Hosting and Email
Managing email the easy way with IMAP
Having set up email accounts for many small business clients one thing that is becoming increasingly clear is that most people now access their email in multiple ways. Typically those ways could include the office PC, the home PC, a notebook, a smartphone or a tablet. Traditionally small business people have set up email applications [...]
Malicious Hosting Account Attacks on the Increase
Over the last few months 2 of my clients have had the security of their hosting accounts breached by spammers inserting scripts to activate illegal mass mailing campaigns. The result was that the server administrators had to immediately put the hosting accounts into suspension until the offending scripts were removed. In other words the websites [...]
Who is looking after your website?
It is a fair question, but unfortunately one that is often surrounded by misplaced assumptions. Is it the web host? Surely they do backups and can restore a site if there is any problem. Is it the the web designer? Surely they can simply re-instate it from a copy of the original. Is it the [...]
Setting up an email account in Outlook
There are several versions of Outlook currently in use but the general setup procedure is outlined below. Note that these instructions are for setting up email accounts to access TOSD servers. They also show how to set up your Outlook to both send and receive email via your domain’s hosting account. An alternative is to [...]
Site Backup CP – cPanel scheduled backup
Site Panel CP is a commercially available application that runs on your PC and allows you to do either a manual backup of your entire hosting account, or, in conjunction with Windows Scheduler, a fully automated scheduled backup. It is the perfect way to protect your online investment. In the event of an online failure [...]