TCH-Rick

I'm looking forward to seeing it once I get home on my cable connectio. I'm on vacation in beautiful Charleston, SC and having to use dial up, yuck.

Turtle has one of my favorite avatars and signatures from the board. His site is also one of the first I visited when considering moving my site to TCH.

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The ip number you use to access your site is the ip of the server your site is on. It is not a temp ip number. When you change the nameservers at your registrar you are telling the registrar to let everyone know your address has changed, so to speak, and that they should go to the nameservers to find the address. When they go to the nameservers they will get your TCH ip address and use it instead of your old ip address. Once you change your nameservers listed with your registrar you don't need to do anything else but wait until everyone has your correct address--a process referred to as propagation. Some ISP update the addresses quicker than others which is why some folks will see your new site before and some will see it after you do.

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64.246.56.60 is the ip address.

You can put in the ip address your were given in your welcome email as your pop3 server and check the mail now. Say for example that I am on an ISP that updates DNS quickly and I send you a message. It would go to your new account. If Jane is on an ISP that updates slower, she could send a message to your address and it would go to your old account.

A program that I find to be a great addition to Movable Type is w.blogger. It allows you to compose posts offline and then publish with one click. It is a free program and the latest version includes spellcheck and many other features. You can find it at http://www.wbloggar.com/.

Are you behind some sort of firewall that might be blocking port 2082? You might want to submit a help desk ticket and let us try to log in so we can determine if the problem is on this side.

No, if your site is fairly static it should seem pretty seemless. Some folks will see the new one, some the old, depends on the ip in the nameserver of their ISP. I set up a redirect at my old host to send my email to my ISP mail account for a few days to keep from missing mail. I also had many folks that could see my new site before I could using my domain name. Even after you can see the new site it is common to suddenly be back in he old one due to the different nameservers in your own ISP.

I've had several new domains that I registered in the morning and were up by the evening. My main domain took 3 or 4 days to settle down when I moved it from another host. New domains don't have old IP numbers cached in other nameservers so it is usually quicker. Rick's Theorem to Murphy's Law applies, though. "The amount of time it takes for a domain to propagate is inversely proportional to the patience of the domain owner."

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Just in case you don't get the email, I just made the domain changes your requested. Let me know if you have any problems.

Go to your CPanel and you should see "Welcome to Server##" near the top. If you have a page called secure.html, for example, in your public_html directory you would just enter https://server##.totalchoicehosting.com/~us...ame/secure.html. You upload all files to your regular site as usual.

Here's another possibility. Several months ago HG put together a little script to automate the log-on to webmail and KW did a little editting on it as well. It was designed to log into Horde. I put it up on a site I help with to make webmail a little easier for the staff and editted it further to make it match the website's look. I played with the basic script tonight and changed it to log into NeoMail instead of Horde. One nice feature is that if kim@****** has an account she can log in using kim for the username and not kim@******. The script adds the @yourdomain for you. Note that this means you can't use the script to log into the main account, just the ones you create, but that should be no problem. I put it into a subdomain called webmail so they can access it by typing webmail.******. All you really have to edit in the script is ******. KW has a link on the Help Pages under Webmail to an example of how he customized the old script to give you an idea of how it could work.

Shared SSL is not available on the reseller accounts. Each site, reseller or client, would need to purchase an SSL certificate and have it installed to use SSL.

Taken from the Help Pages found at http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/help/sslpage.htm Options for an SSL Certificate 1. If you already have your own SSL certificate, TCH will install and host your certificate for $35. 2. Or you can order your SSL certificate through TCH for $85. There would still be a $35 installation fee, for a total cost of $110. 3. Or you can drop a help desk ticket and request to use TCH's shared SSL certificate.

Set up the forum for them as mentioned and then have them Subscribe to this Forum option. I think that will do what you want. Takes some work up front but then should email any messages to them. They can set up whether they want just notification or full text of the message.

The /cgi-sys/cgiemail is the script location. The /scriptdir is where you want to put your .txt file. In my example, you would create a directory called /scriptdir in your public_html folder and then put your .txt files in it. You write the .txt file to match what you want sent to you. If you have your .txt and .html files in your public_html directory you would just omit the /scriptdir completely. Hope that clears it up a little more.

I sure hope that's 25 million pounds. If not, the exchange rate has gone through the roof! (Man, a $41 million trade)

Do a search on dbsender and you should find it. I've been using it for a week or so and it works great. Every night it emails me a backup of my databases for my forum and blog.

I've had a couple of questions in the last week on the cgiemail script listed in the CGI Scripts section of cPanel. I thought it would be good to have a brief description to supplement the docs in helping to use the script on our servers. First of all, when you click on the link you get a Using cgiemail page. I would recommend looking at the information in the links on this page for detailed help in using the program. This script is not actually installed into your directory, however. It is available on all servers in a directory that is linked to all users. In the instructions you will see this line under the Actions explanation: http://web.mit.edu'>http://web.mit.edu/wwwdev/cgiemail/questions3.txt --------Part 1-------- ------------ Part 2 -------------------- Part 1 is optional but on our servers would be your domain. Part 2 consists of the location of the .txt file so in the example would be a file called questions3.txt in the /wwwdev/cgiemail directory in your public_html directory. In your action you put the script location between these parts and on our servers it would be /cgi-sys/cgiemail. So your action string should include this string: http://web.mit.edu/cgi-sys/cgiemail/wwwdev/cgiemail/questions3.txt Here is an example of the html code called questions.html. (Change all the {} to <>) And here is the questions3.txt file it calls (that would be in a script directory called /scriptdir in your public_html directory: Note the blank lines in the txt file. Also note that you can replace the cgiemail portion of the script with cgiecho to test the script. This will not email the information but print it on the screen. Hope this helps you get started. The documentation has much more on using this script.

You will likely lose your stats if you delete the tmp folder in your root directory. I'm not sure if it will rebuild itself if you delete it but I believe it does.

cgiemail is installed as an alias on all the servers. It is not visible in your directory but you can use it. Here is an example of the html code I called questions.html. And here is the questions3.txt file it calls (that would be in a script directory called /scriptdir in your public_html directory: Note the blank lines in the txt file.

I looked around a little and found an interesting program that may work for you. It's called Webspeed Simulator and can be found at http://xat.com. It's $99 to buy it but you can try a 30 free trial. I tried it on your page and have to say I am really happy to have broadband access. You can throttle the speed to check what it would look like on 28k, 33.6k, 56k, etc. To get it to work you should enter your website address using the IP address method, i.e. ipaddress/~username rather than the domain name or you will get the default TCH Network page. Also check the box to convert absolute links to local links.