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General Web Hosting / why is nginx used

« on: April 27, 2023, 06:54:48 AM »

NGINX is a web server that can also function as a reverse proxy, load balancer, and HTTP cache. Here are some common uses for NGINX:

1. Serving static content: NGINX can efficiently serve static files, such as images, videos, and HTML pages.

2.Load balancing: NGINX can distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers, helping to increase reliability and handle higher traffic loads.

3.Reverse proxying: NGINX can act as a reverse proxy, routing incoming traffic to different backend servers based on various criteria, such as URL path or domain name.

4.Caching: NGINX can cache frequently requested content, reducing the load on backend servers and improving overall performance.
5.SSL/TLS termination: NGINX can terminate SSL/TLS connections and handle certificate management, offloading this responsibility from backend servers.

6.API gateway: NGINX can act as an API gateway, providing a centralized entry point for accessing multiple APIs and managing authentication, rate limiting, and other features.

Overall, NGINX is a versatile tool that can help improve the performance, reliability, and security of web applications and services.

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General Web Hosting / How to clear the website cache in cPanel?

« on: April 26, 2023, 09:19:39 AM »

There are basically 2 methods to clear the website cache :

Method 1:

First of all you have to use your credentials to to login to your cPanel.
Then go to the file manager in the files section.
Now locate the iscache folder and then click on that folder.
Now select all from the toolbar above the right column of file manager.
Now nothing you have just you have to press the delete button in the tool bar of the file manager.
This will open up  the confirmation dialog box
Now scroll down in the confirmation dialog box and there you have to locate skip the trash, and then permanently delete the files checkbox. Check mar the checkbox and press confirm.
Hurray your website cache is now cleared.

Method 2 :

1. In second method you have to first login to your cPanel
2.Then go to  the search bar and then type cache.
3. There you will see Litespeed Web Cache Manager as your search result.
4. Now click on the litespeed web cache manager which will open a new page in your cPanel.
5. Scroll down to flush LSCache and then click on the flush all button.
6. There you will see the warning message. Now click ok to proceed.
7. Hurray your website cache is now cleared.

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General Web Hosting / How to Fix SSL protocol error in Chrome

« on: April 25, 2023, 10:27:32 AM »

TO Fix ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR in Chrome


TO download the from the site.

1. First, you must go to your search engine and open the link in the New Tab.

2. Now, after opening the link, you will be able to see the button for downloading chrome. Click on it to start downloading.

After completing the solution and check it if there is any problem after refreshing the site.

3. Synchronized management is conducted as it affects SSL connection across the web. Additionally, some SSL certificates depend on the device's inbuilt date and time, so if your date and time are incorrect, you have to adjust them.

For Windows User

1. For windows user you have to search the date and time settings on the device search bar.

2. You have to turn on the set time and Zone automatically

For Mac User

1. Mac users can open the system settings on their device.

2. Now click on General

3. Then select Date & time option automatically

Now after completing the process go back to your site and refresh it by clicking F5

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General Web Hosting / How do I connect to WordPress using cPanel

« on: March 27, 2023, 11:38:29 AM »

Follow this easy step to connect your WordPress using your cPanel

Step 1: The first and basic step is to log in to your cPanel account

Step 2: Now click on the search action tab and then there search for the softaculous app installer.

There in the script section, you will find WordPress.

You can download WordPress from here if you haven't installed it.

Step 3: Inside this softaculous app installer section, you will find a section named installation. There you can see the installation which you have installed from the softaculous. The folder name can also be script installation.

Step 4: Now, you can see all your WordPress installations there. In each installation, an admin section will be visible where you can find a human icon. Now you will be easily redirected to the WordPress Admin section.

Congrats, you have successfully connected your WordPress using cPanel!!!

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General Web Hosting / What is an MX record, and How it Works?

« on: March 14, 2023, 10:23:15 AM »

MX record or mail exchanges record is basically a type of DNS record that specifies the mail server responsible for accepting email messages on behalf of the particular domain.

