I have a virtual dedicated server which i currently host a couple of clients websites on, the control panel i am using is Simple Control Panel.
What i would like is an automated program or script that automatically sets up a users FTP access and creates a directory with a mysql database - I also require it to bill the customer on a monthly basis and if no payment is received from the customer the account then goes offline (but is not deleted)
how i can set this up and what is the best thing to use.
I've been thinking of getting a budget server/co-location and only host my companies site on the server along with billing software. There will only be 1/2 domains on the server. Software Linux/Apache/Mysql/PHP Control Panel or Not?
So I'm looking for suggestions on what would be the best way to set this up and what services can be excluded to secure the box even more.
I'm curious, how do you all Cpanel server owners setup reseller accounts for clients? I find myself doing it this way (providing 2 static IP's, for ns1/ns2)
1. create reseller account 2. ssh > edit nameserverips and manually add ns1/ns2 to the two select IP's of choice 3. change account IP to first main static IP, in whm
Any one else do it this way, or another method? I use WHMCS also, which creates the account automatically, but I have to edit nameserverips and appy ns1/ns2 manually in whm (A dns zone) manually.
Also, I'm wanting to upgrade some of the PHP 4 / MYSQL 4 boxes to PHP 5 / MYSQL 5. Is it worth it, or not? If yes, what methods could I use to assure no side effects for some clients' scripts, or at least some method to help them should an issue arise?
How long does it normally take to get a shared account setup with a hosting provider? I am now in my 5th day and still have not had the account setup. I have made my DNS changes and I just keep getting email responses that it is coming. Should I be worried or is a week the normal response time in a shared environment?
Someone setup a phishing site at gmail-webhost.com on my server.
He set up using the root account.
Since then I changed my root password. Do you think there's a chance he installed some back door that he can access root again even though I change the root password?
Im running Cpanel 11 Release (stage 2) and i was wondering if you can setup WHM so that when an account is created, it automatically has:
A default generic SPF record suphp_ConfigPath set for custom php.ini (/home/username/php.ini) Custom session.save_path for php (/home/username/tmp) Create /home/username/tmp folder
I think thats about it for now. Any ideas? I know about zone templates, but they dont seem to fit this bill. They might work for the SPF records though.
Whats the turnaround time for liqudweb? They had called me and confirmed my account is verified but thats more than 14 hrs back and yet no sign of getting information about the new account setup.
When I called customer support line, the guy "not sure when the account will be setup "
Our domain is hosted with a cPanel based shared hosting company only for website.
We have an Exchange 2003 server that is assigned with two dedicated IP's provided by our ISP with rDNS configured. So all outgoing emails are send using these two ISP lines and all works fine.
Since we are going to change the ISP, and the new ISP is refusing to set rDNS we are going to use our cPanel based shared hosting account to send our mails - so we will be configuring our Exhcnage 2003 to [smarthost] to forward all the emails to the hosting server.
I need to what I have to do in the cPanel account to make this work.
I have a VPS server now with 1and1.com (no wait times with tech support, and very friendly and helpful), only problem is... they haven't been able to help me resolve one of my problems.
My client has their domain registered with Network Solutions. I've already changed the DNS settings to point to my VPS where I've created the domain within Plesk. I can log into my FTP, change the site, yadda yadda yadda just like any other site. So everything works there!
Now, when I create an email account in Plesk I put in my user/pass etc... and create an email account... Great, awesome.
I go into Outlook and put in the email information, incoming/outgoing mail settings, user/pass, etc... and nothing works... It pops up and pretty much nothing happens.
What am I doing wrong for this to not work? Do I have to create a sub domain within Plesk for my domain? If so, I've already done that.
Must I change something over at Network Solutions to reflect the mail server? If so, I've added the MX records of mail.mydomain.com with prio of 10.
I have a VPS account with WHM/Cpanel console access. I have three domains that I am trying to setup. Within WHM I have setup three different accounts, one for each domain. I am able to login to the cPanel for all three accounts. This also created a new web directory for each domain in /home/domain_name/public_html/. I have placed my default index.php in all three public_html with the same permissions. But only 1 domain is working the other two are not. What am I missing? I have confirmed that all three have the correct DNS servers with godaddy and I can do an nslookup on all three. My provider told me to share the IP so that is what I am configured as..
Not sure if I labeled that correctly, but I am looking to setup a multi-server where I offer a cloud ssd hosting plan, and sata hosting plan. The current setup has ssd hosting, but id like to add another ip address, as well as its hard drive to host other websites on that specific server, which is sata based.
For example, I add a domain to my plesk 12 admin account and choose the added Ip address (the sata based one), where it points to that server to access the files for that specific website.
At the moment, cloudflare handles all of my dns settings.. but I am totally lost on how this needs to be setup and if I am required to purchase another plesk license. I am trying to avoid purchasing another plesk license and having to setup a whole new plesk installation just to do this.. This is a vps by the way, not a dedicated server...
I registered a domain name and setup a Linux server on GoDaddy, choosing Plesk panel with Power Pack. Inside the panel I created an email address, which I can access from the webmail interface without problems. I decided to setup my clients as well, using the IMAP configuration, as I'm using multiple devices.
