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Shared Hosting

What is Shared Web hosting?

In Shared Web Hosting, multiple clients are hosted on a single server i.e. the clients share the server’s resources. This helps reduce the cost, since the cost of the server and its resources are spread over all the clients/packages hosted on the server. Shared Hosting is perfect for personal websites, small and mid-sized businesses that do not require all the resources of a server.

Can I host multiple Web sites within one Shared Hosting plan?

Yes! Our Gold and Platinum, Platinum Plus shared hosting plans allow you to host more than one Website, by adding secondary domains through your hosting control panel i.e. cPanel.

Is there a Money Back Guarantee?

Yes, we offer a 100% Risk Free, 15 day Money Back Guarantee.

Can I upgrade to a higher plan?

Yes, you can easily upgrade to one of our higher plans at any time.

Is Email hosting included in my package?

Yes, all our Hosting packages comes with Email Hosting.

Is my data safe? Do you take backups?

Yes, your data is a 100% secure and is backed-up every 5 days.

Do you include protection from viruses?

Yes, all our servers are protected by Clam AV.

Can I divide my Shared Hosting package and resell it?

While a Shared Hosting package cannot be used for this purpose, you can easily resell custom packages with our Reseller Hosting. To view our Reseller Hosting plans, click here.

Do you offer SSH access?

Yes, we provide SSH access to your domain. Because this is a shared environment, you will not get root access. However, you will be able to achieve most of your requirements by having the rights to access only the files relevant to your domain.

Who do I get in touch with if I need help?

Our Support team is always at hand to assist you. You can look at all our contact details here.

WordPress Hosting

What is WordPress Hosting?

WordPress is an open-source Content Management System (CMS) / blogging platform that allows the creation of a website in PHP without the need to code. WordPress Hosting is a web hosting product that is optimized for WordPress, usually comes with WordPress pre-installed and has a custom panel to manage the order. Our WordPress Hosting plans are hosted on the Cloud and are designed to deliver speed, optimized security, backups, scalability, and automatic updates.

What is the difference between WordPress Hosting and other hosting plans?

WordPress Hosting provides your WordPress blogs / websites with a highly optimized environment to deliver maximum performance and security. Regular web hosting is a great all-rounder and can certainly host WordPress websites as well, but our dedicated WordPress Hosting is purpose-built on our hugely successful Cloud Hosting (on which our architects have fine-tuned the databases, densities and CDN) to deliver the best for your WordPress websites.

What are the benefits of WordPress Hosting?

If you own a website which receives medium-to-high traffic and has been seeing performance issues, you should consider our WordPress hosting on the Cloud, which will provide you with a rock-solid foundation to support high traffic. You should see an improvement in your website performance (including page load times) as soon as you shift to WordPress Hosting. In addition to this, we update your WordPress core automatically to give you a secure and hassle-free hosting experience.

What is the difference between "WordPress Hosting" and "WordPress Hosting + Security Suite" plans?

WordPress Hosting plans are economical plans without automatic backups and anti-malware. WordPress Hosting + Security plans have the same specifications as that of the WordPress hosting plans, including automatic cloud backups and anti-malware at a cost difference.

Will WordPress be updated automatically?

Yes, our WordPress Hosting will automatically install all core WordPress updates for your WordPress blogs and websites.

Why do I need CodeGuard with WordPress Hosting?

CodeGuard is an automatic website and database backup solution that monitors your websites and databases at regular intervals. Any change detected is notified directly to you. With Codeguard, you can restore your website and databases to a previous/older version. Check out all of our Codeguard Plans.

Why do I need SiteLock with my WordPress Hosting Plan?

SiteLock checks every aspect of your website presence daily to identify gaps and threats in the security of your website. From files on your web server to emails to search engine blacklists and spam filters, SiteLock identifies and fixes everything automatically. SiteLock works in the background to protect your website.

Is an upgrade possible on any of the WordPress Hosting Plans?

You can upgrade the number of CPU cores and RAM in your hosting plan from your WordPress Hosting panel, with a maximum limit of 8 Cores and 8 GB RAM on your order. Your WordPress Hosting plan, however, will not change. If you would like to move to a higher plan, free WordPress migration tools are available for you to shift.

Will I be able to add more websites to my existing plan in the future?

To add more websites, you will be required to migrate to a new WordPress Hosting plan.

