Finding Information About Your Account Settings If you need help finding your username and other configuration settings, see our article...

Finding Information About Your Account Settings If you need help finding your username and other configuration settings, see our article:...

If you need help finding your username and other configuration settings, see this article on setting up email readers. Setting...

Introduction Grep stands for Globally search a Regular Expression and Print. The basic usage of the command is grep [options]...

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Introduction You can be very productive using the shell, however, there are some fantastic tricks to make you faster and...

Introduction In this tutorial, we will cover how to send programs into the background, how to restore them to the...

Introduction   The Linux commands on their own are pretty powerful and useful tools but until you know how to combine...

The tar command is used to join many files together into one, and optionally compress them. The process is totally...

  Cron jobs are designed to execute tasks at specific times. These can be anything from server maintenance (updates), monitoring,...

The df and du commands are two small utilities that are extremely useful. The df command displays the disk free...

In this tutorial, we will be looking at the family of commands gzip, gunzip and zcat. These commands will create...

less, more and cat are all file viewers but each has their own particular uses. cat simply prints the file...

The kill command is in the format of kill signal processid. The kill and killall commands are used to kill...

The wget command is an internet file downloader that can download anything from files and web pages all the way...

cURL is both a library and a command line utility written to handle the transfer of data using many different...

The "diff" tool calculates the differences between two text files. That difference is called a patch.  You can apply a...

This article answers common questions about the use of SSL on accounts here at Pair Networks. Accessing Files Securely There...

ShopSite includes tools for site creation and management, sales and traffic statistics, secure encrypted transactions, and online order fulfillment. Pair...

E-commerce, short for "electronic commerce", is the selling of products or services over the internet. E-commerce has become a popular...

How to Find Your Mailbox's Junk Email Filtering   Log in to the Account Control Center Click E-Mail in the left sidebar In...

Before you can take advantage of the Junk Email filtering system on a mailbox, it must be enabled in the...

This article describes our advanced junk email filtering options. If you haven't already, please first read the Junk Email Filtering...

Our preferred mailing list solution is our PairList service, which includes full web-based list administration. To learn more about PairList...

I can't retrieve my emails. Depending on the error message, this could be due to several factors. Unfortunately, the error...

You have two options if you wish to store junk email messages in a file: 1) Create a junk email...

Want to learn more about our junk email filtering settings? Here are some frequently asked questions and their answers.

This article describes how to find commonly needed account information such as your username, hosting account type, and server name....

The Account Control Center gives you access to the settings and details of your account in an easy-to-use web-based control...

SSL, which stands for Secure Sockets Layer, is a protocol that allows traffic between a web server and client (ie, the...

The Favorites Menu The favorites menu is where you can favorite or unfavorite the page you're on, jump to any...

If you wish to track your website's hits and usage statistics, you can use the powerful website statistics tool, Webalizer....

Analog is a popular and powerful freeware website analysis program. You can easily set up Analog reports through the Account...

Every Pair Networks account includes a certain amount of web server disk space and bandwidth usage. Complete details about each...

  You can change your Pair Networks password using the Account Control Center (ACC): Changing the Password from the Account...

All accounts at Pair Networks have the ability to use email recipes, which are rules that specify how email messages...

pine is a Unix mail reader you can use to check your mail when logged in by Telnet/SSH (after logging...

  To send email, you will need to specify an SMTP (outgoing email) server in your email reader. As a...

  Finding Information About Your Account Settings   When setting up a desktop email client, you'll be asked to provide several...

  Creating a Single Mailbox To create a mailbox, you'll need to access the ACC's Create Mailbox interface by following the...

  What is PairList? PairList is Pair Networks' mailing list service that runs on the GNU Mailman software. You can...

What kind of hardware and software do you use? We use only top-of-the-line Intel servers, custom-built and extensively tested. Our...

  Can I run mailing lists with my account? Can I use Adobe Pagemill, Dreamweaver, or other HTML authoring tools?...

Where do I register my domain name? Pair Networks operates a registrar, Pair Domains, which handles registrations for .COM, .NET,...

  How do I receive email? You will need to use the Account Control Center to set up mailboxes, forwarding,...

  I can't log in to my account. There are many possible reasons for this type of problem. If you...

  Domain Hosting Types Dedicated IP Dedicated IP domain hosting provides your domain name with its own IP address. The...

