At some point you will likely receive an email from your web hosting server with the subject “Disk Usage Warning (warn).” The contents of the email will be something along the lines of:
The account with the username ‘yoursite’, is running out of disk space.
Please remove some files from this account, or ask the administrator to [...]

You can set your emails to be forwarded to another email address. A customer recently asked this question because she just set up her domain and wanted to publish an email address that used her domain name. However, she wanted to read email in her old Yahoo email account (don’t [...]

Someone recently said “If I don’t like my new hosting company, I’ll just move the site. Right??”
It might be easy, but then again it might not. The complexity depends on the nature of your site. If you have some static HTML files and images. Easy. If you have a database-driven site such as a blog [...]

I wrote previously about SpamAssassin and turning on a spam box. Say you gets tons of spam and want to just delete it all automatically instead of sending it to a spam box that you never review.
It is easy to set up using cPanel’s menu driven command building tool. Here’s [...]

Error logs can contain some interesting tidbits. You should look at them from time to time. cPanel makes it easy.
In the main cPanel screen, there’s a link “Error log.” Follow the link and you will see your last 300 error log messages in reverse order.
You will likely see a range of entries. Entries that [...]

Many people do not know that you have an email address that is sometimes called “default address” or “main account.” It is a functioning email address and you can use it. The address is of the form your_cPanel_username@yoursite.com.
Many times, however, your login is not very user friendly because it can be no more than [...]

phpMyAdmin is a great browser-based application for working with MySQL databases. It simplifies working with databases and I highly recommend it.  Access phpMyAdmin from a link in cPanel.
It lets you create and drop databases, work with tables (create, drop, alter), work with fields (delete,  edit, add), execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage [...]

A site owner is often surprised by a warning email that disk space used is reaching the maximum size. Email is often to blame. Add up all the email inboxes, spam, deleted mail and sent mail for all your email addresses and your email is likely to take up a surprising amount of disk space.
To [...]

Create a new email address using cPanel. When logged into cPanel, click “Mail.” You get a list of links (the page is titled “Mail Manager Main Menu“). You will see a list of your existing email addresses. Click “Manage/Add/Remove Accounts“. At the very bottom, there’s a link “[Add Account].”
Note that most hosting companies [...]