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This guide is intended for Hostwinds clients whose service is older than 30 days and have found that their IP has been blacklisted. Reasons If you find yourself on an email blacklist, there could be several reasons: The previous owner of your service's IP you're using had...
Any Hostwinds clients who have a domain registered with us have a few different options for using nameservers for their domain. In addition, we offer DND Management for any domain through your Cloud Portal and directly in cPanel for your Shared or Business Web hosting...
So, you've decided to build a website. Great! Hostwinds is very proud to offer products that can help you get a site up and running. This guide is designed to help you decide what services we can provide you and which one may work best for you. What is a shared web hosting...
Domain name And Web Hosting Explained To simplify: It is like the lease/title to your home; Web hosting, on the other hand, is the space of your house where you place your furniture; Your IP address is the address to which your Domain name points/Web host listens. Instead of...
If you need help right away, please contact us using Live Chat so that we can help you My Site Is Down This guide will help you look at various ways to identify why your website is down and help you get your website up as quickly as possible. Check if the issue is local to...
When looking for a web hosting service provider, you have many options to choose from. One of the most sought-after options is virtual private servers or VPS hosting that many Hostwinds clients really enjoy using. Even better, Hostwinds makes it easy to get started and...
When you create your site, you will most likely want it to be on Google or other search engines. Luckily, they have their own bots or " crawlers " that scour the internet to index sites. These bots can be controlled in how they interact with your site through a text file....
Have you ever tried or thought about trying to host something on a server? For instance, It could be a game server, a website, an email server, a database server, or even your own custom app. To give people access to a service you want to connect to using the internet, you...
Domain hosting and web hosting are the two different services that make your website or email work. While they work in conjunction, the two hosting types are very different in their function. Web Hosting Web hosting, fundamentally, is a service that stores your website files...
Hostwinds has two virtual private servers (VPS) available for purchase from our main website: Cloud and VPS. Due to this, you may find yourself asking, "what is the difference?" or "which one is best for me?". This guide will answer those questions. Cloud vs. VPS At its core...
If you want to set up a website or have one set already, you may have noticed that you need two services to host a site effectively. If you're curious about what you need both to run a website, this guide will explain why each one, in turn, is needed. Let's start by looking...
When browsing the Hostwinds website, you might notice that we offer Cloud, VPS, and Dedicated Servers. The difference between them may not be obvious initially, but they are two very different products. What is a Dedicated Server? A Dedicated Server is very different from a...
When you choose to buy a Dedicated Server from Hostwinds, you will notice the option to include RAID as part of your server. There are various types, or "levels" of Raid, which are different in what they do and why they're used. We'll walk through them here. Raid Levels Raid...
Domain registration is the process of registering a domain name for a period of time so you own it and can use it for your site. You decide on the name of a domain you'd like, check to see if it's available through a domain registrar and if so, register it. Normally the...
What is DNS? Domain Name Servers, or DNS, is the internet's guide to finding and connecting one source with another. DNS is the computer directory that turns human identifiable names (domain names like yourdomain.com) into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses necessary (a series...
Anyone that owns a website is a current or former Hostwinds client or otherwise has perhaps heard of an IP address. Most of the time, it's a sequence of four numbers, separated by periods. If you've set up DNS, the chances are that you've had to find your IP address. This...