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On occasion you will need to edit the hosts file on your machine. VPSBlocks provides details on how to edit hosts file. If you want to make your local computer believe that your website is hosted on your new VPS before you modify the actual DNS, this ca...
Learn to enable SSH for account to perform the basic tasks through the terminal. Follow VPSBlocks to learn in detail. ACCESSING SSH FROM WINDOWS To access your machine using SSH (all Linux variants) we recommend downloading the program 'Putty'. This...
Step-by-step tips on how to upgrade RAM or memory of your PC. Follow VPSBlocks to upgrade today! PORTAL LOGIN EXPLAINED If you login to the portal website using your email address and account level password you can administer all your VPSs, change accou...
Find question & answers on upgrading your desktop PC's processor, CPU cores. Log on to VPSBlocks to do it yourself. PORTAL LOGIN EXPLAINED If you login to the portal website using your email address and account level password you can administer all yo...
Learn how to increase additional free space on your hard disk. PORTAL LOGIN EXPLAINED If you login to the portal website using your email address and account level password you can administer all your VPSs, change account details, place new orders etc. ...
SLOW access via an IPV6 from a VPS in Australia? Here is the solution to solve slowness accessing through your VPS. Due to the way most operating systems work, IPv6 is preferred before IPv4 when available - however the world isn't fully IPv6 ready even ...
Learn how to reprovision, reinstall, setup your VPS again. Follow step by step tutorial guidelines and do it yourself. PORTAL LOGIN EXPLAINED If you login to the portal website using your email address and account level password you can administer all y...
Manage your DNS records directly through us by pointing the name server to our existing domain. Follow the steps to know more. If you wish to manage your DNS records directly through us you need to set the name servers for your existing domain to ours. ...
If you purchase a Fantastico License you will need to install it to your cPanel installation. This is extremely easy to do. First you need to enable ioncube: * Login to WHM (you will have been provided access in the VPS setup email) * Go to 'tweak...
Learn steps on how to install servers Apache or MySQL through Webmin. An easy tutorial for any new learners. To use Webmin to install various servers and modules: * Go to http://YOURIPADDRESS:10000/ [https://YOURIPADDRESS:10000/] * Accept the cert...
Know the procedure to use Remote Desktop (RDP). You will be able to access your VPS as though it was a desktop machine in front of you To use remote desktop: * Click on the 'Start' menu or 'Windows' icon * In the search/cmd box enter: mstsc.exe ...
Webmin is a web based application that should be access through browser. Learn how to access Webmin following easy steps. Webmin is automatically installed on all Linux variants at https://YOURIPADDRESS:10000/ [https://203.143.82.4:10000/] Go there, a...
Read how to modify your reverse DNS entry / PTR record for any IPs you own by doing the following. HOW TO MODIFY YOUR REVERSE DNS ENTRY / PTR RECORD When you create a VPS the domain you specify on the order form will automatically be entered as the re...
Learn how to stop, start or restart your VPS. Follow the complete VPSBlocks guidelines and do it by yourself. PORTAL LOGIN EXPLAINED If you login to the portal website using your email address and password you can administer all your VPSs, change acco...
Guide to mount file-system to enable user to read data from CD or DVD media. Follow instructions to do it yourself. PORTAL LOGIN EXPLAINED If you login to the portal website using your email address and password you can administer all your VPSs, chang...
Manage DNS for hosting account, change hosted domain's DNS also. Do it yourself following step by step tutorial. PORTAL LOGIN EXPLAINED If you login to the portal website using your email address and password you can administer all your VPSs, change a...
A tutorial on how to clone an existing VPS on VPSBlocks. Follow step by step tutorial guideline to learn & do it yourself. We are happy to clone a VPS for you, there is no charge for this, and it is done manually by staff to ensure that the networking w...
There is a couple of great guides on installing Asterisk on both CentOS 6 & Ubuntu 12. Follow the tutorial & do yourself. CentOS: http://blogs.digium.com/2012/11/05/how-to-install-asterisk-11-on-centos-6/ [http://blogs.digium.com/2012/11/05/how-to-insta...
Don't have any idea on how to start your VPS? Learn here step by step tutorial guideline to do it yourself. PORTAL LOGIN EXPLAINED If you login to the portal website using your email address and password you can administer all your VPSs, change accoun...
Find information on how to pause VPS to do it yourself. VPSBlocks step by step tutorial will assist you to learn it. PORTAL LOGIN EXPLAINED If you login to the portal website using your email address and password you can administer all your VPSs, chan...
This post explain how to change the portal password for your VPS. Learn it reading this step by step tutorial. This article explain how to change the password we store for your VPS. This password is by VPSBlocks staff if they need to access your VPS for...
If you are trying to take a snapshot of a Windows VPS that is also a domain controller this may fail. There is a bug in the hypervisor that stops normal production snapshots from being taken of Windows servers that are also running the domain controller r...
Learn how easily you can install the Softaculous addon into your cPanel installation. Just follow the given steps. If you have purchased the Softaculous addon with your cPanel VPS, you will need to install it into your cPanel installation. This is very ...
To view your message history for any messages sent to you by our system for billing or your initial account and VPS details you can do so through the VPSBlocks Portal. PORTAL LOGIN EXPLAINED If you login to the portal website using your email address ...
After the elevate process from CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8 the WP-Toolkit may be missing (if this is the case you will get a 404 error when clicking on the WP-Toolkit link in cPanel). To fix this login to WHM and go to 'Terminal'. Then type:  sh <(curl http...