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How to Add Credit/Debit Card as a Payment Method from your client Area?

admin — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:04:04 +0000

If you want to add your Credit/Debit Card, then you may need to follow the below steps:

Login to your client area.
Go to the “Billing”
Then Click on “Payment Methods”
Click on “Add New Credit Card”
Provide the Credit Card Information (e.g. Card Number, expiry date & CVC number)
Then Click on “Save Changes”.

How to Add Name Servers From Your Client Area in DoctorHoster.com?

admin — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 19:55:40 +0000

Log in from Client’s Area
Go to “Domains” in the Menu
Click on “My Domains”
On the Right Side of the Domain, Click on the drop-down Menu, and Click on Manage Name Servers.

Update Your Nameservers and click on “Change NameServers”

How To Configure SMTP Server in WordPress?

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 19:43:14 +0000

To configure SMTP server in WordPress, you may follow the below steps:

Login to your WordPress
Click “Plugin” Then click “Add New”.

Then, search “wp-mail-smtp” and enter.
You will find “WP Mail SMTP by WPForms” and then click “Install Now”

After Installation, Click on “Activate”

Click on “Settings”

Write your email in “From email” Section:

Select “Other SMTP” option from Mailer

In SMTP Host, You will write “mail.yourdomainname.com”, here my domain name is etrainerbox.com, So, I will use SMTP host “mail.etrainerbox.com”.
In Encryption, select “None”
In SMTP Port, Use 25.
Auto TLS “ON”.
Authentication “ON”
SMTP User Name & Password: here, you will write your email address, for example, I will use “info@etrainerbox.com” and use the same email Password in SMTP Password.
Then, Click on “Save Settings”

Now, Click on “Email Test” Tab.

Here, write your email address, which you want to use for the test email.
Then, click on “Send email”.

You will see the message “Test HTML email was sent successfully! Please check your inbox to make sure it is delivered.”

In this way, you can setup SMTP mail.

Top 10 Ideas Why A Business Email Address Is So Important?

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 19:51:31 +0000

Consumers today are flooded with emails and have become careful about what they open. It is vitally necessary to make the first best impact with your prospects. With that in mind, there are the 10 purposes why you should utilize your domain name (yourname@yourbusiness.com) as your professional email address.

The Response is the key

If you are trying to create a professional business brand, the first impression is so important. Email is one of the most popular modes of communication with your possible clients. A professional email business address builds a sense of trust, particularly if it is from a trustworthy website. This will increase your company’s potential to attract new clients.

Business Branding

You are a part of an organization, and you carry its name wherever you are and even virtually. A branded business email is no different than word of mouth marketing. When you talk directly to a customer and only it is done on the website. If that occurs frequently, and you fail to have your business address, then they would not easily memorize your product branding.

Take a Good Spam Filtering System

Email addresses are the main target of Malware and spammers viruses. If they have your email domain which gives you likely to this kind of virus that endangers your valuable information online. If you receive this kind of email, you just need to mark as spam or delete it.

Business Trustworthiness

Correlating the name of your business with your professional business email address adds a buzzing of interest to potential clients. Can you just believe receiving an email from abcdef@yahoo.com instead of abcdef@yourbusinessname.com? Probabilities are it will remain unopened or ignored. Your professional business email address can be an easy identification of your business. Consumers will also start to memorize the name of your business which creates brand trust and awareness.

Backup is Important

Having a backup of your files is necessary. It defends you if your webmail provider decides to shut you down without warning, or if hackers find their approach into your data. Just think about the horror of wasting all your contacts in case of security trouble online. but you can save yourself with all the problems by keeping a backup of your contacts in an excel spreadsheet.

Ensuring Privacy

Entrusting your data online has its value, this is because of the approaching dangers of viruses that snoop and hack through your private data. It is essential to check the repelling abilities of your email subscription to hackers and viruses, otherwise, all your valuable files online are at risk.

Flexibility

You can build specific email addresses that way emails to people in different departments in your company. This will increase your potential to react quickly to inquiries. It is also easy to control the continuity of the email address if anyone takes a holiday or leaves as it can quickly be changed to a new employee and the client need never know.

