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How to login into DirectAdmin control panel?

In the web hosting industry, you have very few reliable, user-friendly, and secured control panel options, and DirectAdmin is one of them. DirectAdmin is more famous due to its cost, user-friendliness, and, most importantly, IT IS way lighter than most competitive control panel providers in the market. You can deploy DirectAdmin on low-end VPS to […]

Information about Backups and Restorations

We often get asked about the backups that we have on our various services such as VPS’s, Cloud Servers, Shared/Reseller other various services, things such as “how long do you keep them” or “how often are they taken”. The information composed here should answer all of your questions in regards to our backups.

However, if you feel like something wasn’t answered, feel free to reach out to us — we don’t bite. 🙂

Domain Registration

KnownHost offers domain registration services for some of the most popular TLDs. Purchasing your domains through us has many benefits including centralized service management and the ability for our support team to set and/or register nameservers for you reducing the amount of work you need to do. We also offer FREE domain privacy for life on eligible […]

JetBackup Remote Backup Documentation

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This documentation is to help you configure your server’s JetBackup configuration for remote destinations. While this guide is intended to be paired with our remote storage solution, this guide can be used to implement other additional destinations as it covers the basic functionality of the remote destination system that JetBackup utilizes. JetBackup bases its destinations […]

cPanel Remote Backup Documentation

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This documentation is to help you configure your servers backup configuration for remote destinations. While this guide is intended to be paired with our remote storage solution, this guide can be used to implement other additional destinations as it covers the basic functionality of the remote destination system that cPanel has implemented. More information about […]

Here at KnownHost all Budget Dedicated Servers and Managed Dedicated servers come with a management panel interface that allows our customers to easily access and control various options of their server including: Bandwidth review rDNS configuration OS Reinstalls IPMI/KVM Access Power controls This interface is accessible via the my.knownhost.com website under your account information and active […]

Load Averages, what are they?

In this article we’ll be going over the server metric ‘Load Averages’ that you may see within WHM, cPanel Server Stats, DirectAdmin Server Stats and programs such as uptime or top. Being aware of this value and what it should and shouldn’t be within your server is important. It will help protect yourself and your hardware from unnecessary […]