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This is why I use the Gmail client for all my mail. Gmail does a great job of filtering out the SPAM that I get. All of my forwarders on my domains point to Gmail accounts. Very little SPAM gets through. Somthing you might consider, at least.

Thank you. It should be noted, however that my design is a modification of a design by another TCH member. The site I derived the design from was www.urbansprawl.ca (hosted by TCH), and the photo blog that he keeps update is http://riehl.ca/ (also hosted by TCH). So I don't take credit for the design. I asked Trevor if I could use his design, and he zipped up the theme and sent it to me, and then gave me help with customizations for it. Thanks Thomas!

You could probably also set up a forwarder that forwards to :fail: or :blackhole: Then use the forwarder's address where requested by the cron job. I dunno. Maybe there's some reason why that wouldn't be a good idea, but it seems to me to be an easy solution....

I have to say that it sounds familiar to me too. However, the times I've learned the most have been the times I was fixing something I broke.

Don't try to use the Google Toolbar's spell checker with Wordpress 2. It doesn't work at all for me...

Sorry. I haven't yet upgraded my Dreamweaver 4. Because it does what I need it to when I need it done. I did like Dreamweaver MX that we used at work. But I kept 4 at home. Maybe I'll buy a copy of MX 2004 on eBay, since they'll probably be cheaper now...

With all due respect, and with no scolding intended either, I'd like to respond to this by saying that this is one of the troubles with written communication, especially on-line. It is very hard to determine intent. If you go back and read your messages on this thread, I bet you can see how your responses *COULD* be read as jumping down the throats of the people who were trying to help you. The same thing happend with my comment in this thread. I didn't write it with the intention to scold. I read the frusteration in your message, and understood that to mean that you were frusterated with the responses you had received. I wanted to kindly remind you that a frustrated/hostile tone often makes people wary of responding to a thread. But I wasn't as clear as I might have been, and it came across as if I were wanting to scold you. Anyway, can we still be friends? I'm sorry if I came across as mean or scolding. I really was just trying to give a friendly reminder. Best Wishes!

I'm not a frontpage user, but my first thought is I wonder if you are filling out the site description fields correctly. While I don't know what they look like in Front Page, I know that in Dreamweaver when you are entering your FTP information, there is something called "remote folder" or similar. In that folder you have to enter: /public_html/ so that Dreamweaver knows where to start uploading your files. I assume FrontPage has something similar where you can tell it what folder on the site is your main folder where you upload your files. There are many web hosts who don't allow you to have access to anything higher than your public_html folder, so because TCH gives you more access, you'll have to set this manually. Maybe somebody who knows more about Front Page can give you more info than that. Welcome to the family and welcome to the forums!!

1. http://blog.paulpehrson.com 2. Technically Speaking (Paul Pehrson's blog) 3. Personal blog with a(n occasional) focus on technical communication. 4. Blog category 5. Please note the link back to TCH. It is a logo in the sidebar. The img's alt attribute, the anchor's name attribute, and a span of hidden text all say: "Web Hosting by TotalChoice Hosting"

Please remember that most (if not all) forum members are volunteers who are just trying to help. Getting frusterated with us doesn't usually help you get an answer to your question. It only usually scares more people away from answering because they are afraid of becoming the object of your wrath! Best wishes. Sorry you didn't get the answer you were looking for.

Well I understand. And I make daily backups of my databases. But I was just courious about the other stuff in the home directory that I'm only backing up on a monthly basis (including all my mail stuff and forwarders and stuff.) It seems like it would take a lot of bandwith and server power to generate and then download full site backups daily. But if the datacenter were per chance destroyed completley and ALL data was lost, then I'd be more likely to do a full site backup more frenquently than monthly. However, knowing that there are onsite and offiste backups, and knowing that I'm backing up my databases on a daily basis, I feel secure in only doing a full-site backup from cPanel on a monthly basis. I recognize that backing up data is my responsibility as a site owner. I just wondered what might happen in a worst-case scenario. Thanks Andy, for your reply.

Picking the backup medium is obviously extremely important. Remember, however, that a 10+ year shelf-life is great for long term storage, but you have to be able to get your data OFF the darn thing when all is said and done. 10+ years from now, what technology will we be using to read data? How about 20 years? 50 years? I look back in my parents' basement and there are stacks and stacks of 5.25" floppy disks -- you know, back when they really WERE floppy. Even if I WANTED to get files off those disks, I have no way to read them. Even if I were able to somehow hook up a 5.25 disk drive to my computer, I doubt my software could read the formats on the disks. (Our first computer was an Atari system whose CPU was built into the keyboard. We had an external 5.25 disc drive, and wrote programs in Basic. (Remember the days of line numbers?)). Who is to say that in 25 years you'll even be able to READ a CD ROM or DVD in a computer? And if you did, how do you know that the software will be compatible with Word 97 files (or whatever)? I've got a whole pile of ZIP disks sitting in my computer room at home. Zip disks were supposed to be the new floppy. Then usb key drives came around and I don't think Iomega even makes zip drives/disks anymore. I'll stop rambling now, but I always laugh at these discussions of long-term storage (in the 10+ year format), and I think to myself: if the data is so important that you will want it in 20 years, chances are pretty good that every couple of years you'll be copying it from the old media format on to the newest media format anyway. Anyway. That's my 2 cents.

