WordPress Tutorial 2: Terminology
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn important part of learning any new piece of software is understanding the terminology it uses. Thankfully WordPress uses fairly simple names for everything that make it easy...
View ArticleHow To View Full E-Mail Headers
Reading Time: 2 minutesFull email message headers provide invaluable information when trying to track down a problem. Just a few of the items included in the headers are: The server from which an...
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How To: Mac OS X Cisco VPN Set Up
Reading Time: 2 minutesStarting with Mac OS X 10.6 it is now possible to connect to a Cisco IPSec VPN without having to download any extra software. Main Set Up Steps Before you begin please have your...
View ArticleDisk Partitioning With fdisk
Reading Time: 5 minutesSo, you added a new disk to your dedicated server. That’s great! Before you can really utilize it you’ll want to partition it out so that you can create file systems on it. There...
View ArticleMeta Refresh Tags
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome web pages, webcams being an excellent example, require an automatic refresh in order to show the most recent information displayed by the page. Meta refresh tags make...
View ArticleHow to: Create a New Website in 20 Minutes
Reading Time: 5 minutesA lot of people think creating a new website with a brand new domain name takes a lot of work and time. While this can be true in some cases, it is entirely possible to have a...
View ArticleHow To: Flush Your Local DNS Cache for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf your computer has trouble reaching a certain web site or server this may be due to a corrupt local DNS cache. This guide will show you how to clear your local DNS cache...
View ArticleLiquid Web SAN – Linux iSCSI Initiation
Reading Time: 2 minutesProvided that you have access to the Liquid Web SAN you will need to set up your iSCSI initiator so that you can access your volume. Read on to find out how. When you receive...
View ArticleCSF: Config Server Firewall Installation
Reading Time: 5 minutesAn alternative firewall to APF is the Config Server Firewall, or CSF. CSF is generally considered a more advanced firewall as there are more configuration options compared to...
View ArticleHtaccess Redirects
Reading Time: 2 minutesSay you have decided to change domain names, or you have one address on your site that you want to redirect to a completely different location. Using htaccess redirects you can...
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E-Mail Forwards and cPanel
Reading Time: 2 minutesForwarding e-mail from one account to another using cPanel is a simple matter, but how you set it up can have a big impact on your server! cPanel includes tools for domains that...
View ArticleHow and Why: Enabling Apache’s Piped Logging
Reading Time: 3 minutesApache by default logs data directly to log files. While this isn’t a bad thing, it is not your only option. Both Apache 1.x and Apache 2.x bring with them the option of enabling...
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How to Upgrade Your WordPress Site
Reading Time: 2 minutesWordPress 3.0 was released this week, and just like with any new release there are a lot of questions about upgrading existing WordPress sites. In this tutorial we will...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know About Your Domain
Reading Time: 3 minutesMany customers tell us how overwhelming setting up their first web site feels. Between DNS, e-mail, document roots, software versions, and all the other details involved in...
View ArticleHow To: Lowering Your DNS TTLs
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhenever making DNS changes, lowering your TTLs (Time To Live) 24 hours ahead of time will reduce the amount of time that your change takes to propagate. This article assumes...
View ArticleWordPress Tutorial 3: How to Install a New Plugin, Theme, or Widget
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is part 3 in an ongoing series on WordPress. Please see Part 1: WordPress Tutorial 1: Installation Setup and Part 2: WordPress Tutorial 2: Terminology and Part 4: WordPress...
View ArticleUnderstanding Load Balancing for Web Servers
Reading Time: 3 minutesLoad balancing is the distribution of a workload across many nodes. In the web hosting industry, it is typically used for balancing HTTP traffic over multiple servers acting...
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Updating an A record in cPanel
Reading Time: 2 minutesDomain Name System, or DNS, is a complex system to understand, but cPanel has simplified the administration of DNS by adding it to the WHM interface. One of the most common tasks...
View ArticleDigging Into Exim Mail Logs With Exigrep
Reading Time: 3 minutesPerhaps a particular domain on your cPanel server has stopped receiving e-mail. Or, an address on your domain is able to receive e-mail, except from your supplier. Maybe you can...
View ArticleUpdating an A record from Command Line
Reading Time: 2 minutesDomain Name Service, or DNS, can be one of the most be one of the more complicated concepts in server administration. This article will walk through changing an A record from the...
