Generally if you are using a mail server apart from your ISP’s one, such as your web host, then you will need to enable SMTP Authentication on it to be able to send outgoing mail. When you try to send mail this will authenticate with the outgoing mail server, giving them your username and password for your email hosting that you are authorized to send mail from. Most servers will not accept mail if you do not authenticate with them, a server not requiring this would be a spammer’s dream and this mail server would soon get blacklisted by spam databases.
Here is how to enable SMTP Authentication in some common email clients: Read More »
When you sign up for an account with NetHosted you will also get access to our advanced webmail service, whether it is an email hosting account or a web hosting account that you sign up for. Our WebMail service is provided through your cPanel hosting account, meaning that you should first have set up any email account that you wish to use in cPanel through the Email Accounts option. Once your account has been setup you can then login to it via the webmail system, accessible by going to www.yourdomain.tld/webmail or alternatively www.yourdomain.tld:2095. Read More »
Our cPanel hosting makes database backup and restoration very simple, allowing you to do this with a few clicks. Once you have logged into your cPanel, go in to the Backups section. From here you will see the “Download a MySQL Database Backup” option, with your databases listed below this. To download a database backup, simply click on the database name and it will download a zipped backup of your database in .sql.gz format. This is the gzip format, a linux archiving file format, you can extract this on Windows using a variety of tools such as WinRAR or Winzip. Read More »
Fantastico is the leading application autoinstaller for cPanel hosting accounts, and we provide this at NetHosted for our shared hosting and
reseller hosting clients free of charge. It allows you to simply install many popular content management systems such as Joomla, Drupal, PHP-Nuke, etc. as well as forums, blogs, e-commerce, support systems, site builders, galleries and more! There are over 40 applications that Fantastico can install for you through its simple, easy to use interface. Read More »
The Domain Name System (DNS) serves as a system to translate the name of a site to an IP address and vice versa. This means that if you buy a domain name such as www.example.com this will exist on an IP address, perhaps 111.222.121.131 but you can visit it by typing www.example.com into your web browser. This will point the browser to your web hosting account and people can then view your site. Read More »
Log in to your cPanel web hosting control panel and select the Backups option. Once here select the Download or Generate a Full Backup button which is in the Full Backups section at the top. Read More »