Server Management

Learn to use telnet to connect to services on a server. Using telnet via SSH is recommended as it helps bypass local and remote server firewalls.

A review of four ways to check server load on Linux servers and what the numbers mean.

While configuring some web applications in Cloud Sites, you might need to provide the absolute path, full path, or web root for your website. No matter if you’re using Linux or Windows, it’s easy to find your website’s filepath in Cloud Sites. If you don’t know whether you need the Linux or Windows path, consult a web developer or the web application vendor, or contact us for a recommendation.

Minimize spam by adding custom RBLs in WHM or Plesk. Learn how to add, enable, and test new remote block lists on your server.

To make sure you can restore your website if something goes wrong, you should have periodic backups scheduled. Sometimes you’ll want to manually back up a website in addition to your automatic backups. For instance, if you’re going to make large changes to the website, it’s a good idea to back up your website just in case something goes wrong. That way, you can restore an old version of your website while your developer figures out the problem. It’s also a good idea to create a backup if you’re going to make major changes to your server. We recommend downloading a backup right before you make major changes to your website. This ensures your backup has the most up-to-date website information. It’s easy to back up a website or even your whole server using Plesk!

Update the PHP memory limit, max file size, post size and execution time for Wordpress in Cloud Sites.

Cron is a time-based job scheduling tool on Linux systems that can run periodically at fixed times, dates, and intervals. It is typically used to automate system maintenance and administration.

Once you add an administrator in the Premium Business Email control panel, you can manage their account access, passwords and enable security measures like two-factor authentication.

A certificate signing request (CSR) is information generated by your server that is necessary to apply for a SSL certificate. It contains information about your website, but it’s encoded. Instead of trying to learn the notation and encode a CSR yourself, the Cloud Sites control panel can do all that for you. All you have to do is enter your information.

Interoperability is leveraged using our Liquid Web Command Line Interface (LW CLI) to harness the power of the robust Liquid Web API (LW API) to automate and manage cloud resources.

Disk space management in dedicated Linux servers with cPanel is often underestimated. Learn to manage disk space in your cPanel server.

Is your Linux VPS server using too much space? Learn how to identify what is taking up space, how to prevent and what to do if you are out of disk space.