We can monitor I/O activity in linux box using iotop and iostat commands Use the below command to install iotop in linux system. To install iotop to RHEL/Centos/Scientific Linux, probably you need to enable EPL or REPOFORGE or REMI repository because there is no official package on this. # Install…
If you have root user access of your Linux server you can find out where inodes are being used for i in `find . -type d `; do echo `ls -a $i | wc -l` $i; done | sort -n This will dump a list of every directory on the…
mod_evasive is a module for Apache to provide evasive action from DoS HTTP activity or DDoS attack or brute force attack. It works by inspecting incoming traffic to an apache web server using a dynamic hash table of IP addresses and URLs, then blocks traffic from IP addresses that exceed…
Using the mysql upgrade option in WHM will not work on CloudLinux installed server Before proceed further we need to take backup of mysql databases in .sql format. If you want to backup single database, execute below command to dump database contents to text file. mysqldump sampledb > sampledb.sql #…