Category: cPanel & WHM

Our pre-installed version of DirectAdmin comes with CentOS as the underlying operating system. By default, CentOS 7 makes use of older versions of software (though with recent security updates) because it prefers stability over new features. For that reason, not all software on your VPS is up-to-date. You can check the current versions on your VPS by clicking ‘Admin Level’> ‘Admin Tools’> ‘System Information’ in DirectAdmin. You will then see an overview as in the screenshot below. Especially CMS systems like WordPress often require newer versions of PHP and MySQL…

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  How to create packages using DirectAdmin. Packages are all of the features which are available for you to assign to members (hosts). For example, every host created in DirectAdmin will have some features like bandwidth, access permissions, database storage space, a number of emails, etc. which you can assign to users as a package when creating a hosting account. For creating packages in DirectAdmin follow the steps below: First of all, login to DirectAdmin with the account that has reseller access. After that go to Reseller Level. Click on…

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  How to change a user’s password Now let’s learn how to change a user’s password in Direct Admin. Login to Direct admin panel as ADMIN / RESELLER Click the Change Passwords   First, enter the username of the user you want to change the password for Then enter (and re-enter) a new password for the user Click Submit when finished That’s it! The user’s password has been sucessfully changed. You’ll now have to notify the user of their new password before they’ll be able to login to Direct Admin…

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  Log in to DirectAdmin and navigate to the ‘User Level’ (if you’re an admin or reseller). Click ‘Email Accounts’ under ‘Email Management’.   Next, click ‘Create mail account‘.   Then create the email address. You can set a limit here for the maximum size and amount of emails per day. To prevent your customers from intentionally or unintentionally sending spam, we recommend using this option.   DirectAdmin automatically creates the email address for the logged-in user. The log-in name for the webmail and the configuring of your email address…

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Hello all, FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a traditional and widely used standard tool for transferring files between a server and clients over a network, especially where no authentication is necessary it permits anonymous users to connect to a server. We must understand that FTP is unsecure by default, because it transmits user credentials and data without encryption. Today, am going to describe the steps to install, configure and secure a FTP server (VSFTPD stands for (Very Secure FTP Daemon) in VPS Step 1 : Installing FTP server   1. Just run the following comment in…

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ClamAV is a free, open source antivirus program for the detection of trojans, viruses and malware on your VPS. In this tutorial we show you how to install ClamAV in CentOS 7 and how to ensure that ClamAV starts automatically and your VPS scans daily. Execute the commands in this article as a root user. Installing ClamAV Connect to your VPS via SSH and update your VPS first: ClamAV is not included in the official CentOS package repository. It is included in the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL). Therefore,…

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CloudLinux CloudLinux was released to the market in 2010. Today, it is a must-have for any web host who cares about stability, security, and churn. It is used by more than 2,000 hosting companies on 20,000+ servers. It was specifically optimized for shared hosting as it isolates each customer into a separate “Lightweight Virtualized Environment” (LVE).  Web hosts that use CloudLinux report higher uptime, significant improvements in density, decrease in number of reboots, and decrease in number of account suspension they have to perform. It has also produced a significant…

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What is Inode? How to find the INODE usage on Linux”. You know, in Unix/Linux everything is considered as a file. An Inode is a data structure that stores various information about a file. This includes File type (executable, block special etc) Ownership Group Owner Permission File Size File access, change and modification timestamp File deletion timestamp Number of links (soft/hard) Access Control List (ACLs) First of all, let me briefly explain about Inode. Index Node (inode) is a basic concept in Linux/Unix. Index node/number (inode) is a data structure…

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Each attempt to login to SSH server is tracked and recorded into a log file by the rsyslog daemon in Linux. The most basic mechanism to Discover all unsuccessful SSH login Activities in Linux is a combination of displaying and filtering the log files with the help of cat command or grep command. In order to display a list of the failed SSH logins in Linux, issue some of the commands presented in this guide. Make sure that these commands are executed with root privileges. The most simple command to…

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ModSecurity Introduction ModSecurity is a toolkit for real-time web application monitoring, logging, and access control. you can consider it as an enabler, there are no hard rules telling you what to do, instead, it is up to you to choose your own path through the available features. The freedom to choose what to do is an essential part of ModSecurity’s identity and goes very well with its open source nature. With full access to the source code, your freedom to choose extends to the ability to customize and extend the tool itself…

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