If you are managing a server from the terminal and do not use a control panel. You can take a look at your disk space usage by entering the command: df -h The above command will work under different Linux distributions and *BSD operating systems. The results will show your different filesystems and their sizes. […]

If you manage different servers and need to tell quickly what Linux distribution and version of that distribution you are using. You can ssh into that server and execute the following command: cat /etc/*-release If you are using Debian 8.0 then the results would look like this: PRETTY_NAME=”Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)” NAME=”Debian GNU/Linux” VERSION_ID=”8″ VERSION=”8 […]

The following are the ports you may need if you are setting up an email client like: Thunderbird, Outlook, or Apple Mail to connect to your Cpanel/WHM server. The ports for Secure POP3 is 995, the port for Secure IMAP is 993, and outgoing port for Secure SMTP is 465. Below is a list of […]

Question: What are the ports for accessing WHM and Cpanel? Answer: For Cpanel the port is 2083, for WHM the port is 2087, and for accessing Webmail the port is 2095. Cpanel: https://127.0.0.1:2083 WHM: https://127.0.0.1:2087 Webmail: https://127.0.0.1:2096 You will need to replace 127.0.0.1 with your servers IP address or your site’s domain name. If you […]

This tutorial will show you how to create an FTP user with Cpanel. Once you have a FTP user you can allow that user to upload files to a specific directory that you want. 1) Locate the add FTP User icon in your control panel. The icon is called “FTP Accounts”. 2) Choose a username, […]

If you are running CentOS and want to update all the software that was installed via yum. You can execute the following command, yum will download the updates and proceed to install them. You should be the root user to be able to execute the commands below. After the update process has been completed you […]

Follow these steps to setup a subdomain for your website in Cpanel. 1. Login to your web host’s control panel. There is a good chance that your web host is probably using Cpanel. 2. After you login successful. You should see the following area inside Cpanel. Click on “Subdomains” to continue to the creation of […]

This is a tutorial on how to manage your Nginx web server under CentOS 7.x, Debian 8.x (Jessie), and FreeBSD 10.x. Commands to start, stop, and restart Nginx web server for these operating systems are shown below and are separated by the different operating systems. CentOS (version 7.x) To start Nginx under CentOS: systemctl start […]

The following are commands to start, stop, and restart the Apache web server from the terminal. The commands are broken into different sections for different operating systems. Depending on which operating system your server is using, the command to use to stop, start, or restart Apache may vary. CentOS (version 7.x) To stop the Apache […]