Godaddy tips and tricks

May 20 2022

How to run Auto SSL on GoDaddy cpanel hosting?

Finally, GoDaddy has introduced a free SSL certificate in few of their shared cpanel linux hosting platform. It is now available for free from Deluxe and above plans in some markets. Earlier, it was only available in “Web hosting plus plans” and “Maximum cpanel hosting plan”.

You can check for this plan in your area from this link

What is auto SSL on cPanel hosting?

Auto SSL is integrated SSL certificate tool to automatically install an SSL certificate on all domains and sub-domains hosted in cpanel hosting. You can run auto install an SSL certificate and it does not require any technical knowledge.

Auto SSL is integrated SSL certificate powered by Sertigo SSL provider. If you are paying for additional SSL certificate, you can stop paying for it and go with integrated SSL certificate which is provided in auto SSL.
SSL certificate provided in auto SSL is valid for 3 months and server install it automatically. If in case, your server has missed auto SSL installation, you can check below steps.

Steps to run auto SSL on GoDaddy cPanel linux hosting:

Open your products page from top right side of godaddy.com
Click on “Manage” next to your cpanel hosting plan.

Click on “Manage” next to auto SSL to open auto SSL tool

Select your domain in search bar and add it to auto SSL. This is to make sure SSL certificate automatically install next time when server run auto SSL
Now, select domain you want to run auto SSL on and click on “Run auto SSL”
Wait for auto SSL to complete, it can take upto 2 hours depending on number of websites you have. Once it completes, the page will refresh and next to your domain, it will say “AutoSSL domain validated”.

Now, try to open your website and it should open with an SSL certificate. If your website is not redirecting from http to https, check for SSL redirection and if it is missing, you can check this help article to set up this redirection.

That’s it, you have successfully installed auto SSL on your website 🙂

In case, you are facing issue in installing auto SSL, you can check this article further.

Why did SSL certificate installation have fail after running auto SSL on GoDaddy cpanel linux hosting?

If in case, your SSL certificate has failed, here are few steps you can follow and re-run SSL installation:

Make sure your domain is pointing to hosting server IP.
Domain should be pointing to the server IP address else auto SSL will not work. You can open your hosting and check your server IP address. Now, open a domain DNS page and check if A record is pointing to the same IP address. If it is already pointing to the server IP address, let’s move to the next step.
Remove “self signed” SSL certificate from hosting as self signed SSL certificate can halt the SSL installation. You can open cpanel admin > SSL TLS > Manage SSL sites as shown in images below:

Find domain name and delete Self Signed SSL certificate from server.

3. Now, open file manager and find .htaccess and .user.ini files. These are control files and if they are not visible, click on “settings”(1) at top left side and make them visible. In most cases, you will only have a .htaccess file on the server. Now, rename(2) this file to any name like .htaccess-disable(3). You can check below images as well.

Make sure you are disabling these in root of the website. If you have multiple websites and you want to install SSL on all domains, make sure to disable these files in the root of add-on domains as well.

Now, run auto SSL again on the server and it will complete and install certificate on your websites. Once SSL is installed, rename .htaccess and .user.ini file back again to their original name.

Why is auto SSL stuck in installation on my server?

Usually, auto SSL takes around 30 minutes to complete installation on all websites. If auto SSL is stuck in installation on the “autoSSL in progress” button for more than 30 minutes, it means it is stuck on the parent server. This is very very rare though. However, if it is stuck on your server, you will have to contact GoDaddy support and ask them to stop this process.

May 15 2022

Is reseller business hosting profitable?

admin Godaddy tips and tricks, Uncategorized reseller hosting 0

When it comes to earning money online, “reseller hosting” is considered as one of the best and unique way. People who do this business are called resellers and they act as retailers like we see in mom and pop shops. Reseller hosting is when an individual or a small company buys server space in bulk from hosting companies and starts selling it to their customers at higher price and earns commission.

Is reseller hosting profitable?

Yes, the reseller hosting business is definitely profitable. You can create a website and start selling products to your customers by re-renting it. You can easily make money with a reseller hosting business however, to make it more profitable you would need to do marketing for your business.

How does reseller hosting business works?

It’s pretty simple, you need to buy space on a server from a larger hosting provider like GoDaddy, Bluehost, Hostgator, Namecheap etc.
For example, you buy a hosting space for $100 a year and you can sell it to a customer under your business name for $150, earning $50 profit. So, before you get into this business make sure you find a good hosting reseller which is reliable.

You can read this article for more information on reseller hosting providers.

How to start a reseller hosting business?

When you purchase reseller hosting, for example from GoDaddy, it will give you a fully customizable store with all the functionality built in it. If someone has to buy a domain, they would go to the domain search section of your website and choose a domain they want to buy. Whenever your store gets a domain sale or hosting you will get commission from your reseller.

