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SSH is a client/server protocol used for remote logins. Using cryptography for authentication, ssh provides an encrypted method to access your server. The two of the most popular methods of authentication are passwords based and public-key-based authentication. Public key...
cPanel has many tools to help you track the various statistics of your website and its traffic. Webalizer is a program installed through cPanel that displays traffic statistics. How Can I Track My Website's Statistics? The Webalizer tracker is located under the Metrics...
cPanel contains a way to keep track of the most recent errors logged regarding your website. The Errors section details these error messages for you quickly and easily without needing to dig through the other metrics options for the desired information. How Can I Track My...
Among all of the tools that cPanel offers to track the various metrics of your website, one of the most frequently used and detailed options is AWStats. This tool analyzes server log files and produces HTML reports on your website, presenting various charts and graphs to...
Hostwinds is proud to offer all three of the currently supported Windows Server operating systems (2008, 2012, and 2016). While all three have similar functionality, there may be reasons you wish to choose one specific version over the others. If you're unfamiliar with the...
A favicon is used to show your website image or logo at the top of the browser when a website visitor visits your website. Many applications, such as Joomla, come with a file named favicon.ico included with the files, so you may consider changing this to something that...
LAMP stack is a popular open-source web platform commonly used to run dynamic websites and servers. It includes Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. You'll need to ensure you have a user set up that is not root that has been granted Sudo privileges. If you need assistance in doing...
Many factors determine speed across the internet. For your convenience, Hostwinds provides the ability to test speed to our current data centers by supplying an IP to our Seattle, WA, Dallas, TX, and Amsterdam, Netherlands locations. All of the services Hostwinds provides...
This guide is intended to guide how to set up or change the PHP timezone for Linux-based services here at Hostwinds, setting and/or editing through cPanel, WHM, or commands within Linux. How To Edit PHP Time-zone With Hostwinds Shared and/or Business Hosting Services Step 1...
This article is about taking a backup of your database. It is intended for clients who have PHPMyAdmin installed on their Hostwinds Shared Hosting, Business Hosting, Cloud, VPS, or Dedicated Server account. Before making any changes to your databases or updating your...
The message for website owners 508 Resource Limits Reached may happen for Shared Hosting Clients due to a couple of reasons. This error, in general, means that it may be time to continue growing your website and upgrade to a Business Web Hosting plan so that your website...
What is an Inode? An inode, short for "index node," is a data structure used by Unix and Linux file systems to store information, known as metadata, about a file except the file's name or contents of its data. Unlike other file systems, which typically store metadata within...
cPanel offers many ways to track the various metrics you can measure your site by. One useful metric to check is the Visitors tracker, which logs the IP address of every visitor to your websites, all the files and pages they viewed, and the time the access was attempted. You...
This article is about using cPanel to manage the indexing of your folders. To prevent the listing of the contents of your folder, this is a way to ensure your website visitors are not able to view the contents of a folder that does not contain an index file such as index.php...
What is a 550 5.7.1 error? A 550 5.7.1 commonly refers to the IP sending the email, currently blocked from the recipient's email service. It is normally blocked because the IP was used to send spam to the recipient's IP at one point in time. If this example is the case, the...
When choosing a hosting provider, it is important to understand what software they directly support and offer. We're often asked if we support PHP, MySQL, and Perl on our services. The short answer to this is yes, we do. A few more definitive points regarding this are listed...