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Well, I had downgraded from WP 2.9 previously, due to: "The most sense that would make is your blog was upgraded to 2.9. That is a bug in wordpress / PHP that recently was discovered once 2.9 was released. Wordpress has already released 2.9.1 beta which fixes this but I have no idea on a stable release. As far as the PHP side of things they released PHP 5.2.12 to fix it but we have not properly tested that version yet to deploy it on our systems." I have already backed up the site and upgraded to WP 2.9.1 . I will try to wait an hour or so to determine if WP 2.9.1 behaves the same way. UPDATE: So far the problem is occurring in WP 2.9.1 as well. One post from my website to Twitter was missing on the Twitter page. When I refreshed my website's home page and then went back and refreshed the Twitter page the post to Twitter appeared. INCIDENTALLY, I have switched to another Wordpress Twitter update plugin and the same problem is occurring. In other words, I was running an entirely different Twitter update plugin when the last Twitter posts were missing before this one.

I have used various different plugins to update my Twitter account automatically when one of my "scheduled" Wordpress posts is published. Most all of the plugins seem to, eventually, encounter the following problem: I create and schedule, say, 24 hours of Wordpress posts to be published every 5 minutes. Well, I might check the Twitter page the plugin is to send the posts to 10 hours later and I see that the last post was 37 minutes ago, or something. The point is that I have them scheduled for every 5 minutes. Anyway, most of the time I refresh the Twitter page 5 or 6 times; yet, the missing posts do not display. Here is where it, to me, gets odd. Virtually 100% of the time if I go to my website itself and refresh or open a page I will see that the missing posts have been posted every 5 minutes, as I scheduled them, to my website itself. If I then go back to the Twitter page and refresh the missing posts then display. However, they appear to have all been posted at the same time when I refreshed my Wordpress website or logged in to wp-admin. So, the posts get published to my Wordpress website every 5 minutes like they should, but the plugin, or something, seems to "cache" the posts instead of sending them every 5 minutes to Twitter. It is only when I open my Wordpress website or it's wp-admin do they actually get sent, but they appear to get sent all at once and the Twitter people may not like that at all. There have been times when my, every 5 minute Wordpress posts, have not been sent to Twitter in more than an hour, but right after I open the wordpress site itself, or it's wp-admin, then all the missing posts get sent to Twitter at once. Can anyone give me a suggestion to resolve this issue? I have used a number of different plugins to send my Wordpress website posts to Twitter and they all seem to eventually exhibit this behavior. Some of the plugin author's do admit to "sharing" some of the code. note: This particular website has, essentially, zero traffic so it does not seem inconceivable to me that no visitors to the website exist to "trip" the "missing posts" to get sent to Twitter. The posts definitely get sent when I login to wp-admin, but I am pretty sure just visiting the home page of the website itself has the same affect. {As a matter of fact this behavior is happening right now, as I type this. I looked at my Twitter page and the last post says "23 minutes ago..." . I created and scheduled several 100 posts to be published every 5 minutes. The posts should not stop until about 20 hours from now. I am going to intentionally try to wait another 15 minutes and then refresh the Twitter page without going to my website or it's wp-admin before that time period is up. I want to, again, make sure I am not misinterpreting the problem. Again, usually the posts will be sent to Twitter just fine for some time, maybe even many hours, but eventually they stop in the way I have described here.} Can anyone give me a suggestion to resolve this issue? UPDATE: I waited until the Twitter page said the last post was sent "about an hour ago" and then, without logging in to wp-admin, I went to the homepage of my Wordpress website. When my website's homepage 1st opened the posts were "missing" on the website as well. I refreshed one time, maybe twice, and then all of the missing posts displayed on my website. I then went to my Twitter page and refreshed once and something like 12 posts from my website showed up all at once. I do not think the Twitter people will like that. Can someone point me in the right direction on this? Something, must be stopping the scheduled posts from being sent.

