Backups are important but sometimes files are just too big to save to your computer or to the server that you're trying to backup. This is when you might want to backup to another server through ssh. Here is a command that allows you to backup a folder to another...

The issue is that Virtualmin currently only supports a single version of PHP FPM and seems to want to use PHP 7.2 no matter what I do, and I want it to use PHP 7.3 which is also installed. This appears to be a long-standing issue with Virtualmin. I solved it by...

First provision your server at your desired web host. I recommend using an 8GB Linode VPS. I could not get the server to start on a 4GB but maybe some day they will optimize it enough for that if you aren't planning to have a lot of players. Linode is great because...

Recently I noticed a few sites had a page download instead of displaying when they were working perfectly fine before. I'm not 100% sure why but in my case the fix was to go into Virtualmin and toggle the PHP Version to some other version and back to my current one. I...

I had a website that was moved to a new domain name but I wanted to make all the old URLs redirect to the new domain. However, redirecting using a typical .htaccess redirect as shown below wouldn't work because it was new using the old domain as a ServerAlias to the...

I recently had to update PHP on a server and the php.ini settings but then the date.timezone wasn't set in a bunch of servers. So I decided just to search and replace them instead of doing them all individually. find . -name 'php.ini' -type f -exec sed -i...

I keep forgetting how to setup the mod_webpresence for ejabberd whenever I happen to reinstall everything so I am typing it out here for future reference and maybe it'll even be useful for others. The instructions aren't 100% clear for me on the ejabberd-contrib...