstats. Awstats produces visual statistics about visitors of your site. Awstats gives details about the count of people visiting your website, and other information like: > Monthly history > Countries visiting your website (Top 25) > Visits duration > Operating Systems that accesses your website (Top 10) > Browsers (Top 10) etc.,
ZPanel is a free and complete web hosting control panel for Microsoft Windows and POSIX (Linux, UNIX and MacOSX) based servers. It is written in PHP and uses several open-source (or freely available) software packages to provide a secure, web hosting system. ZPanel flawlessly integrates with MySQL, hMailServer (on Windows), Posfix (on Linux etc.) and Filezilla (on Windows) or ProFTPd (on Linux etc.). Installation can be completed with following steps : # wget https://raw.github.com/zpanel/installers/master/install/CentOS-6_4/10_1_1.sh# chmod +x 10_1_1.sh# ./10_1_1.sh You can then follow the configurations needed from the terminal for completing …
In this article we will be discussing a few basic commands we could use in our daily server terminal interaction. Generally Linux commands have the following syntax. command [options] [arguments] Each item is separated by space. >> Options modify a commands behavior. Single letter options usually preceded by “ – ” Full word options usually preceded by “ — ” >> Arguments are file names or other data needed by the command. >> Multiple commands can be separated by “;” Lets have a check with few of the most commonly …
Modern IT environments demand efficient server administration, remote access, strong security, and real-time control. Today, system administrators rely on powerful tools that simplify remote management, troubleshooting, and infrastructure monitoring. In this article, we explore 10 of the best server administration tools used by Linux and cross-platform administrators to manage servers efficiently from anywhere. Why Server Administration Tools Matter Effective server management helps organizations: The right tools allow administrators to manage servers without being physically present. 1. TightVNC TightVNC is a lightweight remote desktop software that enables administrators to connect to …
IP address spoofing or IP spoofing is the creation of Internet Protocol (IP) packets with a source IP address, with the purpose of concealing the identity of the sender or impersonating another computing system. Its a phenomena in which attackers changes or replicate a IP packets. In order to dig deep lets understand some basic concepts. In internet the connection between two computer takes place using TCP/IP protocol. In which data needed to send from one computer to another is broken down into pieces known as packets. These packets are …
Some scripts/applications require certain scripts be run at a certain time to function properly. On Windows servers, we can set them up to run at certain times by creating a scheduled task (which is similar to how you can run cron jobs on Linux servers). Creating a Scheduled Task in Plesk: We can set up Scheduled Tasks in Plesk by doing the following: Log into Plesk The user you are logging in with should have enough permissions to create a scheduled task. Windows Shared customers automatically have permission, and the …
SSH tunneling is used to tunnel all of the traffic from your local machine to a remote server that you have an account. SSH allows users to create TCP tunnels to send data over the network. The amazing thing about SSH tunnels is that they are encrypted. How tunneling works? This works by allocating a socket to listen to port on the local side, optionally bound to the specified bind_address. Whenever a connection is made to this port, the connection is forwarded over the secure channel, and a connection is …
cPanel/WHM keeps the location of key files in the same place across all of the various cPanel versions. Due to this consistency, we could always know where to look for logs files for all services running on a cPanel server. You may find below the location of important configuration files and directories on the Linux cPanel/WHM server. Web server ( Apache ) : Apache HTTP server configuration file : /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf Apache directory Structure : (more…)
Logstalgia is a visualization tool that visualize web access logs as a game simulation (as a pong like battle game between web server and requests). Requests are appeared as colored balls and travel across the screen to reach requested location. The colored ball hits the paddle if it is a successful request otherwise it misses (for e.g. if it is an error) Requirements: > Its works with OpenGL (Open graphic Library) and need an accelerated 3D display to visualize > A web server with logs such as Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx …
MariaDB is a high performance drop-in replacement for MySQL, developed by some of the original authors of the MySQL project. For years, MySQL has been the dominant open-source database management system (DBMS). Recently, MariaDB, the MySQL fork created by MySQL’s founder, has been making in-roads and websites like Wikipedia the world’s sixth most popular Web site, is shifting over from MySQL to MariaDB. Lets check how to replace MYSQL with MARIADB in a cpanel server Step 1: Backup existing MySQL data Before installing mariadb make sure to take backup of …