If your FTP program had no issues connecting with your FTP server and today it doesn’t work. There maybe a minor fix. If everything was working yesterday and the error message “Failed to retrieve directory listing” began appearing today then there are 2 possible explanations. FTP software got updated The first possible explanation is your […]
This tutorial works with WordPress version 4.6.1. To delete a theme from WordPress you click on “Appearance” from the main menu inside the Admin panel. After you click on the “Appearance” menu you should see all your different themes displayed. Click on the theme that you want to delete. Make sure you have a different […]
Depending on who the web host is application web hosting can mean a lot of things. Most of the time application hosting means that the shared web host setups your account and you can go in and use the 1-click installer to install the application you want. Applications that can be installed via different 1-click […]
It is being reported that Host Europe Group anticipates bids for the company to come from at least 2 different parties. Deutsche Telekom’s Strato is believed be teaming up with Hellman & Friedman to make a bid. While United Internet (parent of 1&1) will team up with Warburg Pincus to make another bid. There has […]
This afternoon Netflix experienced an outage for over 2 hours. This resulted in thousands of users taking to Twitter to voice their concern about their plans and how they would go about their day. Netflix primarily relies upon Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host their video library and streaming operations. It is not clear at […]
WoSign is a certificate authority that most people don’t know about. While StartCom is famous for giving free SSL certificates via StartSSL.com. While ordinary SSL certificates cost anywhere from $20 dollars to a few hundred dollars. SSL Certificates issued by WoSign and StartCom in the future may no longer be considered recognized by Mozilla. SSL […]
A domain lock/registrar transfer lock is a status that indicates whether or not a domain name can be moved from one registrar to another. When a domain name has it’s status set to “Locked” it can not be transferred to another registrar. Only when the domain’s status is “Unlocked” can a transfer request be put […]
FreeBSD 11.0 has a new release date of October 5, 2016. Due to some security fixes that had to be included. A rebuild of the FreeBSD 11.0 image was required. FreeBSD 11 was set to be released today but that won’t be happening. Instead it will probably be next Wednesday. An explanation of the delay […]
When examining server logs or application logs you may notice that they are set to your servers time and not yours. Unless you change the timezone settings when you first setup the server then there is a good chance your servers time does not match yours. To figure out what timezone your server is using […]
Shared web hosting is pretty much what it reads. Shared web hosting is = sharing web hosting or just splitting a web server into smaller pieces that are shared. When you order shared web hosting, depending on what kind of resources come with your web hosting package. The shared web hosting you will be getting […]