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CSF Dedicated Server Firewall Security WHM

Setup root forwarder – check root forwarder warning by csf

Howto Setup root forwarder on server?

[CSF (ConfigServer Firewall)]

After you install CSF as cPanel Add-on on your virtual private or dedicated server you might get this message “check root forwarder” on running “check server security” test.

Warning: Check Root Forwarder by csf firewall [configserver firewall]

This is regarding the root account forwarder. On the server, the root account, superuser account should have a forwarder set so that you receive essential emails from your dedicated server.

You will need to create/edit a file called .forward in the root folder…
Exact path is: /root/.forward
In this file, add an email address where you want to receive emails sent by root.

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Ftp Server Transfer Web-Hosting www

how to use ftp client with your web hosting account

Tutorial to use FTP Client, CoreFTP with your web hosting account.

In this ftp tutorial we will assume that you own the domain ‘yourdomain.com’ and your FTP username is ‘ftpusername@yourdomain.com’.

Follow these steps to complete the ftp tutorial:

1. Get ftp client from CoreFTP website: http://www.coreftp.com/download/coreftplite.exe
2. Once you install CoreFTP, open it up. You should now see the ‘Site Manager’. Your screen should look like this:

FTP Site Manager

This is the screen where you enter your web hosting account information.

[Note: This is just an example, not your actual username and password.]

  • Site Name: yourdomain
  • Host / IP: ftp.yourdomain.com
  • User Name: ftpusername@yourdomain.com
  • Password: yourftppassword
  • If you are behind a firewall, enable Passvie Mode, by checking the ‘PASV Transfers’ checkbox.

To connect to the server, click on the ‘Connect’ button. And you are done.

Once the FTP program makes a successful connection, the left pane will show files/folders on your computer, the right pane will shows files/folders on the FTP site / remote web server.

Where, in which folder to upload your website files?

On Linux server /cPanel Hosting account, you will be able to see ‘public_html’ or ‘www’ folder in the right view.
On Windows server /DotNetPanel Hosting account, it will be ‘wwwroot’ folder.

Please note that index.html or index.htm or default.html or index.php or index.asp [windows only] file acts as your homepage. Whenever a visitor types in http://yourdomain.com UnicHost Web Server will look for one of the file first and will load homepage of your website.

Facing FTP connection problems?

1. If you just obtained your web hosting account at UnicHost then your domain may not be ready to start using our service. So, in this case, instead of using your domain in the ‘Host or URL’ box you should use the IP address given to you in your welcome e-mail.
2. It may be that you are behind a firewall and/or router and need to use passive FTP. Check step 2 to see how to enable passive FTP.

Once the FTP program makes a connection, you will be able to see/browse files and folders in the right view.

Any further help, we are there for you. Call us or open a support ticket at support [at] unichost.com

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cPanel Web-Hosting WHM

Restart cPanel Service or stop cpanel whm on vps or dedicated server.

Unable to access cPanel WHM?

Restart cPanel Service or stop cpanel whm on vps or dedicated server.

WHM cPanel is a industry standard most popular web-hosting control panel. CPSRVD is the service used to run a cPanel web server. On a web server cpsrvd is running at the background. Major tasks such as maintenance, security checks, and most importantly, it serve WebHost Manager (WHM) web page. If by any chance cpsrvd is stopped, it is almost impossible to get into WHM, your access will be blocked to login to WHM cPanel control panel.

If the cPanel service is down, you can’t perform any of the task trhough WHM to resolve the issue. In fact this service should get start automatically as per the documentation says, but there are chances it will not come up if there is a problem with the configuration. So, what’s the resolve? Get into the server via ssh. What if you don’t have that? Sorry, that’s the only option left with you, so you will need to get connected with the system admin/ vps or dedicated hosting provider / data center technicians to get the cPanel cpsrvd service restarted for you, or start the cpsrvd service if it is stopped.

If you have access to ssh, it’s good. You can perfrom one of the folloing command on your server. Login to server with root access. Then, run one of the following commands:

If you are sure that cPanel service is stopped… ?
To check the status…
#service cpanel status
cpsrvd (pid  7575) is running/stopped…
If stopped… to restart the cpanel service…
#service cpanel restart
OR
#/etc/init.d/cpanel restart
OR
#/etc/rc.d/init.d/cpanel restart

The command will stop the services first and then start the cpsrvd daemon again.
You should be able to login to cpanel/whm from your browser now.

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Online Security Web-Hosting

How do I know if I have a secure connection for online transactions?

Online transactions – Major security concern.

Address of the secured website/online store always starts with http(s). So ssl_certificatebefore you enter any transaction details on the trasanction page, check if the page is secured with the certificate verified. In the web browser: Internet Explorer or FireFox or Opera or Safari etc., you will see a lock icon (lockpad) in the Security Status bar. In IE the Security Status bar is located on the right side of the address bar.

The certificate that is used to encrypt the connection also contains information about the identity of the website owner or organization. To get the more information about the installed SSL certificate, you can click the lock to view the identity of the website.

If everything is okey you are in safe hands.

Happy shopping!

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Bandwidth Web-Hosting

Why dont you provide unlimited bandwidth and unlimited web-space plans

Do you provide an unlimited data transfer and unlimited web-space hosting package?

No, we do not provide unlimited hosting packages as there is no such ‘unlimited’ thing exists. In order to ensure high quality bandwidth and uptime to our respected customers we don’t allow anyone to be hosted on our web server to use unlimited bandwidth, data-transfer / throughput.

There are some hosting provider exists that offer free hosting or offer “unlimited bandwidth” and “unlimited web-space” plans. But after reading their acceptable use policies you will find that no site is allowed to use an “excessive” amount of resources. If you use too much resources, whether it is disk-space, bandwidth or CPU time, these “unlimited” hosts will ask you to upgrade or leave or will suspend your website.

We don’t give false promises.