Blog Archives for 2009

A while ago I wrote an article giving advice to writers and authors about marketing themselves online.  As part of that article I mentioned in a couple of paragraphs about reaching out to you audience. In this post I am going to expand a little more on the topic and talk about tapping into the [...]

Just a quick note on FTP access in CPanel and post server transfer problems.  If you have moved over from a BSD system, or other to say, Red Hat Linux, RHEL or Centos, then you may find that account holders will have problems logging in via FTP.
This won’t affect the main account FTP, but f [...]

Woke up this morning to find an inbox full of error emails, a queue full of emails pending and a server with a very well broken system install that was stopping CPanel & WHM from working properly. Errors that appeared when trying to load pages in WHM included:

/bin/sh: line 1:  8621 Segmentation fault      /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/bin/dnsqueue > [...]

I have recently been upgrading one of my web servers from a 2ghz dual core to a 3ghz quad core and had the pleasure of doing so via WHM and CPanel, which, as always, minimized the hassle.  Despite this though, I did of course encounter some issues.  The real problems revolved around the transition of [...]

Having recently been asked to do a mail out for the best part of 11,000 emails, I thought that I would take a moment to do a write up and explain what I think are some of the important points and considerations in maintaining and operating large emailing lists.  These are of course, legitimate, opt-in [...]

I woke up this morning to an email from the comments moderator on Tech Talk Point. On closer inspection I had to laugh. As expect it was spam, no surprise there, but the comment itself was: “Some things never seem to change.” And how right they were. God forbid a day go by without [...]

Today, 4th January 2009, the team at PVII (www.projectseven.com) are announcing the release of  free style themes for their automated menu creation plugin for Adobe Dreamweaver, Pop Menu Magic 2. When it comes to the creation and management of multi-level or single level CSS-based menus, they have created the ultimate tool. Whether you want to [...]

In my post Christmas tidy up I came across a long time favorite, the quick start guide for the Wildfire telephone service from Wildfire Communications, Inc. In my habit, of late, to post non-existent manuals online for others to benefit, I have done so with this.
The table of contents reads as follows:

Try This First
Getting Help
Starting [...]