I followed the instructions for Outlook express and I was able to setup the account on my virtual machine, with Windows 7 and Windows Live Mail.Though, speaking of the host machine, a MacBook Pro, I normally use Apple Mail that comes with MacOS. Instructions for setting up Mail are updated back to Snow Leopard at least and they do not work properly. I tried various configurations, but I was only able to receive mail on the account, while sending won't work at all.
I'd like Parallels to update the guide or, at least, to open a KB page with the solution(s) to this issue: I googled it and found out that it is a common issue.
I am trying to figure out how to do the following:
Say I have a URL like this: www.myreallylongsiteurl.com and I want it to automatically redirect to www.myRegularURL.com.
How would I go about doing this? Do I actually have to setup a whole new site in IIS and have a page there that just does a redirect or can I set up some sort of alias for this?
Also, my customer would like me to set it up so that myRegularURL.com redirects automatically to www.myRegularURL.com. they don't want to have to do the www in the url. Do I do this the same way as above?
I have searched for setting up automatic secondary DNS, but couldn't find anything, if I missed it, please post a link
I have 2 VPS's one running cPanel/WHM with about 15 low traffic sites on it. The other is a very slow spec VPS, hopefully just for DNS services.
I only have 1 domain server running currently, this is on the same server as the all the websites, what I want is a secondary DNS mirroring that of the DNS on my cPanel VPS, automaitically....
I was thinking of writting a little script to scp all the .db files in /var/named/ to my secondary server, then login to the secondary server and restart BIND?
The web host I use for personal web hosting (non-work-related) recently renewed my annual hosting package to my credit card automatically. The invoice was generated at around 11:45PM and I received an email reminder. By 12:03AM, I had been billed the full amount, before I even saw the 11:45PM reminder email.
Either from a client or provider standpoint, what is your take on automatic annual renewals? With or without advance warning?
In my case, it was billed to a card I no longer use, so I had to make a payment to that card that I would not have otherwise made. In other words, no serious harm done, but it was a hassle nonetheless.
I do not have a specific take either way on automatic annual renewals, so I am wondering what the community thinks.
I've been searching for a tool to automate website backups for me, that is to keep regular copies of files and databases in case of unexpected data loss. So far I found Site Vault that handles both FTP and MySQL backups at the same time. Does anyone know good alternatives to consider?
I have around 750 megabytes of data on a Windows 2003 server, and I would like to find an off-site / web service that I can use to back this data up incrementally at least nightly. Nightly incrementals would probably be 1-25MB in size. Full backups could run every other week or monthly, as the update rate is fairly low.
Ideally, I'd like to find some software to make this set-it and forget-it. Of course, periodic audits of the backup would be performed, but I don't want something I have to nanny constantly.
As I said, this is a Windows server, so a service would be ideal. A scheduled task would be just as good, I suppose.
I have 2 different shared hosting accounts with 2 different hosts. On 1 hosting account I can install Wordpress plugins by clicking on the "install" link and everything is done, all I have to do is activate the plugin and I'm in business. On my other hosting account I signed up for yesterday, when I try to install a plugin I'm taken to a "Connection Information" screen. It says, "To perform the requested action, connection information is required" and there's a box for the hostname, username, password, and connection type (FTP or FTPS).
I also noticed that when I search for a plugin, the rating stars are all white (no yellow) on the hosting account that asks for the FTP info.
Both of these accounts were installed with Fantastico. Any ideas why my new hosting account acts this way?
What's the best way to set up an automatic file backup to Amazon's S3 service? I have a Linux cpanel VPS. I have minimal VPS administration knowledge but at least the VPS is managed by a good team
Is there any way to do incremental backups to save on the bandwidth charges?
(a full backup for me would be about 15 gigs each time)
I've been pondering something for a long time here, but never really knew the right question to ask, or how to word it... so I never even know what to search for. So I honestly have no idea what I'm asking or if this is even under the right topic. What I'm looking for is answers, links, tutorials, or just some words I can search for to help me do the following:
I have a MySQL database filled with accounts. People have to pay to get these accounts. All the accounts are set to expire on different days. I need to send an e-mail out to accounts, for example, to let them know they're expiring, say, a month before this will occur. Right now the only way I know to do this is to have MySQL queries on a PHP page that, every time the page is loaded, runs through all the accounts, checks their expirations, and sends emails to those that need it. I know there has to be a way to have this happen automatically without having to load a PHP page every day, for example.
Is automatic renewal of a colocation contract for a full year enforceable? I've been with a place for over two years, never got a notice that my contract was being renewed, never got a special price for renewing for an entire year, but as I see now, I'm going to be challenged to pay 100% of the remaining months of a contract I thought I was paying by the month after the end of the first year.
In real estate, most tenants have to sign something that renews their contract for a year, I thought. If I had received notice of renewal at the end of the contract periods, I supposed I would have been more aware that the lease was for a full year each time.
I had no idea that this was standard and, of course, no idea this renewal was buried on page 6 of a 15 page contract. This starts to resemble a health club contract from hell.
Oh, and I just love the early termination fee. It consists of the remainder of the months' lease fees. Like as if I still had the server connected.
I encountered a strange problem when installing apache 2.2 or 2.4 as a service and set the service to be automaticly started.On restart of windows, apache service crashes with an access violation.
