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Managed Dedicated Hosting reduces your need to share hardware or software with other websites on a server because dedicated hosting is extremely flexible, and often fits the needs of the more sophisticated users for their high traffic websites. Dedicated servers are most secured because you are not sharing your server with any other users, A dedicated server can be used for any purpose which suits your need and  you can also expect to see greater performance from your Web sites.

Due to constant growth in the hosting industry and surrounding competitive environment the rates of the servers declining day by day, also there are tremendous growths of online presence of small and mid-sized businesses that could be the reason the level of service are in high demand.  However you should make sure to look for reputed hosting company that provides reliable service, enhanced security features and 24×7x365 monitoring of the server and network availability.

Looking through the benefit of managed dedicated server “Control and Reliability” this two important factors are major requirement for online business owners to run their website smoothly. You  should be able to make changes and updates on software installed on a server so you’ll need full root access to the web server. In addition you will need varieties of option to install the software and other resources to  your websites. The dedicated server optimizes page loads speed and allocation of resources on server that truly helps you to run a server efficiently in its most optimal configuration throughout the secure environment.

Dedicated server increases the websites overall presence and also it helps you in performance drives customer retention. If you start realizing that your site is growing in success, and you âre getting more and more visitors interaction and traffic, then dedicated servers start to make more and more sense to go with.

By the very nature of the account, a managed dedicated server can reduce your dependency on the web host and bypasses time delays and server management issues and relative possible expenses. With dedicated server you can be able to provide instant support to your own clients, which is not possible if you are on a shared server. A reliable and secured network is vital for your own business growth and so on providing best experience to your visitors is also important because the visitors could have been your future paying-customers.

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As an amateur, any webmaster can get confused with the common web hosting terms which can make things complicated. Therefore, below is a list of commonly used terms in the business of Web Hosting.

Bandwidth : Bandwidth is the term that is used to describe the amount of data that is passed or is estimated to travel across a communication channel in an estimated period of time. It can be measured monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or Annually. It depends on the plan a client signs-up for.

Hosting Plan (Dedicated Hosting) : A dedicated hosting is recommended for websites that incur high amounts of traffic. A user gets complete root/administrative access to the server. Same is the benefit with a VPS or Virtual Private Server.

Gigabytes (Hard Disk Space) : It is an unit to measure a computers storage capacity. One Gigabyte equals one billion bytes.

DNS : DNS is an abbreviation of Domain Name Server. It differentiates between different institutes such as .com, .us, etc.

Domain parking : When an individual or any company purchase domain names and keep it unused is known as domain parking. Later when required, they can link those domains to their required old domain. Domain parking has become a common way of business, individuals buy domains in a bulk, park it and then resell it at a higher price.

FTP : FTP or File Transfer Protocol is a common way of transferring files or data across a network in a secure way.

Auto-Responders: While auto-responders are not email accounts in themselves, they are assigned an email address and it auto-respond to anyone who sends them an email. The reply is a pre-formatted email and every response is identical to the corresponding queries.

HTTP and HTML : HTTP or Hyper Text Transfer Protocol is used inorder to request or transmit web pages and components over the Internet and various other computer networks.

HTML is an abbreviation of Hyper Text MarkUp Language which is used to structure the multimedia and text present in a website. It also creates hyper text links between electronic documents.

ISP : One might be aware of this, an ISP is the Internet Service Provider. An ISP is essential if one wishes to connect to their servers.

There are many more terms that I would describe in my later post. The above mentioned terms of Web Hosting are some of the very commonly used one’s and are essential for a webmaster to know.

Active Server Pages or ASP Web Hosting is one of the different Web Hosting solutions. It means that a web hosting provider offers support for ASP. Embedding an ASP code into a website’s HTML page transformers it to a dynamic data driven website. If a visitor browsing a website developed using ASP, the pages can change according to the action of the users.

An ASP code permits oneself to link web pages to a database. A user can interact with the web page by logging in and using their own personal settings or interactively place orders on the website.

Let us understand ASP first. ASP is an abbreviation of Active Server Pages. These are HTML pages which contain ASP scripts embedded into it. That helps in creating dynamic database driven web-pages, a user can access data in a database as well as interact with page objects like Java Components or Active X.

When a user enters a URL in the browser or clicks on a web page one is requesting to send a file to the users computer, it is in a form of normal HTML format. When the users browser receives the web page it would look exactly the same as it did on the server. On the other hand, if an ASP file is received by the users computer, the ASP code could be the current date, or time etc.

One can find number of web hosting providers who offer support for ASP. It is safer to host a website developed in ASP on a Windows 2000 Server, as they are more stable and most of the ASP components work well with Internet Information Services (IIS). One needs to host an ASP web site on Windows Server only, as it is a Microsofts product and does not support Linux. Hence, one can also search for web hosts that offer Windows Web Hosting services.

An individual, when choosing a web hosting company, usually takes into consideration the bandwidth and diskspace that is offered with a particular package. Along with this the uptime is the true point of attraction. Most web hosting companies offer an uptime guarantee. But, it is necessary to understand the true meaning of this.

The web hosting uptime is a measurement of the time a server has been running, the longer the uptime, the better is the service. Uptime is not only crucial for web hosting companies, but to any company or individual having a web-site. It is very important for any website to be functional 24×7, as there might be multiple number of visitors in search of information or services that a particular website offers. And, for that the website should be hosted with a web hosting provider who provides maximum uptime guarantee.

There are various factors that may affect a web hosting uptime. Users too should understand that web hosting providers strive hard to keep the servers up and running smooth, but sometimes there are unavoidable circumstances such as natural calamities/disasters, that might affect the uptime committed by the web hosting provider.

Usually, the downtime is classified in three ways. 1. Planned Downtime, 2. Semi planned Downtime and 3. Unplanned Downtime

1. Planned Downtime can be caused when a server is scheduled for an upgrade or down-grade. Web hosts keep the clients informed about such changes to the server.
2. Semi-Planned Downtime: It may be caused when software providers find a solution to a known loop hole in the application and release a patch to overcome the problem, and it needs to be put into place.
3. Unplanned Downtime: This is the worst and most frustrating (at times) type of downtime, it may be caused due to software or hardware malfunction, server overload and attack the server or a malicious software.

The uptime guarantees provided by a Web Hosting provider, is based on the past information. There are few ways to maintain and monitor the uptime. Also, there are services that provide 24×7 monitoring. But, large web hosting companies usually have a separate department that looks after the uptime and monitor their servers 24×7. Today, there are techniques by which a web hosting company can actually provide 100% uptime. But, this service can be provided by larger companies only, as the hardware required for such architecture is almost double than that of a small web hosting company.

Some companies take the efforts to inform their customers about the possible downtime. Larger hosting providers are able to recover faster from the downtime than the smaller one’s.

An individual should do thorough research when choosing a web hosting company. It can avoid the downtime of a particular website. There are applications available, that are capable of tracking a web hosting companies uptime. One can also visit different forums provided by either web hosting providers or other review forums to learn more about and particular company.

If a website is already hosted with some web hosting provider and is facing downtime, it is recommended to contact their technical support department and lodge a ticket/complaint against the issue. If one faces the same problem frequently, then looking for a better hosting provider is the best possible alternative to avoid downtime.

Hello,

If you want ot create new partition on linux server and mount it to specific directory then you have to follow the following steps

login to your linux server with root user

First of all verify which partition type and how many partitions available on your linux server.

You can get it with

#fdisk -l