Automattic, the company behind WordPress and Jetpack, has announced that the main Jetpack plugin is now a “build your own Jetpack”. This new approach allows site owners to install only the features they want or need. This is a great approach to customization, as well as site security. Six Jetpack Plugins Jetpack is now available […]
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PHP is a great language to learn for making websites. It’s also very useful for system administration tasks too, but in this tutorial we’re going to look at it for creating websites. A lot of popular software is written using PHP. WordPress, the CMS that runs the majority of websites on the Internet, is written
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Data centers and green don’t usually go together. Servers are known for being power-hungry and when you consider the amount of power that a data center uses, it’s almost impossible to get to 100% green. While we don’t dispute this claim, we think it’s more marketing than you’re lead to believe. Many “green” data centers
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First off, I’d like to apologize if you tried to access our main website between late afternoon of May 10 and today, May 11. Your browser may have asked you to download a file called “download” if you use Chrome or a Chrome-based browser (like Edge, Brave, etc.) or a bunch of random strings like
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Reseller web hosting is a way for you to resell our services to your own customers as your own brand. If you wanted to start a web hosting company, you could get a standard reseller account and then create accounts on our servers for your customers (this is actually how we got started!). But it
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I figured I’d take you behind the scenes of our server build process at NodeSpace. This is how we build all of our servers – from start to finish. While other providers have these elaborate, fully automated methods, we like to take a personal approach by building our servers by hand. Whether it’s a custom
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Sometimes things seem a bit… slow. Or maybe you really want to see if your ISP is giving you the speeds they say they are. Here’s a dirty little secret about ISPs and speed tests. All the major speed test sites – speedtest.net, DSL Reports, fast.com, etc. – are all well known by ISPs. When
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A common question we get asked by our resellers is, “how do I add my brand to cPanel?” Adding your brand is a great way for you to reinforce your brand’s image with your clients. After all, most of them are probably in and out of cPanel on an (almost) daily basis. In this guide,
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A common problem server administrators face is running out of disk space or even just checking their current disk space usage. In this guide, I’m going to show you how to use the du command to check disk usage and the df command to check disk space. Check disk space using df command df stands
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Administering a Linux system is a little different than Windows. For starters, Linux is very CLI heavy but don’t let this scare you off! The CLI is a very efficient and easy way to interact with your system. It also means that your system is light on resources. Instead of using RAM for the window
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