Hello there! This is Ashley, a technical writer with the documentation team at
cPanel, the hosting platform of choice. I'm going to show you how to configure
your contact information and notification settings for your cPanel
account. As a cPanel user, you want to provide this information, because it
allows the system to notify you when there is an important event with your
account. So what's an important event? It's an event such as approaching your
account quota limit, if your account information changes, or if an
unauthorized user attempts to log into your account. You also need to provide a
primary contact address in order to use cPanel's Reset Password feature. This
interface only appears if your hosting provider enables the Contact Information
feature in WHM's Feature Manager interface. If you don't see this feature
you may want to contact your hosting provider.
Alright. Let's go ahead and log into our cPanel account. Here on the cPanel
interface we can select Contact Information from the Preferences menu
here, but let's click our username in the top right section of the interface here,
then select Contact Information from the menu. The Contact Information interface
will appear. At the top of this interface we have three text boxes where we can
provide our Contact Information. The first two are the contact email
addresses that we want to receive notifications. Right now we do not have
any information provided in these contact fields. But before we enter our
information, let's take note of the interface notice message here. cPanel
does not recommend that we use an email address on the domain that the server
hosts. Why? Because if our system encounters a problem we won't receive a
system notification. For example, if our mailbox is over its, quota the system
won't deliver the notification. Let's enter a primary contact address here in the
first text box. This should be an account we frequently access, so we don't miss
any messages the system sends us. Next let's enter a secondary--or backup--email
address in the text box here. The third text box here lets us use a Pushbullet
access token. This access token allows us to link our mobile phone with our cPanel
account so we can receive these important notifications on the go. For
more information about these access tokens, check out Pushbullet's website.
I've included the link in the description below. For this tutorial
let's enter a token in the text box. Next we have the Contact Preferences section.
This set of options tells the system when it should notify us about changes
to our cPanel account. This section is only available for users who's hosting
providers have enabled Update Notification Preferences in WHM's Feature
Manager interface. Some of the options here also require that your hosting
provider enables certain settings. If you don't see them, or this section is
unavailable, contact your hosting provider. As we can see there are
several options to select from. Some of these options may be enabled by default
depending on how our account is set up. However, we can pick and choose which
options we want. For example, we can select to be notified when our contact
email address or password changes, if someone logs into our account, or if an
external account links to our account for authentication. We can also select
notifications for when our account reaches its disk or bandwidth usage
limits, as well as SSL certification expiration notices. For more information
about these preferences, check out our documentation included in the video
description below. Lastly, we have the AutoSSL notifications section. This
allows us to set the level at which we want the system to notify us for Auto
SSL-related notifications. This section is only available for users whose
hosting providers have enabled AutoSSL user notifications in WHM's Manage
AutoSSL interface. Some of these options also require that your hosting provider
enable them. So if you don't see them, or this section is unavailable, contact your
hosting provider. By default, the system enables the AutoSSL failures and
deferrals only notification option, so the system will notify us for these
types of event failures. But for this tutorial we want to receive
notifications for AutoSSL failures only. Let's select the AutoSSL failures only
option here. Now that we've provided our contact information, as well as our
desired notification preferences, let's click Save. The system directs us to a
confirmation interface. This interface lets us know that our information has
successfully saved and provides us with a list of our contact settings and our
desired notification preferences. Thank you for viewing this tutorial. I've
included a link to our Contact Information documentation in the video
description below. Check it out for more information on this feature. Also, be sure
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at cPanel on Twitter. See you next time.