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Hosting Process

What is Hosting?

Website hosting is the process of renting space to house a website on the World Wide Web. All websites need hosting. We “handle” the hosting for almost all of our clients.

Exceptions: we do not handle hosting for:

  • kingandbeaty.com
  • Preferredinsurance.com & ca site
  • Reliableappliancecs.com
  • arnoldreadymix.com

Infront Hosting

Green Geeks – Go to WHMCS > Pick a customer > Upper right – configuration – system settings – servers – click button next to cpanel2 to login to whm > look for the domain

Cloudflare

We use Cloudflare for almost all our nameservers and DNS hosting. Exceptions are blicks, ebls.org and the pueblo HOA site.

A records In CloudFlare’s DNS management we set/enabled “Proxied” for the A record then you’ll see CloudFlare’s IP address as A record and not the actual host IP address. It’s good and secure to enable the “Proxied” option at CloudFlare’s DNS, this hides servers IP address from attacker/hackers.

Cloudflare Brotli Setting: Speed > Optimization > Content Optimization > Toggle

Rochen

403 errors when uploading themes, send Rochen a ticket they need to update a mod security rule

Modifying Hosts File

If you’d like to review the site prior to changing DNS, we recommend using a modified hosts file to do so:

https://www.rochen.com/docs/documentation/modifying-your-hosts-file/

Select “Terminal” and press “Enter.” You will now want to execute the following command to open your hosts file with the nano text editor:

> sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

To save your changes:

Press CTRL+X

Press “y”

Here is the hosts file line you’ll use:

> 72.249.48.124 prodigygym.com www.prodigygym.com

> 72.249.48.124 flyingw.com www.flyingw.com

Run this command to flush DNS resolver cache

sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

Old Domain Info

Exp
bizsale.com Network Solutions, LLC 1996-08-08 2025-08-07 ; ns13.worldnic.com ; ns14.worldnic.com ;
blicksfencing.com GoDaddy.com, LLC 2010-03-04 2023-03-04 ; ns1.pagecafe.com ; ns2.pagecafe.com ;
bvchomes.com Tucows Domains Inc. 2008-04-08 2022-04-08 ; jonah.ns.cloudflare.com ; robin.ns.cloudflare.com ;
ebls.org Public Interest Registry 1996-12-20 2022-12-19 ; ns1.pagecafe.com ; ns2.pagecafe.com ;
hallerlegal.com Tucows Domains Inc. 1998-09-23 2021-09-22 ; ns1.pagecafe.com ; ns2.pagecafe.com ;
hearthouse.com Tucows Domains Inc. 1997-07-29 2025-07-28 ; jonah.ns.cloudflare.com ; robin.ns.cloudflare.com ;
ial-fa.com Tucows Domains Inc. 1997-11-05 2021-11-04 ; ns1.pagecafe.com ; ns2.pagecafe.com ;
jamesnewbylaw.com NameCheap, Inc. 2012-09-11 2021-09-11 ; ns1.pagecafe.com ; ns2.pagecafe.com ;
jfba.com Network Solutions, LLC 1998-01-06 2022-01-05 ; ns1.pagecafe.com ; ns2.pagecafe.com ;
kevingrahamcostamaya.com Tucows Domains Inc. 2015-07-17 2021-07-17 ; ns1.pagecafe.com ; ns2.pagecafe.com ;
pagecafe.com Tucows Domains Inc. 1997-07-07 2021-07-06 ; ns1.pagecafe.com ; ns2.pagecafe.com ;
pagecafe.net Tucows Domains Inc. 2000-01-08 2022-01-08 ; ns1.pagecafe.com ; ns2.pagecafe.com ;
reserveatpueblowest.com Network Solutions, LLC 2001-03-12 2025-03-12 ; ns1.pagecafe.com ; ns2.pagecafe.com ;
rockrimmonvision.com easyDNS Technologies Inc. 1999-07-29 2021-07-29 ; ns1.pagecafe.com ; ns2.pagecafe.com ;
swhealthinsurance.com Network Solutions, LLC 1999-06-29 2022-06-29 ; ns1.pagecafe.com ; ns2.pagecafe.com ;
yourkitchendesigner.org Public Interest Registry 2009-04-27 2021-04-27 ; ns1.pagecafe.com ; ns2.pagecafe.com ;

Sitelock

Sitelock Help Center

Dashboard – UN pagecafe

Troubleshooting

  • WHM disk space cleanup process
    • Cpanel > Disk Usage > delete files in all the following directories
      • Public_html > cache
      • Log
      • Tmp
      • .razor
      • .spam assassin
      • Delete unused databases (ck with Joomla Admin)
    • cPanel > email account
        • Clear out old email (manage)
        • Delete email and forwarder accounts not being used
        • Setup an alias “[email protected]” that goes to bit bucket
    • Joomla admin
  • > system toolbar > Clear Cache, this can be a big help
  • > component > akeeba backup > manage backups > delete old
  • > Global Configuration
    • > server > from mail > noreply@domain name
    • > server > from name > Website domain name.com
  • > components > contacts > Disable any contacts

WHM Down

Use the Virtuozzo to see if iNodes have maxed out

  • Sites Down?
    • WHM > Mail Queue Manager > Check for queued spam
    • WHM > Show Current Disk Usage > Check for full disk
    • WHM > View Relayers – displays relay spam

 

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