How to delete all email messages in cPanel

I stupidly didn’t set the default email address to :fail: on a couple of accounts on my cPanel server and found, while running a remote backup, that there were a few gigs of spam emails that were just sitting in those accounts. But after going through about a dozen of the 500+ pages in Horde [...]

Passive FTP problems with PureFTP, cPanel, and APF

A few months ago I moved all of my domains from a sad little VPS over to a dedicated server, and it made a huge difference in how well my sites worked. The only catch is that FTP connections were flaky. What I found is that setting the connection to Active would work, but in [...]

cPanel, email, and the difference in fail and blackhole

If you’re running a server with cPanel and using exim as your mail server you have two semi-unlisted options for handling mail that’s not to a specific address. cPanel calls this a catch all address and it’s useful if you want to have mails addressed to incorrect addresses on your domain still get to you. [...]

How to create a MySQL database in cPanel

One of the first steps you need to take before installing any database driven web package is to create a database, and most use the open source MySQL server. For this tutorial I am going to be using cPanel because that’s what I’ve used most often. Other hosting control panels are similar. MySQL Control Panel [...]