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Posts By Dragos Baldescu

How to protect your cPanel server from DDoS attacks

Distributed Denial of Services attacks, or DDoS as they are commonly known as, are among the most common threats that can take a website or even… Continue Reading

Testing ELevate (new CentOS upgrade tool) on Bigstep Metal Cloud

The developers of the AlmaLinux project have recently released a CentOS upgrade tool, named ELevate, that allows upgrades between RHEL-based distributions… Continue Reading

WordPress Toolkit Deluxe Now Free With Bigstep WHM Servers

Starting this month, WordPress Toolkit Deluxe will be available on all Bigstep servers with WHM, at no additional cost. This tool greatly simplifies the… Continue Reading

Go Green: How to Optimize Server Power Usage with PowerTOP

Data centers are the backbone of the Internet and the online world. Since the pandemic has forced most people to work from home, the demand for digital… Continue Reading

How to Install a Minecraft Server on Bigstep Metal Cloud

Minecraft is a sandbox multiplayer video game that has become hugely popular in recent years. It is the best-selling video game in history, with more… Continue Reading

Building the Fastest Wordpress Stack: 2021 Edition

Two years ago I’ve written an article on how to build the fastest stack for Wordpress. It has attracted considerable interest and people continue to ask… Continue Reading

How to Configure Cron Jobs in cPanel

Cron is a service found on all Linux distributions that allows users to schedule commands or scripts that are executed at a specified time or interval.… Continue Reading

How to Tweak System PHP Values in WHM

Whether you have a Linux bare metal server or a VPS, you might have to adjust WHM system php settings for your particular use case. This can be rather… Continue Reading

Best Command-Line Editors in Linux

Text editors are essential in any operating system and Linux is no exception. While desktop versions of various distributions are becoming more and more… Continue Reading

Top 5 Linux Shells and How to Install Them

The shell is an interactive interface that allows users to execute other commands and utilities in Linux and other UNIX-based operating systems. When… Continue Reading

Five Ways to Secure a CentOS 8 Server

The latest version of the CentOS operating system comes with robust security features. However, not all of them are active or properly configured by default,… Continue Reading

Top Linux Web Servers: Pros and Cons

For a long time, Apache was the only option as a Linux web server and held almost a monopoly in the open-source market. Today, things have changed, and… Continue Reading

How to Install ImageMagick in WHM

ImageMagick is an open source program that provides powerful tools for editing and converting images in hundreds of different file formats. It is very… Continue Reading

A Rookie Sysadmin’s Guide to Troubleshooting Wordpress

Wordpress is the most popular content management system with more than 60 million websites using it around the globe. It has many themes and… Continue Reading

Keep Your Pet's Name to Yourself: WHM Password Security 101

Web services today are constantly targeted by brute force attacks that try to guess a user’s password to hack the account or steal information.… Continue Reading