Tutorials

Find your login details, sign in to the client area and DirectAdmin, and secure both with new passwords.

Point your domain at Traxio by changing its nameservers, then confirm the change has worked.

Put an HTML or PHP website online by uploading it as a zip, extracting it into public_html and checking every page loads.

Install WordPress with Softaculous, sign in, and make the essential first changes so the site is ready to build.

Confirm your free SSL certificate has issued, redirect all visitors to HTTPS, and clear up mixed content warnings.

Create a mailbox on your domain, test it in webmail, and add it to your phone and computer.

Create an info@ forwarder to your main mailbox and schedule an automatic vacation reply.

Authenticate your domain’s email in the right order, and prove each record works using Gmail’s message headers.

A structured investigation for mail that bounces, disappears or lands in spam — from reading headers to checking reputation.

Add an A, CNAME, MX or TXT record in DirectAdmin, then check the authoritative answer and public DNS so you know it’s live.

Keep the website on Traxio while moving your domain’s email to an external provider, with no lost messages.

Trace a domain from registry to record — registration, nameservers, authoritative answers, caches and DNSSEC — to find exactly where resolution breaks.

Create a sending mailbox, configure an SMTP plugin and a contact form correctly, and prove the emails authenticate.

Take a complete WordPress backup, store it off the server, and restore it to a staging subdomain to prove it works.

Measure, cache, trim plugins, optimise images and update PHP — re-measuring after each change so you know what worked.

Create a MySQL database and user, confirm the login in phpMyAdmin, and connect a PHP script with PDO.

Configure FileZilla for SFTP, save the connection, and use folder comparison to upload only what’s changed.

Move a MySQL database between hosts or into a new database with phpMyAdmin, handling the errors imports commonly hit.

Check compatibility, test the new PHP version on a staging subdomain, switch the live site and watch the error log.

Write a small PHP task, schedule it in DirectAdmin, log its output and confirm it runs on time.

Build a front-end project locally, upload the output, add single-page app routing and long-lived caching.

Map old addresses to new ones, add 301 redirects in .htaccess, and verify no important page is left returning 404.

Build a Laravel app locally, upload it with the code outside public_html, configure .env, import the database and schedule the task runner.

Create a full DirectAdmin backup, download it, verify its contents and remove it from the server.

Lock down every login, enforce HTTPS, set permissions, harden WordPress and schedule updates and backups.

Contain the damage, preserve evidence, restore or rebuild cleanly, close the vulnerability and request search engine reviews.

Migrate WordPress manually — database, wp-content and wp-config.php — test it before DNS changes, then switch over.

The full migration sequence: prepare DNS, copy the site, test privately, recreate email, switch DNS, move old mail and retire the old host.

Use the error log to find the exact cause of a 500 error and work through .htaccess, PHP, permissions and version issues methodically.

Find the plugin or theme behind ‘There has been a critical error’ using logs and the File Manager, disable it, and recover.

A measured investigation of a slow site: separate server time from page weight, check logs for bots and limits, and fix the biggest cause first.