To create a free business email address, you must own a domain name, and if you don’t have one, you can buy it from Namecheap or other domain name providers that provide email forwarding services with the domain name. But if you already have one, follow this guide.

Is it possible to create a free business email address?

The answer to this question is yes. You can create a free business email using the hosting provider or only the domain name. This article will discuss free methods to create email for your business using Gmail or hosting.

If you create a business email using the hosting provider, all the email’s control is on you. You can decide the total storage of the email account and the size of attachments, which means you are the email provider and can enjoy all the premium services of the business email address.

When you create a free business email on Gmail using the domain name only, there are serval limits attachment can’t be larger than 20MB, the total storage limit is 15GB.

We can create free Business email addresses using Gmail and cPanel. Let’s understand them one by one.

You can also create a Zoho account. Zoho allows you to create up to 5 Business email addresses for free. But there are some limitations like storage limitations, synchronous, etc.

How to Create a Free Business email address using cPanel

You can also create a business email address using the cPanel from a WordPress website hosting provider. This is the most common and easy method for beginners. The cPanel of the hosting provider will allow you to create a number of email addresses as per your need. You can create professional email addresses for your employees.

Get a Free email address with a hosting provider like Bluehost.

Bluehost is the recommended hosting provider in the list of WordPress for WordPress hosting. You have to purchase a hosting plan as per your website’s traffic.

If you already own a brand, check the availability of a domain name for your brand using the following search bar.

We recommend creating a domain name the same as your brand. It will help your customers to remember your domain and business. If the domain name is not available with .com, you can go with the ccTLD or country code top-level domain. Learn how to find the best domain name for your website or blog.

Bluehost provides you with a free business email address with its hosting. You can also create your website using Hostinger which provides free hPanel to create a business email.

Create Business Email using cPanel

After purchasing the hosting, you can log in to the cPanel of the hosting provider and create a custom email address with the domain name.

After creating the business email address, you can access it using webmail.seoneurons.com, where seoneurons is your domain name. This service is with hosting and will not charge you extra.

Enable Email Forwarding Service.

Suppose you run a website where you don’t need any hosting service or have not chosen the right WordPress hosting. As some hosting provider doesn’t give access to cPanel, you can only access file manager, so you can’t create a free custom Business email. In such a case, you can buy an email service package or create a free business email using a domain name or use Gmail for business for free.

To create a free Business email on Gmail, you need an email forwarding service from the Domain Name Provider.

NameCheap, Cloudflare, or Google domain provides excellent email forwarding services. Bluehost and Bigrock offer you two free business email addresses with the domain.

But if you purchased a domain that doesn’t include a free email service or email forward service like Godaddy. You can configure your domain on Cloudflare for email forward service.

Create Email Forwarding using Cloudflare.

This will allow you to receive your business emails on your personal Gmail account.

Some domain name providers do not provide an email forwarding feature; in that case, you can use Cloudflare to forward all emails to receive on your business domain.

You have to create a Cloudflare account to enable the email forwarding service.

• Enter the Domain Name for which you want to create a business email address.
• Enter the current Gmail address to receive all the forwarded emails.
• Click on create free alias.

This will send a verification email to your Gmail account. You’ve to check the email and verify.

After successful email verification, you can provide the business email address in the Aliases section. When someone sends an email to this address, it will get in your Gmail email box. That’s your business email address, so now your users can send emails to this address, and you’ll receive these emails in your Gmail email box.

After verifying the domain name, you’ve to verify and set up the domain for email forwarding. The ImprovMX will ask you to update DNS records. Please note that if you pointed the nameserver to Cloudflare, you’ve to change the record in Cloudflare.

• How to change DNS record Godaddy.

After updating the DNS record, you’ve to wait for its propagation. It may take a few minutes to a few hours. Check this propagation at digwebinterface.com. After the DNS update, you can receive all the emails to your Business email address.

Forward Email in NameCheap Domain Provider.

Domain Registrar Namecheap allows you to forward emails to your email account. So you can follow this guide if you register your domain with Namecheap hosting provider.

You have to log in to your Namecheap account and click on manage account to forward emails.

Then enable email forwarding, provide youras name, and your Gmaiforward yourwhere you want to receive all emails.

You can try sending emails to your business email and it should receive on your personal Gmail account.

Please note: This Namecheap service will work with default nameservers. You can check the detailed guide of email forwarding at Namecheap.

Send Email using Gmail from Professional Email Address.

In the above part, we understand how to receive business email addresses and access them in Gmail. We’ll see how we can reply to those emails from our business email address in this part.

Generate an app login password for Gmail

You’ve to generate an app login password to add the business email address in Gmail. This password allows you to send or reply to emails using a professional email address.

