Database Size
What Makes Up The Size of a Database? The total size of a database is the sum of the sizes...
Technical
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Sending emails via web-server
General If you are hosting your website on Zone virtual server and you would like to send emails out from... -
Examples of .htaccess rewrite rules
Enable directory indexes Options +Indexes Blocking certain IP-addresses <RequireAll> Require all granted Require not ip 1.2.3.4 Require not ip 12.34.56.78... -
How To Change php.ini File (max_execution_time, memory_limit)
PHP extensions and values for a virtual server can be managed in multiple ways: via the global php.ini file, using... -
Extended PHP support for older versions
Part of the Zone software platform (ZoneOS) is to provide PHP versions to customers even after they expire. Currently, the... -
PHP strategies and automatic PHP version update
Strategies There are two types of strategies: dynamic and fixed. Dynamic Major – this means that we always upgrade PHP... -
xmlrpc.php POST requests to WordPress methods
Protection has been added to Zone webhosting websites to block POST requests to files named xmlrpc.php that contain a WordPress... -
Setting up cron jobs in Magento 2
In order to run Magento 2 you need to add 3 cron jobs to the webhosting management. The interval of... -
Setting up WordPress cron jobs
By default, WordPress uses a built-in scheduled job execution solution that generates an additional call to the web server each... -
Installing a Node.js application on a Zone web server
Our web servers can also host Node (VueJS, Nuxt, ReactJS, NextJS etc) applications. Node is automatically installed on the servers... -
FTP – Logging in
Accessing FTP requires you to have an FTP user account. You will find instructions here, on how to create an... -
Establishing an SSH connection
Windows 11 SSH is installed by default on Windows 11. In order to establish an SSH connection, you must first... -
500 Internal Server Error
The 500 Internal Server Error is a very general website status code that means something has gone wrong on the... -
Enabling/disabling WordPress debug.log
What is WP_DEBUG? WP_DEBUG is a feature in WordPress that allows you to save all errors that occur during website... -
Changing WordPress admin credentials via phpMyAdmin
In case the ”forgot password” link on the WordPress login page fails, you can change the admin account password directly... -
Redis
redis-cli To use redis-cli, next command must be used: > vs-redis-cli Information about the version of Redis, connected clients/applications, and... -
Activating Jetpack
What to do if you receive the following error during Jetpack installation: Your website needs to be publicly accessible to... -
How to edit the hosts file
Sometimes there are situation, when you need to view a website before redirecting a domain to it first. For example,... -
Zone API
API (Application Programming Interface), also known as API interface or application interface, refers to the rules by which one program... -
Detecting slow PHP requests
On the Zone server platform, the real-time web server logs are situated in the logs directory. HTTP and HTTPS logs... -
WAF – Web Application Firewall
Zone server platform uses ModSecurity and OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) firewall rules can also be activated via My... -
Inode
In simple terms, one indoe equals to one file. Once the number of inodes allowed on the server has been... -
A reminder on how to use ID-Card in your webservers applications
How does ID card authentication work? Estonian ID card authentication is configured on the web server to be invisible to... -
Parallel processing unit limits
What is a parallel processing unit? Web hosting packages have a limit on the number of parallel units that can... -
Mail-to-HTTP
In addition to any other e-mail address, incoming mail can also be forwarded as an HTTP request to a URL,... -
Ordering a Let’s Encrypt certificate using the Zone DNS API
To order a Let’s Encrypt certificate, you need to add a Zone API key. To add an API key, see... -
Changing your WordPress URL to a temporary address
When installing WordPress on a server, the application assumes that the domain’s web page resolves to Zone server. If you... -
ZFPM (Zone FastCGI Process Manager)
Overview ZFPM (Zone FastCGI Process Manager) is a software product developed by Zone Media whose mission is to provide an... -
Python MySQLdb module
There is no MySQLdb python module in the ZoneOS software platform. This is the source of the error: No module... -
Establishing an SFTP Connection
SFTP, abbreviation of SSH File Transfer Protocol (also know as Secure File Transfer Protocol), is a network protocol for securely... -
WP-CLI a command line tool for WordPress management
WP-CLI is the official command line tool for managing WordPress pages. For many activities, it is a more convenient and... -
How to view disk space usage and the number of files (inodes)?
To view the amount of disk space used, run the following command in the SSH console: quota -s virt490:sn-69-1.tll07.zoneas.eu:~> quota... -
Changing the Node.js version
ZoneOS platform servers default to the latest Node.js LTS (Long-term support) version. At the time of updating this article, it... -
Moving your website to Zone server
Zone’s customer support and technicians can assist you with migrating your website and email to the Zone web-hosting as a... -
Restricting access to a website with .htpasswd
If you want to temporarily restrict access to your website, one way to do this is to use the .htpasswd... -
Mercurial
Mercurial is a free code management tool. In order to use Mercurial, you need to install it yourself, as Mercurial... -
Installing Atlassian Jira (Java application) on a virtual server
Jira is a development project management software created by Atlassian. The guide below is a tutorial for installing Jira Server... -
Timezone on ZoneOS servers
On servers with the ZoneOS platform, the server time is UTC regardless of the physical location of the server (on... -
Golang installation
Both the Golang development environment and the applications compiled in it are very self-contained and do not require anything from... -
composer
Using Composer v1 The ZoneOS platform uses composer version 2.x by default. However, some older plugins may require the first... -
Limiting the .htaccess file size to 512 KiB
In a shared hosting environment, the size of .htaccess files is limited to 512 KiB to ensure proper functioning of... -
Migration to the new ZoneOS platform
ZoneOS is server platform which was launched in March 2019 and is used for new Shared Web Hosting and Smart... -
Zone SSH access policy
Zone hosting platform is using asymmetric encryption (public key cryptosystem) instead of passwords in order to authenticate SSH users. If... -
Favicon (favicon.ico)
A favicon is a small 16×16 (or 32×32) pixel icon that serves as branding for your website. The main purpose... -
FTP – Creating an account
In order to create an FTP account, first log in to the My Zone admin panel, then click Webhosting.From the... -
301 redirect with .htaccess file
To redirect web-traffic the following lines of code are entered with text editor (Notepad, WordPad etc.) and then saved as... -
AWS CLI installation
Official documentation on how to install the AWS CLI: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html Since the~/bin directory exists in the PATH variable, it is... -
Web server log format
Apache webserver logs are located in the logs catalogue. Secure HTTPS connection logs are located in apache.ssl.access.log file. Here is...