Emails Control

If you have your custom business email address provides you control and organizes your operation. Through this process, you can simply create business email addresses for new employees in your company and provides you the advantage of monitoring the inactive ones.

Organize Business Email by department

It is popular for large businesses to do this so potential clients can ask concerns directly to the responsible department or person. Furthermore, it withdraws the trouble of forwarding messages frequently.

Business Team members are known

Usually, CEO business email addresses are the most known contacts on the list. So, the CEO or business owner is not always available to answer your questions. This is why arranging your team members their contact information is very valuable. Possible customers could quickly know that an appropriate person works for your business. They introduced the team and their expertise in their particular roles. And that is how you get more support from them.
If you having difficulty setting up a customized business email address for your business? Feel free to send a message at support@doctorhoster.com so we can help you with your requirements.

Learn how to create business email id?

How to Create FTP Account in cPanel?

admin — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 19:50:12 +0000

To create the FTP account, you may follow the below steps:

Login to your cPanel – (Learn how to login to cPanel)
Go to “Files” section and click on “FTP Accounts”.

On the next page, enter the FTP name you want to make in the “Login” box.
Enter the “Password”.
Then, the system automatically creates the “Directory”.
If you want to give specific space to the FTP account, enter the space in “Quota” in MBs, otherwise select “Unlimited” if you want to give unlimited space to the FTP account.
Then, Click on “Create FTP Account”.

After click on “Create FTP Account”, your FTP account will be created.

That’s sit.

How to Install SSL Certificate in cPanel?

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:47:29 +0000

To install SSL certificate, you need to follow the below steps:

Login to your cPanel – (Learn how to login to cPanel)
Then, go to “Security” section and click on “SSL/TLS Status”.

On the next page, Select all domain/sub-domains and click on “Run AutoSSL”.

Now, your SSL has installed, and you can see status “AutoSSL Domain Validated”.

Now, go to “Domains” Section and click on “Domains”.

Here, you will find option “Force HTTPS Redirect”, Turn it to “On”.

That’s Sit, your SSL certificate has successfully installed and activated.

How to update/edit DNS zone in cPanel – DOCTOR HOSTER GUIDE

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 21:08:28 +0000

To update the DNS zone of the domain in your cPanel account, follow the steps below.

Login to your cPanel
Go to “Domains” section and click on “Zone Editor”

Then click on “Manage”.

On the next page, you will have three option:
- Add new records
- edit existing ones
- reset the DNS zone

If you would like to “Add a New Record” then click on “+A Record”.

Further steps it is depend on the record type which you want to add:

A Record, AAAA Record, CAA Record, CNAME Record, DMARC Record, MX Record, SRV Record, TXT Record.

A Record:

A Record is an Address Record, and it points a domain or subdomain to an IP Address. To add an A record, you may follow the below steps:

Name: Enter the Domain Name.
TTL: it must be a positive number (in seconds).
Type: Select Type “A”
Record: Enter IP Address
After fill the all fields, click on “Save Record”

AAAA Record:

AAAA record is also known as “IPv6 address record”, it maps a hostname to a “128-bit IPv6 address” in a Domain Name System which is called “DNS”. To add the AAAA Record, you may follow the below steps:

Name: Enter the Domain Name.
TTL: it must be a positive number (in seconds).
Type: Select Type “AAAA”
Record: Enter IPv6 Address
After filling all fields, click on “Save Record”

CAA Record

CAA is also known as Certification Authority Authorization record specifies, which CAs (Certificate Authorities) are allowed to issue domain certificates, you may follow the below steps to enter CAA Record:

Name: Enter the Domain Name.
TTL: it must be a positive number (in seconds).
Type: Select Type “CAA”
Flag: 0 or 1
Tag: it must be a valid zone name with Issue or Issue Wild tags or Valid mailto or standard URL with iodef tag.
After filling all fields, click on “Save Record”