To generate an app password, you’ve to scroll to Google account settings. Click on your profile picture to open settings for Google account,

1. Go to Manage your Google Account,
2. Open Security tab,
3. In the Signing into the Google section, click on app passwords.

4. Select App as Mail,
5. The system as Windows Computer,
6. Generate a one-time password to log in using your app.

In the above window, you can see a 16 characters password generated. This password can be used in log in to Google Account. How to use guide also provided along with the password. Please don’t close this tab till the next step is complete.

Add Business Email in Gmail Account.

To send from the business email address using the Gmail account, you’ve to log in to the Gmail account. From the Gmail dashboard, click on settings>the see all the settings.

Now go to account and import and then scroll to send mail as(check image below). Click on add another email address.

As you click on add another email address, this will open the pop windows. You’ve to provide details as described below.

1. Name of your business account. This name will visible be to the email receiver.
2. Provide a business email address,
3. Follow the next step to set SMTP server,
4. We are using Gmail SMTP servers, so provide details of Gmail SMPT i.e. smtp.gmail.com.
5. Enter your Gmails’ email address,
6. Provide the 16 characters password we created in the last step.
7. In the Next window, you’ve to enter the OTP you just received in your Gmail account.
8. Enter the OTP confirmation code,
9. Click on verify account.

Now, you can send emails using your business email address. But by default, you can reply from your email address. Change this to reply using the same email address where you received the email.

Visit Gmail Account Settings>Account and Import>Send mail as> Reply from the same address.

Now you can try sending emails using your business email address. You can receive emails that have attachment of less than 20 MB. If you like to deal with large files, this feature is not for you. In that case, you can buy Gsuit apps.

Final Words

This article explains how we can create a free Business email address in Gmail, and hosting cPanel. And also, it makes us utilize the email forwarding service provided along with the domain name. Google domains and NameCheap are best in this respect.

I hope you like this article. In case of any doubt, query, or feedback, feel free to ask in the comment section provided below.

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This tutorial article will discuss how we can increase the file upload size limit using function.php, .htaccess, php.ini, nginx.conf (nginx).

Increase Maximum file upload size in WordPress

You can increase the upload size limit of your WordPress application using various methods that allow you to upload large files to your website.

Using Theme Function file function.php

@ini_set( 'upload_max_size', '64M'); @ini_set( 'post_max_size', '64M'); @ini_set( 'max_execution_time', '300');

You can add the following lines in the function.php file to increase the file size. In the above command, the maximum file size is 64MB. You can change this value to increase the limit, such as 512M for 512MB and 1G for 1GB.

using php.ini method

You can increase file upload size, maximum post size, memory limit using php.ini in Apache or NGINX. php.ini can be located in the root directory of the application.

upload_max_filesize = 64M
post_max_size = 64M
memory_limit = 512M

Find the above command and replace it according to your need, like search upload_max_filesize and change the values like 512M, 1G, etc.

Using .htaccess increase the upload size limit

You can edit the .htaccess root file of your website and paste the following code into it. The Apache webserver supports this file. This feature is not available on the nginx server.

php_value upload_max_filesize 64M
php_value post_max_size 128M
php_value memory_limit 256M
php_value max_execution_time 300
php_value max_input_time 300

Paste the above values in the .htaccess file to increase the upload size limit. Change the values as per your needs.

In NGINX server block.

If the file size limit increased using php.ini or function.php method and your nginx server stopped the upload, you can add the following code in the nginx server block.

By default nginx file size limit is 1MB. You can increase this value by adding client_max_body_size in the nginx.conf file.

For all server blocks, you can add the code into http block of nginx.conf

http {
    ...
    client_max_body_size 100M;
}    

Increase limit for a set of app/web, change values in the server block.

server {
    ...
    client_max_body_size 100M;
}

Increase limit for particular directory location.

location /uploads {
    ...
    client_max_body_size 100M;
} 

After changing the above setting, you can restart or reload the nginx to load the new configurations.

I hope you liked the above article; in case of any doubt, feel free to ask in the comment section below.

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That data can be used to enhance user experience and also to fulfill the user’s need.

This tool will help you understand how the keywords through which traffic is coming, the location of the traffic, and much more.

If you only want to set up Analytics, not using Gtag, then this guide for you. You can also use this feature using Tag Manager.

Why should you install Google Analytics Tools?

Suppose you’ve been running a website, and you have no clue which kind of user visits and demographic data of that user. Then you’ll have no clue for further your future posts. Suppose my website targets USA users, and I’m writing articles according to the UK users.

In this case, I’m not able to target my users; then, I may see a fall in the website’s progress graph. Google provides a very robust and powerful tool known as Analytics. That can calculate

• Total Traffic of your website and traffic engaged pages.
• How do users get into your website, like organic, direct, or social?
• Average Session Duration,
• Bounce Rate
• Demographic properties of your visitors
• Gender of the users
• Age groups your website is targeting.
• Check the bounce rate of your website.

