Windows reseller hosting : Ultimate choice for online businessmen

If you are searching for the option that can help you to start with the business where you can provide web designing, web development and web hosting then windows reseller hosting would be a better option. A business should be flexible with its services and products and windows hosting has all the same features. Microsoft technologies has number of software and tools for web development so if you prefer windows hosting then you can use all its advantages for developing high-tech web applications. You can use Asp.Net, it is an extension over ASP and used for developing multimedia featured web pages. MySQL is used to save large databases. Windows hosting plans also helps you to share the documents through Microsoft Share Point tools.

You can sell different reseller hosting plans with your web designing package because it is a great way to increase customer traffic at your business website. Try to implement reseller hosting banner on your website because advertising is the best way to increase level of any business.

Windows reseller web hosting delivers compatibility and flexibility with any Microsoft web development tool and software so it is beneficial to use windows hosting for starting web development company.

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This post was written by on June 24, 2010

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A Brief on Web Hosting

The web hosting is a service that lets individuals and large organizations having website to provide online services to centralize their website information on a server, which is accessible via Internet from anywhere in the world. The information such as audio, video, images and many such other data that are accessible through the world wide web.

Web hosting companies provides a server and fast network connection to the customers to store their data so that it can travel to any corner of the globe. When the Internet service was not known well at the start of 90’s, there are several interesting websites, but the concept of web hosting sites already started to emerge.

These hosting services had a high monthly price with many limitations on the speed including the tools and techniques. In order to create an email or a database, getting permissions from a network administrator was really important, which in turn could take many days to complete the request.

Time was passing and accordingly the web hosting services were cheapening slowly and were acquiring with new tools and and facilities such as control panel to manage every aspect of the web hosting environment, database, anti-virus, firewall, webmail and many other things.

As the time passed, the webmaster were blessed by new service that ease their life was the creativity of reseller web hosting. It was an opportunity for the people who were looking for doing business online with less investments.

There were two options given for the webmasters to choose – Windows Hosting and Linux Hosting. Not all customers were familiar with just one platform, some used to use Linux as their primary platform. The use of the reseller hosting was not just for hosting more than one website at low cost of their own, but it was also a way to earn money by allocating disk space and bandwidth or say by creating an account having resources allocated for the various customers on the same server with different password and a control panel.

Internet is known as a huge platform for online businesses, and if your want to be a successful businessman on Internet, you need to get a hosting service that enables you high network connectivity, greater capacity and data storage. The web hosting providers make sure that your website is server 24×7 to your visitors around the world.

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This post was written by on June 23, 2010

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What is AutoResponder And How To Configure It?

AutoResponder is a feature which comes with cPanel Web Hosting that allows you to send an automatic response to anyone who sends an email to your email account. When an email is sent to your account, the response which you Has been  created by you will be sent back to the person who send you the email.

Note:This feature will not avoid your email from being delivered. This feature can be beneficial for letting youe customers know that you are on vacation, or providing useful information when a customer submits a question or order.

These are the steps to configure AutoResponder in cPanel Web Hosting:-

1) To Access the Mail Menu, click on the icon that is above the word Mail on the main screen of your cPanel interface.

2) Now click AutoResponders to enter it’s maintenance screen.

3) To add a New AutoResponder, click on Add Autoresponder.

4) Enter the email address you want to send the autoresponses from, the name you wish the message to come from, the subject of the autoresponse email, and the message in the respective fields.

5) If you want the message that will be displayed in HTML format, check the box next to HTML message.

6) Use the drop down box to choose the character set you wish the autoresponse to appear in.

7) Click on Create/Modify to create the auto responder.

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This post was written by on May 28, 2010

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How to Install Rootkit Hunter

Its always recommended to have Rootkit Hunter [ RKHunter ] installed on your cPanel web hosting VPS server so as to secure it from varnability and server attacks. You can ask your webhost to install all required scripts and applications on your server so that your server would be secured and safe.

You can consider RKHunter is as most useful application which can protect your server from unknown attacks/threats. Rootkits are usually installed by blackhats, crackers and scriptkiddies, to avoid the eye of the sysadmin and can track all your activities. Once rootkits are installed on your server its very difficult to remove them as they affect system files. Using RKHunter it will notify you of any rootkits which may exist in your system so that you can take necessary steps to avoid any security issue.

If you want to install Rootkit Hunter it’s a simple process, you can also configure it and can make it to scan your system on daily basis which will inform you about any rootkits installed by anyone. Using following steps you an installing RKHunter on your cpanel VPS :

Firstly you need to login to your server as root then download the package and extract it using  following command

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/rkhunter/rkhunter-1.3.0.tar.gz

tar -xzf rkhunter*

now run this using  cd rkhunter-1.3.2 and ./installer.sh

Once installation is completed you can protect your web hosting server from rootkits which may create threats for your server.

