What is an EMail Autoresponder?

November 3rd, 2008

You can use autoresponders to send a message back automatically to anyone who sends an email to a certain account. This can be useful for times when you are on vacation or unavailable, or if you have a generic message that you wish to send for a support email address.

What is phpMyAdmin?

November 3rd, 2008

phpMyAdmin is a popular, powerful web-based interface for administering MySQL databases. It is open source, written in PHP, and is among the better tools available for working with MySQL databases.

To learn more about this tool, please look at the phpMyAdmin help page.

How do I create a MySQL Database?

November 3rd, 2008

1. Login to your control panel.
2. To access the MySQL Account Maintenance Menu, click on ‘MySQL Databases’ on the main screen of your cPanel interface.
3. Enter the name of the new database in the blank field next to ‘Db:’.
4. Click on ‘Add Db’ to create the database.

Note:
You need to create at least one database user and grant that user permission to use the new database.

How do I create a MySQL User?

November 3rd, 2008

1. Login to your control panel.
2. To access the MySQL Account Maintenance Menu, click on ‘MySQL Databases’ on the main screen of your cPanel interface.
3. Enter the name of the new user in the blank field next to ‘UserName:’.
4. Enter the password for the new user in the blank field next to ‘Password:’.
5. Click on ‘Add User’ to create the new user.

Note: Creating a user does not automatically allow the user to use a database - you need to grant that user permission to the specific database first.

How do I login to Web Mail?

November 3rd, 2008

1. To login to Web Mail using your web browser, go to ‘http://yourdomain.com/webmail/’ (without the quotation marks). So if your domain name is ‘goodjob.com’ you should go to ‘http://goodjob.com/webmail/’ to login to your Web Mail.
2. Enter your email user name and password. Important! Your email user name IS THE SAME as your email address!
3. You will see a page with 3 webmail software options. We recommend SquirrelMail as it is not complicated to use.