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Tips to Reduce Your Customer Support Costs When hosting websites, whether as a mainstream hosting provider, a hobby, or to supplement another service, it's your job to make sure your customers have access to technical support in case they need...

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Roundcube: MySQL or SQLite? cPanel 11.25 introduces a new feature: The ability to have RoundCube use SQLite instead of MySQL. After benchmarking resource usage and performance, I've come to the conclusion that SQLite is definitely...

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Simple Bash Script to Fix Account Permissions This is a simple bash script I wrote to fix the permissions and ownership of files within a cpanel account. To use, simply copy the script your server, chmod 755, and pass the usernames as arguments: ./fixperms...

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Re-Installing Auxiliary cPanel Software Cpanel has a lot of supporting software that you may be using on your server. In case something goes amiss, here is a list of scripts that reinstall cpanel-provided software on your system. For most all...

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10 Free Monitoring Solutions to Consider Server and network monitoring can be crucial to a host's success. I mean, how embarrassing is it when your customers are aware of downtime before you are? You don't have to pay big bucks or spend loads...

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cPanel Scripts

Below are scripts we’ve written that may be useful for cPanel server administrators. Feel free to download and use as you wish, but note that per our terms of use, you use these scripts at your own risk.

Fix Account Permissions: Simple bash script to fix permissions and ownership of cPanel accounts

Fix Valiases Permissions: Bash script to fix the permissions and ownership of files in /etc/valiases and /etc/vdomainaliases

Mass Change Default Addresses: Simple sed one-liner to mass-change the default addresses for existing accounts on a server