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Configure Logrotate on a VPS to Stop Runaway Log Files
If you've ever cleared a disk-full alert on your VPS by truncating a 12GB Apache log, only to see it happen again three months later, the fix isn't cleaning up…
Set Up HAProxy Load Balancing Across Multiple VPS
If you've scaled a VPS as far as it'll go — more RAM, more vCPUs, tuned MySQL, added Redis, moved static assets to a CDN — and it's still the single point of f…
Disable Old TLS Versions & Weak Ciphers in WHM
If a PCI compliance scanner or an SSL Labs test just came back with "TLS 1.0 supported," "weak cipher suite detected," or "vulnerable to POODLE/BEAST," you're …
Set Up Automatic Security Updates on Your Linux VPS
Nearly every VPS compromise we get called about traces back to the same root cause: a package that had a fix available for weeks, sometimes months, before some…
Set Up Varnish Cache in Front of Nginx on a VPS
If you're running WordPress or WooCommerce on a plain VPS with Nginx or Apache — no cPanel, no LiteSpeed — you've probably already installed a caching plugin a…
Set Up a WireGuard VPN on Your SkyServer VPS
If you manage more than one server, or you just got tired of exposing phpMyAdmin, a staging site, or your monitoring dashboard to the open internet, a VPN is t…
Set Up Netdata for Real-Time VPS Monitoring & Alerts
Most people find out their VPS has a problem the same way: a customer emails, or the site just stops loading. By then you're already troubleshooting under pres…
Fix High Disk I/O (%iowait) Slowing Down Your VPS
You've already ruled out CPU — top shows load that isn't crazy, cores aren't pegged, and yet the site still crawls, SSH feels sluggish, and MySQL queries…
Fix VPS Clock Drift With NTP Time Sync (Chrony Guide)
If your VPS is throwing SSL handshake failures that make no sense, cron jobs firing at the wrong time, or WHM suddenly refusing to log you in with a vague lice…
Fix 413 Request Entity Too Large on Nginx & Apache VPS
If you're running a site on your own VPS — Nginx in front, maybe Apache or PHP-FPM behind it — and a file upload suddenly dies with "413 Request En…