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Server monitoring is a vital function – it provides alerts about your infrastructure. With server monitoring configured and in place, you can pick up small issues and resolve them as soon as possible. Server monitoring involves these important aspects: The server hardware....
WHM is an easy-to-use application to help assist with managing your server. It can also send you alerts based on certain actions performed (or triggers). There are various ways that WHM can communicate. There are also several types of events that WHM can notify you to know...
As time goes on in your White Label Reseller journey with Hostwinds and as you use WHMCS, you will get new clients, though you may also lose some clients. It can be not easy to keep track of leaving clients, especially if you have a large amount. Luckily, WHMCS has a way to...
CentOS Web Panel is a robust web-based control panel for the CentOS 7 server environment. Whenever CWP7 needs to notify the administrator or current user of an active alert, update, error, or other messages, it shows a number next to the notification icon in the CWP7...
This guide will learn how to create the basic 'under construction landing page using HTML and CSS. To create a landing page, you will need to have a text editor, either the one provided in your cPanel file manager, Notepad++, or any text editor of your choice will work fine...
Configuring your cPanel/WHM server to take backups regularly is a necessary aspect of keeping your data intact and protected in case you need to restore your account. Having backups in place before making changes, performing upgrades, and for emergency purposes are highly...
The de-facto standard Domain Name System server of the Linux / BSD world, BIND, is easy to install on Ubuntu and any other distributions. BIND translates domain names to IP addresses primarily but has a few other functions. Installing BIND on Ubuntu 16.04 is as follows:...
This guide will explain how to deploy a static single-page ReactJS application on one of our shared web hosting or business web hosting accounts. A shared web hosting account is a perfect destination for deploying static apps for your portfolio or for hosting your entire...
When using the CentOS 7 Web Panel (CWP7) on your Hostwinds VPS or dedicated server, the occasional requirement of modifying, creating, editing, or removing files on your server surfaces. The easiest, most direct way to do so is by utilizing the built-in File Manager for CWP7...
In this guide, you will learn how to set up an internal DNS using Apache and bind. This will allow you to configure private Nameservers and connect your domain to your server without using a control panel. You will need to connect to your server via SSH or another method...
With your WordPress installations, you now have access to additional functionality that enables you to create what is referred to as staging areas. After you install your WordPress site, you can now create a staging site. A staging site will allow you to create an identical...
To make sure everything is operating as it should and check if something does go wrong, you can look at your Logs. The Log files will hold information as it pertains to the service to help investigate when problems arise. In WHMCS, there is a convenient area to view these...
WHM provides you the ability to change the local hostname for the server, letting you choose what name is to be associated with the server as a whole. Change Hostname To change the hostname, navigate to the Change Hostname page under the Networking Setup of the left sidebar,...
This article shows you how to take more control over how Windows processes updates, including having them set to download and install automatically, having the updates download, or having the updates only run when manually selected. This can be very important as updates can...
Sometimes there are instances when a client might want to deposit money in advance. For example, if they are about to place several orders or go on a holiday. To enable the extra fund's feature is a simple task that we will cover in this guide. Create Add Funds Invoice As...
While tools like phpMyAdmin interact with MySQL / MariaDB databases very easily, sometimes one must access the database directly from the command line. This article will touch on getting into a database and some common tasks but will not provide a full education on SQL...