cpanel – akamaras

How to block brute force attacks against wp-login.php on a Cpanel server using CSF

akamaras — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 22:52:14 +0000

Over the last few years there have been massive brute force attacks against wordpress sites wp-login.php. A quick search for a way of dealing with these attacks, returned methods that used mod_security to identify the attack and then ban the …

1 bad minute errors in crontab file can’t install

akamaras — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:13:29 +0000

I had multiple cases where cpanel accounts were getting the error message in the title, when users were trying to save a cronjob. All of these accounts were previously transferred from plesk servers. To fix this just enter the users …

Howto backup cpanel via rsync

akamaras — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:50:19 +0000

Cpanel has a nice backup system especially in case you’ll have to restore the server. What I don’t like about it is the absence of ssh as a protocol to transfer the data to a remote server. There are two …

script to place webalizer stats outside cpanel

akamaras — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:25:32 +0000

Here is a script I made for my cpanel servers, to place webalizer stats outside cpanel. Users will be able to goto http://www.mydomain.com/stats and see their webstats. NOTE: This script is for the server administrator, if you have a cpanel …

open source control panels

akamaras — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:54:29 +0000

In the following post you’ll find the most popular open source and free (as in beer) control panels, there are other control panels but most of them are outdated and discontinued. I didn’t write my personal opinion about them, because …