Using Gmail to Handle EarthGirl Email
Using Gmail to manage your mail is a great way to save space on your server, and it’s really handy, too! Here’s how: From your Gmail account, click the Settings icon on the top-right of your screen, then select See All Settings. Click Accounts and Import from the top menu. Incoming Email In the section marked Check mail from…
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What is gZip Compression?
What is gZip Compression? gZip is a compression utility that creates files with lossless data compression. This means that when expanded (i.e. decompressed) the data will look exactly like it did before compression. Nothing is lost in the processes. gZip files usually end in the suffix “gz” – you may notice this on your website’s…
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Creating a Subdomain in cPanel
Subdomains are prefixes that you add to your main domain to create a new destination on your hosting account. For example, if your domain name is “example.com” then a possible subdomain could be “buy.example.com”. Adding a subdomain will give you the option to add separate content to your site while staying on your domain. Here’s…
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Stop Spam in my cPanel Email
We’ve Got You!Earth Girl Hosting enables this feature by default. If you’re with us, you’re covered! Putting an end to unwanted email in your cPanel email account is a click away with Apache Spam Assassin. Here’s how: First, log into your cPanel account (https://mysite.com/cpanel) Once there, you can search for “Spam Filters” using the search…
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Resizing Images in cPanel? Yes, You Sure Can!
Most people don’t know this one exists. It’s really very easy and quite handy. Do you have some giant images on your hosting account that you need to make not-so-giant? Let me show you how: First, log into your cPanel (https://yoursite.com/cpanel) Use the search bar to find the Images link, then click to open it.…
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How Do I Know If My Website Has A Virus?
It can really happen to any of us. Getting a virus on your website is not only frustrating, but it can be very costly. Prevention is always the best course of action, but sometimes it just gets past you. Prevention starts with the basics: Choose a unique password & change it now and then Be…
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4 Ways to Lower Costs for Your E-Commerce Business
Don’t pull the plug when you’ve worked so hard on your website. Here are 4 easy ways to lower your e-commerce business costs!
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Why Use a Small Web Host?
This Better Be Good, Right? Earth Girl Hosting is a woman-owned, small yet thriving business. We are dedicated to providing excellent support for our clients. Some large hosting companies offer similar products for less – so why should you choose Earth Girl Hosting? Small Business for Small Business I understand small business. I understand bottom…
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Putting Your Website on Hold
Most asked question of the year – how can I put my site on hold? If you’re not currently working your website, and it’s just costing you money by sitting there, what can you do? First, you must understand that whether or not you’re using your website, it’s still taking up space on the server.…
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How to Manage Hosting Account Quotas and Overages?
As a website owner, it’s important that you become familiar with these steps to prevent overage. Earth Girl Hosting offers some plans (Site Builder) with FlexUse billing so your account will never go down due to overage! Some of our other plans (Premiere) do not include FlexUse, so you will never get charged more, but…
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