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Manually Updating Themes: While we recommend using WordPress' automatic updates , you can also manually update...
WordPress: Fixing Common Security Vulnerabilities: If your site uses WordPress, you'll need to make sure you fix it whenever new security...
Connecting to MySQL Using PHP: You can access MySQL databases directly through PHP scripts. This lets you read and...
What type of hosting account do I have?: Many of our hosting accounts offer different features from one another. Fortunately,...
Website Errors: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable errors are most often caused by your site having...
Using Microsoft Expression Web 4 to Create and Upload Your Site: This article describes how to use Microsoft Expression Web 4 to connect to your Web...
What does it mean to get hacked?: "Hacked" is a term you hear thrown around a lot — especially regarding websites...
What is a 404 Page?: A 404 page is an error page that displays when someone tries to access a page that...
Canceling Your Hosting Account: Canceling your hosting account removes your website's files from our servers. Be sure...
Upgrading or Downgrading Your Hosting Account: If you find that you need additional space, bandwidth, or features for your website,...
Does your CGI service support socket connections or socket modules?: Our CGI service does not support the creation of socket connections or socket modules....
Which programming languages do you support with CGI?: Our base CGI language support on Deluxe and Premium Linux shared hosting includes the...
Where do I upload my CGI scripts and applications?: Server-side scripts and executables can be uploaded to any directory on your site and...
What does it mean to host a domain?: Hosting (also known as website hosting or Web hosting) is the business of housing,...
What if I don't know HTML? Can I still create a Web site?: There are a number of tools available that will help you create a website even if you...
Do you support PHP-Nuke?: All of our Linux® hosting accounts support the use of PHP-Nuke. Please check out...
Do you run PHP in safe mode on your Linux hosting servers?: No, we do not run PHP in safe mode on our Linux® hosting servers. For more...
Do you disable any PHP functions on your Linux hosting accounts?: The PHP 5 function register_globals is turned off by default. To change the status of...
Which PHP file extensions can I use with my hosting account?: Linux hosting accounts support PHP 5. Depending on the contents of your .htaccess...
I uploaded my files. Why isn't my website displaying?: If your website isn't displaying after you have uploaded your files, check the...
What FTP software do you recommend?: There are a number of popular FTP clients available online. We recommend:...
Why aren't my website's images displaying?: Typically, there are two reasons why images might not display properly. Either your...
What is the path to sendmail on my Linux hosting plan?: The path to sendmail on our Linux hosting servers is: /usr/lib/sendmail
Using 301 Page Redirects: If you renamed or moved pages of your website, a 301 redirect lets you automatically...
Do your hosting accounts support RSS feeds?: Yes, our hosting accounts support RSS feeds. Using ASP or PHP, you can import RSS...
Connecting to a MySQL Database on Your Linux Hosting Account Using PHP: Below is a code sample for connecting to a MySQL database using PHP. <?php...
Connecting to a MySQL Database Using CGI/Perl: This example describes using CGI/Perl to connect to a MySQL Database....
Why do files in my icons directory not display?: Unfortunately, you cannot use "icons" as a directory name in your Linux...
Do you support fsockopen?: Yes, we do. You can use fsockopen on all of our PHP-enabled hosting plans for TCP...
Do I need to change the permissions to files in my CGI directory?: Yes. CGI scripts must have 705 or 755 permissions to work correctly.
Checking Your Account Status: You may have to wait up to 48 hours before you can upload files to your account (FTP),...
Do your shared hosting accounts support streaming video?: Streaming video is delivered directly from a Web server to an onscreen video player....
Can I add ColdFusion to my hosting account?: No, Cold Fusion is no longer available as an add-on item to our hosting products.
What is the path to Python on my hosting account?: You can use Python with CGI on our shared hosting accounts. To use Python, you need...
What is Python?: Python is a popular interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language...
How often do you empty the /tmp folder on your Linux hosting servers?: All "temp" files created in the /tmp directory on our Linux servers will be...
What is the name of my hosting account's relay server?: The relay server you need to use in your code depends on the type of hosting you use,...
