Setting Up and Troubleshooting SMTP in cPanel
When you host your email on your domain with an SMTP server, you are in control. You can choose an email address to suit your business or personal brand. All the data is…
Using CalDAV Calendars and CardDAV Contacts in cPanel
In our increasingly busy world, we’d be lost without email, calendar, and contacts apps to communicate, collaborate, and manage our time. Unfortunately, getting all these apps to work with each other can be…
How To Survive a DDoS Attack
Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attacks can take any website offline. Even Google and GitHub, with their immense resources, struggle to stay online during a large attack. Even worse, anyone with a few…
cPanel & WHM Server Monitoring: Tools for better control
An influential IBM® engineer once said that measurement is the first step towards control and improvement. He was talking about business systems, but it’s just as valid for servers. You can’t control or…
Internet Governance Forum USA 2020 Recap
As freedom of speech and fake news take center stage in the international dialogue, The Internet Governance Forum USA 2020 took these subjects and who is responsible head-on. cPanel’s General Counsel, David Snead,…
How To Configure a Cron Job
Do you find yourself wasting hours on tedious and repetitive server administration tasks? If you answered yes, you’re going to love this article, which explores how cron and cPanel & WHM help you…
How to Get Started with cPanel on Amazon Lightsail
cPanel is excited to be added as a blueprint on Amazon Lightsail. Getting started with cPanel on Lightsail has never been easier! Amazon Lightsail is an easy-to-use cloud platform that offers you everything needed…
Channeling Support: Going beyond basic support tickets
Tech-support is at the heart of any technology company. As a business grows, so does the number of support requests, and the level of customer service/support can make or break a company. The…
How To Install LiteSpeed Web Server and LiteSpeed Cache on cPanel
The Apache web server is a critical component of cPanel & WHM, but no software can be all things to all people, and that’s why we’re happy to offer alternatives like NGINX and…
What’s New in WordPress 5.5?
WordPress, the world’s most popular CMS (Content Management System), turns 17 years old this year, and what a year it has been! WordPress 5.5 “Eckstine” is the second major release this year and includes…
How to Set Up a Smarthost SMTP Relay with cPanel
Do your users’ emails disappear somewhere between your server and the recipient? They send emails, but the messages never reach their destination. Somewhere out there, in the wilds of the internet, a system…
Collaboration During Coronavirus
Are you as ready as we are for these challenging times to be over and for COVID-19 to be a thing of the past? Despite much of the situation we face together being out of…
MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 10.1 End of Life
Hashes to hashes, dust to dust The following databases will reach End of Life status within the next year: cPanel, L.L.C. will no longer provide support for systems running MariaDB 10.1 or MySQL…
How to Configure DNS Nameservers with cPanel
The domain name system (DNS) is fiendishly complicated, and managing the nameservers that power it can be perplexing. Server administrators know how frustrating it is to change DNS configurations and patiently wait for…
Spam Filtering on cPanel: Everything You Need To Know About SpamAssassin
Spam is a huge challenge for anyone who hosts email, even though users only see a tiny fraction of the spam they’re sent. Most unwanted messages never reach inboxes, but an incredible 54…