• 30Nov

    Introduction Of Website Hosting.

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    Internet Functionality

    Internet or the world wide web (www) is a network of computers connected to each other. The companies that provide the service are known as Internet Service Providers (ISP). The file sharing is achieved by the web server software. The popular web server software’s are Windows IIS (Internet Information Server) and Apache.

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    Users send requests to the internet to view the websites. Web client software is used to make these requests. Examples of web clients are web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Opera and Netscape.

    To make the website available on the internet the website files need to be hosted on a web server. The web server is nothing but a powerful computer which has the capacity to handle thousands of requests made to the website. The web servers need to be connected to the internet at all times for users to access the website whenever required. The Web Hosting service provider is the one that sells the server space for the website. A web hosting company provides high bandwidth connection for the ease of accessing the website by users. The website can be hosted by the website owner, but there are few following why it is difficult. Due to the following reasons why a web host is preffered.

    • Setting up all the configurations which also includes mail server, DNS server and FTP server is complicated.
    • Server software and Server are expensive (such as virus protection, web server, firewall, mail server etc.)
    • Server maintenance requires special skills, knowledge and most importantly 24 hour support.
    • The server needs 24*7 high speed internet connection which is costly.

    Considering such factors the website to be hosted with a web hosting company is always a better option. Web hosting is cheap. There are few web hosting companies that provide free web hosting services, but its not recommended for professional and company websites. The free web hosting company recovers the costs by showing adds on the users website. Free hosting provides very less flexibility in terms of have own domain names and email addresses.But the website owner has the privilege of chosing between Linux Server and Windows Server.

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  • 30Nov

    Basics Of Server Load

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    In computing Load is a measure of the amount of processing a computer system is performing in the form of a scalar and as some variation on a percentage.

    The Server Load or Load is basically the CPU load. Its value shows how well the CPU handles the tasks.

    The ideal load for a single processor server is 1, which means the CPU is doing all the tasks one after the other smoothly and the processes are not getting queued. As the server load increases the processes start getting queued. Sluggishness is seen if the server load is under 10, though it may not result in failure. But a double digit server load may result in failure.

    The servers with multiple processors load is calculated by dividing the load with the number of processors.

    Actual load = Total Load / number of processors.

    The load gets evenly distributed among the CPUs. If one processor is busy the task can choose another processor to perform computation.

    In hosting environment there are many users who use the servers for maintaining the websites. The load may increase rapidly if a user has a big eCommerce website which has lot of traffic. Many users have database driven websites which have a lot of visitors, the number of database connections increases which results in high load.

    Many times high loads are caused because the server wasn’t secure and got cracked. Spamming too can be the reason. The processes that is loading the server must be stopped. The origin of such processes must be checked.

    Sometimes high load is caused due to maintenance tasks such as Daily stats updates, Daily back ups and Cron schedulers. Even if the load increases it should not sustain for a long time. So it is recommended that such tasks must be scheduled when there is minimum traffic of the website.

    Overselling by the Web Hosts too is one of the major reasons for the Server load problems. The problem starts when overselling is done by the Web hosts and sell more resources than what is available. Overselling is not bad provided the Web host checks the Server load and acts upon it if the load increase. Constant monitoring needs to be done. If the load reaches to 2 or 3 on a regular basis then some websites must be moved to new servers.

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  • 30Nov

    Difference Between Clustered And Shared Web Hosting.

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    Its important to understand the limitations and problems of Shared and Dedicated web hosting needs to be known for a better understanding of clustered web hosting.

    A normal shared web hosting is popular in the world of web hosting as it is cheap and affordable. The web hosting companies distribute the clients of shared web hosting between different servers. For example a web hosting company has 500 customers. It distributes the customers in the following manner:

    100 Customers on Server 1

    100 Customers on Server 2

    100 Customers on Server 3

    100 Customers on Server 4

    100 Customers on Server 5

    This type of method has a lot of disadvantages, take for example if the server 1 goes down or has some functional problem i.e. it goes offline, then all the customers hosted on that server would get affected and will not be able to receive the service. Even the web hosting service provider cannot tell due to what the server crashed or is not functioning, there might be several reasons why the shared server goes down:

    The other customer accounts use all the server resources because:

    • The users get hacked through an insecure script or site.
    • The uses receive some other major exposure or are naturally becoming very busy.

