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SiteAdmin: How to Restore Backups

At Site5, we automatically take backups of your account files and databases nightly. These backups are then kept on file for 7 days for recovery if they are ever needed. Your SiteAdmin panel contains tools that make it easy to restore your site in just a few simple clicks! All […]

SiteAdmin: PHP Configuration

The PHP Configuration section of your SiteAdmin displays the current PHP versions, a link to see each versions phpinfo() page  that are installed on our server. It also lists the location of the PHP binarys that you can use to change your PHP version.

Installing PHP Pear Modules

PHP PEAR packages are software components that are written in the PHP language. The PHP PEAR Packages interface allows you to search for and add PEAR packages to your website, or view all of your website’s available PHP packages. 1) Select PEAR PHP Packages icon within your cPanel. 2) Inside you […]

cPanel: Using cPanel Site Software

Before the greatness of Fantastico and the even better Softaculous softwares, the Site Software feature was the go to method for the installation and management of software on your cPanel based hosting account. This feature is being slowly decommissioned in favour of Softaculous. Please use that for all your software installation needs.

cPanel: Using CGI Center

A Common Gateway Interface (CGI) allows you to run scripts on your hosting account. cPanel’s CGI Center interface provides a list of CGI scripts that display and manage guestbooks, clocks, hit counters, and banner ads that you can utilize for free on your hosting service.   For more information and installation […]

DNS: Temporary URL & Your Servers Shared IP Address

At this time Site5 has disabled the plugin mod_userdir on all of our servers for security purposes. Unfortunately, the use of temporary URLs requires the use of mod_userdir and is not possible at this time. If you wish to view your site prior to pointing your domain to the server, […]

GnuPG Keys

GnuPG is a publicly available encryption scheme that uses the “public key” approach. With GnuPG, messages are encrypted using a public key; however, they can only be decrypted by a private key which is retained by the intended recipient of the message. To receive encrypted emails from others, you would […]

Email: View EMAIL Account Settings

In this article we are going to demonstrate how to access the configuration settings for an email account. These are the settings that you will input your respective email client to allow it the configured email addresses. View the account settings in SiteAdmin View the account settings in cPanel Viewing the account settings […]

Email: Create EMAIL Filters

Filters are used to route incoming email based on sender, email subject, and more! Filters can be configured for the entire account, main domain and each individual email account. Below is the legend of what the various types of filters mean and how they can be customized to determine how incoming […]

Email: Create EMAIL Forwarders

This particular interface allows you to create and then configure message forwarders and domain forwarders. For information on the whys of this particular feature, check out the Related Articles section at the bottom of this page. Creating and managing forwarders in SiteAdmin Creating and managing forwarders in cPanel   Creating and managing […]

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