How can this data be useful for you?

Total Traffic: This data can check the number of users interested in your product/ article.

Who is engaged with your website?

This matrix shows the demographic data of your website. That can help you to add content according to the user’s location. Suppose your job website targets a state “X” for jobs. But it also engaged “Y” states users. It may be possible that X and Y are border states.

In the above data, you can consider adding data for Y state users. And can get more reach of your website.

Understand how users reach your website.

All three, like social, direct, and organic, have their own values. You can’t ignore any of them. Earlier, I believe that only organic traffic is good. But if users visit your website directly, then it denotes your brand value. They visit your website due to the quality of information or product.

Social users like Facebook, Twitter, telegram also are significant because they may come to your website by referral. Use proper image size to get more traffic from social media.

SEO is itself is very important for a website. Try keeping all parameters in place like HTML5, schema markup data, etc.

Setup, a New Google Analytics account for a website.

In this tutorial article, we’ll discuss only to set up Google Analytics properties, not Google Analytics 4 properties. To get into the free, robust, powerful Google Analytics tools, you need a google account.

Visit the official website of Google Analytics and log in using a Gmail account. If you don’t have a Gmail account, then create one.

After successful login, you’ll redirect to the Welcome screen of Google Analytics Tools. Here you’ve to click on the start measuring button.

Account Setup

You’ve to create a Google Analytics Account to use its services. Enter the name of your account in the field provided. And after that, click on the Next button.

Property Setup.

Be careful here; you’ve to choose to create a GA4 property of Google Analytics only properties.

1. Please enter the name of the property. It can be anything you like.
2. Now select the target country of the project.
3. The currency of your choice.

In the next tab, you’ve to enter the property name, country name, and currency of your country/choice. By default, it will create a Google Analytics 4 property, but we’ve created a “Google Analytics Only property”. For that, click on the advance Options link.

In the advance options, you can select between GA4 properties and GA property or GA property only.

1. Enable the Universal Analytics Property.
2. Enter the URL of your website or blog of which you want to analyze data.
3. Select between create GA4+Univesal analytical or Universal Analytics Only. We want to create a Universal Analytics property here.

Industry Settings

In this setting, you’ve to select the type of industry and number of employees.

Here you’ve to select the number of users working on this project and then select intend to use Google Analytics Tool using the options provided.

After doing this, click on create button, you’ll redirect now to the tracking code page.

You’ve to place this code in the header section (google recommendation) or the footer section(eliminate render-blocking). Most WordPress themes provide options to add custom codes in the header or footer section of a WordPress website.

1. This is the Tracking ID of your analytics account.
2. You can copy this code and paste it into the header or footer section of your website.

In a blogger blog, you have to edit the XML file and place the code before </body> tag.

How to create a Google Analytics for existing Account

Now you’ve to create a new property of Google Analytics Account. To perform this action, you’ve to visit the Google Analytics dashboard and then click on Create Property as displayed in the image below.

This will allow you to create a new property under your existing analytics account.

In the next step, you’ve to create property under the existing account. On the property setup page,

1. Enter the name of your property
2. Select Country and Global Meantime
3. Select a currency of your choice.
4. Click on the advance options button for the Google Analytics property only. Otherwise, it will create a GA4 property by default.

In the advanced settings, you’ve to

• Enable the Create a Universal Analytics Property Option
• Enter the URL of your website.
• Select a Universal Analytics Property Only and
• Click on the Next button for the next step.

In the next step, you’ve to select industry property for your website.

1. Select the category of your website.
2. Now select the size of your business, i.e. how many people are working on this project.
3. Tick options that you want to analyze using this tool.
4. Click on the create button to create a property.

After clicking on create button, you’ll be redirected to the tracking code page.

You can copy this tracking code and paste it under the header or footer section of your website.

I hope this article helped you in creating a Google Analytics Property. In case of any query, feel free to ask in the comment section provided below.

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How HTTP/2 boost the speed of a website or blog?

HTTP/2 brings a few fundamental changes to solve these problems:

The HTTP/2 is a lot faster than that of HTTP1.1. So it would be best if you considered enabling the HTTP/2 feature.

How to Enable HTTP/2 in Ubuntu?

Open the configuration file for your domain.

You need to edit the Nginx configuration file for your domain. This file is typically located in the /etc/nginx/sites-available/ directory. You can open this file using a text editor such as nano. Replace your_domain with your actual domain name.

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/your_domain

Locate the listen variables associated with port 443

In the configuration file, you need to find the lines that start with listen and are associated with port 443. These lines tell Nginx to listen for incoming connections on port 443, which is the standard port for HTTPS connections.

listen [::]:443 ssl ipv6only=on;
listen 443 ssl;

1. Modify each listen directive to include http2: listen [::]:443 ssl http2 ipv6only=on; and listen 443 ssl http2;
2. Save the configuration file and exit the text editor.

