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How to create and upload a website with lovable

How to Create a Lovable Website and Deploy via FTP to cPanel This guide explains step-by-step how to create...
How to add a trusted sender in Webmail

How do I add an email address or domain to the trusted senders list? Log in to webmail at ...
How to reboot server with APC power reboots

Login to the client area at http://www.fast2host.com/index.php Select "My Products & Services" Select ...
View Bandwidth graphs for network traffic

All servers are monitored and traffic graphs can be found within the client area. Login to the client area at ...
Sending email from Wordpress with SMTP Authentication.

In order to send email from Wordpress using SMTP authentication, you need to install a plugin. We suggest WP Mail ...
How to reddirect all calls to http to https using .htaccess

How to redirect from non-secure http to secure (SSL) https Create a .htaccess file in your wwwroot folder (Windows ...
Configuring <mailsettings> in web.config to send email

How do I configure the <mailsettings> section of web.config to send a simple enquiry form email from a ...
International characters in domains - IDN

International characters in domains - IDN How to add an IDN (Internationalised Domain Name) domain in cPanel and ...
How do I remove the registrar lock to transfer my domain? I need the EPP code too. Which TLD's...

A registrar lock, will prohibit the transfer of the domain to another registrar. This is a...
I'm trying to transfer my domain name to Fast2host. Where do I find the authorization key?

Authorization (or EPP) keys/codes are generated by the current registrar and verified through the global ...
How to set up an IMAP email account on Android

Set Up an IMAP email account on an Android phone.To set up Android for IMAP, do the following: From the Home screen, ...
How to recycle your application pool (Windows 2008)

This article applies to Windows 2008 with Websitepanel. Firstly, download and install IIS manager from ...
How to manage IIS remotely (Windows 2008)

This article applies to Windows 2008 with Websitepanel. Firstly, download and install IIS manager from ...
Moving your web site from iWeb / MobileMe to Fast2host.

Moving your site from iWeb / MobileMe to Fast2host. Firstly, you will need to purchase a hosting package with ...
Wordpress on temporary URL

How to develop your new Wordpress site on a temporary URLWhen transferring your WordPress installation to Fast2host,...
How do I use shared SSL on Linux hosting?

Firstly, check in Cpanel under Security > SSL/TLS Manager At the bottom of the page you will see the Shared SSL ...
Password-protect your Wordpress wp-admin folder

How to Password Protect Your WordPress Admin (wp-admin) Directory With Wordpress now being extremely popular, it is ...
How do I cancel a domain renewal?

Log in to your client area at http://www.fast2host.com Select My Domains from the menu. Select the More Options ...
Exclude Cpanel temporary URL from Google indexing

Google may index your Cpanel temporary URL, leading to duplicate content warnings.You should create a ".htaccess"...
How do I install Smarterstats on my domain?

If you have Smarterstats included in your hosting plan, or you have purchased it as an extra feature:Login to Helm...
Actinic cannot connect and upload

Cannot connect using Actinic.Actinic problem is often linked to Norton This issue is due to the latest patch from ...
Configuring Mailscanner in Cpanel

How to Configure MailScanner in cPanelThis article describes how to configure MailScanner in cPanel. MailScanner is...
How do I Login to PHP MySQL admin ?

Visit http://mysql.fast2host.com/orhttp://mysql.your-domain.comDo not use your ACCOUNT username and PASSWORD for...
Switching Between ASP.net 1.1 and ASP.net 2.0

Windows hosting only ASP.net 1.1 Is enabled by default. If you require ASP.Net 1.1 then you do not need to do ...
How to recover/reset your Joomla admin password

https://docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_recover_or_reset_your_admin_password%3F
I get an error when I try to CHMOD my files. What's the problem?

If your site is hosted on Windows servers, the CHMOD command is not supported. It is a Linux/Unix command. In most ...
How to connect using Dreamweaver.

In Dreamweaver goto Site > New siteSelect advanced tabLocal info: this where the files are stored locally on you ...
Domain Pre-Propagation

Pre-Propagation Support allows your customers to view their websites before they have been registered with a company,...
How to clear your DNS cache.

Instructions for Windows 2000, Windows XPClick on Start > RunType in "cmd" (without the quotes)A black ...
How To Create a MSSQL or MySQL Database in Helm
Setup DNS to use your own exchange server

This shows you how to setup our DNS within helm, to point mail to your own exchange server:
Connect to MySQL using software

You can download a free tool from http://www.heidisql.com/ which allows you to connect to the mysql server ...
Actinic Settings

We have found these settings to work when installing Actinic on our Linux servers: Server Details Catalog URL: ...
iPhone/iPad mail synchronization

How to access your email via your iPhone/iPad By using IMAP, you are able to connect to the mail server and have ...
Synchronizing SmarterMail Calendars, Contacts, Tasks and Notes with a Blackberry

Synchronizing SmarterMail Calendars, Contacts, Tasks and Notes with a Blackberry Applies to: SmarterMail 8.x ...
How do I upgrade/downgrade my hosting plan?

You can upgrade or downgrade your hosting package at any time from within the client area. Log in at ...
URL Rewriting on Windows using Isapi_Rewrite

Isapi_Rewrite is installed on all our Windows servers. Version 2 is installed on servers HNODE2, HNODE3 and VPS5 and...
How to export your SSL certificate to a .pfx file

How to export your SSL certificate to a .pfx file for migration or safe-keeping Windows 2003 Server 1. In IIS, ...
Ruby On Rails With Apache and mod_proxy using .htaccess

If you want your rails app in the same apache html directory and use port 80 instead of 12001, use a .htaccess like...
How do I purchase extra bandwidth or diskspace?

In order to add extra bandwidth or dispace to your hosting package, you need to log in to your client area ...
iPhone contacts synchronisation (Windows Hosting)

This article explains the process of how you can synchronise your contacts between your SmarterMail email account and...
How to redirect from domain.com to www.domain.com using .htaccess

How to redirect from domain.com to www.domain.com Create a .htaccess file in your wwwroot folder (Windows hosting)...
CDO Sending email script

Sample code for using CDO to send email from a webpage using authentication. Const cdoSendUsingPort = 2 'Send the ...
How do I configure my SPAM filtering options?

For Smartermail (Windows hosting) To configure your SPAM options you will need to log into webmail at ...
How to use Google Apps and Gmail for your domain email

Sometimes it can be advantageous to use Google Apps to manage your domain email. The current allowance of 50 accounts...

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