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Configuring custom mail server in Plesk with Linux. (The basics) Cloud VPS & Full Cloud & BMC.

To start you will need a domain registered by you that you own, or have control over. The first thing you will do is create a subdomain… Typically, mail.YOURDOMAIN.TLD. (Note: YOURDOMAIN.TLD is an example, and should be replaced with your domain name). Set the A record for mail.YOURDOMAIN.TLD to your server’s IP address. Set the…

Increase LVM Partition to Take Up Remaining Space UBUNTU

(For Cloud VPS, and Cloud servers NOT dedicated) Ubuntu VPS / Cloud Change configuration to the size you want. Then reboot. Via your cloud panel do a snapshot (actions > create snapshot) SSH in and perform the below. fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 40 GiB, 42949672960 bytes, 83886080 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 =…

Configure Static IP for Centos 7

How to configure your default IP as static on Centos 7. You will need to SSH into the server, and change directory to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ You will need to edit the ifcfg-eth0 file. Keep in mind that your NIC device may have a different name. Check ifconfig before moving forward. Before editing make sure you make…

Centos 7 w/WHM cpanel running CSF firewall (SSHD non-standard port) – Unable to create cpanel users & postgres failing to start

After modifying SSHD.conf to the new port, and restarting SSHD, per other documentation… Some errors after doing the above… (XID 4f29va) The PostgreSQL service is down. at /usr/local/cpanel/Whostmgr/Accounts/Create.pm line 1226 Failed to start PostgreSQL database server. Unit postgresql.service entered failed state. postgresql.service failed. postgresql has failed. Contact your system administrator if the service does not…