📄️ Optimize Website with PageSpeed Insights in Account Manager
Website speed plays an important role in how users experience your site and how well it ranks on search engines. When your web pages load slowly, it can lead to frustratingly high bounce rates, decreased conversions, and lackluster SEO results. To help with this issue, Bluehost has integrated Page Speed Insights directly into your Account Manager. With this handy tool, you can easily evaluate how your site performs and find ways to enhance its speed for a better overall experience.
📄️ How to Set Up Composer
Bluehost provides the information about Composer below as a courtesy. Please remember that this is something other than what our Support agents can further assist you with. If you require assistance or have questions, look into Composer instructional guides or online forums.
📄️ Default DNS Nameservers in cPanel
When you host a domain on your server, it needs default DNS nameservers to translate your domain name (like example.com) into an IP address that browsers can locate. By default, cPanel automatically assigns nameservers during setup, but you can review or update them anytime through WHM (WebHost Manager).
📄️ Scalable Shared Hosting FAQ
Q: What are Scalable Shared Web Hosting Plans?
📄️ How to Enable CGI/Perl Support on Bluehost
Bluehost hosting is compatible with CGI and Perl scripts; however, it's important to note that we do not directly provide development support for these scripting languages. Our primary focus is ensuring that your hosting environment can support the execution of such scripts when configured correctly.
📄️ How to Adjust Hosting Plan Length
Changing the length of your hosting plan is referred to as a term change. This is different from upgrading or downgrading to another hosting plan. A term change changes the length of time but not the type of plan. If another term length or hosting plan better fits your needs, our Customer Support team will gladly assist youto adjust your hosting plan lenght.
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: ConfigServer Security & Firewall
ConfigServer Security & Firewall (CSF) is a firewall for VPS and Dedicated servers. CSF is not installed as part of our default images on VPS or Dedicated servers; however, it is quite a popular add-on, as it greatly simplifies tasks such as opening or closing ports. Rather than figuring out iptables command syntax, CSF offers a GUI-based approach integrated with WHM.
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: How to Set Up Custom Name Servers
Custom name servers must manage multiple cPanel accounts on a VPS and a Dedicated Hosting plan. This guide walks through how to set up Custom Name Servers, ensuring your domains point correctly and reliably to your server.
📄️ How to Set Up Cron Jobs with PHP and Various File Types
This guide offers detailed examples of commands for setting up and managing Cron Jobs. For further insights and explanations on Cron Jobs, explore our series of articles dedicated to Cron Job configurations and best practices by clicking Related Articles.
📄️ What to Know About Data Deletion Timeframes
When it comes to hosting accounts, it is crucial to ensure that you have backup copies of all your content. Let's take a look at the following policies for Shared Hosting, and VPS and Dedicated Accounts in terms of the Data Deletion Timeframes.
📄️ DNS Configuration with Web Host Manager
You may have heard that DNS is a critical component for resolving domain names' IP addresses. DNS Zone Manager is a feature of cPanel/WHM that allows you to configure DNS and related records from the WHM interface. This post will explain how to utilize the DNS Zone Manager in WHM.
📄️ How to Clear Browser Cache
If your website is loading slowly or not showing recent updates, your browser may be displaying an older version stored in its cache. The cache temporarily saves website data to help pages load faster, but over time, it can cause outdated or broken content to appear. This guide will show you how to clear your browser cache in different browsers—like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer—so you can always view the most up-to-date version of your favorite websites.
📄️ How to Connect via SSH or SFTP on Bluehost Cloud Hosting
Unlike Bluehost Shared, VPS, or Dedicated servers, Cloud does not have cPanel or File Manager to access website files. To manage files, including uploading or downloading files, you will need to connect via SSH or SFTP, depending on what you’re trying to do. For basic file management, SFTP is recommended for most users, while SSH is recommended for more advanced users who wish to use Bash or WP CLI to manage their website.
📄️ VPS and Dedicated Hosting: Setting Up Private Nameservers
Optimization should be focused on control and flexibility in web presence administration. With VPS and Dedicated accounts offered by Bluehost, setting up private nameservers beats using Bluehost-default-provided nameservers.
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: Increasing Resources Through WHM
Managing your website’s bandwidth is crucial to ensure a smooth performance and avoid downtime, especially if you’re running a high-traffic site. Bluehost's guide on increasing resources through WHM (Web Host Manager) provides a comprehensive walkthrough for VPS and Dedicated server users. With these steps, you can easily allocate additional bandwidth to your site, ensuring it can handle increased traffic without issues.
