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Viewing Your Monit Notification History

Introduction vCanopy uses Monit to manage services and restart them based on criteria such as extended periods of high CPU or RAM usage over a set period of time. Monit will send out notifications within your vCanopy account and to Slack (if setup). These notifications are all logged on your server and  they’re all time […]

How to Manually Renew Monit and PHPMyAdmin SSL Certificates

On occasion, some Monit and PHPMyAdmin (PHPMA) SSL certificates fail to  automatically renew, which can result in these becoming unavailable due to an SSL certificate error (for example “NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID”). It’s important to note that this is only one of the possible reasons why this may not be able to access Monit/PHPMA, and you may also […]

Using the vCanopy Monit Stats and Service Manager

The vCanopy stack utilizes a custom configuration of the most reliable and effective open-source tools to ensure that your sites are delivered at blazing speeds and your server is both monitored 24/7 and proactively administered. A crucial part of the stack is Monit, an open source tool that comes complete with all the features needed for […]

An Overview of vCanopy Git Options: Full and Hybrid Repo Types

Git is Currently in Invite Only BETA Note that BETA features are NOT considered production-ready and there is no critical/urgent support or support guarantees. After the private beta it will be released into open beta, where anyone on Developer or above with beta features activated on their account will be able to test and use […]

V2 Backups Part 4. Troubleshooting & Backups Failure Notifications

TABLE OF CONTENTS  Introduction Part 1. Troubleshooting Backup Failure Notifications– About Backup Failure Notifications– The Automated Backups Monitoring Log– Reviewing the Log– What Causes Backup Failures? Part 2. Troubleshooting Restores/Purging– Backup Buttons Are Constantly Spinning and Unusable– Fixing Missing Revisions Part 3. Backups Are Taking Up A LOT of Space– Backups and Disk Space– Cleaning Up Old Backups and Chunks to Free Up […]