I added a spam whitelist rule to the file on my WHM/cPanel server: File: New rule in place: I added this because a lot of mail from ‘a-special-domain-name.co.uk’ was being tagged as spam and disappearing. But in a daily cron task, cPanel went ahead and removed the rule automatically and emailed me about it: How annoying! It turns out that … Read More
CloudFlare Free Full SSL; Not As Secure As You Think?
CloudFlare offer the option to provide SSL for your website without the hassle or expense of obtaining an SSL certificate. It really is quite a hassle and it’s definitely expensive (relatively) so this is brilliant, especially as Google do rate an SSL site higher than a non-SSL one. All you have to do is put your site behind CloudFlare and … Read More
Adding CPanel/WHM cPHulk IP Blocks to CSF & CloudFlare
I’m running ConfigServer Firewall with its associated LFD (Login Failure Daemon) on one of my servers. LFD I believe does much the same job as cPHulk but advice I found online suggests that if resources aren’t hogged then enable both for a stronger setup. cPHulk has (in the CPanel/WHM control panel) an option to run an external command when an … Read More
Getting a cPanel/WHM Server to Email Pending YUM Updates
I used to try to remember every day to log in to my server and check if there were any manual updates needed (these can be kernel updates etc etc) by running this command: This outputs the list of mirrors and then a list of any packages with updates available for them. Problem is it’s a bit of a pain … Read More