Part of creating a business identity, is having your own branded e-mail addresses. It’s fine if your site doesn’t depend on customer service, and I’ve seen many businesses get by with a plain old contact form, eschewing e-mail IDs entirely. That’s certainly one way to go! But if you have a lot of back and […]
How To Safely Disable Root Access On InterWorx
In my earlier article on creating a new user + shell, I’d explained that it’s a good idea to disable direct root access via SSH. One of the reasons why we see so many failed login attempts, is because spammers constantly bombard servers with fake credentials, searching for a way in. One solution was to […]
How To Create A New VPS InterWorx User + Shell
The InterWorx interface allows you to create new accounts, which come with the option to enable shell access for each of them. As mentioned in my earlier article on accessing InterWorx, the interface is divided into two sections – SiteWorx and NodeWorx. They correspond to cPanel and WHM respectively. From an administrator’s point of view, […]
Why Security By Obscurity Can Be Worth it
In my previous tutorial a few days ago, I’d shown users how to change the default SSH port to which you connect remotely. Today, it’s a standard procedure of “hardening” one’s servers, and it’s not the only situation where you change the defaults in order to thwart spam. Web hosts that install WordPress on their […]
How To Change The SSH Port On An InterWorx VPS
Earlier this week, I’d shown you how to connect to a VPS with InterWorx on SSH. In that, we saw that the default installation uses the regular SSH port of “22” for connections. In this article, I’ll show you how to change the SSH port. Why? Because look at this screenshot from my SSH login: […]
How to Connect to InterWorx via SSH on a VPS
In an earlier post, I had explained that NameHero was going to provide an alternative option to cPanel for those with VPS servers. Thanks to the new cPanel licensing restrictions, it might become a lot more expensive for you to host multiple websites on a single server instance. As a result, we can expect other […]
How To Fix The Broken Gutenberg Editor On Latest Browser Versions
I have a whole bunch of browsers on my laptop. Chrome, Firefox, Vivaldi, Edge, Edge Insider, Brave, etc. What’s weird is that except for two of these (and soon just one), they’re all based on the Chromium project. The exceptions are Firefox, and Edge (soon to be retired in favor of Edge Insider). “Google Chrome” […]
How to Implement Google’s New Review Schema Requirements
This morning, I woke up to this interesting Tweet on the Google Webmaster’s homepage: Apparently, it’s been there for almost a week, and I didn’t notice it! Either I missed it, or Twitter’s algorithms decided that I shouldn’t see it. In any case, when I saw it today, the part that caught my attention, was […]
Accessing InterWorx on NameHero VPS Servers
Every once in a while, an actor in a mature industry makes a move that shakes things up a bit. cPanel’s earlier announcement of a license change was one such move that prompted quite a lot of hand wringing throughout the web hosting industry. While NameHero will continue to provide cPanel for its users, resellers […]
How Do WordPress Actions And Filters Work?
We spend so much time on NameHero giving advice on which code to add to WordPress. It occurs to me that we haven’t given an explanation so far, about the most common mechanism in WordPress for modifications – actions and filters. So this is a quick introduction to them, why they’re useful, and two examples […]