When someone sends an email message to an email address associated with a specific domain, the sending mail server looks up the MX records associated with that domain to determine the destination of the mail server. The MX records the information about the mail server's hostname that receives the email message.

 Let me tell you step by step how an MX record works
1. First of all, the email sender's mail server queries the DNS for the MX record of the recipient's domain. The query is sent to the DNS server that is responsible for the recipient's domain.

2. Now, the DNS server will respond with the MX records for the domain, which basically includes the hostname and priority of mail servers that are responsible for handling email for that domain.

3. Then, the email sender's mail server attempts to connect to the highest priority of the mail servers and then sends the email to the server. If the first server is not available, it tries the next server in the list, and so on, until it successfully delivers the email or runs out of servers to try.

4. After that, the recipient's mail server receives the email and then processes it according to its own configuration, such as checking for spam or virus filters before delivering it to the recipient's mailbox.

This was the complete process of the MX record.

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General Web Hosting / How to move Emails from one cPanel to another

« on: March 14, 2023, 09:49:51 AM »

[urlhttps://www.hostitsmart.com/manage/knowledgebase/68/move-an-email-account-from-one-cPanel-server-to-another.html]Moving an email account from one cPanel server to another[/url] is pretty easy if you have a got bit of knowledge of cPanel and FTP.

1. Create an Email account on the New Server
First, you must create a new email account on the new server as they exist on the old server. To do this, you must go to cPanel and click the Email Account option. 
2. Download Emails from the old server
Next, connect the old hosting account Via FTP and then download your email-related directories and files. After establishing the FTP connection file, navigate to your hosting account's root directory.

You will find a directory structure now in that you must find the mail option, as all the Emails are under the mail directory. When you drill down you will find a directory structure. Now you just have to download everything under the mail directory.
3. Move Emails to the New Server
Now you have disconnected the old server and connected to the new one via FTP. Then navigate yourself to the mail directory to the new server. Now you just have to upload everything you downloaded from the old mail directory to the new one. This will copy everything to the new server.

Once all files are uploaded and done, verify that old emails have indeed moved into the new email; you can check that by login into your new mail account.

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General Web Hosting / How to download my full website from Cpanel?

« on: February 27, 2023, 12:23:00 PM »

Technically there are 4 ways to download the full website from Cpanel

1. Automatic account backup :

An automatic account backup is basically created when transferring your account to another web hosting service provider. This backup includes home directories, Emails, MYSQL databases, and DNS settings. This backup works by administrating the system network that needs backup.

To create an automatic backup

Step 1. Login to the cPanel

Step 2. Select the files option

Step 3. Then now in the files folder. Click on the backup option.

Step 4. Now when the backup files get open. Press download a full account backup option.

Step 5. Now click on the home directory as the backup from the same drop-down menu.

Step 6. After choosing the destination, click on generate for an automated backup.

2. Automatic Home directory Backup

As the name, you might have come to know that. An automatic home directory generates the full backup of the files in your home directory. As it is a partial backup, it does not download DNS, or MYSQL files.

These are the step to download the home directory backup:

Step 1: Open your Cpanel dashboard and click on files.

Step 2: Now select backups.

Step 3: Now search for the partial backup and click on the home directory options in the backups folder.

3. Manual Website Backup :

Remember, Manual Website Backup is both a risky and time-consuming process. You need to select files and databases separately, meaning you will lose all your data if something goes wrong. So before you create a manual backup, you need to find the main folder where all the files are stored. It will be mainly in the public HTML directory.

These are all the steps to follow to start a manual backup.

1. Login into your cPanel, and then come down on the files section there, you have to click the file manager option

2. Now look for the main folder where all the files and databases are stored.

3. Once you find the main folder, right-click and select the compress option.

4. While compressing, select the type you can either choose the zip of the Tar file and click on compress

5. Return to the file manager and look for the compressed file.

6. Lastly, select the folder, navigate yourself to the top of the main menu, and then press download

After completing the last step, all the selected files are backed up.


