If you are trying to speed up your website, it’s important to first know the difference between a dynamic website, and a static website. These are the two types of websites that currently exist on the Internet. A quick break down would be that dynamic websites require more server resources, but provide more flexibility when Read More >
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How to Install Modules in Drupal
Drupal modules help you extend the functionality of your site. Modules can provide many different additional features such as banners, forms, forums, and reporting. They are much like plugins in other content management systems such as WordPress and Joomla. You can find modules that perform specific tasks by searching drupal.org for the appropriate type of module. Installing Read More >
Enabling Google Analytics in Koken
Google Analytics is one of the most powerful tools at your disposal for reporting and tracking your visitors. Thankfully, adding Google Analytics to your website built with Koken is quite a simple process. In this article, we will walk you through the process of installing Google Analytics on Koken to fully track your visitors. The Read More >
Enabling comments in Koken
Do you have plenty of beautiful art on your site built with Koken and you want to build discussion with comments on it? In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of enabling comments on your Koken site. Download and install the Koken Disqus plugin First, you will need to download and install Read More >
Installing Open Classifieds via Softaculous
Note: Open Classifieds software is no longer supported or available in Softaculous. As an alternative, you may want to consider using WordPress with a 3rd party plugin that supports classified ads or something like Osclass which will need to be installed manually. Softaculous is a software installation program that is available within your hosting account. Read More >
What is a SpamBot?
One major problem with websites is the incessant attack of comment and form spamming. This is caused by what’s known as a “SpamBot“. SpamBot’s are annoying “Robots” that crawl websites in search for forms, comments, user logins, and any other exploitable script to add spam to the website or email spam to the website owner. Read More >
Expected new features in Drupal 8
The information in this article has been transcribed from a presentation of the Drupal Group (drupal.mn) at The Nerdery on April 12th, 2012. This was a webinar upload in early April of 2012 discussing upcoming changes in Drupal 8. Below are links to the different topics covered in the talk. Content Creation Site Building Theming Read More >
What Is High System Resource Usage?
In this article, I’m going to take a few moments to explain what high system resource usage is, and some of the common things that tend to lead to these conditions happening on your server. What Is Resource Usage? On servers, there is a limited amount of resources available for use at any one given Read More >
No form of database caching to reduce duplicate database queries.
In this article I’ll quickly review why having no form of database caching to reduce duplicate database queries on your website applications, can cause a problematic level of resource usage. What is caching? You probably are already familiar with the common form of web-browser caching, even if you’re not, you’re reaping the rewards of this Read More >
Excessive amount of spam comments, or guestbook entries
In this article I’m going to talk about why having an excessive amount of spam comments or guestbook entries, can cause resource usage problems on your account. What are spam comments? Because your website is open to the whole Internet it’s very common for there to be a section for visitors to leave comments on Read More >
Inefficient coding of your website
In this article, I’ll discuss why inefficient coding of your website could lead to problems with the level of your account’s resource usage. What is inefficient code? One of the best ways to think of computer code is as a set of instructions, or even a recipe, to get to the expected end result again Read More >
Installable Software Reference
Our system administrators, or sysadmins, will oftentimes install complex software on your behalf. This is normally done for free unless there’s a high amount of man hours required to complete the installation. If there will be a software installation charge, our Systems team will provide you a quote before anything is done. You’ll also be Read More >
List of Programs in Softaculous Instant Installer
The Softaculous Instant Installer provides an easy way for you to install programs on your server. This allows you an easier method to maintain, update, remove, backup, and restore web applications on your web server. Softaculous comes with all of our shared hosting plans. cPanel-managed VPS/Dedicated server administrators can purchase Softaculous in the Account Management Read More >
Recovering After a Hack To Your Website
Recovering from a hack can be overwhelming. Not only do you have to deal with restoring your site to a good working state, you also need to take steps to help prevent a repeated attack on your site. The following is a series of recommended steps for recovering from a hack (regardless of the nature Read More >
Necessary information to know before contacting support
There are times when your website may seem to not be performing as you think it should. Regardless of the program you are using on your site, there can be many things that affect its performance. To give an analogy, they can have issues just like your car or body can. When contacting the Live Read More >
How to connect your CMS to SMTP email
Most Content Management Systems (CMS) have the ability to set up the email configuration to use SMTP instead of the PHP mail function. This allows you to send email from your server using an SMTP connection like for your Gmail or Yahoo email address. This works similar to a email client like Outlook or Mac Read More >
How to Determine the cause of a Server Usage Spike
In this article we’ll review what steps you can take if your server’s load average is spiking, to help determine the root cause of the issues. For these examples, you would need to be on a VPS (Virtual Private Server), or dedicated server so that you have SSH access to the server to run commands Read More >
Server security best practices
A server is connected to the outside world and is open to a variety of attacks and exploits due to this. Some server security best practices can go a long way in ensuring your server does not fall victim to an attack. A new server comes with the latest versions of software. This can help Read More >
Stopping brute force and spam attacks
In this article we’ll discuss some common solutions you can try to implement if your website has been having malicious users trying to brute force their way in, or if they’re leaving spam on your site. What is a Brute Force Attack? Many times the applications that you have installed on your website will require Read More >
How to Set Up a 301 Redirect in .htaccess
If you’re a website owner or administrator, you probably know how important it is to maintain a smooth and seamless user experience on your site. However, there are times when you need to make changes to your website’s structure, reorganize content, or even change domain names. When these changes occur, it’s crucial to ensure that Read More >
