Server Management

I've recently come into possession of a pair of Dell Poweredge r710 servers. They look pretty old, but are in superb condition - and I got them for free so can't complain 😁 There are no drives (something to do with GDPR) but the CPUs, PSUs, RAM, fans and ethernet ports etc all work fine. I've seen a lot of folks with home labs, and am very blessed that a way to "join the club" fell into my lap. With that said.. what kinds of things can/should I do with them? Unraid and use it as a Plex server along with a low profile Intel A310 for hardware transcoding? TrueNAS and use it as a means of sharing family photos using Immich? Alma Linux and run Sc…

I am using 20i free hosting and have a clunky old site which I am going to replace with a new wp site. I don't want to use wampserver or any local development setup I am going to do it on the webserver but afaict I don't have the ability (without paying(which is always an option)) to create a subdomain. The stackstaging/temporary url doesn't appear to be what's needed at all so I have a spare unused domain name and I have installed wordpress and am beginning to get things set up. Two probs: I should keep google out shouldn't I ? to avoid having a half built site with duplicate content being crawled? I wouldn't have a problem with inserting a robots text meta thin…

I use Weebly free version to publish a website for my church. https://flekkefjordfrikirken.weebly.com/ I just know how to publish new content the moment I create it. I need help creating new content for the page and postponing publication. Where can I find a Facebook tool like Meta Busines Suite? I need a website planner with a marketing calendar to create, plan and manage my website content. Thanks for suggestions! Ruben

I've updated a clients' site, and some employees are seeing the new site, and some are still seeing the old site at the same domain. I've had them clear their browser cache and they are still seeing the old site. The only thing I think may be causing this, is that the DNS has 3 A Records. I updated the @, and the A Record, to the new host (they were previously pointing to the host Weebly). The third A Record was called "Citrix" and the DNS points to DQE, a internet service provider. Not sure what that was for, I kept it the same. So, I'm not sure why some are still seeing the old site after clearing their browser cache. Could this third A Record have something …

Hi all, I'm planning on getting a new VPS set up with my current host, my current set up is a Windows server based VPS, this is because when the VPS was created a couple of years ago my Fiancee's website was written in asp.net and was very slow, around 18 months ago I rewrote it in PHP and the at the moment only the admin side is in asp.net, and I'm currently completely rewriting the website from scratch, including the admin side. The plan for the future is to launch the new version of my fiancee's website on a Linux based VPS, but I'm looking for opinions on the best set up to use. The website averages at 40k-50k unique visitors per month, but sometimes ev…

Hi there! First of all, sorry If I am posting on the wrong forum, mods feel free to move the post if necessary. I started a personal blog on WordPress on January 2017. The site is http://psiqueduelo.com. The site is mainly designed to write articles. That's all I do, I write blog´s post and that's it. I say this because the hosting provider asked me what was the purpose of the web. At this time, I have like 25 posts and a metric of 170 - 270 daily visitors. The thing is this morning my site got suspended for excessive consumption of resources that heavily affect the hosting provider. (That's what they told me via ticket). The hosting provider told me my site could …

I have a classic Google Site w/o a G Suite subscription. Last week, I conducted a blacklist check on the site domain name and found that the site IP address is on Spamhaus ZEN blacklist. Spamhaus wants Google to contact them to have the IP address removed from their list. It appears that this IP address is shared by thousands of other sites. I have a business email address which shares the domain name which is hosted by Zoho.com. Will having the site IP address listed on Spamhaus negatively affect email campaigns? I would like to discuss this issue with Google, however, I don't have access to their support. Thanks.

Checking my logs during the past few months there has been a very noticeable increase in the number of visitors to my website who attempt to access "/wp-login.php". These visitors usually come out of the blue without having visited any pages before this. Now, I don't use WordPress (I assume that is what the wp part means), and don't have any log-in page at all on my site, so they all receive a 404 error and go away. No harm done. But what is the reason for it all? Has accessing "/wp-login.php" become a favourite method of attack? And what if I did have a /wp-login.php page? Thanks for any insight. ... Martin