View Articledos2unix – Removing Hidden Windows Characters from Files
Reading Time: 1 minuteWhile editing files on a machine running some form of Windows and uploading them to a Linux server is convenient, it can cause unforeseen complications. Windows-based text editors...
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How To: Restore a Domain From cPanel Backups
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile it is a good and useful thing to have entire server backups, sometimes you only need to restore one or two domains. In these situations, cPanel backups make it easy for one...
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How To: Installing Software with Softaculous
Reading Time: 2 minutesSoftaculous is an easy to use one click installer, allowing you to install software packages on your Fully Managed Linux server quickly and easily backup and update these...
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How to Back Up MySQL Databases From The Command Line
Reading Time: 2 minutesNext Series: MySQL via Command Line 102: Basic User Interaction While automated backups are important, sometimes you just want to take a quick and dirty snapshot before making a...
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Logging into Plesk
Reading Time: 1 minuteOne of the common questions new users have when they get a fully managed dedicated server is “How do I login to my control panel?” This article will show you how to login to your...
View ArticleHow To: Update the Right DNS Zone File
Reading Time: 4 minutesOne of the first problems people encounter when they are new to DNS is where to start looking when they need to make a DNS change. Say you want to add a new subdomain for a piece...
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Change a Domain Name in cPanel/WHM
Reading Time: 2 minutesChanging an existing domain name and the associated account on your server is a task that most users don’t think about until it becomes necessary. Thankfully the tools provided...
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How To: Create a cPanel Account in WHM
Reading Time: 5 minutesRunning your first webserver can be daunting. Even if you are familiar with running a cPanel account, there is much to learn regarding Web Host Manager (WHM). The first step to...
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New User Tutorial: Creating E-Mail Addresses in cPanel
Reading Time: 1 minuteOne of the perks of having your own domain is the ability to set up e-mail addresses for it. cPanel makes creating a new e-mail address simple. After you have logged into your...
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How To: Create a MySQL Database and User in cPanel
Reading Time: 1 minuteInstallation instructions for Content Management Systems (CMS) often require you to create a MySQL database for the application. But just how is that done on a cPanel server? In...
View ArticleHow To: Check PHP Modules With phpinfo
Reading Time: 2 minutesSay your PHP application is unable to load a needed PHP module. The first thing to check is to see if the PHP module is available to the application. The best way to do that is...
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Creating Storm Server Images
Reading Time: 1 minuteWe have written previously about regularly backing up Storm Servers, but that only covers automated image backups. With the Storm platform, it is possible to take image snapshots...
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How To: Upgrade Apache and PHP using cPanel’s Easyapache
Reading Time: 2 minutes Note: Please note that this article is considered legacy documentation because EasyApache 3 has reached its end-of-life support. If you run a cPanel server, and need to upgrade...
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Editing a cPanel account in WHM
Reading Time: 1 minuteChanging the settings and limits of a cPanel account from WHM is a simple process and only takes a few moments. This process is useful for when a user wants more disk space, Email...
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Managing your skeleton directory in WHM
Reading Time: 1 minuteThis article will show you how to create a default placeholder home page for your cPanel accounts. The ‘skeleton directory’ on linux based systems is a directory where default...
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Managing your suspended page in WHM
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis tutorial will show you how to manage your suspended accounts page in WHM. This page is the one shown to a visitor when attempting to access a domain of a suspended account....
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Running SQL Queries on a Database with PhpMyAdmin
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this tutorial, we will explore how to run SQL queries on a database within PhpMyAdmin. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. SQL statements or queries are used to perform...
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How to Install OBS on Linux, Windows and MacOS
Reading Time: 5 minutes What is OBS? OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is a free and open-source video recording and livestreaming software program that is written in C, C ++, and Qt and developed by the...
View ArticleHow to Uninstall Software in Ubuntu 18.04
Reading Time: 6 minutes Introduction In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to quickly and easily uninstall software from Ubuntu. Uninstalling software can be done using several techniques. In this...
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How to Set Up Plesk Backups in Cloud Object Storage
Reading Time: 7 minutes By default, Plesk typically stores backups on the server. This can, however, present a risk if the hard drive or RAID fails on the server. If this ever occurs, you can possibly...
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