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How to Change Your FTP Port

January 9, 2010
Written by Vanessa Vasile
Published in FTP, Howto, Security

Lately FTP has been a problem for a lot of hosting providers. Especially since the recent influx of Gumblar-related attacks and FTP exploits, some hosting providers are now considering changing their FTP ports as an added measure of security. If you’re on a cPanel server you have a couple extra steps to go through, but…

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Installing an SSL Certificate on a Shared IP

December 30, 2009
Written by Vanessa Vasile
Published in Apache, Howto, Security
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Update: As of cPanel 11.40, you can install shared SSLs on the main/shared IP just as you do any other certificate. It was kind of annoying in the midst of cPanel 11’s release when cPanel discontinued the ability to install an SSL certificate on a shared IP. Sure, you can do it as ‘nobody’, but…

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