Modify each listen directive to include http2

To enable HTTP/2, you need to add http2 to each listen directive. This tells Nginx to use the HTTP/2 protocol when serving your site to browsers that support it.

listen [::]:443 ssl ipv6only=on;
listen 443 ssl;
http2 on;

Save the configuration file and exit the text editor

After making these changes, save the configuration file and exit the text editor. If you’re using nano, you can do this by pressing Ctrl+X to exit, then Y to confirm that you want to save the changes, and finally Enter to confirm the file name.

Enable HTTP/2 in Bitnami NGINX

You can enable HTTP/2 just by editing bitnami.conf file of your bitnami WordPress nginx stack. To do this, you’ve to execute the following command.

sudo -i

And now move to the directory using.

cd /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/server_blocks

Make a backup of the nginx.conf file

Before making any changes to your configuration files, creating a backup is a good practice. If something goes wrong, you can easily revert to the previous configuration. The nginx.conf file is usually located in the /etc/nginx/ directory. You can create a backup using the cp command:

scp wordpress-https-server-block.conf wordpress-https-server-block.conf.backup

You have to locate the configuration file for your website in the Bitnami NGINX stack. Now select the file using nano.

nano wordpress-https-server-block.conf

Now the .conf file will open up. You have to add http2 in the 443 server connection block, as displayed below.

server {
        listen 443 ssl;
        listen [::]:443 ssl ipv6only=on;
        http2 on;
        server_name  localhost;
        ssl_certificate      server.crt;
        ssl_certificate_key  server.key;
        ssl_certificate      
        ssl_session_cache    shared:SSL:1m;
        ssl_session_timeout  5m;
        ssl_session_tickets off;
        ssl_stapling on;
        ssl_stapling_verify on;
        ssl_ciphers  HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
#       ssl_prefer_server_ciphers  on;
#       include "/opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/bitnami/phpfastcgi.conf";
       include "/opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/bitnami/bitnami-apps-prefix.conf";
    }

Save the settings by pressing ctrl+X, then Y, and then press enter to update the changes.

Now you can check that all NGINX configurations you made are correct using the following command line.

nginx -t

Reload server

nginx -s reload

To restart Bitnami nginx run the following command line.

sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart nginx

After the restart, you can check the HTTP/2 status of your website, which will result as enabled. Improve server security by hiding the nginx server version.

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This tutorial article will discuss how we can hide the server version from nginx and customize Bitnami nginx.

Hide the NGINX server version from the header response.

We’ll guide you on hiding the NGINX server version from the header response of your website. You can implement this method on standard nginx or Bitnami stack nginx applications.

Configure nginx.conf file

You have to make some changes in the nginx server configuration so that it hides the server information. Then, you’ve to open the SSH terminal of your website and execute the following command.

Open the nginx server configuration file.

To open the configuration, you’ve to execute the following command.

sudo -i
sudo /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Now hide the server version.

For this, you’ve to locate the HTTP block of the nginx server configuration and add server_tokens off; into the block, as displayed below.

http {
    ...

    server_tokens off;
    ...
}

Now save the changes by pressing ctrl+X, then Y, and then press enter.

Now you’ve to check the status of nginx settings and execute the command.

sudo nginx -t

It will respond as the system configuration is ok. Now you can restart the nginx. Execute the following command to restart the nginx server.

sudo service nginx reload #debian/ubuntu
systemctl restart nginx #redhat/centos

After restarting the system, you can check the system response by executing.

 curl -I https://example.com/

Using the above method, you can remove the nginx server version from the website’s header so that you keep your self-hosted project safe and sound.

Hide the NGINX server version from Bitnami

Bitnami uses a customized nginx server to make its a user easy to understand its files and locations. And also provide a very secure PHPMyAdmin page for its users to protect the website from hackers.

You can hide the nginx server version by editing nginx.conf file of WordPress Bitnami nginx. You’ve to locate the file and add the code the same way as we did above.

Access nginx.conf file of the stack

NGINX server version located in /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/nginx.conf. To edit this, you’ve to access the server with full permission.

sudo -i
nano /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/nginx.conf

Edit nginx.conf file of the Bitnami stack

Here you’ve to add the following lines to hide the server version of your application.

http {
    ...


    server_tokens off;
    ...
}

Now save the configuration by using ctrl+X, then Y, and then press enter to update the settings. Finally, you can test setting files by executing the following command.

nginx -t

If your system responds with ok status, you can reload the new configuration in the system or restart it.

nginx -s reload
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart nginx

After restarting the system, you can check the header response.

So using the command line, you can hide server version information from the header response.

I hope you liked this article. In case of any doubt, feel free to contact us or comment in the comment section provided below.

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