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Most small to medium-sized websites and web applications use MySQL as the database of choice for back-end storage. In fact, many of the world’s largest and fastest-growing organizations, including Facebook, Google, and Adobe rely on the stability and maturity of MySQL to power their high-volume websites, business-critical systems and packaged Software as a Service (SaaS) …

Did you forget the root password for your MySQL Server? Or maybe you provisioned your RunCloud server via the auto-install method and never had the need to use your password in the first place? Whatever may be the case, if you want to reset your MySQL password then you’ve come to the right place! In …

What is SSH? SSH, or Secure Shell, is a network protocol that allows users to remotely manage their servers or computers over the Internet, in which the communication between the two machines are strongly encrypted and protected from being eavesdropped. The user runs a client on his or her machine and the network connection carries …

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 …

Cloudflare DNS is one of best DNS providers in the world. It offers free accounts so everyone can not only manage their domain names, but also benefit from the additional security and performance enabled by their integrated features. In this article, we will share some tips to enable you to use Cloudflare with RunCloud and …

RunCloud developers are always working hard to bring you new and better features. Today, we are happy to announce that the RunCloud API is now available for everyone! Another new feature added today is the ability to reconnect a RunCloud-managed server to the RunCloud Dashboard after its IP address has changed. You can do this …

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 …