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How to start a cPanel scheduled backup job manually

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Those of you that host your own Linux based web server may be using the very useful cPanel backup script to make a regular scheduled backup of your web site’s content and database content.  Although you can configure the details of the site backups and schedule from the graphical user interface it doesn’t provide you with the ability to kick the scheduled backup job off manually using the settings found in /etc/cpbackup.conf file.  This backup configuration is set via the WebHost … [Read more...]

Email Fail – virtual_aliases via virtual_aliases router force address failure

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If hosting your own websites, such as Wordpress, on a single webserver and have your email for a particular domain on that web server hosted somewhere else, you may experience the following error message when trying to send emails from within your website to an email address on the same domain: ‘virtual_aliases via virtual_aliases router forced address failure’.  (Hope this long sentence makes sense). To resolve this issue SSL to your webserver take a look at the entries in the … [Read more...]

Slow internet performance when using Ubuntu

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After recently installing Kubuntu one thing I immediately noticed was the slow performance when surfing the web either via Fire Fox or KDE´s Konqueror web browser. Apparently it looks as though this could be put down to these browsers compliance with and use of IPv6. This seems to be quite a common problem experienced by many Ubuntu users though there is divided thought on whether this is the actual cause. Though if it wasn´t why does disabling IPv6 make internet connectivity improve to normal … [Read more...]