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DNS guides and tools: record lookups, propagation, DNSSEC, CAA, SRV records, Cloudflare DNS and fixing resolution problems on servers.

DNS Propagation Checker

Check whether a DNS change has reached 17 public resolvers run by Google, Cloudflare, Quad9, OpenDNS, AdGuard, Yandex, AliDNS and others, with TTLs and a consensus view.

September 29, 2026

Rename Addon Domain cPanel 138+: In-Place Rename

cPanel & WHM 138 added in-place domain renames for addon domains alongside the long-standing primary domain change. This guide explains what changes, what does not, and how to rename with WHM, cPanel and the API without breaking mail, SSL or WordPress.

September 29, 2026

DirectAdmin Wildcard Certificate: DNS Challenge Setup

How to issue and auto-renew wildcard certificates on DirectAdmin 1.708 and later, using the panel's own DNS for the ACME DNS-01 challenge or a _acme-challenge CNAME when the zone is hosted elsewhere, and what the wildcard actually covers.

September 29, 2026

DirectAdmin Unbound Resolver: HTTPS and SVCB Records

Installing Unbound through CustomBuild as a caching validating resolver alongside BIND on a DirectAdmin server, pointing the system and ACME checks at it, and publishing HTTPS and SVCB records from DNS Administration.

September 29, 2026

DirectAdmin DNS Clustering: Reliable Multi-Server Setup

How DirectAdmin's Multi Server Setup pushes DNS zones between servers, blocks duplicate usernames and domains across a fleet, and what to check in named and firewall configuration before relying on it for redundant nameservers.

September 29, 2026

cPanel Temporary Domain: Free *.cpanel.site Setup

cPanel & WHM 132 introduced temporary *.cpanel.site domains so a site can be built and previewed before its real domain points at the server. This guide covers enabling the feature, creating accounts with a temporary domain and switching to the real one.

September 29, 2026

Cloudflare cPanel DNS Proxy: Real Visitor IPs

How to move a cPanel-hosted domain behind Cloudflare without breaking mail, SSL or your firewall — which records to proxy, which to leave alone, and how to make Apache, LiteSpeed and CSF see the real client IP instead of Cloudflare's.

September 29, 2026

Free website test

Is your website set up right?

Check SSL, security headers, redirects, robots.txt, sitemap, llms.txt and security.txt in one test. It takes about 30 seconds.