The EPP code, which may also be called a domain password or an authorization key/code, is a special code that is required in order to transfer a domain name from one registrar company to another.

You can obtain the EPP transfer authorization key from the company you registered the domain name with.

If you want to transfer a domain name to us, you will be required to enter the code during the order process.

If you are trying to transfer a domain name away from us or you simply want to acquire the EPP transfer authorization key of a domain name that is registered with us, you can do that via the Domain Manager section (My Domains > Registered Domains) of your Control Panel.

Next to each domain name there are three icons – you must click on the EPP icon.

Once you click on the EPP icon you will see a small pop-up window with the following text “From here, you can request the EPP Key for your domain name. This key is needed if you want to transfer your domain name to another registrar.“, click on the button Request EPP.

After you click on that button, the EPP key will be sent via email to the registrant contact email address specified in the WHOIS record of the domain name.

If you do not receive the EPP transfer authorization key within one hour, please make sure that you have provided a correct e-mail address in the WHOIS record.

If you need to change that e-mail address, please refer to the article How to change the WHOIS details of a domain name?.

You cannot obtain the code and transfer a domain that you do not own already.

When attempting to delete a file or folder, you may encounter an error if its permissions do not allow removal. This applies to both individual files and directories.

If you are trying to delete a folder, the issue may not be with the folder itself, but with one or more files or subfolders inside it that have restrictive permissions.

To resolve this issue, you need to update the permissions of the affected file. If the problem involves a folder, you may need to change the permissions for the folder as well as all files and subfolders contained within it.

Set the permissions to 755. Once these permissions are applied to the file or folder (including its contents), you should be able to delete it using the File Manager (Files → File Manager) or via FTP.

If you don’t know how to change the permissions of a file or a folder, please refer to this article: How to change the permissions of a file or a folder?

SSL is used to secure the connection between your website and the customer’s computer. It is recommended when you have an online form which gathers personal or sensitive information from your website users, such as billing and registration details, for example.

Although it is not a definitive requirement to have SSL in such cases, it is a way to protect the data of your users and it is valued and even demanded by many customers.

To activate SSL for your domain (or subdomain) you need to install an SSL certificate for it. To be able to install SSL for any domain it must have a dedicated IP address. Learn how to get a dedicated IP in this article: How do I get a dedicated IP for my domain/subdomain?

Assuming that you already have a dedicated IP for your domain, here is what you must do to activate SSL:

Step 1: Purchase an SSL certificate
You can purchase an SSL certificate by going to My Domains > SSL Certificates > Order SSL Certificate button on your web hosting control panel. Input the following details in the order form:

CSR Details

Hostname: Select a domain name from the drop-down list for which you want to order a certificate.
Organization: Type in the exact legal name of your organization. Do not abbreviate the name of your organization. 
Organization Unit: Specify the exact department of your organization (optional).
Country: Select your country from the list.
City: Type in your city.
State: The state or province where your organization is legally located. It should not be abbreviated.
E-mail: Type in your personal e-mail address.

Note that none of the following characters can be used in the details: < > ~ ! @ # $ % ^ * / ( ) ?.,& 
 
Contact Info

All fields are pre-filled with the details you provided for your hosting account.

*If you choose to use a different hostname, you must select an “Approver E-mail” at the bottom, which must be an e-mail account hosted here (one created in the E-Mail Manager on your web hosting control panel).

Purchase Details

Choose a shared IP address or a dedicated IP for which the SSL certificate will be issue.

Select the registration period – 12 months.

Make sure you read the User Agreement and select the checkbox next to “Accept User Agreement“, then select a payment method and finally click on the “Continue” button at the right. You will be forwarded to a billing gateway page to submit the payment.

Once your payment has been submitted, you will be able to see your newly ordered certificate in My Domains > SSL Certificates menu in your web hosting control panel. As soon as the status is changed to “Active” you can apply the certificate to your domain.

Step 2: Install an SSL certificate

a) Install an SSL certificate purchased from us

Go to My Domains > SSL Certificates and find your domain (or subdomain) in the list (Domain column) and click on the View SSL Certificate link (Action column) on the right. On the new “SSL Certificate Configuration” popup window, select the domain for which you want to install the certificate.

After that you must select IP from the drop-down list.

