VPS Account and Its Security

Last Updated on Friday, 15 February 2013 07:06 Written by Naveed Ashraf Friday, 15 February 2013 12:00

The VPS hosting at a hosting provider like Arvixe utilize standard safety measure, but they ensure security at network and server levels. Keeping your own VPS portion and the websites hosted on it needs extra attention from your end. The list of some basic rules is written for VPS owners:

How to Change PHP Version via .htaccess File

Last Updated on Thursday, 14 February 2013 09:29 Written by Naveed Ashraf Thursday, 14 February 2013 12:00

On a server, there is possibility to have more than one compiled php version. If you wish to use a php version other than the default one, you can use the .httaccess file for this purpose.

If the default php version on a server is set to php 5, then by default, all domains will use php5.  If a certain application installed on a domain runs only under php4, thenit is necessary that the domain uses php4

Open .htaccess by any suitable editor. Put the following code into it:

Server without suphp enabled

AddType application/x-httpd-php4 .php .htm .html

Server with suphp enabled

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php4 .php .htm .html

In the same way, you can enable other php versions if they are installed/compiled over the server.

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Finding the Status of your Domain

Last Updated on Monday, 4 February 2013 03:23 Written by Mourad Dmeiri Wednesday, 6 February 2013 12:00

In this post, I will show you how you can find the status of your domain. This is very useful in case everything shows fine in your configuration and name server setup but the domain is still not resolving.

To find information about any domain, go to: http://whois.domaintools.com

Enter the domain name that you wish to check and click “search”. You will be able to see information about:

How Do I Know How Much RAM I Am Using?

Last Updated on Thursday, 24 January 2013 11:23 Written by Sefket Nouri Thursday, 31 January 2013 12:00

Many people ask on they can find out how much RAM they’re using on their Windows or Linux account as sometimes they need to know if they need to upgrade their plan or not determining on their RAM.

Here is a guide for you to find out how much RAM you’re using.

VPS Linux: (Two ways)

1) Log into your WHM (Web Host Manager) which would be either yourdomain.com:2086 (Replace yourdomain with your domain) or username.arvixevps.com:2087 (Replace username with your Hosting Account Username).

Backing up data from Arvixe and send it to DropBox

Last Updated on Monday, 21 January 2013 12:01 Written by David Bauernschmidt Monday, 21 January 2013 12:00

If you are like me than backing up data seems to be a thankless task. On one hand you wish people would appreciate the need for it, while on the other you hope people never need it. It can be very time consuming and tedious. Using Arvixe Control is easily to set up scheduled task to backup databases, files, and web sites — which is a great first step. However; backing up your data on the same server or at the same location is not only inadequate, it is also can be dangerous. Even Arvixe has this to say about backup and restore;