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.

1. 

   Dashboard - At a Glance widget

2. 

   Site Health Disk Space Test

3. 

   Site Health HTTPS only test

4. 

   Dashboard - Resource usage & errors widget

3.8

• Released May 14, 2024
• Plugin now requires plugin wf-cpanel-email-accounts
• Some plugin features no longer working on cPanel version 120
• Plugin will be closed May 21, 2024
• This the final and last release. Please delete it and use wf-cpanel-email-accounts only

3.7.1

• Fix: Main::to_bytes returning string in some cases

3.7.0

• Fix: self::$host_label must not be accessed before initialized

3.6.9

• Fix: Site Health Info: Plugin auto updated
• Fix: Namespace the ‘PLUGIN_BASENAME’ constant

3.6.4

• Bugfix: Site Health Info section title mess

3.6.2

• Apr 19, 2023
• Constants cleanup in Site Health Info

3.6

• Feb 1, 2023
• Fixed: Type error
• Removed some Site Health Info, please install WebFacing™ – cPanel® Email Accounts management & Account backup

3.5.6

• Dec 3, 2022
• Rename plugin
• Fix how cPanel® is detected to avoid fatal errors

3.5.5

• Nov 6, 2022
• Rename plugin
• Site Health Info: Do not show auto update on multisite
• Fix how cPanel® is detected to avoid fatal errors

3.5

• Nov 4, 2022
• Removed all email related info. Please use WebFacing – Email Accounts management & Hosting Account backup in cPanel®
• Removed uploads disk space used
• Removed Site Health Status Email Routing test
• Added Site Health Status test for the recommended plugin
• Site Health Info reorganized

3.4

• Nov 3, 2022
• Removed some email related info.

3.3

• Oct 20, 2022
• Will soon be discontinued

3.2

• Jul 18, 2022
• Fix for default UPLOADS dir
• Major performance enhancement – no impact in admin outside Dashboard & Site Health screens
• cPanel® charts enabled with Google Site Kit plugin active
• Requires PHP 7.4+
• Tested with PHP 8.2

3.1

• Apr 29, 2022
• Protection against fatal error when PHP shell_exec is not allowed
• New Site Health test for unique keys and salts constants
• Several extra config constants in Site Health Info
• Showing defaults for constants in Site Health Info
• Indication of strange values for constants in Site Health Info

3.0

• Mar 31, 2022
• Several extra config constants in Site Health Info
• Shows defults when constants are undefined
• File/class renaming, code cleanup

2.9.2

• Mar 14, 2022
• Fixed fatal error in case PECL intl function idn_to_utf8 is not available

2.9.1

• Mar 08, 2022
• Enhancement: Plugin promotion at bottom of Dashboard widget can now be dismissed or removed
• Enhancement: Some additional constansts to Site Health Info WordPress Constants
• Fix: Coding standards

2.9

• Feb 01, 2022
• Major performance enhacement when loading dashboard
• WP 5.9 tested
• PHP 8.1 ready

2.8

• Add PHP Errors count to gauges widget and in Site Health Info

2.7

• Oct 19, 2021
• Add PHP Error/Debug Log File Size to Site Health Info
• Expired transients cleanup
• Add WP_CONTENT_URL to Site Health Info WordPress Constants
• Add FORCE_SSL_ADMIN to Site Health Info WordPress Constants
• Restructured code with simpler translations
• Integrated with Query Monitor plugin
• Files & classes renaming

2.6

• Add subaccounts info to Site Health Info tab
• Add disk i/o gauge in Dashboard Resources widget

2.5

• Translatable gauge labels
• Server errors count in Dashboard Resource Usage & Server Errors widget
• Two new constants i Site Health Info WordPress Constants section
• Server errors in Site Health Info Server section
• Make sure no errors from gethostbyaddr() when no SERVER_ADDR (cron, CLI)
• Make resource gauges responsive to current widget width
• Added cPanel® user last modified to Site Health Info

2.4

• Added Server error test and log
• Better security for getting resources from JavaScript (generated token as a secret)
• Detect interference with Google Site Kit plugin
• Fix for some sites not showing gauges due to referrer policy

2.3

• Added gauges in new widget on dashboard to show resource usage (Memory, CPU and Processes)
• Translation fixes

2.2

• Less strict cPanel® features check on load
• Add dead domains to Site Health Info tab
• Count addon, parked and dead domains as label suffix
• Include main email account in email account count in Dashboard – At a Glance widget
• More translation contexts

2.1

• Add Site Health cPanel® Info tab main account disk usage
• Add Site Health cPanel® Info tab maximum emails sending frequency per hour
• Add cPanel® version info in Site Health Info tab
• Tidy up Site Health for cPanel® entries in Info tab
• Reorder, and make more logically hierarchical, Site Health for cPanel® Info tab
• Remove Site Health cPanel® forwarders in Info tab (install my other plugin ‘WebFacing – Email Accounts in cPanel®’ to list them)
• Better handling of IDN domains where overlooked
• A few extra, useful WordPress constants in Site Health Info tab, but removed WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE as redundant
• Recommending my other plugin ‘WebFacing – Email Accounts in cPanel®’ in Dashboard – At a glance widget
• Fixed a bug (oversight) in 2.0 that alerted about email routing in the case that the MX-record points to self. In that case, no worry.

2.0

• Email accounts number (and size as tooltip) in Dashboard Right Now widget
• New test for Email Routing under Site Health Status tab
• More constants under WordPress Constants in Site Health Info tab
• A lot more information in cPanel® & Disk Usage in Site Health Info tab

1.6

• March 11, 2021
• Fix for fatal error when undefined constant in PHP 7.4
• Urgent: Safeguard against PHP fatal errors when installed on a site not using cPanel®
• In case on PRO ISP AS: Added link to PRO ISP’s support article for enabling HTTPS in cPanel® in Site Health – Status – Security
• Database disk space shown in Dashboard widget tooltip
• A few more useful constants in Site Health – Info – WordPress Constants
• Correct language neutral values in Site Health – Info for debug copy results
• Some minor translation fixes

1.5

• Bugfix: Database disk space was counted twice, leading to too high value for total disk space used
• Added Database disk usage to Site Health Info tab
• Partly rewritten to use more cPanel® uapi calls
• Removed cPanel® Quota calls
• Introducing some cPanel® Usage Statistics parametres, like CPU Usage and number of Entry Processes, in Site Health Info tab
• Better caching of values in short lived transients
• Added DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT to Site Health Info WordPress Constants
• Added detection for Enterprise hosting packages at PRO ISP.
• Spelling error for Pro Premium package.
• Tested for WP 5.6
• Some minor text changes in ´readme.txt´.
• Some old code cleanup.

1.2

Switched to new quota command on cPanel® for disk space max & used. Thanks to @proisp for implementing it.

1.1

• Cap check for showing cPanel® username in At a Glance.

1.0

• Initial release, Sep 2020.