Hosting Guides & Tutorials

The main sections you will find in your control panel and roughly what lives in each one.

A blank page with one line of text, and five possible causes. Here is how to tell which one you have, in the order worth checking.

Giving someone else visibility on your account without handing over your own login, and what they can and cannot do with it.

PayPal brings its own customers who already trust it — here is how to add it without duplicating or confusing your existing checkout.

Structured data is what lets a search result show a price and stock status without a customer ever clicking through.

Structured data that describes your page in a format search engines can parse directly, plus how to test it before it goes live.

A handful of response headers close off entire categories of attack for very little effort. Here is what each does and how to add them.

A domain has to exist inside your hosting account before DNS can point at it. Here is where that setting lives and how to use it.

Sending visitors from one URL to another using your control panel's redirect tool instead of editing a file.

Where to find the A record setting in your DNS zone, what each field means, and how to confirm the change actually took.

A backup you have to remember to run by hand eventually does not get run — here are three ways to automate it instead.

Files and database, taken together, kept somewhere other than the account they protect — here are three ways to manage both.

A scheduled export you never have to remember to run is worth more than the best manual backup habit.

Restoring a store to yesterday sounds fine until you remember every order placed since then just disappeared.

Files and database, together — a backup missing either one is not a backup. Three ways to take one, and how to prove it works.

Recurring invoices, automatic payment collection and a clear failed-payment process, so renewals no longer depend on you remembering them.

Two reliable ways to stop a specific address reaching your site, and why blocking one IP rarely stops a determined, repeated attacker for long.

Audit the existing site, preview it on the new account before touching DNS, then switch over on a schedule the client actually agreed to.

How to get the benefits of caching on a site that has logins, carts or content updating constantly.

cURL, an authentication header and a decoded JSON response — the three parts of calling any external API from a PHP script.

Cancelling a service from your client area, what it does to your site, and how to time it so you are not charged for a period you will not use.

Setting the right permission number on a file or folder using your FTP client or file manager, and the one number to never use.

Updating the address your account logs in with and sends billing notices to, and why a personal inbox is the safer choice.

Switching the PHP version your account runs, and what to test straight afterwards.