Cloud Sites

Create websites via the Cloud Sites control panel and begin to develop and manage them.

Managing DNS records is a critical part of web hosting. The process for Cloud Sites is somewhat different due to Alias DNS record implementation.

Restore your Cloud Sites MSSQL Database from a backup through myLittleAdmin.

The Cloud Sites environment is designed to scale automatically from small to large volumes of traffic. Even with this functionality in place, you know your business best. If you are expecting an increase in traffic to your website, please contact our Support team for additional assistance.

Cloud Sites allows you to choose the technology type (Linux, Windows, PHP, .NET, etc) at set up or at a later time. Instructions for changing the technology type for both new and existing sites are included.

Let’s Encrypt is a company that provides free, auto-renewing SSL’s for use on your websites. There are a few steps to installing a Let’s Encrypt SSL on your site when working with Cloud Sites. However, once you have the installation complete, you will have an Auto-SSL that will allow you to use it on any site you wish.

Learn about the support services we provide to Cloud Sites customers and which requests are out of scope.

Ensure all visitors access the secure (https) site, even if they enter http in the URL, for Cloud Sites with SSL. Edit the .htaccess file to achieve this.

Cloud Sites has a website framework with Node.js for faster load times. You’ll need an IDE to use Node.js for web development, as this article explains.

While developing your Cloud Sites website, you can use .htaccess to password protect your site or specific pages for added security.

This article describes how to bin-deploy an assembly. It’s common to use a third-party assembly to add features that aren’t found within the .NET framework. Learn about binary deployment with ASP.NET on Cloud Sites.

There are times when you might need the web server user to have the same permissions as you. This is called impersonation. The web server user can impersonate your site’s main FTP user.