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You have wordpress blog and for some reason you want to reset admin password of it. You can do so easily using your control panel cpanel. Your webhosting service  provider will provide you cpanel as webhosting control panel using which you can easily manage all aspect of your hosting account. cPanel includes a very useful tool called phpMyAdmin which is used to mange your databases so if you want to reset password for your blog then most convenient way is through phpMyAdmin databases management tool.
You need to login to your control panel cPanel >> MySQL Databases section, scroll down and click on phpMyAdmin link or
Goto cPanel >> Databases>>phpMyAdmin

After you got in phpMySQL you have to select Wordpress dataases from the drop-down list, you will get all batabase tables, now open SQL tab and just fire following SQL query in it.
UPDATE `wp_users` SET `user_pass` = MD5( ‘new_password_here’ ) WHERE `wp_users`.`user_login` = “admin_username”;
“new_password_here” -  your new password goes here
“admin_username” – the username for which you are updating password shouls be used here.
Just click on GO button and you have updated/reset password for Admin/user for yoru WordPresss Blog. If everything goes fine you can login to your WordPrress blog using new password.

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Every reputed webhosting service provider will support Drupal hosting, if you are using Drupal CMS for developing your website then you should check if your preferred webhost support this CMS on their servers. linux hosting plan as PHP-MySQL is perfect combination on Linux hosting plans. You will be offered with cPanel as your webhosting control panel where you will be having Fantastico as addon within your cPanel. You can install Drupal or other CMS using Fantastico addon of your cpanel. Installing Drupal is very simple and is just a single click operation through Fantastico. Using cpanel you can manage your website hosting account and can easily manage databases and other stuffs of your drupal application.
You can consider Drupal as one of the leading content management systems (CMS) available free of cost as its open source CMS which is written in PHP programming language. It have many powerful features and have easy management tools which can be used for managing, developing your website. If you are planning to publish small websites, blogs or major community websites you can consider Drupal as your website development application. Drupal CMS have builtin tools which are very useful for developing small or large corporate website.

Using Drupal you can create Community web portals,Social Networking sites,E-commerce applications ,Personal web sites or blogs etc very easily though you don’t have much technical web-programming knowledge. Drupal is very easy to install and can be operated even if you are newbie in website development. You can have Search engine friendly URLs which would help you for better ranking in Google, you can have multiple categories, can easily implement search function within your site which will help your website visitor to browse your site deeper. You can create a webforum, blog, wiki or any other website as per your requirement using Drupal CMS thus Drupal is getting more popularity and is widely used.
Thus if you are planning to use Drupal you need to get a reliable website hosting service provider who will offer you Drupal hosting package.

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As a system administrator you should always try to keep your system up and running all the time, Its your responsibility for ensuring backup and making it available in case of system crash. A system with no backups is useless as if in any case your system got halt then there’s no way for getting your system back. So its always recommended to have a latest backup for your server.
A good backup strategy should be implemented and which may composed of backup, storage, verification, and restoration. Backup component covers methods for taking backups and about the data which has to be backup. Backup storage covers both terms related to what media you want to take backup and where you want to keep your backup.
You should also verify your backup as its most important factor which is needed to be considered, you should have latest backup available for your system which can be used to restore system if for some reason it get down.

Two main strategies for backups are to be considered : Disaster Recovery and Archival.

Disaster Recovery : These backup are designed for restoring your system to a normal working state. This can be achieved by taking backup of entire system which can be used to restore it on another machine and you can continue with your work.
Archival strategy : It termed as retrieving all backup data you have for a particular server/system and to restoring your system as a effective working system.
Both strategies works in conjunction, while archiving your data you usually reinstall and reconfigure the operating system before restoring the data;  this process takes longer time and is more error prone. So you have to be careful while you are working on Archiving your data. You should test your backup strategy before you implement them on working system.  You can test Disaster Recovery backup system by restoring your system backup onto a fresh system so that you can confirm that you ca recover your system from an emergency. An archival system can be tested by retrieving files and verifying them, you can crosscheck that you have found the files you need and are readable after system restoration.

If you are into webhosting industry you should take backup of your account/server as frequent as possible. If you are using Linux hosting package you can backup your server/account using cPanel administrative interface.
Using cPanel you can easily take backup of your hosted site, your databases or even your home directory. First of all you need to login to your control panel cPanel. Just try to find “ backup “ icon using which you can initiate backup process for your hosting account. On backup page you have several option available you can download or restore your MySQL Databases and also web data. You have option for Generating Full backup or Downloading full backup on this page. You need to provide backup destination where all your backup files would be stored. You can choose “ Home Directory “ as Backup Destination “ you also need to provide your email address as you will be receiving email once your website backup is completed. That’s all, you just need to proceed by clicking “Generate Backup”. Button and will have to wait till you receive email confirmation. Once you got your confirmation email you can download this backup copy from the location you have specified to your local machine. You will have zipped copy of your backup data stored on the location you have specified while creating backup. You can store this backup copy of your website data on your local machine  or can burn it on CD.

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