Posts under ‘Cpanel’

I’ve come across this problem a number of times, of course each time I think “this will be fixed next time”.  Unfortunately it’s not the case.  What’s the problem then? You have a directory that you want to password protect, lets call it “secrets”.  It resides in /home/mysite/public_html/secrets/ on the server.  Now fortunately you are [...]

Mod Deflate is essential nowadays for sites, it speeds up the transfer of html pages & other files (such as stylesheets) by compressing them first. Now that servers today are so powerful there is very little reason not to use this, especailly since so many “speed up” tests will not pass without this being enabled. [...]

Had a problem earlier this week, webmail couldn’t always send e-mail. It was coming back with the following error:

SMTP Error: SMTP error: Connection failed: Failed to connect socket: Connection timed out.

The Cpanel system has a feature to migrate accounts from another server – be it Cpanel or another webhosting panel – this often works, recently though I’ve had a problem with using it for Cpanel to Cpanel where it would connect but fail to transfer the backup file.