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Cron Job to Clear Out an Overstuffed Email Inbox

8 November 2006

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You have an email inbox that is filled up. Or perhaps your “spam box” is filled up. You have so many emails to delete that it would take you forever to clear it out, page by page with NeoMail. One of my customers cried for help because of 35 MBs of spam that had accumulated. [...]

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Setting Up a Cron Job With cPanel’s Standard Interface

12 October 2006

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cPanel provides two interfaces that simplify setting up a cron job. This post discusses the “standard” interface because most people find it easier and faster to use than the advanced interface. Two common problems people often encounter with cron jobs : a server uses “military” time or a 24-hour clock rather than a 12-hour clock. [...]

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Use Cron Jobs To Automate Tasks or Update Your Website

19 September 2006

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Automatically run scripts or commands for your site by setting up a cron job.” (A bit of trivia: “cron” is short for chronograph.”) Your cron job will run on the server at times and intervals set by the job. A cron job can automate a repetitive task. For example, a cron job can periodically delete [...]

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How To Redirect a Web Page

21 August 2006

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You can automatically send your site’s visitors to a new web page by setting up a “redirect.” Use it when you change a page’s file name, or move the page to a new directory (aka, folder). Setting up a redirect is an easy, efficient and search engine friendly technique. The redirect maintains your search engine [...]

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Moving a Website to a New Host

25 July 2006

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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 [...]

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Have You Checked Your Error Logs Lately? You Should!

17 July 2006

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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 [...]

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View Your Bandwidth Used

29 June 2006

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View a report of your bandwith used (how many bytes your site has transferred) with a relatively buried feature of cPanel. Info includes nice graphs of the current day’s bandwidth for the current year. Report covers HTTP, SMTP, FTP and POP3 traffic. To get to the report: On the main / home cPanel page, click [...]

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