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Zinn Footprint – The Free Plugin That Removes WordPress Tell-Tales Performance Boost – More CPU And Memory For All Your Sites Redis – A Private Cache That Makes Your Sites Faster Money-Site Resource Boosts – More CPU And Memory For One Site Delete Your Account And Data Country Lock – Limit A Site To Certain Countries Malware Scan – What We Check And What To Do Turnstile – Stop Bots On Your WordPress Login, Sign-Up, Comment And Contact Forms Rank Tracking – Track Your Keywords In Google Website Firewall – What It Blocks And What To Do If Something Legitimate Is Blocked Site Health Check & “Repair site” My Site Is Under a DDoS Attack – What Should I Do? Backlink Tracker & Bulk Link Editor How To Use AI Auto Posting Deploy To Other Hosts – Paid Add-on Hourly Backups – Roll A Site Back To Any Hour Reputation Monitoring – Set It Up And Confirm Your Review Profiles Send Your Website’s Email Through Your Own Provider Why Are My Sites Frozen? What Happens When A Renewal Payment Fails Agency SEO Data – SEO Data for All Your Client Sites Competitor Tracking – Watch Your Competitors Every Week Product Price Tracking – Track Your Products On Google Shopping And Amazon The Marketplace – Buy Backlinks, PBN Builds And Site Services Local Rankings – Get Your Business Onto The Map Brand Mentions – Find Out Who Is Talking About You Cron Jobs – Run WordPress Tasks, PHP Scripts Or Commands On A Schedule The PBN.LTD Hosting App – Your Account And Alerts On Your Phone Can I Change the CDN Provider for My Domain? My Site Is Stuck Activating Its CDN – How To Switch To Another CDN Staging Sites – Test Changes Before They Go Live Extra Databases – Add More MySQL Databases To A Site Understanding the Status States of Your Domains How To Bulk Edit Your Domains How To Reinstate An Expired Cloudflare Zone My Domain Is In ‘ERROR’ State — What It Means & How to Fix It How To Access phpMyAdmin & File Manager Using SFTP On Your Sites Copy A Staging Site To Live Automatically Update Nameservers – Connect Your Registrar Accounts Use Your Own Cloudflare Or Bunny.net Account Money-Site Add-Ons – With Your Plan Or Later How To Update Your Nameservers We Are Setting The Nameservers For You – Nothing For You To Do How to Submit a Support Ticket – Channels, Steps & Fast-Resolution Tips Index Checker – Is Every Page Of Your Site In Google? AI Visibility – See What AI Assistants Say About Your Brand Client Reports – Send Your Clients A Report In Your Own Name The Site Audit – What Is Holding A Site Back The Footprint Checker – What Publicly Joins Your Sites Together Backlink Monitor – Know The Day A Link Disappears Domain Alerts – Be First To The Expired Domains You Want Domain Vetting – Check A Domain Before You Buy It Domain Overview – See What Any Domain Ranks For Keyword Research – Find Keywords Worth Ranking For More Hosting From Zinn Digital – Agency, Reseller, Cloud And More WooCommerce – Every Way To Add It To Your Site Email At Another Provider – And Moving It To Us The “This Site Is Ready” Page On A New, Empty Site Domains – Bulk Search And Transferring A Domain In Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) – A Code From Your Phone At Every Sign-In Sign In Without A Password – Sign-In Links Abuse Reports – What They Are And How To Answer One Affiliate Programme – Earn On Everyone You Refer Page Cache – Faster Pages From The CDN Edge PHP Settings & Modules – Change Limits And Switch Extensions On How To Migrate Your Site To PBN LTD Sharing Your Account Safely With Team Access How To Buy & Manage Domains In Your Dashboard What CMS’s Do You Support? What Happens When You Pay Late? How To Access Your Automatic Backups (And Take Manual Ones) DNS Resolution & Important Considerations Monthly Usage Caps (CloudFront & BunnyCDN) How To Purge CDN Cache 7 Day Free Trial Rejected – Why? Dashboard Filters – What They Are & What They Do How to Enable & Use SSL (HTTPS) on Your Websites Which CDN Should I Use? Add One Extra Hosting Space To Your Account I’ve Just Paid — Why Are My Sites Still Frozen? Dashboard Guided Tour – Get To Know The Dashboard With A Custom Walkthrough Online / Offline Domain Status – What It Means Understanding The Error Log Tab In Your Dashboard Can I Add A Subdomain? Can I Pay Yearly? (Quarterly, 6-Monthly & Multi-Month Options) Can I Create Subdomains Via A 3rd Party? Can I Add Custom DNS Records? Understanding the Billing Tab in Your Dashboard What Does ‘Migrating Site’ Mean? How To Subscribe After Your Free Trial Ends Dashboard Oveview How to use our Built in WordPress post scheduler How to Change Your PBN LTD Account Email or Password Can I change the URL of my website? Blueprint Templating System How To Increase Your WordPress Upload Limits (And Avoid The CloudFlare 100MB Trap) Slow Site Speed — Fix Every Non-Hosting Cause Static HTML Troubleshooting — Fix Common File-Based Issues How to Use the WordPress Health Check Plugin for Troubleshooting How to Fix a 500 Internal Server Error Fixing 404 Errors on Inner Pages (Static HTML Websites) How to 301 Redirect (WordPress & Static HTML) How to Resolve WordPress Plugin or Theme Conflicts Error: “Too Many Redirects” — Causes & Fixes One Click Admin Login (SSO) Not Working — How to Fix It Common Cloudflare Notices & What They Mean How to Edit Your Billing Details How to Switch Your Payment Method

