This article assumes that you’ve got two servers: one with a cpanel account (server X, with IP X.X.X.X), and another server that you’d like to transfer to (server Y, with IP Y.Y.Y.Y). We’re also going to transfer the nameservers from server X to server Y. DNS Setup: Add A records . . . Read more
It’s good to know how to create backups for safekeeping. This is how to do that in cPanel. Log into cPanel Please make sure that you are aware of just how much data you are backing up and for what purpose. I.E. check the current size of the data . . . Read more
This document will walk you through the process of spinning up a new cpanel hosting account instance in WHM. Log into WHM: Enter creds from admin sheet. Once in in the upper left hand corner search for ‘list acc’ and click ‘List Accounts’ Run a search for the domain you . . . Read more
Log into Stormcloud cpanel as the client admin account for their site. Check MX records to make sure that their email is routing to our servers and not somewhere else. If it is routing to another mail server make sure to check with the client that they want to switch . . . Read more
Yes, it’s true. We play favorites. And for very good reason! Over the years, we’ve dealt with dozens and dozens of web hosting companies. We’ve wrestled with their idiosyncrasies, we’ve seen them come, and we’ve seen them go. And in our experience, we’ve found Liquid Web to be one of . . . Read more
Here’s an interesting one: Your server suddenly goes unresponsive, and your alerting service awakens the response team at 2am. Upon logging into the server, httpd appears to indeed be running, load is nil, mysqld is fine, but your website is still down. What’s up with that?! In the error log, . . . Read more
The MySQL slow query log can be very insightful for tracking down slow-running queries that are bogging down your webserver. But more often than not, it’s not enabled by default. So let’s learn how to enable and configure it, so you can start examining your slow running queries yourself! Ok, . . . Read more
Manual Settings for Connecting Email Accounts: You can configure your mail client (eg: Thunderbird, Outlook, MacMail, etc…) using the settings found below. Make sure to change the “username” and “yourdomain.com” in the examples to the values for your account. The following is for the (recommended) secure SSL/TLS transport. *Important: When first connecting your . . . Read more