The best part is you can connect your own domain and customize your store according to your design skills. It’s just the same as shopify stores. You can build your storefront on wordpress website as well.

Apart from that you can also choose the markup, percentage, promotions and prices. that you want to sell.

For example, if you want to sell a cpanel starter account. The wholesale price is $1.14. If you want to earn 118% commission you need to sell it for $2.99. You can set that in the price section in image below. It’s easy to set a different commission rate for every product that you want to resell like I have set for Backups add on and other products in image below

Is reseller business hosting profitable?

Domains are used in every online business and you can sell domains in reseller as well. Below is the image from GoDaddy reseller hosting and you can set price here as well accordingly and earn commission. Below image shows wholesale price of $9.29 a year and you can sell at $12.99 a year. Your profit would be $35%

How much money can you make with a reselling hosting business?

This solely depends on how much efforts you put into this work

The top reseller of the last month gave revenue of $92,029.41 to GoDaddy and earned $26,474.96 which is a lot of money. You can also make that much money if you put hours and effort into this business. Well if you talk about anything it will take time and dedication. I also attached the top reseller earners of last month. Check it below.

Things to consider before start reseller hosting business

This is the most important part of the blog. Before you start this business. you need to keep in mind that it’s a long term business. You are going to compete with top level companies on the internet who provide the same service as you.
Choose a unique domain name that will match with your business, it will help you to build your own brand.
Choose a reliable hosting provider with excellent customer service and have economical plans with great uptime( more than 99%).
Examine your competitors to check what they are offering. Read about their service reviews on trustpilot and try to offer better service / plans. Remember, online business depends on how good you are offering than your competitors.
Make sure the hosting provider you choose offers 100% white label support. In White label support, your hosting provider’s name remains anonymous and it will be replaced by your brand name in most cases. Your customers will see your brand name as their hosting / domain provider. This way, you can build your brand name as self-standing and independent from your hosting provider.
Make sure to install SSL certificate on your website. This will bring trust to visitors and google will also rank your website higher when someone searches for a keyword that matches with your business.

Who can start a reseller hosting business?

Anyone can start this business provided that they are dedicated to work and take their business to the next level.

Reseller hosting business is ideal for developers who have clients and they recommend their customers to hosting providers. They can have their clients buy hosting from their reseller hosting and earn money.

PRO’S	CON’S
Good side hustle	If company server crashes you can lose a client
Make’s good amount of income	Uneven margins
Make it full time with hard work	It takes time for this business to grow
Low expenses and cost	High competition
Room of expansion	Takes around a month for commission to credit your account

Takeaway

In a nutshell, you can consider it as a profitable business which you can start as a side hustle and once business grows, you can jump in as a full time reseller.

You need to work hard on SEO since you are competing with big players in the hosting industry.

Wish you best of luck, If you have any questions let me know in the comment section

May 10 2022

Fix GoDaddy Managed wordpress website redirecting to myftpupload.com

admin Godaddy tips and tricks

It has been observed that sometimes after restoring GoDaddy Managed wordpress website, it start redirecting to temporary domain name myftpupload.com

Fortunately, there is very easy fix for this issue.

Reason for this redirection in managed wordpress website?

Reason of this redirection is change in domain name in database tables. This is a technical error at GoDaddy managed wordpress servers and it only happens when a customer requests to restore website from last 30 days.

Steps to fix redirection to temporary domain name myftpupload.com

It is very easy to fix this error and you can fix it even if you are not tech saavy. You can follow below instructions:

Open your GoDaddy account and go to “my products” page.
Scroll down to “Managed Wordpress” section and click on “Manage” next to hosting of your website.

Fix GoDaddy Managed wordpress website redirecting to myftpupload.com

3. Now, click on “settings” at top and you will find your domain name and temporary domain name assigned to your website. Make sure your domain name is set as “PRIMARY” here. If not, click on 3 dots next to your domain name and make your domain name primary.

If your domain name is already primary and website is still redirecting to temporary domain name myftpupload.com then follow below instructions:

1. Open “phpmyadmin” to open database assigned to your website.

This will open phpmyadmin and once you are there, you will see 2 databases on top left side. One would be “information schema” and other one would your database like it is starting with f7 in below image for me.

Once you open database, it will open all tables of your database. Our only concern is “options” table. You can find it and click on “Browse” next to it.

TIP: Use Ctrl + F to find “options” table in case you are not able to find it.

Once you open wp_options table, you have to find siteurl and home. Usually, they are on number 1 and 2 in these tables. Now, you will see that your website siteurl and home is set to temporary domain name which is myftpupload.com. Click on “edit” next to both tables and change URL to your domain name.