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Manage your subscription, update payment methods, fix billing errors, and handle account changes.

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Learn about our integrated CDN providers and how to choose the right one for your site.

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Manage your DNS records on PBN LTD — A, CNAME, MX, TXT, propagation times, and troubleshooting.

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Set up and use email on your domain — webmail access, IMAP/POP3/SMTP settings, and common fixes.

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Step-by-step guides for migrating your website to PBN LTD quickly and with minimal downtime.

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Fixes for common WordPress, plugin, and code-related issues that aren't caused by hosting

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What each domain status means — OK, Error, Waiting DNS Update — and how to fix issues.

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How to create, manage, and access subdomains on PBN LTD, including the NTCloud subdomain dashboard.

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How to contact support, submit a ticket, and what information to include for the fastest response.

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Using our Dashboard

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Guides and tutorials for getting the most out of the PBN LTD dashboard and its features.

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Using our Dashboard

PHP Web, Developer And LMS Money-Site Hosting

Money-site hosting is not only WordPress: order plain PHP or static HTML hosting, Node.js, Python or Ruby apps, or an online-course site from your dashboard, upgrade a static site to PHP without going offline, and open the rest of our sister company's hosting in one click.

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Using our Dashboard

We Moved Your Site To PHP 8.3 – What It Means

Why some WordPress sites still on an older PHP version are being moved to PHP 8.3 for security, checked before and after, and how to switch to a different PHP version yourself at any time.

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Using our Dashboard

My Site Is Waiting For DNS – Check It Now

Changed your nameservers? Press Check again now on the site to check them at once instead of waiting for our next automatic check. It tells you exactly what your registrar shows and what to change.

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Using our Dashboard

Site Stuck Activating: Remove Old DNSSEC

If your nameservers are right but the site will not go live, an old DNSSEC setting at your registrar is usually why. Switch DNSSEC off (delete the DS record) there, and the site goes live by itself.

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Using our Dashboard

Scheduled Maintenance – What You See And What To Do

While the server a site is on has scheduled maintenance (for example a planned restart), the site page and your sites list show a notice with the time it will be back. Nothing needs doing; the notice disappears by itself.

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Using our Dashboard

Move A PBN Site To Money-Site Hosting In One Click

Move any PBN site into a free slot of your money-site plan with one click: we copy it, check it, point your domain at the new hosting without a nameserver change, prove it is live, then remove the PBN copy and its backups for you.

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Using our Dashboard

Delete Your Account And Data

How to delete your PBN.LTD account and all its data: in your dashboard or the app, or by e-mail. What is deleted, when, what we keep and how to change your mind.

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Using our Dashboard

Country Lock – Limit A Site To Certain Countries

Lock a site to one country, a list of countries, or everyone except a list. Everyone else gets a clean "not available in your country" page. Search engines stay welcome.