The reseller server going down is a concern of mine as well, but it may be, in this particular case, that reseller hosting is still a reasonable choice for me. Here is my question, though. You sound like you have experience w/ Cpanel reseller accounts. Did your reseller server go down and take all your sites down with it A LOT?

Amazingly enough I did think about that and, correctly, assumed all my websites on the same reseller account would go down with the server on which that reseller account resides.

Well, Tony, how labor intensive is the process of moving add-on domains into a reseller plan's cPanel accounts. I have put add-on domains into shared hosting accounts I have w/ various hosts, but I am not sure if you are talking about the same thing. For instance, I think the majority of my current Hawkhost shared hosting accounts have multiple domains that will bring a visitor to the same website. You seem to indicate that you guys, the experts, are wary of adding-on the domains. If you guys are intimidated by it,then, wouldn't the person running the site, who is probably nowhere near as knowledgeable as you guys, be ill advised to do it. Again, I am not quite understanding what you mean, Tony. Say, for example, I currently have 5 Hawkhost separate shared hosting accounts up and running. In other words, say I have 5 separate websites on your shared hosting plan. How difficult and how long will it take for me to get those sites up and running under a single NEW Hawkhost reseller account, including the time necessary to do the add-on domains? The most domains I have pointing to the same shared hosting website is, I believe, about seven. Tony, I think you probably know exactly how many Hawkhost shared hosting accounts I currently have. Is there a cost to put them under one reseller hosting account? If so, what is it, how is it calculated? PM me if you want. Again, I do not want to make a TICKET just yet. Incidentally, does SFTP and email work the same on websites that are under a single RESELLER plan?

Is it possible to combine existing multiple Hawkhost shared hosting accounts into one new Hawkhost reseller hosting account? Is there a big learning curve involved in transitioning from managing several separate shared hosting account websites to managing those websites under one reseller account? Do websites under a reseller account get all the features they would if they were separate shared websites? Would appreciate knowing what is required to do this if it can be done. PM me with any specifics. The maximum time frame between the opening of any of the existing shared hosting accounts is approximately 10 months. Mostly curious right now so I did not want to make a ticket yet.

How do you know if you are, or ever have, hitting them? Is that information archived somewhere in a Hawkhost shared hosting customer's C-panel/account? When it comes to Wordpress sites, does WP-Cache, reduce the necessity for "spawning" additional processes?

I am currently an existing customer with 2 Hawkhost shared accounts. I am thinking about starting another shared hosting account. If I "initiate" a new shared hosting account sometime within the next 5 hours how long would it be before Hawkhost activates that account for me?

Thanks very much for replying.

I would not tell anyone who the new website in question is hosted with. My assumption is "they" would not "already know". I am not talking about changing an existing website from shared to reseller w/ private server names. You mean they could just IP search at https://ws.arin.net/whois, or a similar resource, and it would show the owner as Hawkhost, or whatever hosting company? A dedicated IP purchased via Hawkhost would show Hawkhost as owner as well, right? Would it be easy to tell my PRIVATE SERVER NAME website is hosted by Hawkhost, or whatever hosting company, due to the email servers and information listed in emails I send?

I have read PRIVATE SERVER NAMES make it appear you are hosting/running your own website like BIG companies do. Is there anything, technical or otherwise, that would reveal you are not actually hosting your own website or, and, that you are using a hosting provider? For instance, would recipients of your email be able to see information associated with your actual hosting provider? Is there some kind of "lookup" procedure that can be used to reveal you are using a hosting provider? Is it easy for search engines, like Yahoo, Google, to see that you are using a hosting provider instead of hosting your own website? I have additional questions regarding Reseller Hosting that I, probably, would prefer to address to a Hawkhost executive, or staff member, via "Private Message".

I have a reseller account with a particular registrar that I am slowly transferring existing domains to and getting new ones with. I have a fair number of domains that I have not necessarily had time to transfer into my reseller account. Specifically, the "reseller" I bought one particular domain through is causing me some problems on a former website that we had arranged for me to keep email services through, although the domain is now parked. Anyway, I guess I am going to take time I do not really have to spare, probably tonight, to move domains from that particular "reseller" into my own reseller account. I still want, at least, several email addresses for the aforementioned domain, though. What is the least expensive way to get multiple email addresses for one domain that I do not necessarily wish to develop a website for? Can anyone give me some prices and refer me?