    The servers usually suffer the following failures:

    • Disk failures
    • Many other components fail
    • Supply of Power fail

    Maintenance of the Server

    • Upgradation of the server hardware or the preventive maintenance.
    • Upgradation of the firmware
    • Upgradation of the software

    The account of the customer gets suspended in case of excessive CPU usage. The hosting companies use a tracking tool to check the usage, the account gets suspended before it affects the server negatively. Such suspension might prove to be fatal if there is a lot of traffic on the web-site. Under normal load the speed of the site depends on the activity on the other sites hosted on the same server. The hosting companies try to distribute the load evenly across the entire server. But the traffic on the websites is dynamic, so even after the load balancing the server might get overloaded. As the website gains popularity and the traffic increases the web hosting package should be upgraded from a shared hosting package to a virtual private server or a dedicated server package. Moving the web-site to a dedicated server or a virtual private server offers dedicated resources to the site.

    In a clustered system multiple server are load balanced, hence the reliability increases. When the number of servers increase the overall load decreases. Load balancing allows all the resources to be available to all the customers. It helps to handle busy websites and unexpected traffic.

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  • 28Nov

    ASP Web hosting Explained.

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    The Web hosting companies that provide support for ASP is known as ASP web hosting. ASP is an abbreviation of Active Server Page. Embedding the ASP codes in the HTML pages helps in creating a dynamic data driven web site. If the website is designed using ASP then the pages change with the actions the users perform on the website. ASP code is useful in linking the web pages to a database. This helps users very well interact with the web pages by logging in and applying their own personal settings.

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    Definition Of ASP

    Active Server Pages or ASP are active HTML pages with embedded ASP scripts which gets processed before being sent to the user. ASP allows the creation of dynamic database driven pages through which users can access data present in a database. The interaction with page objects like Active X or Java components are enhanced.

    When a user types a URL or clicks on a web page, user is basically asking the server to send that file to be displayed on the users computer. If the web page is a standard HTML page then the page is displayed just the way it appears on the server. Whereas if an ASP file is sent to the computer from the web server, then firstly the server runs the HTML code then the ASP code.

    Users prefer a ASP web host to host their web site for better performance. It is safer to host the ASP pages with a reliable web hosting provider as it helps the web site to be more stable and most of the ASP pages work with Internet Information Services (IIS) specifically with Windows. Users must also be aware if the website uses a database such as SQL, Access only then they should make sure that the Web hosting service provider provides the correct support for the type of database your website uses.

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  • 27Nov

    Data Migration from One Dedicated Server To Other Dedicated Server.

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    Before transferring data from one Dedicated server to another, some of the following points must be kept in mind.

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    • Visitors to the web-site must be kept informed about the migration. The possible downtime too should be communicated. The migration should be done during sometime in the mid night when there is least traffic on the web-site. This helps in reducing the inconvenience to the clients.
    • Preparation of DNS for the move: All the DNS record must be set to atleast an hour. It must be done 48 hours earlier to the move. This helps to ensure that when the website migration takes place and the IP address get switched in the DNS records, visitors would be able to quickly get the new location.
    • The website owner should make a list of all things that needs to be moved.
    • A web page must be created that only notifies the migration such as “Migration in Progress. The website would be functional in couple of hours” or anything of this sort. This web page must be kept in the place of the web directory. Care should be taken that no pages should be accessed this would avoid the risk of losing of any data.
    • Once everything is fine, the website must be brought back up. This can be done by swapping the IP address in the DNS to the new IP address.
    • Now the TTL in the DNS records must be changed after approximately 24 hours to what it previously was.

    Migration of the dedicated server is one of the crucial process hence it should be done very carefully.

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  • 27Nov

    Basic Understanding Of SQL Server Hosting.