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Using our Dashboard

How We Protect Your Sites – Security Included Free

Every protection built into your hosting at no extra cost: automatic malware removal, malware scans, flood guard, the website firewall, login and form protection, safe updates, automatic repairs, isolation between customers and e-mail protection - what each does and what you see.

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Using our Dashboard

Send Your Website’s Email Through Your Own Provider

Send the email a website sends - contact forms, orders, password resets - through your own Resend, SendGrid, Brevo, Mailgun, Amazon SES, Postmark or other SMTP account instead of our mail servers, and test it with one click.

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Billing & Account Management

What Happens When A Renewal Payment Fails

If your card or PayPal subscription renewal fails and the automatic retries run out, you get one e-mail with the date your sites will be paused. Pay by then and nothing changes; after it your sites are paused, never deleted, and come back by themselves once the payment goes through.

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Using our Dashboard

Make Sure Email From Your Website Is Delivered

Why Yahoo, Gmail and Outlook may refuse or junk email from your website, how we sign it with your own domain, and - when your domain’s DNS is kept somewhere else - the one record to add and how to check it.

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Using our Dashboard

Agency SEO Data – SEO Data for All Your Client Sites

How to track authority and link data for all your client sites every week - domain rank, referring domains, backlinks, spam score and organic traffic - with a CSV export, the API and your white-label client reports.

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Using our Dashboard

Reputation Monitoring – Set It Up And Confirm Your Review Profiles

How to watch your star rating and latest reviews on Google, Trustpilot and Tripadvisor: adding a business, confirming which review profiles are yours, reading the poor reviews nobody has answered, and your brand's first page of Google.

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Using our Dashboard

The Hosting Box On Your WordPress Dashboard

Every WordPress site you host with us shows "Your hosting account" at the top of its Dashboard: your plan, this site's usage, your add-ons and useful tools, seen only by the site's administrators.

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Staging Sites – Test Changes Before They Go Live

Make a private staging copy of a WordPress or Static HTML site, try updates and changes on it safely, then copy them to the live site: files, database, or both. Never seen by search engines.

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Using our Dashboard

Copy A Staging Site To Live

Publish a staging copy to its live site: files and database, database only, or files only. What changes, what never changes, the undo copy, and how search engines see the live site afterwards.

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Money-Site Add-Ons – With Your Plan Or Later

Extras for a money site – SEO monitoring, speed and security work, translation, chat, support and more – ticked on the same order and paid with the plan, or added to a site you already have.

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Using our Dashboard

Local Rankings – Get Your Business Onto The Map

How to track where a business comes up in Google's map results and local results, town by town: finding your listing, adding the towns you care about, choosing keywords and cadence, and reading the changes to your business profile.

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Brand Mentions – Find Out Who Is Talking About You

How to listen for your brand, domain, product or name across the web: add the phrases you care about, choose how often we look, and get one e-mail when something new is said, with negative mentions first.

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Using our Dashboard

Backlink Monitor – Know The Day A Link Disappears

How to watch the links pointing at your pages: add the links you built or bought, choose how often we check them, and get one e-mail when a link is removed, repointed, re-anchored or made nofollow. Plus how to watch a whole domain's backlink profile.

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Using our Dashboard

Domain Vetting – Check A Domain Before You Buy It

How to run a vetting report on any domain: what the nine checks look at, how to read the score and its reasons, how report credits work, and how to vet a domain straight from the aged-domain list or an alert e-mail.

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Domain Overview – See What Any Domain Ranks For

How to run a domain report in the dashboard: ranked keywords and positions, estimated traffic and its value, position spread, top pages, competitors, and the keyword gap against up to three of them.

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Keyword Research – Find Keywords Worth Ranking For

How to research keywords in the dashboard: search a seed keyword, read volume, CPC, competition and difficulty, filter down to what you can win, get local volumes, save lists and send keywords straight to rank tracking.

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SEO Tools – Buy Several Together And Pay Yearly

Every SEO tool in one place: what each one does, how to buy several in a single order at a discount, how paying yearly works, and how to add or drop a tool without losing your renewal date.

