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Apache SpamAssassin in cPanel: Tune Spam Score & Auto-Delete
You turn on Apache SpamAssassin in cPanel expecting your inbox to get cleaner. A week later either nothing's changed and junk mail keeps landing in the inbox, …
Move a Full cPanel Account to a New Server With WHM's Transfer Tool
Moving a WordPress site is easy enough — export the database, copy wp-content, update the URLs, done. Moving a whole cPanel account is a different job. You've …
Fix SSH "Permission Denied (publickey)" on Your VPS
You type ssh user@your-vps-ip, hit enter, and instead of a shell prompt you get Permission denied (publickey). No password prompt, no second chance — jus…
Fix Zombie & Defunct Processes Filling Up Your VPS
You run ps aux on your VPS and see a wall of processes marked <defunct>. Or worse, you try to SSH in, start a new script, or restart a service, and the s…
Fix 'Index of /' Showing Instead of Your Website
A customer wrote in this week panicking because their homepage had turned into a plain list of filenames — no theme, no logo, just "Index of /" and a bun…
Fix 'Too Many Open Files' Errors on Your VPS
If your VPS logs are suddenly full of lines like Too many open files or EMFILE, don't panic and don't reboot yet. This is almost never a sign your server is dy…
Fix SSL "Certificate Name Mismatch" Warnings on Mail
A customer called in last week convinced their email had been hacked. Outlook kept throwing a red padlock warning every time Send/Receive ran: "The server you …
Autodiscover DNS Records: Fix Email Auto-Setup Failures
A customer emailed us last week annoyed that Outlook kept popping up a settings dialog every time they added their mailbox on a new laptop. Webmail worked fine…
CAA DNS Records Explained: Stop Silent SSL Renewal Failures
A customer wrote in last week convinced their domain was cursed. AutoSSL kept failing, Let's Encrypt's own certbot on their VPS threw a cryptic urn:ietf:params…
How to Add a Domain Verification TXT Record in cPanel
Google Search Console, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Facebook Business Manager — sooner or later almost every site owner gets asked to "verify domain …