??? It is a 3rd party SSL I purchased at a previous host(certificate reseller); I did not, to my recollection, do anything other than click "buy SSL" in my cPanel at that host. I do not use that host anymore. I am thinking in terms of using the same SSL certificate provider because the SSL certificate seems to have worked "problem free".

I want to add forums to a site. I am thinking about using phpBB. Is there any particular reason I should use vBulletin instead?

My SSL Certificate for one of the sites I have hosted with Hawkhost expires soon. Can anyone tell me the procedure for renewing that SSL Certificate with the SAME provider?

:eek: Come on Tony you guys must have changed something. The issue has been present since, as I explained, before I moved that site from the old host I used to Hawkhost. I have not "fiddled" with any settings trying to resolve that issue since before I stopped using the previous host for that site. I learned back then that there was nothing available in any Cpanel settings I can see that would resolve the issue. I just finally got bothered enough to ask you guys if you could do anything. I can not escape the conclusion that you are "pulling my leg". Anyway, the issue has been positively affected by whatever modifications were made by :confused:...

It appears Hawkhost has made some modifications that affect this Cpanel issue positively. The text editor pop-up now gets bypassed and the Cpanel editing page opens immediately. On the editing page the encoding is, unfortunately, prepopulated with US-ASCII instead of ISO-8859-1. However, the modifications are, to me, a significant time savings over the text editor pop-up because now I only need to change the encoding type on the editing page instead of going through the additional "clicks" that, previously, it took me to get rid of the text editor pop-up. The Cpanel text editor pop-up is an issue that has persisted, beginning at the previous hosting company that I used for this particular site. The problem started at my previous host and I needed Hawkhost to migrate my entire site using the full backup I made at my previous host, so, it makes sense to me that the issue would continue to manifest. Although the CPanel issue was not the primary reason I stopped using the previous hosting company that previous hosting company did not even try to fix the problem, even though I asked numerous times. Hawkhost has made a significant, positive, change with regard to the issue the 1st time I made a support ticket about it. Thanks for making those modifications even though the issue is a BUG in Cpanel and not Hawkhost. Now, however, thanks to Tony's advice I am no longer dependent on using Cpanel as a text editor.

OK. I will ban the ip Tony. Thanks for the code. Incidentally, INTERPOL is that international police organization. I just wanted to clarify so no one thinks I would randomly redirect spammers from my site to another site. My hope, by redirecting them to the INTERPOL, or say america's FBI or CIA, website is that the spammer would be far more likely to get into trouble quickly with those police agencies if they were redirected to them and continued to spam.

On my site 90% of the spam trapped by Akismet has, according to the ip address recorded, come from just one ip address. Despite the fact that, to my knowledge, none of the spam has been published on my site it continues to arrive, day after day, from the exact same ip address and with the same type of content. What is the most effective way to get the company that the ip address appears to be owned by to take action against the spammer? Is there some type of spam reporting "form letter" that I send to their abuse email address, is there some recognized specific terminology that I should use when reporting the spam...? Many times, since Askimet has trapped the spam, I might not even notice or take any further action, but I am slightly bothered by the fact that, apparently, this same spammer continues to try and get spam posted on my site. I realize the spam may be sent automatically by whatever "process" the spammer is using. Still, this particular site is brand new. I do not even understand why this spammer, or whatever automated means he is using to send spam, would be interested in a brand new site with, virtually, no traffic or content. I would expect the spammer to set certain criteria, if he/she is using an automated means to spam, that would rule out new sites, like the one in question, with little content. Anyway, I am thinking about banning the ip address, for a week or so at least. If the same spam begins to come from a different ip address then I guess I know the spammer is doing something to obfuscate his/her actual ip address. {I guess I have no fast way of determining if that spammer is the only traffic I am getting from that ip address. If I knew it was ONLY the spammer coming from that ip address I guess I would not mind redirecting traffic from that ip address to INTERPOL's website, or something. Can anyone offer advice on an easy method I can use to redirect traffic from a particular ip address to some place other than my website?} http://www.db.ripe.net/whois/?form_type=simple&full_query_string=&searchtext=194.8.75.44&do_search=Search

