Hosting Formula

Blogspot service is great. Everything is handle with care using Google service. I also try blogspot custom domain for one of my domain to share the load of my shared hosting. So far so good until I check statistic for that domain. A page is not exist and when I try to see it I see the same.

Yes, page not found is there and I must do something.

I must set missing host section on blogspot to point specific url where I can redirect the traffic to main domain.

I have shared hosting account on bluehost and want to use it for pointing missing host to blogspot.

Lets get start!

1. Login to bluehost cpanel and click “addon domains”

2. Verify ownership for this domain. Upload file is the easiest but I already set it for blogspot custom domain so I must use other option. I prefer to use  EPP code for domain ownership verification.

3. Login to godaddy and choose ‘send by email’ for authorization code.

4. After domain verification is correctly set I can create a subdomain.

5. Subdomain redirection.

Set redirection for this subdomain to main domain and click save.

6. Login to blogspot and enter sub domain created on step 5.

click save.

great, at this moment I have working system that redirect any ‘not found’ traffic to main page of my domain. As you see from the picture, I’ve convert 41 useless traffic to main page using this way.

Your setting is vary, depend on your domain policy but I hope you got the point.

I like to use cron as best friend to do a job that periodically need to perform.  In my opinion cpanel hosting provide easy to understand and reliable cron service too. I’ve try a few free cron service out there but I still confident with service provided by cpanel.

To access cron from cpanel you can click “cron jobs” by scroll down on your cpanel.

Cpanel cron provide ‘template’ where you can do simple task. You can run a task every minute, every 5 minutes and so on.

If you want specific time you can arrange it by enter the value inside provided box as you can see from this picture.

Click “Add new cron job” to let system know about it.

What if you don’t have cpanel based cron? You can use service from “Corntab“.

You can enter set the time and corntab will automatically create the result that you can paste to your crontab editor.

Caution :

Use your cron  facility wisely as you need to perform this job in regular. Don’t use short interval too often. Use it as necessary.