For whatever reason , some people still want to run the old version of MySQL4.1 in there new cPanel servers, which seems a little issue , as the default database version in new cPanel server installs is MySQL5.

Here are the simple steps to downgrade the database (this should only be done on a new server without any account on it yet)

Had an issue with one on our CentOS cPanel servers running 64 bit and cPanels easyapache upgrade. The folks at cPanel helped out with their usual professional response

 Open SSH and type the following and press Enter:

/sbin/ifconfig | grep -i hwaddr

The sequence of hexadecimal digits that appears to the right of eth0 HWAddr (e.g. 08:00:27:ED:DA:8b) is your network card's MAC Address

Sometime accounts are to big to transfer via the WHM transfer feature.

Below you can find some steps to do so manually 

If you have issues with cPanel running CentOS5 with BIND then the easiest way is to downgrade BIND to 9.2.4

The reason you're having trouble is because CentOS 5 uses bind-9.3 and CentOS 4 uses bind-9.2 - The changes between these versions is significant enough that cPanel won't work with it properly.

For instance by default there is no /etc/named.conf file created when bind-9.3 is installed and the default named.conf file for bind-9.3 is significantly different than in older versions.

Until the code is updated to work with bind-9.3, I have found the workaround to be to remove bind-9.3 packages and install bind-9.2 packages as follows:
 

SystemRescueCD is a powerful, expansive live cd which is useful for recovering broken systems. This tutorial will guide you through how to get it up and running and how to perform some basic recovery procedures.

Server monitoring is one of the most important aspects of managing a network. Cacti is a free PHP/MySQL script which can monitor everything from process counts to bandwidth, and is fairly easy to setup and use. If you have multiple clients you can even delegate specific access levels so that they can only view the graphs relevant to them.

This tutorial will guide you through setting up and configuring Cacti on a Linux server. 

While the big control panel suites you can install, like cPanel or Plesk, are excellent for large scale deployments or easy system administration, sometimes you just want an interface to quickly carry out complex tasks, which doesn't require a package as large as cPanel/Plesk.

Webmin, a free and powerful control panel, it easy to install and allows you to carry out administrative tasks in an easy to use browser based frontend. This tutorial will guide you through installing Webmin.

The Javascript exploit has been an old saga on a few Linux distros running cPanel and Plesk .

The compromise is at the root level and a rootkit has been installed. This rootkit will attach to several syscalls within the kernel and begin serving malicious javascript to random web visitors.

This root compromise is not related to cPanel directly, as it has been reported on many different control panels on many different servers. The compromise is at the system level, and only Redhat 4, CentOS 4, and FC6 appear to be vulnerable at this time. We are actively researching this issue and will have an in-depth analysis of current information posted soon.

 

The great people from R-FX Networks are bringing us a number of powerfull tools for the Linux Server enviroment

PRM (Process Resource Monitoring) monitors the process table on a given system and matches process id's with set resource limits in the config file or per-process based rules. Process id's that match or exceed the set limits are logged and killed; includes e-mail alerts, kernel logging routine and more...

Ok, so you like to move your 3 gig backup from your old server to your new server, but the the good old wget command is not doing the trick?

There is an easy way around with the scp command