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Managing cPanel with WHM Scripts
Thursday, February 16th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE The job of a system administrator can be a complicated one. The WebHost Manager (WHM) interface provided by cPanel is one of the most sophisticated graphical server management solutions on the market, and many system administrators depend on it to...

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The Benefits and Limitations of Firewalls
Monday, November 21st, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE When a firewall works, few notice it or even remember that it is there. When someone fails to have an adequate firewall or does not have one at all, it gets a lot of attention, once the inevitable attacks occur....

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4 Deadly Security Practices
Monday, August 22nd, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE The Internet is filled with thousands of miscreants waiting for the right opportunity and means to hack into your server and do all sorts of evil with your websites. There are plenty of ways in, from OS vulnerabilities to web...

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Understanding Unix and Linux File Permissions
Thursday, August 4th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Unix-like operating systems (Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, and others) use the standard POSIX file permission system for user and file security.  It is simple yet powerful, and while there are other more complex options, such as ACL, these...

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4 Things to Look for in a Blog Hosting Provider
Thursday, July 28th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE There are two popular forms of blog hosting on the web. The first is the type offered by Google and WordPress.com, which allows users to freely host their blogs on cloud servers.  This method is good for some but not...

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How to Create Cron Jobs in cPanel
Thursday, July 21st, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE For a Linux server, the ability to automate certain tasks is one of its shining features.  Cron jobs are automated tasks that the user instructs the server to run at certain intervals.  These intervals can be daily, hourly, monthly, or...

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