Overview All payments are automatically recurring, unless recurring billing has been halted. Your billing renews on the day you established an account. For your convenience, you can easily find this renewal date within the control panel. Login to the control panel Your renewal date and amount is visible under Account > Dashboard > Overview >…
Overview PageSpeed (mod_pagespeed) optimizes your site and makes content load more quickly. PageSpeed applies a variety of filters including minifying scripts, inlining CSS, and automatically deferring JavaScript to avoid blocking DOM rendering. Users can browse your site with less latency, and in turn, improve visitor engagement. Availability PageSpeed is available on all v5+ platforms. PageSpeed is enabled by…
Overview In rare certain situations, PageSpeed may make debugging a staging site more difficult or interfere with custom JavaScript that manipulates the DOM in a HEAD tag. Although likely unnecessary to disable, PageSpeed may be disabled on your site with a simple htaccess directive: Create a file named .htaccess in the document root of the…
Overview Google Analytics is a free web analytics application provided by Google, including SEO recommendations and live site traffic. Setting up GA Google Analytics can be enabled on newer, v5+ platforms using two lines in a .htaccess file. Visit Google Analytics to create a profile for the domain Once the profile is created, you will see sample code to insert:…
Overview When attempting to install newer packages on v6+ platforms, npm may complain that it is too old to install a package. Sample error: Sails.js Installation – Error ——————————————————– Your npm-Version is too old: Sails require npm >= 1.4.0 (you currently have 1.3.6) Please update the installed npm (Node Package Manager) to install Sails. ——————————————————–…
Overview The control panel provides a comprehensive storage breakdown via Files > Storage Usage. A birds eye view is available in graphical form under Storage Usage as well as individual files via File Listing > Download File Listing. Storage contributors Any file created on your account contributes to storage utilization. This includes the following services: MySQL PostgreSQL FTP…
Overview Newer platforms, v6+ platforms specifically, permit switching users from the account user from the terminal. Once switched to the user, you assume the permission rights as this user, including the ability to remove files. Usage Use su to switch users from the main user. You will not be required to enter the account password…
Overview When migrating over hosting providers, it may be necessary to add e-mail addresses en masse. Addresses can be added within the control panel. Visit Mail > Manage Mailboxes Select Add Multiple Addressses Bulk address form will slide down Enter each address to create on its own line, format follows: <email1> <forward1>, <forward2>, <forwardN>… <email2> <forward1>, <forward2>,…
Overview DNS maps a hostname (comprised of a domain name + optional subdomain, e.g. example.com or www.example.com) to an addressable machine (by IP address) somewhere on the Internet. DNS works by issuing multiple queries, recursively, until the machine address is resolved. Process Initial query Of a most trivial example, let’s assume a browser accesses http://example.com for…
Overview Attempting to access terminal remotely will result in a non-responsive server often falsely indicating the server is down. Cause All servers use a 3-5-10 brute-force deterrent mechanism: three invalid logins in a five minute window results in a ten minute block. After ten minutes the block automatically expires and you may login again to the…