[Fidget]

Originally Posted by pkearney

Hi Fidget,

You are a star - I owe you a large cold beer.

Made the SA change to 2 instances and I have dropped down to the low 60s% now.

A great payback for such a small change!

Brilliant!

Originally Posted by pkearney

Will look at the upgrade to the CPanel when I've had a chance to see how thing sgo with the last change.

I downgraded becasue VPS Hosting Support told me you couldn't tag spam in the same was with v11 as v10 (I like the way spam is tagged as an attachment, with the cover note showing where it scored and total score, I also liked the headers showing the score so I could check successful messages were being scanned as well). But I'm now guessing that I can do this...

I'm using v11 and made appropriate settings in the standard Exim configuration editor ... spamassassin can be set to tag both subject header and subject (you can even add your own text for the subject header tag), and you can also set the spam score at which SA will reject emails. You can also opt for ACLs usage and enter a whitelist, etc, etc.)

I would suspect that you may have been encouraged to go back to v10 because there were some issues with initial releases of v11 which have now been ironed out (fingers crossed )

Originally Posted by pkearney

Can you give me any pointers on installing CSF/LFD. I don't want to make a mess of things just as they seem to be coming together.

You'll need to remove any other firewall or iptables set up you currently have. If you don't have any iptables/firewall running this may further decrease your memory usage. Then go to http://www.configserver.com/cp/csf.html (its free and the installation is very simple. You may want to ask support to ensure that you have the correct IPtables modules installed so that it will work ok, EUK are utilising CSF on their servers and now have a good working knowledge of it. You could potentially get them to install it for you and set a basic configuration. Its memory footprint is pretty low as well which is excellent. What you can do in way of controlling excessive usage will really please you over time.

Originally Posted by pkearney

Really appreciate the other link you posted on a belt and braces A/V & Spam setup. I'm not brave enough to take that on myself yet, but it does give me lots of insight to what can be done.

Honestly, please don't use any of those methods. WHM v11 has very good standard exim configuration editing to do the job more than just sufficiently. Using those methods on that website hosting (which were written some time ago) would nearly completely consume your memory in no time. Its a total overkill for a VPS Hosting and would really be best suited to a single busy website hosting on a dedicated server.

Originally Posted by pkearney

If you get in the final 5 for the laptop you have my vote

Regards

Paul

Is there a competition going?

Happy to help anyway