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WordPress Security Hardening: A Practical Checklist
Most WordPress sites don't get hacked because someone specifically targeted them. They get hacked because a bot scanned a million IP addresses, found an outdat…
How to Manage MySQL Databases in cPanel with phpMyAdmin
Sooner or later, every site owner ends up staring at phpMyAdmin wondering what half the buttons do. Maybe a plugin needs a fresh database, maybe you're chasing…
How to Set Up Nginx as a Reverse Proxy on Your VPS
You've got a Node.js app running fine on port 3000, or maybe three different sites sharing one VPS, and now you need them all reachable on port 80/443 under cl…
Domain Transfer to SkyServer Without Any Downtime
Transferring a domain between registrars sounds scarier than it is. The horror stories you've read online almost always trace back to one thing: someone let th…
VPS Snapshots Explained: Take, Restore & Use Them Safely
You're about to run a risky command — a major PHP upgrade, a kernel update, a database migration script someone on a forum swore was "totally safe." Half…
New VPS from SkyServer? Your First-Hour Setup Checklist
The email just landed: your new SkyServer VPS is provisioned, root password included. Before you install WordPress, Docker, or whatever brought you here, spend…
Pointing Your Domain to SkyServer: Nameservers vs A Record
You bought a domain from one place and you're hosting your site somewhere else — now what? Almost every new customer asks us the same thing: "Do I change…
Why Is My Site Slow? Fixing High CPU Usage on Your Server
Your site used to load in under a second. Now it crawls, sometimes it times out completely, and your hosting dashboard is showing a CPU graph that looks like a…
How to Create and Manage Email Accounts in cPanel
New hosting customer, five minutes in, and the question is always the same: "How do I get info@mydomain.com working?" Creating an email account in cPanel takes…
cPanel Addon Domains vs Subdomains: Which One Do You Need?
Every week we get some version of the same ticket: "I want to host a second website on my account, should I add it as a subdomain or an addon domain?" Sometime…