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Using our Dashboard

WooCommerce – Every Way To Add It To Your Site

The five places you can add WooCommerce here - the add-site tick, the bulk CSV column, the site page, the money-site WordPress plans and the API - what each one installs and sets up, how long it takes and what to do next.

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Using our Dashboard

Email At Another Provider – And Moving It To Us

What the Mail tab shows when your domain’s email is handled somewhere else, how to move it to PBN.LTD Mail, how to switch to another provider, and what to do when your DNS is not kept here.

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Using our Dashboard

Redis – A Private Cache That Makes Your Sites Faster

Give your account its own private in-memory cache so pages and the WordPress admin are built once and served from memory. One click for WordPress, exact settings for every other platform.

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Using our Dashboard

Malware Scan – What We Check And What To Do

Every site is scanned for malware every night. What the Malware scan tab shows, how to scan again, quarantine a file, restore it, and when a site is paused.

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Site health check & Repair site
On-Site Issues

Site Health Check & “Repair site”

PBN.LTD checks your WordPress, Joomla and Drupal sites every hour and safely repairs the common breakages from imports, restores and interrupted updates — backing up first and emailing what it did. Run it yourself from the Site health check box (Check and repair / Repair site), and reset a locked-out admin password there too. It never touches your themes, plugins or content.

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Sharing Your Account Safely With Team Access
Billing & Account Management

Sharing Your Account Safely With Team Access

Team Access lets colleagues, freelancers or your accountant work in your account with their own login — never your password. Invite by email, choose which sites they see and what they can do (23 permissions, or a ready-made role), and watch everything in the Activity log. Only you manage access, and you can remove anyone in a click.

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How To Use AI Auto Posting
Using our Dashboard

How To Use AI Auto Posting

AI Auto Posting writes and publishes articles to your sites automatically, using your own AI account. Add an AI key, create a campaign (sites, topics, schedule, pictures), and approve or edit each article first if you like. Posts to all nine site types, included in your plan — you only pay your AI provider for what it writes.

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Do You Have An API
Developer Docs

Do You Have An API?

Yes — PBN.LTD has a full REST API covering hosting, sites, mail, DNS, SEO tools, backups and billing, so you can manage everything from your own tools, scripts and dashboards. Create scoped API keys, secure them with an expiry, IP allowlist and rate limits, and revoke instantly. Full docs with curl, Python and JavaScript examples — or connect an AI assistant via MCP.

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Connect Any AI Assistant To Your Account (MCP Server)
Developer Docs

Connect Any AI Assistant To Your Account (MCP Server)

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP-capable AI assistant to your PBN.LTD account at https://app.pbn.ltd/mcp and manage your hosting just by asking — covering everything the API can do, from sites and DNS to mail, SEO tools and billing, running on your own key’s permissions, limits and audit trail. Watch or revoke any assistant from your API keys page.

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How To Unfreeze & Fix A Site That’s Over Its Usage Limit
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How To Unfreeze & Fix A Site That’s Over Its Usage Limit

If a site is paused for going over a usage limit (database, disk or files), you can fix it yourself: click “Add space or see usage” then “Unfreeze for 30 minutes to clean up” (3 times a day), clear the bloat — Site Cleaner does it in one go — then Check now. Under the limit? It stays online. Or just add more space.

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Deploy To Other Hosts - Paid Add-on
Billing & Account Management

Deploy To Other Hosts – Paid Add-on

A paid add-on ($9/month) that publishes your sites to your own accounts at eight external hosts — GitHub Pages, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Vercel, GitLab Pages, Render, Azure Static Web Apps and AWS Amplify. Connect with your own token, deploy from a zip, your hosted files or a repo, with one-click rollback and custom domains.

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We Are Setting The Nameservers For You - Nothing For You To Do
DNS Records

We Are Setting The Nameservers For You – Nothing For You To Do

If you see “We are setting the nameservers for you — nothing for you to do”, that’s exactly what it means. For any domain we can handle — bought through us, connected via your registrar, or already pointing at us — we point it at your site automatically, usually within about 10 minutes.

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How To Buy & Manage Domains In Your Dashboard
Billing & Account Management

How To Buy & Manage Domains In Your Dashboard

Search, register and manage domains without leaving PBN.LTD. Find a name across 2,000+ extensions, pay securely on the registrar’s page (we never see your card), follow the order, and have any waiting site pointed at it automatically.

