How to Set Up Remote Desktop (RDP) Access on a Windows VPS
Connect to your Windows VPS over RDP, then lock it down properly. Changing the port from 3389 does almost nothing. Restricting the source IP does almost everything.
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How to Automate Server Backups with Cron and rsync on a Linux VPS
Automate server backups with rsync and cron, get them off the server, and test a real restore. Most backups fail silently for months before anyone notices.
What Is Reseller Hosting? A Complete Beginner’s Guide
Reseller hosting turns the client support you already do for free into recurring revenue. It also fails badly for the wrong people. Here is the honest case for and against.
How to Set Up Professional Email for Your Domain: SPF, DKIM & DMARC Explained
SPF, DKIM and DMARC stop scammers from spoofing your domain and keep your email out of spam. Here is what each record does, and a three-week rollout that won’t break your own mail.
How to Secure Your Website with a Free SSL Certificate (Let’s Encrypt)
A complete, beginner-friendly walkthrough for installing a free, auto-renewing SSL certificate with Let’s Encrypt and Certbot on your Linux VPS.
How to check VPS Server parameters with Linux command
When you just bought a VPS but don’t know if the provider has the same configuration as the package you bought, or you want to see how much of the hard drive, RAM and CPU space you can use. commands…
How to change the Root account password of Linux VPS
What is the root account in VPS? Each operating system has a special user account and is granted the highest privileges, and in Linux it is the root account. Usually when you buy VPS, the provider will create and send…
Benefits and Challenges of Maria DB vs MySQL
Advantages of MariaDB compared to MySQL 1. MariaDB supports significantly more engines (SphinxSE, Aria, FederatedX, TokuDB, Spider, ScaleDB and etc.) compared to MySQL, much more than the common InnoDB to xtraDB, which is almost equivalent to InnoDB, but more powerful….
How DNS works
With a domain, an inquiring browser can find the server on which the web pages and the associated materials are located, even if each server connected to the Internet is only identifiable by a number, the so-called IP address. The…
Email Targeting & Profiling
More and more companies are interested in how e-mail marketing fits into their channel-wide communication and marketing mix. One reason for this is response rate, which is comparable to direct mail but a fraction of the cost. There is no…
The 7 Types of Email Marketing
Email Marketing Basics Step 1: Sending uniform mass emails in text format. Minimal effort, but the results often correspond to the effort: modest. Level 2: Similar to text format but content is delivered in HTML. In this case, the content…
How to track email for marketing purposes
In addition to regular click tracking, Google Analytics can now also measure the opening of e-mails and link them to website objectives and revenue. This gives marketers new insights into the behavior of customers in connection with e-mail campaigns. The…