10 Tips in Managing Your Shared Web Hosting Account

Shinjiru Shared Web Hosting packages are the basic hosting plans for you to start your website. To put it simply, basic means it’s the cheapest one among all web hosting packages in our Malaysia web hosting.

As of all web hosting services, signing up with a shared hosting packages does have its pros and cons.  Shared hosting is very popular because it’s cheap and for some Shinjiru Web Hosting plans, they come with a free domain name. However customer must know the basic knowledge in website management. This will ensure their websites has good security, good uptime and good speed. Otherwise you will discover how come your website always go down or loads slower than all other websites residing in the same server as yours !

Yay~ for tips and tricks to optimize your shared hosting account

The Steps

We have asked our professional shared hosting engineer to come out with a list on how to manage your shared hosting account. Check them out below!

1. Do regular website housekeeping by removing unnecessary files, check quota, FTP and mail accounts under your shared hosting account every month.
2. Be sure you have your own account/web files/mail backup into your PC at least once per week. We don’t want any corrupted or missing files along the way right?
3. Change your password for account/database/website/user at least once a month. Be sure to choose a strong password so that your account will be impossible to breach.
4. Run antivirus scanning on your account folder to make sure that they are clean from any infected codes, exploited scripts, virus and malware. Be sure your antivirus is updated also before scanning.
5. Subscribe to monitoring services to so you can have report and statistic on uptime, downtime and interruption time.
6. Don’t forget to analyze your website logs to understand your website traffics.
7. Apply and update the latest security patches of your web applications to decrease vulnerability.
8. Always keep up to date of your domain details like whois, DNS zone and expiration date. This will show your website is active, alive and kicking!
9. Disable any application/software/scripting/setting which are not important or unused. This will contribute to slow performance of your website. This is vital step for all you bloggers in shared hosting environment out there.
10. Shared hosting usually have quota and limit. You have to use it wisely because this can help you to prevent over usage and system abuse.

That’s all folks for the shared web hosting management tips and tricks for today. If you are unclear of the steps, do leave a comment and our experts will help you to answer them. Until next time

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