Now, wait for 2-3 minutes and try to open your website in a different browser to eliminate browser cache issue. Or use /?nocache=1 at the end of your URL just like this: https://webride.net/?nocache=1

This should fix this issue and I hope GoDaddy will also fix this issue from their end 🙂

June 22 2021

How to install an SSL certificate on cPanel linux hosting at GoDaddy or other providers

Grewal Godaddy tips and tricks, SSL certificate 0

Some of us might not know what SSL is, but hackers and spammers do so SSL should be installed on every website whether it is eCommerce website or not. Also, SSL may help you to rank your website up in google results and google also encourages website which have SSL certificate installed in their search results. In this article, I’m going to tell you how to install SSL certificate on any cPanel hosting server.

TABLE OF CONTENT

Buy an SSL certificate
Connect domain with SSL certificate
Generate CSR
Rekey SSL certificate
Download and install certificate
Check online if SSL is installed
Redirect SSL certificate from http to https

BUY AN SSL CERTIFICATE

If your hosting provider does not provide an SSL certificate with your plan, you need to buy one in order to secure your website. There are many options available in the market to buy SSL certificates from: GoDaddy, ComodoSSL etc. Installation is same for all SSL certificates.

Connect domain with SSL certificate

Once you have purchased an SSL certificate, connect the domain with the SSL certificate. Now, if you have a hosting server and SSL certificate at the same provider, for example godaddy in this case ( domain should be primary domain at hosting), you can check for SSL installation at sslchecker or whynopadlock websites and if it shows no errors, you can skip steps and move to step number 8 to redirect domain to https

Generate CSR (Certificate signing request)

We need to generate CSR at cpanel hosting. Login to cpanel admin and locate SSL/TLS section and then click on generate CSR. Enter domain name and other information required and generate CSR. Once it is done, you will receive 2 encrypted files: one is CSR and another one is private key. Copy them both on notepad (including —–begin certificate and end certificate—–) as we are going to need them later on.

Rekey SSL certificate

Now, we have to rekey the SSL using CSR we created in the above step. Click on rekey SSL certificate and paste the whole CSR over there ( including —–begin certificate and end certificate—–) Once it is done, you will get a new certificate generated in a few minutes. In case, you get an error that CSR is not valid, you can test your CSR at this website

Download and install certificate

Once a new SSL certificate is generated, we have to download the SSL certificate. Since we are installing a certificate on cPanel, we need to select the “Apache” certificate and download it. It will download 3 files and we have to use the alphanumeric one to upload.

Once you have downloaded it, go to cpanel admin > SSL/TLS again and this time, click on “Generate, view, upload, or delete SSL certificates”. Upload the .crt file here as shown in above photo and click on “install”.

Check online if SSL is installed

Now, run a SSL test on your website URL from sslchecker and whynopadlock website. If it shows no error, then SSL certificate is installed correctly by you, congratulations!

Redirect SSL certificate from http to https

You can click here to redirect your website from http to https redirection.

June 8 2021

How to force-redirect wordpress website from HTTP to HTTPS automatically

Grewal Godaddy tips and tricks, SSL certificate 0

Once you have installed your SSL certificate, you will need to redirect all traffic from HTTP to HTTPS to make sure it passes through SSL certificate. There are few ways to do it:

Edit .htaccess file in your hosting server
In order to do this, you need to open file manager of your hosting. It will work if your website is created on cPanel hosting like HTML website or wordpress or Drupal or any other CMS.

Once you have opened file manager, you will see files of your website. They will be same like you have files in your computer drive.
You need to find public_html(1) folder as shown in below image from left side and then you need to click on Settings(2) at top right side and make sure you have checked the “Show Hidden Files (dotfiles)” option. Now, you need to find .htaccess(4) file here as shown in image below. If you are not able to find it, click on create file(3) from top left side to create it. Make sure to use dot before htaccess file while creating it.

Once you have opened .htaccess file, you will need to paste below code over there to redirect website to https.

Here is the redirection code or you can generate automatically from below link:

https://www.webride.net/tools/http-to-https-redirection-script.php

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} webride\.net [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.webride.net/$1 [R,L]

Now, this code is for my website webride.net, make sure you replace webride.net with your domain name. Once you are done, save changes and refresh your website. Website will start loading with SSL certificate.

In case SSL is not working, it means SSL certificate is not installed or it is not correctly installed. you can test SSL certificate on SSL checker or why no padlock and troubleshoot accordingly by contacting SSL provider.

2. “Really simple SSL plugin”

You can download this plugin and activate it and it will work same way like what above steps did. This option will work for CMS like wordpress.

*NOTE* Make sure you either use .htaccess or plugin. If you will use both, website will throw errors like “too many redirects” etc.