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This post was written by on May 14, 2010

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Which Hosting Should I Opt – Linux or Windows VPS

Running a VPS Hosting adds you the various advantages of a dedicated server hosting environment without the cost associated with it. This is one of the main reasons why VPS hosting is ideally preferred by most of the webmasters and power users who already are well experienced with dedicated server hosting.

If you have a few websites and those websites does not requires much resources, VPS hosting adds a great economic advantage over a dedicated servers. VPS Hosting allows you to reload the operating system or even you can install another copy of your choice of operating system, if you encounter any issues with it.

VPS hosting is also ideally suitable for the websites having high resource requirements, but limited budgets. Even if your web hosting requirement is for a powerful websites like e-commerce, still a VPS can help you build your e-commerce website within your capital base. VPS hosting is known for its low cost and lower maintenance approach to get the same features and flexibility a dedicated servers hosting offers. Accounts created on a VPS are totally isolated from other accounts on same VPS as they are created using a special software installed on the server.

Deciding which hosting you should go with depends on the operating system you choose. You can choose either Windows VPS Hosting or Linux VPS Hosting, whichever you are familiar with. However, both of them have their own limitations.

The operating system binds you on a VPS as the node functioning on the operating system don’t allows you to use a different operating system. In simple language, if you manage a VPS on a client which is created under Windows Server 2003, you are only able to select the Windows Server 2003 as your operative group.

Same as windows, if a VPS is featured on a node which is functioning on Linux system, then you can choose only the UNIX  and if you feature a VPS on a node which is working on Linux system then you can only change it to Unix as your operating system.

Well, now most of the VPS Hosting Providers will allow you to install your choice of operating system which are allowed by the web hosting company. Therefore, before signing up for a VPS Hosting plan you need to decide the requirements of your website and your choice of operating system you want to host on your server.

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This post was written by on April 20, 2010

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UK Dedicated Server Hosting

If you are searching for a reliable and excellent web hosting services with superb network connectivity in UK then you should think about getting UK based web hosting service provider for your web hosting requirements. UK dedicated servers hosting provider can offer all UK based online business owners a facility for getting reliable hosting experience at very cheap rates, UK based server hosting services are not restricted for UK based business but anyone can get UK based web hosting services to fulfill their requirements.

As compared to US based hosting services UK based hosting is bit expensive but you will surely get enough hosting resources, good network speed and connectivity if you are located in UK and targeting traffic from UK. Having UK based servers or hosting packages will help you for better search engine ranking. It is been proved by many experts hence its always better to have a UK based hosting packages if you want top rankings in UK search engine results.

You might be paying more for a UK dedicated server than normal hosting packages but the level of reliability which you would be getting would be simply unbeatable and excellent.

If you are planning to offer virtual servers to your clients or your staff then you can think about having a high end dedicated server which will have the ability to create small virtual environment within same server. Thus using such virtual partitions you can assign different tasks to each machine and can improve server performance which will indirectly help you to grow your business.

If you are new to web hosting industry and don’t have time to learn new technology or don’t want to waste precious time for managing your server then you should look for managed server hosting packages. There are many web hosts who provides dedicated hosting packages with 24×7 live support and free technical support. Its always recommended to search for a reliable web host who is offering free technical support round the clock .

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This post was written by on March 17, 2010

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Virtual Servers Hosting offer greater flexibility and control for your online business.

If you are planning to start an business online, or you already own,  you may know about the different hosting plans which are available in the market, as each has its own set of benefits and drawbacks.

Shared hosting is one of an popular hosting platform with least expensive, It has very large hard drive which shares hundreds of website. Though, shared web hosting is not suitable for all websites, particularly for high traffic based websites.

One major aspect which many people don’t take into importance when selecting for shared hosting server for their business website is the fact that the server on which they will be hosting their business website will be shared with other users/websites, meaning that the actions and usage of the other users websites that are hosted on the same server as you have the capacity to impact on the performance of your own website.

The business websites or high based traffic websites require Dedicated Hosing to have best performance.

In between the two hosting platforms VPS Server Hosting offers more freedom then Shared Hosting and Less cost then Dedicated Server.

What the advantages if you choose a VPS Server : -

Advantages :-

  • The VPS Server can offer  you  very flexible and suitable usage.
  • Every VPS  server can be independently rebooted.
  • You  can select any type of operating system and web applications that you need to run your website successfully.
  • If you compare VPS to Dedicated Server, it can cost you three times more. Thus the VPS Server is very powerful and can provide comparable features of the Dedicated Server.
  • The VPS Server offers you  more freedom and features than the shared hosting.
  • With VPS Server, you can install any software which you think that it can be beneficial for your growing business.
  • Each VPS server is isolated from other VPS sharing the same physical web server. .
  • VPS server let you to host various websites on the same physical server.

Security :-

Shared Web hosting service is inherently difficult to secure entirely. If an account on a shared server is divided into, the penalty can cause harm to the whole server.

