How To Organize Massive Passwords Change On Cpanel Server
Jun 20, 2007
to change all passwords for user account on cpanel server. Is it possible to do it automatically by using some cpanel script? Also I need this information stored in one file in order to know new passwords.
I run a fairly popular file hosting service and in the process of moving servers.
At the moment i have a system that automatic create a new folder each day and store new uploaded files into this folder. The name of the folder match the current date etc.
Example: /2009/06/15/...
I find this system a bit "outdated" and belive there is a smarter way to do this.
My new fileservers contain ~10TB of available diskspace (each). Average filesize is around 10MB.
I was told not to put all the files into one folder, still the case?
This is probably a long shot, but is there a workaround way to be able to edit passwords for addon domains in cPanel 11? Apparently you can only manage redirection or remove: ...
And now after creating a Joomla! site for a school that will be moving to my server from a local small isp that doesn't have a control panel (just a screen to allow users to set-up their email name and pwd) I'm stuck with trying to figure out how to set up their email accounts with their current password.
There are about 40 accounts that I can add manually, but when I change the nameservers, these teachers and staff are going to be at a loss as what to do; like I am at the moment.
I got up today, went to check my emails and received invalid passwords on all my email accounts. I then went to check in the CPanels and get the same error when I try to login.
Then I try the root and same thing!
BUT all my linked FTP accounts work and the sites are online and working. One is giving a 500 error (cgi program) but besides that, they are all online w/ no changes.
My "host want to do a OS reinstall and let me try and restore my sites from a slave drive. I think thats stupid and shouldnt be needed.
They also automatically say I was hacked...Sure a hacker changed all the cpanel and email passwords but worked it so the linked FTP accounts would work and didnt take any sites offline.
I moved from a host to another and wanted to restore/use the email adresses that are already saved on my old host account.
I did a full backup by using Cpanel's wizard and saved it on my computer. Extracted everything and then by using FTP I have put all the files on my new server which is using Cpanel as well.
Although all email adresses are now visible in my Cpanel the old passwords will not work anymore......
I have a problem with a customer. For the last 48 hours he has been receiving a massive DDoS at his server. I tried blocking the darn IPs but they keep coming and with several hundreds of connections each:
Apache has over 14000 connections. I tried using mod_evasive but didn't do anything and the server has been out without httpd for hours now. Any advices? This is a Hsphere server (I hate it personally) with 4GB RAM and a dual optero 246. I have the mexclients setting at 550.
How can I better monitor and trace down I/O spikes? I've noticed the wait hit 60% every now and again... could someone be running a rapidleech script and if so, how can i find it?
I want to prepare myself for getting dugg and whatnot, so I want to mirror my site ahead of tiem. The problem is that it's very db-intensive so there's a db that all mirrors would have to query. What's the best way to deal with multiple dedicated servers in order to spread traffic load and not crash my site?
I have a dedicated windows server. I have it protected to the best of my ability (disabling administrative shares, anti-virus, anti-spyware, disabled remoted desktop, firewall, etc.). The purpose for the server is to host game servers. Over the past month, ive noticed massive amounts of bandwidth being used. For example Windows reports the bandwidth usage at a little over 2 GB in 1 day, yet on my control panel which reads the traffic from the switch, it shows that 9 GB have been transferred. I asked the colo what's happening and they said that traffic that is blocked by the firewall is still counted toward my monthly limit. But how can there be 7 GB of blocked traffic, keeping in mind i never had this problem months ago. As a test, last night i disabled all game servers and applications that use bandwidth. In the past day over 9GB has been transferred, despite the fact that i have nothing running that takes more then 50KB of bandwidth.
Aside from these bandwidth issues, everything is running fine, my passwords are still the same, etc. Is there anyway detect security holes, so that i may patch them when i reinstall the OS? I asked my colo for a security audit.
My question is, do you think my server has been compromised?
I've noticed that vBulletin and one of my directories is getting hit hard for the same file by sites in the Netherlands, Russia, Vietnam and China.
The lines typically state the same, trying to hit a file that isn't there, which may be in a forum/ or forums/ directory instead of the root.
'/home/mysite/public_html/forumdisplay.php' not found or unable to stat '/home/mysite/public_html/newthread.php' not found or unable to stat
What have you guys done for this? I'm assuming an .htaccess edit may be in order. I'm also hoping to track IP addresses so that I can keep adding them easily. I wish it was more simple to do it on the server level using whm since it's usually accessible everywhere.
Can any suggestion a host, and incidently perhaps the best album script, to host as much as 100,000 photos? I'm not sure size yet, but 10-15 gigs is expected. Currently there's 40k photos, but I'm leaving room for expansion.
I am trying to figure out what file system to use for my server. It has 24 hard drives, 2 run the OS in RAID 1, and the other 22 are in RAID 10. When I was installing the OS (Ubuntu 8), I kept on getting problems when I tried to partition and format the second drive (the one with the 22 disks in RAID 10) and it keeps failing on me. I then changed the file system type from ext3 to XFS and it worked fine. I also gave it another try and did not partition/format the second drive and decided to do it manually once the OS was installed. When I did it it told me that the file system was too large for ext3. So my guess is that ext3 has a limit on the size of the file system it is being installed on.
Anyway, so I am wondering, is there any other file system that will get me the best performance, mainly I/O performance, that I can install? I would like to stick with Ubuntu OS. This server will mainly serve large files for download over HTTP.
how to handle the file storage of a youtube clone?
Is it just a matter of getting more servers with a few hdds or are there specialized companies that one can upload files over a distributed file streaming network?
The reason I ask is because I have thousands of gigabytes of videos and it appears to be impossible to upload it on 1 dedicated server or even a few.