Here, Elena Rossini explains Why and How she is purging #BigTech out of her life. While she readily admits she is not totally free of it, she has gone a long way. She has a blog where she talks about her journey to #Freedom from #Technofeudalism and calls out the hypocracy of some #TechWriters along the way。

“I watched a brilliant TED Talk by journalist Carole Cadwalladr about the broligarchy titled “this is what the digital coup looks like.” Shortly thereafter I discovered that Cadwalladr is using Substack (the Nazi-friendly newsletter platform funded by the broligarchs at A16Z) for her blog; her social media platform of choice is Bluesky (funded by crypto bros at Blockchain Capital). Sadly Cadwalladr has no social profiles on the Fediverse and isn’t using - as far as I know - any FOSS platforms to publish her reporting. This feels incredibly incongruous.”

It’s well worth a read. And for those still ‘fenced in’ by commercial social platforms, she offers hope and some ways to ditch them.

Personally, My tie to #TechBros #oligarchy is Gmail (though not for much longer as I am mostly migrated off). Otherwise, I’m on Signal and an Australian hosted mail server (until that one starts getting ideas I won’t agree with). My blog is about to transfer to a platform based in Australia for less $$ (of @shlee fame - I’m gettting there Shlee!) and getting off WordPress hosting (I’ll be using a #cpanel equiv #EnhanceDotNet.). My #Microsoft days are numbered with #LinuxMint on my other laptop ready to take over very soon. I’m still tied to Apple with my iPad (tooting away on it atm). My mobile is an old & cheap #Android device. My browser is #LibreWolf. My mail client is #Thunderbird .

Best thing that ever happened to me was to find out about the #Fediverse. I’ve never looked back from this, only forward.

I’m not going to lie, there is a cost to bear. I have lost digital links to all my friends and family (some overseas). But I’ve managed to keep those closest to me via other means (Face-to-face, phone calls, SMS, emails and Signal for those using it). Bottom line is, If am I going to #Rage against #TechBros, I should walk the talk as Elena Rossini is doing. So should you IMO.

#FOSS #Mastodon #Fediverse #cpanel

For Australian hosting See: https://fedicloud.au/

Read more:

https://news.elenarossini.com/technofeudalism-disclosing-my-tech-stack/

Heads up for any server admins (especially cPanel ones):

Way To The Web Ltd (aka ConfigServer) who provide the very useful and handy ConfigServer Firewall (csf) and many other products are closing down at the end of August - no updates/downloads will be available from that date.

https://configserver.com/announcement/

Anybody out there got experience running stuff like #Plesk or #WHMCS or #cpanel?

Opinions on one versus another? Basically I’m helping set up a non-profit (tax exempt if the IRS accepts the application) micro ISP and we are looking for the fundamental platform to run it. Billing, self service purchasing, customers managing their own stuff, etc.
#isp #selfhosting #selfhosted

Looking for reasonably priced multi-site hosting, recommendations? (I dont need reseller or white label)
Thanks
#webdev #hosting #developer #WebHosting #CloudHosting #SharedHosting #Linuxserver #cPanel

Noticias tan interesantes como esta son las que aterrizan en nuestro pequeño lector #RSS @feediverso.org #WordPress #cPanel

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7zlshlizpivodpx6pik6bzb/post/3lmbwns6fp32e

Another day updating a @nextcloud installation. Which means diving into the manuals until I get stuck, then searching for answers on the web.

Sadly, the forums are full of the same six questions asked over and over again in infinite subtle variations. In my current situation, I think the crux of the problem is my access to the server is mediated through #CPanel, which prevents me from accessing most of the configuration files I need to edit :/

Anybody using #fastHost #cpanel ? They offer me to install #Nextcloud but then have an outdated #php that I can't find a way to update so I can't install nextcloud.

Anything very evident I am missing before I reach out to them?

¿Cómo eliminar sitejet, socialbee, monitoring y koality de WHM/cPanel?

La empresa cPanel, proveedora del panel de control de sistemas gestión de servidores para hospedaje en internet, recientemente ha estado agregando funciones a WHM en forma de plugins que empujan a comprar funciones adicionales a las incluidas en cPanel, pero que hay que pagar licencias adicionales para que sean funcionales ya sea a nivel de servidor o de usuarios finales.

Si uno desea remover estas funciones es posible desinstalarlas.

¿Cómo eliminar sitejet, socialbee, monitoring y koality de WHM/cPanel?

