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When you install an app for your site such as WordPress blog, one of the first steps is often create a database, create a user and add the user to the database. cPanel makes this fast and painless. Follow the link to the MySQL Databases section and you get to the MySQL Account Maintenance page. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Simplify your life and reduce the time you spend on email by using cPanel to forward email to anaddress, such as one at Google Gmail that consolidates multiple email addresses and has more features.   There are a variety of scenarios that forwarding can be your friend and helpful assistant.  Some examples:

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

A potential downside to my previous post about using cPanel for forwarding emails is that cPanel keeps all the emails in the account that is being forwarded (we’ll call it the “original account.”)  This is great if you are checking email in both the original account and the account being forwarded to (like I discussed in [...]

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 [...]

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.