Question 1

Setting up Microsoft Outlook on Windows & Apple Mac

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This guide walks you through setting up an email account in the Microsoft Outlook email on your PC or Apple Mac. The images in this guide were taken on an Apple Mac - but the PC version is virtually identical.

|| There are now two options for setting up your email client. Option 1 is preferred, but does have some prerequisites.

|| Option 1 - Use mail.yourdomain for inbound and outbound mail server (IMAP Hostname and SMTP Hostname) e.g. if your domain is example.co.uk you would use mail.example.co.uk Prerequisites Your domain’s A record must be pointing to your Snappyhost hosting server. If your domain is registered with Snappyhost then this is likely the case. You must have SSL enabled for the domain. Once your domain is correctly pointing to Snappyhost a free Let's Encrypt™ certificate will be issued automatically. If you meet these requirements then you can use the format mail.yourdomain for the inbound (IMAP Hostname) and outbound (SMTP Hostname) mail servers in the instructions below e.g. if your domain is example.co.uk then you would use mail.example.co.uk as the inbound and outbound mail server names.This option has the benefit of meaning that should you change hosting servers at any point you won’t need to re-configure any email clients. Once the DNS has updated for your new server A record the clients will continue to be able to send and receive email.

|| Option 2 - use the server hostname for inbound and outbound mail server This option has no prerequisites. Ho

Question 2

Setting up Mail on an iPhone or iPad

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This guide walks you through setting up email on your Apple iPhone using the Mail app.

This article assumes that you already have an Email account setup at SnappyHost

iPad users

Whilst the screenshots in this guide are taken on a iPhone, the steps are identical on an iPad.

|| There are now two options for setting up your email client.

|| Option 1 is preferred, but does have some prerequisites. Option 1 - Use mail.yourdomain for inbound and outbound mail server (IMAP Hostname and SMTP Hostname) e.g. if your domain is example.co.uk you would use mail.example.co.uk : Prerequisites Your domain’s A record must be pointing to your SnappyHost server. If your domain is registered with SnappyHost then this is likely the case. You must have SSL enabled for the domain. Once your domain is correctly pointing to SnappyHost a free Let's Encrypt™ certificate will be issued automatically. If you meet these requirements then you can use the format mail.yourdomain for the inbound (IMAP Hostname) and outbound (SMTP Hostname) mail servers in the instructions below e.g. if your domain is example.co.uk then you would use mail.example.co.uk as the inbound and outbound mail server names. This option has the benefit of meaning that should you change hosting servers at any point you won’t need to re-configure any email clients. Once the DNS has updated for your new server A record the clients will conti

Question 3

How to install ReallySimpleSSL

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In this guide we’ll show you how to install the Really Simple SSL WordPress plugin. It’s often easier to use such a plugin to force a WordPress site to HTTPS than attempting a .htaccess redirect and manually fixing mixed content errors. This plugin also forces all images to display over a secure connection to negate mixed content errors – easily tested using WhyNoPadLock.com.

Warning: Before you force any website to HTTPS, ensure you’ve installed a properly signed paid SSL or FreeSSL. If your SSL is self-signed your browser will display a security error.

Installing the plugin

Log into your WordPress website.
Select Plugins from the sidebar and select Add New.
Search “Really Simple SSL” in the search bar.
Select Install Now to install the plugin.

Select Activate in the same location. You can also enable it from Installed Plugins on the left.

Installing via WP-CLI

To install and activate the plugin using WP-C

Question 4

Adding a new cPanel email account

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This article walks you through adding a new email account to one of your domains within cPanel.

| Remember, you can add email accounts to any primary domain, subdomain, addon or alias domain.

cPanel > Email Accounts > click '+Create'

Within the cPanel Email section, click Email Accounts

Then click the +Create button

You'll now see the form to add new account details

1.  First, select the **Domain** (the part after the @ in your email address) using the drop down.
2.  Next, enter your email **Username** (the part before the @ in your email address)
3.  You can choose to set the **Password** now or to provide an alternative email where the accounts details will be sent along with a password configuration link.  
    If you opt to provide an alternative email address - you'll need to click on the link in the email and you'll be taken to a cPanel screen to set your password:

    || The eye icon hides or reveals the password as you type. The Generate button will create a password

Question 5

How to disable the WordPress CRON job and set it up in cPanel

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WordPress doesn’t have a built-in scheduler to run regular tasks, so to get around this it fires off a request to process wp-cron.php every time a visitor requests a page.

There are a couple of issues with this, firstly on busy sites this means this cron task will be running all the time - when it really doesn’t need to.

On a small website with a few pages and a few hundred visitors a day wp-cron.php probably isn't a problem, but imagine a larger website with maybe a 100 visitors an hour. If each visitor reads your home page, and 2 others, that would mean that wp-cron.php is being called 300 times an hour, 7200 times a day and so on. Plus, on a busy/large website wp-cron.php might take a few minutes to run.
Multiple copies of wp-cron.php can be started at once as well, because people don't wait in line to view your web pages! This means that more memory is needlessly consumed. It all snowballs into a horrible resource hog.
We've seen some busy sites running multiple instances of wp-cron.php tasks consuming over 200Mb of virtual memory each! This will quickly exhaust your cPanel accounts' allowed memory allocation - that's if it hasn't exhausted your CPU allowance already. This may cause your website to fail to operate correctly.
Of course the opposite could also be the case - if the site is well optimised and most of the page requests are being served from cache the request to process wp-cron.php may not happen as often as you’d like.

Ther

Question 6

Setting up Gmail for email on Android

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This guide walks you through setting up an email account in the Gmail app on your Android device.

You should already have an email account with SnappyHost to follow this guide.

|| There are now two options for setting up your email client.

|| Option 1 is preferred, but does have some prerequisites. Option 1 - Use mail.yourdomain for inbound and outbound mail server (IMAP Hostname and SMTP Hostname) e.g. if your domain is example.co.uk you would use mail.example.co.uk : Prerequisites Your domain’s A record must be pointing to your SnappyHost server. If your domain is registered with SnappyHost then this is likely the case. You must have SSL enabled for the domain. Once your domain is correctly pointing to SnappyHost a free Let's Encrypt™ certificate will be issued automatically. If you meet these requirements then you can use the format mail.yourdomain for the inbound (IMAP Hostname) and outbound (SMTP Hostname) mail servers in the instructions below e.g. if your domain is example.co.uk then you would use mail.example.co.uk as the inbound and outbound mail server names. This option has the benefit of meaning that should you change hosting servers at any point you won’t need to re-configure any email clients. Once the DNS has updated for your new server A record the clients will continue to be able to send and receive email.

|| Option 2 - use the server hostname for inbound and outboun

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