This article is part of the Protecting WordPress index, but can be generally applied to your account and security practices! A good plugin that can be used to keep regular backups for your site here is WP-DB Manager (note that it may consume ...

How To Backup Your Website In WordPress

This article is part of the Protecting WordPress index, but can be generally applied to your account and security practices! Just like you complete daily chores around the house, you should regularly clean up your site and files that you do not need. ...

How To Clean Your Site In WordPress

Assign and configure third-party utility modules to extend the functionality of your Merchant utilities. To enable modules, select the Check Box next to the module and click Update. You enable Custom Fields and Custom Customer Fields from this page. ...

How To Configure Miva Store Utility

If your domain is pointed to your WestHost Site Manager account, please follow the steps below: Login to your account at http://YOURDOMAINHERE.COM/manager/ ** Replace 'YOURDOMAINHERE.COM' above with the domain name associated with your Site Manager ...

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CGI Scripts are programs that run from your cgi-bin directory to display information to the person accessing the script. CGI Scripts can be written in a variety of languages, including plain text. Some scripts need to be compiled, or made ...

How To Install CGI Software

System information provides the following information: Accounts: Number of accounts and the license limit for accounts. Resellers: Number of resellers and the license limit for resellers.

How To Navigate System Information Tab

This article is part of the Protecting WordPress index, but can be generally applied to your account and security practices! Rename the admin user to something unique, but know that your username is published in a variety of locations on your ...

How To Protect Admin Users In WordPress

The Apache Error Message Site Application allows you to make custom error pages that your visitors can see if an error occurs while they are viewing your site. Installing Apache Error Message Using Apache Error Message Installing Apache Error Message ...

How To Resolve Apache Error Messages

As some of you may have heard, a security flaw was found in the script of one of the vendors many of you use for your image resizing, TimThumb. The developers and author of TimThumb, and WordThumb, have worked to release a new version of these ...

How To Resolve WooThemes TimThumb WordPress Hack

This article is part of the Protecting WordPress index, but can be generally applied to your account and security practices! Restricting access to certain files or directories in your account is a good way to prevent possible entry points for ...

How To Restrict Access In WordPress

Below are solutions to some of the more common CGI script problems in question-and-answer format. When I activate my CGI program, I get back a page that says "Internal Server Error. The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was ...

How To Troubleshott CGI

Cron is a tool to allows you to run a program on a particular schedule. This is useful for running a log processor every day, or a monthly compilation of data on your site, or any number of other purposes. Cron Commands Creating/Editing Cron On Your ...

How To Use Cron

Synopsis Description Options Configuration File The Log Rotate ability allows you to specify when your logs are rotated and how the system handles those logs. The log rotation is implemented using the standard unix/linux log rotate function. To ...

How To Use Log Rotate

This article is part of the Protecting WordPress index, but can be generally applied to your account and security practices! The most important factor in defending your account from malware is to monitor for it every day so that you are immediately ...

How To Use Malware Defense

Site Applications are software components that are installed to give the account additional functionality. Some Site Applications can only be installed once. For example, FrontPage� extensions. Other Site Applications can be installed more than once ...

How To Use Site Applications For Service Package

Secure shell (SSH) is a cryptographically strong replacement for login, telnet, FTP, and other programs. Protects against "spoofing," man-in-the-middle attacks, and packet sniffing. To take advantage of SSH you will need an SSH program like PuTTY or ...

How To Use SSH Software

Your account is capable of supporting the use of SSIs. For the system to process the include you must save the page with a .shtml or .sht extension rather than .htm or .html. Sample SSI is  Please note as shown in ...

How To Use SSI

You can utilize the following wild card characters in the Filter utility: Wild Card Character Description Example % or * Any string '%computer%' or '*computer*' finds all strings with the word 'computer' anywhere in the string _ (underscore) Any ...

How To Use The Server Manager Filter Utility

Here is a list of some of the more common SSH commands. Many of the following examples have words that are surrounded with brackets ( [ ] ). You will need to make sure that you replace those bracketed words (including the brackets) with the correct ...

List Of Basic SSH Commands

Alert templates contain a list of keywords. These keywords can be replaced by the user when branding the alert messages. The new values are displayed when the e-mail alerts are sent. Generic keywords Messages sent to the account about account-related ...

Parameters of Alerts

This article is part of the Protecting WordPress index, but can be generally applied to your account and security practices! In defending your account from hackers and malicious scripts, be sure to start with your devices and workstations. Install ...

Personal Workstation Security For WordPress

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Alternative Domain Name Suffix for Account: This option provides an alternative way for the account owner(s) to view their website or account Site Manager before the registered domain is resolvable. For example, if the alternative domain name is ...

System Parameters In Site Manager

The following is a simple explanation of file permissions in Unix. To list the access permissions of a file or directory, SSH to your server, then cd directoryname to change the directory until you are either in the directory above the file you are ...

What Are CGI Permissions

Below are your paths to the common server resources that CGI scripts often require: Sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail/ Perl: /usr/bin/perl/ Date: /bin/date/ Java: /usr/local/java/ Python: /usr/local/bin/python/ Root Web Directory: /var/www/html/ Cgi-bin ...

What Are The Server CGI Paths

A-la-carte is the ability to add billable elements (Add-Ons) of a specific resource that clients can add/remove to their basic service bundle instead of moving to a new service bundle that might not suit the exact client's needs. Server Manager ...

What Is A-La-Carte In Server Manager?

IP Filtering is a great way to limit access to your site for specific groups of IP addresses. For example, if you had a malicious user attacking your site, you could add a filter to prevent all access to your site from a single IP address or a block ...

What Is IP Filtering?

Overselling is the ability to over-allocate resources beyond a set quota but not exceed the quota by actual usage. For example, a reseller that has 100MB disk space and 50 accounts can allocate 100 MB for each account meaning that the total sum of ...

What Is Overselling In Server Manager

PHP is a very popular web scripting language that allows you to make your site dynamic, use databases, etc. With your installation of PHP, you will have direct control of the php.ini file which sets various options for PHP. You can find the php.ini ...

What Is PHP In CGI

An important aspect of Service Package creation is the implementation of Quality of Service or QoS. QoS ensures that your hosting accounts receive guaranteed shares of CPU resources. All hosting accounts are assigned CPU shares. These shares ...

What Is Quality Of Service

Shared SSL allows you to secure your site without having to purchase your own SSL Certificate. You will be able to use "https://ssl4.westserver.net/yourdomain.com" as a secure URL to get to your account. This article is for Site Manager Accounts. ...

What Is SharedSSL

The product "SiteManager" / "WestHost 3.0" is END OF LIFE and is deprecated as of 30th June 2020. Westhost has been contacting customers for the past 12 months to inform them of this EOL. In the run-up to the actual closure date, customers were ...

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