Proxmox Mail Gateway (PMG) is a great solution for filtering incoming and outgoing mail for spam. By default SpamAssassin in is not trained with what emails should be considered spam…
Train Proxmox Mail Gateway SpamAssassin from cPanel Spam
Postfix IP rotation for Proxmox Mail Gateway
Proxmox Mail Gateway is a fantastic spam filtering solution. The trouble with relaying mail from a single IP address is that services like Gmail and Yahoo will quite quickly start…
Enable Amazon S3 interface for Ceph inside Proxmox
Enabling Ceph in Proxmox is a fantastic way to provide scalable and redundant storage for your VMs. Enabling the Amazon S3 interface for Ceph opens your storage up to third…
CSS media queries for different screen sizes
There are loads of articles on the media queries and it can sometimes be a bit of a mission to get one's hands on CSS required to target various screen…
Find OSD serial in Ceph Proxmox
The identification of an OSD / Disk serial number in Ceph is especially important in the event of disk failure. This can be achieved with a couple of commands: ceph-volume…
Block WordPress Login and XMLRPC attacks for cPanel and DirectAdmin using CSF
Any web hosting admin will tell you that a lot of server resources are wasted due to attacks on WordPress instances. A quick and effective solution is to create a…
Resize/increase Proxmox Backup datastore disk
Suppose you created a datastore of 5TB in the new Proxmox Backup and wish to increase this, the process isn't quite as simple as in Proxmox VE. If you're running…
Remove files/directories starting with certain string
In Linux if you want to remove all files and folders starting with the string "2020" you can run the following command: rm -rf 2020*
Rename Proxmox node with existing VMs
Please note that I have only tried this on a single Proxmox node, and NOT a node joined to a cluster. Change to the new hostname in the following 3…
Check if your DNS server "works" for a domain name
dig domain-to-query.co.za @dns1.your-dns-server-domain.co.za +short









