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1. What to Look For When Choosing a Web Host
The purpose of your web site determines what you need to look for from a web hosting service. A hobby site has very different needs to that of a business site s


2. How to Make a Painless Move to a New Web Host
There are two things that can go seriously wrong when you move to a new web hosting provider. Follow this simple guide to doing it all without too many dramas. A normal move to a new hosting


3. Cpanel, an easy to use solution
What exactly is Cpanel anyway? It is short for "Control Panel". It is a interface used by website owners to maintain and keep their websites up-to-date. Cpanel was created to offer an easy to us


4. WHM Reseller Hosting: Smart and Popular
The most well-known tools of the trade are usually popular for a reason: it's because they address the needs of professionals across a broad spectrum. This is why when you hear someone recomme


5. Web Hosting Solution Helps Businesses Grow
You can have the greatest store on the planet offering the best products for the best prices, but if no one travels down the road on which your store is located, your business will fail due to lack


6. Web Hosting Technical Support – how to make the most of it
Getting your Web Hosting issue resolved in the most efficient manner is very much a two way process, as web hosts are obviously very dependent on the information you supply. One of our aims in


7. Blog Web Hosting For Beginners - 5 Features To Look For
When I purchased my first blog web hosting account, no one told me that I'd need certain features. I manually uploaded the WordPress program to my hosting account, followed the directions to in


8. 4 Good Reasons to Use Drupal as a Php Framework
Let me tell you why you should try using Drupal as a Framework in place of Symfony & CakePHP. 1. The basics are already handled for you With Drupal, all the basics of a multi-user progr


9. How to Become a Popular Affordable Hosting Reseller
Not a newbie to the Internet, and thinking of a good online business? Consider investing time and money in building your credibility as an affordable hosting reseller. Hanging out in message b


10. Some Features To Look For In Your Web Host
Web host allows you to put your websites on their servers so that people can access it. There are lots of web hosting companies around. Some have their own servers while others are resellers.


11. How To Understand Website Hosting
Whether you're a growing business planning on starting a website business or just a website programmer looking for a good hosting account, its a good idea to learn how web hosting works to ensure


12. Is cPanel Hosting The Easiest Kind Of Webhosting?
Hosting has been taken by storm recently with more and more hosting companies opting to use cPanel hosting as their hosting control panel. cPanel hosting has many great features which make man


13. Autoresponders - Are They Harmful To Your Wealth?
It is beyond doubt that the ever reliable autoresponder has proven to be an essential piece of equipment within the toolbox of marketers and it look as if this is likely to remain the case. Neve


14. Hosting Features You Must Have to Publish Your Blog
We have seen a phenomenal rise in the number of blogs published in recent years. A large number of webmasters (amateur and professional) are making use of blogs to accomplish one of many service


15. 9 Free Webmaster Tools You Can Fall In Love With
Webmasters and developers don't need a whole lot of money to spend on tools in order to work efficiently and be productive. Here is a list of free tools that help me run my everyday webmaster


16. 1 2 3 Steps to Find a Best Hosting for your website
Web Designing and hosting plays an important role for your company's or product's promotion. As there are thousands of web hosting companies with all kinds of offerings, and lots of marketing t


17. Is cPanel Hosting The Easiest Kind Of Webhosting?
Is your current website hosting company using a control panel which makes managing your website and domain very difficult? cPanel hosting transforms this into an easy to manage interface. And the be


18. I currently have another ADSL Provider - How do I signup with you?
Signing up with Gridhost is easy. Signup online with your credit card You will receive your ADSL account details immediately after signup Change your login details on your router Call your old p


19. Moving to Gridhost from another Host? Heres A Checklist
Here is a list of helpful steps for readers on moving from host to host: Order your Gridhost Hosting account. Receive your welcome email. Backup all files for old hosting account (Full backups)


20. How does ADSL Billing work?
In order to signup for the Gridhost ADSL Broadband service, you must have a valid credit card. Standard ADSL Billing: You are billed immediately when you signup for the full amount of the package yo


21. What outgoing mail server can I use?
If your using the Gridhost ADSL Network, you can make use of the following outgoing mail server: smtp.dsl.co.za Make sure you do not have outgoing authentication enabled.  


22. How fast is Gridhost ADSL ?
Gridhost does not determine the speed of your line. There are four factors that play a role in this: Your Telkom Line Speed (384kb, 512kb, 1024/4096KB) Your distance/proximity to your local exchan


23. General Billion Router Setup
The default ip for billion: 192.168.1.254 The default Username: admin default password: admin Once logged in, Click on Quickstart Set Encapsulation to : PPPoE VPI: 8 VCI: 35 Set Username


24. What backbone does your ADSL service run on?
The Gridhost ADSL Network runs on the SAIX (South African Internet Exchange ) backbone. The network uses the SAT3 Undersea Cable to break out internationaly.


