Category: VPS Hosting

If you’re like me, you don’t use your VPS server for incoming mail. Instead, I only want to receive e-mails from my VPS for server events. But the hassle of configuring an incoming mail server, dealing with spam, storage issues, and more are too much for me. Instead, I outsource all that to a dedicated […]

For ordinary people, VPS security measures need to start with preventing the most frequent threats and only later focus on the rare ones. A true DDoS attack can be impossible to mitigate for a single server – merely processing each request uses some resources, and a full-fledged attack can quickly cripple a server. For example, […]

If you’re like me, you rely on e-mails from your VPS server to inform you about important activities like backups, updates, and expiring SSL certificates. If you properly set up notifications, you minimize your time logging into your VPS and checking stuff. So it’s extremely important to ensure that these e-mails reach you on time. […]

NameHero’s “Managed Cloud” service is a VPS that NameHero manages for you, so you can focus your attention on your website instead of dealing with the headaches of server management. While NameHero doesn’t offer unmanaged VPS servers, many other web hosts do. In this article, let’s look at what separates unmanaged from managed VPS servers […]

Here’s how to configure your InterWorx VPS to take regular backups and store them on disk. When you buy a NameHero VPS, you can choose between cPanel and InterWorx. cPanel/WHM is more well known but also costs extra. Particularly since cPanel’s licensing changes, the value proposition of cPanel has gone down dramatically. This won’t affect […]

If you’ve used a VPS before, then you already know how to access your VPS. However, you might have just migrated to a VPS from shared hosting and are still developing the skills necessary for VPS management. If this is the case, don’t worry. I’m going to show you two ways to access your VPS, […]

Earlier, I’d written about when to move from shared hosting to a VPS. However, migrating to a VPS from shared hosting is no easy matter. You need to know what you’re getting into if you intend to manage the VPS independently. Even with a fully managed NameHero VPS, there’s no escaping the tasks you need […]

Here at NameHero, we give you the freedom to configure your VPS as you wish. But many people aren’t ready for this kind of management, so they opt for a “pre-packaged” VPS instead. These providers use the infrastructure of companies like DigitalOcean and Amazon or Google Compute and install pre-packaged applications that you can manage […]

When navigating through the shell, I’m often logged in with dangerous privileges. I try and minimize the potential damage by logging in as a user with sudo privileges, but it can still be a nerve-wracking experience knowing that an accidental click of a key or a moment’s thoughtlessness can bring your entire system crashing down. […]

If you’re not careful, your Linux system will become full of unused and discarded packages you installed a long time ago, and don’t use anymore. What’s worse, often when you install a particular program, it comes with a list of dependencies that get installed along with it. Ideally, you would want to get rid of […]