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Plesk Tutorial: How to Recover Forgotten Administrator Password
Have you ever forgotten the administrator password for logging in to your Plesk Panel hosting interface? Well, it is one of the most common issues that we all have faced at some point of time, irrespective of our technical expertise level. You will be surprised to know that according to Google Keyword Trends, “Recover Admin Password” is the…
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Media Temple Web Hosting Review
When trying to run a successful site, owners have to have a comprehensive web host. The service providers that stand out have loyal customers, lots of options, special rates, coupons and stable, fast hosting. Media Temple meets almost every one of those requirements for site owners. They offer various web hosting packages including: [More details…
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Plesk Panel Tutorial – Creating a Password Protected Directory
Directories or sub-directories inside your publicly available content (public.html folder) on your website can be prevented from being accessed by general visitors by using a password as the shield. There are several ways in which it can be achieved. The most common of all is to use the inbuilt feature that comes with select control…
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cPanel Tutorial – How to Manually Edit .htaccess File
.htaccess file is a directory-level text file, that allows for decentralized management of Apache web server configuration without direct root access to the physical server. .htaccess stands for ‘Hypertext Access’. This file can be modified to override the server’s global configuration settings. It is often used to set up URL rewrite rules and/or to specify security…
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cPanel Tutorial: Creating and Restoring Backups
People often forget to make backup of their data on web-hosting accounts. The only time most people remember backup option is when their web host turn bad or their website is compromised or they have to move to a new web host. To make sure you don’t face the same fate, you should make sure…
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cPanel Tutorial: How to Configure URL Redirection?
What Is URL Redirection? URL Redirection, also known as URL Forwarding, allows webmasters to divert their visitors to another web address and display the content of that page. A URL Redirection can also be conceptualized as a technique, which, can make a web page to be available under more than one web address. Using URL Redirection…
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cPanel Tutorial: Configuring Hotlink Protection to Prevent Bandwidth Theft
What Is a Hotlink? Hotlinking, also referred to as Inline Linking or Leeching, is an unethical concept of creating a link to point to an existing web object (most often an image/video file) residing in a particular website and display its exact replica on another website utilizing the former’s resources. Creating hotlink amounts to bandwidth…
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WHM Tutorial – 8 Easy Tweaks to Optimize VPS Performance
One common cause of concern for most of the VPS Hosting users is the incremental trend of CPU, bandwidth and memory consumption. Web hosting resources – like Bandwidth, Memory or CPU – come with a certain price tag and it is of utmost importance to limit the usage of resources in order to curb the ever increasing cost of running…
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How to Own a Website for Under $100 a Year
Are you interested in running your own website, but not sure if you can afford it? With the right techniques, you can drive down the costs of maintaining your site to $100 a year or less. Consider these easy methods! 1. Pre-Pay for Hosting When you pre-pay for Web hosting, you will often have the…
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cPanel Tutorial: Using phpMyAdmin
In an earlier cPanel tutorial, we discussed Creating a MYSQL Database through cPanel. Once you have created a database, the next step is to manage this database. Either you need to create a table or modify an existent table, you can do this all through phpMyAdmin. Step 1: Locating phpMyAdmin In your cPanel account, you can find…
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cPanel Tutorial – Creating Web Disk
What is a Web Disk? A Web Disk enables you to access the files/folders on your hosting account exactly the way you explore the files/folders on your hard disk drive. It gives you more flexibility in uploading/downloading contents to different sub-directories on your website from/to your home computer. Upon configuring a Web Disk, you will not…
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cPanel Tutorial: Creating a MYSQL Database
For using databases with web applications, one of the most popular choices today is MYSQL. MYSQL is an RDBMS (relational database management system) allowing to manage data within the database through command line, front-ends, desktop or web applications. Many popular web applications make use of MYSQL including Joomla, WordPress, phpBB and Drupal etc. Here is…
