How To (Automatically) Backup Your Website Into Dropbox or Copy.com

As owners of websites, one of the more important things you should do is to regularly backup the website. Most web hosting providers will enable daily or weekly backups, mainly for their disaster recovery purpose only. If you want to personally oversee a backup of your website, you can do it by yourself using the Backup function in hosting control panels like cPanel, Plesk and DirectAdmin. As a webmaster or domain owner, you are...

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Convert root filesystem to LVM

I converted root filesystem to lvm since the root partition was huge and I needed more flexibility in managing the partitions. Besides, lvm would also enable for easy backups with lvm snapshots. I had a sizable swap partition of 2GB which I used to transfer my root files to and rebooted to it, prior to the conversion. Please know what you are doing prior and make sure to create backups. This is what the partitions looked like prior to the change:# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 ...

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The Ultimate Wget Download Guide With 15 Awesome Examples

wget utility is the best option to download files from internet. wget can pretty much handle all complex download situations including large file downloads, recursive downloads, non-interactive downloads, multiple file downloads etc., In this article let us review how to use wgetfor various download scenarios using 15 awesome wget examples. 1. Download Single File with wget The following example downloads a single file from internet and stores in the current directory. $ wget http://www.openss7.org/repos/tarballs/strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2 While...

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Certificate Installation: WHM/cPanel 11

1. Login to the cPanel 'Control Panel'2. Click SSL/TLS Manager under the Security section.3. Click on Generate, view, upload or delete SSL Certificates in the 'Certificates' section.4. Import Domain/End Entity Certificate.a. Copy and Paste the contents of 'yourDomainName.crt' into the text box labeled 'Paste the crt below' in the 'Upload a New Certificate' section.- or -b. Click 'Browse' and navigate to...

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FTP Filezilla - 421 Sorry, cleartext sessions are not accepted on this server.

Some times when  you connect to the webhost via FileZilla you may encounter this error message. "421 Sorry, cleartext sessions are not accepted on this server." Solution: Just add a ftpes:// before the domain name Old One, host : domain.com username : xxx pass : yyy port : 21 New, host : ftpes://domain.com username : xxx pass : yyy port : 21 Advanced Option, Login to  Web Host ManagerGo To : Service ConfigurationGo To : FTP Server ConfigurationCheck that  :TLS Encryption...

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How to Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on CentOS 6

About Virtual Hosts Virtual Hosts are used to run more than one domain off of a single IP address. This is especially useful to people who need to run several sites off of one virtual private server. The sites display different information to the visitors, depending on with which the users accessed the site.There is no limit to the number of virtual hosts that can be added to a VPS. Set Up The steps in this tutorial require the user to have root privileges.Furthermore, if I reference the user in a step, I’ll use the name...

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