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Restart cPanel from Shell

11 April 2007

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In the previous post, I mentioned how cPanel crashes and restarts itself and how this works well. Sometimes, it does not restart. This happened to me recently for the first time after years of working with cPanel and Web Host Manager. If you have shell access, restart cPanel with this command: /etc/init.d/cpanel restart

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“A restart was attempted automagicly”

5 April 2007

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At some point you will get an email with a subject line like this: cpsrvd failed @ Apr 05 07:08:11 2007. A restart was attempted automagicly. Yikes! What the heck this this mean? For a long time, I was so spooked by the words “failed” and “restart” that I assumed “automagicaly” was a typo for [...]

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Moving a Website to a New Host

25 July 2006

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Someone recently said “If I don’t like my new hosting company, I’ll just move the site. Right??” It might be easy, but then again it might not. The complexity depends on the nature of your site. If you have some static HTML files and images. Easy. If you have a database-driven site such as a [...]

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