I had moved my phpBB board over to Vultr.com, with a cyberpanel control panel litespeed server. I was testing a few things to see if the board was sending out emails when new users signed up. I tried to register an account on phpBB and I did not receive a verification email. Strange, and frustrating. […]
phpBB not sending out emails – cyberpanel to gmail Read More »
I love the Astra WordPress Theme for my sites – it is clean and fast, but I was having issues with Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS). As I’ve mentioned in a few other posts on this site, I like the pages to load extremely fast. And the Astra theme has been mostly great for that. However,
Astra Theme Site Title Layout Shift While Loading Causing High CLS – Fixed!! Read More »
Hopefully this page loaded for you extra-fast and looks correct. This post will review how I fixed a slow website using traceroute and other methods. If the site did not load quickly, it means I’ve either given up, or just failed – both are possible. I’ve been in the process of trying to self-host my
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After moving cyberpanel to a new instance, I got a new IP address and that needed some configuration changes to get things working properly. First, I had to chnage the IP address in the cyberpanel configuration. This required using the vultr console to SSH into the server. Once there, I had to navigate to: /etc/cyberpanel
Cyberpanel moved to new IP address – fixing including SSL certificate fix Read More »
In my quest to make my sites load as quickly as possible, without any major sacrifices, I was wondering if perhaps a slower TTFB (Time to First Byte) was happening because my VPS wasn’t as fast as it could be. Since I had a trial credit I was going to lose, I decided to try
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This post will be one in progress for a while, as I’m really just learning how to identify and mitigate the causes for increased server loads. I’ve been a bit spoiled having other companies host my websites, but I wanted to take the deeper dive into managing my own website server. Cyberpanel has been pretty
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In Cpanel – I mainly used email addresses as a way to forward emails to my personal gmail account. I sometimes also used the ‘catch all” forwarding for the entire domain so that I didn’t even need to bother creating specific email addresses in cpanel. Migrating to cyberpanel was NOT seamless when it comes to
Cyberpanel – forward emails without keeping a copy on the server Read More »