If your website takes more than a few seconds to load, the cause is almost always something you can identify and fix yourself. This guide walks you through the most common reasons for a website slow fix, how to diagnose the problem using free tools, and when it makes sense to upgrade your hosting plan for better performance.

Discovering that your website is down can be stressful, but most outages are caused by a small number of common issues. This guide walks you through quick diagnostic checks, the most frequent causes of downtime, and exactly what to do at each stage — so you can get your site back online as fast as possible.

This guide explains how to set up and run Node.js applications on your HOSTDOG hosting. You will learn how to create a Node.js application through the control panel, configure the entry point, install dependencies, and manage your application.

This guide explains how to use Git on your HOSTDOG hosting via SSH. You will learn how to initialize a repository on the server, push code from your local machine, and set up a basic deployment workflow to keep your website in sync with your Git repository.

This guide walks you through upgrading your hosting plan from the HOSTDOG client area. The entire process takes a few minutes, your website stays online throughout, and all your files, databases, and email accounts carry over automatically.

This guide covers how to connect to your HOSTDOG hosting via SSH, including enabling SSH access on your account, connecting from macOS, Linux, and Windows terminals, and running your first commands. SSH access also enables tools like Git, WP-CLI, and Drush on your hosting.

This article covers the difference between 301 (permanent) and 302 (temporary) redirects, when to use each, and two ways to set them up on your HOSTDOG hosting account: through the Redirects tool in your control panel, or manually via .htaccess rules.

This guide shows you how to set up cron jobs on your HOSTDOG hosting account. You will learn how to create scheduled tasks through your control panel, write cron expressions for common intervals, and troubleshoot jobs that do not run as expected.

HOSTDOG creates automated daily backups of every shared hosting account. If you need to undo a mistake, recover deleted files, or roll back a database, you can restore from one of these backups directly in your hosting control panel. This guide walks you through the entire process.

This guide shows you how to export a database (create a downloadable SQL backup) and import a database (restore or load data from an SQL file) using phpMyAdmin in your HOSTDOG control panel. Both operations take just a few clicks.