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    The SQL server hosting can be divided into two categories:microsoft_sql_server_logo Basic Understanding Of SQL Server Hosting. 1. MySQL and 2. MS SQL. These two are the database software programs that support the (Structured Query Language) SQL. In other way it can also be defined as Dedicated Database Server with a version of SQL loaded. SQL has many versions as a software program. It includes MySQL, MS SQL (Microsoft SQL server) and Postrgre SQL. They use the SQL standard language at the base, but later on the unique extensions get added inorder to create a unique SQL server language.

    SQL dedicated server is one of the most popular database servers used. It is relatively inexpensive if compared with other database servers like Oracle. A SQL server has the capability of handling most of the databases. A SQL server can be used simultaneously by many users over the local area network.

    Dedicated SQL servers provides enhanced performance, reliability and dedicated resources for the applications.

    Features of a Dedicated SQL Server (2005)

    • Multiple Active Result Set (MARS)
    • DBO Rights to SQL 2005
    • SQL Login Password Reset Tool
    • Stored procedure support
    • Additional SQL 2005 Login Manager
    • T-SQL Enhancements
    • SQL Disk Space Meter
    • Full text search
    • XQuery
    • SQL Native Client
    • Triggers

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  • 27Nov

    Reseller Web Hosting: A Type of Web Hosting

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    Reseller web hosting is one of the types of Web Hosting services offered by Web Hosting Company.

    Meaning Of Reseller Web Hosting208 Reseller Web Hosting: A Type of Web Hosting

    A reseller web hosting is a type of web hosting service in which the account holder maintains a reseller hosting account on a shared server then sells the sub-accounts to clients. The reseller is an intermediary, the reseller web hosting account holder resells the bandwidth and disk space that has been allocated by the web hosting company.

    The beginners in the web hosting business start with Reseller hosting service. Reseller hosting is an inexpensive type of web hosting service.

    Advantages:

    • With the shared web hosting account, users have the privilege of choosing a package size to meet the needs. They can upgrade or downgrade instead of using the entire server.
    • The server maintenance is taken care by the web host.
    • The Reseller account holder can earn revenue as a web host.
    • Using a single control panel, account holders can access every website (Client web-site’s too).
    • Using a reseller account, new web hosts can enter the market with less expenses.
    • The reseller account holders can assign and also modify the available disk space and bandwidth.

    Disadvantages:

    • The Reseller hosting plans are more expensive than the shared hosting plans.
    • Incase the resellers change the web host, the clients can face inconvenience.
    • As the server maintenance is taken care by the web host, if the server goes down frequently then the clients might lose trust in the reseller account holder.

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  • 27Nov

    Identifying Fraud Orders in A Web Hosting Business.

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    To run a successful web hosting business one must be capable of Identifying the fraudsters who wish to order a particular web hosting package. Efficient management is essential for the smooth functioning of the web hosting business.

    Here are few ways of that would help to identify the fraud orders and keep away the fraudsters spoil the business.

    Verification Of The IP Address

    Verification of the IP address is the first step in the order verification process. Almost every billing software shows the IP address and other information such as the host name of the IP, the country of the person placing an order with the web hosting company. Another way of checking the information is through a third party service such as the WHOIS service (www.whois.sc) or www.ip2location. Once the information is displayed, the country of the origin of the IP and the country mentioned in the order needs to be verified. The state and city details too can be cross checked. If the details matches then the order can be sent for processing. If the details does not match then its clear that the order is fraudulent. Incase you receive such an order then it should be marked as fraud and the order should be terminated.

    Domain Name Verification

    With the use of the third party whois service, users can get the whois details. Using these details of the person ordering the web hosting package can be cross checked for the physical address and E-mail address mentioned in the order. Genuine orders will have the details matching to the ones mentioned in the order. Yet sometimes there is a chance that the details does not match, in that case we cannot come to the conclusion that the order is fraud as the domain name might have been purchased through a company address. Hence, the domain name verification has some restrictions. In case the domain name seems senseless, then there is wide possibility that the order is a fraud order.

