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Using our Dashboard

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Site health check & Repair site

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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How To Use AI Auto Posting

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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 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

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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Usage & Add-ons - Buy Extra Usage

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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7 Day Free Trial Rejected - Why

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

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…

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Understanding The Error Log Tab In Your 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

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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Understanding the Billing Tab in Your Dashboard

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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How To Update / Upgrade / Change Your Sites PHP Version

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

Dashboard Oveview

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

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Why Are My Sites Frozen

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

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

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)

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

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 Set Up, Access & Manage Your Mailboxes on PBN LTD

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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