Setting Up Spam Filters With cPanel

Setting Up Spam Filters With cPanel

Setting up a successful spam filter for your inbox is a two-part process. Let’s get to it! Part One: Setting up Spam Filtering 1. Once in your cPanel account, navigate to the Email section of your dashboard and click the Spam Filters icon. Or, use 

Disk Space Management Tools with cPanel

Disk Space Management Tools with cPanel

One of our most popular requests is assisting in identifying where disk space allowance is going. But did you know you have the tools right in your cPanel account to clear up space? Please note: Before removing anything from your website, it’s always a good idea 

WordPress Cleanup Checklist

WordPress Cleanup Checklist

Whether you’re a seasoned blogger or just getting your site off the ground and going crazy with uploads and creating content, it’s always a good idea to keep your WordPress site storage in check. “But I have unlimited disk space!” That is probably not the 

How to Use Gmail (not G Suite) with Your Domain

How to Use Gmail (not G Suite) with Your Domain

The Evil of Email Forwarders When an email forwarder is created, all email is forwarded to that address. Bills, invoices, Twitter notifications, those hilarious cat videos from Bob in the cubicle just over the way, and spam. Our IP addresses are then sometimes blocked by 

Mindful WordPress Security Practices

Mindful WordPress Security Practices

Secure WordPress Practices With WordPress, one of the easiest tasks to complete is to harden your site but it’s one of the most overlooked tasks! In this day in age with data breaches and hacks running rampant, it’s never too late to implement security practices 

Why *Everyone* Should Have Off-Server Backups

Why *Everyone* Should Have Off-Server Backups

We have all heard the horror stories, and indeed, some of us have lived them ourselves – my hard drive failed, and I lost everything. Backups are so very important! However, there are many different kinds of backups, and which of those backups we use is something 

How to Unblock Your IP on a BCH Server

How to Unblock Your IP on a BCH Server

We have some pretty snazzy news to share with you; we’ve added the ability for you to unblock your own IP address from the firewall!  Most of us have at one time or another entered an incorrect password one too many times, or have run afoul 

How to make a Menu out of your Categories in WordPress

How to make a Menu out of your Categories in WordPress

WordPress is a very popular website platform used by many of our customers at BCH. A common request is adding a menu item that quickly pulls all of the posts that are related to a single subject. The easiest way to do this is with 

How to Make cPanel Work for You

How to Make cPanel Work for You

Most of our customers never log into their cPanel account; they are completely happy to work within their WordPress Dashboards and never worry about what else might be available. This is, of course, completely fine; however, there are many things inside cPanel that might be 

CloudFlare: What It is, What It is Not.

CloudFlare: What It is, What It is Not.

Black Chicken Host has partnered with CloudFlare CDN to bring you better load times and increased security at no cost to you. What CloudFlare is: CloudFlare is a simple and free Content Delivery Network which places your website’s content closer to your readers all around the