What is a Dedicated IP?: A dedicated IP (Internet Protocol) is a unique Internet address dedicated exclusively...
Who Needs a Dedicated IP Address?: Most shared hosting users have little need for a dedicated IP address. However, a...
Adding or Removing a Dedicated IP Address from Your Hosting Account: With shared hosting, many websites use the same IP address. You might require your own...
Can I use exec cmd or exec cgi in my SSI or SHTML files?: For security reasons, we do not let you use exec cmd or exec cgi in your SSI or...
Using .htaccess Files to Manage PHP File Extensions: Your hosting account uses PHP files in the following way: PHP files — Your...
Ruby Support: As of Jan. 23, 2014, we completely discontinued support for Ruby on all of our shared...
Using Server Variable ($_SERVER) Elements with PHP 5: Our Linux hosting accounts run in CGI mode. When PHP 5 runs in this mode, the server...
Working with Error Logs: This article only applies to Web Hosting. For more information, see What type of...
Why would I need additional (File Transfer Protocol) FTP users?: There are several reasons why you might consider creating an additional (File Transfer...
Can I use extensionless PHP files?: For security reasons, you cannot use extensionless PHP files on your website without...
How is my bandwidth usage calculated?: Bandwidth usage is a measure of website traffic. It is comprised of two traffic...
Moving Your Website to Us (Shared Hosting): If you have a hosting account somewhere else, but you want to move it to us (thank...
How many folders can I create in my hosting account's root?: The number of files and subdirectories in a given directory should be limited to a...
Can I add Perl Modules to my hosting account?: No, you cannot add additional Perl Modules to the server. However, we have installed...
What paths do I use to upload PERL files and use the PERL interpreter?: You can publish your PERL files to any directory. NOTE: The file's permissions...
What is open_basedir?: The open_basedir function defines the locations or paths from which PHP is allowed to...
Using .htpasswd with Your Linux Shared Hosting Account: To protect a directory in your hosting account with a password, in that directory,...
How long does it take to set up, upgrade, or downgrade my hosting?: Linux Initial setup of your Linux shared hosting takes 24-48 hours....
Do your shared hosting accounts support Java?: Hosting accounts purchased after July 11, 2011 do not support Java . Existing...
Are stored procedures supported in MySQL?: Stored procedures are supported in MySQL 5.0. A stored procedure is a set of SQL...
Do your Linux hosting plans support Non-parsed Headers?: No. Our hosting plans do not support non-parsed headers (NPH). If you have older CGI...
What is MySQL?: MySQL is a sophisticated and powerful relational database used by many websites to...
What is .htaccess?: Using .htaccess files lets you control the behavior of your site or a specific...
Removing Dedicated IP Addresses from Your Hosting Account: You can remove a dedicated IP from your hosting account. To Remove the Dedicated IP...
How many visitors can view my site at once?: While we do not limit the number of visitors that can view your website, we do limit...
Viewing Your Website Before Changing Your Nameservers Using Host Files: Adding entries to your hosts file lets you view the files you uploaded to your hosting...
Performing a Traceroute in Mac OS X: If you are running Mac® OS X, you can use the Network Utility application, which...
What is a Cron Job?: Cron is a standard Linux feature that allows you to schedule tasks, called "Cron...
What is a Sitemap?: A sitemap informs search engines that individual pages on your site are new or...
What is a script?: A script is a library of functionality that is easily incorporated into a website....
What is an application plugin?: Plugins extend the functionality of an existing application and are installed and...
Can I edit my Web site's content without having to FTP?: Yes, you can create new and edit existing files through the File Manager in your...
How many files can a shared hosting directory hold?: The number of files per directory you can use depends on the type of hosting you have:...
Microsoft Expression Web: Publish Your Website: This Quick Start guide describes how to use Microsoft Expression Web to connect to...
What is CSS?: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) make it faster and easier to create and maintain...
Finding Your Account's PHP Version Using Phpinfo: The easiest way to find your PHP settings for an account is to upload a PHP info...
Why is WordPress unable to connect to my database during install?: If you are getting an "Error establishing a database connection" message when trying...
Getting Started with WordPress: No more is a blog just a single page with a "what I did at the store today" kind of...