25. General Netgear Setup
The following is a general guide to configuring Netgear Routers. Open your web browser and visit: http://192.168.1.0 or http://192.168.0.1 The default username is: admin ; and the default password


26. Can I host other people?
Yes, you can host sites for other people on your Web Hosting account, as long as you are not charging them money for hosting. However, if any of the people you host need direct access to the database


27. Does Gridhost web hosting have LAMP?
LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Yes, we do have all of these on our shared servers.


28. Why Choose Gridhost?
Gridhost, or The Grid as staff have fondly come to call the company is dedicated to you, the customer. We offer in house technical support 24/7 All our shared, reseller hosting and ADSL services a


29. Proxy access for cPanel, WHM, and webmail. Needed to bypass firewalls.
With your Linux Shared Hosting accounts, you have access to a control panel that contains the admin functions of your account. Generally you would access this using the following syntax: http://yourd


30. Do you run bakups on your servers?
You are responsible for your backups and web content. We create our own weekly backups on the shared servers, and we can restore from those. However, this is NOT a procedure you should rely on to kee


31. I want to change my domain name, can I do this?
If you registered domain1.co.za and you would rather have domain-one.com, then you must register the new name. This means you will own both names. Once the original name is ready to expire, simply c


32. What is an EPP code? or Authorization Key?
This is a code provided by your old registrar and applies to international domain names (.com, .net, .org, .mobi etc..) , Gridhost requires this key in order to transfer your domain from your previou


33. How do I update my Credit Card Details?
For security reasons, we only allow you upgrade your credit card once a month, when an invoice is due. Once an invoice has been generated, you simply log into your My Account Section (Portal) and fin


34. Ubuntu Intrepid setup - Part 1


35. Where must I upload my website files to?
When you upload your website (either by by FTP or the cPanel File Manager) - You must upload all of your files/images to the "www" directory or the "public_html" directory.   Both directories a


36. How do credit card payments work?
Web Hosting payments by Credit Card are always charged immediately when placing a new order and are always charged on the day of order the following month and going forward. For example, if you order


37. What payment methods do you accept?
Gridhost accepts Credit Card payments for: All web hosting packages (Including Reseller/Cloud) Pre Paid ADSL  Standard ADSL Cloud Hosting Gridhost Does NOT accept payment by EFT on a mon


38. How do I know all my hosting bills are paid?
There are several ways to check this: Our automated system will always let you know 2 days before your due date that your payment will be processed. Should it fail for whatever reason, Gridhost will


39. Our Banking Details
Our Banking Details are:   Banking Institution: First National Bank (FNB) Account Name: Gridhost Account Number: 621 805 319 67 Branch Code: 21 22 17   Always use your domain name as


40. What do I put for the cron job Command to Run?
Command to run for a php5 cron job (with Easy Apache 3): php /home/user_name123/public_html/cron.php Remote File /usr/bin/GET http://www.some-domain.com/file.php Command to run a cgi cron job: perl


41. What are Cron Jobs?
A cron job is a Linux command for scheduling a task to be executed sometime in the future. This is normally used to schedule a job that is executed periodically - for example, to send out a notice eve


42. How to upload to an Addon or Subdomain
Option 1 In a FTP client enter this information. Host = add on domain name User = addondomain@primarydomain.com Password = what you entered during Addon domain creation Port = 21 Once you have succ


43. I accidentally deleted the public_html or www folder
If you delete the www folder, your site should still load properly. If you delete the public_html folder, you will need to restore a backup. There is a small once of fee for this - You would need to


44. Error Page Codes
What are Error Codes? These numbered error codes are how the server tells website visitors about an error encountered. There are many different error codes that a server can deliver, but these are a f


45. How to install a script using Fantastico
Fantastico is a great addition to cPanel, which allows users to install the great open source software in just a few clicks. To install a script useing fantastico, please do the following: Click F


46. How to redirect a subdomain to another page
You might want your sub domain to redirect to another page. To do this, please do the following: Click Sub domains Make sure you have already added a sub domain to your account. In the drop do


47. How to upload a file using the File Manager
You may want to upload your files directly through cPanel. You can do this through the File Manager. Warning: There is a 25MB upload limit through File Manager. If you need to uploaded a larger file,


48. How to generate/download a full backup
A full backup is a backup of all of your files, e-mail, databases, etc. To run a full backup, you can not download the full backup right away. The backup takes time to perform and the server will send


49. How to download a home directory backup
Backups are very important part of maintaining a website. It is important to backup your files on a week to week or month to month basis. A home directory backup will backup all of the files in your h


