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What is JetBackup?

JetBackup is a pioneer backup solution in the hosting industry for cPanel & DirectAdmin. Providing the ability to perform local and remote backups to various destinations quickly and efficiently. When it comes to data retention, you want to have a solution that gives the most configuration options possible. Don’t find yourself in a position without backups […]

Google Workspace Service

In 2022, KnownHost launched Google Workspace offerings for those who want a dedicated and centralized environment for their email and related operations. What better service to partner with then Google? With KnownHost, ordering the service through us allows you to keep everything in one place for easy Billing. Paired with our support team for any […]

Enabling DKIM with DirectAdmin

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DKIM is a means of authentication using cryptographic techniques designed to combat email spoofing. A DKIM-enabled mail server will generate a hash of the email contents that it wants to sign, use its private key to encrypt it, and sign the outbound message with it. Remote servers receiving email from the DKIM-enabled mail server will […]

SMTP Error 512

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Description: A DNS error: the host server for the recipient’s domain name cannot be found. What does this mean? The email recipient’s email address (user@domain.com) is using a domain name that can not be found. How to fix SMTP Error 512? This is commonly due to misspelling in the recipient’s email address such as (user@domain.coom […]

SMTP Error 451

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Description: Requested action aborted: error in processing. What does this mean? When attempting to process the message, the receiving mailserver’s rules prevented it from processing it for delivery. Rules such as SPF verification can create this error. How to fix SMTP Error 451? Depending on the exact message given, it’s most likely related to the […]

How To Install Free Wildcard SSLs in cPanel?

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We mostly use standard SSL, which covers the single domain name, and we have the second type that covers the unlimited domain names SSLs. In the cPanel, we can configure the free installation of wildcard SSLs with just a few steps. Let’s learn How To Install Free Wildcard SSLs in cPanel? Setup Wildcard Sub Domain […]

The following instructions have you logging in as admin initially just in case you need to enable the DSN Control option for the user. If the user’s account doesn’t have the MX Records menu in DirectAdmin, you will need to enable this option. Learn, How To Configure Your DirectAdmin Server To Use a Remote Mailserver […]

Managing Login Failure Daemon (LFD) from DirectAdmin

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Login Failure Daemon popularly known as LFD comes with the ConfigServer Security & Firewall. At KnownHost all the managed services are being deployed with ConfigServer Security & Firewall as software based firewall and basic monitoring system to avoid unwanted attacks and the notification of certain events. LFD perticularly track and log the activities which are […]

How To Install DirectAdmin – Complete Installation

Due to many changes in the last few years, DirectAdmin has become one of the market-leading control panels due to its reliability and affordability. We at KnownHost offer a variety of DirectAdmin Licenses for unmanaged servers. With this guide, we’ll show you how to install DirectAdmin on your unmanaged server. Prerequisites Supporting Operating Systems DirectAdmin […]

Suppose you have assigned a Dedicated IP address to an individual cPanel account and looking to revoke the changes; you can consider this article a perfect guide for that. Learn, How to remove Dedicated IP and set a Shared IP address for a cPanel account? 1. First, login into WHM panel, https://your-domain.com:2087 or https://IP-address: 2087 or https://server-hostname: 2087. 2. Navigate to Account […]