What is Perl?: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language (Perl) is an open-source scripting...
Hosting Multiple Websites on Your Hosting Account: Only our Deluxe, Premium, Unlimited, and Ultimate hosting accounts can host multiple...
Why is my WordPress site running slowly?: Every time a visitor goes to your WordPress® blog, the server processes PHP...
Identifying, Removing, and Preventing Malware on Your Hosting Server: Malware is short for malicious software. It's a catch-all term that describes harmful...
Can I run Magento on shared hosting?: You can run Magento® on Linux shared hosting, however, shared hosting will not...
Upgrading Your WordPress Installation to a New Version: There are several steps to upgrading your WordPress® installation. Your first...
Moving Small WordPress Sites to COMPANY_NAME: There are different ways to move your WordPress® site between hosts. The easiest...
Moving Large WordPress Sites to COMPANY_NAME: There are different ways to move your WordPress® site between hosts. The easiest...
Enabling WordPress Multisites: WordPress® 3.0 offers a new feature called Multisite that lets you host multiple...
What is Concrete5?: Concrete5 is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) similar to...
Do your hosting accounts support active or passive FTP?: Our hosting accounts only support passive FTP. For this reason you need to make sure...
Why did I receive a timezone error with my PHP website?: If you use a custom PHP initialization file file with your Linux hosting account...
What is FFmpeg? Can I install it on my shared hosting account?: FFmpeg is cross-platform software used to record, convert and stream audio and video....
Capturing Information Through Wireshark: If you have experienced issues with your website or email, we might need information...
Do you support ColdFusion?: No, our shared hosting environment does not support ColdFusion as of November 29, 2011.
Configuring Filezilla for FTPS Explicit: When using Filezilla, select the FTP over explicit TLS encryption option to secure...
What type of compression format should I use in PHPMyAdmin?: When exporting your database from PHPMyAdmin, you can choose to either compress your...
Keeping Your WordPress Site Secure: Online security is a big deal. Here are a few tips to keep your WordPress® website...
Previewing Your WordPress Site: You previewed your WordPress site and almost everything was broken. What the heck?...
Fixing Broken Links After Moving Your WordPress Site: Sometimes you need to update broken links when you change your WordPress® domain...
Importing MySQL Databases via SSH: Servers without a control panel (such as cPanel, Plesk, or Simple Control Panel) do...
Troubleshooting Joomla! SEF URLs: Joomla!® lets you use Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs for your website, which...
Navigating WordPress: With WordPress®, you can manage anything from a simple personal site with just a...
Customizing Settings in WordPress: The Settings menu in the WordPress Dashboard helps you handle the configuration of...
Managing Users in WordPress: WordPress® attributes every post to a user. With the Users menu in WordPress, you...
Publishing and Editing Posts in WordPress: WordPress® posts are the entries that display in reverse chronological order on...
Managing Comments in WordPress: Comments on your WordPress® site let your users leave feedback on individual posts...
Welcome to WordPress Blog Hosting: Welcome to your new WordPress® site. Before you dive in, there are a few things...
How many websites can I host with one shared hosting account?: Depending on the kind of hosting account you have, you can either host multiple,...
Too many files in one folder? Try a dirtree.: Too many files in a single folder/directory - 1,000 or more - causes severe...
Resolving Joomla! Navigation/Linking Errors: If you manually install Joomla! ™ on your hosting account, or make changes to...
A Primer on Website Stats: Business websites benefit from getting information about their visitors: where they...
Joomla! Module Security Compromise: mod_Administrator: We've detected a compromise affecting Joomla!® installations. In this compromise,...
Clarifying File Repository Violations: As we continue to strive for optimal website performance and availability for all of...
WordPress Compromise: Spam Content: We've detected a compromise affecting some WordPress sites. In this compromise,...
What is an FTP compromise?: To move files between your computer and your website, you use File Transfer Protocol...
Resolving Google Safe Browsing Issues: If the following image displays when you visit your website, it's been blacklisted by...
Identifying Malicious Redirects on Your Website: If attackers compromise your site, they might insert malicious code that redirects...
