theallan

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  • theallan created a post,

    Backup bandwidth limit

    1. Community
    2. Databases

    Is it possible to limit the rate at which backup data is sent to a remote server (in this case S3). I'm seeing a huge spike in data transfer when the backup is running, which is fair enough, but it...

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  • theallan created a post,

    upcp failed - needs-restarting-cpanel Could not retrieve mirrorlist

    1. Community
    2. Installation & Updates

    I'm also seeing this error - WHM 68.0.20, CentOS 6.9, standard kernel. When I run `usr/local/cpanel/scripts/find_outdated_services` manually I get: Looking for outdated services " Cpanel::Excepti...

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  • theallan created a post,

    pigz / pkgacct high cpu

    1. Community
    2. Backups

    I'm seeing a very high CPU from pigz when the backup process is running: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 22280 root 39 19 11808 1268 560 R 94.4 0.0 346:...

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  • theallan created a post,

    smartcheck - all drives

    1. Community
    2. Backups

    Hi all, My server has four physical hard drives, and I've just been looking into making sure that they are monitored for SMART failures so I can get notification if they do fail. It appears that W...

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  • theallan commented,

    1. Community
    2. Security
    3. Cpanel login attack - login_only=1

    Super - thank you for the information :-)

  • theallan commented,

    1. Community
    2. Security
    3. Cpanel login attack - login_only=1

    :-) They said it was one for cPanel. Can I simply block the URL that they are attempting to log into? I don't think that is a service I use myself... (might be wrong!) As I say, I don't even know ...

  • theallan commented,

    1. Community
    2. Security
    3. Cpanel login attack - login_only=1

    The issue is that someone is attempting a brute force attack. cphulk is blocking that, but I can't allow it to block the attack since it would block all CloudFlare users coming from that CloudFlare...

  • theallan commented,

    1. Community
    2. Security
    3. Cpanel login attack - login_only=1

    Sorry to bump this - but does anyone have any ideas? I just don't like the idea of whitelisting something that is is known to send an attack, but there doesn't appear to be many options.

  • theallan commented,

    1. Community
    2. Security
    3. Cpanel login attack - login_only=1

    Yes, sorry I wasn't clear. I know I can white list the IPs and have done so that the domain isn't blocked. However, my question is more about the fact that the site is obviously under some kind of ...

  • theallan created a post,

    Cpanel login attack - login_only=1

    1. Community
    2. Security

    I have a domain on my CPanel server which is fronted by CloudFlare and I recently noticed that sometimes the page cannot be loaded as CloudFlare cannot contact the host server. The CloudFlare IPs a...

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