Category: WHM + cPanel

When it comes to exporting Emails on a cPanel based server using Webmail is the easiest method. Currently, cPanel-based servers offer three different webmail interfaces [Horde, Squirrel Mail, and RoundCube] for viewing and managing email accounts. Using a webmail client allows you access to your Emails without the need to setup an email client. This tutorial will focus on how to export emails from your server by utilizing the Horde Webmail interface.

Server and system administration requires security checks and, occasionally, purging access for obsolete users. In the last tutorial on How to Remove a User From a MySQL Database in cPanel, it was understood that only users that need access to databases should maintain credentials. During your periodic security checks, you may come across users that need to be deleted and not just removed from the database.

The list of common security issues is extensive, with securing your database being among them. In addition, ensuring that your MySQL database is free from errors in cPanel goes a long way to ensuring security as well as a good customer experience. 

When administering servers and systems, occasionally users need to be removed for security purposes. Only users that need access to databases should maintain credentials. It is the best practice to periodically check that those who should maintain access do, and those that are no longer needed are removed.

Managing databases on your server is necessary for your website’s ongoing growth and development. Managing the users and their passwords is equally essential.

Users responsible for managing databases require suitable access and privileges to carry out specific tasks. This tutorial walks you through how to assign a user to a MySQL database in cPanel.

The process of how to create a MySQL database user in cPanel is important for those operating their environments with multiple users. When setting up a new database, a single user gets created. This tutorial walks you through creating a new MySQL database user in cPanel.

Continuing with the MySQL series in cPanel, this article focuses on how to delete a MySQL database in cPanel. While web developers use databases to manage large datasets for websites and applications, it sometimes becomes necessary to delete a no longer in-use database.

Creating a database in cPanel is helpful for web developers managing large amounts of data for their websites and applications. The process is simple and essential to the development of database-intensive projects.

Emails received by your domain are not always directed to existing email addresses. Messages sent to invalid or non-existent addresses typically get forwarded to the default address. With cPanel, you can set a default address to receive such emails and define how they are handled.