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If you've purchased a VPS for web hosting but never set up DNS for a domain, it can be a daunting task. With Shared or Business hosting, you need to put our nameservers into your domain registrar's site, and it's all done for you. There are a few more steps to be done when...
Your registrar may not be accepting your domain because of configuration limitations for the DNS zones. This frequently happens with country-specific domains. Before pointing a domain to the country-specific domain, you need to fulfill their special requirements. If you find...
DNS records are important parts of the Domain Name System (DNS). There are over 30 record types, each serving as a database entry that provides specific information about a domain, including its IP address, mail servers, and security. These records are stored in DNS zone...
Domains. What are they? A domain name gives you a way to identify a website and provide a positive, memorable name for people to pull up your website. Sometimes, you need a domain name for your web hosting to function properly. However, domains are just names that you...
We offer several different CPU options with our Dedicated servers. We have created this article to provide a more comprehensive comparison chart of their specifications to help you choose among them. CPU Comparison Chart (sorted by Release Date) CPU Model #of Cores #of...
CentOS Web Panel (CWP) offers a couple of different methods of managing DNS within its settings. The easier option is FreeDNS, but using FreeDNS does rely on externally managed DNS. Although this is not necessarily bad, some may wish to allow the CWP server to manage DNS...
If you own or control a domain and have it registered with Hostwinds, there is a type of search called a WHOIS search that can reveal certain types of information about a domain. One of the details revealed in this manner includes your domain's "Nameservers." This is not a...
This option is available via the WHM interface and will allow you to create new cPanel accounts, making them reseller accounts within the process. Your log-in information about your WHM/cPanel account will be sent to your registered email on file. This guide is intended for...
Restic is capable of reading data from stdin, which can be used for saving the output of a program. In this article, we will discuss how to use this functionality to take MySQL backups through the use of mysqldump. As with any interaction with Restic, you must first...
As with any interaction with Restic, you must first initialize the repo to perform actions within restic. To do so, follow this guide. You will run these commands from the shell terminal with Linux and PowerShell with Windows. Backing up content within Restic is incredibly...
DirectAdmin Web Control Panel makes it easy to create various accounts from the Admin or Reseller access level. Admins have full access to the server and can create other Admin or Reseller accounts in DirectAdmin. In addition, resellers can create User accounts. The guide...
Ionos (formerly 1AND1) features many services, including domain registration. This guide will go over how to create private nameservers with Ionos. It is solely intended to assist Hostwinds clients in pointing their domain name to their web hosting services with Hostwinds....
To create email accounts for your addon/subdomain accounts, you'll need to use your cPanel account to first create the appropriate addon/subdomains. Once set up, head to Home> Email> Email Accounts. There you can create an email account for the appropriate subdomain. Be sure...
Restic allows users to use a diff command to show the difference between two snapshots, displaying a list of details of the difference between the two snapshots being compared. This is helpful to locate a file or folder that you're uncertain about when it was last updated....
Why Can't I Load My Website? There are many reasons a site might not load, such as misconfiguration, corrupt files, problems with a database, or something as simple as needing to clear your browser's cache and cookies on your computer. Problems with the DNS Make sure that...
With so many choices for web hosting services, like Shared and Business web hosting, Cloud and VPS servers, even Dedicated servers, it may seem daunting to pick the right web hosting service. At Hostwinds, you have all of these options for your web hosting services, each of...