Posts Tagged ‘hosting’

Transfer accounts between cPanel servers from shell

By in articles, bash, cPanel, Server Admin, Tutorials on September 25, 2010

As a web host administrator I always have to move accounts between my cPanel servers. The WHM has got an interface to transfer accounts between servers but most of the time it does not work for me.I get network issues, sometimes timeout issues and many other errors. So heres a short roundup about “How to transfer accounts between cPanel servers”. I will be using the cPanel scripts which it uses for packaging and restoring accounts.

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https to http using htaccess

By in Tutorials, Web, Web Space on April 16, 2010

htaccess directives can be used to redirect a website from http to https using mod_rewrite. But as we all know the https protocol involves encryption and decryption at both the server and the client end, this makes the site very slow. One thing we can do is redirect to https only for the pages which sends or recieves confidential information over the connection,but again,

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Simple cPanel XML api call using Ruby

By in articles, cPanel, ruby, Server Admin, Tutorials, Web on April 2, 2010

Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.

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Simple cPanel XML api call using Ruby