FAQ Archives - eQualitie

Creating a Hosts File Entry

By: dmitri On: September 30, 2015 FAQ, General, Help, Hosting Comments Disabled

If you wish to access your domain before your DNS has been updated, you can update your local ‘hosts file’, which will allow your computer to view your new site. Follow the appropriate instructions below. Please note that this will work only with HTTPS and not with HTTP. If you need any help with this procedure […]

Creating Your New WordPress Site

By: dmitri On: December 05, 2013 FAQ, Help, Hosting, Migration Comments Disabled

Whether you are a first time WordPress user or not you may need to build your new site while your existing site continues to run. If you immediately update your DNS settings to point to eQPress without having migrated your website yet, what you’ll see is a default installation of WordPress. That’s probably not what […]

Can I get my own IP?

By: dmitri On: April 10, 2013 FAQ, Help, Hosting Comments Disabled

Yes, if you require your own IP address you can purchase one for $10 per month.

How often is my site backed up?

By: dmitri On: April 10, 2013 FAQ, Help, Hosting Comments Disabled

Backup are important so we take a multi-layered approach. The first is an enterprise level solution which encrypts all data and transfers the archives to Amazons S3. We retain 30 daily backups, and 15 weekly backups which will allow you to restore from archives that are up to 3 months old. The next layer of […]

When will my WordPress core get updated?

By: dmitri On: April 10, 2013 FAQ, Help, Hosting Comments Disabled

WordPress periodically releases maintenance updates. These are typically for significant bug fixes or security issues. Since these upgrades might have security implications, and because WordPress’s popularity makes it susceptible to an exploit being quickly released, we attempt to apply these upgrades as quickly as possible. Here’s what the different versions look like: Major release: 4.1 […]