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• 05Feb

  Control Panels For Windows Web Hosting

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  Windows Web Hosting is one of the most preferred web hosting options present in the Web Hosting Industry. The Windows web hosting services offers access to control panels in order to manage the web hosting account. With a control panel managing the account becomes simple, there is no need to contact the administrator everytime for resolving simple tasks such as creating a new mail account under a domain, deleting an account etc. There has been an increase in the number of users opting for control panel access for a web hosting account.

  Windows web hosting control panel’s are few as Windows isn’t an open source operating system, hence lot of knowledge of programming in order to be able to produce an application that is able to fully function with a Windows server. Windows web hosting services are becoming more and more popular in terms of control panels too due to the growing demand for Windows web hosting services and customers.

  
  

  There are various control panels offered by web hosting companies. Three control panels that are mainly offered by web hosting firm’s are Plesk, DotNetPanel and Hosting Controller.

  

  Out of these three Plesk is more widely used and it has been in the market since a long time. Plesk is considered to be the most reliable and stable control panel. Hosting controller is classed by many web hosting providers as unreliable but DotNetPanel has yet to gain exposure. These three control panels satisfy the core purpose of managing the Windows web hosting accounts hosted on the Windows servers.

  Below are few Advantages offered by the three control panels:

  A] DotNetPanel : DotNetPanel doesn’t only emphasize on standard shared Windows Web Hosting services but on advanced Microsoft service hosting too to support web hosting service providers increase the range of Windows based web hosting products. Cheap Hyper V based VPS hosting solutions as well as Microsoft Server 2007 e-mail hosting solutions can be provided by web hosts with this control panel. Web hosting services can be offered with a cheap cost by using DotNetPanel hence offering cheaper web hosting solution.

  B] Hosting Controller : Hosting controller is the biggest rival of Plesk provisioning characteristics. But, yet Hosting Controller has many other features to offer web hosting providers like built-in back-up and restore feature to ensure that if any data gets lost due to a software or hardware failure then there will be back-ups which can be relied on. control panel due to its focus on offering shared Windows web hosting services. Hosting Controller does not include any advanced management and

  C] Plesk : Plesk has the ability to offer the web hosting service provider as server administrators as well as the customers as easy way to use interface which one can use to configure the different settings related to both Plesk and one’s server as well as to create web hosting accounts for the customers front end. Plesk proves to be useful for those who are hosted on the server and wish to manage the account successfully and effectively. Plesk is more

  

  user friendly compared to others hence a newbie too can easily use Plesk.

  Similar to Plesk, cPanel has proved to be the most popular control panel for Linux web hosting.

  Tags: DotNetPanel, Hosting Control Panel, Hosting controller, Hyper V, Microsoft Server 2007, plesk, VPS hosting, Web Hosting, Windows Web Hosting

• 30Jan

  Understand Windows Indexing Service.

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  Windows Indexing service is a in Windows NT, Windows 2000 and other Windows NT family of operating systems that allows searching on corporate computer networks. The Indexing service is an operating system level service which maintains an index of most files on a computer and updates them without the need of intervention by the user.

  Once the Indexing service is turned ON and has built its index it can be searched in three ways. The Indexing service is a base service of Microsoft Windows which extracts content from files and constructs an indexed catalog to facilitate efficient searching. Both text and property information from files on the local host and on remote and networked hosts can be extracted using the Indexing service.

  The Indexing service extracts the content by filtering. The filter components that understand a file format such as multi language features. The IFilter interface is implemented as the filter component. The filter provide methods for reading a file to extract text and properties. The extracted information is merged by the Indexing service into catalogs of indexes for efficient searches. Indexing is the overall process of filtering, creating index entries and merging into catalogs. The process terminates after the final step of creation of catalogs which has the master index storing words and their locations.

  Windows 2000 and Windows XP include basic facilities for querying the Indexing Service catalog and for managing the state and properties of Indexing Service.

  Facilities include:

  • The Indexing Service snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) provides the means to start, stop, and pause Indexing Service, and to administer many of its properties, such as those defining its catalogs.
  • When Indexing Service is running, Start/Search/For Files or Folders uses the Indexing Service catalog.

