I'm experiencing a problem with my VPS
This article helps you investigate problems on your VPS by providing troubleshooting steps and also listing the information our support department needs to help with problems.
This article helps you investigate problems on your VPS by providing troubleshooting steps and also listing the information our support department needs to help with problems.
Big Storage allows you to add an extra disk with considerable storage capacity to your VPS. This is for example useful for data storage such as media files or back-ups. Read more...
In our DirectAdmin tutorial series, we explain how you start using a VPS with DirectAdmin. This not only includes hosting your website and email but also how you can safely set up and update your VPS.
In this article we'll show how to set up the security of a DirectAdmin VPS.
Our pre-installed version of DirectAdmin comes with CentOS as the underlying operating system. By default, CentOS 7 makes use of older versions of software (though with recent security updates) because it prefers stability over new features.
Before you can use your domain within DirectAdmin, your domain has to be linked to your VPS. To do this, you refer your domain to your VPS in your DNS settings and configure your domain in DirectAdmin.
In this chapter, we show you how to upload your website to your VPS. To upload your site, you can use FTPS or the DirectAdmin File Manager. We prefer FTPS since the DirectAdmin File Manager does not offer an easy option to upload files in bulk.
This tutorial covers the aspects of using e-mail in DirectAdmin (reverse DNS, creating an email address, SSL, webmail, etc).
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In our Plesk tutorial series we explain how to get started with a VPS which uses Plesk. This tutorial series not only includes hosting your website and e-mail, but also how you can safely set up and update your VPS.
In our cPanel tutorial series, we explain how you start using a VPS with cPanel & WHM.
When using CentOS 6.x or 7.x on your VPS, or when using our pre-installed images of DirectAdmin, Plesk or cPanel (which also use CentOS), you will have an older version of PHP active by default (with the latest security-updates being backported). This is because CentOS prefers stability over new features, but some (popul...
When your VPS turns out to be sending unwanted 'spam' to one or more recipients, you are likely to receive an 'abuse report' from a one of these recipients (or forwarded by us). These notifications will usually also contain the headers of these mails which can be used to determine the source of the spam. In th...
In this article we show how you can secure your Plesk server.
In this tutorial we explain various aspects of updating Plesk.
In this tutorial we show how to add (sub) domains and aliases in Plesk.
In this chapter we show you how to upload your website to your VPS. To upload your site, you can either use FTPS or the Plesk File Manager.
This tutorial demonstrates the ins and outs of starting with email in Plesk.
Tutorial on how to extend a partition in Linux.
In this article, we provide a guide for the installation process of CentOS 7.
Our default 'pre installed' version of DirectAdmin always comes with CentOS 7.x as the underlying OS. When using your own license or using a 'DirectAdmin lifetime license' you can use this on the following operation systems our VPS-platform offers: CentOS: 6.x, 7.x, 8.x FreeBSD: 11.x, 12.x Debian: 8.x, ...
Your VPS is supplied unmanaged and without a Control Panel. This allows you the freedom to choose your operating system and server configuration. We currently offer the following operating systems for your VPS: Archlinux CentOS 6 & 7 Debian FreeBSD Gentoo Linux OpenBSD Ubuntu Fedora CoreO...
At TransIP you have the freedom to choose an Operating System that you want to use on your server. Should you skip this step during the initial purchase, you can always do this at a later date.
After upgrading your VPS, or adding an SSD add-on, you can use the guides in this article to expand your existing partition or create new partitions.
Before you can utilize new disk space, the space needs to be allocated to a new partition. In this FAQ you find a six step explanation to guide you through the process of creating a partition on your BladeVPS. Note: unless mentioned, a command is always followed by an enter. Read more...
Once you have added your VPSs to a Private Network, you will first have to set up internal IP addresses before you can make full use of them. Read more...
When you happen to lose the root password of your VPS and your VPS uses GRUB bootloader (almost all Linux distributions use this) you can follow the steps in the article below to set a new root password: Read more...
Our pre-installed packages of DirectAdmin, Plesk and cPanel are always installed in combination with CentOS (6.6). Even though these control panels are supported on different OS-es too it is not possible to run them on another OS by installing the OS in question. For example when you are running the pre-installed DirectAdmin ...
Plesk is a graphical web-based hosting control panel which makes creating and maintaining websites on your VPS a lot easier. With Plesk websites can easily be created and maintained and for instance creating a FTP-user is within arms reach.
cPanel/WHM is a graphical web-based hosting control panel which makes creating and maintaining websites on your VPS a lot easier.
Unfortunately there are a lot of active botnets on the Internet, which are constantly scanning IP-ranges to see if they get a hit on port 22 (SSH) and in some cases port 21 (FTP) as well. Because this is done by a very large amount of IP-addresses we can't block or ban all of these from our network. Read more...
Article explaining how to install the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) in CentOS.
This FAQ-article explains how to make sure RPC Portmapper can't be used as reflector in distributed reflected denial of service attacks. We will show you the steps for the commonly used firewalls. Read more...
When you are using a BladeVPS at TransIP you can always use our mail service free of charge, also referred to as 'Carefree Mailing'.