Malicious WordPress Plugins: Plugins let you add and customize WordPress' features. WordPress keeps a repository of...
Fixing Your Drupal Site (Drupalgeddon): tr:nth-child(odd) {background-color: #f7f7f7;} th{background-color:#ddd;...
Publishing Your Website with Dreamweaver CS5: After building your website with Adobe Dreamweaver®, you can publish it to your...
Hvad er min websites rodmappe?: Rodmappen til din website er det indhold, der indlæses, når besøgende besøger...
Opprette MySQL-Databaser: Du kan opprette MySQL-databaser på hostingkontoen din som nettstedene dine kan...
Przesyłanie Plików: Twoje konto hostingowe ma wbudowanego menedżera plików, którego możesz użyć,...
Troubleshooting Common Issues in WordPress: WordPress® is one of the most commonly used blogging applications. While it's...
What is File Transfer Protocol (FTP)?: Using File Transfer Protocol (FTP), you can connect to a remote computer, such as a...
Password Protect Directories: If you want to restrict access to directories on your website, you can use your...
Reset Your Website Application (CMS) Password: If your website has been compromised, you might need to change the administrator...
FileZilla Errors: "The Server's Certificate Is Unknown" & ECONNREFUSED: You might receive the following error when trying to connect to your cPanel shared...
What file displays when someone browses to my domain name?: When a visitor types your domain name in to their browser they are automatically...
What is my absolute path?: cPanel absolute hosting paths are: /home/ username /public_html/ Where...
What is my database host name?: Because cPanel hosts your databases locally, use localhost as the database's...
Where can I download my shared hosting backups?: Where you can download your backups you create depends on which type of backup you...
Manage DNS for Your Hosting Account: If you need to change your hosted domain's DNS, you can access our DNS manager through...
Find IP Address of Your Website: You might need to find your hosting account's IP address to point your domain name to...
End PHP Processes: On Linux® hosting accounts, you can view and end certain types of connections to...
Delete Database: If you no longer need them, you can delete databases from your account. Before...
Find Your Website's Nameservers: To make your website visible on the Internet, you need to point your domain name to...
Using Zend Guard Loader: You can use Zend Guard Loader, a free application, to decode your website's Zend files...
Remove Domains: If you no longer want to host a secondary domain name on your hosting account, you can...
View Website Traffic Statistics: Our hosting accounts let you view statistics about your website's traffic....
Change Your Control Panel's Language: You can use your control panel in a large number of languages. Log in to your...
Rename Files: You can rename files you've uploaded to your hosting account. Log in to your...
Create Files: You can create new files on your hosting account that use any extension. Log...
Create Directory: You can create new directories on your hosting account. Log in to your...
Delete Directories: You can delete directories and any files in them from your hosting account....
Download Files: You can download files from your hosting account onto your local computer....
Create Copy of a File Folder: You can create exact copies of files on your hosting account. Log in to your...
Move Files or Folders Between Directories: You can move files on your hosting account between different directories. Log...
Delete File or Folder: You can delete individual files from your hosting account. Log in to your...
How to Compress Files: You can compress multiple files together to create a single file. This is also known...
Unzip Files: You can unzip any zipped (also known as compressed/archived) files on your hosting...
Edit Files: You can edit the contents of any text-based files on your hosting account. Before...
Export MySQL Databases: You have two options when exporting your MySQL database. You can either export the...
Import SQL Files into MySQL Databases: If you backed up or exported a database to a SQL file, you can import it into one of...
Optimize Table in MySQL: Optimizing your database removes the gaps in data or "overhead" that can occur when...
Restore MySQL Database from Another Host: You can restore MySQL databases you created at another hosting company. To do so, you...
Common Web Page Errors: HTTP status codes are three-digit numbers that provide Web browsers with information...
Specifying a New Default Document Root on Your Hosting Account: NOTE: This procedure is available for Linux Deluxe or Premium Windows hosting...
Adobe Muse: How to Publish a Website: If you created a website using Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) Muse, you can use its...
Change File Extension Handlers/Languages (Linux): Your Linux Web Hosting account lets you process files in different languages. File...
