If you have a web designer and they are designing your website with a content management system (CMS), the designer may need access to the databases. Until now, the easiest solution was to provide them with the cPanel username and password to access phpMyAdmin. For security purposes, this may not be the best solution since Read More >
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Alternatives to Premium Web Builder
The Premium Web Builder is a great tool to build your website with. One of the great benefits of Premium Web Builder is you can build a website in minutes and publish it without having any coding experience whatsoever. As with most easy to use website builders, there are some limitations. as you become more Read More >
Setting up Email on an iPad
This tutorial is designed to show you how to setup a email on your iPad. From your “Home” screen, click “Settings“ Under “Settings“, click “Mail, Contacts, Calendars “ Under “Mail, Contacts, Calendars“, click “Add Account…“ Next under “Add Account..” Click “Other” Then under “Other” Click “Add Mail Account“ Under “New Account“, enter your Name, Email Read More >
What is PCI Compliance?
PCI (Payment Card Industry) standards are constantly changing and can affect many of our customers. If you have an e-commerce website that processes payments, you will want to make certain that your server meets PCI compliance standards. How to Meet PCI Compliance PCI standards are in place to make sure that all companies that store, Read More >
Creating a Google Analytics Account
In this tutorial we will walk you through the basic steps to creating a Google Analytics account. In the following article, we will show you how to install Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a free tool offered to webmasters to monitor and provide statistical data on the web traffic coming to your domain. With Google Read More >
What is CGI?
CGI stands for common gateway interface. When you log into file manager in cPanel for the first time, you’ll notice a folder in your Public_html folder called your “cgi-bin”. CGI in the most basic of terms is a way that the webserver communicated information to a CGI program. The cgi-bin folder is where you will Read More >
Publishing WordPress from EasyPHP
This tutorial is aimed at showing you how to migrate your WordPRess website that you have on your local computer using EasyPHP to your InMotion Hosting account. If you are not familiar with EasyPHP, this article is not written for you. In this article, we already assume you have installed EasyPHP on your local computer Read More >
WordPress Maintenance Mode
Maintenance mode enabled in WordPress allows you to place a splash page up on your website while you are working on it. The basic splash page lets your visitors know that your website is undergoing maintenance. There’s a plugin in the WordPress plugin directory that makes this task easy. Let’s go over the basic steps Read More >
Can I modify the template I use in Premium Web Builder?
The templates available to you in Premium Web Builder are not modified through the your editor. While each Builder template has different color options, no other modifications to the template itself can be made. Please note that if you use third party software to modify the code, InMotion Hosting is unable to provide support on Read More >
What Version of ______ am I Running?
Our support department receives a large amount of contacts concerning verisons of Apache, MySQL, and PHP that are running on the servers. We have many different configurations so the server you’re on can have different combinations of versions. Finding out the information is quite easy. The first step is to log into your site’s Read More >
What are Core Dumps?
Core dumps are files the system creates when a process running in memory does not finish. The portion of memory that the process was using is then dumped to a file. This can be quite helpful when debugging your scripts. Core dumps typically have a file name like: core.5876 Reviewing Core Dump Files on VPS Read More >
What is IonCube?
ionCube was created in 2002, and gave developers tools to protect software written in the PHP programming language from being viewed, edited and ran on unlicensed computers. The tools use a technique of compiling the bytecode prior to encoding so that the source code is eliminated, and runtime overheads are reduced. A PHP extension called Read More >
How to Install Magento Manually
In this Magento installation guide, we’ll show you how to install Magento and get your store up and running in no time. Since Magento is going to be manually installed without the use of a third party installer, there are quite a few steps, however, the installation process is quite easy. Before installing Magento, please Read More >
Creating a Discussion List in DaDa Mail
One of the great features of dada mail is the ability for your subscribers to email replies to everyone on your list as well. This is a way to create a “discussion” between the members. This allows members to communicate amongst themselves. Don’t worry though there are different controls to set the ability to moderate Read More >
How to send an Email to your Subscribers
In the last few articles, we’ve installed DaDa Mail, and set up a basic mailing list. At this point, you are ready to send emails to your subscribers. In this article, we’ll walk through the basic process of sending out an email to your mailing list. To begin, go to your login screen wherever you Read More >
Setting up a Mailing List in DaDa Mail
In the previous article, Installing DaDa Mail, we showed you how to install DaDa Mail to use as a mailing list tool. Now that you have successfully installed DaDa Mail we’ll need to show you how to set up a mailing list. We’ll start on the screen we left off on the previous article: You Read More >
Installing DaDa Mail
DaDa Mail is a free mailing list manager that includes some important features to help you effectively manage sending out newsletters, and emails to distribution lists. If you’re at this tutorial you’ve probably already researched what it does and are ready to install it. Let’s start to install DaDa Mail 4.8.0. First, you will need Read More >
Important Systems Announcement
The article below has more information concerning that hack that affected InMotion Hosting on September 25, 2011. Dear Customer, At around 4am EST, our system administration team identified a website defacement attack affecting a large number of customers. We are still investigating, but it appears that files named index.php have been defaced. We are evaluating Read More >
Outlook 2010: Accessing Account Settings
Often, it will be necessary to review your account settings in Outlook 2010. This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to access the account settings for the Outlook 2010 email client. If by chance you are looking for the set up guide please see our setup guide for Outlook 2010. To review the account settings, Read More >
Mac Mail – Cannot Send Message Using the server
Email Client: Mac Mail Error Message: Cannot send message using the SMTP server Solution: You will need to update the SMTP server settings – most likely you’re dealing with a port 25 blocking issue. If you are using a SSL on your site you can use the SSL port 465. Make sure the box to Read More >
