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Reading Bandwidth Graphs In Manage
Filed under: Billing + Manage

Have you ever wanted to check up on the details of your server’s bandwidth usage? Liquid Web’s manage interface provides graphs that give you such information. Here’s how to read them.

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CDN Overview
Filed under: Technical Support

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) can help your websites load more quickly while decreasing the load on your own server. But how do you know which type of CDN service will work best for you?

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Digging Into Exim Mail Logs With Exigrep
Filed under: Technical Support

Perhaps a particular domain on your cPanel server has stopped receiving e-mail. Or, an address on your domain is able to receive e-mail, except from your supplier. Maybe you can receive e-mail just fine, but are receiving error message bounce-backs from Yahoo. How are you going to get the fine-grained information you need to figure out just what is going on?

The answers you seek can be found in exim’s logs.

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Featured Freeware: MTR
Filed under: Technical Support

Featured Freeware highlights some of the Liquid Web staff’s favorite free software. This week we are covering a treasured favorite, MTR (My Traceroute).

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CSF: Config Server Firewall Installation
Filed under: Technical Support

An alternative firewall to APF is the Config Server Firewall, or CSF.

CSF is generally considered a more advanced firewall as there are more configuration options compared to other firewalls, while still being simple enough to install and configure that even novice administrators can use it. This article will give you a simple overview about how to install and configure CSF and its security plugin LFD (Login Failure Daemon).

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How To: Change Monitoring Settings Using Manage

Our monitoring team is on site every hour of every day keeping an eye on your server. Using manage, you can check your monitoring status as well as make changes to the server’s monitoring settings.

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DNS Hosts File
Filed under: Technical Support

One of the most powerful tools available to somebody working on their site during a migration is their computer’s ‘hosts’ file.  This file is especially useful when migrating a site between two servers, or any other time when DNS might not be working properly.

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Enable Remote MySQL Connections in cPanel
Filed under: Technical Support

Remote MySQL connections are disabled by default in cPanel servers because they are considered a potential security threat. Using the tools in the Web Host Manager (WHM) and the domain-level cPanel interface (usually http://domainname.com/cpanel) remote hosts can be added which the server allows to connect to the MySQL service.
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How to use ps
Filed under: Technical Support

The command ps reports a snapshot of a system’s current processes.

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How to use Find
Filed under: Technical Support

The find command is a wonderfully useful tool that allows you to find files or folders by searching for them in a number of ways.

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