Servidores basados en Ubuntu:

apt remove --purge cpanel-sitejet-* cpanel-socialbee-* cpanel-monitoring-* cpanel-koality-*

Servidores basados en Centos/Almalinux/Rockylinux:

 yum remove -y cpanel-sitejet-* cpanel-socialbee-* cpanel-monitoring-* cpanel-koality-*

Es posible que en algunos servidores haya que terminar de ocultar algunas de estas funciones en le menú “Feature Manager” en WHM.

Tentando instalar o SSL de Let's Encrypt em um host gerido com Cpanel não premium...

Alguém que poda ajudar?

Não lembro assim o processo da última vez que o tentei (e fracassei...)

O único que teñó é uma Private Key e espaço em branco para CSR e Certificate E em Let's Encrypt não vejo o que tenho que fazer... Estou perdido...

Obrigado!

A lot of the #hosting providers I'm looking at use #cPanel for web-based administration. It's been a while since I did anything with hosting, but I recall cPanel having a rather checkered past with security flaws. #infosec peeps, can cPanel be trusted?

Wenn ich des unverschämten Preises wegen weder #Plesk noch #cPanel nutzen möchte.
Wie schlecht fahre ich mit #KeyHelp?

So this #TradeWar stuff is pretty disturbing. While I'm in an unimportant little country that hasn't been mentioned, I feel like I need to do my bit to help reduce financial flows towards the US, so I think I might finally look at having my websites hosted outside the US.

Can anyone recommend good affordable #WebHosting in, ideally #Australia or #NZ, or at least somewhat democratic countries? Ideally with shared hosting with #cpanel and #Softaculous as that's what I'm used to, but I really would like something that would let me install #nextcloud which my current host doesn't...

wp: InMotion Hosting 508 Resource Limit and VPN Blocking Cpanel
Well, I found the first issue with InMotion, I'm trying to auto post from tongfamily.com to three other servers (calvintong.com, richtong.com and richtong.org) and I got a 508 Resource limit error.

I've never seen this before, you can look at Inmotion AMP > Cpanel > Resource Usage and it says

https://tongfamily.com/2024/11/25/wp-inmotion-hosting-508-resource-limit-and-vpn-blocking-cpanel/
#cpanel #hosting #inmotion #wp

Seasoned systems admin here, among other "seasonings," and I can honestly say that WHM is a wild ride if you haven't had to use it in a long time.

#systems #sysadmin #whm #cpanel #administration #hosting #tech

Can anybody point me at an idiot's guide to dropping as much spammy web traffic as possible as early in the HTTP transaction as possible, on #Heroku and/or #cPanel / #WHM.

For instance, anything that's looking for a .php URL would/should be an easy target to drop really quickly - it's not a PHP site. Ditto common/standard WordPress URLs.

At the minute the site I have on Heroku is churning through its allowances for logging and similar within the first few hours of the day, and it's mostly bullshit spam traffic. I don't care about logging that, or doing anything with it, I just want to ignore it.

Well, it was a lame phishing attempt email that I got called in about, pretty transparent really, but it had two interesting features:

1. it faked a #CPanel alert using valid admin email and target url for that alert, covering their not-even-similar trap addresses

2. it was an international collaboration, the email from Mexico and the trap hosted in Brazil!

So I give them points for working together. Maybe there is hope for humanity after all.

Africa's got a new cloud-castle in town!

Welcome to the party, Google Cloud

Johannesburg is officially home to the first African cloud region

Excited to see how this helps empower African businesses

#GoogleCloud #AfricanCloudRegion #Johannesburg #webhosting #web #linux #vpsserver #webserver #server #webhostingproviders #wordpresshosting #wordpress #hosting #business #technology #IT #success #website #cpanel #window #windowhosting #ecommerce #HostingSeekers #wsdhs

Today's #Linux mystery: My VPS "comes with" spamassassin, and something claiming to be spamassassin is definitely adding spamassassin headers to my incoming email. But I cannot for the life of me find any spamassassin software on this VPS. Nothing named spamassassin, or sa-learn, or spamc.

I can do all the basic config stuff through #WHM / #cPanel, but my email system integrates calls to spamassassin to train it as to what constitutes ham. I can't find anything to call.

Today's #Linux-#WHM-#cPanel mystery.

Mail from root to root in my VPS (system alerts) are delivered by something that observes my .forward file.

No email from outside my system is delivered in a way that respects my .forward file.

Well, I figured out how to get email to deliver to a conventional mail spool in a #WHM/ #cPanel VPS, using #procmail. Requires root.

1) install procmail, duh.

2) at the command line, "touch /etc/procmailrc"

3) * see below

4) in cPanel, under "Global Email Filters", create a filter, name it whatever you like (e.g. "hand off to procmail"), use rule "has not been previously delivered", use action "pipe to a program" set to "/usr/bin/procmail -Y /etc/procmailrc". Save.

Voila.