See Also: Bulk PHP-FPM Pool Tuner for Existing Accounts If you manage cPanel servers, you have almost certainly encountered this log entry at some point: [pool username] WARNING: server reached pm.max_children setting (5), consider raising it It looks simple enough. PHP-FPM is telling you it ran out of worker processes to handle incoming requests. But […]
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Cpanel 11.24 comes with an Autofixer that allows you to fix common problems that may prevent access to certain parts of your system.
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Large Account Migration: When Transfer Tool Fails (rsync Hybrid Method) Every cPanel administrator eventually encounters it: the account that simply refuses to migrate. Whether it’s timing out at 80%, throwing cryptic errors, or hanging indefinitely, large account migrations can turn a routine server consolidation into a multi-day headache. Here’s the hybrid rsync approach I’ve refined
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CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8 ELevate Migration Guide for cPanel Servers The cPanel ELevate migration from CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8 carries significant risk but can succeed with meticulous preparation. Real-world experiences reveal that while many migrations complete successfully, unrecoverable failures (including unbootable servers) occur frequently enough that experienced sysadmins often recommend fresh installations over
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If you have servers in a two-way DNS cluster sync that causes all zones to be written to all servers, there is a way to clean this up. I’ve written a script to compare a list of zones on a server to /etc/userdomains to determine which zones belong to the server, so the extraneous ones
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When trying to upgrade from CentOS to AlmaLinux, cPanel 110 and earlier might experience the following error: Edit /etc/cpanel/ea4/profiles/pkg-manifest.json and remove the extra comma at the end of any list, for example: Then re-run Elevate and it should proceed.
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When using cPanel/Sectigo as the SSL provider for AutoSSL, you may occasionally see this error in the autossl log: The “cPanel (powered by Sectigo)” provider cannot currently accept incoming requests. The system will try again later. This error seems to be caused be incorrect permissions in /var/cpanel/ssl/domain_tls/. You can fix this with the following command:
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Having SSL problems? One of the most common issues our team handles is related to websites not properly displaying over HTTPS, whether it be the website either not loading entirely, or just not showing the green padlock: If you’re sure that the SSL certificate is installed properly, but your site isn’t showing as secure, there
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If you’re on a cPanel server, you’ve probably noticed a sizable folder called ‘virtfs’ sitting in /home, which would appear at first to be using a ton of space. Your first inclination might be to delete it, but don’t! Most likely, the files in that folder are actually just hard links or bind mounts and
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