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Learn how to enhance your Virtualmin server’s security by installing ConfigServer Security & Firewall (CSF). This comprehensive guide walks you through each step, from installing necessary tools to removing redundant security software like Fail2Ban and FirewallD. With CSF, you’ll enjoy a more streamlined and robust security setup, simplifying server management and boosting protection.
This article details a step-by-step guide on resolving intermittent issues with the Clam Antivirus service stopping on a CentOS 7 server. It emphasizes the importance of ClamAV for server security, provides detailed instructions for manual service restarts, and differentiates between DirectAdmin settings. Read this to help with fixing stopped Clam service.
Activating PHP on a fresh Virtualmin install’s default website involves a series of steps to ensure efficient and secure PHP script execution. This guide covers verifying and installing PHP-FPM, configuring the PHP-FPM service, and adjusting the Apache configuration to handle PHP scripts correctly. By enabling the necessary Apache modules and restarting services, you ensure optimal performance and resource management for your web applications. Additionally, the guide includes troubleshooting tips to address common issues, making the setup process smooth and straightforward. Follow these steps to fully leverage PHP-FPM’s capabilities on your default Virtualmin-hosted site.
I intend to focus this article on yet another way of speeding up your website's page loading time. My focus here will be hooking up Redis to speed page loading in complex websites. Over the years I've noticed that website pages have become more complex to meet the...
We have been using DirectAdmin a CharlesWorks since July of 2013. It has been extremely dependable. Support for it is great as well. This short article applies to web hosting servers using DirectAdmin's control panel. This function is especially helpful when restoring...
Installatron is a great server product. We have been using it since May of 2016 on a number of our website servers. Installatron is very cost effective and interfaces directly with DirectAdmin. It allows CharlesWorks staff to quickly set up websites on our servers for...
Not too long ago, I wrote an article indicating Some Great Reasons to use a Local Debian Server running Virtualmin. In it, I mentioned that I had built a Debian 10 server to try out the Virtualmin control panel. Virtualmin is a control panel that allows adding of...
I recently built a Debian 10 server to try out the Virtualmin control panel. Virtualmin is a control panel that allows adding of websites to a server for access to a private or public network. The goal of the server is to host WordPress websites under development in a...
As a general policy at CharlesWorks, we set up email on separate servers from your website. Doing this keeps mail server traffic from affecting website resources and vice versa. The local mail server on the DirectAdmin must be disabled when using a remote mail server....
This article explains how to change the hostname and IP address of a Linux CentOS 7 server. There are two basic facts about subnets that are in play when making these particular changes: The hostname is the name a computer (or server) goes by on the network. Each...
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