Why Switching to AWS May Cost You A Fortune

Every month, we lose a couple of customers to Amazon’s Cloud or AWS (Amazon Web Services) and every month we have another couple of customers sign up with us having just cancelled their AWS solution. Each time their reasoning for leaving AWS is the same, “way more expensive and way

How to optimize a WordPress website using plugins.

WordPress is a very popular CMS used for creating websites. However, WordPress sites can be slow, which can harm conversions and search engine rankings. This article explores the most frequent performance issues with WordPress sites and offers some solutions. To speed up your WordPress site you need to streamline everything:

How to Install Maldet and Run a Scan

What is Maldet? Maldet is a commonly used abbreviation for Linux Malware Detect (LMD), a malware scanner for Linux released under the GNU GPLv2 license. What makes Maldet unique, is that it is designed around the threats faced in shared hosting environments. Maldet works by using threat data from network

How to Install CSF (ConfigServer Firewall)

ConfigServer Firewall (or CSF) is a free and advanced firewall available for most Linux distributions, which manipulates iptables chains while also providing greater functionality that iptables doesn’t offer. In addition to the basic functionality of a firewall – filtering packets on IP addresses, services, and ports – CSF includes other

How to Migrate a WordPress Site

If you’re looking to migrate your WordPress Site from one host server to another via cPanel and aren’t sure where to begin, read on to learn how to easily transition your site without losing your data.   Migrating Your WordPress Site with cPanel To migrate your WordPress site using cPanel,

How to Change a Password in Linux

In this guide, we’ll cover how to change a password in Linux using the passwd command followed by the name of the desired user. This method can be used to change the password for the root user as well as for individual users. *Note: before changing any passwords, it is

How to Fix Invalid cPanel License Error When it is Licensed

Invalid cPanel License Error This article provides solutions should you log in to your WHM/cPanel and find a ‘trial license’ message or find yourself unable to log in due to an invalid or expired license. When faced with an invalid license error, there are multiple possible causes. These include: cPanel

How to Install FFmpeg , Mplayer , Mencoder , MP4Box , Flvtool2.

FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. FFmpeg includes libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line program for transcoding multimedia files. You will need to login

How to perform a manual cPanel migration (Updated)

This how to will provide you instructions for performing a manual cpanel migration for if or when the WHM Transfer Tool produces errors due to possibly account sizes or database sizes to work effectively or if you simply prefer commandline scripting. Connect to the source server via SSH terminal Use

SATA RAID 1 vs SSD + SATA, Which Makes More Sense?

Is RAID 1 an Outdated Way of Thinking? As the price of flash storage has come down over the years we thought it would be worth wondering out loud if there was a better alternative to the old RAID 1 setup. I want to predicate this article by stating no