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Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
Site Downtime
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What to check if your site is down
Domain registration-related downtime issues
Payment and Abuse-related downtime issues
Server-related downtime issues
Advanced downtime troubleshooting steps
Connection Issues
Fixing a '500 Internal Server Error' message
Site not found
Troubleshooting a single site's connection
Collecting ping results
China Firewall overview
How to change a file extension
Hacked Sites
Hacked sites overview
Determining how your site was hacked
Preventing future hacks
Cleaning up your site after a hack
Logs
Viewing your access and error logs via SFTP
Viewing and examining your error log via SSH
Viewing and examining your access.log via SSH
Command line troubleshooting tools
Commands to troubleshoot your websites
Using the 'top' command to troubleshoot your website
Using the 'ps' command to troubleshoot your website
Optimization / Site Slowness
Common reasons for poor website performance
Troubleshooting site slowness
Control bots, spiders, and crawlers
Optimize CMS software
Upload speeds are very slow
Enable GZIP compression
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