Hosting a site may seem like a daunting job for bloggers out there but for those who do consider it are bound to be rewarded by many benefits of having a domain to yourself especially if you intend to be well known in the blogsphere.

cPanel is one of the best control panels I know and my company Xavier Media is using it for most of our own hosting accounts. But as always a control panel (or for that fact any software) is not more secure then the users using them. Therefore you must make …

We’ve all seen the headlines in major newspapers, news web sites and on TV about the Swine Flue outbreaks. The Swine Flue is on the top 10 list twice over trending topics from Twitter (see the picture) and at Google you already get over 75,000 hits! Spammers have of course …

I just got a scam email from someone trying to hijack your personal information using PayPal as decoy. The scammers will try to give you the impression that your PayPal account has been limited and you need to provide them with some additional information to prove you are actually you. …

Here’s a little warning to you all. A few days ago I got a message from one of the users at Entrecard asking me to do an ad-click-trade. He clicks on my Google Adsense ads and I click on his so that we both earn money. dear sir/madam, i just …

If you’ve been following my mini-series on how to secure your cPanel account you should have a look at the guest article I’ve written for Moms Cash Blog. I love the articles at Moms Cash Blog and it looks like JJ from Moms Cash Blog sometimes visit this blog too …

If you allow open registrations in your WordPress blog, then you better upgrade to the recently released version 2.6.2. This is because of a vulnerability found in version 2.6.1 and earlier versions that make it possible to reset the password of other users. The “hacker” will of course not get …

In part one of this article series I wrote about doing backups in cPanel, but that can be hard to do if you have many accounts on the same server and you have to remember to do it on a regular basis. But don’t worry because in cPanel there’s an …

If you got cPanel as your hosting control panel you got several ways of creating off site backups. Please note the off site part above since keeping your backups on the same server (and maybe even in the same account as your site) is extremely dangerous (see my last post). …