    Disable Auto Sign-ups

    If the web hosting company has enabled the facility of auto sign-ups on its web-site then a fraudster may sing-up and send spam or install Trojans or viruses for phishing purpose before you getting time to recover from the damage. So, it is recommended that the auto account creation facility should be disabled.

    Usage of Third Party Fraud Detection Plugins

    A web hosting company can use make the use of a third party service such as MaxMind. It is a fraud scanning software which is integrated in the billing software. It helps to identify fraud orders automatically (Note: It is not 100% fool proof).

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    Phone/FAX verification

    Web hosting firms can give a call on the contact number provided in the order details for the purpose of identifying between fraud orders and genuine orders.

    Even after every careful steps are adopted by the web hosting company, fraud orders is a never ending problem. There is no completely fool proof solution for fraud orders. But, following the above tips helps reduce the fraud order sign-ups upto a large extent.

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  • 26Nov

    Types Of Internet Hosting Services

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    With the development of Internet the e-commerce services too have increased rapidly.There are varied types of web hosting services that are available with various web hosting service providers. Below are the different types of services offered in Web Hosting category.hosting_header-300x191 Types Of Internet Hosting Services

    1. Virtual Private Server (VPS)
    2. Dedicated Hosting,
    3. Free Hosting,
    4. Shared Hosting,
    5. Clustered Hosting,
    6. Reseller Hosting,
    7. FFmpeg hosting,
    8. Blog hosting,
    9. Image hosting,
    10. Video hosting,
    11. DNS hosting,
    12. E-mail hosting,
    13. Application hosting,
    14. Social network hosting,
    15. Game server hosting.

    1. Virtual Private Server (VPS): The VPS is also referred as Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS). It is a method of partitioning a physical server computer into multiple servers in a way that the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine. Every virtual server can run operating system on the individual partition.

    The VPS is as good as a dedicated server but the VPS package is cheaper than that of the dedicated server package.

    2. Dedicated Server Hosting: The dedicated server hosting is also called as managed hosting service. It is a type of hosting service where the client leases the entire service. The server is not shared with any of the other clients. This type of service offers more rights and flexibility than the shared hosting as the client has the complete control of the server. The client can decide the operating system to be installed or the hardware to be selected as per requirements. The server administration can be provided by the hosting company. The dedicated server is often housed in the data centers.

    3.Free Hosting: Free web hosting is just an advertisement tactic, actually its never free. Free web hosting has a lot of limitations, such as:

    • Limits on the hosted files
    • Smaller bandwidth
    • Disabled hotlinking files
    • File type restrictions
    • No uptime guarantee
    • No allowance of custom URL’s (Pronographics)

    Extra features That May be Available:

    • Web based control panel
    • Free email accounts for the domain and sub-domain
    • File transfer through FTP
    • Forums and community resources not typical to paid hosts.

    4.Shared Hosting: In shared hosting many sites may be hosted on a single server. The resources of a single server are shared between multiple customers. A shared web hosting option is one way of cheap and economical option of hosting the web-site. Many users share the overall cost of the server maintenance.

    5.Clustered Web Hosting: The clustered hosting technology is designed to eliminate the problem of typical shared hosting infrastructure. This technology provides customers with a clustered handling of security, load balancing and the required website resources.

    6. Reseller Hosting: Reseller hosting is a type of web hosting where the account owner has the privilege to use the allotted hard drive space and bandwidth to host websites on behalf of the third party. The reseller buys the web host’s services and sells them to its customers. A reseller does not require an extensive technical knowledge of web hosting.

    7. FFmpeg hosting: FFmpeg is the term that is referred to every assortment of software that is freely available. It is helpful form recording, converting and streaming of digital video and audio files. It falls in the category of video hosting services.

    8.Blog Hosting: Weblog / blog software/blogware is a type of software that consists of a specialized form of content Management system desigined specifically for creating and maintaining weblogs.

    9.Image Hosting: An image hosting service allows individuals to upload images to an Internet website. The image host will then store the image onto its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view that image.

    10.Video Hosting: A video sharing service allows individuals to upload video clips to an Internet website. The video host will then store the video on its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view this video. The website, mainly used as the video hosting service, is usually called the video sharing website.

    11.DNS Hosting: It is a type of service that carries out Domain Name System servers. Free DNS hosting services too are available.

    12. E-mail Hosting: E-mail hosting service is another type of Internet hosting service which runs e-mail servers.

    13. Application Hosting: An application service provision is a type of a business that provides computer based services to customers on the network. The most limited sense of this business is that of providing access to a particular application program (such as customer relationship management) using a standard protocol such as HTTP.

    14. Social Network Hosting: A social network hosting service is a web hosting service that specifically hosts the creation of web-based social networking services, alongside related applications.

    15. Game Server Hosting: A game server might be leased by game clients for playing multiplayer games over the internet. The Game server Providers (GSP’s) are the companies that lease dedicated game servers. Game server providers often offer web based tools to help control and configure the game servers

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  • 26Nov

    Tips On Security For Web Hosting Customers.

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    It is a common misconceserver-300x225 Tips On Security For Web Hosting Customers.ption among the customers that if a web-site is not much popular or is small and does not contain any valuable information then they will not face problems of hacking. Majorly the security breaches are not for stealing data but to cause some kind of damage to the website. The damage can be of varied type. The user’s account can be used for illegal purposes or for malicious usage like operating phishing web sites, sending spasm or creating repositories of copyright material.

    If the web hosting company realizes any kind of illegal activity being carried out from the website then it may carry out a number of checks and may warn the owner of the website which is hosted through their web hosting company. If a particular account on the web hosting network engages in activities of violation of the law or policies then depending on the severity the account might get suspended immediately. The user might not be given any advanced notice. If the account gets suspended, the customer might be presented with one of the below three options.

    1. Account Cancel : The customer is asked if s/he wishes to cancel the account with the web hosting provider or move the account to another web hosting service provider. Depending on the terms of the hosting company, customers might get the back up of the files , e-mails etc.

    1. Account Reset: Every publicly accessible files are moved to non-publicly accessible directory and the account is unsuspended. The web hosting service provider might not take the responsibility of re-constructing the web-site.(Usually no hosting company takes the responsibility, the owner of the website needs to re-construct it) After the verification of safety and security, the files can be moved to the public folders.

    1. Account Repair: Usually the web hosting companies technicians carries out a review of the customers account in detail to determine the method by which the account was compromised and patch the affected files and then unsuspend the customer account. The time taken for restoring the account may vary depending on the web hosting company.

    How To Protect The Account?

    Knowing The Account: Keeping a track of scripts that have been installed and are in use, ensuring that they are upto date by checking the scripts main website and subscribing to newsletters. The e-mail address if changed, must be communicated to the hosting company.

    Get Rid Off from the Unused Files or Scripts: Common source of account exploitation is abandoned scripts that aren’t updated. Users many times install scripts for the purpose of testing but do not remember to remove them after the target is achieved. This is a loop hole to get exploited. This offers hackers hijacking the entire hosting account. So the best habbit is to remove everything that is not required.

    Measure’s that the web hosting service provider takes to protect the account:

    Network Host Filtering: The company utilizes the data collected internally and through the use of external database. The hosting company might block the traffic from networks and hosts known to be involved in malicious attacks.

    Password Enforcements: The web hosting provider might not give the privilege of letting the user have their own password. This is to avoid customers getting attacked by hackers. The company might ensure a unique password which is secure and safe, doing this has drastically reduced the number of exploits.

    Proactive Administration: The hosting companies technicians ensure that the server software is running the latest version that is supported by the system. This also helps avoid lower level security breaches.

    Request Filtering: Now-a-days web hosting providers use a module called mod_security on the servers. This module has the ability to detect and block requests to the websites that take advantage of vulnerable scripts.

    These are a few things that the hosting company might do to protect the users account. There are many things that the web hosting company does behind the scene to protect the system and the accounts,

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