50. How to login to cPanel
There are several ways to log into cPanel. The best way depends on if your domain name has propagated yet. If you recently purchased a new account with Gridhost, you should type the following informat


51. How to connect to the MySQL server
Configuration Settings: Host = localhost (really, put localhost) Database name = (cpanelusername_databasename) Database username = (cpanelusername_databaseusername) Database password = (******) Note:


52. Internal Server Error help, 500 error
Internal server errors can be caused by a few different things. Please check the Error Logs in cPanel for specific information. Alternatively, here are the most common reasons for 500 errors: (1) Bad


53. What is Fantastico?
Fantastico De Luxe is the leading auto installer for cPanel servers. With more than 10,000 installations, it provides more than one million end users the ability to quickly install dozens of the leadi


54. What is a subdomain name? How do I create and delete one?
Gridhost has most of these tutorials on Video. Simply click on the support link at the top of the page to view them A subdomain is a second website, with its own unique content, but there is no new d


55. None of my CGI scripts are working on the server. How do I get them to work?
First, make sure the script files are in the cgi-bin folder. Second, make sure the file permissions are set to 755/777.


56. Creating a URL redirect
Gridhost has most of these tutorials on Video. Simply click on the support link at the top of the page to view them Creating a URL redirect.   Login to cPanel and click the Redirects icon.


57. What is your most popular package
Gridhosters seem to enjoy our Basic plan the most. You can always upgrade/downgrade your package at anytime depending on your requirements. The Basic package the best place to start out.


58. Can I password protect directories?
Gridhost has Video tutorials available for most questions. Simply visit the support link on the top menu bar. To password protect directory:   Login into your cPanel and click on the Passwor


59. httpd configuration, httpd.conf
The httpd.conf file is only accessible by a system administrator, unless you are a Cloud Hosting customer Typically, depending on the distribution you decided upon, you can find the file at  &nb


60. MySQL connection limits
Gridhost allows a maximum of 25 simultaneous MySQL connections. This limit is per cPanel. The 25 simultaneous database connections should be sufficient. Most database connections open and close within


61. Commonly used port numbers
CPANEL cPanel uses port 2082 and secure port 2083 WHM uses port 2086 and secure port 2087 webmail uses port 2095 and secure port 2096 To access secure webmail, you can use https://(domain.s.ip):2096


62. How often are backups performed?
Shared and reseller servers are backed-up once a week on Sunday; the exact time depends on when we can get to your server. To have any backup restored, you must contact Gridhost.


63. When will my domain start working? Propagation
If you have a new domain name, you must change the name servers so they point to Gridhost. Name server changes usually take 24 to 72 hours to start working. This phenomenon is known as propagation. B


64. How do I log into cPanel?
There are several ways to log into cPanel. The best way depends on if your domain name has propagated yet. If you recently purchased a new account with Gridhost, you should type the following informat


65. How to get on the search engines, Google
You do not need to contact Google to become part of their search engine. Google and other engines use spiders to index webpages, and only the search engine will decide what keywords are used and what


66. What is Cpanel Hosting
Cpanel is an easy to use interface for web maintenance. cPanel is the leading web hosting control panel available today. Even a user completely new to web hosting can easily manage his/her own websit


67. Cpanel, an easy to use solution
What exactly is Cpanel anyway? It is short for "Control Panel". It is a interface used by website owners to maintain and keep their websites up-to-date. Cpanel was created to offer an easy to use s


68. Fantastico and CPanel is the Best Choice
cPanel is short for Control Panel and is a graphical user interface or GUI that is web-based and designed to afford webmasters and web designers easy access to many aspects of the web hosting system.


69. Web Hosting With Cpanel
I have used different types of web hosting control panel since I started online and the one that really caught my attention is web hosting with cpanel. cPanel is the number one used control panel in t


70. CPanel is the Right Choice for Web Hosting Services
When looking for web hosting, it is almost a requirement to check and see if the hosting company has cPanel. Short for control panel, this GUI or graphical user interface, is one of the best additions


71. cPanel Reseller Hosting: Popular and Practical
People who are new to reselling or buying web space may find themselves asking: Why is cPanel reseller hosting so popular? There's got to be a reason why of all the web management programs in the mark


72. Wordpress Hosting Review: Why Should You Use Fantastico Auto Installer
When you read a Wordpress hosting review, you most probably will learn about Wordpress as a CMS and get to know on where to find a good Wordpress hosting for your blog. This particular Wordpress hosti


73. Three Different Ways Of Getting A Wordpress Blog Up And Running
The purpose of this article is to outline three different ways of getting a WordPress blog up and running. WordPress is a free blogging software, has many benefits and is supported by a large communit