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Backups plays an important role when your server crash and you lost all your data, you can restore all your webfiles and can get your site up and running through your offsite backup account. Usually all webhosting service provider will offer you backup space on their remote server where you can upload backup copies of your webfiles, databases. If  you are connecting your server backup using some custom software or script then there can be a risk for using such custom applications as if your local machine gets compromised then hacker can easily login to your remote backup space and can delete all your data through this custom software. Thus its always recommended to go with a host who don’t use any such custom application for allowing users to login to your backup space rather go with a webhost who would initiates data transfer from their remote backup servers (using scp scripts or RSYNC over SSH) – thus your server doesn’t have a direct access to backup data directory. This will avoid any backup data loss as if you are using any custom application software for connecting to your backup server and your local machine gets hacked then hacker can easily login to your remote backup server and can delete all data from your server. Its better to check with your webhost about what kind of connection do they offer you for connecting with your remote server. Don’t go with any host who is offering you some script or software for getting connected with your backup server so as to ensure security.

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Sitemap plays an very important role for faster indexing of your website, you should create/update your sitemap and should submit it to Google so that Google bots can crawl your site more frequently and faster. Submitting your Sitemap files to Google :  Once you have created your Sitemap and have uploaded it onto your server, then you should submit it major search engines so that they can find it easily. When it comes with Google you have  three simple ways using which you can submit Sitemap files at Google.

Using Google Webmaster Tools :
Using Google Webmaster Tool is most preferred way for making Google aware of sitemap file you have for your website. Google webmaster tool is very useful for all webmasters. There are may advantages if you are submitting your sitemap through Google Webmaster Tool like you’ll always have direct feedback about how your Sitemap files were downloaded , how they were recognized where it was in right format and what happened to the web pages listed in them, does any of page where have been indexed ?
Before you submit your Sitemap files you need to make sure that your website is verified in Webmaster Tools, once approved you need to go to “Sitemaps” in Webmaster Tools and enter the file name of your Sitemap(s).

Listing Sitemap files in the robots.txt file :
You can use another way of submitting a Sitemap file if you don’t want to use Google Webmaster Tool, in this case you will have to specify the URL in your robots.txt file.
Using this method your sitemap file could be easily found by all major search engines that support Sitemap protocol
As in this process you can specify the full URL of your Sitemap file in your robots.txt file thus using this method you can store your Sitemap file on a different domain. If you are using this method then the sitemap would not be get listed in your webmaster Tools account, you will have to add it manually to your account.

Using an HTTP “ping” :
If your site is dynamic site where pages are created dynamically then in this case you you can generate sitemap files automatically, and for such automatically created sitemaps the best way for submitting/resubmitting them is to access the “ping” URL for Google Sitemaps. You can use this method even if  your Sitemap file is kept on a different server, but you must still verify both sites in your Webmaster Tools.

All search engines that are members of sitemaps.org support a similar way of submitting general web Sitemap files.

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If your account is hosted on Linux hosting server then most webhosting service provider will offer you WHM/cPanel as hosting control panel depending on hosting package you choose. WHM/cpanel offer you large number of features using which you can manage your hosting account or website very easily. you can set/reset password of cpanel, can manage email accounts, hosting accounts, can easily disk quota, create FTP accounts, setup CMS etc….. Most important feature you have with these control panels is that you can change password of cpanel using cpanel aswell as WHM. You may have to change reset your control panel password for some security reason, thus this feature is very important for all webmasters.

If you want to know the password which have changed password of cpanel then you need to create a module in /usr/local/Cpanel/ChangePassword/. This will run as root when password is changed in WHM or cPanel.

Module features :
You can access following variables using above module :
- user (string) – Account Username
- newpass (string) – Account Password
- message (string)*** – Password Change Status Message
- rawout (string)*** – Password Change output
- service_ref (string)*** – Password Change Service

Thus in order to access above module you will have to do the following :

#!/usr/bin/perl
package Cpanel::ChangePassword::Sendtobilling;
use strict;

my %OPTS = @_;
my $user = $OPTS{‘user’};
my $newpass = $OPTS{‘newpass’};
#Add function to create object and password send

Username / Password can then be send to remote location thus you can retrieve password which have tried to change password of cpanel.

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