CNAME Record

Canonical Name (CNAME) points one domain/subdomain to another domain name, which allows you to update one “A Record” each time you change, although of how many Host Records require to solve to that IP address. you may follow the below steps to enter CNAME Record:

Name: Enter the Domain Name.
TTL: it must be a positive number (in seconds).
Type: Select Type “CNAME”
Record: it must be a valid zone name.
After filling all fields, click on “Save Record”

DMARC Record

A Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) record intimate the performance for a mail server to take when it gets mail from this domain, but that information fails DKIM & SPF checks. To enable the DMARC record, you may follow the below steps:

Name: Enter the Domain Name.
TTL: it must be a positive number (in seconds).
Type: Select Type “DMARC”

Options	Descriptions	Possible Values
1. Subdomain Policy	The effect that the recipient’s mail server should operate when it receives mail from a subdomain of this domain, but that message fails DKIM & SPF checks.	None — It means, perform no action for spam emails. Quarantine — It means all spam emails sent to different folders. Reject — it means all spam emails will Reject.
2. DKIM Mode	The Domain Keys Recognized Mail at DKIM level that the system will support for the domain.	Relaxed — The system provides some email messages from domains that do not acknowledge. Strict — The system rejects all email messages from domains that it does not recognize.
3. SPF Mode	The SPF (Sender Policy Framework) level that the system will force for the domain.	Relaxed — The system provides some email messages from domains that do not acknowledge. Strict — The system rejects all email messages from domains that it does not recognize.
4. Percentage	The portion of email messages that you want for the system to filter.	An integer value between 0 (Zero) and 100 (Hundred).
5. Generate Failure Reports When	The error reporting policy between the receiver’s mail and sender’s Mail Transfer Agents.	Any fail check — Send a report to both the sender and receiver if any email checks fail. All checks fail — Only send a report to both the sender and receiver if all of the email checks fail.
6. Report Format	The format that the system applies to report an email message’s probable spam status.	IODEF — Incident Object Description Exchange Format. AFRF — Authentication Failure Reporting Format.
7. Report Interval	The value of time, in seconds, that lapse within each email message report.	A positive integer.
8. Send Aggregate Mail Reports To	A comma-delimited record of URIs to which to transfer all email messages report. To sum a size limit for the report, affix an exclamation point, a number, and a file size multiplier to the end of the URI. You can specify the following size multipliers: k — Kilobytes. m — Megabytes. g — Gigabytes. t — Terabytes.	mailto:reports@example.com!60m
9. Send Failure Reports To	A comma-delimited list of URIs to which to assign failure email message reports.	mailto:reports@example.com!60m

PLEASE NOTE: If you do not define a true parameter, the system will not save the parameter when you build the record.

After completed all required information, click on “Save Record”.

MX Record

A Mail Exchanger (MX) record defines a mail server capable of accepting email messages on behalf of a domain. This record is necessary for email delivery. To add the MX Record, you may follow the below steps:

Name: Enter the Domain Name.
TTL: it must be a positive number (in seconds).
Type: Select Type “MX”
Priority: Lower value more preferred and must be an integer.
Destination: Must be valid zone name
After filling all fields, click on “Save Record”

SRV Record

An SRV record points one domain to another domain name using a specific destination port. To add the SRV record, you may follow the below steps:

Name: Enter the Domain Name [Covers the service and protocol (the Protocol used by the service, usually either TCP or UDP].
TTL: it must be a positive number (in seconds).
Type: Select Type “SRV Record”
Priority: It should be the target host, lower values more preferred.
Weight: comparative weight for records with the related priority, a higher value means a more preferred one.
Port: UDP or TCP port on which the service is to be found
Target: The authoritative hostname of the machine presenting the service, ending in a dot.
After filling all fields, click on “Save Record”

TXT Record:

These records contain a free-text form of any type. A completely qualified domain may have multiple TXT records. The most frequent uses for TXT records are SPF (Sender Policy Framework), DK (DomainKeys), DomainKeys Identified E-mail (DKIM). TXT records historically have also been practiced to hold human-readable information about a server, network, data center, and other accounting information. To add TXT record, you may follow the below steps:

Name: Enter the Domain Name. Example: domainname.com
TTL: it must be a positive number (in seconds). Example: 1400
Type: Select Type “TXT”
Record: It cannot be empty or it can not be more than 2500 symbols. Example: v=spf1 + a +mx +ip4: 192.187.30.8 ? all
After filling all fields, click on “Save record

To edit the current records, Please choose that specific record that you need to edit from the list of existing DNS. Then, Click on “Edit”, and after entering the required values, click on “Save Record” to save changes.