Enable Custom PHP Modules: If you want to use custom PHP modules, you can manage them through a PHP...
PHP Upload Limits on Shared Hosting: Your default PHP upload limit depends on the type of hosting account you have ( more...
php.ini/user.ini: Not Taking Effect: A PHP initialization file is not always immediately recognized by shared hosting...
Fetch: Publish Your Website: Use the following steps to publish your website using the Fetch FTP client on a...
Dreamweaver CS4: Publish Your Website: After building your website with Adobe Dreamweaver®, you can publish it to your...
Dreamweaver CS6: Publish Your Website: After building your website with Adobe Dreamweaver®, you can publish it to your...
Windows 7: Create FTP Connection: You can use Microsoft® Windows 7 to connect to your hosting account and upload...
Linux Permissions Definitions: There are two types of general permissions and three types of advanced permissions...
Disabling APC on Your Hosting Account: If you want to disable Alternative PHP Cache (APC), you can do so by modifying your...
Windows Vista: How to Upload a Website: This guide briefly describes what an FTP client is and how to use Windows Vista...
Change Your Account's Domain: Changing the primary domain name on a hosting account lets you change the domain name...
Set up Your Account: After you purchase a hosting plan, you need to set it up before you can use it to host...
Find Your FTP Login/Username: To upload content to your website, you need your FTP username and password. This...
Preview Your Website: You can preview what your domain's website looks like before making it visible on the...
View or Change Your PHP Version: Your cPanel account displays its PHP version on its home page. Log in to your...
Create Cron Jobs: Cron is a standard Linux feature that lets you schedule tasks, called "Cron Jobs," to...
Enable SSH: SSH is a secure method of connecting to your hosting account to upload files, move...
Back up Your Website: Keeping a backup of your website is a wonderful idea. It provides insurance against...
phpMyAdmin Login Information: phpMyAdmin lets you manage MySQL databases. You can change database values, run...
Move Your WordPress Site to a Different Directory: What if you installed WordPress® in the wrong directory? Don't worry — it...
Restore from a Backup: After you've backed up your shared hosting account ( more info ), you can use those...
What is my website's root directory?: The root directory of your website is the content that loads when visitors access your...
Add FTP Users: Additional FTP users can upload and manage files in your hosting account. Log...
Install WordPress: WordPress® is a personal publishing platform, or content management system, that...
Install WordPress: WordPress® is a personal publishing platform, or content management system, that...
Configure MIME Types: cPanel shared hosting accounts offer a built-in MIME type tool. To Change Your...
Find Your Account's MySQL Version: A database's version of MySQL doesn't change once you created it. If you are...
View Your Database Details: After creating your database, you can find its details, including its hostname, in...
Create MySQL Databases: You can create MySQL databases on your hosting account for your websites to use. To...
Remove FTP Users: You can remove specific users' FTP access to your account. NOTE: You can only...
Reset Database User Passwords: You can log in to your website's databases as one of the users you created. If you...
Upload Files: Your hosting account has a built-in file manageryou can use to upload files to your...
Set Permissions: You can set different directory permissions for each of the directories in your Linux...
Install Applications: Your hosting account has a built-in tool to make installing applications like...
Edit FTP Users: You can easily edit the password and working directory for FTP users. Log in...
Reset Your FTP Password: You can reset or change the credentials you use to log in to your hosting account via...
Upload Files to Your Website (FTP): To make your website visible on the Internet, you need to upload your website's files...
Connecting to Your Hosting Account with FileZilla (FTP): FileZilla is a free File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client for Windows®, Mac®,...
Software Versions (Shared Hosting): The software we install on your hosting account depends on its type ( more info )....
Testing Your Server for Open Relays: If your server has its mail relays open, your server might be used to send spam...
What filename does my PHP initialization file need to use?: PHP initialization files can manage form, server, and environmental variables as well...
Add Domains/Websites: You can add domain names to any type of hosting account. However, what you can do with...
Accessing Git on Your cPanel Shared Hosting Account: Our cPanel shared hosting accounts come with Git pre-installed (i.e. you don't have...
