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How To Track Down Disk Usage Warnings

28 February 2011

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“Disk Space Usage” functionality in cPanel is a handy way to help you determine what files are taking up so much space.  It can be hard to track down where the problem is because your total usage includes email, databases, log files and more in addition to the files associated with your website. You may [...]

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Moving a Site To New Host Using cPanel

27 January 2011

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You found a new, better, cheaper web host, or you just bought a site from a venue like Flippa. Transferring a web site from one server to another is easy when both hosting companies run cPanel. It is so easy that many hosts, including HostGator, will do all the work for you for free within [...]

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How To Change a File’s Permissions

24 April 2008

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Sometimes you will have to change the permissions of a file. I had to do this recently to get an installation of WordPress blog to run. Here is how to change file permissions using cPanel: log into cPanel look for File Manager and follow the link you will get a window that says Please select [...]

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Security Tip for Cron

24 May 2007

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For smart security, put the script that your cron job runs in a directory above your /cgi-bin/ and /www/ or /public_html/ directories. This is because if your script is in, or under, your /public_html/ directory, then it can be executed via a browser by anyone anytime.

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How To Deal With Disk Usage Warning Emails — Part 2

10 August 2006

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In “Part 1″ of how to deal with emails from the server warning that you are approaching your file limit, we looked at how to figure out why you were approaching your limit. We also looked at one likely culprit: email. Causes other than email accounts might be the problem. In this post, we look [...]

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How To Deal With “Disk Usage Warning” Emails

28 July 2006

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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 [...]

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See Disk Space Used by Each Email Address

5 July 2006

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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. [...]

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How To Use cPanel to Delete a Ton of Files

19 June 2006

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Sometimes you end up with a ton of files in a directory, so many files that it is difficult to delete them. (I did this with some file caching code that was not working as well as I thought.) Just trying to change directory to where all those files are hangs the FTP software. Try [...]

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