nicholas m asked:


I transferred the hosting of my website from a company called Velnet because they refuse to answer any messages or emails.
When I tried to upload the site to the new hosts I got an error message that my new hosts (fasthosts) informed me I needed to get the mysql database from my old hosts. Velnet will not answer any corresspondance or agree to take the hosting back so my website is completely useless.
Who owns the mysql database and how can I force my old hosts to cooperate with me ?

Christine Anderssen asked:


Here is what you should look for in hosting plan features:

Often hosting plan features are tied into the type of control panel that is provided with the hosting service. Most people take for granted that a control panel should be part of the package, but in smaller countries outside the USA this is often a ‘luxury’ that is not part of the hosting package!

Finding out whether your hosting server provider offer a control panel to manage your website is the first essential feature that you should look for. It is unacceptable to sign up for a hosting package if there is no control panel!

Common control panels for Linux hosting are (my recommendation is to go for Linux hosting and not Windows hosting):

Helm

Plesk

Cpanel

DirectAdmin

All these control panels have their supporters and detractors.

I have to honestly say that my preference is CPanel. Cpanel offers a lot of functionality and a user friendly interface.

The following features are available with CPanel hosting:

~ Email management ~

Under email management you can create and delete all your email accounts. You also have access to a Webmail facility so that you can read your email online (as opposed to linking to your email account with Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express). You can also set up forwarders to forward one email account to another. You also have access to set up simple autoresponders to send an automated reply back if anyone sends an enquiry email to a specific email address.

~ Website statistics ~

Although most hosting providers do provide statistics facilities, it is worthwhile to make sure that they do. Some hosting providers think that the statistics programs consume too many resources on a shared environment and some of them therefore remove the facility. But statistics and the ability to analyze your traffic is essential when you set up a website, so make sure that you select a hosting provider that do provide you access to a web stats package. My personal favourite is AWStats. You can read an article on the different types of statistics programs as well as how to interpret your statistics here : http://www.tm4y.co.za/internet-marketing-tips/website-statistics.html

~ FTP ~

You should have FTP access to your website in order to upload files. This is absolutely essential if you want to manage your website. Cpanel also allows you to register new FTP accounts to give other people access to your website. You can restrict their access to specific folders on your website and specify if they should have read and/or write access.

~ File manager ~

If you are not comfortable with using an FTP package to upload your files, you can always use the file manager available in CPanel. The file manager enables you to upload files, unzip files on the server and to copy and delete files.

~ Backups ~

This allows you to make a backup of the files on your server, as well as to backup your MySQL database if you have one. This is very useful and should be done regularly. You cannot depend on the backups ran by the hosting service provider, since the service provider itself might just close its doors unexpectedly and you might not have access to your site - not to talk of your backups!

~ Subdomains and Add On Domains ~

You can add sub domains and even Add On domains (depending on whether your hosting provider allows for this)

~ Redirects ~

This is useful to temporarily or permanently redirect pages to another website or ther website pages. Be careful though with using temporary redirects, this might cause problems with the search engines.

~ Protect directories ~

You can set up password protected directories on your website

~ Pre-installed scripts ~

The Fantastico installer is one of the best features of the Cpanel control panel! This installer helps you to quickly and easily install lots of Open Source (in other words, free to use) tools and utilities, such as shopping carts, forums, project management tools, WIKIS and much more.

The CPanel control panel allows web hosting companies to make a lot of web hosting plan features available to clients who can then easily manage these features themselves.

Anand Maheshwari asked:


A webmaster newbie may not be aware what a cPanel is. It’s not critical to have, but it certainly helps in the process of creating and maintaining multiple web sites. Actually when you sign in with a web hosting company, the web hosting package will include a control panel which you will use in managing and maintaining your files and your domain. Hosting with cPanel offers a multitude of features that streamline the process of making money online easier. Of course there are other control panel options but cPanel is most favored by internet marketers due to several reasons.

