Is it time to panic now, and call in the internet police? After all, i’ve just gone into cPanel and discovered that an IP has been added to my Remote MySQL Database Hosts. 192.168.1.% - who is this wildcard, are they accessing my private MySQL data? How did they get access to my cPanel? I’m [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Quite recently a lot of traffic to sites under my control is apparetly, acccording to Awstats etc, arriving via the search term “Abmany”. A quick scan of the code reveals tha
t this word is completely devoid of my text, so the mystery deepens. Why are people crazed on Abmany ( is it some sort of [...]
You may figure that when your webserver suffers an outage, that you loose e-mail that is being sent to you. This is not the case. When someone tries to send an e-mail to an address that is having trouble, in all standards compliant mailers the system acknowledges that the recipient computer is unresponsive and queues [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Whoop, whoop! Somebody phone the internet police!
Virtuozzo Power Panel states that your http service is down. All hands on deck, panic stations, this is going to be a long, hard, cold, yet surprisingly moist war of attrition against whatever force does negative things to our httpd processes…
Yet, wait… when I look in my [...]
Less detail on where i’ve been for the past few weeks…
…and more focus on the main conundrum of the century, which is, why, when following Apache’s own suggestions for adding new mime types via htaccess, do my mime types not work at all?
The following line in your htaccess should force the download of any files [...]
When administering your server you login to WHM and click List Accounts and scroll to find the website you’re looking to modify…. but it isn’t there.
Whoop! Whoop! Someone alert the internet police! Wait, hold on a second… the website is still functioning fine http/ ftp / mysql wise. It just isn’t in the list [...]
OK, so you’re facing a hard decision. You limit outgoing e-mails to 100 / hour, in order to help prevent a spamming disaster occurring. But, you have a domain that sends out a newsletter to hundreds, if not thousands, of members, and batch sending is NOT an option, as it requires too much [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )In cPanel / WHM, in order to determine whether e-mail for a domain on the server, sent from the server, has to be processed locally or delivered externally ( i.e. at another MX ) the server maintains two files:
/etc/localdomains
/etc/remotedomains
When you change an MX record to an external server in cPanel, the system will remove [...]
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