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How to fix Awstats cPanel 404 Error

The last update of cPanel 62 (build 17) for some reason disappeared with Awstats in a few servers I managed. Luckily, cPanel provides their own RPM of Awstats, so with a few commands you can have Awstats working again: If you are not running as…

Testing the Impacts of Website Caching Tools

This article was originally published on Sucuri blog (read here). Try to remember what you ate for lunch yesterday. It took you about 3-5 seconds, right? Ok. Now recall that memory once more. Took you less than a second this time, for sure. You remembered much faster the…

Tuning/Optimizing Apache on cPanel Servers

cPanel configures Apache to work in the most stable way possible, but with a few tricks the default settings can be improved in order to gain performance and have a better resource usage. Before we start to optimize Apache, you should stop using it to…

DDoS Protected VPS Providers for Reverse SSH Proxy

Sometime ago I read a decent review about "DDoS Protected VPS Providers" on LowEndTalk. It's indeed accurate based on my experience so far. Currently I trust 3 providers for my SSH/SFTP/MySQL tunnels: LunaNode from Montreal (OVH), RamNode from Atlanta (Staminus) and QuadraNet from Miami (In-House). A…