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cPanel Simplifies Dedicated Hosting and VPS

16 February 2011

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Someone asked me about moving up to dedicated hosting and how in the world can someone who is not a certified system administrator or IT person run such a thing. cPanel makes it do-able. cPanel has capabilities beyond what the owner of a website sees. cPanel is not just for accounts on shared hosting or [...]

Run a Backup Before Upgrading WordPress

4 February 2011

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When you run WordPress, cPanel backup utilities are useful and easy to use. Back up your site and your database From the WordPress readme: Before you upgrade anything, make sure you have backup copies … This quote is from the WordPress readme.html file in the section “Upgrading Manually.” Even if you use the automatic upgrader, [...]

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 [...]

Email Yourself Feedback & Data About Your Cron Job

13 July 2009

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I’ve written a number of posts about cron jobs becuase cron can be so useful in managing a site, plus cPanel makes it easy to set up and edit one. Get your job to include useful info in the email that it sends you. You can notifiy yourself of success or failure, or post details [...]

Don’t Be Hacker Bait With a Bad Password

9 January 2009

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When you set your password, including on cPanel, or email accounts, be sure to select one that is hard to guess. But what does “hard to guess” mean? Take a look at The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time: From the moment people started using passwords, it didn’t take long to realize how many [...]

Help for the Dreaded Internal Server Error

17 April 2008

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You got a dreaded “internal server error” on your website. Even I get a panicky, sick feeling when I see such a page. In case you have never seen one, an “internal server error” page will usually be all text and say something like: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration [...]

Quick Reference: Secure and Non-Secure cPanel and Webmail Logins

16 October 2007

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Here are the login formats for cPanel and web-based email (can be any of NeoMail, Horde and SquirrelMail, depending on what is enabled on your server). Remember to use the secure login when you are using a wireless internet connection that is not your own secured network. cPanel Non-Secure http://yoursite.com/cpanel/ Non-Secure http://yoursite.com:2082/ Secure https://yoursite.com:2083/ Webmail [...]

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.

Restart cPanel from Shell

11 April 2007

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In the previous post, I mentioned how cPanel crashes and restarts itself and how this works well. Sometimes, it does not restart. This happened to me recently for the first time after years of working with cPanel and Web Host Manager. If you have shell access, restart cPanel with this command: /etc/init.d/cpanel restart

“A restart was attempted automagicly”

5 April 2007

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At some point you will get an email with a subject line like this: cpsrvd failed @ Apr 05 07:08:11 2007. A restart was attempted automagicly. Yikes! What the heck this this mean? For a long time, I was so spooked by the words “failed” and “restart” that I assumed “automagicaly” was a typo for [...]

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Help for the Dreaded Internal Server Error

Quick Reference: Secure and Non-Secure cPanel and Webmail Logins

Security Tip for Cron

Restart cPanel from Shell

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