Optimise Magento for your VPS
Magento is one of the most popular ecommerce systems in use today offering both great flexibility and power through its modular architecture. This article will discuss various techniques you can implement…
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SPAM Protection – 6 Steps to protect yourself against SPAM
SPAM Protection – 6 Steps to protect yourself against 1/ Enable SpamAssassin1 1/ Enable SpamAssassin1.1 3/ Always use a CAPTCHA1.2 4/ Use a secure password1.3 5/ Disable Catch-all email address1.4…
DNS Propagation
DNS Propagation When the name servers or individual records in a DNS zone are modified, it can take several hours for all the computer systems around the world to…
Munin – Monitoring Your Linux Server with Munin Monitoring Tools
Munin is a system and network monitoring tool that generates useful charts of resource usage. The primary goal of the Munin project is to provide an easy-to-use tool that is…
Migrate from cPanel Share Hosting to Webmin/Virtualmin Linux Server
Migrate from cPanel to Webmin/Virtualmin Virtualmin can import the accounts from cPanel by taking the complete cPanel backup file including all mailboxes, databases and contents. This kind of migration process…
WordPress Hosting: install and develop WordPress on a Temporary URL
WordPress Hosting: Install and Develop WordPress on a Temporary URL WordPress is PHP driven CMS and blogging platform using your domain name. WordPress will not work correctly using your temporary…
Windows Live Mail Configuration
Windows Live Mail Configuration This guide will assist you with Windows Live Mail Configuration Note: Some versions of Windows Live Mail (latest) don’t offer the “Test Account Settings” feature, so…
Check If Your Linux Server Is Vulnerable to Shellshock
What Is ShellShock? There is a new discovered vulnerability in Mac and Linux computers that puts your entire system in serious risk for malicious attacks. The vulnerability is called Shellshock,…
Transferring your WordPress site
Transferring your WordPress site This tutorial looks at how to go about transferring your WordPress site to an FASTDOT hosting account. While installing a WordPress Blog into your FASTDOT hosting…
SSH commands for CSF – ConfigServer Security & Firewall
SSH commands for CSF – ConfigServer Security & Firewall SSH commands for CSF ConfigServer Security & Firewall is a Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall, Login/Intrusion Detection and Security application for…
Retaining Directory Permissions While Using SCP
Retaining Directory Permissions While Using SCP SCP is a secure file transfer protocol that is used in Linux. SCP is similar to FTP that it allows you to connect to…
Checking Bandwidth Usage – cPanel Hosting
Checking Bandwidth Usage in cPanel1 Checking Bandwidth Usage in cPanel2 Checking Awstats3 Common Problems4 Spiders5 Email and Attachments6 IMAP7 Analysing the Raw Access Log8 Blocking IPs Your bandwidth usage is…
Registrant Verification Email – Domain Name FAQs
Registrant Verification Email – Domain Name FAQs This KB article will try to answer questions around how FASTDOT and OpenSRS will handle Registrant Validation. Q: Who is the Registrant? A:…
Block countries using CSF Firewall
Block countries using CSF Firewall In the CSF Firewall, there are two main ways to block a user from accessing a website. You can use mod_geoip, which is basically lines…
What is the DNS Root Zone?
This tutorial will explain what the root zone is in DNS The DNS root zone, sometimes referred to as the dot (.) zone, is the first point of contact for…