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Running a VPS without a control panel: what the panel did and how you do it by hand

This article is for people with a VPS or a dedicated server with root access who work from the command line. A panel is just an interface for a dozen…

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Which hosting plan for a non-profit that takes online donations

The short answer: an association’s or NGO’s site is light, and one of the first shared plans is enough. What needs care is the online donation: donors have to trust…

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MX records in depth: priority, several mail servers and the mistakes that lose e-mail

The short answer: the MX record tells other servers where to deliver your domain’s mail. Each MX has a priority (a number) and the name of a server. Senders try…

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Webmin and Virtualmin on a VPS: a server admin tool and a hosting panel, explained

This article is for people with a VPS or a dedicated server with root access. On shared plans the panel is cPanel, and you neither choose nor install another one.…

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Which hosting plan for a student, thesis or hobby project

The short answer: to learn, experiment or hand in work with a website, you do not need anything big. The entry plan will do, and it lets you have an…

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Ten mistakes first-time website owners make, and how to avoid each one

The short answer: nearly all the problems of a site’s first months repeat from person to person. Most are not technical: they are not having the account and domain in…

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Which password is which: client area, cPanel, e-mail, FTP, database and WordPress

The short answer: a site with e-mail and a database has six or seven different passwords, and each one only works in one place. “I changed the password and it…

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Forwarded e-mail lands in spam or bounces: why SPF breaks and what to do

The short answer: when your address forwards messages to another (for example, to Gmail), the destination server sees the message arriving from your server, which is not on the list…

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Taxes and invoice numbers in WHMCS: tax rules, proforma invoices and repeated numbers

This article is for resellers who run their own WHMCS. WHMCS is another company’s product: we neither sell nor resell licences, as explained in what WHMCS is. Menu names change…

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.htaccess for PHP projects: friendly URLs and redirects

The .htaccess file is where you tell the server how to treat addresses: send every request to a single index.php file (friendly URLs), redirect one address to another, and hide…