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What is Wildcard subdomain Wildcard subdomain is a wildcard (catch-all) DNS record that will match request for non-existent subdomains. It is specified by a “*” as part of the domain name, example: *.yourdomain.com. With wildcard subdomain setup, you do not need to create a DNS record for each subdomain. Example: unlimited subdomain for WordPress multisite …

Subdomain is an easy and free way to categorize your website content and separate them from the main website. In this tutorial, you will learn what is a subdomain, the use cases, and how to host a web application at subdomain using RunCloud. What is a Subdomain? A subdomain is a domain that is a …

In this tutorial, we show you how to block bad visitors by their IP addresses using only Apache .htaccess file. No WordPress plugin required. Your public website is on the internet for anyone, including bad visitors like bad bots, spammers, hackers, malicious users. They are annoying, taking up your web server resources, and potential security …

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use SFTP with FileZilla to securely transfer and manage files on RunCloud server. FTP is not secure FTP (File Transfer Protocol) uses clear text for all transmissions. Anyone is able to read the FTP usernames, passwords, commands and data by packet capture (sniffing) on the network. By …

SSH keys are more secure than passwords and can help you log in without having to remember long passwords. With RunCloud you can easily add your ssh key to your server. If you are running an *NIX type OS such as MacOS or any Linux distro, ssh is already included with your OS. You can …

In this tutorial we will show you how to take advantage of Nginx caching to speed up your WordPress web application. 2020 Update : Easy Nginx FastCGI/Proxy Cache in RunCloud IMPORTANT! For RunCloud users, we have implemented Nginx Caching in our new feature, RunCache, as part of RunCloud Hub. You can apply RunCache to your …

What is Transactional Email Transactional email is the email sent when something triggered from your Web Application such as resetting the user password. My WordPress didn’t send email This is a common problem if you didn’t configure your server to relay email. Configuring the server to send email is hard. How hard it is? You …

Sometimes when building your own web application from scratch, you might want to force your web application to redirect to HTTPS. You can achieve that with HSTS, but you are thinking it is better to add the redirection rules to the .htaccess too. So how to redirect to HTTPS using .htaccess behind Nginx Proxy? The …