  Windows XP and Other Later Versions

  Indexing Service 3.0 includes the following new features in Windows XP and later:

  • Media property sets that enable you to query for media properties in queries that use the OLE DB Provide for Indexing Service. The media property sets include properties for audio, video, music, image, and digital rights management. For more information about media properties and property sets

  

  There are few web hosting firms that do provide support for Windows Indexing service.

  Tags: IFilter, Microsoft, Microsoft Management Console, MMC, Web Hosting, windows, Windows 2000, Windows Indexing service, Windows NT, Windows Web Hosting

• 12Jan

  Microsoft’s Hyper V : A Windows Server Virtualization Tool

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  Hyper V is a Windows Server Virtualization tool which is code named as Viridian, previously it was known as Windows Server Virtualization. Hyper V is a hypervisor based virtualization system for x64 systems. Hyper V has proved to be an effective tool of server virtualization for many businesses especially Web Hosting business.

  In this the administration or configuration of the Windows Server can be done on a remote Windows Server or desktop by redirecting Microsoft Management Console (MMC) pointing to the Core Server allowing easy point and click configuration.

  Hyper V supports isolation in the terms of partition which is a logical unit of isolation supported by hypervisor. It is necessary to have atleast one parent partition which runs Windows Server software. Child partitions can be created using hypercall API which is an application programming interface, exposed to Hyper V. The virtualized partition does not have access to the physical processor. Hyper V can hardware accelerate the address translation between various Guest Virtual Address spaces by using an I/O Memory Management Unit (IOMMU). IOMMU operates independent of the memory management hardware that is used by the CPU.

  Reasons To Choose Hyper V:

  1] The issue of management which is why Microsoft System Center has a real competitive advantage with the ability to manage the physical and virtual servers within the same toolset, rather than treating the virtual machine as a container.

  2] Server Virtualization is seen as a commodity feature by customers hence expecting it to be a part of the operating system.

  Scalability And Performance:

  Hyper V disk throughput is 150% as claimed by Microsoft, than that if the VMware ESX server. The virtualization overhead appears minimum in Microsoft and QLogic’s testing of three workloads with two identical servers which one ran Hyper V and the other running directly on the hardware. The virtualized system maintained between 88 and 97% of the number of IOPS which the native system could sustain and which switching to iSCSI there was less than a single percentage point difference.

  Tags: Hyper V, Microsoft, Microsoft Management Console, server virtualization, Viridian, Web Hosting, Windows Server Virtualization

• 09Jan

  Windows Server 2008 - Dedicated Server Hosting

  Dedicated Server Hosting, Hosting Support, MS SQL Hosting, Microsoft, Virtual Private Server, Web Hosting, Windows Web Hosting 2 Comments

  Windows Server 2008 Datacenter edition offers large scale virtualization to small to large server systems with workloads which require highest levels of availability, scalability and reliability. Memory and processing requirements of large scale, critical applications like ERP, databases, server consolidations, custom and line of business applications are well supported by Windows 2008 Datacenter Edition. Datacenter edition is a good option for virtual workloads as unlimited virtualization licensing is coupled with scalability.

  Windows Server 2008 is one of the most preferred server’s by Web Hosting firms.

  Main scenarios of Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition :

  A] Windows Server 2008 with SQL Server and Exchange Server

  1. E-mails are considered to be critical applications as downtime affects productivity. Implementation of high availability solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server becomes very important in such cases. Scalability too is important as it enables users to provide more mailboxes or else to increase the size of the mailbox with lesser server footprint.
  2. Customers make use of Microsoft SQL Server for database applications where high availability and scalability are important.

  B] High Availability

  Windows  Server 2008 Datacenter edition helps in keeping vital server workloads available to customers, partners and employees around the world and around the clock using

  1. Geographically scattered clustering which spans network subnets
  2. Dynamic hardware partitioning which supports Hot/Add Replace Memory and  Hot Add/Replace Processor.
  3. Failover clustering which supports upto 16 nodes
  4. Flawless real time operating system memory backup

  C] Identity and Security Management

  This new authentication architecture in Windows Server 2008 datacenter delivers advanced identity and access management features which help in maintaining employee productivity, parallely enhancing security of the IT operations

  1. Better management of certificates and smart card enrollment with Advanced Certificate Management Services (ADCS)
  2. Federated access to internal resources for external users through Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).