Hi, I hope you will be able to answer my question and sorry if it doesn't fit this category in the forum. I am a web developer. However, sadly, I have been made redundant from my previous workplace after around 18 months of work. I'm struggling to find work for the last 5 months. During that time I was working primarily on some private projects. Now I am a little worried. If I find a job in web development will it be possible for my new employer to assess my web development knowledge in some X areas and provide this data to my previous employer? Will it be possible for previous employer to sue me for poor knowledge on X technologies on that basis or on any other s…

When I was asked to upload my folder of my website to the server, they asked me to include all my css, js, img folders in my html folder, but I don't see why this would work as on my homepage html it would give a relative path to everything that it needed. Say "../css/style.css" but for some reason it would still work even if the folder structure was like the above. Now out of nowhere when editing my stylesheet locally, the stylesheet and everything else doesn't work, the page started to actually realize it wasn't in the correct position, which is right. But I wonder, why is it that it wouldn't work on the server when the files were correctly placed relatively to …

Hello, Newby here. I have been using the W3C Mobile OK checker at https://www.w3.org/Mobile/ to try to make improvements in my rather cludgey old website at https://ve3oat.ca The Mobile OK checker always reports that "The certificate is invalid", a Severe failing, referring to my SSL/TLS certificate. The site "explains" that "This usually means that the certificate could not be retrieved or that the cryptographic algorithm used for the key exchange is not widely supported". And yet, the certificate is from Geotrust and no one I know has had any problem accessing my site with their mobile device (neither have I). Further, when I check the certificate at any of…

Newbie here. I am unsure about which sub-directories of the home directory of my website need password protection. My hosting service provides the following sub-directories (I haven't added any yet) : /bin /etc /logs /mail /php /public_ftp /public_html /ssl /tmp I assume (oh-oh) that all of them, except the 2 public directories and the ssl one, should be password protected, but don't know if I am on the right track here. Your guidance would be welcomed. Thanks. ... Martin

Hello everyone, firstly I'd like to apologize if I've posted this thread to a wrong section, unfortunately I'm new here and new to webmastering/webdesigning(whatever) but I'm working for a company that has an online shop/store just like any other. Unfortunately, everybody in my company has no clue how to change most of the stuff (like graphics, FTP-related things etc.) and as I'm the only one who surfs internet most of the time during my job, I'm the one to actually manage the site and modify it. Now the problem is that my boss told me to copy this site and change the copied one into another shop (different graphics, names etc.). So I've copied the first site that's work…

I have a website that gets maybe 100 visitors per day but apparently 300,000 hits per month. I believe it is bot traffic and have recently implemented the HackRepair bad bot list to try and block some traffic. It doesn't appear to have done much at all and the website keeps crashing out (hitting CPU and Memory limits) I can see it has hit these limits in the server CPanel => "Resource Usage Overview" But I have no idea on how to stop it? blocking the bots hasn't helped... I have trawled the raw access logs but it doesn't really tell me anything (other that the pages that are being accessed) I am looking for a way to monitor and report on the proces…

Am taking over a domain and putting a new site on a new server. There is one email address attached to the domain, and the emails are delivered to one person only. I don't want to lose all the historic email records (inbox and sent) when I do the transfer and would be glad of some casual advice. This is how I think it will work: If the user is connecting directly to the server in imap mode then next time they log on everything will be deleted off their local device - Disaster! If they are using pop3 then the emails will be retained on the local device If the server is forwarding to another email address, say person@gmail.com then the emails will be still available o…

codexx.co.uk was trashed because I could not figure out how to update it so that the codexx/html/index.html page loads when I go to codexx.co.uk, for some reason there's a file at codexx.co.uk/index.html which it's loading, but I tried to delete that file because it was the old version of the website. I have uploaded the folder called "codexx" on the root directory of the website, and would like the stylesheet to be correctly placed relative to the index.html page, but for some reason it's still loading that damn page which is not styled, to me it seems like they've taken ONE page out of the folder and used that as the website homepage, but i've told them that it need…

Hi All, Is there anyone here who knows windows server 2008 well? I could really do with a little bit of advise. Im trying to setup email on my server, I have activated ADDS, DNS, FTP, IIS and SMTP Everything is working apart form the mail, probably as Im unsure how it all works, I have seen a lot of mentions regarding Exchange server, but have not installed this as I read its not good to install Exchange on a DC. So, how do I do this, with SMTP installed, can I create mail accounts for my users, or is this not possible without Exchange. Basically Im a bit stuck, Ive followed some web advise tried to setup the relay to 127.0.0.1 and think I have the MX …

