How to upload files to your website with FTP

This guide will show you how to upload your website files using FTP, for customers using LCN Web hosting, WordPress hosting. Before you start, you’ll need to know your FTP login details, you can find these from your LCN Account under your hosting details.  Please Note: Your FTP username and password may also be connected to a mailbox, be aware […]

NEW: Web Hosting – File Manager

Step 1 Using the File Manager is important when looking at your website files, especially for looking for errors. This guide will help you understand where to find the file manager and how to use it. To get to the file manager first click on the Overview tab at the top right and then click […]

R1Soft Restore from Backup in cPanel

You can choose to restore content from R1Soft backups taken of your cPanel hosting space including the ability to download the hosting directory, individual files and restore databases. The below guide details how to open the R1Soft restore page and provides details on what restore options you have available. To access backups of your cPanel […]

Addon Domains in cPanel

In the Domains section of cPanel, click the ‘Addon Domains’ option. One of the first things you’ll notice is the paragraph at the top of the article, where it states ‘An Addon Domain is an additional domain that is stored as a subdomain of your main site’; Addon domains allow you to control multiple domains […]

SSH Access for cPanel

This feature is only available on Professional and Premium packages! You can enable SSH access to your cPanel multi-domain hosting package through cPanel by following the below steps First login to cPanel through your Online control panel, an article on how to do so can be found here. Once logged in click on SSH Access […]

How to set PHP directives using .php.ini

This guide will explain how to set PHP directives for your site by using a .php.ini file. For customers using LCN web hosting and WordPress hosting. Let’s get started… What are PHP directives? PHP directives are the configuration settings used to control various behaviours of PHP functions on your site. This can include for example; the memory limit […]

How to use the LCN File Manager

This guide is intended to help LCN customers use their File Manager to upload and download files to their web hosting. File Manager is available to customers with Web Hosting or WordPress hosting and can be accessed directly from your LCN account and can be a handy alternative to using FTP when needing to alter, […]

Web Hosting migration FAQ

This FAQ is to provide answers to those frequently asked questions for customers previewing their site in advance of our web hosting migration. What is happening? At the start of September, we’ll be moving your website to an upgraded platform in our new UK data centre and providing you with a whole host of new […]

How to check your PHP information

When designing and building a website you may find that you need to make checks to your PHP to find what version of PHP you have as well as other useful information, especially if you made changes to your PHP core directives and would like to see if they have taken effect. This guide will […]

Understanding HTTP Error Codes and other website errors

When attempting to access a website or other online resource you might be presented with an error page in place of the expected response. This will likely be one of a few HTTP error codes you may encounter. This guide will cover some of the more common website HTTP error codes and provide an explanation […]