Hostwinds Tutorials

While domain transfers are not overly complicated, they involve restrictions that can prevent successfully transferring domains between hosts and registrars. The following are typical reasons that could cause a transfer to fail and should be handled before attempting any...

A cPanel username is a significant portion of your Hostwinds hosting account. We provide users with a unique, randomly generated username to avoid possible brute-force attempts into your account and ensure account security. Changing a username for an account can cause...

What is an Inode? An inode (Index Node) is a data structure containing information about a file in your server or hosting account. The inode stores all information regarding a file, except its name or the actual data. Inodes save information such as user and group ownership...

There are many reasons you may be unable to send emails from your PHP code. One of the most common reasons would be that the script is not using authentication. Most email servers require that you authenticate the email account before you can send emails from it. This is to...

Your Hostwinds WordPress Application Template includes a full setup and installed WordPress installation, using the latest version of WordPress available. It runs on one of our LAMP stack instances . How Do I Install WordPress on my Instance Using the Application tab? Step...

First, you will need to access your server via FTP. Once you've accessed your server via FTP, navigate to /var/www/html This is your default directory for your WordPress application. You'll want to download or save the wp-config.php file on your server – this file is...

Among the several pre-made application images available for our Cloud VPS platform, the LAMP stack is the simplest but most powerful. If you want to set up a website without WordPress, Drupal, or a framework we don't have an image for, the LAMP image will install: The latest...

mysqldump lets you quickly and efficiently take a backup of a single database, multiple databases, or even all of the databases on your server. This requires shell access to the server you wish to perform the commands on and the MySQL login credentials for your user(s). SSH...

Viruses and Malware Trojans, malware, and viruses are commonplace on the internet. They may be uploaded to your site(s) unknowingly, or you could download one unknowingly. This is especially true for users who use popular content management systems, as they're often a prime...

This is a guide for shared hosting users who have ordered our backup service addon. Verification of Backed-up Data You're responsible for managing and verifying your backed-up data to ensure that the data stored is accurate and complete. If you believe there's an issue with...

This article will describe how to restore data from your Duplicati based nightly backup product. This is actually a straightforward process and should only take a few steps to complete. It should be basically the same in both Windows and Linux servers since the steps would...

If you have a fair amount of domains on a single cPanel account, there may come a time when you want to set a different PHP version to be used with each domain name. This can be due to dependency issues with the different PHP Versions that make your site not work. For...

Creating a phpinfo.php page is simple to do and will show you what PHP settings enabled for your account. This can be a good tool to use to confirm what is available for you to use. If there is something that is not enabled for your account, and it is necessary, you may be...

Once you have purchased a new Volume and attached it to your VPS in the Cloud Control Volume Management Area, your server should now recognize the new drive that has been added. The exception to this would be in a Windows server, which needs to have the drive created and...

This article will guide you on installing and configuring your nightly Duplicati backup addon for your Linux-based server with Hostwinds. The steps are the same regardless of the distribution. After completing this setup, the backup will be scheduled to backup every night at...