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Enable Redis on a Premium PCI-DSS compliant plan

What is Redis? Redis ( Re mote Di ctionary S erver) is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker. It supports data structures such as…

Updated 6 days ago by Jordan Jones

Shell access to your server using SSH (PuTTY for Windows)

All Krystal plans include SSH access. If you are a reseller we have a separate guide on enabling SSH for your account and then creating WHM packages to enable it for your clients. PuTTY is the de fac…

Updated 5 days ago by Jordan Jones

Enable or disable SSH (Secure Shell) access

We do allow limited command-line shell access via a caged environment. The SSH port for our servers is 722. Cloud, Premium & Business accounts. For cloud or business users you can enable SSH via your…

Updated 5 days ago by Jordan Jones

Connect to MySQL using MySQL Workbench

This is a brief guide to connecting to MySQL using an SSH tunnel within the MySQL Workbench application provided by the MySQL website. Read more here.

Updated 5 days ago by Jordan Jones

Block bad spiders to save bandwidth

Search engines use technology known as spiders to search the web. A spider is an agent (also called a bot - short for robot) that will connect to your website and download a copy of all of your pages…

Updated 5 days ago by Ben Oates

Connect to MySQL from an external host

The MySQL server runs on each local hosting server on TCP Port 3306 (the standard port for MySQL). When your web scripts connect to MySQL they can do so using localhost as the server name. However, y…

Updated 5 days ago by Ben Oates

View AWStats without logging into cPanel

AWStats is a log analyser that can be accessed via your hosting account's cPanel to view your hosting access logs graphically. It is, however, also possible to have your stats visible on a web page,…

Updated 5 days ago by Ben Oates

Connect to MySQL using an SSH tunnel

This article will describe the steps required in order to connect securely to your web hosting account's MySQL server using an SSH Tunnel.

Updated 5 days ago by Ben Oates

Use SSH/SFTP key pairs on macOS

MacOS is derived from Unix style operating systems, so understandably, the tools to manage SSH connections are already built in. Public/private key authentication, as the name suggests, uses two spec…

Updated 5 days ago by Ben Oates

How to use public/private keys for SSH and SFTP (Windows)

This article assumes you have already installed the PuTTY suite of applications. Public/private key authentication, as the name suggests, uses two special cryptographic text files (called keys) to au…

Updated 5 days ago by Ben Oates

Manage Team (cPanel)

Outline of how to get started with Team Manager in cPanel. You can use Team Manager to add logins for your email administrators, web developers and more to help maximise productivity within cPanel without having to share logins. It maintains access control, only allowing access to the features needed for each member.

Updated 7 months ago by Mike Mandryk

SSH to your server via macOS Terminal

macOS has a built-in terminal client. You can simply load this up and enter the following command ensuring you enter the cPanel username and server hostname.

Updated 5 days ago by Ben Oates

Connect to MySQL using PHP

The hostname to use when connecting to one of your cPanel MySQL databases from a web script running within the same cPanel account is localhost. As a quick guide, you can use the following PHP code t…

Updated 5 days ago by Ben Oates

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