When ready, press “Activate SSL certificate” button.
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b) Request Let’s Encrypt certificate

Go to My Domains > SSL Certificates and find your domain (or subdomain) in the list (Domain column) and click on the Add  SSL Certificate link (Action column) on the right. On the new “SSL Certificate Configuration” popup window, select the “Request Let’s Encrypt certificate” option.

After that you must select IP from the drop-down list.

When ready, press “Activate SSL certificate” button.

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c) Install an SSL certificate if you already have one

Go to My Domains > SSL Certificates and find your domain (or subdomain) in the list (Domain column) and click on the Add SSL Certificate link (Action column) on the right. On the new “SSL Certificate Configuration” popup window, select the option to “Upload SSL certificate” – as soon as you select this option, 3 text fields appear under the form:

Private key
SSL certificate
CA

After you fill in all fields, you must select IP from the drop-down list.

When ready, press “Activate SSL certificate” button.

If you have followed this tutorial strictly, now you should have SSL activated for your domain.

After you have enabled SSL certificate on your domain name, you will need to set up WordPress to use SSL and HTTPs protocols on your website.

We will show you two methods to do that, and you can choose one that best fits your need.

Method 1: Setup SSL/HTTPS in WordPress Using a Plugin

This method is easier and is recommended for beginners.

1. Log into the WordPress Dashboard.
2. Roll your mouse over Settings in the navigation menu, then click General.
3. In the WordPress Address (URL) field, enter your https address.
4. Enter your https address in the Site Address (URL)  field. 
5. Click the Save Changes button on the bottom of the screen. 

Once the settings are saved, WordPress will log you out, and you will be asked to re-login.

Then, you need to install and activate the Really Simple SSL plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, you need to visit Settings in the navigation menu, then click SSL. The plugin will automatically detect your SSL certificate, and it will set up your WordPress site to use HTTPs

The plugin will take care of everything including the mixed content errors. Here’s what the plugin does behind the scenes:

– Check SSL certificate
– Set WordPress to use https in URLs
– Set up redirects from HTTP to HTTPs
– Look for URLs in your content still loading from insecure HTTP sources and attempt to fix them.

Note: The plugin attempts to fix mixed content errors by using output buffering technique. It can have a negative performance impact because it’s replacing content on the site as the page is being loaded. This impact is only seen on first-page load, and it should be minimal if you are using a caching plugin.

Method 2: Setup SSL/HTTPS in WordPress Manually

This method requires you to troubleshoot issues manually and edit WordPress files. However this is a permanent and more performance optimized solution.

1. Log into the WordPress Dashboard.
2. Roll your mouse over Settings in the navigation menu, then click General.
3. In the WordPress Address (URL) field, enter your https address.
4. Enter your https address in the Site Address (URL)  field. 
5. Click the Save Changes button on the bottom of the screen. 

Once the settings are saved, WordPress will log you out, and you will be asked to re-login.

Next, you need to set up WordPress redirects from HTTP to HTTPS by adding the following code to your .htaccess file.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

If you want to force SSL and HTTPS on your WordPress admin area or login pages, then you need to configure SSL in the wp-config.php file.

Simply add the following code above the “That’s all, stop editing!” line in your wp-config.php file:

define(‘FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true);

This line allows WordPress to force SSL / HTTPs in WordPress admin area

Once you do this, your website is now fully setup to use SSL / HTTPS, but you will still encounter mixed content errors.

These errors are caused by sources (images, scripts, or stylesheets) that are still loading using the insecure HTTP protocol in the URLs. If that is the case, then you will not be able to see a secure padlock icon in your website’s address bar.

Majority of the incorrect URLs will be images, files, embeds, and other data stored in your WordPress database.

All what you need to do is find all mentions of your old website URL in the database that started with http and replace it with your new website URL that starts with https.

You can easily do this by installing and activating the Better Search Replace plugin.

Website visitors are becoming more aware of the importance of secure data transfer, and they often look for the green lock that appears in their browser on HTTPs-enabled websites.

Before you can have your website loading at https:// instead of http:// you need to have SSL certificate installed for your domain.

You can get one from the hosting control panel -> My Domains -> SSL Certificates

The options are either to Order SSL certificate or Request Let’s Encrypt certificate.

Once you have installed the SSL, please allow up to 1 hour for the new SSL IP propagation!

