Expired License

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Rui Soares

Have you ever logged into cpanel or whm and found a Expired License message?Why and how to deal with this message?

One of the reasons for the display of this message could be that your cpanel license has expired. Check if that is the case. Cpanel has a tool for you to verify if your cpanel license is valid.

Your server’s main IP address could be different than the licensed IP address or your server could be experiencing problems perfoming dns lookups. SSH to your server and run the following command:


curl http://www.cPanel.net/showip.cgi

If your main IP is not licensed, you must update your cpanel’s license information. If you get an error, after running this command, you must check your /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf files.

Also check if your hostname is properly configured. It should have this format: subdomain.domain.com.

Finally, try this command:


/usr/local/cpanel/cpkeyclt

It will just try to validate the license with cpanel’s servers. Sometimes, the expired license message is due to temporary connection problems with cpanel’s servers and the license is not validated. This command will resolve that issue. If you receive an error, you must check why your server is unable to connect with cpanel’s servers.

Posted in Cpanel Administration | 3 Comments

Round Cube Perfomance

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Rui Soares

Cpanel has announced a few changes that will increase the perfomance of Round Cube, dealing with a growing number of reports regarding excessive CPU usage.  The changes have been applied to the Beta Build. And Cpanel will publish these changes to the Edge Build soon.

Round Cube is a very attractive webmail software, due to it’s AJAX features. I hope they can optimize it’s resource usage. You can’t rely on a webmail software that undermines the server’s perfomance.

Posted in Cpanel Administration, Email Administration | Tagged | 23 Comments

New User Email Setup

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Rui Soares

WordPress supports different roles. A subscriber can login to your blog and then comment without having to provide their name, email and website. On some blogs, you have to be a subscriber to comment, because the blog doesn’t allow anonymous comments, from unregistered visitors. Other roles include additional privileges.  A contributor can write articles, that will have to be approved by an editor or administrator. An author can write and publish articles, without moderation from an editor or administrator. And an editor and a administratior have additional privileges. Some blogs have a team or community orientation, encouraging the registration of subscribers, authors and editors.

When a visitor registers, to become a subscriber, he receives an automatic email generated by WordPress. How do you edit the message that is sent on that email? You will need a plugin for that purpose.

New User Email Setup is a new plugin for WordPress that enables you to change the subject, text body, from address, admin subject and admin text body of that automatic email, from WordPress’s administration interface. You wil be able to personalize your Welcome email and give it a personal touch.

Posted in Open Source Scripts, WordPress | Leave a comment

Bug Hunt For WordPress 2.9

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Rui Soares

Jane Wells from WordPress has just announced a bug hunt for WordPress 2.9. She just announced 2 three day periods, the first will be 5, 6 and 7 of November, the second will be 14,15 and 16 of November 2009.

This is not for the ordinary WordPress users. It’s for developers and programmers. And it’s all about testing new patches, fixing bugs and reporting new bugs.

WordPress has a owner. And he’s rich. Why is there so much support from programmers to the development of this product? WordPress is an open source script and it’s free. Any programamer can read the code and understand how WordPress works. But a user can do more than understand how WordPress works. He can change the code and adapt the script to his own needs and requirements. Because it’s such a powerful and flexible tool, with millions of users, the interest in the development of this script is a community interest. And that is what drives this community approach to the development of this script.

Posted in Open Source Scripts, WordPress | 5 Comments

Search Engine Optimization Expectations

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Rui Soares

Today is SEO day. I hit a hot zone regarding SEO. So, here comes another article about SEO.

Every website needs visitors. How do you get visitors to come to your website? With communication. That’s the tool you use to relate with others. In business, it’s also called marketing. And Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is all about how you communicate your message to search engines, with the intent of reaching your audience, when they search for keywords related to that message.

One of the problems of SEO companies is the management of new client’s expectations. Most new clients think search engine optimization is a 1 day, click a button action, with instant results. And it’s not. I think the internet has a label attached to it of easy money, get rich fast, no hard work, get a 1 dollar hosting account, free stuff. And business men, that deal every single day with real life competition, when they order SEO services they just forget that the internet is not a dream world.

I know a few books about SEO that use the idea of 1 hour a day. How do I translate that idea to this article? Communicate with your audience 1 hour a day, through SEO. When do you stop doing SEO? When you have nothing to say to your audience…

Posted in Search Engine Optimization | Leave a comment

Google Uses RSS / Atom Feeds To Index Webpages

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Rui Soares

Google announced yesterday that it’s using RSS / ATOM Feeds to index new webpages. Clever move! Instead of waiting to crawl an already indexed webpage with a link to new content, google is using the same rss / atom feeds we all use to notify our readers of new content to index that new content. What does this mean?

  1. Google will index new content faster.
  2. It will be easier for webmasters to index new webpages in Google.

Twitter is all about live search. And Google is fighting to keep it’s search monopoly.

Posted in Search Engine Optimization | Leave a comment

Limit Number Of Emails Per Hour Per Account

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Rui Soares

As you know, you can limit the number of emails any account can send, per hour, in WHM. Just click Tweak Settins, below Server Configuration. But, how do you assign a different value for an individual account, different fro the value assigned to everyother account? You might want to give a certain account a greater limit. Or even restrict that account’s hability to send emails.

SSH to your server. And open the file /var/cpanel/maxemails. Then just add the code:

domain.com=100

This value will override the default value for this domain. So, if you assigned a 2000 limit in Tweak Settings, domain.com would have a limit of 100.

Posted in Cpanel Administration, Email Administration | Tagged | Leave a comment

Moniker TRAFFIC New York auction

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Rui Soares

Moniker just held a domain auction and the top 20 sellers were:

  1. multivitamins.com, sold for $45,000
  2. originals.com, sold for $37,500
  3. raspberry.com. sold for $27,500
  4. istream.com, sold for $25,000
  5. trademarklawyers.com, sold for $24,000
  6. hockey.org, sold for $22,500
  7. costumerentals.com, sold for $21,000
  8. designersunglasses.com, sold for $21,000
  9. i.biz, sold for $17,000
  10. newyorkers.com, sold for $14,500
  11. tested.com, sold for $12,000
  12. lnn.com, sold for $11,000
  13. cuffs.com, sold for $9,500
  14. skilodge.com, sold for $9,500
  15. ustrademarks.com, sold for $9,000
  16. tenniscamp.com, sold for $8,000
  17. organic.info, sold for $7,700
  18. recipebooks.com, sold for $7,500
  19. collectiblecoins.com, sold for $7,000
  20. ny.biz, sold for $7,000

Domains can be a very good investment.

Posted in Domain Market, Domains | Leave a comment

Missing Images In Oscommerce

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Rui Soares

Is your oscommerce script not displaying images? You access your site and every image is missing. And you’re not using a ssl certificate. Try this:

Do you know how to access your script’s files? You can do that with an ftp client, ssh client or through a file manager in your hosting control panel. Find both configuration files. You will find one of the configuration files in includes/ and the other in admin/includes/

Open it. There’s a variable for the https url. Just put the same value that’s in your http url. That will probably fix your image issue.

Posted in Open Source Scripts, Oscommerce | 120 Comments

Unlimited Disk Space

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Rui Soares

Sometimes, you list accounts in WHM and the disk limit of each account is unlimited. That’s obviously a problem, because you wont be able to limit disk space usage. The fix is normally an easy fix. Just login to your server with ssh and run this command

/scripts/fixquotas

Usually this script will fix this problem.

Posted in Cpanel Administration, Disk Space Administration | 2 Comments