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You sign in to your Tech Help Canada Hosting account when you need to manage domains, hosting, WordPress, SSL, business email products, renewals, billing, or other hosting-related products. Use the …
cPanel is a hosting control panel. It gives you a browser-based way to manage technical parts of a website, such as files, databases, domains, PHP settings, backups, and some server …
DNS propagation is the time it takes for DNS changes to update across networks. Some changes appear within minutes, while others can take longer. During propagation, different people may see …
Changing nameservers moves DNS management for a domain from one system to another. That can be useful during a website move, DNS service change, or hosting setup, but it can …
You can use a domain bought from one company with hosting from another. The domain registration and website hosting do not have to be in the same account. To connect …
Connecting a domain to your website means making sure visitors who type your domain land on the correct site. The connection usually happens through DNS, website builder settings, hosting settings, …
Pointing a domain to your hosting plan tells visitors where your website is stored. The domain remains the address, and the hosting plan serves the website. This task usually involves …
Nameservers and DNS records both help your domain send people and services to the right place. The difference is that nameservers decide where DNS is managed, while DNS records give …
Nameservers tell the internet where your domain’s DNS records are managed. If your domain is the address people type, nameservers point to the place that holds the instructions for that …
A CNAME record is a DNS record that points one hostname to another hostname. It is often used for www, subdomains, website builders, email tools, and third-party services. CNAME stands …
A TXT record is a DNS record that stores text. It does not usually send website visitors anywhere. Instead, it is often used to prove domain ownership, verify services, or …
An A record is a DNS record that points a domain or subdomain to an IPv4 address. It is one of the most common records used to connect a domain …
Your domain can work without www but fail with www because those are two different hostnames. They may look like the same website to visitors, but DNS can treat them …
If your website is not showing after a DNS change, the problem may be timing, a missing record, the wrong DNS provider, SSL, hosting setup, or browser cache. The best …
Before launching a WordPress website, review the settings that affect how visitors, search engines, forms, users, and browsers experience the site. Small settings can create big launch problems if they …
A WordPress theme controls much of your site’s layout, templates, styling options, and editing experience. The right theme helps you build the site your business needs without adding unnecessary weight …
Installing WordPress gives your hosting plan the website software it needs to create pages, posts, menus, forms, and other site features. The exact installation path depends on your hosting product. …
WordPress plugins add features to your site, but every plugin adds code, settings, and maintenance responsibility. A few well-chosen plugins can be helpful. Too many plugins, or the wrong plugins, …
The WordPress dashboard is where you edit pages, publish posts, manage media, update plugins, adjust settings, and control users for a WordPress website. Your WordPress login is not always the …
After WordPress is installed, the site is not automatically ready to launch. You still need to check the basic settings, security habits, theme, plugins, pages, forms, backups, SSL, and search …
WordPress login problems can come from a wrong password, the wrong login URL, browser cookies, security tools, user permissions, email delivery, plugin conflicts, or a domain pointing to the wrong …
If your WordPress homepage is not updating, the problem is usually caching, the wrong homepage setting, the wrong page being edited, a page builder template, browser cache, or a plugin …
If your WordPress site looks broken after an update, stay calm and avoid changing many things at once. The cause may be a plugin conflict, theme issue, cache problem, PHP …
A personal Gmail address can work when you are testing an idea or handling casual communication. For a business people need to trust, domain-based email is usually the better long-term …
Connecting business email to Gmail or Outlook can mean a few different things. You may want to use Outlook with Microsoft 365, add a mailbox to the Gmail app, send …
A business email address uses your domain after the @ symbol, such as hello@yourbusiness.ca or bookings@yourbusiness.ca. It looks more consistent than using a personal email address, and it gives your …
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are email authentication settings for your domain. They help receiving mail systems decide whether a message that claims to come from your domain should be trusted. …
MX records are DNS records that tell the internet where to deliver email for your domain. If someone sends a message to hello@yourbusiness.ca, the sending mail system checks your domain’s …
Email DNS records control how your domain sends, receives, verifies, and routes email. A small change can affect every mailbox on the domain, so it is worth slowing down before …
If your business emails are landing in spam, the cause is not always one obvious mistake. Mailbox providers look at many signals before deciding where a message should go. You …
If your website still works but email stops arriving after a DNS change, the most likely issue is that one or more email records were changed, removed, or added in …
Mixed content warnings usually mean your WordPress site is loading over HTTPS, but one or more files on the page still use HTTP. The SSL certificate may be working, but …
Forcing HTTPS means sending visitors from the unsecured http:// version of your website to the secure https:// version automatically. This should only be done after SSL is installed and working. …
Your WordPress login page is one of the most common places attackers and automated bots will try first. They may guess passwords, test leaked credentials, or look for weak administrator …
SSL and HTTPS are related, but they are not the same thing. An SSL certificate is part of what allows a website to use a secure connection. HTTPS is the …
Website security is not one setting. It is a set of habits that reduce risk and make recovery easier if something goes wrong. For a small business, security affects trust, …
An SSL certificate helps protect the connection between a visitor’s browser and your website. When it is installed and working properly, your site can load with https:// instead of http://, …
Mixed content happens when a WordPress page loads over HTTPS but some parts of the page still load over HTTP. The page is trying to be secure and insecure at …
If your website has been hacked, your first job is to stop the damage from spreading and preserve enough information to recover properly. Avoid making random changes or deleting files …
A browser may show “Not Secure” when a website is not loading through a trusted HTTPS connection. This can happen even if the site looks normal to you. The warning …
Installing SSL is a major step, but it does not always finish the job. Your website can still show “Not Secure” if the certificate is not active for the right …
“Error establishing a database connection” usually means WordPress cannot connect to the database it needs to load your website. WordPress uses files for code, themes, plugins, and uploads. It uses …
When your website is not loading, the first job is to narrow the problem. The issue might be your domain, DNS, hosting plan, SSL, WordPress, a plugin, a browser cache, …
A 403 error means the server understood the request but refused to allow access. The page or file may exist, but the server is not willing to show it to …
A 404 error means the server could not find the page or file requested by the browser. The website may still be online, but the specific URL does not lead …
A 500 Internal Server Error means the server ran into an unexpected problem and could not complete the request. The browser can reach the server, but the server cannot finish …
Before contacting hosting support, gather the details that help the support team understand the issue quickly. You do not need to diagnose everything yourself, but you should know what you …
If your website is showing an old version, the change may not be missing. It may be hidden behind cache, viewed from the wrong URL, saved as a draft, or …
A website can feel fast during buildout and slow after launch. The launch may add real visitors, tracking scripts, larger images, forms, security tools, ads, redirects, email integrations, or caching …
If your website loads on mobile but not desktop, the website may not be down for everyone. The issue may be tied to one browser, one network, cached data, a …
The WordPress white screen of death is a blank screen where your site or dashboard should be. Instead of a normal page or a helpful error, you see a white …