Passive FTP problems with PureFTP, cPanel, and APF

A few months ago I moved all of my domains from a sad little VPS over to a dedicated server, and it made a huge difference in how well my sites worked. The only catch is that FTP connections were flaky. What I found is that setting the connection to Active would work, [...]

How to reset Webmin password

Forgot your webmin password? If you can login to the server via SSH you still may be in luck. Look for a file called changepass.pl in the webmin directory or as part of the webmin download. At the prompt type
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./changepass.pl /etc/webmin username newpassword

replacing /etc/webmin with the path to the webmin [...]

Clearing out MySQL binary logs

Over the past few weeks WHM has been sending me emails that my server space was getting full. I guess 80% is the threshold for those emails. But it was creeping up so slowly that over the course of 8 or 10 weeks it had only gone from 80% to 82% which I [...]

How to create a MySQL database with a shell account

Some hosts give you the ability to login with a shell account through SSH. Even if this option is available, and on many hosts it is not, most of your admin activities will be more difficult since you will be using a command line interface rather than a web control panel like cPanel or [...]