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Should I be taking backups of my account? If so, how often? Backups are crucial to the smooth operation of any website, no matter how important, how many visitors you have, or how frequently the site content changes. The frequency at which you should take backups does depend on those factors, as well as exactly [...]

Spam refers to junk email that’s sent out in mass quantities. On average, three-fourths of the email that’s sent every day is spam. Spammers find email addresses in a variety of ways, most commonly by searching for email addresses listed on websites and by means of computer viruses and hacking. They can then sell the [...]

An email auto-responder is exactly what you’d expect based on the name. Inside most control panels and webmail programs, you can configure an email address to automatically respond to any emails it gets with a default reply you specify. Then, it will discard the message, keep it in the inbox for that email account, or [...]

Email forwarders allow you to forward a copy of all mail from one address to another. For example, you could set up a forwarder to forward all mail received on info@mysite.com to admin@mysite.com. info@mysite.com will still keep the original version of all messages it receives, and admin@mysite.com gets forwarded a copy. It’s worth noting that [...]

That’s really up to you; it depends on how many people you think will be using email on your hosting account. Most hosting providers allow you to create plenty of email accounts on pretty much any hosting plan. Keep in mind, though, that the mail you send and receive will be counted as part of [...]

FTP – File Transfer Protocol – is one way for you to transfer files to and from your hosting account. Unlike HTTP, which is meant for accessing websites, FTP is designed to transfer files. Because of this, using an FTP client to transfer files can be faster and more reliable than doing so inside your [...]

A MySQL database, like all other types of databases, is used to keep track of a website or software’s data. The technical term for MySQL is a relational database management system, or RDBMS. MySQL is a software program that runs at all times on a server and gives other programs access to the information it [...]

Those are all web programming languages, also known as scripting languages. PHP is the most commonly used and available for web hosting, followed by Perl (which is what’s used most of the time when you see the phrase CGI or cgi-bin). What language is used to code web software doesn’t really matter, as long as [...]

Whenever you or your visitors access a website through a secure, encrypted connection, that connection is typically made using something known as SSL. If you make a secure connection in your web browser, you’ll probably see the address bar light up or some sort of padlock appear. You should also see that the URL starts [...]

Every server in the world that has access to the Internet has at least one IP address — to a computer, this is like a phone number. An example of an IP address is 74.125.45.100. When you sign up for a hosting account, your host assigns your account a specific IP address on one of [...]