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The PCI applies for all organizations that accept payments, transmit or store credit card information. If you are planning to accept payments, transmit or store credit card data on your website the PCI Compliance is a must have.

PCI Compliance comes from “Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard” (PCI DSS). This is a set of requirements which ensure that  all the companies that process and transmit credit card information maintain a secure environment.

The cookies are small text based files which stores information of some sites. For example, you may stay logged in for weeks or months in some website, they place cookies in your browser to achieve that. Sometimes those cookies might be harmful for your computer or if you develop your web site, you may not [...]

There might be many reasons for your web site to be hacked (defaced). The most common reasons are: Outdated web application:  All of the popular scripts (Joomla, wordpress, drupal, phpbb, etc) have security holes, thus they release regular updates and security fixes. You should make sure that you are always using the recent versions of [...]

Yes, you can change the google crawl rate. In order to achieve that, first you should register in Google’s Webmaster tools. In order to do so, simply visit the following URL address:   http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools   After you are created your account, login into it and navigate to Site configuration -> Settings -> Set custom crawl [...]

There is no constant period at which Google update the Global Public Page Rank, usually, this happening on 3-6 months.  Thus you can check your website’s page rank regularly whether is updated. Also you may use the web based checker which you may visit at:   http://www.prchecker.info/

PageRank is Google’s technology which is made to rank the websites by their importance and quality.  This technology tells on which place will be showed your web site in Google Search Engine.  The Ranks given to the website are numbers from 1 to 10.

Telnet is very useful application through which you can easily troubleshoot some issues with your network connectivity. Unfortunately, on Windows Vista and Windows 7 is not enabled by default. But you can easily enable it by following these steps: Visit your Windows Control Panel, select ‘Classic View’ and click on ‘Programs and Features’; Click on [...]

Using social bookmarking to promote your site The social web sites are very useful to share you content and link to them, because they have a lot of visitors who searches and share something.  When your web site is liked from some visitor, s/he can recommend it to his/her favorite social portal. The owners of [...]

Yes, this also can be completed via the .htaccess rewrite rules and conditions.  Each browser has a unique identification through which you can deny the access to your web site. For an example if you prefer to deny the access from user which using the opera browser, you can add the following code in your [...]

Sometimes, you need to redirect your costumers to other site, but you still need to access your web site. This could be completed by simple redirect rule added in your .htaccess file: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^1\.2\.3\.4 RewriteRule .* http://www.anothersite.com [R=302,L] You should replace 1, 2, 3 and 4 with your actual IP [...]

Yes, of course. There is an addon built for Firefox which have a large abilities for debugging , editing, etc. of your HTML and CSS documents in real time. Also this tool is very useful for troubleshooting of your HTML and CSS code. This addon is called “FireBug” and can be downloaded from the official [...]

The robots.txt is used to tell on search bots which files and folder should be and should not be indexed from the search engines. This file is commonly used to disallow bots to index some files or directories.   In order to allow all search bots to crawl all the content from your web site, [...]

We may recommend you some antivirus softwares, but note that every software has its advantages and disadvatanges. The most used and recommend are “Norton internet security” and “Kaspersky Internet Security” They are paid AV software which can detect and stop almost all exploits, viruses, Trojan horses, worms, adware, spyware. They also include firewalls, antiphishing and [...]

One of the easiest ways to achieve such task is to download the public_html folder on your local computer by using FTP client. Then you may run scan with your antivirus software on it. We recommend you to use antivirus software as Norton Internet Security or Kasperksy Internet Security. Both of them are able to [...]

In order to add PayPal donate button, you may add in your web site the following code:   <form name=”_xclick” action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr” method=”post”> <input type=”hidden” name=”cmd” value=”_xclick”> <input type=”hidden” name=”business” value=”user@yourdomain.com”> <input type=”hidden” name=”item_name” value=”Customer Service”> <input type=”hidden” name=”currency_code” value=”USD”> <input type=”hidden” name=”amount” value=”10.00″> <input type=”image” src=”http://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donate_LG.gif” border=”0″ name=”submit” alt=”Make payments with PayPal – it’s fast, [...]

You can easily make your rewrite rules time dependent by adding a simple condition rule before the rewrite one. For an example if you want your rewrite rule to be executed after 15:00 PM, you should add the following line above your rewrite rule: RewriteCond %{TIME_HOUR} ^15 If you prefer to specify minutes along the [...]

In order to refer your current extension to different, firstly, on the server where the account resides must have “mod_rewrite” enabled. Currently on our servers  the mod_rewrite is enabled by default. Then you can enter the following rewrite rule in your .htaccess file:   Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^(.+)\.ext$ /$1.php [NC,L]   [...]

Yes, you can redirect your error pages to a specific URL. If you want to redirect the error pages of your website to a specific URL address or to you your web site, you can achieve that through the .htaccess file. The .htaccess is a text file which can be easy created/edited with your favorite [...]

Yes, you can. In order to achieve that, you should create a simple robot.txt file in your public_html directory with the following content: User-agent: * Disallow: /   If you prefer to block them for a specific folder, you may use the following code: User-agent: * Disallow: /somefolder/   In this way you shall block [...]

In order to copy and paste from your Windows command prompt, you may follow the steps below: Click with right mouse button in your command prompt and select “Mark” Mark the information you would like to copy Press the “Enter” Button -> this will copy do marked content. Then you can paste the copied content [...]

If you are our customer, you can log in your Client area -> Emails -> Welcome to TMDHosting email. In this mail you will find you cPanel/FTP login details, your name servers, hostname of the server, shared IP address and cPanel URL address. If you prefer to find more detailed information about the installed PHP [...]

With domain name masking you can load different web site under your domain . In other words after you access yourwebsite.com , it will actually load completely different web site. In order to achieve that you can use the frames in which shall be loaded the desired web site. You may create simple index.html with [...]

Currently our servers have the following order for processing index files: Index.html, index.php, default.html, default.htm But in order you want to change their order for your account, you can achieve that by using .htaccess file in which you should enter the following line: DirectoryIndex somefile.html Then the webserver will look first for file with name [...]

Unfortunately, symbolic link can not be created by using cPanel or your FTP Client software. Thus if you do not have SSH access to your account, you may post new support ticket from your Client area and our Support team will be glad to create the desired symlink. If you have SSH  access to your [...]

In order to upload you locally developed site, the first thing you should do is to edit all absolute paths and URL’s in all developed files. Then you may upload all of them by using your FTP client. You should upload them under your public_html directory or if you prefer in some subfolder. In order [...]

Yes you can. In order to Start from the beginning with you account, you can follow the steps below: Login your Cpanel -> Email accounts -> then delete all your email accounts. cPanel -> MySQL databases -> Then delete all databases along with their MySQL users. cPanel -> File manager -> click on the Public_html [...]

Actually the “www” is not a folder. It is a symbolic link (shortcut) to the public_html, Thus if you upload file in “www” actually the files are uploaded in your public_html folder.

In order to upload your index.html file and the same to be visible via web, you should upload it under your webroot folder  which usually is “public_html” or “www”. If you have addon domain added to your current hosting account, first you should enter your cPanel -> Addon domain -> review the webroot directory of [...]

In order to point your domain to “Coming Soon” or “Under Construction” page, you should create an index.html file and upload it to your webroot folder (Usually these folders are called “public_html”, “www” or “htdocs”) In order to create such file, you should open your text editor such notepad (if you using windows) and enter [...]