Tag: Command-line

If your computer has trouble reaching a certain website or server this may be due to a corrupt local DNS cache. This guide will show you how to clear your local DNS cache (“flush” it) for several operating systems.

So, you added a new disk to your dedicated server. That’s great! Before you can really utilize it you’ll want to partition it out so that you can create file systems on it. There are several utilities available to help you with disk partitioning, but the single utility that you can be sure to find on almost any Linux server is fdisk. Read on to find out how to use fdisk to partition your new drive.

In this guide, we will walk you through the process of changing a domain's Mail Exchange (MX) record(s) to point email at a different VPS server. MX records are a critically important part of a website's DNS because they tell the rest of the internet where to send email for a domain.

Resolvers are a form of DNS server that usually exist on a local network (such as the one your ISP operates to connect you to the internet) and handle all DNS requests from the computers that using the network.

Understanding file permissions is key to running a web server. Permissions control which users can read a file, make changes to a file, or execute a file/script/etc.

Now that you know how to SSH into your server it is important to familiarize yourself with some basic command line tools.

If you have an account on a cPanel server with shell access or your own VPS server or Dedicated server running Linux then SSH is a powerful tool to have in your skill set.

Getting Plesk to listen for SMTP connections on an alternate port is not that difficult to do. However, unlike a cPanel environment, configuring Plesk to do so must be done outside the control panel via the command line.

One of the more common management tasks performed on web servers is restarting services (such as your web server daemon, mail daemon, FTP server, or DNS service).

In our “How to use ps” article we talked about the Linux command ps and how it can be used to examine the currently running processes on a Linux server.