4. Backup wizard


Now let's walk through creating the most simplified wizard backup.

1. log in to your cPanel, files and then click on the backup wizard option.

2. Once you fo click on the backup option

3. You now have to choose the backup full or partial backup

4. You can now add your email address to get notified once the backup is complete.

5. Now press the generate backup button, wait for a few minutes, and get back to download.

6. Now, at the download, you will see the link. Now click on that link to start the backup process.

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General Web Hosting / Steps to Add private key in FileZilla for SFTP

« on: February 09, 2023, 12:05:59 PM »

Adding a private key in FileZilla for SFTP is not a hard task; you can easily do. Using a private key, you must thoroughly follow all steps to function the SFTP. Before all that, you need to install the Filezilla client on your device second. It is compulsory that you need to have a private FileZilla SSH key to integrate with the FileZilla client.

Step 1:
There are three ways to start the FileZilla server.
1.Run the software by clicking on the Windows button on your keyboard. Now type FileZilla and click on the icon to start the process.
2.Double-tap on the FileZilla software if it is already on your desktop screen.
3.Another way is Microsoft's default PowerShell tool or command line tool, or you can also take the help of Powershell.
 
Step 2:

You must follow these three steps to set up the FileZilla SSH key.

1.After installing a file zilla software, an interface will appear on your screen where you will be given the option to edit in the top left corner. Put the cursor on it, and click on the settings as the drop-down menu appears.

2.Select the SFTP and click on add the key file, which will appear under the setting option.

3.Now choose the private key file from the FileZilla public key authentication list. Now enter the password you want to keep and click the ok button to save changes.

Step 3:

Now after saving the private key, you must enter the host's details, username, and port. The last and final step is to click on the quick connect bar to set up your FileZilla SSH connection.

Hoping that this write-up will be helpful to you!!!

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General Web Hosting / How to access WordPress Dashboard from cPanel?

« on: January 25, 2023, 12:05:21 PM »

Well, just have a look at this write we will help you by guiding you to access your wordpress dashboard.

Guide to access the wordpress dashboard from cPanel

1. First, you have to log in to your Cpanel account.
2. Then you have to guide yourself to the search box and type softaculous app installer on it.
3. Then you have to jump toward the softaculous App Installer section.
4. Here, you will get a list of apps you want to install. There will also be a wordpress application you have to select and click on it.
5. Once you click on it, you will be redirected to the wordpress installation section.
6. Now go to the current installation section here; you can see the list of all the wordpress applications installed using wordpress.
7. Here, you have to select the wordpress site where you want to log in. 

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General Web Hosting / Best way to move an Email Account from one cPanel server to another

« on: January 24, 2023, 10:16:34 AM »

Moving an Email account from one cPanel server to another server is pretty easy if you don't believe, check this out.

Steps to move an account from one cPanel server to another server

Step 1

Create a New Email account on the name server with the same address and password. For that, you have to just log in to your Cpanel on the New Server and click on Email Accounts.

Step 2

The Next thing you need to do is to download the files of the old server and download the files which is needed. And then, from the root directory, go to the “Mail/domain.com/Email Account. Here you will see a bunch of files. You just have to copy the New and Cur directories.

Step 3

When the files are downloaded, then you have to just place the New and Cur directories in the root/mail/domain.com/Email account of the respective account on the New server. Give yourself some time, as this step might take some time.

Step 4

After some time, if you check the New Server, you will see that your Emails are transferred, but your Quota Says 0/xxx MB. Now for that Update, the wrong mail Quota in Cpanel FTP to the old server, open up the maildirsize file at “root/mail/domain.com/email Account, copy all the content and then paste it into the maildirsize file on the New server.
 
Step 5

Now as you have transferred all the files, you still need to point your DNS server to the new server in order to have mail. When you update your records, it could take upto 24 hrs.

Step 6
Now, finally, send a test Email to the account. If that works, send the Email from the account then You’re done.

