Choosing the right web hosting is a critical decision for your business. Without a host, your website won’t be visible online. Your web host plays a critical role in the distribution of your online content. Hence, without a reliable web hosting service, you will have less ability to reach your audience on the internet....
Having a cheap VPS hosting with cPanel is a powerful way to host several websites. Just like a reseller hosting account, but with plenty more space and resources control. In the early 2000s a VPS server used to cost more than 90€ per month. Nowadays, you can order a VPS Server for less than 4€ only, with Linux operating...
It’s very common to have the PHP directive allow_url_fopen not working in a cPanel server. This is a security directive, which is disabled by default. It’s very easy to have it enabled, as cPanel allows us to fully customize php.ini. We will show with images and examples on how to allow URL fopen in cPanel. This...
DirectAdmin is one of the fastest-growing web hosting control panel, especially after cPanel’s new licensing model, which increased cPanel pricing by 300% in some cases. DirectAdmin have full support do Let’s Encrypt plugin. Let’s Encrypt offers free SSL certificates for any website, with absolutely no...
Is it possible to host your website for free, with your own domain name, running WordPress? The answer is Yes, and in this article, we will explain how to configure a free WordPress hosting with your own domain. WordPress is a CMS software, responsible for almost 70% of the internet hosted websites nowadays. Initially meant...
As per the recent cPanel announcement, its license cost increased a lot. cPanel was the world most used control panel, but nowadays a single server license can cost as high as 450€ a month (it was less than 39€ in the past). The new cPanel licensing cost (explained in this official announcement) varies according to...
This article explains what is a cheap shared hosting provider. The hosting company divides a physical server into several “slots”, hosting more than one website at once. One hosting server is a hardware node that has several gigabytes of disk storage and many RAM memory. Each site has a disk space quota, with...
We went through the steps required to install Simple Machines Forum or SMF in the post How to Install Simple Machines Forum SMF . This post will now deal with the initial configuration of Simple Machines Forum so that you can start publicizing the forum. While installing the forum, we created an admin user who will be the...
A device which connects a computer to another computer or network is called a network device. Normal network devices (say for example eth0) will have a hardware component or a wire connected to it. On the oposite, there are virtual network devices which are completely controlled by software. They are the tun/tap devices. These...
For years, MySQL is the favorite database system for developers worldwide. After the acquisition of MySQL by Sun Microsystems, and later by Oracle, the original founders of MySQL forked MySQL and created another RDBMS called MariaDB. It is actually a perfect replacement for MySQL and has more features and better performance...
Databases are an important part of any website or software. With relatively large amount of data, all applications use one or the other database method to store data. PostgreSQL, commonly known as Postgres is an open source, object – relational database management system (RDBMS). It was originally designed for unix...
To recover or reset MySQL root password in Ubuntu, you should simply follow some steps. This process may vary according to the operating system. Ubuntu offerts a possibility to restore the root password via dpkg, which is a native package management system. Recovering the database root access: reset MySQL root password...
To install MySQL in Ubuntu, need to have root access to an Ubuntu server. This tutorial applies either to a dedicated server and a cheap vps hosting server. The first step is to login by SSH into your server. First of all, we have to update all the packages of the server sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade Now we...
