It’s only recommended that you connect to your package via SSH if you’re familiar with the command line interface. Here is how to connect using two-factor authentication (2FA). Setting up your authenticator: You will want to first download the Google Authenticator app, which is available for both iOS and Android devices. ⦁ Log in to […]
Yes! As standard, mod_rewrite is available and installed on our WordPress Hosting and Linux Web Hosting servers.
We’re happy to let you know that we do provide a free Sitemap Generator. Our sitemap generator is a bot that crawls your website and creates an XML sitemap of pages that are accessible. It will obey all robots.txt restrictions.
Occasionally, applications in your webspace may run checks to help ensure your website is secure. As part of these checks, the application reads the version number of various pieces of software on our servers. Sometimes, these version numbers are old and hence raise warnings. One of the most common examples for cURL is “You currently […]
Our WordPress platform has been specifically designed to offer the best security, performance and reliability for WordPress. As a result, we have specifically tuned firewall rules and layers of protection to help keep WordPress sites secure. As part of this protection, a small number of PHP functions have been disabled, as we’ve found that they’re often […]
Our web servers run PHP 7+ as standard. In this version of PHP, the MySQL module has been replaced by either the ‘mysqli’ or ‘PDO_MySQL’ extension. Read more about the MySQL extension deprecation on PHP’s website. If you have a website using this module we recommend updating your code to use the latest modules. However, if […]
The ionCube PHP Loader is a software component used for encoding and decoding PHP scripts. It’s primarily used to protect PHP applications and scripts from being easily viewed, modified, or copied by unauthorized users. The ionCube PHP Loader works by converting PHP code into a format that is not human-readable, making it more challenging for […]
Updating your PHP can instantly improve page load times as well as improve compatibility and security. If you’re switching between any 7.* version (7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.4, 7.4) then all modern plugins and themes should be compatible. However, if you update the PHP version and notice any negative behaviour changes then you can change back […]
View PHP settings with phpinfo Function During web development, you must often verify PHP settings. This may be performed by running a script that uses the phpinfo() function. When you open the page in a web browser, the script displays all of your website’s PHP setup information. To use the phpinfo() function to view PHP settings: Create […]
Our Linux platform has the ability to run different versions of PHP: PHP 5.3 PHP 5.4 PHP 5.5 PHP 5.6 PHP 7.0 PHP 7.1 PHP 7.2 PHP 7.3 PHP 8.0 PHP 8.1 PHP 8.2 PHP 8.3 If you wish to switch versions on an Addon Domain or Sub-domain, kindly follow these steps: Open the .htaccess […]