Administration

XRDP is an open-source implementation of Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server for Linux. It enables any RDP-compatible client — including Windows Remote Desktop Connection, Remmina, and FreeRDP — to establish a full graphical desktop session on a remote Linux machine. On Ubuntu 22.04, XRDP acts as a bridge between the RDP client and an […]

The HTTP 413 Request Entity Too Large error is a server-side response status code that occurs when an incoming request body — most commonly a file upload — exceeds the maximum payload size configured at the web server, reverse proxy, or application layer. The server actively rejects the request before processing it, returning a 413 […]

PHP 8.3 is a major minor release of the PHP language that delivers significant improvements to the JIT compiler, type system, readonly properties, and core array/string functions. Released on November 23, 2023, it introduces typed class constants, json_validate(), array_is_list() refinements, Randomizer additions, and deep-cloning of readonly properties — changes that directly affect application performance, code […]

Adding a domain to cPanel means registering an additional domain name within your hosting control panel so that the server knows where to route incoming requests and where to serve files from. In cPanel, this is handled through the Domains or Addon Domains interface, which creates a dedicated document root directory, configures the virtual host […]

Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) is the practice of announcing a block of IP addresses you own — registered under your organization in a Regional Internet Registry (RIR) such as RIPE NCC — through a third-party network provider's BGP infrastructure. AlexHost enables this on its own autonomous system, AS 200019, allowing you to use your […]

The sudo command — short for superuser do — grants authorized Linux users temporary root-level privileges to execute administrative tasks. By default, every sudo invocation requires password authentication to verify the caller's identity. You can disable this password prompt either globally for a user, selectively for specific commands, or temporarily for a session by modifying […]

CloudPanel is a free, open-source server control panel engineered for high-performance VPS environments. Unlike heavyweight panels such as cPanel or Plesk, it is built on a lightweight technology stack — Nginx, PHP-FPM, and either MySQL 8.0 or MariaDB — designed to minimize resource overhead while delivering enterprise-grade server management capabilities. This guide walks you through […]

cPanel is a Linux-based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface for managing the full hosting environment — domains, email, databases, file systems, security configurations, and server resource monitoring — entirely through a browser, without requiring direct command-line access for routine operations. It operates in a client-server architecture and is tightly coupled with […]