Recognizing Phishing Emails Impersonating Your Host—How to Spot Them
Scammers send fake emails that look like they’re from your host, webmail, or support team. They’re designed to scare you into clicking a link or handing over your password. Here’s how to spot them and stay safe. What You’re Dealing With You may get an email claiming your mailbox or…
Email Sent But Not Received? Check These First
What’s Happening You sent an email from your domain, but it never arrived in the recipient’s inbox. No error appeared on your end, so what went wrong? The truth: If messages sent from your domain email address appear to go missing, the sending service may still be working correctly. In…
Email Not Working? Check Your Disk Space
What’s Happening Email delivery or forwarding fails when your hosting account runs out of disk space. The mail system can’t write new messages or process forwarding until you free up storage. Common Signs You may see a server error when trying to access or manage email, or forwarded mail may…
How to Increase PHP memory limit from the control panel
Description If your website or application needs a higher PHP memory limit, you can increase it from your hosting control panel. This applies to the PHP process limit used by scripts such as WordPress, which is separate from the overall memory available to the hosting account. Reasons You may need…
Pointing a third-party domain to cloudabove hosting and allow SSL to provision
Description If your domain is registered with another provider and you want cloudabove to host both the website and email for that domain, the simplest setup is to point the domain to your hosting account using the cloudabove nameservers. Once the domain is pointing correctly, the SSL certificate is usually…
How To Resolve Remote MySQL Connection issue after a server migration
Remote MySQL access can remain enabled in cPanel after a migration, but connections may still fail if the connecting IP address is not also allowed through the server firewall. This can affect external database tools such as desktop SQL clients. Symptoms A remote database client cannot connect to MySQL on…
Website malware & what to do next
If you’ve found malware or suspect your site has been infected, we’re here to help. How to know if your site is infected with malware Most infected sites may have the following symptoms: Randomly redirecting to third-party sites Suspicious content changes (e.g. defacement, new pages, unrelated content) Unrecognised admin-level users…
Using Webmail to create ‘Autoresponders’
1. Firstly, login to your mailbox using Webmail. In most cases typing your domain name followed by “/webmail” ( e.g. https://example.com/webmail OR https://webmail.example.com) will take you right to your login screen. Alternatively, you can access Webmail directly from cPanel. We have a guide on how to access cPanel here: cloudabove.com/help/how-to-login-to-cpanel/ 2. Login to your mailbox…
Resetting your email password
This guide will show you how to change an email password using cPanel. 1. Login to your cPanel account. When you first set up an account with us, you would have received an email with the details on how you can gain access to your control panel. If you have lost…
Gmail changes from January 2026: POP fetching and Gmailify ending
What’s changing? From January 2026, Google are removing support in Gmail for: “Check mail from other accounts” (POP fetching) – the feature that pulled mail from another mailbox into your Gmail inbox. Gmailify – the feature that applied Gmail spam filtering and inbox features to a third-party mailbox. This mainly…