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How To Bulk Edit Your Domains
Using our Dashboard

How To Bulk Edit Your Domains

Tick several sites on your Sites list — or all matching a filter — and act on them together: add to a group, change PHP, toggle HTTPS, www or WordPress auto-updates, clear the CDN cache, find and remove a file, or delete. Every action previews first, and the destructive ones need DELETE typed.

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Auto Site Cleaner Add-on (And what it does)
Billing & Account Management

Auto Site Cleaner Add-on (And what it does)

Site Cleaner clears out unused plugins, themes, database leftovers, old revisions, cache and junk — keeping your sites lean and inside their limits. Scan any site free to see what would go; the clean is a paid add-on, backed up and undoable for 7 days.

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What CMS's Do You Support
Using our Dashboard

What CMS’s Do You Support?

PBN.LTD supports nine site types — WordPress, Static HTML, PHP hosting, Joomla, Drupal, PrestaShop, OpenCart, Grav and MediaWiki. Each arrives installed and tuned, with one-click login, File Manager, SFTP, backups, CDN and more.

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Using SFTP On Your Sites
Using our Dashboard

Using SFTP On Your Sites

Connect to your site’s files from FileZilla, WinSCP or the command line. Turn SFTP on in one click from your control panel, copy your host, port and one-time password, and manage your files directly.

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Wayback Restores Directly From The PBN.LTD Dashboard
Using our Dashboard

Wayback Restores Directly From The PBN.LTD Dashboard

Check any domain for Wayback Machine snapshots for free, then restore a static HTML or WordPress copy straight from your PBN.LTD dashboard. A paid add-on — $3 per restore, or buy a restore pack to bring the price down.

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What Happens When You Pay Late
Billing & Account Management

What Happens When You Pay Late?

If your plan has lapsed, pay on the Subscriptions page — it shows exactly which dates your payment covers before you pay. Your paid time runs from your original renewal date, not the day you pay, so if you’re well overdue, choose enough months to reach a future date and your sites come back within about a minute.

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Usage & Add-ons - Buy Extra Usage
Billing & Account Management

Usage & Add-ons – Buy Extra Usage

Understand your site’s Disk space, Database and Files (inodes) usage, see it on the Usage & add-ons page, and buy extra in $3/month blocks (+5 GB, +500 MB or +5,000 files) if you need it — or clean up and hit Check now instead. A site over a limit is paused until it’s back under.

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Dashboard Filters - What They Are & What They Do
Using our Dashboard

Dashboard Filters – What They Are & What They Do

Managing a large network is far easier when you can zero in on exactly the sites you’re after. Right at the top of your main dashboard overview you’ll find a set of filters that let you slice through all your PBN.LTD-hosted domains in seconds — by state, whether they’re online, their CDN, PHP version, index… <br> <a class="read-more" href="https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/dashboard-filters-what-they-are-what-they-do/">Read more</a>

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7 Day Free Trial Rejected - Why
Using our Dashboard

7 Day Free Trial Rejected – Why?

Our 7-day free trial is limited to one per customer — and one per company. If you try to start a trial and see a message saying it's already been used, it means a free trial has already been taken on your account, or by you or your company before. When that happens you'll simply need to choose a paid plan to get started.

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How To Purge CDN Cache
CDN Providers

How To Purge CDN Cache

Made a change to your site — edited your code, updated files on a Static HTML site, or tweaked something in WordPress — and it’s not showing on the front end? Almost every time, that’s caching. We automatically apply Cloudflare caching rules to keep your sites fast, and you can clear that cache yourself from… <br> <a class="read-more" href="https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/cdn-providers/how-to-purge-cdn-cache/">Read more</a>

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Add One Extra Hosting Space To Your Account
Billing & Account Management

Add One Extra Hosting Space To Your Account

Need just one or two more sites than your package holds? Instead of jumping up to the next package, you can now add single extra hosting slots for $2.00 per site per month — so you only pay for exactly what you need, when you need it.

