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January 22nd, 2011

Creating Backups In cPanel

With all of the time and effort that is put forth into building a website, it would be foolish not to secure your efforts by creating a backup. Failing to backup your website could result in months or even years of work being lost overnight. There are a number of situations that could result in data loss for your website; your server's hard drive can fail, your webhost can go out of business without warning, electrical problems can occur, and various other mishaps can take place. To prevent this from happening, users of cPanel can backup all of their website's information quickly and easily with cPanel's integrated backup utility. The entire backup process is automated, requiring only a few simple selections on your behalf, and cPanel users can even use the same backup utility to restore lost data.

Creating and Downloading a Full Backup

To create and download a full backup in ...   Read more...

January 22nd, 2011

How to Setup a Cron Job in cPanel

Setting up a cron job will allow you to run certain commands at scheduled times.  For example, you could set a cron job to create a backup of your website every week, or you could set a cron job to delete certain file types every week to save disk space. Cron jobs are useful for webmasters who have a busy schedule and would like to have daily tasks carried out automatically. There are many commands available online for cron jobs, and finding a cron job command list for your control panel should be your first step in deciding what kind of cron jobs would suit your needs.

You may think you have no need for a cron job, but once you've reviewed the list of available commands, you may reconsider this decision. Each command tells the control panel to do a certain task, and the prevalence of each command execution can be adjusted within the cron job manager. Users can choose to execute the command as little as once a ...   Read more...

January 22nd, 2011

Preventing Bandwidth Theft in cPanel with HotLink Protection

It takes a lot of time and effort to correctly build a website, and finding out that someone is undermining your hard work simply by stealing bandwidth from your web server can be a very frustrating experience. Of course, you'll want to do everything in your power to prevent such an occurrence, as it can greatly impact the efficiency and overall performance of your website. One way to keep bandwidth thieves from stealing the server resources that you pay for is by using HotLink protection in cPanel.

What is HotLink Protection?

Usually, when someone is stealing your bandwidth, they are doing so simply by HotLinking an image  from your site. With HotLink protection, you can prevent other webmasters from using your bandwidth by Hotlinking. It does this by replacing the desired image with the image of your choice. For example, you can have ...   Read more...

May 17th, 2010
Alot of you may be wondering what makes iWebServe.Ca different from the other web hosting companies like GoDaddy.Com.  Well,  we think we can offer you a better client experience as we are a small hosting comapny with our own managed server.  You can call us up and talk directly with the owner!  Everyday!!

Running our own server gives us much flexibility that our customers demand.  Sure we offer low cost hosting but that doesnt mean that we have cut costs on our server.  No way,  our server iis very fast and not overloaded.  We have made a committment to all our customer to never cut costs on our servers.

If you are just a small business looking for a web hosting comapny that can work with you,  then choose us.  Our 25$ a year hosting package is perfect for that business card web site that gives you a great presense on the internet at a very low cost.

Check out our prices today for our ...   Read more...
May 8th, 2010
Setting up a WordPress Blog could not be easier at iWebServe.Ca  Why would you want to use a WordPress Blog?  Well maybe, you are a photographer and wish to share with the world your latest pics.  Sure on could use face book but you may want to tell a story about your photogragh.  Thats where WordPress comess into the equation.

Not only does WordPress allow you to do blogging it can also dsplay all you photos to the world!  iWebServe.Ca allows every sing Hosting client to opportunity to use WordPress plus many more great scripts for free.  The amazing thing is that you install it with the Fantastico scripting tool.  A few clicks and you are ready to go.

Installing WordPress with Fantastico: SIMPLE!
  1. Click on 'Fantastico' icon in Cpanel.
  2. Choose to install 'WordPress'
  3. You are given the following statement,  all ...   Read more...
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