  D] Large Scale Virtualization

  Server virtualization technology allows to optimize the resources and realize significant infrastructure and management cost saving. It offers an ideal platform for enterprise scale virtualization:

  1. Quick migration couples the failover clustering of Windows Server 2008 Datacenter edition with Windows Server 2008 Hyper V for moving virtualized server workloads from one host server to another with minimum disruption. It maintains the availability of virtualized servers in the event of both planned and unplanned downtime
  2. Its license include unlimited virtualization rights  providing customers to use rights to run an unlimited number of virtualized instances of Windows Server on processors licensed with Windows Server 2008 datacenter without purchasing any additional licenses

  E] Increased Scalability

  Windows Server 2008 Datacenter easily scales to adapt to the increased needs of data warehousing and transaction processing .

  1. Supports upto 2 tera bytes of RAM (64 Gb on 32 bit system)
  2. Authentication and authorization for unlimited number of network connection requests
  3. Support for upto 64 processors i.e. 32 processors on 32-bit systems
  4. Supports unlimited Virtual Private Network connections (VPN).

  Tags: Datacenter, Dedicated Server Hosting, ERP, Microsoft SQL Server, virtualization, Web Hosting, Windows 2008, Windows 2008 Server, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Datacenter edition, Windows Server 2008 Hyper V

• 08Jan

  Windows or Linux VPS Hosting The Best Alternative To Windows and Linux Dedicated Hosting.

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  Virtual Private Server (VPS) or VPS Hosting as more commonly referred, is enabled with the partitioning of a high specification machine into Virtual Servers. Like the dedicated servers, VPS too provides private environments to the customers.

  VPS offers similar features as that of a dedicated server. The VPS web hosting is available in two options 1. Windows VPS Hosting and 2. Linux VPS Hosting.

  Multiple operating systems or software’s can be run on the same physical server, yet offering completely private server environment similar to the dedicated server environment. Every VPS hosting environment is entirely independent from other VPS systems and memory, the CPU processes and disk space can be segregated for each Virtual Private Server. This offers most of the benefits as that of a dedicated server but at much lower prices.

  

  Below are few other benefits of Windows VPS hosting and Linux VPS Hosting.

  a) Individual secure and separate VPS hosting environment

  b) Offers the ability to host multiple web-sites on a virtual server(s)

  c) Offers enhances control which includes server back-ups and reboots

  d) Complete anti-virus protection

  e) Virtuozzo power panel offering

  f) Plesk control panel for Windows

  g) Complete remote control and access of VPS servers

  h) The ability to install and configure whatever applications the client wishes on the VPS server

  i) Highly flexible servers can be upgraded without any kind of interruption in the services(depends who the web host is)

  j) Fully managed servers which include updates on operating system.

  VPS hosting provides customers with more secure hosting environment, with complete root access and the ability to configure and install anything that the customer wishes within his/er environment. On a particular machine there are more than one virtual servers, none of the users can view, change, configure, de-configure, install, uninstall  or delete any data from the other VPS account on the same server.

  To learn more about VPS features, benefits and usage, please refer to the below given links:

  • Future Web Hosting Initiates With Virtual Private Servers

  • Virtual Private Server (VPS) And Types Of VPS Control Panels

  • Windows Virtual Private Server Hosting Explained In A Simple Way

  Tags: Linux VPS Hosting, Microsoft, plesk, Plesk control panel, Virtual Private Server, Virtual Servers, Virtuozzo, vps, VPS hosting, VPS Web Hosting, windows, Windows VPS hosting

• 15Dec

  Important Tips For Starting A Windows Web Hosting Business.

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  There are few basic steps that needs to be followed for hosting one’s own website and generate traffic on the same.

  Before hosting a website on a Windows website hosting server, it is necessary to choose and register a domain name for the website. The name of the domain must be such that it is easily recognized by the visitors to the website, also they must get a quick understanding about the website. It is very important for the websites promotion that user creates a name which can be easily marketed. Once the domain name gets registered, now it is the time to start working on the website building.

  For hosting a website on a Windows Web hosting server, the web pages needs to be designed using the .NET technology such as Microsoft’s ASP.net. An investigation can be helpful about the products/services that the website is going to offer. The best guide can be other websites that offer the same products and services.

