Setting reverse DNS for BladeVPS
Most viewedBy using reverse DNS (also known as rDNS or PTR record) you link an IP address to a domain name
By using reverse DNS (also known as rDNS or PTR record) you link an IP address to a domain name
In our DirectAdmin tutorial series, we explain how you start using a VPS with DirectAdmin. This not only includes hosting your website and email but also how you can safely set up and update your VPS.
In this article we'll show how to set up the security of a DirectAdmin VPS.
Our pre-installed version of DirectAdmin comes with CentOS as the underlying operating system. By default, CentOS 7 makes use of older versions of software (though with recent security updates) because it prefers stability over new features.
Before you can use your domain within DirectAdmin, your domain has to be linked to your VPS. To do this, you refer your domain to your VPS in your DNS settings and configure your domain in DirectAdmin.
In this chapter, we show you how to upload your website to your VPS. To upload your site, you can use FTPS or the DirectAdmin File Manager. We prefer FTPS since the DirectAdmin File Manager does not offer an easy option to upload files in bulk.
This tutorial covers the aspects of using e-mail in DirectAdmin (reverse DNS, creating an email address, SSL, webmail, etc).
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When using CentOS 6.x or 7.x on your VPS, or when using our pre-installed images of DirectAdmin, Plesk or cPanel (which also use CentOS), you will have an older version of PHP active by default (with the latest security-updates being backported). This is because CentOS prefers stability over new features, but some (popul...
When you are using a BladeVPS at TransIP you can always use our mail service free of charge, also referred to as carefree mailing. With this service you will always have the possibility to use our mail services after a one-time configuration of DirectAdmin on your BladeVPS. When using the mail service you will no longer have to ...