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: Installing Minecraft
Want to host your own Minecraft server? Installing Minecraft on a VPS or dedicated server is a great way to have more control and flexibility. This guide will walk you through how to install Minecraft on VPS or Dedicated Server so you can get your server up and running in no time.
📄️ How to Achieve PCI Compliance with Bluehost Hosting
PCI compliance is critical if you process credit card payments on your website. This guide explains how compliance works across different Bluehost hosting types and provides step-by-step solutions to common issues flagged during PCI scans.
📄️ PHP Module Compatibility with Hosting Packages
We get a lot of questions regarding our shared hosting packages and what PHP modules they support. These modules are installed on all servers (Linux and Windows). Learn more about PHP module compatibility with Hosting Packages.
📄️ How to Install Python on a Hosting Server
Python is a versatile and user-friendly programming language widely used by developers and professionals for its adaptability. In this guide, we'll explain how to install Python on a hosting server.
📄️ Resellers: Changing the Password for a Resold Account
Overview
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: Reseller Account Transfers
Transferring a reseller account can seem daunting, but with the right guidance, it becomes a manageable process. This guide provides detailed instructions on how to transfer a reseller account, including steps for migrating your clients’ data, updating DNS settings, and ensuring minimal downtime. By following these steps, you can smoothly transition your reseller account to a new hosting provider or server.
📄️ Resellers: Installing the Wildcard SSL
Important: In November 2014, Bluehost announced it would no longer accept new shared Reseller hosting signups. As part of that announcement, Bluehost announced a partnership with ResellerClub wherein Bluehost is recommending ResellerClub as the hosting partner of choice for Reseller hosting.
📄️ How to Install Redmine with Ruby on Rails and Passenger
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📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: How to Manage Backups with SFTP
VPS and Dedicated Server backups are essential for data security and disaster recovery. Whether you’re backing up customer data, websites, or configuration files, using SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) is a secure and efficient method. In this guide, you’ll learn how to manage backups with SFTP using free FTP software like FileZilla, connect to your server, access backup directories, and download or delete backups safely.
📄️ Setting Up Using Secure FTP
Secure FTP (SFTP) is available with your Bluehost hosting account and is recommended for use when uploading content. It is more secure than regular FTP, as data is encrypted while being transmitted over the internet.
📄️ How to Troubleshoot Slow FTP Connection
Learning how to troubleshoot slow FTP connections helps quickly identify and resolve issues that hinder file transfer speeds, ensuring efficient and reliable access to files when needed. This knowledge can save time, improve productivity, and maintain the integrity of data workflows, especially in environments where frequent transferring of large or numerous files is common.
📄️ What is SSH Access and How to Enable It in Your Hosting Account
What is SSH Access?
📄️ How to Generate an SSH Public or Private Key
What Are SSH Keys For?
📄️ How to Install a Third-Party SSL Certificate in cPanel
Securing your website with an SSL certificate is a crucial step in protecting user data, improving search engine rankings, and building trust with your visitors. For websites hosted on shared hosting platforms, cPanel provides a straightforward way to install third-party SSL certificates.
📄️ Traceroute (Tracert): What Does it Do and How to Run a Command?
What is Traceroute?
📄️ Change PHP Display Errors Setting for Debugging and Security
When building or maintaining a PHP-based website, controlling error visibility is crucial for debugging and securing your site. The Change PHP Display Errors Setting option allows you to enable or disable error messages based on your needs. In this guide, we'll walk you through how to modify the display_errors directive in PHP to ensure that your error reporting aligns with your development or security goals.
📄️ How to Upgrade cPanel Software
Learning how to upgrade cPanel software in WHM (Web Host Manager) to the latest version is a crucial step in ensuring the security and efficiency of your hosting environment. The process involves several steps, starting with upgrading your CentOS 7 operating system. Once the operating system upgrade is complete, the next important step is to check and adjust your cPanel Update Preferences.
📄️ How to Install Antivirus on a VPS or Dedicated Server
Want to keep your server safe from online threats? In this easy-to-follow guide, we'll show you how to install antivirus on a VPS or dedicated server and set up two popular antivirus options, ClamAV and ImunifyAV, to help you lock down your server and keep those digital bugs away.
