Beacon production is where the public visits beacontechnology.com

The hostname is also cpanel.beacontechnology.com

Links

• https://cpanel.beacontechnology.com/whm
• https://cpanel.beacontechnology.com/cpanel
• https://beacontechnology.com

To create a new cpanel.beacontechnology.com server follow these steps:

1. Set up a fresh CentOS 7 minimal.
2. yum install -y screen
3. run screen
4. Inside screen, update the server with: yum update -y; sync; sleep 1; reboot
5. Make sure the box has a valid hostname like cpanel.beacontechnology.com Run hostname to print the hostname. To change the hostname run: nmcli general hostname cpanel.beacontechnology.com
6. Disable NetworkManager by following this guide: Click Here
7. Install cPanel by following this guide: Click Here
8. Transfer the .tar.gz file somewhere to the box
9. Go to this article to see your restore options
10. Update DNS if you have a different IP

There are some other things to take into consideration.

The website generates tons of session files and never cleans them up.

To fix this, you can use a cron job to clean them up

# cat /etc/cron.daily/clean_sessions.sh 
#!/bin/bash

find /home/beacontechnology/public_html/session -type f -mtime 5 -delete

The above has been implemented in a cron job owned by root that runs twice daily. It removes sessions after 10 days. Using -delete would fail due to the large number of arguments (too many files). Piping the results to rm did the job.

/home/beacontechnology/clean_sessions

find /home/beacontechnology/www/session/ -name '*' -type f -mtime +10 | head -10000 | xargs rm
find /home/beaconmicro/www/session/ -name '*' -type f -mtime +10 | head -10000 | xargs rm