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How to preview your site before the DNS changes

Before going live, you may want to preview your site on the new server before you’ve updated your domain’s DNS. This article will show you a way to test...

Change Linux Mailbox Password

If you have a linux email hosting plan and want to change your mailbox password, you can do it inside of the control panel OR within the Roundcube webmail...

Web Control Panel

Hosting.ca uses chooses the best control panel interfaces for its customers. For years, Hosting.ca has chosen Parallels Plesk, and cPanel to manage its Linux and Windows web hosting. Hosting...

What is a DSN?

DSN, which stands for data source name, is a method of connecting to a database via ASP (Active Server Page). DSN connections require ODBC, an open standard for API...

Perl and CGI settings

Here are the correct paths to the common server resources that CGI scripts often require: Date : /bin/date Sendmail : /usr/lib/sendmail Path to Perl interpreter : #!/usr/bin/perl Place your cgi scripts in...

Broken images, what is wrong?

If you have broken images, what is wrong? First you should verify that you have uploaded all of the images files in binary format and have placed them in...

How do I upload my site to the server?

You need to configure your FTP client properly before connecting to your account. The basic steps are as follows: 1. Hostname: typically your website address 2. Credentials: typically the...