Thanks again for that advice Tony. I have used the Filezilla method you explained on a few files. So far I think it works very well and the speed might be significantly faster than Cpanel's Text Editor. Tony that advice definitely helped me. A LOT.

Roadsie sincere advice is, probably, always worth a lot to me. Thankyou for it.

Good answer. I never knew that. I was never really aware of that Tony. Actually I already tried it. Will need to investigate more before I know if it is on a par with the Cpanel text editor method. I think I may be a little deficient, compared to most webmasters, with regard to upload speed. I am usually running somewhere over 200 Kb/s. Right now I am 233 Kb/s. I am somewhat anxious to see if editing in Filezilla this way is slow due, especially, to my upload speed. I am usually running more than one monitor. I think that configuration would lend itself well to the Filezilla method. currently 1155 Kb/s down 233 Kb/s up 117ms latency

I hear you. I do use Filezilla for big transfers, but I do a lot of copy and pasting into Cpanel text editor in an attempt to quickly see the results of slight changes in a single, tiny, file. Thankyou guys for your help on this issue.

Thankyou for looking into it. I can not duplicate your results in my preferred Opera browser. I may try in Firefox. Some time ago, before I had a website hosted with Hawkhost, there was some kind of Cpanel upgrade. Before the upgrade, if I recall correctly, I did not get that Cpanel Text Editor pop-up at all. Immediately after the upgrade the Cpanel Text Editor pop-up became active. HOWEVER, the default in the Cpanel Text Editor drop-down menu for the encoding type was, at first, ISO-8859-1. Maybe it was the default because that was the encoding type of all my files. Anyway, that darned Cpanel Text Editor pop-up, for me, wastes so much time that I began to think more and more about disabling it. Well, I made the mistake of calling customer support for my hosting provider at the time and asking them if I would be able to "re-enable" that Cpanel Text Editor pop-up, in the exact same configuration, if I disabled it. That hosting provider said, oh sure you can "re-enable" it and it will work the same way. Unfortunately, I listened to them. I disabled the Cpanel Text Editor and, to my recollection, found that, in its absence, the character encoding for my files was US-ASCII. I then "re-enabled" Cpanel Text Editor and, unfortunately, found that the drop down menu was now "pre-populated" with US-ASCII. I explained to that former hosting provider that Cpanel Text Editor "pre-populated" with ISO-8859-1 before I simply turned it off and turned it back on. ...to no avail. Anyway, Cpanel documentation is horrible. While I was trying to fix this issue back then I found glaringly obvious mistakes in the Cpanel documentation and pointed them out to customer support of the host I was with then. Unless Cpanel documentation has changed since that time it is, to me, mostly not even worth looking at. I literally spent several hours on more than one occasion reading Cpanel documentation back then...I ended up needing thera** after the ordeal. I am sure Cpanel has, programmed in, a simple way of doing just what I am asking. Afterall, the encoding default was that way before I turned Cpanel Text Editor off then back on. Unfortunately, Cpanel documentation is so bad that I doubt if the proper instructions for setting that encoding default ever made it into the documentation. I will probably, at some point, start looking for Cpanel forums, or something. Don't spend a lot of time on this for me Tony. The solution has evaded me all of this time and will probably not be any more forthcoming with you.

Tony I have no complaint with regard to my most recent support ticket. I marked it LOW priority. You guys responded fast, despit the LOW priority designation. In the last 2, or so, support tickets I have noticed differences with regard to the responses that were made. Those differences were enough to compel me to ask the question I started this thread with.