Antivirus, anti-virus, AV, or anti-malware scanners protect users from uploading and using malicious data. While your choice of Linux operating system (OS), or distribution (distro), can change the probability for successful cyberattacks, it won’t remove it altogether. There are many free AV scanners for every OS including MalwareBytes, Bitdefender, and SUPERAntiSpyware. In this article, we’ll Read More >

A very common task for website owners is the transferring of a website from one host to another. Fortunately, we have a way for a website to be moved for you. In order for website transfers to be done, you need to provide some information on the existing sites. Launch Assist is a service that Read More >

Capturing error logs into files is an important troubleshooting step you can take to debug your system. Where can I find my error logs? How to write error logs into files For example, if you contact InMotion Hosting support about an issue happening on your server, the support technicians will check error logs to see Read More >

Announcement: CentOS 6 will reach End of Life (EOL) on November 30, 2020 Who is impacted? cPanel-managed VPS and dedicated server users running CentOS 6 Why is this happening? The CentOS project will discontinue Maintenance updates to make way for CentOS 7 and CentOS 8 support. Full updates for CentOS 6 halted on May 10, Read More >

PHP 7.2 reaches end of life (EOL) in January 2021 and PHP 8 will be released soon. With these major changes affecting PHP-based content management systems (CMSs) and overall LAMP-stack server security, it’s important to know how to maintain up-to-date PHP versions on your cPanel-managed VPS or dedicated server with WebHost Manager (WHM). Below we Read More >

VPS hosting is a Virtual Private Server, and is a virtualized server. A VPS hosting environment mimics a dedicated server within a shared hosting environment. It is technically both shared hosting and dedicated hosting. VPS Hosting is one of several types of web hosting accounts you can choose from to host your website online. To Read More >

One of the first things a cPanel user should learn is how to block spam in cPanel with DNS records and prevent your emails from being marked as junk. That guide covers a lot of automated technical controls that can stop more obvious spam. But it’s not enough. Phishing has been a top three most Read More >

Web Host Manager (WHM) grants access to powerful server functions that can affect all cPanel users. A root user may go between configuring ConfigServer Security & Firewall (CSF) rules, resetting a cPanel user password, backing up data, and ImunifyAV file scans in one session. This power, combined with the fact that cPanel is one of Read More >

Managed VPS and Dedicated server hosting administrators can improve email security by blocking incoming email from specified countries, regions, and domains in Web Host Manager (WHM). This is a valuable feature for your defense in depth strategy as it can block malicious emails before reaching any other spam filters in cPanel or the end user’s Read More >

ImunifyAV FREE has a malware scanner for cPanel servers. Similar to the ClamAV cPanel plugin, which has less features than it’s command line interface (CLI), ImunifyAV allows Web Host Manager (WHM) and cPanel users on Managed VPS / Dedicated servers to scan files and manage found malware. But ImunifyAV FREE includes more features: Automatic background Read More >