Creating email accounts must one the most common task performed by website owners. While it’s not a very difficult task to accomplish for the average webmaster, it can be a complete mystery to the beginner.
This time around, we’ll see how to create an email account using the H-Sphere control panel.

If you’re more or less experienced with Web Hosting, installing web applications like blogs or forums can be a total nightmare. Fortunately, there are some wonderful tools out there that will help you go through this process easily.
For H-Sphere users, there’s EasyApps, a great script installer. Within a few clicks (and little technical knowledge) you [...]

One of IXWebHosting’s greatest features is their EasyApps script installer. Within a few clicks, even the most inexperienced user can install tens of popular applications such as Wordpress, Joomla, osCommerce and phpBB.
For those of you who are used to Fantastico Deluxe, you’ll find EasyApps just as powerful and easy to use.

cPanel Tutorial - This cPanel tutorial explains how users can change their own email account password.

Globat Tutorial - Learn how to create a MySQL database using Globat’s control panel.

One great feature of cPanel/WHM is its ability to copy hosting accounts between servers seemlessly. Not every control panel allows you to do that: sometimes you have to move the files, backup and restore the databases, re-create each email account manually. And one knows that this can be a total pain.

Welcome to the fourth part of this tutorial. This time around we’re going to add some plugins to get some extra functionalities.
Here are the plugins we’re going to install:
All in One SEO Pack
This plugin will optimize your blog’s content for search engines. It’s a great plugin that allows you to control some SEO aspects of [...]

A couple of days ago, I’ve posted the first part of this tutorial which showed you how to signup for a web hosting account. If you’ve followed my advice of getting a cPanel Hosting account with Fantastico Deluxe, you’ll see that the next part will be very easy to go through.
So now that you’ve signed [...]

On a cPanel / WHM Server, you can add or change the private nameservers. However, when you setup an account through WHM, it does not show your private nameservers, instead it shows the default nameservers set by your hosting provider.
To correct this, you will need to modify the wwwacct.conf file.

When you get your cPanel server, some services, such as HTTP, mail and MySQL, are already enabled by default. But you can customize and enable or disable other services. You can even have them monitored and restarted “automagically” when if they crash.

By default, cPanel will not allow users to add domains to their account unless they change their nameservers to point to your DNS servers. But you can change this by setting a configuration parameter through WHM.
Of course, you need to have your own dedicated server or VPS to do that. You can’t change this on [...]

Since signing up with ZipHosters.com, I got the chance to try out Plesk (a web hosting control panel) a little more. I am using Parallels’ control panel for my VPS but I didn’t try out Plesk a lot.
In this post, I’m going to show you how to create a MySQL database. I’ve already done some [...]

While less known than cPanel and Plesk, DirectAdmin is a very good hosting control panel. A few days ago, I’ve made a post on How To Create a MySQL Database Using cPanel so this time around, I’m going to show DirectAdmin users how to do the same thing.

One of the most common step in installing a web application is to create a MySQL database. And while the process may seem simple to most experienced users, a lot of people can struggle with it.
So for all the cPanel users out there who don’t know how to create a MySQL database properly, here’s how [...]

I cannot stress enough how important it is to have good backup copies of your website. Whether it is for recovery after a major data loss or simply to move your website to another server.
But while having a good backup is important, you must also know what’s in it so that you can restore the [...]