- cPanel/WHM Server Security:-
cPanel/WHM Server Security is the most important aspect to keep your websites, and other data secure as new methods of attacks and hacks are popping up almost every day. This will make the servers protected from attacks, hacks, and various other threats.
Go to WHM Home >>Security Center >>Security Advisor and select the “Security Advisor Tool”. From there, select “scan” to start the scan.
2. Speed:-
Mentioned below is a list of Tweak settings you can change to improve Server performance. Make changes at your own responsibility.
Disable the Mailman mailing list settings
Change the “Email delivery retry time” to 30 minutes from the 15 minutes default
Change BoxTrapper Spam Trap and SpamAssassin Spam Box to off at WHM Tweak Settings
Disable MYSQL Disk Calculations
Disable Anonymous Logins and FTP uploads at Tweak Settings.
3. Optimizing Apache
Apache Optimization will improve the overall performance of your website without upgrading hardware(CPU & RAM). For improving your performance in Apache, WHM/cPanel is quite limited on what it can configure.
In WHM, go to –WHM Home >> Service Configuration >> Apache Configuration >> Global Configuration
4. Other cPanel User Backup Type
Instead of using compressed backups that are present by default, use incremental backups. This will take more space, but performance is better. You can configure incremental backups in WHM Panel directly at:-
WHM Home >> Backup >> Backup Configuration
5. Optimizing cPanel/WHM Server PHP memory limit
In your php.ini file, reduce the PHP memory_limit value. You can change it at the mentioned location,
WHM Home >> Service Configuration >> PHP Configuration Editor >> Core >> memory_limit