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How to Stop Crawler and Ghost Spam in Google Analytics

One of the most useful Google Analytics features helps webmasters track the referral URLs, from which people land on their website. Unfortunately spammers utilize this possibility to promote their own websites or damage the image of unrelated companies by inserting … Continued

How to use the robots.txt file to improve the way search bots crawl your website?

The purpose of the robots.txt file is to tell the search bots which files should and which should not be indexed by them. Most often it is used to specify the files which should not be indexed by search engines. In order … Continued

How to Clean Up my Mailbox?

The easiest way to clean up your mailbox is through Webmail. You can access Webmail directly at http://yourdomain.com/webmail with your email account, where yourdomain.com is your website hosted with XonHost. The next step is to delete the messages that you don’t need and empty … Continued

What is a Content Management System (CMS)

A Content Management System (CMS) is an application through which you can easily create and manage dynamic web content. A CMS separates the different parts of a website (content, design, functionality) and thus allows for easier website management. When using … Continued

How to restrict the number of simultaneous connections to a server in FileZilla?

By default FileZilla is configured to transfer 5+ files at a time, which means that each time when you make a transfer, the application will initiate 5+ simultaneous connections to the server. If you are hosted on a shared server … Continued

How to add a wildcard DNS record?

Wildcard subdomains are useful when you wish to redirect all visitors to your website regardless of what subdomain they access your website through. This is also useful when someone mistypes www for example and writes ww.yourdomain.com. In other words, with wildcard subdomains it … Continued

How to generate an SSH key pair in Windows using PuTTY?

You can generate an SSH key on Windows using the PuTTY SSH client. You can download PuTTY for free from this URL. To generate a key with PuTTY, you should: Download and start the puttygen.exe generator. In the “Parameters” section choose SSH2 DSA and press Generate. Move your mouse … Continued

Is File Exchange protocol (FXP) supported?

Unfortunately FXP is not supported on our shared servers because of compatibility reasons. Please consider using FTP instead.

How to Enable SSH for Cloud on Windows using PuTTY

In order to connect to your Cloud hosting account via SSH using PuTTY you will need download and install PuTTY, Pageant and Puttygen from this link. Once you complete the software installation you need to generate an SSH key pair from your cPanel -> SSH/Shell access -> Generate new SSH … Continued

Will I receive the authorization request for the domain transfer if I have ID Protect?

If you have ID protect for your domain name, you need to deactivate it first and allow for the whois changes up to 24 hours to appear globally. After that you can request a domain name transfer and the authorization … Continued