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How To: Change Monitoring Settings Using Manage

Our monitoring team is on site every hour of every day keeping an eye on your server. Using manage, you can check your monitoring status as well as make changes to the server’s monitoring settings.

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cPanel How To: Change a Domain’s MX Record
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This guide will walk you through the process of changing a domain’s Mail Exchange (MX) record(s) to point e-mail at a different server. MX records are a critically important part of a web site’s DNS because they tell the rest of the internet where to send e-mail for a domain.

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Using SFTP and SCP Instead of FTP
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One simple way to improve your Linux server’s security is to use SFTP or SCP instead of regular FTP.

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New User Tutorial: Basic Shell Commands

Now that you know how to SSH into your server it is important to familiarize yourself with some basic command line tools.

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New User Tutorial: Basic SSH

If you have an account on a cPanel server with shell access or your own VPS or Dedicated server running Linux then SSH is a powerful tool to have in your skill set.

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Using rsync to Transfer and Synchronize Local and Remote Systems
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Rsync is a powerful tool that facilitates the transfer and synchronization of data between both local and remote systems.

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“The website is down! Now what?” Help Us Help You!
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If you are unable to connect to your website there are a few things you can try (if you have the time) to help us better diagnose where the problem lies.

Simply put, the more quickly this information is collected the more quickly we can fix whatever is causing almost any issue. Help us help you!
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Restarting Services From the Command Line
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One of the more common tasks that needs to be done on live servers is restarting services(such as Apache, mail, ftp, and DNS). A few of the reasons for services needing to be restarted can vary from the service crashing, the load on the server being too high, or a restart to make a configuration change take affect.

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Install Git on CentOS 5
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Git is an open source, distributed version control system. It’s all the rage right now with sites like GitHub offering a social coding experience, and popular projects such as Perl, Ruby on Rails, and the Linux kernel using it.

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How to use df
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The df command is used to view the amount of free diskspace on a server.  The most common usage of this command will include the -h flag.  This flag will make the output be more human readable.

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