Adding Addon Domains to Your cPanel Shared Hosting Account: If you want to host a website besides your primary domain name, you can use cPanel's...
Adding Domain Aliases to Your cPanel Shared Hosting Account: Using Aliases, cPanel lets you add domains to your hosting account and have them load...
Adding IP Addresses to cPanel's IP Deny Manager: cPanel lets you block IP addresses from accessing your hosting account using the IP...
Can I create additional logins for my cPanel shared hosting account?: No. You cannot create additional logins for your cPanel shared hosting account....
Changing cPanel Shared Hosting Account's PHP Error Handling: You can prevent cPanel shared hosting accounts from displaying PHP error messages on...
Changing Your Email Destination with cPanel Shared Hosting: cPanel offers great email service that's hosted locally on your cPanel account itself....
Configuring DNS for Your cPanel Domain: cPanel (both shared and on servers) lets you host a website and email for your domain...
cPanel Shared Hosting Resource Limits: With shared hosting accounts, many customers' websites share the same servers and...
Enable cPanel's Leech Protect: If you have areas of your site with restricted access, you can make sure the security...
Enabling cPanel Hot Link Protection: To prevent other sites from using your bandwidth by directly linking to files on your...
How do each of cPanel's resources affect my site?: With shared hosting accounts, many customers' websites share the same servers and...
Improve Slow Zen Cart Sites: If your Zen Cart site is slow, there are a lot of things you can do to improve its...
Install Zen Cart: If you have a cPanel shared hosting account, you can install Zen Cart (a popular...
Installing a UCC Certificate for cPanel Addon Domains: If you want to use an SSL connection for one of your cPanel shared hosting account's...
Installing Third-Party SSLs on cPanel Accounts: Our cPanel accounts ( shared hosting and servers ) support SSL certificates from...
Log in to Your Zen Cart Admin: Logging in to Zen Cart's admin to administer your site requires you to find your...
Logging in to cPanel Shared Hosting: Logging in to cPanel lets you control your hosting account, letting you upload files,...
Migrating Your cPanel Site from Another Host to COMPANY_NAME: If you want to migrate your site hosted by another company to COMPANY_NAME, you can...
Migrating Your cPanel Site from HostGator to COMPANY_NAME: If you want to migrate your site hosted by HostGator to COMPANY_NAME, you can use...
Restoring Installatron Websites from Backups: If you installed an application on your cPanel shared hosting account through...
Sending Form Mail with cPanel and Plesk Shared Hosting: To send form mail for a website hosted on your cPanel or Plesk shared hosting account(...
Upgrading Your cPanel Account's Resources: If you have a cPanel account ( more info ) and need more power from it, you have...
What is cPanel?: cPanel is a control panel available on our Linux-based hosting accounts and servers....
Working with cPanel's Logs/Metrics: cPanel offers a number of different monitoring and statistic tools to help you...
Accessing cPanel Email Forwarders: cPanel email offers two options for email forwarding: Forwarders send a copy...
Adding Email Accounts to cPanel Domains: cPanel lets you create email addresses at the domains hosted on your account. To...
Checking Your cPanel Webmail: After adding email accounts, you can check them through cPanel's built-in webmail...
Configuring Mail Clients with cPanel Email: After adding email accounts, you can use cPanel's tools to configure your email client...
Creating cPanel Email Filters: cPanel lets you create two types of email filters: Account level filters...
Do your cPanel shared hosting accounts support email authentication?: We have disabled both of cPanel's built-in email authentication tools: DomainKeys...
Enabling Spam Assassin in cPanel: Our cPanel hosting accounts let you use SpamAssassin™ to help prevent spam from...
Importing Email Accounts/Forwarders into cPanel: You can import a set of email accounts or forwarders into cPanel, creating addresses...
My Email Stopped Working After Setting up My Hosting: If your email stopped working when you set up your cPanel shared hosting account, this...
Outgoing Email (SMTP) Limit: 500 outgoing messages/hour All email addresses on a cPanel shared hosting account...
Resetting cPanel Email Passwords: There are two ways to change your cPanel email password, based on whether or not you...
