Recently you will have received an email from 2025.hosting-australia.com/ RE: Are your AU domain details current? Just like registering your car. you need to make sure your personal details are correct this way, the registration can be traced back to you. This is the exact same for your domain name, you want to make sure that your business name can be traced back to you just in case the inevitable happens.
A domain name registrar is a business that handles the reservation of domain names as well as the assignment of IP addresses for those domain names. 2025.hosting-australia.com/ currently uses two domain registrars, Synergy and Dreamscape, for the registration of your domain names.
When you registrar your domain name with the registrar, your details will be applied to the domain name allowing your or their details to become the registrant. If your domain name expires you may need to provide the registrant details to prove you were the previous owner of the domain name. This is why it is important not to let your domain name expire, you can view how to stop this here!.
These are a simple site that allows you to easily search your domain name, displaying Registrant/Tech contact details. Nameservers and the Raw Whois Data. This is the easiest and most preferred method for searching domains.
Resellers are another type of organization that sell domain names registrations. These resellers sell domain names on behalf of a registrar in return for a finder’s fee. You can registrar as a reseller with 2025.hosting-australia.com/. If you are interested in starting a reseller business, you can view our reseller plans here.
Everyone who registers a domain name must fill out WHOIS information for that domain. As previously stated, before this is how the domain name can be tracked back to you. This will include information such as name, email, address, phone number, ABN.
Many registrars provide the option of a private registration. In this arrangement, the registrar’s information is provided in the WHOIS listing for that domain, and the registrar acts as a proxy for the registrant.
Hopefully, you have now realized how important it is to have your domain details up to date. If you have received our recent email but have not acted or are unsure of how to correct these details. Please reply to the email or contact support.
WordPress shortcodes are an incredibly useful way to customize your site and add new features. Without having to learn any code and code yourself. If you have installed any plugins or made any adjustment to your WordPress site, you have probably come across the term “shortcode”.
To put it simply, a shortcode is a small piece of code, indicated by brackets like [this], that performs a dedicated function on your site. This shortcode can placed about anywhere you would like, and it will add a specific feature to your page, post, or other content. For example, a shortcode can be used to display galleries, payment portals, or videos.
If you are still not completely sure what shortcodes are and how and why they are used within WordPress, Let's take a deep dive into more of the basics, show some examples, and plugins that you can use to expand your shortcode.
Most existing themes and plugins are equipped with their own shortcodes that allow you to tap into additional features or display certain plugins across your site.
Therefore, WordPress is such a power web designing tool. Since it is an open-source platform, it allows you to customize it in any way you would like. But as mentioned previously if you are not a developer and have no coding experience, adding code yourself is not really feasible. Therefore, shortcodes have been developed so you can achieve the same effect, without needing to know any coding.
Shortcodes can be used on any location in your WordPress post or page. That includes widget-ready areas like sidebars, headers, and footers, as well as in the main content.
So, now you have the basics down of what shortcodes are, how do you add them to your WordPress? But first let us see what shortcodes are incorporated into the WordPress:
To implement any of the above, you will need to go to the Default Editor within WordPress to add shortcodes:
Sometimes you may wish to use the text which usually represents a shortcode in your posts. To do this, you need to escape the shortcode by using two sets of brackets instead of just one. So to display this in your post:
[audio]You would write this:
[[audio]]For shortcodes that have a start and end tag, you only need to scape the very first and very last brackets:
[[audio]] . . . [/audio]]If you are looking to add more shortcode functionality to you site, then using a WordPress shortcode plugin will be your best bet.
Shortcodes Ultimate is a free plugin for users who want a lot of options and each one easily available with the following features:
WP Shortcode by Mythemeshop is a lightweight and easy to use shortcode plugin. This plugin will allow you to add functions like:
Shortcoder lets WordPress you generate custom shortcodes that contain HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Paste in your code, assign and recognizable name to your new shortcode, then place it anywhere on a page or post. Shortcoder also includes the following features:
Shortcodes are one of the most effective ways to customize your site without know how to code. Without the ability to shortcode you would have to take the time out of your day learning how to code as the original theme would be a nightmare to customize without them.
Here at 2025.hosting-australia.com/ we understand that your time is important. But, taking time to understand how effective features like shortcodes are to help grow your business.
If you have any issues or queries, about shortcodes please contact 2025.hosting-australia.com/ support here!
We have all come across them before, and will they annoyed you from time to time, trying to type in the displayed letters and number or finding that third photo of a fire hydrant that looks like a street sign. But, as annoying as these may be! They are there for a reason. These annoying but very important security checks are called a reCAPTCHA test. These are a necessary evil as they are a security system designed to tell humans and computers apart by making the user solve or insert a short series of letters in a box.
You may be unsure whether you require to have one installed on your website. But, no matter how big or small your site is, It is important to have these reCAPTCHA’s on your form early on to prevent any future security risks.
reCAPTCHA is a free service provided by Google that protects your site from malicious attacks and stops your forms from sending spam emails or making transactions via your store with fraudulent details. Without the installation of the one, your client may start receiving a large number of spam emails with inappropriate subjects. This will also cause issues with the bandwidth of your hosting as the increase of bandwidth may take you over your quota and shut down your site. If you do run into this issue, please contact support. reCAPTCHA will stop this issue as the bots installed by hackers on your form pages are unable to complete the form due to the puzzles created. which is why it is the tried-and-true way to stop this problem.
As time goes on hackers work out ways to bypass google's security. Luckily, Google Developers are always on top of updating the reCAPTCHA version to prevent any issues. Different versions allow you to choose which kind of security puzzle is required to be complete.
When Invisible reCAPTCHA is used, the user will not see any extra field within your form (no checkbox). A small badge is added to the lower right corner of the screen that links to Google’s terms of service and privacy policy.
Much like Invisible reCAPTCHA, in v3 reCAPTCHA the user will only see a small badge in the lower right corner of the screen that links to Google’s terms of service and privacy policy. However, v3 reCAPTCHA will never display a captcha like the image question shown above. Instead, it runs completely in the background.
Hopefully, this article has piqued your interest and help educate explain how the it is a must.
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With these two working entwine and communicating, is what makes everything with everyone possible on the internet. Now we could bore you will all the ins and out’s including primary and foreign keys, SQL commands and ERD diagrams. Because we have barely scratched the surface with these systems. It is important to have a basic understanding of how these systems work and at 2025.hosting-australia.com/ we want our customers to understand how everything communicates.
If you have your website files only saved on your computer, users can access them as long as the computer is switched on. When the computer is switched off, the link between your files and your website will be lost and users would not be able to access anything.
This is where servers come into the picture. A server is just like a big computer with faster power, more space and more speed.
Unlike a personal computer, the server is kept running all the time. This allows users to access web files on the server and be displayed through a web browser.
This allows everything saved on the server to be accessible, 24 hours, 7days a week, 365 days a year.
Since uptime is critically important for your website, we want to make sure your website is always online when hosted with 2025.hosting-australia.com/.
Our servers are not designed to shut down, they are running 24/7.
Servers will sometimes be shut down for scheduled maintenance.
2025.hosting-australia.com/ will send out an email when scheduled maintenance is required, and we endeavour to complete this during downtimes for website traffic – ie nightworks.
There is a wide range of servers, all have their own purposes, while some dedicated servers focus on one function, such as a print server or database server, some implementations use one server for multiple purposes.
A web server shows pages and runs apps through web browsers. The server your browser is connected to now is a web server that delivers this page and the images on it. 2025.hosting-australia.com/ has servers based in Sydney, this ensures that we have extremely fast speeds when connecting to users within Australia and we have direct contact with all our technicians. These servers connect directly to your browsers like Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Ecosia, or Safari. The 2025.hosting-australia.com/ web servers are used for many tasks in addition to delivering simple text and images, such as uploading and backing up files online through your cPanel web hosting control panel.
Email Servers send and receive email messages. If you have an email client on your computer, the software connects to an IMAP or POP servers. This is also like connecting to the webserver as your emails will be stored within the cPanel web hosting control. As well as offering cPanel email hosting there are Microsoft exchange servers, these are stored on a mail server that runs exclusively on a Windows Server operating system. The email client connects to an IMAP, POP, Microsoft exchange server to download your messages to your computer, and an SMTP server to send messages back through the email server.
FTP servers move files through File Transfer Protocol tools. FTP servers are accessible remotely using FTP client programs such as FileZilla, Programs such as FileZilla connect to the file share on the server, either through the server’s built-in FTP capabilities or with a dedicated FTP server program. You are also able to use your cPanel’s built-in FTP capabilities within your web hosting with hosting-australia.com.au.
When you type a URL into a browser, for example, 2025.hosting-australia.com/, there needs to be some way to connect that URL with the underlying web server that powers the website at that domain name.
As explained in our previous blog article Understanding DNS Records, if you had to type and remember the actual IP addresses of the website’s you wish to visit each time. It would be impossible to remember all the different addresses.
Nameservers play an important role in connecting a URL with a server in a more functional way.
Nameservers look similar to any other domain name. when you view a website’s nameservers, you will typically see a minimum of two nameservers. Here is an example of the 2025.hosting-australia.com/ nameservers:
These nameservers help direct traffic to the 2025.hosting-australia.com/ servers.
Let us take a bit more of a deep dive into how exactly it all works.
When you visit 2025.hosting-australia.com/, it is a simple as opening your web browser and typing 2025.hosting-australia.com/ into the browser’s address bar and the homepage will be displayed.
Its that simple, but this is because we cannot see what is going on behind the scenes between the device and all the networks.
The process goes like this:
2025.hosting-australia.com/ is entered into the browser address bar.
The browser sends a request to the domain’s nameserver.
The nameserver responds back with the IP address of the website’s server.
Browser requests the website content from the IP address
Browser retrieves the content and renders it in your browser.
There are multiple ways to find out what your nameservers are. You may need to change your them to point to a different address or you are prompted to find out what they are by a developer.
The most common way to find these details is by checking online tools such as whois.com.
This site allows you to search a domain name and the domain information displayed, such as the nameservers.
You are also able to find out nameservers through your Command Prompt.
Nameservers play such an essential role in directing traffic on the internet by helping to connect your domain name with the IP address of your web server.
If you ever need to change your nameserver you can also follow this help knowledge base article created by the 2025.hosting-australia.com/ support team HERE!
An IP address is assigned to every computer on an Ethernet Network. Like the numbers in a phone book, an IP address identifies network computers. It helps traffic flow between computers/servers because each one has its own IP address.
A dynamic IP address is exactly how it sounds, dynamic IP addresses are subject to change, sometimes at a moment’s notice. Dynamic addresses are assigned, as needed by Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) servers.
Dynamic IP addresses are generally implemented by internet service providers and networks that have many connecting clients or end-nodes. One of the primary reasons behind having dynamic IP addresses is the shortage of static IP address on IPV4. Dynamic IP addresses allow a single IP address to be shuffled between many different nodes to circumvent this problem.
Static IP address, or fixed IP address, is an IP address that never changes. Once your device is assigned a static IP address, that number typically stays the same until your router/modem is reset to filter a new IP address.
Static IP addresses are assigned by Internet Service Providers. Your ISP may or may not allocate you a static IP address depending on the nature of your service agreement.
This may have piqued your curiosity, which type of IP address do you have? This is always helpful to know so, to find out follow these steps below:
2. Type cmd into the search box.
3. Type into the Command Prompt window, ipconfig /all then press Enter.
4. Once the command is executed, scroll down, and locate the DHCP Enabled Line
There are many ways to help protect your website and data with the inclusion of a wide range of plugins and preventative measures. If you missed our latest article on the top 5 WordPress plugins you can check it out here!
One of these ways is by the use of words Modsec or ModSecurity, so what exactly is ModSecurity and how can it benefit your everyday life to help keep your website safe.
ModSecurity also commonly known as mod_security or modsec is an open-source web application firewall which is an Apache module.
Let us find out what exactly a web application firewall is.
Web Application Firewall is a specific form of application firewall that filters, monitors, and blocks HTTP traffic to and from a web service. By inspecting HTTP traffic, it can prevent attacks exploiting a web application’s know vulnerabilities.
Web Hosting in the simplest terms is parking your website on the internet. An even similar way to think of it is, purchasing a car park in a building complex. Having a valet take your car(website) and park it in a car space (allocated server space). Once your website is made available on the internet, it can be accessed by other computers connected to the internet.
Web hosts such as 2025.hosting-australia.com/ rent out their services and technologies to host websites on the internet. Once the hosting company hosts your website, users can access it by typing in your domain name in their web browser. When this domain name is typed into the user’s browser this connects the computer to a server your website is hosted on. The server then sends back files that are stored on the server to the user’s computer and displays it on your web browser.
Adding JavaScript is the perfect option if you wish to add an array of extra elements to your WordPress website. you can do this without Javascript by installing multiple plugins, but doing this will cause the headache and issues of having to manage them all and also the risk of slowing down your website.
The interesting thing about JavaScript is that it is a coding language that instead of running on your server, within the file manager on your cPanel, it runs on the user’s browser. This allows you to adjust your website without the fear of your website loading times being affected.
WordPress will allow you to add JavaScript it, but it can just be a bit touch-and-go as WordPress does not allow you to add JavaScript code snippet directly into your page. If you attempt to add the code onto the page, there is a good chance WordPress will delete it when you have saved your edits. This will cause confusion and frustration when your site no longer works.
We will be covering in this article the easiest and most effective way you can add JavaScript to your website. But first, we need to cover what a script is.
So, you can understand JavaScript even more than just adding it, it is important to cover what a script even is. A script is a pre-made code language that developers and designers use to perform specific actions.
There are multiple different coding languages for writing scripts all with their own syntax’s, these are the most commonly used languages:
Adding a script using the JavaScript language your website will allow you to add various things to your website, for example:
So, how do you add JavaScript onto your page? There are two easy methods, let's go over them now.
To use this method for adding JavaScript code to your whole website, the best option is to download the Insert Headers and Footers plugin.
You can edit and add JavaScript code to your WordPress theme’s header.php or footer.php files within your file manager via cPanel. However, you must also keep in mind that if you do edit your theme files, every time you update your theme, WordPress will override the code deleting your edits.
Using Insert Headers and Footers plugin is an easy workaround for this problem. Even if you update your theme, your headers and footers code will stay put if you use the plugin.
Once you have added the changes to your header or footer, you will see your changes site-wide, even if you update your WordPress theme, this plugin will save your JavaScript code information, keeping your JavaScript changes active.
If you do not just want your JavaScript to be displayed on your headers and footers, but instead add it to a post or page. You will want to install the Code Embed plugin.
Below you will find the steps for adding JavaScript using Code Embed plugin:
