AlanV

I think I found the problem... very strange. It seems that every mailbox for all the mail accounts I have on my domain are duplicated... there's the regular mail hierachy for mailboxes, but then there are sub-mailboxes under the alanv.org hieracrhy with the exact same names. There's messages stuck in these boxes since Outlook can't reach them and only downloads from the ones at the top of the hierarchy. There were a few emails in there with attachments, which I assume were viral. Ex: My /mail/ has folders for all the inboxes of my accounts, but it also has a /mail/alanv.org folder, under which all the mailboxes appear again (/mail/alanv.org/gilder, /mail/alanv.org/junk, etc) Any idea why cpanel would do this? Or do I have to go in every month and check all these mailboxes? Edit: And are these sub-boxes safe to delete through file manager?

Yeah, interesting, but I'm with the people who say it won't work. It is a lot cheaper to send out mass mail and have a few bounce/not be delivered (especially since the address is usually fake anyway) than to have to weed out invalid addresses from a list. Of course (as some people stated), this depends on the system being used. If it's a system for compiling a list of email addresses (for sale), they must be valid addresses, so the system would check for bounced and undeliverables. The majority of spam though is sent through random servers by programs that get addresses from crawling the web. I would tend to think the reduction in spam was due to the upgrades, not due to the shutdown. But just follow one commenter's advice: turn SpamAssassin on and set it to 3.5 (or higher). Cpanel offers that functionality built in. I know that I've never gotten spam on my primary accounts, despite having my email plastered all over the web (and SpamAssassin catches about 100 emails a week of spam, all redirected to a junkmailbox which I can clean out at my leisure).

Hmm... Thanks for the replies I actually think I'm going to turn down her offer and go with a buyer in the US instead. A lot easier to deal with They're booster boxes of Star Trek cards, so it would be a (very) large package... incurring about $50 postage overseas >_<

I'm selling some cards to someone in Belgium, and I'm wondering what the best way to recieve payment from them is. Wire transfer seems like the safest way, but aren't there huge fees associated with that? Then I looked at PayPal, but I don't really trust them (having read a ton of PayPal horror stories), and it's a ton of work to recieve one payment (after which I would clsoe the account). Any suggestions?

Actually it will, you just need to rename the file. It will not extract Acrhive.tar or Acrhive.tar.tar but if you change the name to Acrhive.tar.gz then cPanel will unpack it. Ah, I didn't know that. Thanks That's useful.

Cpanel's file manager can deal with ZIP files, but not tar archives... If you need to work with an archived file, then unpack it later, you should unpack it, zip it up, and upload the zip.

Send it once and copy it over and over Cpanel's file manager has a copy folder function, doesn't it?

I downloaded a full backup of my website last night, and my antivirus program yelled at me, saying the archive file had the Netsky virus in it. Any ideas for removing it?

From what I've heard, it's almost as secure as you can get, especially since your .htpasswd file is stored outside your public_html directory (and so is only accessable by someone who can access your root... and if someone is accessing your root, you have more problems that then simply entering a secure page anyway). I use cpanel's protect to protect secure stuff for me too, and it's always worked.

1) You find a blogscript you like and install it Common ones are Wordpress, Movable Type, B2/Evolution, etc 2) Just another blogging script I personally would recommend Movable Type because of the multiple author and multiple blog support (at least the version I'm running allows it... the new version might limit authors/blogs for the free license). Just google "blogging scripts" or something to that extent and you'll find a ton of blogging programs to choose from. All you need to do then is install and start blogging

Did you have to chmod scripts and such again?

Bill, you should mod the AUP: It still says: You may not conduct hostee or offer free web hosting to people based on your subdomains. Shouldn't it say "You may not conduct hostee or offer free web hosting to people based on your subdomains." ?

The problem lies in transferring the databases, and so the installed scripts (boards, etc)... That you might need TCH to help with

Exactly, although let me correct that slightly... You cannot register top level domains, only second level domains. A top level domain is the extention (com, net, org, name, etc) Once you own the domain name (a SLD, second level domain), you can create as many third-level (third.whatever.com), fourth-level (fourth.third.whatever.com), etc domains as you want (commonly called subdomains) http://music.files.webdomain.com com is the TLD webdomain is the SLD files is a subdomain (third-level domain) music is a subdomain of a subdomain (fourth-level) You couldn't register whatever.blogspot.com, but you could create it through the blogspot site. (same with any other subdomain, the site admin can create any subdomain they want) So cgquest, it's impossible to prevent others from creating ANY subdomain that has your name. For example, I could create sophiasystems.alanv.org if I wanted to, and odds are you'd never know about it (except for the fact that I'm posting here :-P) That's why companies usually don't worry about their trademarks being used in subdomains... it's impractical to track them all down and whatnot. Besides, I'm sure there are people using microsoft.domain.com as anti-MS sites and stuff And no, subdomains like that aren't restricted to blogs. You can have a subdomain be anything (a seperate website, a blog, an image gallery, a forum, etc). I use mine to split up parts of my site. Blogspot uses theirs to give users an easier URL. Sorry I'm getting off topic from the blogging issue. phillip, I see your point. You're saying that TCH is great, but they could attract more customers by having blogging-packages for people that only want to blog (like livejournal users) and don't know how to install blogging software? I'd actually tend to agree with him. When I first started blogging, I had my webhost install MT for me. That was one of the main draws of my old webhost... they could install scripts for you if you didn't know how. I'm sure there are plenty of people on these forums who would be happy to install software for new bloggers though. I mean, if no one else would, and I have some spare time, I'd be happy to get anyone going with blog software (I've only installed MT before though...)

Awww I don't get back to AZ until the 21st *is in PA for college* Enjoy the party/ies

Subdomains for a domain come before the domain name. If someone had www.something.sophiasystems.com, then you would have a problem. www.sophiasystems.blogspot.com is a subdomain under blogspot, not under your domain

I like it, except it's kinda hard to tell which forums have new posts (the two red/orange arrows are showing up very similar to each other on my screen)... Maybe put a glow or something around the "new posts" one?

http://www.tchstatus.com/ev1.html A lot of the images (graphs) are broken

That's very impressive! That's a good point... too many posts and the forums will fill up and people won't read them. Maybe one post a month with the uptime reports from the entire month would be good too? Truthfully, I don't really care if there are reports available daily, weekly, monthly, or whatever. I just care about the uptime... but the reports are nice to show friends when they complain about their webhosts always going down

Posted on these boards, where we can check them whenever we want? I think weekly is enough. If we want to check daily uptime though, is there somewhere else we could go?

Both would be great, but if I had to choose, I'd prefer something that simply said if things were up or down.

Welcome welcome

Well, most people these days have Flash. People that don't can download it. Those that don't can use the sitemap... after all, that's what it's there for. Realize that most webhosts do use Flash navigations, and it doesn't hurt nearly as much as you might think Most users are far from "screwed" when they find a site with Flash. I do agree though that some of the text is a bit small...

http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/help/staffnames.htm Thomas is missing

Happy Thanksgiving!