When you expand the disk space of your VPS, you will first have to allocate this extra space to a partition before your OS can use it.
In this article we show how to install an SSL certificate in Apache for CentOS and Ubuntu
By default CentOS uses older versions of some software (although updated with the latest security updates) because it prefers stability above the latest features. This is also the reason that the default PHP version is usually a few versions behind on what is available. If you want to use PHP 7 for example, you will first need t...
In this article you'll find an overview of all security related articles for VPSs in our knowledge base. This includes information about what you can do to secure your VPS, but also what we do (e.g. DDoS protection).
For the use of our Linux VPSs (CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, etc), and in many articles in our knowledge base, you use command-line (also known as command-line-interface or CLI) over an SSH connection. In this article we give a basal explanation of these terms and how to use command line and SSH. This article is not meant to cover ...
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This article shows how to install and configure Fail2Ban bruteforce protection for your Linux server. Fail2Ban scans log files and bans IP’s performing brute force attacks.
An open Memcache service can be abused as a reflector in a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack. In this article we'll show you how to restrict access to the Memcache service on your VPS, or close the Memcache port.
ClamAV is a free, open source antivirus program for the detection of trojans, viruses and malware on your VPS. In this tutorial we show you how to install ClamAV in CentOS 7 and how to ensure that ClamAV starts automatically and your VPS scans daily.
Additional resources for Plesk VPS'es that aren't covered in the rest of this tutorial series.
This article explains security messures and precautions for securing a VPS with cPanel with CentOS 7.
Article explaining the various ways in which (sub)domains can be added to cPanel.
In this tutorial we cover how to set up your website, database and SSL in cPanel.
This article covers various aspects of using email with cPanel.
This article concludes our cPanel tutorial series with some final tips.
This article shows you how to update the software and the kernel on the Operating System of your VPS.
In this article we show you how to change the SSH port of your Linux VPS
In this article we demonstrate how to deny root SSH access on a Linux VPS
Security-Enhanced Linux, or SELinux, is a kernel security module, to improve the security of a Linux system. It is installed on CentOS and Fedora installations by default.
In this article we show how to change your hostname in CentOS 7
In this article we explain what sudo and root are in Linux.
In this article we show how you can change your password in Ubuntu 18.04.
Vi is an often used text editor in Linux. In this article we explain how you can use Vi.
In this article, we show you how to change your keyboard language in CentOS 7.
In this article we explain the concept of 'packages' in Linux. Simply put they're install-ready software containers.
In this article, we show you how to install software packages in CentOS 7 and how to find out in which repository the software can be found.
Nano is an often used text editor in Linux. In this article we explain how to use it.
In this article we explain which common tools are available for editing files in Linux.
Guide for updating all packages on your CentOS 7 VPS, specific software, or update your entire OS to a newer version.
In this tutorial we show the works of the default Firewall in CentOS 7: Firewalld.
In this article we explain how to investigate high CPU load problems on a VPS.
In this article we explain the usage of the top command in Linux.
In this article, we explain the installation and initial configuration of an Apache web server (with httpd-tools, mod_ssl, and PHP-FPM) in CentOS 7.
In this tutorial we show you how to install a Plex Media Server in CentOS 7 and use Big Storage to store your media.
As the names indicate, static websites are (relatively) unchangeable and dynamic websites change regularly.
In this tutorial we show how to set up an FTP server in CentOS 7 using VSFTPD.
In this article we show how to use SFTP in CentOS 7 without the SFTP users having SSH access on your server.
Easily secure your VPSs from your control panel using our free VPS Firewall. In this guide we explain how the VPS Firewall works.
In this tutorial we show you how you can optimize your Plex media files so you don't need to transcode them live when you play them on your television.
In this article we show how to install and configure a MariaDB server in CentOS 7.
In this article we explain how to statically add an extra IPv4 or IPv6 address to your CentOS 8 VPS.
In this article you'll find an overview of our CentOS 7 documentation.
In this article, we explain what you can do to solve problems after an update of Apache.
In this article we explain the basics of managing MariaDB using command-line.
In this tutorial we show how to install and configure phpMyAdmin in CentOS 7.
In this article we explain how to statically add an extra IPv4 or IPv6 address to your CentOS 6.x VPS.
In this article we explain how to statically add an extra IPv4 or IPv6 address to your CentOS 7 VPS.
This overview shows our documentation which helps you configure a mail server.
In this tutorial we show you how to install and configure Exim & Dovecot in CentOS 7.
In this article, we show you how to use ClamAV as a virus scanner for a mail server with Exim and Dovecot.
In this tutorial, we show you how to use SpamAssassin as spam protection for a mail server with Exim and Dovecot.
In this article we show how you can check incoming sender domains against blacklists on your Exim mailserver in CentOS 7 & 8.
In this tutorial, we show you how to sign outgoing mail with DKIM on a VPS with CentOS 7 and Exim.
In this article, we explain how to make your Big Storage drive available on your other VPSs using SSHFS.
Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. In this tutorial we show how to install composer in various Linux distros.
In this article we show how to install and configure a MariaDB server in CentOS 8.
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