To manage your LetsHost account, this can be done via your Client Area. The email address to log in to your client area is most likely the email address to which you receive general account emails from LetsHost. If you do not know your client area password, you can reset it via the Forgot Password […]
Category: Security
Information on issues relating to account security on our platforms.
How to enable email spam filtering in your Plesk control panel
Please see the following steps on how to enable spam filtering on your LetsHost email address in Plesk. Log in to your LetsHost Client Area and click on Services > My Services You will see your products/services listed out here. Click on ‘Manage’ beside your Windows hosting package At the bottom, click on the ‘Login […]
How to install ‘Really Simple SSL’ WordPress plugin
If you are looking to set your website up with an SSL Cert, you will also need to change the ‘base URL’ of the website to load all content with ‘https://’. You can do this manually in the website settings in the WordPress Dashboard, or you can install a plugin to take care of it […]
How do I add a SSL Site Seal to my website?
When you set up an SSL certificate on your website, you can add a ‘site seal’ graphic to your website to show your visitors that their connection is encrypted. For RapidSSL certificates (our most common cert), instructions are to simply download the image from the following link, then upload to any secure pages on your website […]
Enabling SSL on your website
In order to use an SSL certificate on your website, you will need to update the websites address to use ‘https://’. Exactly how to do this depends on how your website was built. Instructions for the most popular content management systems are as follows, as well as instructions on how to do this via your […]
Do you offer SSL Certificates and are there different types?
We offer SSL Certificates at very competitive rates. We can also take care of installing this cert for you. With major browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome already displaying an ‘insecure’ message on websites which are not set up with an SSL cert, it has never been more important to get an SSL cert […]
My hosting account was hacked into – What do I do?
With more and more websites being built with 3rd party software (WordPress accounts for approx. 25% of all websites on the internet), it is more common than ever for websites to be hacked into. There are a number of reasons why an attacker might want to hack into a website. Once a website is hacked […]
How to install an SSL cert for your domain via cPanel
Please see the following steps on how to install an SSL cert for your domain: Log in to your LetsHost client area and click on Services > My Services (in the blue navigation bar) You will see your products/services listed out here Click on the green Manage button beside your hosting package On the menu […]
I’m getting an ‘Reported Attack Page’ error on my website – How do I fix it?
If your website has been hacked into, Google (and other search engines) may be aware of this and put up a ‘Reported Attack Page’ notice in place of the website. This will prevent visitors from reaching your website and potentially getting an infection/malware. Please see the following steps needed to remove Googles ‘Reported Attack Page’ […]
Redirecting with/without an SSL cert
In order for your website to load up with the green padlock, you will need to ensure that the website loads up with ‘https://’ at the start of the URL in the address bar. You might have two domain names and want to redirect one to the other. When it comes to SSL certs and […]