How to Disable and Enable SiteSentry Alerts

With your initial upload or development phase of your website, you’ll go through multiple changes within your hosting account since you are constantly updating your files. The email address listed in the Contact Information on cPanel, you can temporarily disable the SiteSentry alerts during your work-in-progress.

To disable SiteSentry, you can create a flag file (.disable-sitesentry) on the Home Directory, which will trigger a “no delivery” action. You may skip through the article be clicking the links below to either:

Disable SiteSentry
Enable SiteSentry

Disable SiteSentry Alerts

Here are the steps on how to disable SiteSentry alerts:

Step 1. Log in to the cPanel using this link format: http://yourdomain.com/cpanel/
Replace yourdomain.com with the Main Domain Name connected to your hosting.
Step 2. Click File Manager under Files panel.

Select Home Directory (home/username).
Click Settings on the top-right. Check Show Hidden Files (dotfiles).
Click Save.

Step 3. Click New File. Type .disable-sitesentry in the New File Name field.

Step 4. Click Create New File to save.

Enable SiteSentry Alerts

Here are the steps on how to enable SiteSentry alerts:

Select Home Directory (home/username).
Click Settings on the top-right. Check Show Hidden Files (dotfiles).
Click Save.

Step 3. Locate and click on the file .disable-sitesentry.
Step 4. Click Delete on the menu. Or, right-click and choose Delete.