Can I use an external email service with my WordPress Hosting plan?

Yes, you can use any external 3rd party email hosting service with your WordPress Hosting plan. For a more advanced productivity solution, we recommend G Suite by Google Cloud.

Do WordPress Hosting Plans have a money-back guarantee?

Unfortunately, our WordPress Hosting plans do not have a money-back period. For a money-back guarantee, you can use the one-click WordPress installation option available with our Cloud Hosting product.

Do these WordPress Hosting packages support WordPress Multisite?

WordPress Multisite support is not available with our WordPress Hosting Plans. If you need to install multiple WordPress websites, you can choose from 3 of the 4 WordPress Hosting plans above which will let you have separate WordPress instances for each website.

Can I access cPanel with my WordPress Hosting plan?

cPanel access is not provided with any of the WordPress Hosting Plans.

Are SSL certificates included with the WordPress plans?

Yes. When you purchase a WordPress Hosting order, free SSL powered by Let’s Encrypt, is automatically generated and installed for all domains associated with the package.

Is the use of an existing SSL certificate with my website possible?

An existing SSL certificate cannot be used. A CSR is required to be generated by the WordPress Hosting panel, after which a certificate will be issued that can be installed from the panel.

Do the WordPress Hosting plans include Email Hosting as well?

Yes, you get Email Hosting on all our WordPress Hosting plans through the WordPress Hosting admin panel- Webmail. For more advanced email solutions, you can either purchase G Suite or our Business Email solution.

Can I install plugins on my WordPress Hosting order?

Yes, you can install plugins on your WordPress Hosting order. We also include a few performance-enhancing plugins such as Jetpack by default.

Reseller Hosting

What is Reseller Hosting?

Reseller Hosting allows you to create sub-packages within the allotted Disk Space and Bandwidth of your main Hosting package. You can use WHM to create Individual Custom packages (each with cPanel) and provision them to your Customers.

Which Control Panels do I get with a Reseller Hosting package?

All Reseller Hosting packages come with 2 separate Control Panels – WHM and cPanel. WHM gives you administrative control of your Reseller Hosting package and cPanel allows your Customers to manage their individual Hosting packages.

How can I create Sub-Packages and manage them?

Your WHM Control Panel allows you to create individual Hosting packages and completely manage them.

How can my Customers manage their Individual Packages?

Your Customers will be able to manage their own packages using cPanel.

What are the advantages of reseller hosting?

If you are a Web Designer/Developer, you can host and manage all your websites/clients with one Reseller Hosting package instead of going through the hassle of managing multiple shared Hosting packages. This also lowers your Web Hosting costs significantly.Additionally, you can resell hosting as a value-added feature to your existing business or as a separate entity.

Can I upgrade between plans?

Yes, you can upgrade your existing plan to a higher plan at any time.

Is there a money back guarantee?

Yes, we offer a 100% Risk Free, 15 Day Money Back Guarantee.

Do your Reseller Hosting plans include a One-Click Installer?

Yes, all our Reseller Hosting plans come integrated with Softaculous – a popular and easy to use One-Click Installer.

How is technical support handled?

Yes, all our Reseller Hosting plans come integrated with Softaculous – a popular and easy to use One-Click Installer.

Biz Email

How will purchasing Biz Email benefit me?

As opposed to free email solutions, you can give your business a more professional image with Business Email by getting email that is branded with your company’s domain name (ex. sales@mybrand.com). In addition, you also benefit from our advanced email technology that gives you the least latency and industry-best uptime, scalability and reliability. An email service being served out of the cloud also means no IT, hardware, software, bandwidth or people costs. And the best part is that you can add email accounts as and when your team grows.

Which Email Clients and protocols are supported?

You can send and receive emails using any desktop-based email client such as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, Entourage 2004, Windows Mail, etc. We also have a guide on how you can configure different email clients to send/receive emails. The enterprise email product supports the POP, IMAP and MAPI protocols.

How do I use my Webmail Interface?

To access your Webmail Interface, you can use the white-labelled URL: http://webmail.yourdomainname.com. Once on the log in page, you would need to login with your email address and the corresponding password.

Which mobile phones can I access my mail from?

Your email can be accessed using any Smartphone or Tablet. Our fluidic webmail, built on HTML 5 & JavaScript, is compatible on all major Operating systems such as iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Blackberry.

What is the space provided per Email Account?