I created a Rule in my HTACCESS file, to hide a sub-folder. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/?([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^.]+)\.php [NC] RewriteRule ^ /%1/%3 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ $1/Project/$2.php [NC,L] The first rule removes all file-extensions : php The second rule will hide the folder "Project" from the URL Both these rules are working perfectly. However, when I tried to add a third rule, to hide another folder, it failed. This second folder (Rolan) is in the same location as the "Project" folder, so I assumed that it should work simply by copy-pasting t…

Hi guys! Web and mail hosting is imo a very technical process that can be hard to understand, if you're not into it. I've been hosting a few webdesign customers, getting along alright the past years. But now I'm calling the quits as it's not paying. My customers never understood, why they always struggle with certificate errors in their email software, even so I explained to them a dozen times that they have to pay for valid certs, otherwise there's nothing that I can do about it. I cannot just "hack" or "fix" this. They didn't understand, technically. I don't know why. Now I want to migrate them to a nice managed hosting I found, where people are really manag…

Which tool should i use to upload files to the server ? Which one are you using ? Filezilla, winSCP or any other ?

I have a question that you might be able to help me with. I have a client who wants me to develop on a replica of his own live server. He has suggested setting up a dev area and a sub-domain but he's not sure what he needs to do on his actual server folder wise since it has an IP address already which loads up the live site. How does he get it so that subdomain will load up the dev site its supposed to load up? Many thanks!

I have a dedicated linux server that I host all of my clients websites on running WHM/cPanel, it's your average set up. I've noticed my clients emails seem to be taking up a reasonably large amount of space and I can't really figure out why or if there's anything I can do about it. For example, I've had my gmail account for coming up to five years (I'm aware google's servers will be much better at handling emails than mine but still), I have around 8,500 emails and that takes up around 0.9GB. One of my clients websites has been live for just over a year, they have around 2,000 emails yet their emails take up around 3.5GB. This isn't just one client either. Is …

Hi all, I am working on a joomla website. I have to update its meta but when I open its control panel I was not able to find pages of my website. Can anyone help me, please guide me with the process of where we find home page in joomla control panel

I'm using Dreamweaver CS5.5 and I don't know the difference between a testing server and a remote server. I would test locally on mamp but I'm using all sorts of external stuff that will only work when testing on the actual internet so that's not an option. I would like to be able to work directly from Dreamweaver then go to my browser and hit refresh so changes are instant. Rather than using Cyberduck and dragging files manually then, being warned overwriting directories and I could easily overwrite wrong folders as I'm doing so much editiing. I thought it was all working great. When I do an inline style it works fine (as I'm following a tutorial online). But I'v…

I have about 20 domains as add-ons via cpanel (same account) on a VPS using a custom nameserver. I migrated about 15 sites onto the server all of which are wordpress built sites. All of those 15 sites load fine when entering or clicking a link for www.thedomainname.co.uk for example or even http://thename... which then resolves to the www. version. The additional 5 domains have been added after the VPS was activated (on to the exact same account as previous 15) and subsequently www. results in a page not found scenario, where only http://versions work. I am new to VPS but do not appreciate being told not bother if I don't know what I'm doing - Which is the re…

I've got a client on a VPS running CentOS 6 with Plesk 11 (2 VPS Cores, 3GB RAM). Their site requires large browser uploads and used to be housed on a shared Ubuntu environment with no issues (Duel Core, 2GB RAM). The issue started when the site decided not to let large files upload and timed out so with a lot of fiddling this has been changed as Plesk likes to overwrite config when it feels like it. Now this week it has developed a new bug. Currently uploading files up to around 12MB works fine but over this and the page will hit 100% upload (javascript) and then error 500. I've been running a few tests and I can see that the Apache Memory Usage is excessively high, …

