First of all, it is important to explain how the database/database user names are formed. The names consist two parts — your cPanel username and the actual database/username name. For example — if your username is “user” and if you named your database “databasename”...

If you send regular emails to a small list of customers/subscribers/friends you can create a very simple mail list via your cPanel if your ISP does not provide this feature by default with your plan. This could be done quite easy. You will need a to create a single email account via your cPanel ->...

Today I lost my MySQL server admin password. The server has a Plesk cp install and I was wondering if it doesn’t store it anywhere. Funny enough it does, even in plain text. You can find it in /etc/psa/.psa.shadow. It’s a good idea to keep the file inaccessible for anybody else but root.