Question 1

What is shared hosting?

Accepted Answer

Shared hosting design to host your web apps on a server shared between multiple users. It means you and many other user relays on the same server with different levels of authority and control panel.

Advantages:

Shared hosting best suggested for small level business, blogger, and students.
Shared hosting effectively low-cost hosting.
Pre configured control panel with essentials setup
Easy to operate and host your content.

Disadvantages:

Shared hosting having few limitation over the benefits.
Resources limit such as RAM and concrete connections.
No root access, well configured PHP and it's functions however you may not run all the script using resource more than the allotted.

Question 2

How to set PHP timezone in cPanel

Accepted Answer

You can configure the cPanel PHP setting to use your local time zone by setting the date.timezone directive in .user.ini or using our MultiPHP INI editor.

How to change 'date.timezone' on cPanel Hosting:

Method 1:

Login to your cPanel >> File Manager

Navigate to the public_html folder of your website or yourdomain.com for addon domains.

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If you don't have the .user.ini file yet, feel free to create it using the "+ File"button

Add the following line and save:

change to the preferred time zone, you can find PHP supported list of timezone Here!

Method 2:

Navigate to cPanel > MultiPHP INI Editor > Editor Mode.

date.timezone = "Asia/Kolkata"

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That's all.

Question 3

How does the DNS Work  and How To Edit DNS Records with cPanel

Accepted Answer

How Can You Manage DNS of Your Domain In cPanel

It is important to know working of DNS First before proceeding.When you register for a domain, the domain registrar provide you a control panel named Domain control panel (it is different from cPanel or any other web hosting control panels).

Here you can specify the name servers of the domain,you can renew the domain name, changes in contact information of the domain and many more. These name servers designated in the domain control panel are the authentic name servers of the domain. In these authoritative name servers, it needs to be a zone file in which the DNS records (like NS,A, CNAME, TXT records ) are added.

For perfect name resolution the NS records should be same as the name servers entered in the domain control panel

Users using our name servers, can easily alter the DNS zone file or DNS records in cPanel. Those who are using exterior or any other third party name servers (eg: CloudFlare services), you need to update the DNS records or zone file there in their DNS management area.

How can we Edit DNS records through cPanel as :cPanel > Domains >Advanced DNS Zone Editor

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To edit the DNS reords of the existing DNS Zone, click on the ‘Edit’ button taht is present on the right side of the coresponding DNS record.You can it find in the bottom of the screenshot shown above.

If you want to Add new DNS records, Select the domain name from the drop down, add the DNS records below and click on ‘Add record’ button.

Please note that mail exchang MX record can't be specified here, we will see it later.

DNS Records

A record – A is "Address" here,It specifies actual IP address of the domain.

AAAA record – It is used to get a 128-bit Ipv6 address from a hostname.

CNAME record - CNAME i.e. "canonical name".Helps tomake one domain an alias of another domain.

MX record – MX i.e. "Mail Exchange".helps to specify list of mail exchange servers (mail servers) that need to be used for the domain.

PTR record –PTR is "pointer", which helps to get the CNAME from anIPv4 address.

NS record – The authentic name servers of the domain is specified here.

SOA record –It is "State of Authority"Which is one of the most important DNS records which stores informations about the domain.

SRV record – It is "service",used to specify TCP service operating on the domain.

TXT record –It is used to place any text into the DNS record, this is to confirm the domain ownership.

How to Edit MX records

As we know, MX records can't be modified,added through Advanced DNS Zone Editor option.cPanel > Mail > MX Entry

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now go to the domain's drop down list and select the name of the domain

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In the Email routing option

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select

local Mail Exchanger (if mail server in the same server, default mail servers) or
Remote Mail Exchanger (other's mail servers like Google Apps or mandrill) or
Backup Mail Exchanger (set this option if the top most priority mail server is exterior) option depending upon the mail server you are using. If you use our name servers (not mail servers), just leave it as Automatically detect configuration.

Question 4

enable PHP zip extension in cPanel

Accepted Answer

The PHP zip extension is used to read and write compressed ZIP files.

Follow these steps to enable the PHP zip extension in your cPanel web hosting:

Log into your cPanel account
Go to the Select PHP Version menu
Click the Extensions tab
Check the zip extension to enable it

Here's how you can do this task step by step.

Enable PHP zip in your cPanel hosting:

Log in to your cPanel account, then click on the Select PHP Version menu under the Software tab.

enable zip extension in cPanel web hosting

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Enable zip extension in cPanel web hosting

Click on the Extensions tab to view the zip extension under the Z section as shown below.

zip extension in cPanel

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Click the box to the left of the zip extension to enable it.

Question 5

How do you create custom name servers

Accepted Answer

Using custom name servers you can use your own domain instead of our ClouDNS.io default values. Let's see how you can configure your own private name servers and use it for your client's website.

1: Create Glue Record (Host Names)

Go to your domain provider's site and find the option for hostname or child name servers for the domain name.

Every domain provider will have their own system, yet what you have to do is find a hostname on your domain DNS setting area and assign an IP address to that hostname for each of the name servers.

A hostname on a domain is the third level name. For example of a host name is ns1, adding this to our WHM you have to enter ns1.yoursite.com to the IP address of the server where this account is located.

You can find the IP details under your Reseller Hosting Welcome Email.

2: Add A records to your DNS Zone

Once you completed the process of registering our 2 custom name servers with your domain registrar, you need to add such IP's to our DNS zone as well. They would be entered as A records into the DNS zone section, make sure you point same IP for A records with correct name servers value.

Ex- ns1 and ns2

3: DNS Propagation

Once you completed the above steps, you should wait at least 12-24 hours to be sure that your DNS changes completely applied and propagated over the Internet.

Question 6

How to parse .html or .htm files as .php?

Accepted Answer

Yes, you can do it by the help of CloudLinux lsapi/LiteSpeed API, use the following:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-lsphp .htm .html .shtml

For other PHP Handlers, you can utilize the following:

Make a .htaccess file and transfer it to your public_html folder and add below lines:

RemoveHandler .html .htm AddType application/x-httpd .php .htm .html

Since these expansions will be prepared as PHP because of the above command, changing the permission on those file types to 755 might be required.

In case above command not working properly, you can use command as below:

AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php5 .php4 .php .php3 .php2 .phtml .html .htm

or

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php5 .php4 .php .php3 .php2 .phtml .html .htm