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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 […]

Proactive Monitoring

KnownHost’s proactive monitoring is a service available to our Managed VPS, Cloud Hosting, NVMe Hosting, and Dedicated Servers. These are services where we will monitor your server’s services in detail and respond accordingly when something goes wrong – without you having to open a ticket. Managed VPS Managed Cloud Managed Dedicated Proactive Monitoring $9.95/mo $9.95/mo […]

MailChannels Email Delivery

You’re sending emails to important users or users that have subscribed to specific content, however you’re constantly being met with blacklists or bouncebacks for those necessary users, because of this your emails aren’t making it to their desired recipient. This could be due to specific users on your server sending the wrong kind of email […]

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. 🙂

How to enable maintenance mode in Managed WP

Every now and then you need to take your website down for back-end updates, changes, or other various reasons that require the website to be temporarily disabled. With the WordPress toolset provided in our Managed WordPress Hosting — you can easily enable “maintenance” mode to place your website in a temporarily disabled state to prevent […]

Unmanaged VPS Hosting

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For customers who prefer manage their own server we offer an assortment of self-managed VPS hosting packages. Support on these packages is limited to ensuring network connectivity and console access to the server. Beyond that, system configuration, optimization, security, and maintaining backups of your data is your responsibility. Unmanaged Plan Types Unmanaged VPS Hosting Entry […]

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 […]

Semi Dedicated Hosting Information

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Our semi dedicated hosting packages provide great alternative for those users who need additional performance and storage for their websites but whom don’t necessarily need the additional access and maintenance of root access that comes with our VPS and Dedicated server platforms. We tailor the servers to meet the needs of modern applications such as WordPress, XenForo, […]

How to enable WordPress debugging

Suddenly your website isn’t working after that plugin install? Need to figure out why the website is failing to load? This can be done with WordPress debugging mode. There are certain situations with WordPress where you may be experiencing issues with customized code, themes and/or plugins that have been recently added to your website. Enabling […]

How to clone your WordPress for staging

This article covers how to clone your website or setup a staging site for your WordPress website through the Plesk interface. We’ll be going over the steps required to make this process simple and easy. Step 1: Login to your Plesk interface You can login to Plesk through two methods. If you choose the latter; […]