First off is the ease by which the domains can be managed. Many web hosting companies offer hosting with cPanel, nowadays. cPanel truly benefits both the newbie as well as the veteran webmaster. From a central location the domain names and files can be easily managed by the web master. Obviously you can check how many daily unique visitors and visits you get, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. cPanel is considered to be the most user friendly option these days as web statistics like AW stats, FTP stats and bandwidth usage can be easily accessed. Another great tool that awstats has is that it lets you know how often you site is being spidered by search engines like Google, yahoo, etc. cPanel is so designed so that the visitors to the website can be monitored. The country of origin of the visitors can be shown. This is most important for an ecommerce site.

cPanel makes it possible for you to manage your email accounts. Hosting with cPanel allows you to create email addresses based on your domain names. Auto responders, mail forwarding, spam filtering is important for a website dedicated for an online business. This is very important because nothing looks more unprofessional on a web site when the contact email address is from a free email account like Gmail, yahoo, or hotmail. The webmail feature makes is possible for you to check your email from any computer.

With cPanel on your web hosting control panel, you can easily build as well as edit your web pages, you can load forums, discussion boards, polls, surveys, e-commerce sites, blogs, and so much more. Create changes to the search engine submission and program automated tasks to effects a task at a given time schedule. All of these tools can be put on your domain with just a simple click of the mouse button.

Markus Fernandez asked:


While lunching a website, too many things have to be taken into consideration. One of them is of course php mysql development. But that is not all. As we prepare to launch the website the heavy cost of proprietary software will always create a doubt in our mind.

Open Source Code Software’s

But if we opt for php and mysql programming language then we can always avail the option of Open Source Code software’s. This programming language ensures object oriented application structure. This application is of great importance because it makes the process of coding simple and prevents the system from developing technical problems with the growth of the database. Moreover, with php mysql web development one can easily separate the codes from HTML, storing them eventually in the specific libraries.

Maintaining Software

In PHP programming because of open source coding the large community of programmers always assist each other with codes. But this data has to be preserved in a proper manner for future reference. Therefore, the maintenance management software’s helps plan and execute various methods involved in the operation of a company. This process involves the supplying of the source code to the buyers along with the maintenance management software.

Benefits of Open Source Codes

One of the main benefits of open source coding in php and mysql web development is its easy availability to the system analysts. Due to this the software can be transformed according to the changing needs of the company. Other than this system analysts can now use codes or functions that have been already applied, rather than reinventing them.

Another vital characteristic associated with open-source maintenance management software is its implementation in almost any kind of infrastructure. Irrespective of the volume of the company, the exciting features associated with this software for php and mysql web development can be easily achieved. However, due to the alteration process applied in open source coding, the maintenance procedure should be handling by the programmers only. This prevents tampering of the code database.

Some of the well known database libraries in open source coding are PEAR libraries, MAIL_QUEUE and DRBD and Heartbeat libraries. For better management of php mysql development some of the software’s available are PC based and work on a system like Microsoft Windows. Moreover, one can also utilize this process through web- based applications, ensuring effective management of other branch of offices through the Internet.

Google asked:

The monthly proceedings of the Bay Area MySQL User’s Group.

Eli L asked:


Is it safe to give customers SSH/Shell access in cPanel/WHM?

If it isn’t safe, what can people do to the server if they do have SSH/Shell access?

Einor S asked:


Im planning on a new setup for our office, a Linux server that will have the mySQL database, all other terminals have windows OS like WIn98, Win2000 and tey will need to access the database from the Linux server how to do it?

m8ttg asked:

how to add a website to a cpanel hosting plan

mfpvillatoro asked:

Aqui va como instalar MYSQL

tgarlipp asked:


i want free hosting with cPanel or anything like cPanel. A site like yurx.com or something, but yurx takes way too long too get it started up. Anything that’s easy to use and that doesn’t change ur domain. (By that i mean if your domain is pilrag.com they change it to pilrag.yurx.com, i dont want that). i already own this website i bought it from namecheap.com