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Dashboard Guided Tour - Get To Know The Dashboard With A Custom Walkthrough
Billing & Account Management

Dashboard Guided Tour – Get To Know The Dashboard With A Custom Walkthrough

Getting to grips with a new hosting dashboard can feel like a lot — especially one as packed with features as our PBN Hosting. So every new account starts with an automatic guided tour that walks you through the dashboard, showing you what each tab does and where to find everything you need. 💡 Heads-upThe… <br> <a class="read-more" href="https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/using-our-dashboard/dashboard-guided-tour-get-to-know-the-dashboard-with-a-custom-walkthrough/">Read more</a>

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Online Offline Domain Status - What It Means
Status indicators

Online / Offline Domain Status – What It Means

Your dashboard now tells you at a glance whether each of your sites is healthy. Our system automatically scans every domain and reports its status — Online or Offline — right in the main dashboard overview, so you can spot a problem the moment it happens without opening each site one by one. 💡 Heads-upThe… <br> <a class="read-more" href="https://pbn.ltd/knowledgebase/status-indicators/online-offline-domain-status-what-it-means/">Read more</a>

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Understanding The Error Log Tab In Your Dashboard
Using our Dashboard

Understanding The Error Log Tab In Your Dashboard

The Error log tab shows the recent PHP and web-server errors for a domain, so you can find the cause of a problem and fix it yourself — without opening a support ticket or asking us to pull the logs for you. If a site goes down or starts misbehaving, this is the first place to look.

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Can I Add A Subdomain
Subdomains

Can I Add A Subdomain?

Want to create a subdomain? Here we will go through step by step how to add subdomains at PBN.LTD!

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Can I Create Subdomains Via A 3rd Party
DNS Records

Can I Create Subdomains Via A 3rd Party?

Yes. You can host a subdomain on a completely separate server — anywhere you like — and link it to your domain through the DNS Records panel. You don’t need to create the subdomain here at all

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How To Reinstate An Expired Cloudflare Zone
CDN Providers

How To Reinstate An Expired Cloudflare Zone

Every so often a site’s Cloudflare zone can expire — and when it does, your PBN LTD dashboard now spots it and lets you put it right in a single click.

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Can I Add Custom DNS Records
DNS Records

Can I Add Custom DNS Records?

You can add and manage your own DNS records for any domain directly from your dashboard — no need to open a support ticket. The panel supports A, AAAA, CNAME, TXT, MX, SRV, CAA and NS records, and on Cloudflare‑fronted sites you can switch the orange cloud (CDN proxy) on or off for each record.

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Understanding the Billing Tab in Your Dashboard
Billing & Account Management

Understanding the Billing Tab in Your Dashboard

The Billing tab is in everyone's dashboard, but only shows invoices for Fastspring payers. Here's where to find your billing records whether you pay by Fastspring, PayPal, or Crypto.

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What Does 'Migrating Site' Mean
Status indicators

What Does ‘Migrating Site’ Mean?

Seeing 'Migrating Site' in your dashboard? Don't worry — our AI load balancer has automatically moved your site to a healthier server. Find out why it happens, what to expect, and what not to do while it's in progress.

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I've Just Paid - Why Are My Sites Still Frozen
Billing & Account Management

I’ve Just Paid — Why Are My Sites Still Frozen?

Paid and your sites are still frozen? They shouldn't be for long — frozen sites now come back online automatically the moment your payment is confirmed, usually within about 30 seconds. Here's how it works and what to check if one lingers.

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How To Subscribe After Your Free Trial Ends
Billing & Account Management

How To Subscribe After Your Free Trial Ends

Your 7-day free trial doesn't require a card, so nothing is auto-charged when it ends — your sites just pause. Here's how to subscribe in 2 minutes from your dashboard, plus a full breakdown of every payment method (PayPal, Fastspring, Crypto).

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How To Update / Upgrade / Change Your Sites PHP Version
Using our Dashboard

How To Update Your Sites PHP Version

Change your site's PHP version in 30 seconds from the PBN LTD dashboard — no support ticket needed. Step-by-step guide using Site Functions → Edit Site, plus tips on which PHP version to pick and how to roll back if anything breaks.

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PBN.LTD Dashboard Oveview
Using our Dashboard

Dashboard Oveview

Get a full understanding of how to use our PBN hosting management dashboard.