Hi Everyone, Hope i'm posting in the correct forum...My apologizes if not... I'm looking for a 3rd party website solution & i have tried Scribd & Google+/GoogleDocs but they don't quite have what i'm looking for... Essentially, the purpose is for only paid viewers to access the information via the web so that they cannot share to others who have not paid for the access. I would like to have viewable on the web some files to only invited individuals....so a private web access. Files would be only text, links & a few images. Video & flash is not necessary. PDF would be ideal. Only invitees can view the page & they cannot forward the page …

As a hobbyist my setup is rather basic, and my knowledge of how to configure it is even more basic. I am using IIS7 for my localhost on a win 7 ultimate 64 laptop. Last night as i logged off microsoft updates automatically installed. This evening before I logged in the updates finished installing and then rebooted my laptop. When I went to use my localhost all I could get was the Server '\' Application error 401.2 access denied. I have been in touch with Microsoft support and they led my round a merry chase but solved nothing. They are telling me to call a premium rate phone number for specialist support with IIS configuration. Having checked the update histor…

Morning all, Not sure if I'm posting on the right forum, if not, please let me know. I was doing some www vs non-www research and I found the following information: "we strongly recommend using “www.example.com”, not “example.com”. Doing so will avoid potential problems in the future. The exact details are pretty technical, but DNS changes, for example, have far more flexibility if you include an extra level. It allows you to make changes to how your Web site is handled without worrying that the same “example.com” DNS change will affect something else like e-mail. In particular, using “www.example.com” allows you to change to either a CNAME record or an A…

We often have requests to configure the “best rules” for mod_security. Mod_security is a popular Apache plugin that serves as a Web Application Firewall, screening requests coming in to the webserver based on a set of configurable rules. Because every website and application has slightly different circumstances, which will require some fine-tuning of the rules, there is no "best" ruleset. However, I want to share the rules below, which are a good basic set to use on a web server to enhance security. You should copy the entire text of these rules (or whichever rules you would like to activate) into your modsec2.user.conf configuration file, or the configuration file yo…

Anyone use it? If so, who do you use and why? Anyone's clients asked for it?

Hi, wasnt sure which topic to post this in. My domain (GoDaddy registar) is currently being mapped to SquareSpace, but I still want to put test sites in www.domain.com/testsite. When I try to access this I get the SquareSpace 404 page. After mapping my domain can I still access the subfolders? Thanks

Hi Guys, I have a really great provider for my reseller account but for my piece of mind I'd like to be able to create full backups of all websites on my reseller account. I've seen a few scripts online that do this but I am wondering if anyone could recommend one?

Hello, A friend asked me the other day "If I wanted to provide a web service within which users would be able to store potentially large files, how would I do that?" Now, if you have a small user base and could limit their uploads to a relatively low size, you may wish to just buy enough server space to host both your website and peoples content. But what about a large, or unknown size user base where you offered every user, let's say... between 5GB and 10GB of space, what are your options then? I'd like to hear all options regardless of how much technical knowledge each requires (from no technical knowledge to super-genius). There must be some form of cloud s…

when i add the www. prefix makes my site blank if it take it off its fine. Any ideas? Thanks Mark

Hello all, I'm a developer by trade so I don't really concentrate on servers but I need to split my WAMP server to host two sites. The reason being is because I need to host a Magento site on one site, (to store my ecommerce work on), and on the other I need a host to serve my other projects. I've googled everywhere but there aren't any decent tutorials. Can anyone send me links of good online tutorials please? Thanks in advance.

Our Developer has recommended a Scottish hosting company called Forth Hosting. Can anyone tell me if they are any good? We just have two small e-commerce wordpress sites that need hosting and wonder if anyone has used them before or heard anything about them? Thanks, Nora

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UnixBench is a very useful utility for benchmarking Linux systems, and creating reports for recording and comparison to other systems. It can be run on a dedicated server, VPS, or any system with shell/terminal access. To install UnixBench, access your system as root, and run the following commands: apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libxext-dev wget htt p://byte-unixbe nch.googlecode.c om/files/Unix Bench5.1.3.tgz tar xvfz UnixBench5.1.3.tgz cd UnixBench ./Run If you can install UnixBench successfully, post your dedicated server or VPS benchmark here! Source: How to Install …

So I was redirecting a bunch of similar domains and I accidentally redirected the .com to the .fr when it should have been the other way around. I quickly realised my mistake and deleted the redirect but the site has disappeared and was replaced by a webmail access page. The site is still there and still has an index.html page. I've got ftp access to it but I can't get it showing again (I also don't really know what I'm doing here.) Also if I create a ticket it will respond to my client as I am using his login/ password. And this server doesn't allow me to create other accounts. I would be terribly grateful if someone could talk me through this. I really don't…

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I have a website which is always show good. But if i can try to see this site with operating system windows xp i can see my site menu bar & banner. please if anyone know that how can i solve this problem please reply here.

