You can create a catch-all email address in cPanel by following the below mentioned steps. Sign in to cPanel and follow these steps: 1) Click Default Address under Mail. 2) Select Forward to email address. 3) Enter your desired catch-all email address into the Forward to email address: box. 4)… Continue Reading How to Create a Catch-all email address in cPanel

Each time you access a web page via web browser, the browser caches (i.e., stores) it. This makes the browser to act in a fast manner by optimizing the time to retrieve data each and every time. It is better to clear the browser cache periodically, in order to make… Continue Reading How to Clear Browser Cache

How to find Live Resource usage for a User: If Cloud linux is be enabled in the server, then you can use the following command to find resource usage:  # lveinfo –period=1W -u Output:# lveinfo –period=1W -u jahwaggyID              aCPU    mCPU    lCPU    aEP    mEP    lEP    aMem    mMem    lMem    MemF    MepF544             1  … Continue Reading Live Resource usage for a User

The  mail sent by nobody is usually restricted in most of the server in order to prevent spamming activity. In most of the CMS, the mail functions will be handled by the PHP scripts which has the ownership of nobody. You can see the following snippet present in the exim… Continue Reading Mail sent by user nobody being discarded due to sender restrictions in WHM->Tweak Settings

Reset WordPress admin password using database:  1. Find the database name in “wp-config.php” for the corresponding WP domain. 2. cd /var/lib/mysql 3. Take backup   mysqldump databasename > databasename.sql 4. Enter into MySQL prompt.   mysql root@hostname# mysqlWelcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.Your MySQL connection id is… Continue Reading Reset WordPress admin password

 Art of Port Scanning  — namp We can find custom SSH port number using  nmap: command:  nmap -P0 -T4 -sV -p- “IP address”            -PO[protocol list]:  IP Protocol Ping           -T: Set timing template (higher is faster). By default it will be in milliseconds.           -sV: Probe open ports to determine service/version… Continue Reading Find custom SSH port number

Simple difference b/w Sub domain, Parked, and Add-On domain. Sub domain * Lets say your domain is mysite.com. * You install a Message Board and put in in a directory called mysite.com/board/. * You can turn the directory board into a sub-domain by adding it as a sub-domain from your… Continue Reading Simple difference b/w Sub domain, Parked, and Add-On domain.

Modules install with Apache to avoid DDOS attacks: To mitigate DDoS attacks, you can install : Mod_securityMod_dosevasiveMod_limitipconnDoS-Deflate ***************1) “Mod_security” : “Mod_security” is a module which helps us to protect our server from exploits that are passed though apache. Mod_security does this by inspecting the information send in apache and filtering… Continue Reading Modules install with Apache to avoid DDOS attacks.

Few steps to be taken when you feel that the server is under DDOS attack: Step 1: Check the load using the command “w”. Step 2: Check which service is utilizing maximum CPU by “nice top”. Step 3: Check which IP address is taking maximum connection using the command: netstat… Continue Reading Few steps to be taken when you feel that the server is under DDOS attack: