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Fix for 502 Bad Gateway when loading your website
Visiting your website and see that it keeps loading? After a long wait, the annoying message appears: 502 Bad Gateway. What exactly does this mean, and what can you do to prevent this? What causes a 502 Bad Gateway? When your website throws a 502 ...
Common HTTP Error Codes and Solutions
It can happen that your website suddenly becomes unavailable, with a three-digit error code on your screen. What now? We discuss the six most common HTTP error codes, what they mean, and how to fix them. 401 Error - Unauthorized A 401 error means ...
Canonical URLs and How to Use Them
Canonical URLs are an important concept in search engine optimization (SEO). They are used to indicate to search engines which version of a web page is the "preferred" version. This is essential when multiple URLs show the same (or very similar) ...
Edit Hosts File in Windows 10
A question we regularly get from our customers is: “How can we test our website in advance; our website is currently still hosted by another internet company”. If your website is on a Linqhost server, but the domain name of which does not yet refer ...
SaaS platform WiQhit chooses managed hosting from LinQhost
As of March 2020, personalization software company WiQhit.com uses LinQhost services. We now provide hosting and management of the WiQhit SAAS platform. “That move was an exciting step,” admits Paul Stam (CTO of WiQhit). “It’s like your child leaving ...
Ibdata is eating up my disk space
In a previous life, when I first started using MySQL, we only had MyISAM table space in MySQL. This was not ACID compliant, which meant it was very error prone with crashes and so on. Things changed when MySQL added the InnoDB storage engine. But ...
Limiting the nuisance of Bots, Crawlers and Spiders
Bots and crawlers help search engines like Google find and rank your website. But too much activity from these bots can slow down your website’s performance. Here, we’ll discuss how to stop unwanted bots and make your website run faster and more ...
Mcrypt is a thing of the past: here's what you need to do now
In 2017, PHP 7.2 will be released and with this new version, the outdated and unsafe PHP-Mcrypt module will disappear for good. Mcrypt has been discouraged for some time because it is no longer safe and reliable. However, some random samples show ...
Preventing simultaneous cron jobs with Flock
Cronjobs are tasks that are executed periodically and can be set via the crontab command. It is an easy way to execute tasks automatically. The basic explanation of cronjobs can be found in an earlier blog post on our website. However, a cronjob can ...
Automatic SSH deployment
The portal offers the possibility to automatically roll out SSH keys of portal users, who are members of your team, to the different servers. Under “SSH User keys” it is explained how you can do this as a user. If you remove a team member from your ...
Creating a database backup
Before you make any changes to your web application, it is always a good idea to make a backup of your database first. If something goes wrong, you can easily go back to the original situation. Fortunately, making a database backup is quite easy, as ...
Why we don't give access to your root server
At LinQhost we do not offer root or sudo access to our servers. This is because we only offer managed hosting services. This means that we manage and maintain your server, so that we can ensure that everything is safe, stable and performs optimally. ...
Protect your website against Clickjacking
Some time ago we received a report via our security bounty program . An observant participant had discovered that our website was vulnerable to clickjacking. Clickjacking is a technique in which malicious parties trick users into clicking on ...
The 404 Feeling – What To Do
We all know it: you click on a link and suddenly you see a 404 page – “Page not found”. This simply means that the page you were looking for does not exist (anymore). Very frustrating, especially if you just saw that one interesting link and wanted ...
SSH Tips for Professionals
SSH is one of the most used tools by us and by most developers. In this blog we share a number of tips that make SSH both more secure and efficient. These tips are not only applicable to our high performance web servers, but also to your own internal ...
Suppress SSH login notifications
We regularly see that the so-called deploy services suffer from output that we generate when logging in via SSH (e.g. pre-login/motd). This output has the function to show the user important information, but in the case of automatic processes this is ...