Apps – The cPanel Admin

Building Custom cPanel Plugins Using the cPanel API Framework

nessa • September 26, 2025

The cPanel control panel’s extensibility through custom plugins is one of its most powerful features for web hosting providers and system administrators. Whether you need to integrate third-party services, automate specific tasks, or provide custom functionality to your users, building cPanel plugins using the official API framework gives you the flexibility to extend cPanel’s capabilities […]

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Apps, Howto, nodejs

How to Deploy a Node.js App with cPanel

nessa • September 25, 2025

Deploying a Node.js application doesn’t always require complex cloud platforms or VPS servers. Many shared hosting providers now offer Node.js support through cPanel, making it easier than ever to get your application online. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll walk through the entire process of deploying a Node.js app using cPanel’s user-friendly interface. Prerequisites Before we

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Apache, Apps, PHP, Scripts

PHP Phalcon Module for cPanel EasyApache

nessa • May 3, 2014

Update: This module is for EasyApache 3, which is obsolete in favor of EasyApache 4. Due to recent changes in EA3, this module may not work on your server, and this is out of our control. Therefore, this module is currently no longer supported and we recommend using PECL to install it instead until it

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Apps, Misc

Why Softaculous is More Fantastic than Fantastico

nessa • October 21, 2012

I don’t mean to offend anyone who still uses Fantastico. Some people prefer to stick to what they’re used to, and Fantastico is the original open-source auto-installer built for cPanel and has a pretty solid name in the hosting industry. But geez – what happened? Where did all their developers go, and what are the

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Apps, Troubleshooting

LFD – High CPU Usage While Sleeping

nessa • August 4, 2011

After switching several servers over from APF to CSF, my colleagues and I noticed that there are times during the day that LFD just chews away CPU, even while the process claims it’s “sleeping”: root 15785 35.6 0.1 194496 buy cheap levitra 93104 ? Ss 00:00 474:54 lfd – sleeping 35.6% CPU? What is it

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Apps, Mail

Enhancing Your cPanel SPAM Protection with SpamExperts

nessa • April 11, 2011

With spam continuing to be an increasing problem, hosting providers are always looking for ways to filter out junk so their customers remain as spam free as possible. SpamAssassin, the anti-spam software bundled with cPanel, will do a sufficient job in filtering some spam, but to truly get bragging rights as a spam-free host, you

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Apps, Howto, Linux, Scripts

Setting up a Red5 Flash Media Server

nessa • November 3, 2010

This post will explain a simple process for installing a Red5 Flash Media server in a VPS or Dedicated environment. Install Subversion and Java yum -y install java-1.7.0-openjdk java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel yum -y install subversion Install Ant (get the latest from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi) cd /opt wget http://apache.spinellicreations.com/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.0-bin.zip unzip ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.0-bin.zip mv apache-ant-1.9.0 ant ln -s /opt/ant/bin/ant /usr/bin/ant Update bash

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Apps, Howto, Security

Installing ClamAV on a cPanel Server

nessa • August 13, 2010

ClamAV is an popular open source anti-virus toolkit for *nix, and while many people don’t find much value in using antivirus software on Unix, it is very useful for email scanning. cPanel’s implementation allows end users to run scans on their home folders, public FTP folders, mail, and public_html. It’s really hard to install ClamAV

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Apache, Apps, DNS, Howto, Linux, Mail, Misc, MySQL

cPanel 11.25 Cheat Sheet

nessa • July 2, 2010

We’ve developed our first cPanel 11.25 cheat sheet, now available for your downloading pleasure. The sheet is comprised of common file, script, and configuration locations for help at a quick glance. [dm]1[/dm] More cheat sheets will be available soon! Check back on our Cheat Sheets page for more.

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