Each email account comes with 5 GB space dedicated to emails.

What ports do I need to use for Email Hosting?

Usually, the port used for the Outgoing Mail Server/SMTP Service is 25. However, there might be a situation where your ISP might be blocking the use of port 25 for SMTP service. To circumvent this you can use an alternate port 587 for sending mails.

Can I create mailing lists?

Yes, you can create mailing lists and add/delete users, select a moderator, restrict people from joining a list or even ban users from a list. More information on this can be found in our knowledgebase.

What is your SPAM policy?

We take a zero-tolerance stance against sending of unsolicited email, bulk emailing, and spam. “Safe lists”, purchased lists, and selling of lists will be treated as spam. Any user who sends out spam will have their account terminated with or without notice.

Can I use Auto Responders?

Yes, you can. An autoresponder is a program that, when setup for your email address, sends out an automatic, pre-set reply to an email, as soon as it is received at this email address. You can find out more about setting up an autoresponder from our knowledge base.

Business Email

What are the benefits of purchasing Business Email Hosting?

Give your organization a more professional look by branding your regular email ID with your company’s domain name (example: xvz@mycompany.com) with Enterprise Email Hosting. Additionally, you also benefit from our latest email hosting servers that give you the best uptime, least latency and maximum reliability. With email services on the Cloud, there is no IT, hardware or software to investigate and can also add email accounts as your business grows.

What are the supported email clients and protocols?

Business Email supports the POP, IMAP and MAPI protocols.

How do I use my Business Email's Webmail interface?

With your Business Email hosting, you can use the white-labelled url: http://webmail.yourdomainname.com to access your Webmail account. On the login page, just enter your email address and password.

Which devices can I access my Webmail from?

Emails can be accessed using any smartphone, tablet or desktop. The Webmail is built on HTML 5 & JavaScript and is compatible with all major OSs such as iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, etc.

What is the storage space provided?

Each email account comes with 30 GB space dedicated to your emails and attachments.

What ports should I use with my Business Email Hosting package?

Port 25 is used for the Outgoing Mail Server/SMTP Service. However, if your ISP is blocking Port 25 for SMTP services, then use Port 587 for sending emails.

Does the Business Email Solution support mailing lists?

Yes, creating mailing lists is supported and you can also add or delete users and select a moderator. You also have the authority to restrict users from joining a list and even ban a user from a list.

What is the Business Email spam policy?

We have zero tolerance towards spam. You cannot send unsolicited/bulk emails and spam. “Safe lists”, purchased lists or selling of lists will be treated as spam as well. The termination of the spammer’s account may be done with or without prior notice.

G Suite

Can I use my existing domain with G Suite?

Yes, you can use an existing domain with your G Suite order.

What happens to my existing mail, contacts, and calendar data when I move to G Suite?

When switching to G Suite from another program or web service, you and your users can bring your existing mail, contacts, and calendar data with you. You have a variety of options for migrating data into G Suite, depending on the size of your organization and the system you’re migrating from. Tools are available for migration from Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, IMAP servers and other Google accounts.

What is the space provided per Email Account?

Each email account comes with 30 GB space.

Is G Suite compatible with the email client I use today?

In addition to accessing G Suite mail from the Gmail web interface, you can send and receive mail from your favorite desktop client. Depending on the client, you can use either the IMAP or POP mail protocol. If you’re switching to G Suite from Microsoft Exchange or some other Outlook service, you can use G Suite Sync. This is a plug-in for Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010 or 2013 that lets you use Outlook to manage your G Suite mail, calendar and contacts—along with your Outlook notes, tasks and journal entries.

Which Email Clients and protocols are supported?

You can send and receive emails using any desktop-based email client such as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, Entourage 2004, Windows Mail, etc. We also have a guide on how you can configure different email clients to send/receive emails. The enterprise email product supports the POP, IMAP and MAPI protocols.

Which mobile phones can I access my mail from?

Your email can be accessed using any Smartphone or Tablet. The Gmail interface is compatible on all major Operating systems such as iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Blackberry.

Can I manage multiple domains with G Suite?

If your organization acquires a new domain name or does business at multiple domains, you can add all your domains to your account at no extra cost. Users can then have identities at one or more of your domains while sharing services as part of a single organization. And you manage your domains from the same Admin console. You add a domain as either a separate domain or domain alias, depending on how you plan to use it.

