Cpanel offers 15 day trials, some times even after you buy the license it keep showing the Trail license Message Trial License This copy of cPanel WHM is for trial use and will expire at the end of the trial period. You will need to upgrade to a paid copy of cPanel & WHM to […]
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Stopping Spam from Windows Plesk – Ultimate Checklist
Here is my comprehensive check list of configurations and best practices to stop spam on MailEnable mail server over Plesk, I will keep adding any thing that i find. If you feel some thing missing here, please share in comments. Enable SMTP Authentication Limit outgoing mails per domain Only relay for authenticated senders Make sure […]
How to test mail from windows command prompt (cmd)
Some times we have to see how a remote mail server responding to SMTP connection from our Plesk server. Yes! logs are always there to see whats going on, but using telnet seems very handy to me. It takes less time than scanning logs and lets use of mouse too Lets use cpanelplesk.com as example […]
How to list all root users on cPanel servers
There are situations (especially after a hacking attempt, or when you find something specious in rKhunter) when you need to know if there are any other user with root privileges. There are three commands that you must run in such situations. Check if an unwanted user is member of root group. [box style=’note’] grep root […]
Plesk Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Parallels have released a security update to address the security vulnerability (details here). An authenticated user in Plesk for linux is able to act as root and is able to run arbitrary codes. This may result in complete server computerization. Last day Parallels issued a security advisory to address these vulnerabilities. These security updates will automatically visible in parallels Plesk panel, It […]
Top IT Companies
Today while searching top hosting companies in the world I found this list of top IT companies. And I was amazed to see that apple is on 1st position while Google is at 4. If I would rank these, I will put Google at 1st, Microsoft 2nd and Apple third. Here are there rankings. Apple Inc IBM Microsoft Google […]
How to install CSF firewall on cpanel server
CSF firewall is famous free firewall solution that integrates with cPanel very well. It is the most user friendly (in my opinion) firewall and takes only two steps to install and configure. Login to your server as root and run fullowing commands, you can copy paste all of them all togather. rm -fv csf.tgz wget http://www.configserver.com/free/csf.tgz OR wget […]
How to uninstall Config Server Explorer (CSE)
Config Server Explorer or CSE is an extremely powerful but dangerous, repeat *dangerous* utility. There is the warning that is shown on WHM CSE area itself. STOP! WARNING! While this utility can be very useful it is also very dangerous indeed. You can easily render your server inoperable and unrecoverable by performing ill advised actions. No warranty or […]
Uninstalling R1soft backup agent (buagent)
Backup agent (buagent) for linux comes with an uninstall script. to unisntall buagent use it with -R or –remove option, the only other option available is -H –help. r1soft-uninstall-buagent It shows the list of files and directories that will be removed and asks for confirmation before uninstalling the buagent. […]
How to force cpanel backup
You are going to make a big configuration change, hardware upgrade or mass updating user files on your cpanel services. Making a backup is the first thing do in such cases, and you want to do it before your scheduled backup. Cpanel does not offer making instant backups just like plesk. You will need ssh […]