Install and configure Fail2ban for CloudPanel on Ubuntu 22.04
CloudPanel out of the box comes with an application to deal with brute force attacks on SSH, NGINX and WordPress, only SSH has a configuration, the app is called Fail2ban.Fail2ban is an app which bans access to your site from IP…
Add Monit to monitor MariaDB or MySQL database on a CloudPanel instance on Ubuntu 22.04
Get up and running with Monit on Ubuntu 22.04 on CloudPanel. Monit can be used to monitor your MariaDB or MySQL database and restart it if it is stopped – the database may be stopped due to a lack of…
Set up malware scanner LMD Maldet and ClamAV on a CloudPanel instance
How to set up a Maldet malware scanner with LMD Maldet and ClamAV on a CloudPanel server instance.One of the popular and open source malware scanners is an app called Linux Malware Detect and works well scanning any Linux web…
Adding 7G WAF Firewall for NGINX to CloudPanel
The 7G WAF firewall by Jeff Starr at Perishable Press is a great addition for server level WAF protection, here is a guide on how to add it to CloudPanel’s NGINX stack.Download the 7G WAF NGNIX versionDownload the 7G WAF…
Disable default WordPress emails on WordPress, themes and plugin updates
The PHP constants below will disable the default WordPress emails on WordPress, themes and plugin updates. They should be added into your wp-config.php file.// Disable WordPress core update emails add_filter( ‘auto_core_update_send_email’, ‘__return_false’ ); // Disable WordPress plugin update emails add_filter(…
Add a Swap Partition to a Ubuntu 22.04 instance
Below is a guide on how you can add a swap disk/partition to a Ubuntu 22.04 instance, I would recommend that you have a decent amount of hard disk space available to avoid constant use of the swap drive, a…
MySQL/MariaDB [Warning] Could not increase number of max_open_files to more than 32768 (request: 100000)
Seeing the warning recently on a number of VMs running MySQL/MariaDB.[Warning] Could not increase number of max_open_files to more than 32768 (request: 100000)A MariaDB process has requested a larger amount of open files, you can verify the current limit by…
Using MySQL Tuner with MariaDB on Ubuntu 22.04
Leaving MariaDB settings out of the box may work for some people but not so productive for others, MariaDB can be a resource hog if not checked and result in issues like OOM-Killer(Out of memory) knocking it off.You can use…
Flush DNS cache locally on macOS Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, OSX, Linux and Windows
When URLs are just not resolving the way you want, it may be time to clear or flush the DNS nameserver local cache – enter the relevant command in the Terminal/command line for the macOS operating system you are on.How…
Restart and view status of RunCloud services on the Command Line
Here are some command line commands to view the status as well as restart some key services such as OpenLiteSpeed, MariaDB, Redis and Memcached, after having SSH’ed in to your server as root.MySQL/MariaDBGet the status of MariaDBsystemctl status mariadbOutput will…
