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cPanel contains a way to keep track of the most recent errors logged regarding your website. The Errors section details these error messages for you quickly and easily without needing to dig through the other metrics options for the desired information. How Can I Track My...

Among all of the tools that cPanel offers to track the various metrics of your website, one of the most frequently used and detailed options is AWStats. This tool analyzes server log files and produces HTML reports on your website, presenting various charts and graphs to...

This guide is intended to guide how to set up or change the PHP timezone for Linux-based services here at Hostwinds, setting and/or editing through cPanel, WHM, or commands within Linux. How To Edit PHP Time-zone With Hostwinds Shared and/or Business Hosting Services Step 1...

cPanel offers many ways to track the various metrics you can measure your site by. One useful metric to check is the Visitors tracker, which logs the IP address of every visitor to your websites, all the files and pages they viewed, and the time the access was attempted. You...

This article is about using cPanel to manage the indexing of your folders. To prevent the listing of the contents of your folder, this is a way to ensure your website visitors are not able to view the contents of a folder that does not contain an index file such as index.php...

When choosing a hosting provider, it is important to understand what software they directly support and offer. We're often asked if we support PHP, MySQL, and Perl on our services. The short answer to this is yes, we do. A few more definitive points regarding this are listed...

Hostwinds suggest to Fetch your email in Gmail instead of setting up an email forwarder or alias to prevent your domain from being rate limited, blocked, or very slow when checking email. This can happen if you receive SPAM and forward this to another email service provider...

What is cPanel? cPanel is a web hosting control panel created by cPanel, Inc., that allows for the management and administration of websites and their related services. It is a Linux-based software, supported by the latest versions of CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and...

If, when logging into WHM on your VPS, Cloud, or Dedicated Server, you receive a message stating that the license is expired, there are steps you can take to attempt to resolve this issue. How to Renew cPanel License Before beginning this process, you can check if your...

WordPress can be run on any system that supports PHP, MySQL or MariaDB, and HTTPS. As long as you are running these services on your system, you can use WordPress. These requirements may change, so make sure to review the Server Requirements listed as this will continue to...

Servers with cPanel/WHM require a valid cPanel license to be utilized. Hostwinds offers licenses for both our Cloud VPS products and Dedicated servers. Please note that these licenses will only work with Hostwinds servers. When purchasing a new Cloud VPS Server or Dedicated...

A cPanel username is a significant portion of your Hostwinds hosting account. We provide users with a unique, randomly generated username to avoid possible brute-force attempts into your account and ensure account security. Changing a username for an account can cause...

What is an Inode? An inode (Index Node) is a data structure containing information about a file in your server or hosting account. The inode stores all information regarding a file, except its name or the actual data. Inodes save information such as user and group ownership...

If you have a fair amount of domains on a single cPanel account, there may come a time when you want to set a different PHP version to be used with each domain name. This can be due to dependency issues with the different PHP Versions that make your site not work. For...

Creating a phpinfo.php page is simple to do and will show you what PHP settings enabled for your account. This can be a good tool to use to confirm what is available for you to use. If there is something that is not enabled for your account, and it is necessary, you may be...