If you are experiencing a Directory Listing Timeout error when connecting via FTP, it could be due to your ISP blocking port 21. Enabling Passive Mode in FTP can help resolve this issue. If you are using CSF (ConfigServer Firewall) on cPanel, you may need to unblock the necessary port range for your default FTP […]
Online ads are getting more and more annoying by the day, not to mention most of the time they are inappropriate for adults let alone kids. So my daughter (10yo) set up a Pi Hole AD blocker with two Raspberry Pis (on different locations) and VPN so you can safely browse the internet even when […]
Nginx has become a household name when it comes to web servers and its (about time) “recent” integration to cPanel officially by cPanel developers it has become one of the most used HTTP servers used today (it’s mostly used as a reversed cache proxy in cPanel / WHM case). But yet again cPanel devs decided […]
Since COVID-19 finally tuned down in my part of Europe concerts finally started to be a thing again! How is this connected to resizing your partition? Well, my customer rockline.si has had a busy few months and filled up their WHM/cPanel hosted server to the point where backups could no longer be made. After contacting […]
Recently I installed HestiaCP on touhou.si’s webserver. Why do you ask? Well, Touhou is a nonprofit organization that just got free hosting from Akademska in raziskovalna mreža Slovenije (ARNES) that comes with no licenses. Since the members are mostly not tech-savvy using my regular approach without any web interface was going to be a nightmare […]
Recently due to the fact that some of my bigger clients needed their VPS’s updated I decided to start fully cloning their servers so that in case of any issues I could simply change their DNS records to the new backup server and put them back online as fast as possible if something should go […]
Nowadays there are many many VPS providers out there. And many of them claim that they use pure SSD disk fields with their VPS’s but when you get into it you see that they are later claiming of using “SSD drives to speed up your VPS”. This can be easily tested with a single line […]
Cron is a Linux utility that schedules a command or script on your server to run automatically at a specified time and date. As the name implies a cron “job” is a scheduled job. Cron jobs can be very useful to automate almost any task in Linux. While adding a cronjob is quite easy (just […]
Please note that Python 3 is already preinstalled with Ubuntu 18.04. Nevertheless here and instructions on how to install, update and uninstall it. How to install the latest python Before installing the latest version of python check the version of python currently installed on your machine. To do so you can run: python3 -V or […]
So you want to regularly check your IP(s) if they got listed on one of the many (800+ to be exact) public blacklists (also known as DNSBL or RBL)? Bellow, you can find a bash script that will make your life much easier. You can also make a cronjob that sends you an email with […]