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Wget and cURL are two popular command-line utilities commonly used in web hosting for downloading files, making HTTP requests, and automating tasks. They allow you to interact with remote servers and offer a variety of features for different use cases. This guide will...
Scrapebox is a fairly popular tool for analyzing and adjusting your site's Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It can help you make your site rank higher in search results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, etc. In utilizing this tool, a somewhat common practice is to run Scrapbox...
One thing you can do with your Windows VPS or dedicated server is map one of its folders as a network drive on your local PC. This is great if you have data on your server that you need quick access to or have data on your local PC that you would like to push to the server....
Whether you want a server to act as a relay for you to be able to stream to multiple services at once, re-encode your video stream into different formats, resolutions, or bitrates, or to stream from pre-recorded videos, a good method to do so is with a server running Nginx...
Nginx is a powerful tool. It allows you to serve multiple apps, websites, load-balanced applications, and much more. This flexibility is all powered by a relatively simple configuration system that uses nearly-human-readable configuration files. This guide will demonstrate...
The second step to using private nameservers on a VPS is to set the DNS on the server itself. Once you have created the private nameservers at your registrar You will need to: Create A records for the nameservers in your DNS Zone Make the NS records for the domain (s) point...
This guide will explain how to allow multiple sessions in a Windows VPS. A common usage case for this would be to allow a developed application or a remotely accessed support desktop. Additionally, there will be some information on where to purchase the RDS CAL license...
After choosing to install IIS on your Hostwinds Windows 2016 VPS, you will want to configure your website for IIS. Read through the following guide to learn how to configure your website on your Windows Cloud server easily. We do offer our Windows VPS clients the option to...
This guide will go over some common ways to customize your Windows Instance and then use it as a template for your next one to ten Instances. This is a huge time saver, and once you customize your VPS, create a snapshot, convert that into a template, you can use this...
Remote Desktop (RDP) can occasionally have errors when connecting. Before troubleshooting, please review How to Connect to Your Server From a Windows OS via RDP and ensure your login details are correct. If you are still getting an error connecting to your Windows VPS with...
While configuring and using FTP within a Windows server, FTP is the preferred method for file transfer. An RDP connection does have the ability to transfer files. We strongly recommend only using this for small-size file transfers as the speed at which an RDP file transfer...
With the help of the McMyAdmin 2 panel, you can easily manage and configure your server. In particular, you can create certain rules, environments, and worlds that wildly differ from the standard Minecraft gameplay found in a single-player game. Since there are so many...
If you have a VPS, it is possible that this did not come with a user interface, and you are using the command-line interface. This means that you are most likely using SSH to connect to your VPS. One of the risks that you run during your remote terminal session is the loss...
In the default settings, WHM is configured to automatically redirect to HTTPS on the server's hostname when you access WHM, cPanel for any account, and Webmail. When the hostname is set to our default names on creation, this can cause some confusion. This is a setting that...
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...