Author: Jay Allen

Installing a new SSL certificate for a website can be a tedious, time-consuming task. Because SSL certificates serve such a vital purpose (securing a website for things like stores, banks, etc), we must pay close attention when setting them up to ensure that every detail is 100% correct.

SSL is used for a variety of purposes. For this article, we will be discussing SSL as it used in a website certificate to secure browsing by a remote client.

The middle tier of hosting options provided by Liquid Web are VPS packages (Virtual Private Server). VPS packages are designed for sites with low to medium traffic, small web hosts or designers with a small number of websites, or as a staging or development environment for testing a new application.

In our “How to use ps” article we talked about the Linux command ps and how it can be used to examine the currently running processes on a Linux server.

VPS server or Dedicated server reboot requests are high priority events, no doubt about it. You can make sure that our support team gets your request quickly by opening it using your my.liquidweb.com account.

One of the most common e-mail issues we encounter in our support department is customers who are traveling and are encountering problems trying to send e-mail.

MX (Mail eXchanger) records are like an address for your domain’s email. The MX record tells the rest of the internet where to send your email.

This tutorial will walk you through the steps required to set up a new email account in Mail (aka Mail.app aka MacMail), the built-in email application that comes with Mac OS X.

Another security measure you can take to lock down a Linux server is to disable the root user login in the SSH server.