Just for curiosity's sake, I have a question. When TCH backs up the server, is the server backup stored in the same datacenter as the server itself? I guess what I'm wondering is if the whole entire datacenter were destryed by some act of nature or terrorism (say, heaven-forbid, another Katrina-like storm, or an earthquake or something), would TCH have any way to restore the data to a different server in a different datacenter? The answer to this question could affect how often I do a whole-site backup.

How do you have.... Nope. Never mind. I'm not even going to ask!

I could BE a TV commerical for TCH. I really like it that much!

Welcome to the forums Carin, and welcome to the TCH family. I love TCH for some of the very reasons talked about in this forum. No long-term contracts. Easy to switch from one plan to another. If you can believe it, I even won free hosting for a month for one of my sites, just because I posted here in the forums. Get ready to be impressed.....

If you get your account set up and some of the features don't work properly (can sometimes be the case with some SQL commands, depending on how they are formed), then you could always sign up for another domain name. Its less than $12 dollars per year, and then you could test your full site functionality to ensure it is working before you make the switch. Then, when you are ready, you would change the DNS servers to point to your TCH account, and have the TCH techs "park" the domain on your account. It is a way to work around the "I'm testing this, but I can't test everything because there isn't a domain associate with my account" problem. Welcome to the forums.

Let this thread stand as a reminder to everybody everywhere: You are responsible for backing up your own content. You should do this on a regular basis. You should download or other wise back up your entire site on a regular basis. Your data is your own responsibility. For my content, I consider monthly to be "a regular basis." If I were to lose a months' worth of content, sure I'd be sad. But I'm willing to live with that risk. So every month I create my own backup and I download it. I'd recommend that you do the same. TCH is not responsible for backing up your data. You are!

Um, I hate to be the one to say this, but from my perspective, I'd say that it is kind of her fault. First, did she think her hosting was free? If she wasn't paying for it, then why would she assume that TCH would keep providing it? So she didn't recognize the "2checkout" charge. She should know that she signed up for web hosting, costing X dollars. An exact charge for that amount is a pretty good indicator that it was charged to that company. Most companies have a 1-800 number on the credit card statement that you can call to check on a charge. Did she call the number (if there was one?) Second: you compare TCH's actions to "breaking into [your] home and shredding [your] photo albums and buring [your] diary." That is an unfair comparison. Maybe you should look at it this way: you were hosting your blog and photo album without paying for it. When TCH tried to charge you for it, you disputed the charge. I think a valid comparison would be that you signed up for a neighborhood self-storage place, but then for months and months and months never paid the bill. You kept storing your stuff in the storage unit without paying a dime for it. When the self-storage company billed you, you disputed the charge. So the self-storage company removed your belongings so they could rent the space to somebody who was actually willing to pay their bill. That happens all the time. If you aren't going to pay your bill, you can't expect TCH to maintain storage space. Third: You've heard it TIME AND TIME again on the forums: you are responsible for your own backups. Even if TCH hadn't deleted your account for non-payment, if there was trouble with the server, YOU (and only you) are responsible to keep a backup with which you can restore your account. You are ultimately responsible for your own data. Don't try to push off that responsibility to the TCH tecs and say that they "burned your photos and diary." It was your job to have "fire insurance", not theirs. I'm sorry you lost your data. Maybe next time you'll pay your bill, and make a backup of your data. Both of those were your own responsibility. Nobody else's.

The help desk is telling me that somehow I deleted the WWW softlink, and then somehow recreated a WWW folder. So apparently on my account the WWW directory ISN'T a softlink. It IS a separate folder. I was also told that this was my fault. (However, I guaranteed the help desk that I've **never** deleted the www directory/softlink; and if I had, I would have opened a help desk ticket. I wouldn't have recreated a directory and then copied the content from my public_html directory into the newly-created www directory.) I really have to think that this was an error server side, and I hope that it isn't trouble that somebody else is having too. But in any case, I think it would be interesting to see if I'm getting different content when I go to www.****/folder versus ****/folder The help desk told me to copy all the info out of my WWW directory so that they can delete it and recreate a softlink. Aaaahhh. The joys of web hosting....

Bruce, you solved it. The content of the WWW folder is not the same as the public_html folder. I didn't even think of that. I just checked the WWW folder and it has the old file list. I checked the public_html folder, and it has the new file list. Weird, huh. But thanks Bruce. I wouldn't have even checked that because I thought WWW was just a shortcut to public_html.

Here is the view from Core FTP client. Again, it shows the content that I expect to be there. cPanel is still showing content that I deleted earlier this week, and is not showing content I added today. Thanks, everybody for your help.

Thanks, Mark. I'll try that. But it is the FTP client (in this case, IE) that is showing the content that "should" be correct. That is, some of the content that cPanel is showing me is content I know I deleted earlier this week. I also uploaded content via FTP today that the FTP client is showing but the cPanel File Manager doesn't show. So I'll try a different FTP client, but I tend to trust that my FTP view is correct, because the FTP client is showing the content that is "supposed" to be there.

Hi Bill! I Cleared the cache. The problem persists. So I tried Netscape (I've never logged in to cPanel for this site with Netscape before), and the problem still persists. Any other suggestions? (Help desk ticket has been submitted, priority "medium".)

No. The lists are different. cPanel lists them in alphabetical order with all folders listed first. The same order they are listed in on the other graphic. But thanks though. I appreciate the suggestion.