HostScripter migrates all student/budget hosting from cPanel to DirectAdmin access effective January 2020

Previous months, cPanel license price hikes and sparks worldwide criticisms by the hosting industry.

Because of this, we regrettably announced to all our clients including future customers that effectively January 2020, we will be migrating all student and budget hosting packages into DirectAdmin based-server. Thus, we are terminating the use of cPanel  control panel for the package as stated.

Ever since we started on 2011, HostScripter has been a reliable choice for cheap and affordable web hosting especially for students and young professionals.

For those who still wanted to continue with the cPanel based-hosting, we encourage you to upgrade your account into premium and business packages. These packages were hosted in a different server with more reliable system resources!

As mentioned above, DirectAdmin application is one of the few alternatives for cPanel. This will not hinder us to use available applications in order to continue providing cheap and affordable hosting packages to our clienteles!

For your inquiries and comments, you can message us at https://www.facebook.com/hostscripter

How to fix HTTP 500 internal server error?

Fix -1: Check the permissions on your web hosting. If the permissions are not set correctly for some important files or scripts, the server tends to show HTTP 500 error on your browser. Check the permissions of .htaccess file. Contact your web hosting provider to know the permission set and fix all your files with right permissions.

Fix – 2: Check the error logs from PHP and Apache on your web server. You must check them as the 500 Internal Server error is too broad and you need to know the exact cause to resolve your website. Error logs provide the context which caused the failure of your website. Generally, the error log file is called error.log. Some cPanels provide the error log file on the dashboard. It may be different on web hosts. Contact your web hosting support if you do not find error log file.

Fix – 3: If you have installed any software or upgraded the existing ones, the old themes, widgets or plugins may fail to comply with the new updates. Check out their support forums if there are any other webmasters who are facing the same issues with the new upgrade. If there are no proper solutions on the forums, you must uninstall or deactivate the plugins and to fix the error. You have to search for an alternative for that plugin or wait for an update.

Fix – 4: 500 Internal Server also shows up when the script timed out or the server timed out. Things like this can only be known if you check the Apache/PHP error logs. You can adjust the server timeout and check if it fixes the issue. You need to increase the timeout from the default time (30 seconds) to something more.

Fix – 5: If the scripts on your website are running on the third-party host, you need to contact their administrator to help you fix the error.

Are you facing the 500 Internal Server Error when you are trying to watch your favorite live videos on Youtube? or Are you seeing the error on Google?

500 Internal Server could be really annoying especially if you are unable to load the website when you need it the most. As the error is a server-side error, you cannot troubleshoot it as it is not the problem from your side. Still, there are few things you can do which might fix and load the website again.

Fix – 1: Try refreshing the browser window. Press “Ctrl+ F5” to force refresh the webpage and serve the fresh content.

Fix – 2: Delete the cookies and cache on your browser. Most of the times 500 Internal Server disappears after clearing the caches on the browser. If you know, this fix helps in solving lots many more Google Chrome Errors including ERR CONNECTION REFUSED & ERR SSL PROTOCOL ERROR.

Fix – 3: If the above two doesn’t work, then you must wait till the webmasters fix the issue. Generally giant websites like Google, Facebook, etc. will resolve it in a couple of minutes.

Fix – 4: If you are browsing to find some information from websites like Wikipedia and see an HTTP 500 Error / 500 Internal Server Error then you can access the old version of the page with the help of Google cache. Copy the URL at which you are seeing the error. Go to Google.com and search the URL. Besides the URL part of the search results, you’ll see a small down sided triangle. Click on it and click on “Cached” to open the cached version of the webpage in the browser. This will not work on the websites like Facebook or Gmail where you need to authorize yourself by logging in. It just works for the informative websites like Wikipedia.

Conclusion

Fixing 500 Internal Server error is really simple once you know the cause of it. Error logs are the source to find out the server related errors. Once you know the cause, the above instructions will help you to fix the issue in no time. HTTP Error 500 is the most reported error and it can take hell lot of time in solving in case if you are non-techie. Just make sure you follow all the given fixes in-order to quickly fix the 500 Errors if you are Webmaster or the normal browsing user.

Source: https://howbyte.com/fix-500-internal-server-error-or-http-error-500/

How to create your own custom email account?

You are thinking if you can have an email address something like iam@handsome.com? or anything you  want? Well, it is possible! Just follow this steps and consider my advices.

Firstly, before going into the procedures, you should have your own domain name (ex: erickabuzo.com). If you don’t have, you can buy one HERE.

Considering that you have your domain and cpanel account,

1. Log in to your cPanel > Mail section > Email Accounts menu:

2. If you have multiple domains, select the domain you want your email account to be associated with in the drop-down list in the top right corner and enter the desired email and a strong password of your choice:

Click on Create Account once all is set.

3. To log in your own webmail, visit in your browser’s address bar:

www.yourdomain.com/webmail

4. Once done, you will see the icons of the three webmail interfaces:

5. Feel free to choose any access webmail. I suggest Read Mail Using SquirrelMail.