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How to Change Softaculous Administrator Contact Email?

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Softaculous is the leading one-click app installer in the web hosting industry. If you have control panel-based web hosting, you most likely interacted with the softaculous app installer earlier. Whenever any softaculous version update is released, an app released or backup is completed that time softaculous runs cron. These notifications will be served in the […]

How to Install Python 3 on a VPS Server?

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Installing Python 3 on a VPS server is a relatively straightforward task that varies slightly based on the operating system behind the VPS. The steps below will assume you’ve logged in to a terminal session on the VPS. Let’s learn How to Install Python on a VPS Server? Step 1 : Update Your Packages Ubuntu/Debian […]

How to disable/enable php_functions?

In many cases, your web application might not work as expected due to certain enabled/disabled php_functions; at that time, you need to submit the request with the server administrator or the host to disable/enable the specific php_functions. If you have cPanel or DirectAdmin control panel’s root-level access, then this article will help you with how […]

Softaculous is the leading one-click app installer in the web hosting industry, and it is widely offered by shared/reseller hosting providers. KnownHost also offers a softaculous app installer for free with shared hosting, reseller hosting, and managed services. We will be covering some of the most common settings of a softaculous app installer. Configure Common […]

How to Check Server Memory Usage?

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Every Linux administrator has a crucial job to monitor, manage and deploy the webserver and its services. RAM is one of the top priority components that Linux administrators take a look at frequently, using any monitoring tool or manual methods. There are a few different ways of accomplishing this, depending on your preference and system […]

How To Test Mod_Expires .htaccess Rules with Curl?

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Confirming Mod_Expires is Installed To be able to use the Expires header, mod_expires must be enabled in your Apache configuration. You can confirm this on CentOS using the following command, This module controls the Expires HTTP header settings and the Cache-Control HTTP header max-age directives. This should be installed by default on most servers. Testing […]

What is Subaddressing? Subaddressing is also known as ‘plus addressing’ or ‘detailed addressing’, and describes the ability to send email to an address that not only contains an email username, an @ character, and a domain, but also a delimiter character and a ‘detail’ string. For example, sending an email to the address admin+mailinglist@domain.com, which uses the + as the […]

Enabling DKIM with DirectAdmin

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DKIM is a means of authentication using cryptographic techniques designed to combat email spoofing. A DKIM-enabled mail server will generate a hash of the email contents that it wants to sign, use its private key to encrypt it, and sign the outbound message with it. Remote servers receiving email from the DKIM-enabled mail server will […]

A crucial role of server maintenance is ensuring that all Content Management Systems installed are kept up to date. For some, this can be quite a challenge. Having just a few installs can make it quite challenging to check if all installs are up to date. We’ve got a few one-liners that should make this […]