Generate SSH Key on Windows with Windows Subsystem for Linux
Index Becoming An SSH Superstar Step 1: Prepare Windows by enabling Windows Subsystem for Linux Step 2: Install Ubuntu Step 3: Allow Ubuntu to Finish Installing / Create Username and Password Step 4: Create Your SSH Key Pair Step 5: Copy Your Public Key To Your Clipboard Step 6: Add Your Public Key To Your […]
Generate SSH Key on Windows with Windows CMD/PowerShell
Index Step 1: Check if ssh is installed Step 2: Create Your SSH Key Pair Step 3: Copy Your Public Key To Your Clipboard Step 4: Add Your Public Key To Your vCanopy Settings Step 5: Push Your Public Key To Your Server Step 6: Connect To Your Server To get the most out of […]
How to Setup Snapshot Failover™ with DNS Made Easy
Introduction Snapshot Failover™ is our proprietary high availability setup that allows you to clone all of the sites on one server over to another server, and set a syncing schedule for those paired servers of as little as one hour. Couple this with automatic DNS failover that will switch your DNS records to your backup […]
How do I create cronjobs?
One of the most useful tools on your NGINX server is Cron. Backups, updates, SSl renewals, they’re all run using the cron service. And it’s not just for sysadmin jobs, you can customize it to include any job you want and run it on any schedule you want. VIDEO INTRO AND WALKTHROUGH Big thank you […]
Adjusting MySQL Monit Memory
vCanopy uses Monit to manage services and restart them if they start misbehaving. We set MySQL to restart if it starts using too much CPU or Memory. Sometimes you might wish to adjust these settings yourself if you think Monit is restarting MySQL too often. This is most likely to be the case if you […]
How to install Ioncube Loaders
Sometimes you might come across plugins or software that is encrypted with Ioncube, and you might need to install the Ioncube loaders into PHP so that the plugin or software works. Warning: Ioncube is third party software and isn’t supported by vCanopy. Additionally, if it breaks the server, the server won’t be supported. That being […]