Hostwinds Tutorials

By default, the provided Weebly website builder included in our shared and business shared services is the free version. This version of Weebly includes drag and drop features with a 500MB limitation. However, if you enjoy Weebly and you would like to upgrade to a more...

Weebly Website Builder is available to Hostwinds clients customers who have a Shared or Business web hosting service. In this article, we will discuss how to install and manage your theme (s), theme options, change fonts, turn the guide on and off, as well as edit your...

Hostwinds offers many different choices to our clients to help make building a website fun. In addition to our Softaculous Apps Installer (which can install services like WordPress, Magento, Drupal, Joomla, and more), we also offer Weebly with our shared and business hosting...

Hostwinds offers many options to help build your website simple and easy for our shared and business hosting clients. In addition to our Softaculous Apps Installer (which can install services like WordPress, Magento, Drupal, Joomla, and more), we also offer Weebly a...

Our Shared and Business hosting plans include using a website builder called Weebly to create your site. This tool allows easy creation of your site from many different themes to start. Weebly allows more customization than other site builders and CMSs such as WordPress and...

Hostwinds offers several options to help make building your website quick, simple, and very easy. In addition to our Softaculous Apps Installer (which can install services like WordPress, Magento, Drupal, Joomla, and more), we also offer Weebly so you can build your website....

Hostwinds can offer our new Shared web hosting and Business web hosting clients an SSL provided by cPanel with any newly purchased Hosting account. As soon as you sign up for a new account, you will receive an SSL Certificate automatically within 24 hours. This is a...

Regular Users Real users use user accounts Each process runs as a particular user A particular user owns each file A human/real user has a real login shell e.g. /bin/sh, /bin/bash, /bin/csh A human user usually has a home directory (most of the time in /home) Virtual Users A...

There is a wide variety of types of websites that you can make. There are even more tools out there to help with building those sites. If you are building a blog or a personal website, you may consider a Content Management System (CMS). These could include WordPress, Joomla,...

Before you can start jamming out to tunes or enticing your Listeners with your own podcast or radio station, you will first need to upload your audio files. There are a couple of ways that this can be done. You can either upload the files to your SHOUTcast hosting via FTP or...

Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems in use for building websites today. Flexible, scalable, customizable, and secure, Drupal is used by colleges and universities, local and national governments, entertainment industries, and major research...

Mailing lists are a great way to keep your clients updated on events going on with your site updates. Luckily, creating a mailing list is easy to do for Hostwinds client who is using cPanel. How Do I Start A Mailing List For My Website? Step 1: Log in to your cPanel account...

You may find that at some point, you have a user account that is no longer needed and needs to be removed from your server. As always, we suggest making a snapshot backup before making changes to your account and before following this guide. Delete A User In Debian Deleting...

This guide will walk you through ProFTPd server installation and configuration, showing you how to customize your FTP server's actions by walking you through ProFTPd configuration. How To Install ProFTPd On Debian 9 Step 1: SSH into your Debian Installation Step 2: Install...

There may be instances in which you will need to migrate a WordPress installation manually, but if so, it is a straightforward process, and we will make every step clear and easy to follow. Quick Version: First, you will export/backup the existing site. Then, you will then...