Question 1

Garry's Mod | How To Clear Disk Space

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Clearing your Garry's Mod server's disk space

| You may be encountering some storage space issues. Thankfully there are some simple steps you can take for optimising your storage capacity and clearing out unnecessary clutter. The majority of storage being taken up unnecessarily is often due to 'addons'. With servers ever growing and consistently changing this includes the 'content pack' (steam workshop collection) and any data on the server 'cache' (Data that is used often that is saved to have better loading times. By cleaning your servers storage following these simple steps we can guarantee you optimising your server's storage space and optimising it. We recommend you do this on a monthly bases at the least in order to keep server storage capacity minimal.

Cleaning out 'cached' 'addons'.

This quick and simple list of instructions will support you in optimising and cleaning your server's storage. Let's get started:

||| Do not edit the state of server files while the server is in operation it can cause severe damage.

Go to your game panel & stop your server. Ensure that the server has come to a complete stop before editing any files.
Open the server's 'File Manager' by clicking on the 'Server Management' tab and then proceeding by clicking on 'File Manager'.
Navigate to: /home/container/ if you aren't already focused on this directory.
Search for the folder named "steam_cache".
Once discovered proceed to remove (Delete) the folder as a whole.
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Question 2

Windows Server | How to install a FiveM server

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How To Install FiveM On Windows Server 2019 VPS Or Dedicated Server

Prerequisites

Visual C++ Redistributable 2019 or newer.
Git to assure a correct installation.

Installation

Create a new directory (for example D:\FXServer\server), this will be used for the server binaries.
Download the latest master branch build for Windows from the artifacts server.
Extract the build into the directory previously created.
Use any archiving tool (such as WinRAR or 7-Zip).
Clone cfx-server-data in a new folder outside of your server binaries folder, for example, D:\FXServer\server-data.
git clone https://github.com/citizenfx/cfx-server-data.git server-data
Make a server.cfg file in your server-data folder (copy the example server.cfg file below into that file).
Generate a license key at https://keymaster.fivem.net.
Set the license key in your server.cfg using sv_licenseKey "licenseKeyGoesHere".
Run the server from the server-data folder. For example, in a plain Windows command prompt (cmd.exe) window:cd /d D:\FXServer\server-data D:\FXServer\server\run.cmd +exec server.cfg (the /d flag is only needed when changing directory to somewhere on a different drive)

Question 3

Garry's Mod | How To Install CS:S Content & Mount

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||| Before beginning the process, turn your server OFF to prevent download and install issues.

Installing CSS Content & Mounting It

When you first load up your server and join ingame, you'll likely find your chatbox spammed with a warning about mounting CSS Content on your server. It's reccomended to install this content to avoid bugs and visual errors as a result of not mounting it.

To begin navigate to the Mod Manager:

Find CSS Content under Game Content and click 'Install'

Allow a few moments for the download to complete, navigate to your file manager, and enter your /garrysmod/ directory and look for the following folder:

Enter the folder and you'll see the following files:

Click the dropdown menu icon beside Materials and click ' Move ' Copy the move location below: Repeat for each item cstrike/materials cstrike/models cstrike/particles cstrike/sound ```cstrike/sc

Question 4

Garry's Mod | How To Change Your Servers In Game Name

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How to change your Garry's mod server's name in the server listing

An eye catching title will always attract a crowd!

| Utilising titles is an effective method of attracting new players, through this guide we will elaborate on how to change the name of your server on the server listing for the Garry's Mod main menu.

Make your way over to the game panel.
Head over to the following directory 'garrysmod/cfg/server.cfg' via SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) or File Manager.
Edit the file and press CTRL+F, after doing the keyboard shortcut search for 'hostname', after which there will be text (Default being 'my server'.
Change 'My Server' to a title you wish to use. You are able to use special characters in this name.
Save the file and restart the server.

Question 5

Billing | What to do when your Account is hacked

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What do i do if any of my accounts with MixmlHosting get accessed by someone other then me and I may have been hacked?

One of the main things to do in some of these situations is to stay calm. As scary as it is all of it can be reversed so just take a deep breath and follow the instructions below.

||| This guide will only help you if your MixmlHosting account has been compromised. Be sure to change your email password instantly as your email is like a backup vault.

What do they have access to?

Game Panel - If they have access to the game panel and nothing else use the live support or phone line and you will be asked for your security question. Once the question has been correctly answered we can lock your account and reset its password.
Billing Panel - This is one of the more harsher scenarios as its harder for us to prove you own the account and aren't using something like social engineering yourself. One of the main ways we can regain control is first your security question or we will call the listed phone number as long as it has not been changed within the last 7 days of reporting the hacked account,

If a different service has been hacked contact us immediately to resolve the issue.

| What should I do to make sure it doesn't happen again?

Setting up 2FA (2 Factor Authentication) should be a priority. It's one of the most secure methods of protecting your account. A 2FA enabled account will always require a secondary login code via your mobile numbe

Question 6

Ubuntu 18.04 | How to install a Firewall

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How To Create And Add A Firewall On Ubuntu 18.04

Security is a extremely important part of using a Ubuntu 18.04 machine as its not uncommon to see attacks on machines daily.

|| Root Is Being Used As The General User For This Tutorial | Also Be sure that you have ran apt-update -f before following the instructions.

apt install ufw By default all ports are blocked meaning you have to open them.

| The firewall isn't active till later on

ufw allow ssh This opens port 22 allowing you to SSH to the server

| You can also type ufw allow 22 to manually allow the port

ufw reload There you go, You just set the most basic firewall up for Ubuntu 18.04

Most applications will require you to open the ports and for example Nginx requires port 80 open so to do that its as simple as typing ufw allow 80

You can also allow only certain packets through such as tcp/udp

to do that for example you type the same command but with /tcp or /udp on the end

Eg. ufw allow 80/tcp

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