Heart Internet have a ftp upload limit of 500mb per file, but the file I want to upload to my web space is a video file - 900mb. Heart have suggested dividing the file up into smaller chunks that can be uploade via ftp and then reassembling the other side. They have suggested WinRar. Sounds very complicated to me! Does anyone have any experience of doing this? What is the basic procedure? Any tips or advice welcome.

Hi Guys I switched my website and emails over to Heart Internet VPS from a managed VPS emails and everything and ever since i have my emails are playing up. I have set them up on the new server and put the details they provided into my mac mail, iphone 4s and ipad 2 and get the same error on all three.. when downloading the mail from the server i get the mailserver domain.com is not responding when i use IMAP i have switched it to mail.domain.com / domain.com and thee outgoing i have tried smtp.domain.com & mail.domain.com but i keep getting the same error. I have alo tried using SSL on them with the same errors. POP seems to be OK but I need the fu…

Hi Folks, I'm wondering if it is possible to redirect a url which has an @ symbol and spelling mistakes to the correct page. It is a redirect specifically for this incorrect url Example Redirect to

Hi Gang. Having a bit of a strange one. I am running 2 VPS; one on Centos 6 with Plesk 10 and one on Ubuntu LTS 12.4 with Plesk 10. I set up both servers with a database each through Plesk 10; but now the one on the Centos 6 setup does not appear under databases but is accessible via SSH only. I did contact the VPS support but alas it's the usual "we don't provide support for X but try removing the database and adding it again" response but this is not ideal as it's a live site with a lot of transactions and so downtime is not really an option. I tried Google with various search terms but no good results so... Can someone tell me what's going on, had expe…

So I've started to move my domains (not hosting) to a new registrar. Seems the domains I've got "domain privacy" on when I "unlock" the domain and start the transfer I'm supposed to get an email. The email in place of mine, isn't forwarding to my email. (I've a couple domains that don't have the privacy and they've gone through no problem.) Seems I've been paying to "protect" myself and hindered myself from moving the domain away from the current registrar. Is there a way to unlock a domain via the actual email a domain is registered with rather than the "private" one? Or does the "private" one completely replace the data of the actual one? Is there a w…

I've just started doing some freelance web design and am still finding my feet. I was hoping someone could clarify a situation for me. If I were to redesign a pre-existing site, would it be possible to transfer the hosting (and only the hosting) over to my provider and still keep the domain registration, email accounts ect. with the original providers? From my understanding of things, I should be able to change the nameservers of the original site to point to my hosts. Then I could set up an addon domain for that url and it will direct there. This would then allow me full access to the new site designed and hosted by me, but would leave the client with the same domain n…

Until recently I've had a 123-reg account and a hosting account (which handled the hosting and the domain names). At some point I started to intermingle the use, 123-reg domain pointing at hosting DNS. And things were fine. Now I wish to consolidate my domains via transfer into one place (that is incredibly trustworthy), continue to use my hosting but at a much much later date change that too. Now I've search these boards and I've seen some mixed tales of 123-reg, both good and bad. Currently since most of my domains are dot com each one will cost £13 to transfer to 123-reg from the hosting company. Is this a smart move to make or should I look further afield …

As is the disclaimer, 'apologies if this is posted in the wrong section' but I'm a little perplexed. I tend to be easily lead at times by testing such as PageSpeed Insights and YSlow. Usually I am satisfied with the results but today I have an irritating itch. I received a recommendation to enable Keep-Alive. Having not come upon it before, I Googled the hell out of it and realised it was something I needed to follow up with the hosting company. It was a quick, albeit brief response. Their stance is it's not always necessary to have it enabled and sites can function perfectly without. Though it's a valid answer, I'm just wondering whether I should pay so much attentio…