Category: Technical Support

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BFD (Brute Force Detection) is a critically important part of protecting your server from malicious attacks.

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Allowing e-mail to build up in an account can lead to many troublesome issues like low disk space, sudden domain quota problems, and more. This article will cover several options that are available to remove those old messages and get your e-mail running smoothly again.

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In this guide, we will walk you through the process of changing a domain's Mail Exchange (MX) record(s) to point email at a different VPS server. MX records are a critically important part of a website's DNS because they tell the rest of the internet where to send email for a domain.

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The Whois command is used to collect information about a domain including who owns the domain, basic contact information for the domain owner, and the nameservers that the domain is using.

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The name cPanel, developed by cPanel, LLC, is short for Control Panel. cPanel is a web hosting control panel that lets you manage your domains and their files from a graphical user interface (GUI). For servers with root access, cPanel will come with Web Host Manager (WHM), which handles the root functions of the server.

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Using SFTP and SCP Instead of FTP

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One simple way to improve your Linux server’s security is to use SFTP or SCP instead of regular FTP.

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When you attempt to add or remove users from file and folder permissions within Windows Explorer, a login box appears and does not accept your administrator username and password.  This may prevent you from modifying the permissions.

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Resolvers are a form of DNS server that usually exist on a local network (such as the one your ISP operates to connect you to the internet) and handle all DNS requests from the computers that using the network.

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To the inexperienced user the Domain Name System (DNS) can seem very intricate and complicated. While it can in some cases be complex, DNS problems can be easily diagnosed once you understand the basic core ideas behind it.

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New User Tutorial: Basic File Permissions

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Understanding file permissions is key to running a web server. Permissions control which users can read a file, make changes to a file, or execute a file/script/etc.

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