Category: Technical Support

The Apache web server is one of the most popular and powerful web servers in the world, due in part to its ease of administration and flexibility. This flexibility comes Apache’s modular design. The modules allow for Apache to perform additional functions, such as natively rewriting URLs to support SSL encryption. This allows administrators to modify Apache to meet their needs; adding modules that are needed and removing ones that are not.

‘Premature end of script headers’ can be an extremely vague error that leads to some headaches. Here are some suggestions that might help you fix the problem.

If Apache fails, and will not successfully start again, check the error log. If you see an error similar to the following, it could indicate that your server has run out of semaphores.

This is part 4 in an ongoing series on WordPress. Please see Part 1: WordPress Tutorial 1: Installation Setup and Part 2: WordPress Tutorial 2: Terminology and Part 3: WordPress Tutorial 3: How to Install a New Plugin, Theme, or Widget.

This is part 3 in an ongoing series on WordPress. Please see Part 1: WordPress Tutorial 1: Installation Setup and Part 2: WordPress Tutorial 2: Terminology and Part 4: WordPress Tutorial 4: Recommended WordPress Plugins. Please note that this guide is primarily intended for customers utilizing a Linux server running cPanel. If you do not have a Linux server with cPanel please see the documentation at wordpress.org for further assistance.

Whenever making DNS changes, lowering your TTLs (Time To Live) 24 hours ahead of time will reduce the amount of time that your change takes to propagate.
This article assumes that you are running BIND on a Linux server, that you already have an understanding of what DNS is, the different types of DNS entries, and how DNS works. Please note: The incorrect editing of your zone file can take your site offline. All editing must be done on the authoritative nameservers for the given domain.

Occasionally, you will find that you need to open up a port in your firewall for some application or another. Depending on which firewall is installed on your server, there are several ways to go about this:

When reviewing the resources utilized by your server, there are a plethora of tools at your disposal. The sar command is a powerful Linux command line utility that can be used to review a server’s resource usage.

Imagine you have a file. Perhaps it is a log file. It is long, and has much information in it. And buried somewhere in that file, there is one piece of information that you need to find. It would take far too long to read through the huge file. This situation cries out for some faster method of extracting that piece of information.

So, you know how to ssh into your server. But how do you know if anyone else is shelled into your VPS server or Dedicated server?