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Using Desktop Drives vs NAS Drives vs Enterprise Drives In A RAID Server

James T
December 6, 2015
Articles / Linux / Server Hardware / Tutorials
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Desktop drives are significantly less expensive than NAS Drives or Enterprise. Can they be used when building a budget RAID array?

They can, however it’s important to understand how desktop drives will increase required maintenance, downtime, expense, and risk of data loss. The biggest difference between desktop drives vs NAS drives or Enterprise drives is in how they communicate with the RAID controller during write operations.

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cPanel – Wish list from a Server Admin

admin
November 29, 2015
Control Panels / cPanel
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I have been working in cPanel WHM servers for around 10 years now. They have been working great. cPanel is one of the best tools that I have seen which makes life easier for a Sysadmin. From feature to feature, it is becoming one the best product for a shared server, where one server is being used to host more than one websites and the same server is used to host e-Mail, DNS and Databases. They have now brought a stable LAMP compiler, DNS clustering tool. A facility to enable remote database server, a good account migration wizard, DKIM and SPF support and what not. Here’s my cPanel wish list – is someone at cPanel listening!? (more…)

Add a training slash for nginx websites

admin
November 28, 2015
Nginx
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In Nginx web servers, most of us might have came across a situation where our sub folder access wont work some times and if we add a trailing slash , it start…

How to Uninstall MariaDB in a cPanel server

admin
November 26, 2015
Articles / cPanel / MySQL / Tutorials
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Uninstalling MariaDB is as easy as installing MariaDB. If you ever want to uninstall and roll back to stock MySQL, continue reading for a step-by-step guide to uninstall MariaDB.

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How to Install ClamAV Antivirus on a cPanel Server

admin
November 20, 2015
Articles / cPanel

Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) is an antivirus software toolkit. It is supported by cPanel and you can install ClamAV from WHM. It can be used to check viruses in mails and in the website content.

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