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​How do I enable Redis on my Premium PCI-DSS compliant hosting account?

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 4 months ago by Jordan Jones

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

All Krystal plans apart from Amethyst 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.…

Updated 2 years ago by Ben Oates

How do I enable and 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. Please note our Amethyst plan does not include SSH access - all other cloud and business pl…

Updated 2 years ago by Ben Oates

How to 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 2 weeks ago by Jordan Jones

How to block bad spiders from wasting 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 2 years ago by Ben Oates

How to connect to a MySQL database 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 2 years ago by Ben Oates

How to 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 2 years ago by Ben Oates

How to connect to a MySQL database 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 2 years ago by Ben Oates

How to use public/private keys for SSH and SFTP (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 2 years 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 2 years ago by Ben Oates

Shell access to your server using SSH (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 2 years ago by Ben Oates

How to connect to a MySQL database 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 2 years ago by Ben Oates

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