If I only want one of the products, do I have to buy the entire suite?

Yes. G Suite is designed as an all-in-one solution with integrated tools that work seamlessly together. For instance, you can receive a message in Gmail and instantly convert it into a Calendar event. When you make a comment in Docs, Sheets or Slides, collaborators automatically receive email alerts. With a single click, you can launch a Hangouts video meeting from your inbox or calendar. Using these tools as a complete package improves productivity while giving your business the most value. However, you are welcome to purchase the suite and only use the services of your choice.

Can I create mailing lists?

Yes, you can create mailing lists and add/delete users, select a moderator, restrict people from joining a list or even ban users from a list.

What is your SPAM policy?

When you sign up for a G Suite account, you agree not to use the account to send spam, distribute viruses, or otherwise abuse the service. All users on your domain are subject to these agreements, which are part of the G Suite Acceptable Use Policy. If Google identifies a G Suite user who is violating these agreements, we reserve the right to immediately suspend the user. If the problem is domain-wide, we reserve the right to suspend the entire account and deny administrator access to all the G Suite services. In such cases, we send a notification to the registered secondary email address for the domain administrator.

Can I use Autoresponders?

Yes, you can. Use Gmail’s vacation responder to let people know that you won’t be able to get back to them right away. While your vacation responder is turned on, Gmail will send your reply to people who email you.

Can I transfer my existing G Suite?

Yes. During the transfer, we move all your email accounts from the old provider to us by keeping the data intact. However, your existing tenure with the other provider, if any does not get moved to us. You can click here to initiate the transfer process.

Microsoft 365

What is Microsoft 365?

Microsoft 365 is a Web-based version of Microsoft’s Office suite of enterprise-grade productivity applications. Microsoft 365 is delivered to users through the cloud and includes Exchange Online for email, SharePoint Online for collaboration, Lync Online for unified communications, and a suite of Office Web Apps, Web-based versions of the traditional Microsoft Office suite of applications.

How many users does Microsoft 365 support?

For Microsoft 365 Business plans- 1 to 300 users.

For Microsoft 365 Enterprise plans- 1 to 50,000+ users.

What are incoming POP, IMAP and outgoing SMTP addresses?

IMAP: Incoming server – outlook.office365.com : Port – 993

POP: Incoming server – outlook.office365.com : Port – 995

SMTP: Outgoing server – smtp.office365.com: Port – 587

Can I route mail between Microsoft 365 and your own email servers?

Yes you can, just share your current email server details with our support team and they will assist you accordingly

How can I access my Microsoft 365 account?

You can manage Microsoft 365 services by visiting portal.office.com to create new users and work with Exchange, Skype for Business and the rest of the Office 365 suite.

Can I switch to other Microsoft 365 plans?

Yes, you can easily upgrade your account to a different plan. For example, you can upgrade from an Microsoft 365 Business plan to an Microsoft 365 Enterprise plan

How many devices can I install Office on, if I have an Microsoft 365 Business or Apps for Enterprise subscription?

Microsoft 365 Business and Apps for Enterprise subscribers can install Office on up to 5 PCs or Macs, 5 tablets and 5 smartphones. You can count hybrid Windows devices, such as the Microsoft Surface Pro, as either a PC or a tablet.

Cloud Hosting

What is Cloud Hosting?

Cloud Hosting is the newest form of web hosting that is gaining great popularity over the recent years. The concept of cloud hosting is principally ‘Divide and Rule’. The cluster of servers that work together to meet the resources required for maintaining your website is termed as a cloud.

What is the difference between Cloud Hosting and Shared Hosting?

WordPress Hosting provides your WordPress blogs / websites with a highly optimized environment to deliver maximum performance and security. Regular web hosting is a great all-rounder and can certainly host WordPress websites as well, but our dedicated WordPress Hosting is purpose-built on our hugely successful Cloud Hosting (on which our architects have fine-tuned the databases, densities and CDN) to deliver the best for your WordPress websites.

What is Varnish Cache?

Varnish cache is a web application accelerator that can speed up your website by 10k. Varnish is mostly used for content heavy websites. Caching is used by the top 10k websites with high-traffic including Wikipedia and many online news sites such as The New York Times, The Hindu, The Guardian, etc. It is also used by social and content sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, and Tumblr.

What is the reliability of your Cloud Hosting?

