Archive for the ‘Before You Code’ Category

Changing Domain Name Servers

If you currently own a website, you probably deal with one or two companies on a regular basis, your hosting company, and your domain name registrar (the company you have your domain name registered with) – for some people, these two companies are the same.

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Difference between www and public_html

If you manage your own website on shared hosting, you may have seen two folders with the exact same contents: /www/ and /public_html/. So what’s the difference between the two? Read on to find out.

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Problem sending email

Here’s a quick juicy piece of knowledge for you. If your ISP changes for whatever reason (i.e. you move) and suddenly your email stops working, it’s possible your ISP blocks port 25, the standard email SMTP port on most servers. All you have to do to fix it is change your SMTP port to 587, which is another SMTP port activated on many email servers for situations like this. If you’re not sure how to do that, and you run Microsoft Outlook, here’s a quick step-by-step.

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