Setting cPanel Email Default Addresses: cPanel email's Default Addresses are also known as "catch-alls." With a Default...
Setting up cPanel Auto Responders: cPanel email lets you create an auto responder, which automatically replies to email...
Connect to Databases Remotely: Connecting remotely to a database lets you manage it using tools like MySQL Query...
Fixing Permalink Issues with WordPress: If you have a problem with your WordPress® installation's Permalinks, you can...
Logging in to WordPress: If you set up WordPress, you obviously want to use it. No matter how or where you set...
Maintaining Your WordPress Sites: Think of your website like an apartment; it requires maintenance. You don't just move...
Move Your WordPress Site to a Different Directory: What if you installed WordPress® in the wrong directory? Don't worry — it...
Securing and Protecting Your WordPress Site: No one wants to be responsible for ruining everyone else's good time. No one wants to...
What is JetPack?: JetPack is a WordPress plugin that bundles some of the top WordPress features....
WordPress Plugins, the Internet, and You: Morrissey said, "I've seen it happen in other people's lives and now it's happening in...
WordPress: Change Domain, Hosting, or Directory Troubleshooting: If you do something that changes the URL of your WordPress® site, you need to...
What is a subdomain?: A subdomain is an easy way to create a memorable Web address for unique content areas...
Request an SSL Certificate: After you purchase an SSL certificate, you need to request it for the domain name (or...
Manage Your Hosting Account Subdomains: Subdomains let you create memorable addresses and easy ways to access areas of your...
Manage Hosting Account Domains: After you set up your hosting account, you can manage the domains it uses:...
Manually Installing Concrete5 on Your Hosting Account: If you want to use Concrete5 to build your website, you can manually install it on a...
Set a Custom 404 Page: 404 pages display when someone tries to access a page on your website that doesn't...
Accessing Your Server Using Putty: You can use the Putty SSH client to access your Linux dedicated or Virtual Private...
Connect to Your Server or Shared Hosting Account with SSH: All of our Linux-based shared hosting accounts ( more info ) and servers (VPS or...
iWeb: Publish Your Website: To find information about any of these settings, see Upload files to your website...
Enabling Joomla! Search Engine Friendly URLs: Joomla! lets you use Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs for your website, which can...
Using an SSL with Your WordPress Admin Control Panel: You need an SSL certificate installed and set up on your shared hosting account before...
Securing WordPress Admin in Linux: This article shows you how to add an additional password to your wp-admin folder under...
Changing Your WordPress Domain Name While Moving Your Site to a New Location: There are different ways to move your WordPress® blog between servers. You should...
Helpful Wordpress Articles: Hosting a WordPress® website can be simple and exciting. The following articles...
Troubleshooting FileZilla FTP Connections: If you have problems establishing an FTP connection to your hosting account using...
Installing ionCube on Your Linux Hosting Account: ionCube lets you protect your website's PHP code from being viewed and ran on...
Changing Your WordPress Domain Name: If you want to change your WordPress® site's domain name, you can use your...
Troubleshooting WordPress Plugin Issues: If you encounter slowness or errors on your WordPress® site, your plugins might be...
Redirect HTTP to HTTPS Automatically: If you have a secure certificate (SSL) on your website, you can automatically redirect...
Getting Started with Hosting (cPanel): If you're new to hosting or cPanel, this article will help you get started. 1. Set...
About Application Security Compromises: There are a few common ways that your website, or Web application, can be hacked, or...
Checking Joomla! Databases for Malicious Users: Attackers often create users to exploit security vulnerabilities in Joomla! and other...
Setting up Custom-Defined PHP Error Logs in cPanel: cPanel offers built-in error logging, but it doesn't catch errors generated from PHP...
WordPress Compromise: TimThumb: TimThumb is a tool used by WordPress themes and plugins to resize images. Old versions...
Uninstalling WordPress or Joomla! (Manual Install): If you no longer want to use WordPress® or Joomla!®, you can uninstall or...
Rewriting .htaccess Files for SEF URLs in Joomla!: To enable Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs in Joomla!®, you must first enable...
Why does my website not display correctly?: If you cannot see your website after you upload your site content, here are a few...

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