Tech Guru Cloud Hosting Services offers maximum reliability by automatically distributing three data mirrored copies across multiple devices for data safety. Every website is hosted on a virtual partition of multiple physical servers which draws resources like disk space and bandwidth from these.

What storage architecture is used by your Cloud Hosting Services?

The storage architecture used by our Cloud Hosting is Ceph Storage. It gives a 3N level of redundancy. Regarding computing, it is completely distributed without any point of failure, scalable to the exabyte level and freely available. It also replicates data and makes it fault-tolerant and requires no specific hardware support. Ceph is designed in a fashion to result in both self-healing and self-managing, thus aiming to minimize administration time and other costs.

With additional CPU and RAM what is the maximum limit?

Each order of our Cloud Hosting can have a maximum of up to 8 GB RAM and 8 cores.

Is a Dedicated IP available with your Cloud Hosting Services?

Yes, a support ticket can be raised to get additional dedicated IPs at an affordable price.

Can I install an SSL certificate on my website?

Yes, in Order to install an SSL certificate on your Cloud Hosting package you need to connect with our support team.

Will any 1-click install scripts be provided along with Cloud Hosting?

To add more websites, you will be required to migrate to a new WordPress Hosting plan.

Is an upgrade / downgrade possible for Cloud Hosting?

Our Cloud Hosting Services are optimized for your need; however, it is not possible to upgrade or downgrade a plan. If required, you can purchase additional RAM and CPU cores.

Will there be any help provided for migrating to Cloud Hosting?

Yes, our support team will help you migrate your cPanel accounts to our Cloud Hosting.

What is your backup policy?

Tech Guru maintains weekly backups for disaster recovery, and on request, for a fee, we may be able to restore your web, email, and database content subject to availability. However, we recommend you to take full responsibility for your own backups and NOT rely on Tech Guru to keep copies of your content safe. Alternatively, you can set up automated backups through CodeGuard website backup.

What Money Back Guarantee do you offer?

We have a 15-day Money Back Guarantee with all of our Cloud Hosting services.

Does Cloud Hosting include Email Hosting as well?

Yes, you get Email Hosting on all our Cloud Hosting plans through cPanel. The storage limit for emails is 10GB. For more advanced email solutions, you can either opt for G Suite by Google Cloud or our Business Email.

Dedicated Server

What is Dedicated Server?

Dedicated Servers are most suited for those whose website experiences high traffic. As the name suggests, it’s a physical server dedicated only to the owner, which means the entire website is under your control. You get unrestrained access to all files, databases and resources with ample storage space to utilize for your business needs.

Do I get Full Admin Access to my Dedicated Servers?

You get full Administrator access to your Windows Dedicated server. You can connect the server using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)

How many SSH connections are available?

Unlimited SSH connections are available, however maximum connection can be modified as per your requirement.

How many dedicated IP will I get?

You will get 2 Dedicated IP with each Dedicated Server.

What is the speed of the network port on my server?

All the servers are connected to the switches at 1Gbps Port Speed.

Can I upgrade my Dedicated Server?

You can upgrade your dedicated server up to the Queen Plan. You can ask for a custom quote if you wish to upgrade from Queen Plan. In this case, for upgrading, the server will be replaced with a new server of higher configuration.

Difference between Dedicated and Cloud Servers?

Dedicated Server is a physical server in which website and applications are hosted on a physical environment whereas in Cloud Servers the website and applications are hosted on a virtual environment.

How many RDP connections are available?

By default you will get 2 remote desktop connections on Windows Dedicated Server. However you can opt for additional licenses with minimal cost.

In how much time will I get my server access?

Once the order is placed we will deliver server credentials within 24 hours and in some cases it can be extended to 48 hours.

What kind of hardware do you use?

All the Windows Dedicated Servers are Enterprise Grade Dell servers.

What is RAID?

RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a way of storing the same data on multiple hard drives which protects data in the case of a drive failure.

Which control panel do you provide?

We provide cPanel/PLESK control panel on Linux Dedicated Servers.

What is the location of the server?

We have data centers in India and US, you can opt for either of them as your server location.

What kind of hard drives do you provide with each server?

We provide both HDD as well as SSD drives, you can always ask for a custom quote.

CodeGuard

What is CodeGuard?

