Guides
Hosting, explained by the people who run it.
Practical guides on web hosting, DirectAdmin, WordPress, managed servers and moving sites — written by the people who run them.
DirectAdmin
How to Add a Domain, Subdomain and Domain Pointer in DirectAdmin
Add a second domain, a subdomain or a domain pointer in DirectAdmin, see where each one lives on disk, and choose between an alias and a redirect pointer.
Why Your Emails Go to Spam and How to Fix It
The twelve reasons legitimate mail lands in junk — authentication, reputation, content, volume, lists — ordered by how often each is the cause, each with a fix.
Plesk
How to Create Email Accounts in Plesk
Create mailboxes, aliases, forwarders and autoresponders in Plesk, set quotas and spam filtering, and find the settings your phone or Outlook needs.
CloudLinux
How to Install CloudLinux on a DirectAdmin Server
Convert a DirectAdmin server on AlmaLinux 9 to CloudLinux with cldeploy, switch CustomBuild to lsphp, set up CageFS and PHP Selector, and verify with cldiag.
Networking
TCP/IP Ports Every Hosting Admin Should Know
The ports behind web, mail, DNS, databases, SSH, RDP and control panels, what should be open on a server, and how to check what is listening and reachable.
Servers
How to Configure PHP-FPM Pools for Performance
Size pm.max_children from real memory numbers, choose dynamic or ondemand, set timeouts and the slow log, run one pool per site, and stop 502 and 504 errors.
DirectAdmin
How to Create Packages and User Accounts in DirectAdmin
Reseller and user packages in DirectAdmin, the limits inside them, creating a reseller and a user, shared versus owned IPs, and suspending or deleting accounts.
Linux
Ubuntu vs Debian vs AlmaLinux vs Rocky: Which Linux for a Server?
The practical differences between the server distributions — release cycles, package freshness, support length, tooling — and which to pick for what.
Windows Server
How to Connect to a Windows VPS With RDP (and Secure It)
Connect to a Windows Server VPS from Windows, Mac or Linux, then lock RDP down — NLA, a new port, IP restrictions, lockout and a VPN — before the bots find it.
CloudLinux
LVE Explained: How CloudLinux Isolates Accounts on a Shared Server
What an LVE is, which processes run inside it, the seven limits CloudLinux enforces, what a user sees when each one is hit, and how to watch it live with lveps.
Domains
.com vs .co.uk vs .io vs .dev: How to Pick a TLD
What the common top-level domains signal to customers and search engines, what they cost to renew, which carry restrictions, and a simple rule for choosing.
Security
SSL/TLS Explained: Certificates, Authorities and HTTPS
What a TLS certificate proves, how the handshake works, DV vs OV vs EV, why Let's Encrypt is enough for almost everyone, and what the padlock does not mean.