So you are thinking about backing up your site but don’t want to spend the extra money? There are affordable ways to backup your website and its data without having to spend a lot of money. 1) Get a cheap shared web hosting account You can manually backup your site everyday or every week. You […]
A sub-domain is simply an extension of your existing domain name. There is no cost to create a subdomain name. Your main domain name can be for example: vnkb.com. For a subdomain you can enter your control panel and create: james.vnkb.com. This would be an example of a subdomain. A subdomain is an additional web […]
Dyn.com was acquired by Oracle a few years ago. Taking a look at the Dyn.com website you can see that Oracle has now added their name/brand. It is now known as Oracle Dyn. The pricing on the Dyn website also shows three different tiers for their hosted DNS service. Dyn offers developers a pay as […]
Error message: * Account ‘bob@example.com’: Connecting to SMTP server: mail.example.com:25… *** SSL/TLS handshake failed *** Error occurred while sending the message. If you get the above error message in your email client logs then the issue maybe you are attempting to send the message to an SMTP server on the wrong port. Please make sure […]
Some people love the new Gutenberg block editor while some people love the old classic WordPress editor. You are probably reading this article because you do not like the new WordPress Gutenberg block editor. It may look clunky or is not your cup of tea. Either way you can switch back to the classic WordPress […]
If you see the error message “535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed:” in your logs then this means that somewhere in your email client’s setting there is an error. Your mail server is expecting a specific username and password. While your are sending either an incorrect username or incorrect password (or both are incorrect). Re-check your […]
Why do some web hosts chose to deploy or use CentOS instead of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)? The simple reason is due to licensing costs. Instead of paying a few hundred dollars for a RHEL license. The web host can download and deploy a server with CentOS for no cost. Red Hat Enterprise Linux […]
Question: Does embedding videos from sites like YouTube or vimeo use up my site’s bandwidth? Answer: No, if you host your own videos than you will consume additional bandwidth usage. If you are just embedding videos from other sites than there will be no bandwidth usage from your hosting account if someone were to load […]
So what are some alternatives to WordPress? If you want to launch a new blog and don’t want to use WordPress then the following are some options to look at. b2evolution Homepage: http://www.b2evolution.net/ b2evolution is a popular alternative to WordPress. b2evolution began its roots as a fork of another content management system (same one WordPress […]
Question: What are the requirements to register a .CN domain name? Answer: The .CN ccTLD domain name extension is run by the People’s Republic of China. You can register a .CN domain name without providing any documentation if you have no plans on resolving (hosting a site or using email) the domain. Personal ID or […]