  A web designer can be a better option for designing the website. Web site owners must give a list of products or services that you want to focus more, to the web designer. Keeping the navigational tool as simple and easy as possible can attract visitors to the website as they would find the required information with minimum efforts.

  Now comes the crucial task of choosing a Windows Web Hosting firm to host your website. Click to get tips of choosing the best web hosting service provider. This task is little complicated but very crucial. Choose the one that best suites the requirements of the website.

  Once the perfect Windows Web Hosting service provider is chosen, user can upload the website. All the pages, images and text need to be uploaded on the Windows Server. The uploading is mostly done by using an FTP(File Transfer Protocol) program. It is not very difficult to do the uploading. The website is ready for web users to access the information once the website gets successfully uploaded.

  Now to make the website successful, its promotion and marketing is necessary to generate traffic on the website. CLICK to learn ways of driving traffic to your website.

  The most important rule to gain success is PATIENCE.

  Tags: .NET technology, File Transfer Protocol, FTP, Microsoft ASP.net, website hosting, Windows Web Hosting, Windows website hosting

• 15Dec

  Various Important Features Of Windows Web Hosting Services.

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  Why it is termed as Windows Web Hosting service?

  The Web Hosting service providers provide Microsoft’s Windows software on the server for the website to be hosted, hence the Web Hosting service is called as Windows Web Hosting service.

  There are basically two types of operating systems namely Windows and Linux, that are provided by the Web Hosting service providers. Windows website hosting is more user friendly interface than Linux web hosting. Windows hosting is more popular and preferred because it provides support for all the popular windows web services that is used in development. One more added advantage is that Windows has its own products and services.

  Windows web hosting has more benefits which is also one of the major reasons for its worldwide popularity. Both the operating systems have its individual features and have their own advantages and disadvantages. One major advantage is the .NET such as ASP.net technologies are supported in Windows Web Hosting services. If a website is already built using Microsoft’s .NET technology then the benefits of using this service can be experienced better. Windows web hosting can be the best possible solution if a website is designed with Microsoft Frontpage or web application with the use of Active Server Page (ASP).

  Windows website hosting is considered to be slower than Unix web hosting solution in terms of performance, but in terms of hardware efficiency Windows hosting solution is considered to be much more cost effective option. There is no denial to the fact that Linux website hosting is extremely efficient and offers cheap web hosting but it does not support applications like ASP or ASP.net applications that use windows platform.

  Tags: .Net, Active Server Page, asp, ASP.net, linux, Microsoft.NET, Microsoft’s Windows, Web Hosting, windows, Windows Web Hosting, windows web services

• 14Dec

  Control Panel For Windows Web Hosting : Plesk

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  Plesk control panel was developed by specialized and experienced web hosting company and IT professionals for Windows Web Hosting. It contains almost every essential tool to manage the Internet activity.

  

  Plesk is a control panel which is used only with Windows Web Hosting solutions, it comes with a capability to allow users to easily control the various tasks of a Web site. It enables the management of every necessary tool for the Windows web hosting. Its major usage can be seen in the Windows Dedicated server hosting solutions.

  Plesk control panel provides users with web interface for databases such as My SQL and MS SQL. Users have the privilege to choose between SmarterStats, AWstats and Webalizer which are the traffic statistics tools, it also helps in viewing the traffic history. Users get SSL and non-SSL content served from the same physical directory. Users can automatically create new web-sites based on templates or as per the users requirements. Creation of DNS with Apache or FTP tool is simple with Plesk. The bandwidth used by websites, FTP can be monitored using Plesk control panel.

  Auto-responders, E-mails and E-mail groups can be easily managed and created with the help of Plesk. Plesk also comes with a feature of Log Rotation Management. Users can manage and upload web pages with File Manager or FrontPage Web-Admin.

  In Windows Web Hosting, Plesk enables users to create sub domains, manage site dynamic content. It comes with a new site Builder. Plesk helps in the management of dedicated IP’s, shared-IP and virtual IP domains, create standard/ frame forwarding domains and manage SSL certificate for domains.

  Most of the Web Hosting companies offer Plesk with Windows Web Hosting packages. Plesk has gained reputation for its reliability and stability as a control panel.

