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10 blog posts:
Dec 03, 2010
If you have certain features on your website that are restricted to people with a username and password, you likely only want those people to access it. The problem is that some people give their login credentials away, so, for example, their friends can access paid content for free. There’s an easy solution to this...
Dec 03, 2010
One of the worst things that can happen to a webmaster is the loss of their bandwidth due to thieves. Most webmasters are given a limit, or quota, in regards to how much bandwidth they can use. When someone else links directly to an image or other large file that you host, you lose bandwidth...
Sep 28, 2010
Spam is a serious problem, and fortunately, there’s an easy way to make sure that your domain doesn’t get caught up in the practice. What you’ll want to do is set up an SPF record. To accomplish this, you can go to www.openspf.org. This site will make the process very easy, and you will simply...
Sep 20, 2010
In the beginning days of the Internet, one had to physically be in front of their computer in order to run their website. No longer is that the case, because these days, you can perform many administrative functions wherever you happen to be. Thanks to mobile devices such as the BlackBerry and the iPhone, it...
Sep 20, 2010
At DowntownHost, we aren’t just concerned with taking our clients’ money and leaving them to their own devices. Here, we truly care about the success of each and every one of our customers and their websites. That’s why we offer a tutorials section. In this section, you will find a wide range of articles, from...
Sep 06, 2010
You have a lot of choices when it comes to hosts, but here at DowntownHost, we feel that we can provide you the service you need at a price that’s reasonable. We offer several levels of service, so regardless of what your hosting needs are, we can meet them with a high level of quality,...
Aug 30, 2010
There are many elements to a website, or more specifically to ensuring that it runs smoothly. Your server needs to be connected to quality bandwidth, and you need to load your content efficiently. One easy way to do that is to use caching. What caching does is this: it stores a page’s content and serves...
Aug 22, 2010
Google Apps is a valuable tool for businesses and people alike. With it, you can use e-mail through Gmail’s interface, but with your website’s e-mail. In order to set it up through Cpanel, of course, you have to have your account set up through Google Apps. Setting up your account will involve verifying it, which...
Aug 22, 2010
As many of you will have noticed, we recently performed a survey of our shared and reseller hosting clients. The aim? To find out what our customers think of Downtown Host and identify what we can do to improve the services we offer. We’ve been analysing the data closely and the results are both encouraging...
Aug 18, 2010
You’ve lost your critical website data. A whole folder has been deleted, and part of your site is down. You’re out of luck, right? Wrong. Thanks to the R1Soft feature within Cpanel, you can easily make and restore backups, allowing you to get back online quickly in the event of disaster. In the “Files” menu...