Server Tutorials and Tips

Websites require to be hosted on a server environment with certain hardware and software to ensure their availability and functionality. In this section, you will find server tips and tutorials to enhance your understanding of web servers and how they work.

How to Check If cURL is Enabled on Your Server

Have you ever needed to use the cURL extension in your PHP website or web application? In this post, I will show you how you can check whether or not cURL is installed and enabled on your server, before you even start coding your project. Read more...

Apache Localhost Loading Very Slow: Here is the Solution

When you are working on your local development server or live production server running with Apache, you may experience a slowness issue while loading your scripts and web pages, for various reasons. In this post, I will provide a number of solutions that may help you solve this issue. Read more...

How to Set FTP Quota for an FTP Account

You can easily set a quota to control and limit the FTP access to your website or individual directories. In this tutorial, I will demonstrate how you can do that from your hosting control panel using the FTP Accounts page. Read more...

Apache vs. Apache Lounge: Which One to Choose?

If you are planning to build your own web server, you can choose to install the official Apache version or a third party version such as the Apache Lounge. In this post, I will talk about which one to choose in detail. Read more...

How to Install Apache HTTP Server on Windows: The Apache Lounge Version

For certain reasons you may need to install Apache Lounge Version to build your server, this post will demonstrate how to do that. Read more...

How to Install Apache HTTP Server on Windows

In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to install Apache server on a Windows PC in order to build a local server environment. Read more...

What is the Use of .ftpquota File?

There's an automatically created file you would see when you connect to your website via an FTP client, which is named as the .ftpquota file. Though it is not a crucial file like an index file or .htaccess file, it still has its use which we will explain in detail in this post. Read more...

How to Prevent Search Engines from Indexing Your Pages and Files

It is possible to block search engines from indexing your web pages or files using the robots.txt file and we will demonstrate how to do that in this tutorial. Read more...