by Lakshmi Vijayakumar | Dec 6, 2018 | Plesk, Server Administration
Hosting a website isn’t always smooth sailing. You can occasionally land in troubled waters such as DB corruption, mailbox errors, etc. At Bobcares, our Server Support Engineers often resolve such data corruption issues using native commands like mysqlcheck,...
by Sijin George | Dec 6, 2018 | Server Management
Email spamming can ruin the IP reputation of any server! But, what can we do to defend against spammers ? Here, the solution is to block common spamming methods like brute-force password attacks, dictionary attacks, etc. Fail2ban is a commonly used tool to block...
by Lakshmi Vijayakumar | Dec 5, 2018 | Server Management
Fail2ban is a great tool for server owners to automatically ban suspicious IP addresses in server firewall. But, sometimes, it can block valid connections too. At Bobcares, we often receive requests from website owners to unban their IP address from Fail2ban as part...
by Sijin George | Dec 5, 2018 | Apache, Cloudflare, cPanel, DDoS, Server Administration
It’s a shocking fact that DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks are on the rise! Hackers evolve with new ways of DDoS attack every day. That makes DDoS protection a significant step for server security. At Bobcares, we help servers owners to implement...
by Lakshmi Vijayakumar | Dec 4, 2018 | Magento, Server Management
Magento Paypal Recurring payments is a great way for store owners to offer products with installment plans, subscriptions, etc. But, Magento supports such payments only via Paypal Express Checkout. At Bobcares, we often receive requests from website owners to setup...
by Reeshma Mathews | Dec 4, 2018 | cPanel, Server Administration
Users in our server are getting the following error when executing an operating system command through PHP. *sh: jpegoptim: command not found* Recently we were contacted by a server owner whose customer was having issues running a PHP script that executes this...
by Sijin George | Dec 4, 2018 | MySQL, Server Administration
Database servers functions as the backbone for websites. They need continuous updates to avoid performance problems. After any configuration change, MySQL server needs a restart to bring the changes into effect. And, sometimes this restart can fail with errors like...
by Lakshmi Vijayakumar | Dec 3, 2018 | cPanel, Technical Support
Web developers love Laravel framework. This is because, it eases the common tasks in web projects like authentication, routing, sessions, etc. At Bobcares, we often receive requests from website owners to install Laravel in their cPanel accounts as part of our...
by Reeshma Mathews | Dec 3, 2018 | Apache, cPanel, Server Administration
“We will deprecate EasyApache 3 on December 31, 2018. After that date, we will no longer update EasyApache 3. In cPanel & WHM version 78, we will remove support for EasyApache 3. If you do not upgrade to EasyApache 4, you cannot upgrade to cPanel and WHM...
by Sijin George | Dec 3, 2018 | Server Administration
I can’t login to my email account via Outlook. No errors are shown, the window with login and password pops up again and again. Please help! That was a recent support request that we received in our Outsourced Technical Support helpdesk for Web Hosts. On...