We all have been in a situation where we regret not taking a backup, haven’t we? But no need to regret anymore! CodeGuard provides comprehensive backup solutions to the website users. It performs regular monitoring of your website and database and notifies if any changes are detected. It also allows restoration of the website and database to its previous version.

How does CodeGuard store data? Is it encrypted?

CodeGuard uses Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (S3) to house websites and backup databases. Entire backup data is encrypted using an AES-256 bit key.

How long are the backups stored in the CodeGuard account?

90 days of backups are stored and can be easily retained.

How does CodeGuard connect to my website?

You can easily connect CodeGuard using FTP/SFTP/MySQL information

What types of databases are supported for backup?

CodeGuard supports both MySQL and MS SQL databases.

What database user permissions are needed to backup and restore?

For backup: Select, Show View, Show Databases

For restore: Select, Update, Insert, Delete, Drop, Create, Alter, Index.

cWatch

What is a cWatch?

cWatch is a hands-off Security as a Service (SaaS) solution hosted in the cloud and backed by the leading security experts at Comodo. cWatch compiles a Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC), Content Delivery Network (CDN), a Web Application Firewall (WAF) and a Security Incident and Event Management Center (SIEM) all into one simple user intuitive control panel.

Why do I need cWatch?

With increasing security costs and the known impacts of data breaches on your reputation and sales, cWatch is a no brainer. With the backing of the security experts at Comodo and powerful security services, cWatch is a must have tool for maintaining control of your online presence.

Will my site work with cWatch?

cWatch was built to support any type of website. Whether the site is a blog, social network, portfolio, shopping cart, landing page, ect. cWatch has a plan for you and can be easily implemented in no time.

How much does cWatch cost?

The cost of cWatch can vary depending upon the level of security needed, to review the full costs and comparison. If you’re uncertain which plan is for you, please let us know or give our thirty (30) day trial.

Can cWatch be purchased on a monthly basis?

At the moment, cWatch is limited to yearly subscriptions but don’t fret! In the not too distant future, cWatch will be capable of being purchased on a monthly basis. If you’d like to be notified upon the launch of the monthly subscription.

Does cWatch require anything technical?

Just a tiny bit. During the setup process, you will need to login to your domain registrar and configure some new DNS settings and also upload a file to your website. Don’t worry however, our team is on standby to assist if needed.

How long does cWatch take to set up?

This hands down has to be the best part of cWatch, it literally doesn’t take more than ten minutes to get a Content Delivery Network (CDN), Malware Monitoring, a Web Application Firewall, Vulnerability Monitoring, and much more.

Setting up these services on your own could take days, if not weeks. Also, the costs of appliances, software, configuring, tuning, and testing could really be a burden.

When does cWatch run?

Security never sleeps and neither does cWatch. Every second, minute and hour of everyday cWatch is constantly running checks behind the scenes to ensure your website is safe for visitors.

Can cWatch be upgraded at any time?

Absolutely! If you ever find you need additional security services, you can always upgrade your package on the fly without any interruptions to your current operations.

Does cWatch alert me to any issues on my site?

cWatch has built-in support for EMail, Text (SMS), and Call notifications when any trouble or questionable activities arise on your website.

I'm in need of immediate malware removal!

No worries! Our operatives are on standby and ready to assist in getting your site back up and running. Please proceed with purchasing out immediate malware service removal and have your site back up and running in no time.

SiteLock

What is SiteLock?

SiteLock is one of the most powerful and most-opted solutions for web security. It scans your site for all the hidden threats, detects it and works effectively to repair it. In case of any detected threat, site lock instantly notifies you and gets it fixed.

What is a SiteLock badge or TrustSeal?

SiteLock badge or TrustSeal is an image that can be visible on your website to assure users that your website is secure and malware-free. SiteLock performs daily scanning and the TrustSeal is updated everyday to indicate that all the scans are performed successfully.

What is SMART?

Secure Malware Alert and Removal Tool (SMART), if enabled, performs an in-depth site scan and automatically blocks malicious code from files on the site. SiteLock makes calls to the web server and duplicates the website files on their secure servers by scanning the content completely to identify malicious code or vulnerabilities. In the course of doing this, it can also remove the malicious code from the files, to avoid further damage. You can choose not to allow SMART to remove any code. In that case, you will only be notified of the vulnerability identified, and you will need to manually check and remove it.

How to set up CDN for my website?

