Now accepting Bitcoin!

James Ensor 5wire, Blog 30 October 2017
We are happy to announce that we’re now accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment for all of our services! Bitcoin is rapidly growing virtual currency that has grabbed headlines across the globe for it’s…
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Affordable Colocation in Central London

James Ensor 5wire, Blog 18 January 2017
With two awesome data centres in the heart of Central London, 5wire Networks are pleased to offer affordable colocation without the huge overheads. We currently have availability in Telecity Meridan Gate. [small_space] Affordable Colocation [small_space]…
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Which Control Panel is for you? cPanel, Plesk and More

James Ensor 5wire, Blog, cpanel, Tutorial 15 January 2017
Those that require Web Hosting often look for the most easy method for managing their servers using a Control Panel. As we all know, the easiest way is with a simple graphical user interface to…
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Database Connection Problems – User modsec /etc/cron.hourly/modsecparse.pl on cPanel

James Ensor Blog, cpanel, Tutorial 11 January 2017
Database connection problems with modsecparse.pl are usually caused by an issue with mod_security. You will receive an email an hour such as the below, informing you that there is a problem with the service. /etc/cron.hourly/modsecparse.pl:…
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Safely empty MySQL .log & .err files on cPanel Servers

James Ensor Blog, cpanel, Tutorial 3 January 2017
Over time the .log & .err files on cPanel servers can become huge, more often that not you should always investigate what is causing these files to generate to huge capacity in case there are…
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CentOS 6 Install and Configure NTP to Synchronise The System Clock

James Ensor Blog, Tutorial 3 January 2017
One problem often encountered with a new install of some operating systems is that the time settings are incorrect. You can easily update these manually, or much more easily you can use the NTP service…
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How to Setup and Configure an OpenVPN Server on CentOS 5/6/7

James Ensor Blog, Tutorial 31 December 2016
This will guide you how to setup and config an OpenVPN server on your CentOS server. Prepartion Before setup of the OpenVPN server, you’ll need to have the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) Repository…
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Tuning MySQL for Performance with MySQLTuner

James Ensor Blog, cpanel, Tutorial 7 November 2016
MySQLTuner is a Perl script that analyses your MySQL performance and, then generates recommendations based upon the statistics that it has gathered. You should adjust the variables to increase performance. The way, you can tune…
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How to find large files on RedHat, CentOS or Fedora Linux?

James Ensor Blog, cpanel, Tutorial 3 January 2016
Unfortunately in Linux there is no single command that lets you find large files, however with the help of the Find command we can create a list of large files. In this example, we are looking…
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Fully Redundant, Hot Migration Cloud Servers in Central London

James Ensor 5wire, Blog 24 November 2015
[h1]Central London Cloud Servers deployed instantly![/h1] 5wire Networks are delighted to now be able to provide Cloud Services from our racks located in secure Tier 1 Data Centre facilities in Central London. Our location provides…
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