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General Web Hosting / How to restart the RDP without rebooting the windows server?

« on: January 23, 2023, 01:40:58 PM »

Well, there are 3 basic effective ways to restart the RDP Without rebooting the windows server. Let's discuss them one by one in this write-up.
1. By Restarting via service.msc
First, log in to the windows server and press the WIN+R key to run the command on the server.
Then search for remote desktop services. And the right click on the remote desktop services and there-click on restart.
Then, in the end, you will encounter the confirmation screen to restart the remote desktop services and click on the restart to restart the services.
2. Using Task Manager
If you can't find the way and can't restart your RDP without rebooting, and also don't have access of the services console on the windows server, you can restart via task manager. For that, you have to follow the following steps.
Right-click on the start button and select the task manager from the menu, and press the enter key.
And then you have to search for the term service and have to right-click on it
There, you will be able to see the option to restart. And now you have started. Hence you are done.
3. Using Windows Powershell
You can also restart your RDP services using the Windows PowerShell command

First of all, you have to click on the start button and search for PowerShell

Then run the below commands

Restart-Service -Force -Name "TermService"
                               Or
Restart-Service -Force -DisplayName "Remote Desktop Services"

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General Web Hosting / An Easy Way to Find What CMS a Website is Using

« on: January 20, 2023, 01:00:48 PM »

Well, there are many ways to detect the CMS of a website, but in this write-up, we will discuss the 3 easiest ways to detect the CMS of the website.
Ways to Detect the CMS of the Website
1. Powered by
 Before jumping into the CMS detection tools, one of the best and easy ways to find out the CMS of the website is that the owner sometimes must not have removed the powered-by option from the website. You can mainly find it on the footer of the page. Sometimes this owner might have removed the powered-by option.
2. WhatCMS
WhatCMS is an easy CMS detention tool to use and detect the CMS of the website. There you will get a google type interface where you have just to enter the website's URL to want to detect there, and in a minimum of seconds, you will get the information about what CMS a website is using.
3. CMSDetect
CMS detection tool is a very simple tool; you have just to enter the website URL in the input field and just tap on the enter button it will give you complete information about the website's CMS.

Hope this information was helpful to you!!!

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General Web Hosting / Simple Way to create an FTP Account In cPanel?

« on: January 12, 2023, 06:56:30 AM »

To create an FTP account do perform the following steps :

First you have to login to your CPanel and access the FTP accounts tool at the top of the tool you will see the interface to create an FTP account

Then to create :
 1. Enter the desired user name in the login text box
 2. Select the desired domain name from the domain menu
 3. Enter and confirm the new password in the appropriate text box
 4. Then Enter the FTP Account home directory
 5. Enter the disk space quota or select unlimited
 6. Then click create FTP account. The new account will appear in the FTP Accounts.

Hope this was helpful!!!

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General Web Hosting / How To Connect To A Windows VPS using RDP?

« on: October 31, 2022, 02:46:28 PM »

It is really simple to connect Windows VPS using RDP; find out the steps to connect it!

• Firstly, open the Remote Desktop connection software.
• After clicking, A window will open.
• In that window, beside a computer field, type the IP address & click on connect.
• Enter the username & password in the pop-up window & click “OK”
• Your RDP will be connected.

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General Web Hosting / How to Locate Email Configuration Info in cPanel?

« on: October 18, 2022, 01:24:33 PM »

If you want to connect cPanel Email to your Gmail or perform any other task, you will have a requirement of Email configuration Info in cPanel.

Let’s find out, How you can locate Email configuration Info in cPanel.

• Firstly, log in to cPanel.
• Go to the Email accounts tab, which is present under the Email section of the cPanel.
• You will see your Email ID; click on the Connect Devices tab on the right.
• After that, A new page will be open. Scroll down to the page & reach the Mail Client Manual Settings section.
• There you will see the blue & yellow boxes in which the blue box shows secure SSL/TLS settings & the yellow box shows Non-SSL settings.