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Why Are My Sites Frozen
Using our Dashboard

Why Are My Sites Frozen?

Our system will automatically freeze domains for a few reasons. Find out why and how to resolve the issue here!

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How to use our Built in WordPress post scheduler
Using our Dashboard

How to use our Built in WordPress post scheduler

If you want to be able to automatically schedule posts to your PBN websites, days, weeks or months in advance. Then you can use our built in WordPress posting solution! Read on to find out more!

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Can I change the URL of my website
Using our Dashboard

Can I change the URL of my website?

If you want to know how to change the URL of your website. Add/remove www. or Https to your domain. Even after you have added it to our Dashboard. This can be done in one simply step!

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How To Access Your Automatic Backups (And Take Manual Ones)
Using our Dashboard

How To Access Your Automatic Backups (And Take Manual Ones)

Every PBN LTD site is backed up automatically every day. Under Control panel → Backups and restore you can view, download, restore or delete backups, take a manual one with Create backup, or upload your own (.tar.gz only). We keep the last 7 days and always keep your last successful backup.

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Accessing PHPMyAdmin & File Manager
Using our Dashboard

How To Access phpMyAdmin & File Manager

Open File Manager and phpMyAdmin in one click from your site’s control panel — no login to type. File manager is under Files and access, phpMyAdmin under Database (both under Site functions too), and each opens in a new tab already logged in. Take a backup before making changes.

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How To Migrate Your WordPress Site To PBN LTD
How To Migrate Websites

How To Migrate Your Site To PBN LTD

Move your website to PBN LTD yourself with the built-in Migrate a site in tool — WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, PHP and static HTML sites. Connect via a WordPress login or our plugin, or cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, FTP or SFTP. We copy your files and database; your old site stays live until you switch.

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Troubleshooting Slow Site Speeds
On-Site Issues

Slow Site Speed — Fix Every Non-Hosting Cause

Slow site speed killing your SEO and conversions? Deep dive into every non-hosting cause: images, CSS, JS, plugins, caching, fonts and more — with concrete fixes for WordPress and static HTML.

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How to Fix a 500 Internal Server Error
On-Site Issues

How to Fix a 500 Internal Server Error

500 Internal Server Error on your site? Fix WordPress and static HTML 500 errors fast — .htaccess, plugins, themes, cache. No FTP needed.

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How to 301 Redirect (WordPress & Static HTML)
On-Site Issues

How to 301 Redirect (WordPress & Static HTML)

Set up 301 redirects on PBN LTD — for WordPress (plugin or .htaccess) and static HTML sites. Step-by-step with copy-paste snippets, no FTP needed.

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How to Set Up, Access & Manage Your Mailboxes on PBN LTD
Email

How to Set Up, Access & Manage Your Mailboxes

Set up email at your own domain on PBN LTD — add a mailbox when you create a site or later from the Mail section, then read it in Webmail or your favourite app and manage forwarders, catch-all, auto-replies and DKIM/DMARC.

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How to update your Nameservers
DNS Records

How To Update Your Nameservers

Step-by-step guide to update your nameservers at any registrar — GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare and more — and point your domain at PBN LTD.

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DNS Resolution & Important Considerations
DNS Records

DNS Resolution & Important Considerations

Domain not loading after a nameserver change? DNS usually updates within a few hours — up to 24 hours at most. Learn how to check propagation, safely speed it up, and fix it with our step-by-step DNS troubleshooting checklist (nameservers, DNSSEC, CDN zone and registrar holds).

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Which CDN Should I Use
CDN Providers

Which CDN Should I Use?

Not sure which CDN to pick? Here's the simple breakdown of Cloudflare, BunnyCDN, KeyCDN and CDN77 — with a quick comparison table to help you choose.

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My Site Is Under a DDoS Attack - What Should I Do
CDN Providers

My Site Is Under a DDoS Attack – What Should I Do?

Your site is protected from DDoS attacks automatically by our Flood guard — it detects a flood, switches on protection and emails you, keeping your site online without affecting others. For hands-on control, use the Security tab: I’m Under Attack mode, firewall rules and bot protection.

