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IBM Keyboard – SK-8840 – Strange Characters / Numbers When Typing

IBM Keyboard – SK-8840 – Strange Characters / Numbers When Typing

If you own an SK-8840 (Rack Mount) and are trying to work out why when you’re typing, strange numbers or symbols are coming up, it has different layouts or modes. IN SHORT: Press Shift + Numlock Keys to change to turn off the Numpad overlay. More Info (taken from IBM Website): The SK8840 is an […]

cPanel WooCommerce wp_remote_post() failed. PayPal IPN won’t work with your server. Error: Unsupported SSL protocol version

cPanel WooCommerce wp_remote_post() failed. PayPal IPN won’t work with your server. Error: Unsupported SSL protocol version

UPDATE: Note, Curl 7.49 causes problems with WooCommerce. Such as Updates not working and showing a 404 page. If you turn Debug on in wp-config.php the 404 doesn’t happen, but you get errors such as:- Notice: Undefined offset: 3 class-wc-session-handler.php on line Notice: Undefined index: wp_the_query Tried 7.36 and it seems to work as of […]

How to change php.ini Options on all PHP Versions of CloudLinux cPanel

How to change php.ini Options on all PHP Versions of CloudLinux cPanel

If you wish to apply a php.ini variable to all PHP versions running inside Cloudlinux CageFS (that’s just how php runs alongside your native version). You need to edit the following file:- # nano /etc/cl.selector/global_php.ini An example would be the Woocommerce/Wordpress “max_input_vars”, which recommends it to be above 1700, otherwise very large menus will get cut […]

Centos 5.11 – USB Install – Device does not appear to contain Centos CDROM Images

Very frustrating if you’ve created a bootable USB stick with say Rufus or Yumi Multiboot USB Creator. Centos looks for the ISO not the extracted file, so when it tries to find the install media, it can’t. Solution: Put the ISO on the disk as well. Trying to get a Dell CS24-NV7 Server running virtualisation, […]

Slow SolusVM Xen Dom0 Network Speed Fixes

Slow SolusVM Xen Dom0 Network Speed Fixes

If you use Solusvm and Xen on a Centos installation, you may not even notice that by default the “peth0” which is the physical ethernet cable can actually default to Half Duplex, but it’s relatively easy to fix with just a few command. Centos Commands Bash Commands (run them on Dom0): The physical port is […]

Certum SSL Certificate – CA Bundle

Certum SSL Certificate – CA Bundle

You’ve probably found this because you’ve just gone through the process of verifying a Certum SSL Certificate only to find the certificate isn’t enough and cPanel doesn’t find the bundle from the public repository. It’s also difficult to find the Bundles on Certums Official Website, but if you trawl through the PDF’s it gives you […]

Status Cake – IP Addresses For CSF Whitelist

Updated 18th September 2014   37.122.208.79 #england 50.31.240.172 #japan 199.195.193.112 #singapore 199.195.192.240 #USA – san jose 216.155.131.57 #USA – New York 31.131.20.205 #Amsterdam 37.157.246.146 #England – Manchester 119.252.188.216 #Australia – Sydney 173.255.139.226 #USA – Dallas 68.169.44.43 #USA – Salt Lake City 109.123.82.244 #UK – Robin 41.86.108.228 #South Africa 5.45.179.103 #Germany Berlin 199.167.128.80 #Montreal, Canada 37.59.151.154 […]

Cloudlinux cPanel Passive FTP on Solusvm Xen Platform

Can’t get passive FTP working on cPanel Cloudlinux? Despite opening the right ports in the ftp config and firewall? If your setup is based on Solusvm and Xen with Centos, it’s an easy fix, and the problem has been there since 2010 possibly earlier. If you login as root to the domu (the vps running […]

Information Regarding Recent UK Denial of Server Attacks

Dear Customers, We want to provide you with an update on the recent increase in DDoS attacks that are targeting UK hosting providers and inform you of the solutions we are putting in place. There have been a spate of significant, organised attacks in the past few weeks that we know multiple clients have been […]

cPanel Backup Symlink Exploit

cPanel Backup Symlink Exploit

Be careful restoring full cPanel backups from untrusted sources (outside of your own server/cpanel ecosystem), as there’s a potential for user to have modified the backup using linux symlinks to gain access to other users accounts when restored. One way (of many variations) you can check a backup from the command line as follows:- tar […]

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