What you need to know: If you have a basic website that you have coded by hand, you can place a special .htaccess file in your website’s root directory that will redirect your HTTP traffic to HTTPS....
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What Is the Difference Between Transferring and Hosting a Domain?
What you need to know: When you decide to host your domain name with AwardSpace, we will become your new hosting provider, allowing you to power your website using our servers. In contrast, when you...
How Can I Secure My AwardSpace Hosting Account?
What you need to know: The most important thing you need to do in order to secure your AwardSpace hosting account is to make sure that you are using a strong password. And if you want to enhance...
How to change/reset your hosting account password?
Having a strong password is crucial for the security of every account. A good rule to follow is to have a unique password for different accounts (Hosting accounts, Email accounts, FTP accounts,...
How to create a website?
You have created an account, and registered a domain but you still don’t have a website. Although we cannot provide you with a comprehensive guide on web development, in this article we would like...
How to register a Domain?
You have created a hosting account and now you are wondering where to start. When creating a website there is one thing that is important to have and that is - the domain name. The domain name would...
What Is the Difference Between a Website, Hosting, and a Domain?
What you need to know: A hosting service offers computers that are always turned on and are perpetually connected to power and the Internet. You can rent such a computer and upload your website’s...
How Do I Point My Existing Domain to AwardSpace?
What you need to know: You can point your existing domain to AwardSpace by using the Host a Domain option in our Domain Manager and then updating your nameservers. After the nameservers are updated,...
What Causes the 403 Forbidden Error in HTTP and How Can I Fix It?
The 403 Forbidden error message is an HTTP status code that can occur when a client tries to retrieve a resource from a server and the server denies access to the requested resource. This requested...
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How can I manage my website files?
Whether you choose to use a free web hosting account or the more advanced and resourceful option of premium web hosting, at one point or another, you will have to manage your website files. There are a few options for you to do that when using our proprietary web...
Why do You Offer a Free Web Hosting Service?
AwardSpace is the pioneer of the LAMP free web hosting service. Back in 2003, this was a real innovation; currently, we are continuing to offer free hosting. We are driven by a genuine desire to make a positive impact on the web hosting environment. This is our main...
Do you allow custom error pages?
If you have created a free web hosting account, you might have noticed that some error pages are default pages made by us. You can set up your custom error pages, by using the .htaccess file. Read more: How to Change the Custom 404 Error Page for My Domain? How to...
Can I edit MX, CNAME, A Records of my Domain?
You can change the MX records on your domain by navigating to your hosting account. From there, follow these steps: Go to the Domain Manager Click on the domain for which you would like to change the DNS records Choose the DNS tab From there you can manage your domain...
What are AwardSpace’s Name Servers?
As of today, the Name Servers of AwardSpace are ns5.awardspace.com and ns6.awardspace.com. In order to prevent interference and possible issues, it will be best if you remove any other nameservers that you might have added. To find the name servers, you can...
Do you offer any specialized hosting plans for CMSs like Joomla or Drupal?
You can use AwardSpace's services for any CMS you would like. Yet, we've made the choice only to offer specialized services for a number of them. Namely, those we deemed most important, based on the amount of their usage worldwide. With all of the web hosting...
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