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Sometimes checking server performance can be difficult. Apache has built in utilities that help monitor Apache usage and performance. The Apache Status is one such tool that allows for real time monitoring of Apache connections and resource usage. The Apache Status will give you information that will aid in performance monitoring and Apache tuning.

On cPanel a server, there are a several tools that are built into cPanel that can be used to help control the flow of spam both in and out of your server.

The top program provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system. It can display system summary information as well as a list of tasks currently being managed by the Linux kernel. The types of system summary information shown and the types, order and size of information displayed for tasks are all user configurable.

MX (Mail eXchanger) records are like an address for your domain’s email. The MX record tells the rest of the internet where to send your email.

Screen is a terminal program that allows a user to access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session. It is useful for dealing with multiple programs from the command line, and for separating programs from the shell that started the program.

Traceroute is an application that traces the path data takes from one computer to another. Basically a traceroute is a map that shows what stops or locations that data must pass through in order to go from one computer to another.

While no substitute for your own offsite backups, cPanel backups are extremely useful for recovering data in certain situations.

Throughout the articles in the Knowledge Base, you may have seen a few interesting characters in the examples.  Specifically, we are referring to these characters:  |, >, and <.  Today, we’re going to talk a bit about pipes.

The ps command reports a snapshot of a system’s currently running processes.

This tutorial will walk you through the steps required to set up a new email account in Mail (aka Mail.app aka MacMail), the built-in email application that comes with Mac OS X.