Guides, Tips & Tutorials on Tech and Online Topics
Find easy-to-follow guides, tips, and tutorials to help you learn, solve problems, and improve your knowledge of tech and online tools.
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How to Host a Static HTML Website (Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners)
Learn how to host a static HTML website from start to finish. This beginner-friendly guide covers preparing your files, uploading via FTP or file manager, setting up hosting, connecting your domain, and launching your site live — no WordPress required.
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DirectAdmin vs cPanel: Which Is Better in 2026? (Full Comparison)
Choosing the right hosting control panel is one of the most important decisions when setting up a website. Two of the most popular options are DirectAdmin and cPanel. Both are widely used across the web hosting industry, but they differ significantly in performance, pricing, usability, and features. In this guide, we compare DirectAdmin vs cPanel to help you decide which is better in 2026.
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How much disk space do you need to host your website?
Picking out a web hosting provider involves many steps. Namely, it is not just about finding a company that you like and sticking with that company. There are a few more factors you need to consider before really taking the plunge and committing to one provider.
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How to market your business for free online
If you've got a new online business or you are looking to get more visitors coming to your website, we've listed below several ways to do this without spending any money online.
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How to keep your website secure from hackers & phishing attacks
Your site is valuable to you and your site visitors but sadly websites are attacked regardless of website content, we'll show you how to secure your website.
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How to install, setup & configure your tawk.to messaging app
In this guide we are going to show you how to install, setup and configure your messaging app so you can start monitoring and chatting to the visitors on your website.
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Start an online store: Step-by-step guide
Do you want to open your online store, but lack the budget to buy professional web developers? In this guide, I've described everything in detail, especially for beginners who want WooCommerce hosting for your online store.
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Windows 11: Features, Requirements & Installation
The new Windows 11 features improve security, productivity, and the overall experience. The operating system will be released on October 5th, 2021 and is the next generation of Windows with new features and improvements aimed at security, productivity, and innovation.
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What is WordPress?
WordPress is a CMS (Content Management System) that can create sites and blog, and it's free software. About a quarter of the world's websites are built with WordPress.
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DirectAdmin features & advantages vs cPanel
DirectAdmin is a reliable and powerful web-based graphical control panel designed for managing web hosting tasks. It includes domain management, email accounts, file manager, SSL installer, server monitoring, cron jobs, and more.
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Beginner’s Guide to Web Hosting (2026)
Hosting is fast becoming the most popular solution for companies and personal sites to have an online presence. It is a key part of the internet and powers sites like Amazon and Facebook.
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Advantages buying web hosting in a London data centre
Buying web hosting in the UK can be difficult due to many providers. This guide explains why choosing a London-based data centre can improve speed, reliability, and SEO performance.
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20 Online business ideas you can start today
If you are looking for a bit of inspiration and wanting to start up your own online business...
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The future of web design jobs
The recent coronavirus has taught us two things about the future of work...
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Learn web design, how to code and choosing a content management system
Over the last 20 years web design has come a long way...
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16 Most essential web hosting requirements
If you are new to the world of web hosting it can be confusing with all the technical jargon...
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6 Advantages using the WordPress content management system
If you are thinking of using a content management system or a website builder...
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Affordable strategy to start selling web hosting
Here is our useful guide if you are considering selling web hosting...
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How to setup and sync email on all devices using Directadmin
If you're wanting to synchronise email we've created this blog just for you! Synchronising email is great to get to email regularly without having to manually login to your email all the time, it comes through automatically.
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How to Install, configure & commands for CSF SSH RockyLinux
If you're fairly new at using CSF (Config Server Firewall) or even if you are not, its useful to have all the commands at hand to use should you need to make any changes.
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How to get a free domain when ordering your web hosting
Getting online can be quite daunting when its comes to buying a domain along with web hosting, which is why we've started offering a free domain to help keep your costs down for the first year. We have a wide range of domains which you can view on our domains page, terms and conditions do apply which we'll outline within the blog.
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What are the common web design mistakes and how do you solve them
How many websites have you visited in your life so far? And how many of them have been perfect? Unless you’ve happened to stumble upon some magical website at the end of a digital rainbow, the answer is surely going to be none. Your website is never going to be perfect — but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t continue to strive for perfection.
