Backups are crucial to the smooth operation of any website, no matter how important, how many visitors you have, or how frequently the site content changes. The frequency at which you should take backups does depend on those factors, as well as exactly what kind of sites and software you have on your account. If […]
Spam refers to junk email that is sent out in mass quantities. On average, three-fourth of the email that is sent everyday is spam. Spammers find email addresses in a variety of ways, most commonly by searching for email addresses listed on websites and by means of computer viruses and hacking. They can sell the […]
An email auto responder is exactly what you’d expect based on the name. Inside most control panels and webmail programs, you can configure an email address to automatically respond to any emails it gets with a default reply you specify. Then, it will discard the message, keep it in the inbox for that email account, […]
Email forwarders allow you to forward a copy of all mail from one address to another. For example, you could set up a forwarder to forward all mail received on info@mysite.com to admin@mysite.com info@mysite.com will still keep the original version of all messages it receives and admin@mysite.com gets forwarded a copy. Its worth nothing that […]
The amount of email accounts that you need depends on how many people you think will be using email on your hosting account. Most hosting providers allow you to create plenty of email accounts on pretty much any hosing plan. Keep in mind, though, that the mail you send and receive will be counted as […]
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is one way for you to transfer files to and from your hosting account. Unlike HTTP, which is meant for accessing websites, FTP is designed to transfer files. Because of this, using an FTP client to transfer files can be faster and more reliable than doing so inside your control panel. […]
A MySQL database, like all other types of databases, is used to keep track of a website or software’s data. The technical term of MySQL is a relational database management system or RDBMS. MySQL is a software program that runs at all times on a server and gives other programs access to the information it […]
Whenever you or your visitors access a website through a secure, encrypted connection, that connection is typically made using something known as SSL. If you make a secure connection in your web browser, you will probably see the address bar light up or some sort of padlock appear. You should also see that the URL […]
Every server in the world that has access to the internet has at least one IP address to a computer, this is like a phone number. An example of an IP address is 74.125.45.1000. When you sign up for a hosting account, your host assigns your account a specific IP address on one of their […]
Parked domains are often used by businesses that want to have more than one web address for advertising purposes. Parked domains are additional domains hosted on your account which display the same website as your primary domain and share web statistics as well; however, you can give the parked domain its own email boxes. For […]