November 21st, 2008
During website development you may need to access a site without making changes to the DNS, for example if you wish to start developing a site on a new uk web hosting server without changing the live site. Often you will be able to access the site through a temporary address, but with the way that many of the current Content Management Systems work such as b2evolution, Wordpress, Magento, Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, PHP-Nuke, etc. then access through this temporary address may result in the site displaying incorrectly. There are a few ways around this Read More »
October 23rd, 2008
One of the primary purposes of a domain name is to translate a word or series of words into a numeric IP address which can be referenced globally on the internet by any other machine on the internet. An example of this would be www.nethosted.co.uk which can be resolved to 85.13.250.34. This use is facilitated by the use of the Domain Name System (DNS) and domain registrar authorities.
For domain name registration will need to use a domain registrar. In many cases web hosting companies also offer domain registration services so Read More »
October 16th, 2008
As you will no doubt know by the amount of spam that arrives in your inbox purporting to be from a large bank or business asking you to confirm your details, email spoofing, pretending that an email came from a different sender, is simple to do and heavily exploited by spammers. By forging these email addresses they attempt to fool people into believing that this email originated from a trusted source, and with no checks carried out on this mail it can be difficult if not impossible to tell the original source.
If your web host or email host supports SPF then this can go a long way towards confirming whether an email is from the domain that it claims to be from. The way that SPF works is by Read More »
October 9th, 2008
Country specific hosting is vital to search engine rankings; this is because they have a bias towards websites being hosted in the country that the domain originates from. This means that for .uk domains having a UK web host could provide more profitable and targeted traffic. This is the reason that many people looking for UK business hosting choose a UK hosting provider.
Of course this traffic is most important for businesses that will benefit a lot more from a visitor in the UK than one from somewhere else as they are more likely to purchase a product, but individuals can also benefit from this too. Read More »
October 2nd, 2008
Generally if you are using a mail server apart from your ISP’s one, such as your web host, then you will need to enable SMTP Authentication on it to be able to send outgoing mail. When you try to send mail this will authenticate with the outgoing mail server, giving them your username and password for your email hosting that you are authorized to send mail from. Most servers will not accept mail if you do not authenticate with them, a server not requiring this would be a spammer’s dream and this mail server would soon get blacklisted by spam databases.
Here is how to enable SMTP Authentication in some common email clients: Read More »
September 25th, 2008
When you sign up for an account with NetHosted you will also get access to our advanced webmail service, whether it is an email hosting account or a web hosting account that you sign up for. Our WebMail service is provided through your cPanel hosting account, meaning that you should first have set up any email account that you wish to use in cPanel through the Email Accounts option. Once your account has been setup you can then login to it via the webmail system, accessible by going to www.yourdomain.tld/webmail or alternatively www.yourdomain.tld:2095. Read More »
September 18th, 2008
Our cPanel hosting makes database backup and restoration very simple, allowing you to do this with a few clicks. Once you have logged into your cPanel, go in to the Backups section. From here you will see the “Download a MySQL Database Backup” option, with your databases listed below this. To download a database backup, simply click on the database name and it will download a zipped backup of your database in .sql.gz format. This is the gzip format, a linux archiving file format, you can extract this on Windows using a variety of tools such as WinRAR or Winzip. Read More »
September 11th, 2008
Fantastico is the leading application autoinstaller for cPanel hosting accounts, and we provide this at NetHosted for our shared hosting and
reseller hosting clients free of charge. It allows you to simply install many popular content management systems such as Joomla, Drupal, PHP-Nuke, etc. as well as forums, blogs, e-commerce, support systems, site builders, galleries and more! There are over 40 applications that Fantastico can install for you through its simple, easy to use interface. Read More »
September 4th, 2008
The Domain Name System (DNS) serves as a system to translate the name of a site to an IP address and vice versa. This means that if you buy a domain name such as www.example.com this will exist on an IP address, perhaps 111.222.121.131 but you can visit it by typing www.example.com into your web browser. This will point the browser to your web hosting account and people can then view your site. Read More »
August 28th, 2008
Log in to your cPanel web hosting control panel and select the Backups option. Once here select the Download or Generate a Full Backup button which is in the Full Backups section at the top. Read More »
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