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Which web hosting control panel is best and most affordable?
With all the different control panels to choose from it can be difficult to choose the one that best suits you, this guide will show you the pros, cons and pricing for some of the hosting panels we've chosen.
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How to choose a web designer and what to look for
Over the past 20 years web design has constantly changed so website owners have needed to keep their website up to date with the latest trends. Choosing the type of website you want is a big decision so it's best to draft out your website before passing it onto a web designer.
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How to setup your website with the DirectAdmin control panel
In this guide we are going to show you to how setup your website with our Directadmin control panel. It may sound complicated already but we've made it much easier by breaking it down into a step-by step process, lets begin.
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Create your ecommerce website using WordPress & Woocommerce
Choosing the right content management system for your Ecommerce website can leave you confused, but in this guide we'll show you how to setup you own WordPress website with Woocommerce to sell your goods or services online.
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Make your website rank higher in Google & other search engines
In this guide we are going to go through all the ways you can improve your website and potentially get it ranking higher on search engines such as Google. We've listed the most important factors when optimising your website below with an easy to use guide.
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How to Install WordPress with Softaculous One Click Installer
In this blog we are going to show you how to easily install WordPress on our hosting platform. They is various different ways to install, we'll give you fastest and most used methods to save time (and frustration!). WordPress is undoubtedly the most used content management system for users to easily manage, update and edit their own content easily. The WordPress CMS is also free and open source so you'll only need to pay for your hosting provider, and best of all it comes with 1000's of free themes plugins to integrate into your website.
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How to start a blogging website using WordPress content management system
Starting a blogging website can be confusing especially if you don't know where to start, but in this blog we'll tell you step by step to get you online in no time.
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Get a free SSL certificate to encrypt your website
We all know having an SSL (secure socket layer) certificate installed on your domain helps protect users coming to your website. An SSL certificate would be required if users are coming onto your website and ordering goods or services from you to protect both their identity and payment information.
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How to fix PLCZIP ERR MISSING FILE (-4) WordPress temp folder
Recently we came across an error where they wasn't much information in regards to fixing the dreaded PLCZIP_ERR_MISSING_FILE (-4) error. They isn't much information for this error so we decided to write this guide to help you if you come across this error or you are currently having problems.
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How to install cPanel on CentOS server
In this guide we are going to show you how to successfully install cPanel on a CentOS server. We recommend using the latest version of CentOS 7 which you can find with any major VPS or dedicated hosting hosting provider. Make sure you check out the requirements section first below so you know what your VPS / dedicated server supports.
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30 Free UK business listing directories to help with your website citations
In this blog we'll show you 30+ FREE UK Business Listing Directories where you can add your business and potentially get more customers and traffic coming to your site. Google also ranks websites according to the amount of links incoming and outgoing from their website so they is no better place to begin than the list of websites we have compiled below.
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How to optimise your WordPress website for faster loading
Everyone knows that a slow site can damage your reputation if it's slow to load. We hope this guide will show you several ways to increase your speed and make your WordPress website faster. The steps listed below generally increase your website speed from 50%-80% and you'll definately notice the difference.
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How to to change forgotten, locked out or hacked WordPress site password
We will show you how to change your WordPress password whether you have lost it or wanting to change. We will show in the guide how to change your password from your WordPress dashboard, from a Softaculous installation and from PhpMyAdmin.
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Choosing the right web hosting for your blog
Choosing the right Web Hosting is very important for a reliable service. We have several different hosting packages to choose from which can be slightly confusing if you don't know what you are looking for, but don’t worry, We are here to help.
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How to choose a web hosting provider for your business
Here at Website Hosts UK, buying Web Hosting with us using our integrated shopping cart is simple. We have a number of choices that we’ll help you with along the way to help your website stand out from the crowd.
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How to buy a domain name & which extension to choose for your business or blog
There are so many web hosting companies out there selling hosting to businesses, bloggers and personal site owners it can become overwhelming which to choose. We've created an in depth guide breaking down each section to make it easier for you to choose the next web hosting plan for your business.