WebFacing™ – Storage, resource usage and errors in cPanel®

🕸️ By WebFacing™. Shows disk usage, memory, cpu and processes resource usage information, recommendations and alerts, plus number of created email accounts, in your admin Dashboard At a Glance widget, a special Dashboard Gauges widget, plus error logs and extensive info on Tools – Site Health panels.

Resource gauges in custom dasboard widget.

Includes Server Error log test in Site Health.

Includes a Site Health test for HTTPS only (http should not be allowed, but forwarded to https) with information about the issue, recommendation and actions.

Made with a little help from cPanel, L.L.C., USA and PRO ISP AS, Norway – many thanks.

See also WebFacing™ – Email Accounts management for cPanel®

This plugin adds the following:

Dashboard

At a Glance (core widget)

• One item showing used disk space
• One line widget footer line mentioning the name of your web hosting provider, and maximum disk space for current plan/account (on PRO ISP only)

cPanel Resource Usage (custom widget)

• Memory usage (gauge)
• CPU usage (gauge)
• Number of active Entry Processes (gauge)
• Disk in/out usage (gauge)
• cPanel® Server Errors last 24 hours

Tools – Site Health panel

Status (tab)

• A disk space test with explaining text and possible actions (cPanel® only) with following result types and actions
  • Good (less than 90%)
  • Recommended (over 90%, but less than 95%)
  • Critical (over 95%)
• A HTTPS only test with explaining text (with HTTPS enabled only), actions with link to a relevant guide (special guide in case PRO ISP), and with the following result types and actions
  • Good (http loopback requests are rejected)
  • Recommended fix (http loopback requests successful)
• A Sever Error test with error log
  • Good (no errors last 24 hours)
  • Recommended (less than 25 errors)
  • Critical (more than 24 errors)

Info (tab)

• A disk space section containing (cPanel® only)

  • cPanel® user name (private)
  • cPanel® user subaccounts and assigned services (private)
  • Two Factor Authentication enabled in cPanel®?
  • Max disk space available
  • Total disk space used
    • Disk used by media files
  • Main domain in cPanel®
    • Addon domains
    • Parked domains
    • Dead domains
  • MySQL® Disk Usage
  • CPU Usage
  • Entry Processes
  • Physical Memory Usage
  • In/Out Operations Per Second (IOPS)
  • In/Out Usage
  • Number of Processes
  • Number of cPanel® Server Errors
  • Contact email addresses in cPanel®

• Adds one line to the WordPress Server values section

  • Number of cPanel® Server Errors

• Adds some lines to the WordPress Constant values section

  • WP_[CONTENT|PLUGIN]_URLs
  • WPMU_PLUGIN_[DIR|URL]
  • WP_TEMP_DIR
  • UPLOADS
  • WP_DEFAULT_THEME
  • MEDIA_TRASH
  • IMAGE_EDIT_OVERWRITE
  • [TEMPLATE|STYLESHEET]PATHs
  • COOKIE_DOMAIN
  • [SITE]COOKIEPATH
  • COOKIEHASH
  • *_COOKIEs
  • *_COOKIE_PATHs
  • FORCE_SSL_[ADMIN|LOGIN]
  • WP_DISABLE_FATAL_ERROR_HANDLER
  • RECOVERY_MODE_EMAIL
  • AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED
  • WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE
  • ALLOW_[UNFILTERED_UPLOADS|REPAIR]
  • CORE_UPGRADE_SKIP_NEW_BUNDLED
  • DISALLOW_UNFILTERED_HTML
  • DISALLOW_FILE_[MOD|EDIT]S
  • WP_POST_REVISIONS
  • EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS
  • AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL
  • WP_LOCAL_DEV
  • SAVEQUERIES
  • RELOCATE
  • [DISABLE_|ALTERNATE_]WP_CRON[_LOCK_TIMEOUT]
  • CUSTOM_USER_[META_]TABLEs
  • [ALLOW_]MULTISITE

  Translation ready, ready translations are

  • Norwegian (Bokmål)

  Filter interval for fetching data for Dashboard Gauges widget

  wf_cpanel_gauges_interval (default: 10 seconds)

  Filter capability for showing resource gauges widget

  wf_cpanel_widget_capability (default: manage_options)

  Debug setting

  For extra debug information, add this line to your wp-config.php or in another plugin:

  const WF_DEBUG = true;

  Known limitations

• Requires PHP `shell_exec´ to be available
• Reports data from your own cPanel® server, not remote
• Reports data from your cPanel® server, all sites and all other web or cPanel® applications, in case more than your WordPress is installed on it
• Links to documentation to resolve reported issues are shown to PRO ISP AS customers only.
• This plugin will not show much if the site is not on a cPanel® managed server, but will do the test for HTTPS only.