rackaid

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  • rackaid commented,

    1. Community
    2. Email
    3. Centos Exim can send and receive local but?

    Gmail is blacklisting your IP address. I have a detailed blog post on the gmail blacklist process. Typically this is due to: [LIST] Spam coming from your server. Incorrect DNS, hostname or SPF...

  • rackaid commented,

    1. Community
    2. Email
    3. Most email from root not forwarding

    You will need to check your exim logs to see if Gmail is blocking your emails. If this is a new server, I find gmail is quick to block technical type notices from servers. Also, for the emai...

  • rackaid commented,

    1. Community
    2. Web Servers & Applications
    3. PHP configuration "sticks"

    The php.ini is not being cached. suPHP does not cache any data. Once the script exits, it closes all files. So either: [LIST] The file you think is being used is not the file actually being us...

  • rackaid commented,

    1. Community
    2. Backups
    3. Fastest backup restoration method?

    The easiest way and often the fastest is to use backup and disaster recovery software that includes bare metal recovery (BMR). We've use R1Soft and when properly deployed it works well. BMR elim...

  • rackaid commented,

    1. Community
    2. Installation & Updates
    3. cPanel update failure during updatenow

    Do you have any extra yum repos installed? If so, try disabling them. Also check /etc/yum.conf to confirm it is correct. We've seen an issue where it gets corrupted and can cause odd update be...

  • rackaid commented,

    1. Community
    2. Email
    3. struggling to send email via isp

    I recommend using port 587. Port 587 is reserved for email submission. Port 26 is unassigned. I've seen more and more ISPs also block port 26 as well.

  • rackaid commented,

    1. Community
    2. Email
    3. Cant send emails via Gmail SMTP, Timeout error

    In the error you posted, the port is 443 not 465. ssl://smtp.gmail.com:443 Also note that port 465 is SSL only. Port 25 is plain or may use STARTTLS. I think Gmail also supports port 587.

  • rackaid created a post,

    How do you know MySQL is the bottleneck?

    1. Community
    2. Miscellaneous

    How do you know MySQL is the bottleneck? I often find that people jump into the database layer without getting a good view of what's happening. You can waste a lot of time trying to tune setting...

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  • rackaid commented,

    1. Community
    2. Domain Management
    3. My site does not appear in my home connection.

    If on a MS Windows system, I recommend PingPlotter. [url=http://www.pingplotter.com/freeware.html]PingPlotter Freeware Easy to use and will be useful to send to your host in case there is still ...

  • rackaid commented,

    1. Community
    2. Security
    3. Prevent wordpress Brute Force Attacks

    If you mean brute force attacks against usernames, one of the easiest methods is to use HTTP Auth on the login and /admin areas. This is good if you have just a few authors/users. We've seen man...