27 Jun, 2008
As a rule of thumb in web maintenance, website should be back up regularly.
At HostMonster, the backup process is pretty quick-n-easy and will give you peace of mind. Follow these simple steps showed below and then keep all your web files in a safe place. In case of necessary, you might want to store your files in multiple locations.
Image guides for website backup at HostMonster
First, look for the backup button at HostMonster control panel.
Select daily for your backups downloads.
Click ‘Save’ at the prompt out to download all your web files to your local computer.
Select the desired directory you wish to store the web files and press the ‘Save’ button.
Click ‘Close’ whenever the download is completed.
And there, your website backup is successful.
Kinda dummy guide huh? (graphic source from: HostMonster)
26 Jun, 2008
Interested to know how is Hostmonster server doing? Want to check on your server status at HostMonster?
Now with Hostmonster’s new server system alert, you don’t need to login to your cPanel everytime when you wish to know about the server status. What you need to do is to visit this page and add your website URL at the server list. In our case here, HostMonsterSecretRevealed.com is hosted on host249.hostmonster.com, the server load seems okay and there’s nothing bad worth mentioning with the server.
24 Jun, 2008
Unlike the old cPanel user control, you will need to enable the Awstats features manually in the control panel.
Look for the icon named “Choose Log Program” inside cPanel.
There will be a list of websites when you get into “Choose Log Program” along side with a series of check box. Click on the appropriate box that you wish to track using Awstats or Webalizer. Press save changes, the Awstats (or Webalizer) will start tracking your web stats after then.
21 Jun, 2008
Parking your domain at HostMonster is simple.
First, set the nameserver for the domain you wish to park to:
Primary: ns1.hostmonster.com
Secondary: ns2.hostmonster.com
Following next, wait for the domain to be reolved to HostMonster’s server. Normally the process will be done within a day but the official time for the trasnfer is 48 hours.
After the Internet Service Providers had completely pickup on the DNS changes, login to your HostMonster control panel and go to “Parked Domains”. Select the domain you wish to park (if you have many hosted on the account) and park the domain onto your main domain.
19 Jun, 2008
At the time of writing, HostMonster runs two versions of MySQL on their servers – MySQL 4 Servers and MySQL 5 Servers. Users may check their control panel to verify which version of MySQL is running on their server.
The MySQL version on my Hostmonster account, for example, is the 5.0.45-community-log version.
How do you check the MySQL version at your server?
When you login to your Hostmonster account, you will notice a sidebar at the left. Scroll down a little and you’ll get a line reads ‘MySQL Version’. That’s where you can check what version of MySQL is running on your web server.
For detail reference, please check print-screen below.