Thus, the VPS Server are separated from each other, it secures your websites from hacker and Virus. And you don’t need to worry about the getting banned by Search Engines, as you have Dedicated IP not like Shared Hosting.

The VPS Server Hosting is quite cost-effective and effectual, and provides excellent advantage for your website. When you consider the importance of your business growing website that will not bear the amateur shared web hosting features but cannot yet afford the high-cost dedicated server, the VPS Server offers you the most possible  advantages in carrying out unobstructed web service. VPS Hosting is being used by most of the online businesses quite powerfully, effectively, and satisfactorily.

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This post was written by on February 27, 2010

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VPS Server Hosting – Defined

A virtual private server (which may also be known as VPS, Virtual Private Server or VDS) is a technology allows to partition and create multiple servers from one physical server that each have the appearance and capabilities of running on their own dedicated machine. With VPS Server hosting you can host your website in shared environment, but the resources of the server are dedicated to only your account so the performance is not at all affected by other sites.

The product is very cost effective and there are many uses. The most common applications where VPS is used in Web and mail servers, other areas where the service is used, financial systems, backup devices and development environments.

In recent years it has developed a series of control panels that allow for very easy management of servers. An example of such a control panel is Plesk and are offered by most operators in the market.

What is the difference between VPS and shared hosting?

Shared hosting is Web hosting in which multiple pages hosted on a single server where resources are shared on. In most cases customers share the same IP and server host name. Shared hosting is a very cost-effective hosting and is well suited for those companies that have websites or smaller shop solutions with a little less traffic.

VPS is designed to be an economic good option for those who require more resources and desire to administer their own server.

On a VPS Server Hosting, customers share server resources, but has a high degree of privacy when the areas are separated for each user. VPS customers have root-level access and can experience many of them known the benefits of a dedicated server. VPS uses its own disk space, RAM, CPU and IP addresses. In a way, you can then look at a VPS as your own dedicated server.

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This post was written by on February 20, 2010

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Dedicated Hosting : Tips to Ponder

As many web hosting services appears on the internet, seeking a perfect hosting provider to host your websites may become a difficult task for you. Different types of hosting are available with attractive offers in cheap rates. In this article, we are going to focus on the Dedicated Server Hosting.

A Dedicated Hosting is a type of web hosting service which is solely dedicated to a single client or few websites. Thus, your resources are not shared and can easily optimize the performance of your website in a better way. This hosting type is recommended for individuals or organizations who have mission-critical websites and have high amount of traffic and need high reliability.

Dedicated Server offers you a full administrative access and total control over the server, users also can select the type of customization they require on the server. To increase the security and performance of the whole system you can use the necessary elements while configuring the server.

Basically, Dedicated Hosting service is divided in two categories one is Fully Managed and another is Unmanaged Hosting. Fully managed simply means that the server is fully monitored by the hosting provider itself. The Dedicated server offers a wide range of server management services are carried through by the professional dedicated server experts. The server management include various tasks such as installing and maintaining standard software packages, security monitoring, back-ups and the technical support which is the most important aspect of a web hosting.

It is really a perfect solution for the users as they can stop worrying and concentrate on their core business instead of monitoring the server.

Unmanaged Hosting is the different, It offers the common hosting situation. In this, the user have to manage the server, while the service provider is charge of security and bandwidth. If the user require any other additional services, they need to pay extra charges.

So, Dedicated Hosting is a type of hosting that can meet your requirements but, like all things, users need to choose a good hosting provider. Each provider offers different options and that’s why the users need to decide what they are looking for in a service.

Hence, while choosing a hosting provider, remember that the most essential thing that a service provider must have is the technical support. Because, you never know what sort of issues may occur and when you do not have the ability to fix it, the technical support team is always there to solve the server issues.

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This post was written by on February 14, 2010

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VPS Server Hosting Superior than Shared Hosting

It has been seen that many websites hosted on a shared server are moving for VPS Hosting nowadays. Why?

A Virtual Private Server (VPS) is also known as Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS). As VPS Hosting is a smart way of partitioning a physical server into many and making them function as individual Dedicated Servers based on software virtualization.

VPS Server Hosting has its own benefits in comparison to traditional shared hosting. A VPS Server is a hosting environment that combines the benefits of both shared and dedicated hosting.

Let’s have some look at the Advantages of VPS Hosting.

  • You have total rights to configure the virtual server of your own according to the specifications you need.
  • You have full administrative access over the server to manage the installation of software and applications you like.
  • You can use some virtual servers for the specific programs such as FTP, emails or even you can use them for backups.
  • Setting process of a VPS server is much more simple and fast.
  • You can easily upgrade or modify the virtual server requirements if needed.
  • Multiple VPS servers are setup on a single dedicated server and hence it helps to save power.

The important aspect about VPS Server Hosting is that it is  more cost-effective solution than dedicated hosting.

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This post was written by on February 10, 2010

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