I was having the same problem until martin posted that, only I knew why. I'm behind a firewall which blocks access to port 2082, and I can't change that. I suspect you guys are in the same boat, sunflower and jhalle. If you use cpanel.yourname.x10hosting.com , you connect on port 80, which is what all web traffic uses (and there shouldn't be many firewalls in the world that block port 80). Should be fine after that.