Hopefully, this article will help you. If you have any question, you can ask in the comments.

How to Enable PHP Error Logs in cPanel?

admin — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 23:30:40 +0000

PHP error logs most useful tool for diagnosing Webhosting problems. It is usually hard to find the reason for sudden behavior in different PHP applications. PHP error logs can assist you to find issues and recognize the offending theme, plugin, or custom code. In this article, we explain what are PHP error logs, and why they are helpful.

What is a PHP Error Log?

A PHP error log lists the errors and warning messages, which are created by the language runtime, and saved to a file. Errors happen for lots of reasons. For example, a line of code might have a typo mistake in it, or the code might be fine, but something unforeseen occurs when it has been executed. Or, the programmer wants to let you know that so they develop code to log a report to a file. Error logs are a time-ordered list of these messages. Error logs are especially helpful for solving out why WordPress is not behaving as you think. If it is using unnecessary server resources, a plugin is crushed, or pages do not load, the logs can inform you of the reason. If you are in a “White Screen of Death” situation, where WordPress is not working at all, the logs might be the entire way to see what is going on.

How To Log PHP Errors?

To enable PHP Errors, you may following the below steps:

Login to your cPanel – Learn how to login to your cPanel Account
Go to “Software” section and click on “MultiPHP INI Editor”.

On the next page, you will two tabs:
- Basic Mode
- Editor Mode
Stay in “Basic Mode” and from the drop-down select your domain.
Then, you will find below “display_errors”.
Click to “Enable”
Click on “Apply”

Now, your “display-errors” Mode has enabled.

If go to “Editor Mode”, select the domain and in below box, you can see “display-errors” showing “ON”.

How to Add Addon Domains from cPanel?

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 20:29:32 +0000

With the Addon domain, the cPanel uses it’s subdirectory as a document root to serve file. As well for hosting websites, addon domains can be used for FTP accounts, emails etc.

Before you create addon domain, the domain name must be registered to reachable on the website. To create the addon domain, you may follow the below steps:

Login to your cPanel. (Learn how to login to your cPanel)
Go to “Domains” Section and Click on “Addon Domains”.

On the next page, Enter the domain, which you want to the addon.
Subdomain and Document Root will be filled automatically.
If you want to create FTP account as well, which link with this addon domain, then check the box
Then, click on “Add domain”.

After Click on “Add Domain”, you will see the confirmation message, then click on “File Manager” link to see the folder that was created for the domain.

If your domain has verified then the addon domain will be added to your account, and your domain will start working after completing the Propagation.

How do I set up my business email with Gmail?

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 16:40:30 +0000

If you want to login into your Gmail account from your business id, then you have to set up your business email with Gmail. For this, you need to follow the below steps:

Login to your Gmail Account
Click on the “Gear” icon on the top right side (Below screenshot FYI).
Then, click on the “See all settings”.

After that, click on “Accounts and Import”
And, Click on “Add another email address”

Pop-up window will open.
Enter your business email id and click on “Next Step”

Then, on the next window, enter the following information:
- Enter SMTP Server: mail.doctorhoster.com
- Select Port 25 or 587.
- User Name: Your business email id.
- Enter your password.
- Select “Secured connection using TLS (recommended).
- Click on “Add Account”

On the next window, a verification email sent on your business email id, in which you will get a confirmation link or code. Click on that confirmation link or copy the code and paste it into this window and click on verify.

Now, your business email has added into your Gmail account and it will show as below:

So, in this way you can set up your business email with Gmail.

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