  Tags: Apache, DNS, Domain Name Server, MS SQL, My SQL, plesk, SSL, Web Hosting, Windows Web Hosting, Windows Web Hosting solutions

• 10Dec

  Windows Web Hosting and Linux Web Hosting : : Difference and Preference

  Linux Hosting, Linux web hosting, Micfo Web Hosting, Microsoft, Web Hosting, Windows Web Hosting No Comments

  There is a misconception in the web hosting industry about the selection of an operating system for hosting a website on a particular web-hosting account. Users think that if they use particular operating system on the personal computer, the same OS is necessary on the hosting account/servers, which isn’t true.

  There isn’t any compulsion of using the same operating system as that of the desktop. The hosted server can have different operating system.

  Both the technologies i.e. Windows Web Hosting and Linux Web Hosting are suitable for beginners, web developer professionals etc. Every technology amongst the two have distinct advantages for the users.

  

  Incase users are using Active Server pages or other Microsoft applications for designing the web pages, then Windows Hosting can be useful. The Windows platform offers reduced development time and better functionality for its databases. The major advantage of choosing a Microsoft Windows platform is the ability to use ASP, ASP.net and Access database in the web pages. The ASP.net and ASP offer rapid, scalable and efficient development environment for building the web-site. Along with MS Access these tools allows users to make website dynamic and more interactive.

  Windows Web Hosting platform is suitable for developing a static HTML based website that has Macro Media Flash or other scripting technologies. The Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 are suitable web hosting platforms for such usage.

  A common application that can be used on both the platforms is Microsoft Frontpage.

  The Linux Web Hosting solution is widely considered as the best operating system for the web hosting servers. Recently Linux has gained popularity due to its reliability, stability and its efficiency. It provides some of the best web and mail server environments.

  It offers PHP, Perl and My SQL. Linux functions well for brochure-ware websites which offer interaction through enquiry forms, e-commerce functions and online purchasing.

  Tags: Access database, asp, ASP.net, linux, Linux web hosting, Microsoft, MS Access, My SQL, Perl, PHP, Web Hosting, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows Web Hosting

• 07Dec

  Difference Between Windows and Linux Web Hosting : Choosing The Right One

  Linux Hosting, Linux web hosting, Micfo Web Hosting, Microsoft, Ruby & Rail, Web Hosting, Windows Web Hosting No Comments

  If a user is planning to launch a website, s/he will needs to decide on a web host and a best suited package. And with so many options available in the Web Hosting industry, both in terms of the number of hosts and the types of packages, this can be quite confusing.

  An Explanation : About the difference between Linux and Windows web hosting?

  Different Types Of Web Hosting Services

  Web hosting generally comes in two flavors: Windows Web Hosting and Linux Web Hosting. To decide which is better for the users website, is important to know the differences between the two, as well as their relative benefits and limitations.

  Windows Web Hosting

  Windows hosting is a good option for people who are familiar with Microsoft technologies, as this is a Microsoft product and easily integrates with other MS products.

  Windows hosting supports various popular frameworks such as ColdFusion and ASP.net., as well as SQL databases.

  Linux Web Hosting

  Even more widespread than Windows, Linux hosting is one of the most common web hosting options available today. The main reason for its popularity is that it is very affordable. As a result, a majority of new businesses opt for Linux hosting in order to minimize start-up costs.

  Linux supports popular languages such as PHP, Perl, and Ruby on Rails, and serves MySQL databases.

  The Important Factor Of Cost

  The major difference between Windows web hosting and Linux web hosting is cost. Linux services are much lower-priced than Windows services. This is due to the fact that many Windows technologies are licensed, which drives up costs.

  Additionally, if you opt for Windows, your added costs will not stop at hosting fees. In addition, it is likely that your will pay more to have your website developed. Why? Most open source or free programs are written in PHP and developed for a Linux platform. This means that by opting for Windows hosting, The users might not be able to use hundreds of free applications. Instead, users will have to pay the  developer to build the applications from scratch.

  In the end, it is probably best if users choose Linux hosting. However, it is important to consult the professional who will be developing the web-site. Most likely, they will have a preference as to which host to select and what plan to acquire. Additionally, the web professional will have a better idea of what resources users website will need to run effectively.

  Tags: ASP.net, ColdFusion, Linux web hosting, Microsoft, Microsoft technologies, MySQL, Perl, PHP, Ruby On Rails, SQL, web host, Web Hosting, windows hosting, Windows Web Hosting

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