After you have enabled SSL certificate on your domain name, you will need to set up a redirect for your website to use SSL and HTTPs protocol.

The procedure is valid for any static or dynamic website, which does not have a configuration for the URL it is installed on, like WordPress.

If you need to enable HTTPs for your WordPress site, please see the How To Enable SSL (HTTPs) in WordPress article.

First, go to Files -> File Manager in your hosting control panel and navigate to your domain root folder, usually /www/mydomain.com/

If there is no file called .htaccess created, then create one using the New File button.

Edit the .htaccess file and place the following code at the top:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Click Save.

Once you do this, your website is now fully setup to use SSL / HTTPS.

Email signatures provide a great way to personalize and automate certain features of your email correspondence. Using signatures you can enrich each individual message by adding plain text, pictures, links or a business card and make it more appealing to friends and familey, clients, partners and business associates.

In this article, we’ll focus on how to add signatures using the most popular email applications – Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird and Apple Mail, plus the webmail clients your Control Panel is equipped with – RoundCube Webmail.

Microsoft Outlook
Once you have configured your email account successfully in Outlook, please navigate to the Tools > Options section. Locate the tab named Mail Format, click on it and then select Signatures. A new configuration window will appear where you’ll need to click on New and choose a name for your signature (if you have more than one e-mail account set up in Outlook, you will also need to specify the appropriate account for the new signature). Once you have done that, you can customize your signature with different fonts, text size, alignment, as well as pictures or hypertext links. As a final step, please click on OK in both menus and from this point onward, all outgoing e-mails will contain your newly created signature.

Mozilla Thunderbird
In the popular open-source email client Thunderbird, signatures are handled using external files. This means that you need to create a new plain text or HTML file and then “tell” Thunderbird where it is located so that it could be used as a signature in your emails. Once you have created a .txt or an .html file with your signature, open Thunderbrd and go to Tools > Account Settings. In the following menu, please navigate to your email account and select the box that says Attach this signature, click on Choose and locate the signature file using the navigation window. You are also free to add the same file to as many email accounts as you want. Once you are done, click on OK.

Apple Mail
Beside Mozilla Thunderbird, Mac users can also take advantage of the Mail application that comes built-in with every Mac OS X installation. Adding signatures is done by selecting the Mail drop-down menu and clicking on Preferences (shortcut keys – ,). Navigate to the Signatures menu and feel free to create new signatures for different email accounts using the + button.

RoundCube webmail
In RoundCube, signatures are located under the Settings menu. Once there, please select the third tab Identities. By default, you have only one identity for your account, click on it and a new menu will appear with various options like Display Name and Reply To text fields. The last one is Signature where you need to add your personalized text (by selecting the HTML signature box below, a new, extended field will load for you with additional settings). Feel free to click Save as soon as you have completed the changes to save them.

All domain registrations and renewals are non-refundable.

When a domain is registered/renewed, all registrar companies, including ours, pay  including ours, pay a service fee to the top-level Registry organization that manages the particular extension.

As the Registries do not reverse dates and do not refund service fees, it is not possible for us to do this either.

You can renew one or several domains without renewing your hosting plan.

To do that, go to My Domains -> Registered Domains, where you will see all domains that you have registered through our company listed in a table.

You can renew one of them by clicking on its expiration date in the Expiration/Renewal column of the table.

If you want to renew several domains at once, tick the checkbox next to each one of them, then click on the Renew button that is located just above the table of domains.

A domain renewal page will come up and take you through the renewal steps. 

We offer a 30-day money back guarantee period for all shared hosting plans.

If you are eligible, please open a ticket from the button below or from Help Center -> My Tickets -> Open Support Ticket as an official request for a refund and we will issue the refund within the hour.

As the domain names are non-refundable, we will keep the domain fee and refund the rest in case that you have ordered a domain at a promotional price. All hosting plan renewals are non-refundable. 

When you pay by credit card or PayPal, an automatic payment is created for the following year.

The payment processor sends you a notification when this happens and we send reminders at least 24 hours before the automatic charge takes place.

All automatic payments go through exactly 7 days before the date they were created as to avoid any downtime of your websites if there is a problem with the credit card/PayPal account.

The payment processor has no way of knowing the actual expiration date of the service.