Archives for June, 2010

NL4 HDD – server problems [Fixed 29/06]

NL4 HDD – server problems [Fixed 29/06]

As many of you have noticed, our NL4 server, alpha, has not been very stable for the last week. All attempts to try and resolve the issues have been slow due to the integrity of data being stored on this server. The servers RAID configuration is acting up and thinks that one of the drives …

Files – File Permissions

Files – File Permissions

Changing file/folder permissions All files on UNIX (including Linux and other UNIX variants) machines have access permissions. In this way the operating system knows how to deal with requests to access the files. There are three types of access: Read – Denoted as r, files with read access can be displayed to the user. Write …

NL4 – Servers Move/Hardware Upgrade

NL4 – Servers Move/Hardware Upgrade

Servers NL4 will be moved to new hardware to help deal with performance and stability issues. The total downtime should be around 30 minutes. This will affect web, shell, file, and cPanel services. Email should not be affected, but you shoud not try to modify or update your site during maintenance since new SQL entry …

Automatic cPanel backup with cron & PHP

Automatic cPanel backup with cron & PHP

The situation is this: You use cPanel on our web hosting server. You use the cPanel backup tool to regularly backup /home directory (includes my web files, mail, etc), and my MySQL databases. You love the fact that you can use it to backup to a remote FTP server, and you do that on a …