What is SSH? SSH is a terminal program that allows you to work on a machine other than your own...

You can password protect sections of your website by using the Account Control Center. However, some of our customers prefer to...

If you've been managing your Web files solely through FTP, the thought of learning Unix might be a little daunting....

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Every account at Pair Networks is eligible to serve files through anonymous FTP as well as the web. To request...

Our legacy packages allow access to the server's files. These files are stored in file directories. You can find an...

What is FTP, and what does an FTP client do? FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It is the most...

Determine Which Registrar Handles Your Domain Names To update your domain name information to point to your Pair Networks account,...

Why Register a Domain Name? There are many reasons you may want to register a domain name for your site....

  There are a few steps you should follow to move one or more of your MySQL databases from an...

Finding Information About Your Account Settings If you need help finding your username and other configuration settings, see this article,...

  Finding Information About Your Account Settings If you need help finding your username and other configuration settings, see our...

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  Introduction Once you have registered your domain name and set up the nameservers, you need to configure your zone...

If you need help finding your username and other configuration settings, see our article, Setting Up an Email Reader. Setting up...

  Finding Information About Your Account Settings If you need help finding your username and other configuration settings, see our...

  Finding Information About Your Account Settings If you need help finding your username and other configuration settings, see our...

Introduction The archivemail utility is used to archive and compress email, and can be used by all Shared Hosting account...

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What is suEXEC? Available for Basic accounts and above, suEXEC is a feature of Apache that allows CGI scripts to...

What is CGIwrap? CGIwrap is a "script wrapper" program that allows people to use CGI scripts while removing the risk...

    The system utility cron can be used to schedule programs to run automatically at predetermined intervals. Advanced users...

formmail.pl We use a special version of formmail.pl. This version protects against abuse by ensuring the email recipient is legitimate....

Disk allowance is how much space you are given to use on your Pair Networks account. For a more detailed...

Here are some common reasons why your emails are not being delivered. Contact Support If none of these reasons fit...

Forgot your password or just want to change it? Find out how to reset your password below: Reset Your Forgotten...

  Here are some common reasons why your site may be down.

SPF means “Sender Policy Framework.” It is a list of IP addresses that are allowed to send emails for a...

  Follow the steps below to set-up an automated response for when you are out of the office or on...

If you are transferring to Pair Domains from an outside source, read the Transferring to Us article for things you should...

  Learn about bandwidth/transfer and how it is used with your hosting account. This article also covers things that will...

  Here is an overview of maximum file upload size based on application or destination. ACC Upload Limits Files cannot...

SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer protocol, helps protect information that is exchanged between a server and a client. If your...

  If your site has suddenly become slow or has been getting increasingly slower over time, take a look at...

What is a 301 Redirect?   A 301 redirect is a way to permanently reroute traffic from an old URL to...

  What Happens When I Delete a Mailbox All Accounts You can no longer log into the mailbox’s email address....

  If your MySQL database is slow, there may be something you can do to fix it. The first step...

  What is an SRV Record? SRV (Service) records are custom DNS records. They are used to establish connections between...

  Subdomains are subdivisions of a domain. They can be used to create different sites within the domain. For example,...

Uploading Files in the ACC   Log into the Account Control Center (ACC) Click Files in the left sidebar Click Upload...

Accessing Your .htaccess File By Domain Log into the Account Control Center (ACC) Click Domains in the left sidebar Click...

  Email forwarding can be used when out of the office or when setting up a catch-all email address. This...

You can change DNS (Domain Name Services) settings in the Account Control Center (ACC). Where Do I Change DNS Settings...

  Dedicated IP Domain A domain with a dedicated IP address is the only one with that IP address. Since...

  Want to upgrade your account for more disk space or processing power? You can initiate an upgrade right in...

Broken links can be frustrating and can upset the flow of visitors through your site. We've put together some common...

  Here are some common reasons why images won't load. Permissions are incorrectly configured Your image has been corrupted Your...

Why Would I Want to Use Email with PHP? PHP is a useful website building tool. It gives the website...

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When connecting from an outside source, like MySQL or MySQL Workbench, you will need to know your database server. It’s...

  If you have created more than one database, the access username name may vary between databases. For example, if...

Learn how to look for software updates for your PairSIM installations: Transcript: Hi. Sean here, and we're talking about updating...