Category Archives: Web Hosting

Truehost and Afrihost are two of the more visible web hosting providers serving the South African market.  Both running locally hosted infrastructure and both competing for the same crowd of bloggers, small businesses, and developers looking for somewhere to put a website.  The honest answer to which is better isn’t a single name, it depends …

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cPanel gives you a browser based way to upload and manage your website files on a hosting account, without needing to touch a server directly or rely on command line tools. Before uploading anything, it helps to have a few things ready: your website files, an active hosting account, a domain, and database details if …

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If you’ve purchased cPanel hosting but aren’t sure how to get into your hosting dashboard, accessing cPanel is usually a lot more straightforward than it feels the first time you try. cPanel is the control panel used to manage things like your website files, domains, email accounts, databases, SSL and applications, all from one place …

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WordPress is one of the easiest ways to build a website, but before any of that page building or theme picking happens, you first need to actually get it installed on your hosting account. If your hosting uses cPanel, the good news is you usually don’t need to manually upload files or create a database …

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Running a website involves a lot of moving parts.  You are managing domains, files, databases, email, security, backups and more, often all at once.  Doing this manually, through raw server commands, would be a steep learning curve for most people. This is where cPanel comes in.  It is a web hosting control panel that brings …

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