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Common Cloudflare Notices & What They Mean
CDN Providers

Common Cloudflare Notices & What They Mean

Hit a Cloudflare error when adding your domain? Don't panic — here's exactly what each common Cloudflare notice means and how to fix it in minutes.

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Can I Change the CDN Provider for My Domain on PBN LTD?
CDN Providers

Can I Change the CDN Provider for My Domain?

Yes — you can now change your CDN in one click, right from your dashboard. Open the site’s CDN tab and click Move to Cloudflare, BunnyCDN, CDN77, Gcore or KeyCDN. Your old CDN keeps serving until the new one is proven, so there’s no downtime (CloudFront moves are done for you by support).

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How To Upgrade & Downgrade Your Hosting Package
Billing & Account Management

How to Upgrade, Downgrade, or Cancel Your Hosting Plan

Upgrade, downgrade or cancel your PBN LTD plan yourself, any time, from the Subscriptions page. Upgrades now charge only the prorated difference and start immediately — on card, PayPal and crypto — and downgrades start at your next billing date with no charge or refund.

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How to Switch Your Payment Method
Billing & Account Management

How to Switch Your Payment Method

Need to switch from card to PayPal - or between different cards or PayPal accounts? Here's how to change your payment method on PBN LTD safely.

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How Can I Edit My Billing Details
Billing & Account Management

How to Edit Your Billing Details

Need to update your card details, PayPal account, or billing address on PBN LTD? Follow the right steps for your current payment method below.

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CardDebit Card - Can't Pay
Billing & Account Management

Card/Debit Card – Can’t Pay

If you are using Card/Debit Card (Fastspring) payments and you notice the 'We regret that your order could not be accepted...' notice. Here is why and the solution!

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💡 More From Our Hosting FAQs Blog

Older how-to articles and hosting tips from our blog — extra reading if you want to go deeper.

Which CMS/Platforms can I run my PBN sites on?

When we first launched, you could host your PBNs with us on WordPress or plain static HTML — and even that was…

📰 Blog post · 22 September 2026

Do you limit accounts & niches?

We are the only PBN hosting provider that does not limit your web space, bandwidth or restrict the niches that can host…

📰 Blog post · 22 September 2026

Free PBN Website Migrations

We’re often asked whether we offer free website migrations from other hosting companies over to ours. The answer is a big yes…

📰 Blog post · 22 September 2026

Do you have Automatic Google Indexing Checks for all my PBN websites.

Yes we most certainly do! At no extra costs to our customers, we run Google indexing checks on all the PBN websites…

📰 Blog post · 16 September 2026

Do you provide email for every domain?

Yes — every domain you add to your PBN LTD dashboard comes with free, unlimited email built in, at no extra cost.…

📰 Blog post · 16 September 2026

Do You Offer Website Speed Optimisation? Yes — Here’s What’s Included

Short answer: yes. Site speed optimisation is one of the most-requested add-on services we run for hosting clients and external sites alike,…

📰 Blog post · 11 May 2026

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🔗 From Our PBN Links Blog

Latest posts about our PBN links service — what we offer, how it works, and what to expect.

How Operators Are Blending PBN Links With Other Link Types in 2026 — And Why It’s Working

The SEO operators performing most consistently through 2026's algorithm volatility are not the ones who abandoned PBN links, nor the ones who…

📰 Blog post · 13 June 2026

PBN Blogroll Links For Sale

Blogroll backlinks are one of the most underrated tools in the PBN operator's kit. While the bulk of the SEO industry obsesses…

📰 Blog post · 12 May 2026

Geo-Targeted PBN Backlinks – Various Countries Available

If you're targeting a single country, generic global backlinks aren't going to cut it. Google has spent more than a decade refining…

📰 Blog post · 11 May 2026

Korean Homepage Backlinks

If you're trying to rank inside Korea — on naver.com, on daum.net, or on the Korean-language slice of Google — you've probably…

📰 Blog post · 11 May 2026

High TF Indonesia Backlinks

Ranking in Indonesia is a different sport. The keyword volumes are huge, the buyer intent is unusually direct, and the local search…

📰 Blog post · 11 May 2026

Crypto PBN Links

Crypto is one of the most competitive niches on the open web. Every coin, exchange, wallet, trading platform, and DeFi protocol is…

📰 Blog post · 11 May 2026

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