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 problem, with Cpanel.
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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 to people who aren’t even visiting your site directly. So, there’s nothing you can do, right? Wrong.
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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 answer a few questions pertaining to how you want your mail to be handled. You will be asked if your mail server sends mail, in addition to accepting mail. In most cases, you will answer yes to this, as your mail server resides on your web server unless you have a dedicated server, and set things up otherwise.
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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 is quite easy to keep on top of your e-mail and webmaster duties. Focusing on the BlackBerry, there is an app available to you if you use the WordPress platform. By accessing blackberry.wordpress.org, you can download an app that lets you create and edit posts and pages, as well as send photos, all from your BlackBerry.

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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 setting up e-mail, to managing your Cpanel account. Is FTP or WHM giving you trouble? Not anymore, thanks to our tutorials section! We make this section available to our users, free of charge, because we want to make sure that you have all of the resources you need to succeed.

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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, and with the level of service that you expect and deserve.
We offer shared hosting, VPS hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated hosting. If you run a very small site, we can help. If you run a larger site that requires its own server, we can help with that, too. But we don’t take your money and leave you on your own.

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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 it in a manner that reduces the stress on your server, and in so doing, it increases the speed for your site’s visitors.
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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 can be done in a number of ways. The system will guide you through the process, but perhaps the easiest option is to upload a text file that the system will give you. This will verify that you have administrative access to the domain. Once this step is complete, you will be able to set up your MX records, allowing your domain to exchange information with Google Apps.
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 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.
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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.
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