You need to add a CNAME record to a subdomain (www.yourdomainname.com) to redirect to SiteLock’s CDN.

Can the SiteLock Panel be accessed directly through URL?

You can easily access and manage your SiteLock from your client area.

Why do I need SiteLock, if I have SSL?

An SSL certificate is used only to encrypt a connection between the clients browser and server to safely transfer sensitive information. On the contrary, SiteLock protects the database, scans your website files and applications, protects from data breaches and other virus and malware attacks.

What different types of scan are available?

SiteLock performs Daily Malware, Daily FTP, Website Application, SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Scan.

Can I use a single SiteLock Order for multiple domains?

No, single SiteLock order can be used for a single domain name only.

What is Content Delivery Network (CDN) ?

A Content Delivery Network is a set of servers, expanded across the world that cache your website pages. When a user requests your website, the server closest to the user’s location will serve those requested results. Due to this website open 10x faster without speeding up its performance.

If my website is infected, will the TrustSeal display an infected sign to the visitors on site?

If a scan fails, site visitors will not be able to see infected signs. The TrustSeal only displays the last date when all scans were performed. Incase site owner fails to rectify the problem within a few days, SiteLock will remove the TrustSeal from the site. (The TrustSeal will never indicate that a website has failed a scan.)

SSL Certificates

What is SSL?

Secure Socket Layer (SSL), is a digital certificate issued for a Domain by a central authority called the Certificate Authority. SSL validates your website’s identity, and encrypts the information visitors send to, or receive from, your site.

Difference between Positive & Positive Wildcard SSL?

Positive SSL secures a single domain name while Positive Wildcard SSL secures multiple subdomains on a single domain name.

What is a Private Key?

All SSL certificates need a private key to work. The private key is nothing but a file which is used for encryption/decryption of data sent between your server and the connecting clients.

What is the process to install SSL?

  1. CSR.
  2. Once the verification is completed you will receive SSL certificate from Comodo within 1-2 hours.
  3. Now you can iGenerate CSR from your hosting panel.
  4. Provide us the CSR so that we can issue your SSL certificate.
  5. A verification email will be sent to admin/ webmaster/ hostmaster/ postmaster/ other email id which matchesnstall a certificate under the SSL/TLS section or provide us the SSL certificate and our support team will install it for you.
  6. Once SSL is installed successfully, your website will open with “https” having a padlock sign in, in it.
  7. Make sure you redirect all pages from “http” to “https” with the help of your website developer.

Do all browsers accept the SSL Certificates?

Yes, SSL certificates are compatible with all the browsers.

What are the benefits of SSL?

SSL encrypts the information sent from the user’s browser to your website and also authenticates your website’s identity. It ensures a secure website and increases customer loyalty which would prove beneficial for your online business.

What is an EV SSL Certificate?

EV stands for Extended Validation Certificate. An EV SSL certificate offers the highest available levels of trust and authentication to your website. The green address bar in the browser displays your company name and provides authenticity of your website to the customers.

What is CSR?

A CSR or Certificate Signing Request is a block of encoded text that is given to a Certificate Authority during execution of an SSL Certificate. It is generated on the server where the certificate will be installed and contains information such as the domain name, company name and the location.

How many times can I re-issue the certificate?

There is no limitation. You can re-issue your SSL certificate unlimited times.

How would people know my website is safe?

Once the SSL is installed you can see a Green padlock sign on your address bar which indicates your web page is secure.

Spam Experts

How to configure incoming Spam Filter?

Just order a spam filter via our control panel and point your MX records to SpamExperts servers in the DNS zone of your domain. Check out our step-by-step guide in our Knowledge Base!

Which MX records should I use?

There are three MX servers that SpamExperts expose for public that should be configured in the DNS zone of the domain:

mx.spamexperts.com (priority 10)

fallbackmx.spamexperts.eu (priority 20)

lastmx.spamexperts.net (priority 30)

Can I manage filtering without logging into the control panel ?

Yes, once you register a filter on a domain in the control panel you get a username & password for SpamExperts white-label panel that allows you to manage and finetune the filter without logging to the control panel.

How do I check that my mail servers are working correctly ?

You can always simulate mail delivery via command line, no matter which OS you are using. Check our Knowledge base article for more details.

How many domains aliases can I configure?

You can configure an unlimited number of domain aliases for a domain filter. Check our Knowledge base article for more details.

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