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: How to Install PHP APC
Looking to give your website a speed boost? PHP APC (Alternative PHP Cache) is a powerful opcode caching system that can dramatically improve the performance of your PHP applications. Storing compiled script bytecode in shared memory allows PHP APC to minimize the overhead associated with parsing and compiling code for each request. Consequently, this leads to improved load times and an enhanced user experience. In this guide, we'll walk you through the steps to install PHP APC on your VPS or dedicated server, unlocking a significant performance upgrade for your website.
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: How to Change SSH Port
Want to boost your server's security? Changing your SSH port is a quick and easy way to do it. Most servers use port 22 for SSH, which can be an easy target for attackers. By switching to a different port, you make it much harder for them to find and access your server. In this guide, we'll walk you through how to change your SSH port number easily.
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: How to Check Backup Dates Using SSH
Do you need to check when your last server backup was? Whether using a VPS or a Dedicated server, finding out directly through SSH is easy. This guide walks you through how to check backup dates using SSH in just a few minutes—no advanced Linux skills are required.
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: How to Install ClamAV
Want to keep your VPS or dedicated server safe from viruses and malware? ClamAV is a great way to do it. In this article, we'll walk you through the steps to install ClamAV on your server. It's easier than you might think!
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: How to Configure WHM Backups
WHM provides backup services on VPS and Dedicated servers to ensure data security and recoverability, such as backup and legacy backup. The Legacy Backup system is deprecated and will be removed in future WHM updates. We highly recommend switching to the newer Backup system, which offers better performance, more options, and a modern interface to configure WHM backups.
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: 'DNS Entry Already Exists' Error
Encountering the “DNS Entry Already Exists” error while managing your VPS or dedicated server can be frustrating. This issue arises when a DNS zone file for the domain you’re trying to add already exists. To resolve this, you’ll need to delete the existing DNS zone file before reattempting to create an account. This guide provides step-by-step instructions to help you navigate this process smoothly and avoid potential pitfalls.
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: Easy Apache
Overview
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: How to Enable Non-Legacy Backups
Need to enable non-legacy backups on your Bluehost VPS or Dedicated server? No problem! This guide will walk you through the process step-by-step, making it super easy to configure your backups in WHM and keep your website data safe and sound.
📄️ How to Install Git on VPS or Dedicated Server
Need to install Git on your VPS or dedicated server? Install it by following this easy-to-follow guide and learn about version control without hassle in no time. If you are a professional developer or just learning how things work, we ensure you know how to get your Git installation up and running with the least amount of trouble.
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting - Manage Login SSL Certificates
You will need an SSL Certificate to log in securely to WHM, cPanel, and webmail. You can purchase a signed certificate from an SSL certificate provider with the name of your choice, for example, secure.primarydomain.com or login.primarydomain.com. To install and manage login SSL certificates on VPS or dedicated servers, follow the steps below.
📄️ How to Manage Ports on VPS or Dedicated Server
Managing ports on a Dedicated or VPS server is done through command line. You will use IPTables to open and close ports and setup other port rules. This article will explain how to manage ports on your VPS or dedicated server.
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: NginX and Apache
What Is NginX?
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: Restore or Transfer cPanel Accounts
If you need to restore or transfer cPanel accounts for your VPS or Dedicated server, a powerful tool within the WHM panel is used to perform these tasks. To learn more about accomplishing this, please see VPS & Dedicated Hosting: Log in to WHM.
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: Accessing the System Console
Accessing the VPS or Dedicated Server system console directly from Bluehost can provide direct access to handle your server from the command line, from troubleshooting issues to more advanced configurations. A good understanding of how to use the system console is imperative for effective server administration.
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: How to Add a New Package in WHM
Looking to establish a fresh hosting package for your VPS or dedicated server? WHM simplifies the process! This article will help you through the steps on how to add a new package in WHM. You will have the ability to personalize resource allocations, configure reseller hosting, and more.
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: How to Manage Yum
You can let software administrate your VPS or Dedicated Server by using the Yellowdog Updater, Modified, otherwise known as YUM for short. The following instructions detail how to manage YUM, which includes getting the software packages installed, updated, or uninstalled from the CentOS box. These can control server package software installations so that one is always upgraded and secured.
📄️ VPS & Dedicated Hosting: WHM Skeleton Directory
Ever wished you could easily customize the default settings for new hosting accounts on your VPS or dedicated server? The WHM skeleton directory is your answer! This handy tool lets you streamline account setups and save a ton of time, especially if you're a web host or reseller.