Knowledge base & Feature handbook
What is a DDoS attack? A Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack is an abusive attempt at disrupting online services like networks, websites or servers. It’s done by sending floods of internet traffic in a short period of time to a targeted online service, typically making the online service unavailable. Be prepared, […]
Account information can always be changed in the Account Portal if you have access to a user. E.g. if you need to update your Company information, that’s also done in the Account Portal. Changing the email of an account on Servebolt is of course possible, but please be aware that […]
In this guide we will focus on how to set up a subdomain in your Servebolt Control Panel, as well as setting it up with Cloudflare. You can have a look at our help article on The default URL structure for more in depth information about the URL structure. Please […]
In this article we’ll cover how you can blacklist or whitelist an IP on your website with the help of .htaccess or Cloudflare. We’ll also discuss why and when you should want to do so. What is IP blacklisting? IP blacklisting is a method to block all (malicious, illegitimate or […]
Deleting a site or a database within the Servebolt Control Panel is easy, see how below: Deleting a site Deleting a site can be done easily within the settings of your site in the Servebolt Control Panel. To delete a site, simply click on the site you want to delete […]
All Bolts set up in our environment have full access to the server either over SSH or SFTP. We don’t restrict anything as long as you have a username and password or authorization keys set up. But you might not always want anyone to get into the server, so we […]
In this article we’ll cover how you can install Pimcore version 10.3.4 on Servebolt based on Pimcore’s documentation. The only needed prerequisites are that you know how to use SSH and common terminal commands. Now you are done setting up your Pimcore installation, congratulations. You will be able to access […]
In this article we’ll show how to set up Laravel Artisan Cron Jobs within the Servebolt Control Panel. Note: you may still receive emails regarding cron jobs if the cron job that was executed ran into some error. To eliminate these emails you’ll need to fix the underlying errors.
When you try to log in to your Cloudflare account from an unrecognised IP address without having Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) set up, you have to confirm your identity via a Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) email. MFA prevents customer account takeovers when attackers gain unauthorised access to an account due to an […]
Disabling auto updates for individual plugins in most cases is normally not needed. As per default plugins won’t update by themselves unless you tell them to, and is something you need to change in WP admin’s plugin page. But for some instances it might be good to force disable auto […]
In this article we’ll cover how you can upgrade the PHP version of your site yourself on Servebolt. That’s all! If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to Servebolt Support at Servebolt.com.
Our recommendation is to always run the most modern stable version of PHP that your application supports. It is almost always faster, more secure and better maintained. It will also give your application the longest possible potential life, as opposed to choosing tech that is soon to be discontinued. In […]
In this article we’ll go through the steps needed to test and upgrade the PHP version of your site with the help of Servebolt Support. That’s all! If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to Servebolt Support at Servebolt.com.
Websites and its code changes all the time, creating a backup of your site will allow you to revert to an earlier version if it gets hacked, or if an update, change of code or removal of files were to go wrong. Servebolt runs full nightly backups of your sites, […]
Websites and its code changes all the time, creating a backup of your site will allow you to revert to an earlier version if it gets hacked, or if an update, change of code or removal of files were to go wrong. Servebolt runs full nightly backups of your sites, […]
Mysqldump is a command-line utility that is used to generate the logical backup of a MySQL database. It produces the SQL Statements that can be used to recreate the database objects and data. In some cases you might find yourself needing to do a dump of your MySQL database from […]
A 404 error, or also known as HTTP 404, 404 not found, 404, page not found or file not found is a response code that indicates the server can’t find the requested resource. Why is reducing 404s important? There is a number of reasons why 404s should be fixed and […]
The WordPress maintenance mode is a way of ensuring that no changes can be made to the site and its database while you’re performing certain tasks. This makes it perfect for doing updates on plugins, or for example, when migrating a website. Turning maintenance mode on and off can easily […]
Introduction There are many ways to push changes you’ve done on one site to another. The most rudimentary way would be to download all files and the database as a backup, then upload them to your production environment. Luckily we’ve made that quite simple with a one time script, named […]
We will go a step-by-step on how you should connect via SFTP. This suspects you have some knowledge on how your FTP program works. Though in this article we will show a step-by-step using FileZilla as our software of choice. However should you need more of a tutorial on how […]