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4 Primary Areas For Tuning Your Server

Luigi Ramone | 04 September, 2008 14:57

I just thought I would add my two cents in for everyone. I posted an old howto with some sysctl.conf, but I think that was when I was running on my previous server using and older version of redhat. So here's a fresh howto that is a little more complete.

These configs are based on my server specs, which is a Dual 2.0GHz Xeon with 2GB of RAM running RedHat Enterprise. Depending on your server's RAM you might have to reduce some of the settings, which I'll try make notes with each section. (More)

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cPanel Reverse DNS

Luigi Ramone | 15 December, 2005 19:14

After searching for help all over the net in adding PTR records to my cPanel DNS setup, I found a very easy to follow tutorial which along with some other sources, made it possible for me to get reverse DNS working with cPanel. It’s still a question I see quite a bit so I decided to create a short how-to to help others.

1. You must have reverse authority delegated to you from your hosting provider. Though common wisdom in forums says most providers do not delegate authority, I have found this to be untrue. I don’t recommend asking for it if you don’t feel confident you can handle the technical end of setting up BIND.
2. You need to have a domain of course, or a few and it helps greatly to have DNS setup and working for a few days prior to attempting this.
3. Every install of cPanel I have done to date comes with a broken BIND server. The issue is always the rndc.key issue. This is my first task for every cPanel install now to do the following fix before I add any information in cPanel WHM at all. To fix it, open /etc/rndc.conf in a text editor and at the top you should see this:

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