• 20Feb

    Microsoft’s Hyper V has been introduced to change the way, virtual machines interact with the physical hardware. This new technology has enabled the manufacturer to compete with other different server virtualization products and services available in the market. It has provided additional capabilities to the IT sector. Hyper V has the ability to offer better support to the host functionality, support for the guest sessions, administration support and improvements in the reliability of the server.

    Microsoft has managed to make major improvements to the virtual host capabilities of Hyper V are the core functional additions to Windows Server 2008. These improvements relate to security, reliability and performance. The most significant addition to Hyper V is the new virtual switch that provides greater flexibility for managing the network communication among guest images and internetworking infrastructure of an organization.

    ws08hypev_logo_2501 Microsoft Hyper V Technology OverviewHyper V and Windows Server 2008 influence the in-built capabilities of Windows 2008 along with specific Hyper V components for the purpose of improvingsupport, operation, administration and management of a Hyper V host server. Alike any other application server in the Active Directory environment, server can be managed and administered when Hyper V host server is joined to a Microsoft Active Directory. Centralized security management is possible through use of Active Directory units, user admins. and groups. Same tools organizations used for management and monitoring of existing Windows server systems can be used to monitor Hyper V host server. Security policies, back-up procedures, patch management and corresponding tools and utilities that are used to support Windows Server systems can be used to support Hyper V host server system. In short the Hyper V host server transforms into another managed Windows server overall on the network.

    It important to run a Hyper V host server on 64 bit system. This is for providing more memory in the host server to distribute among guest sessions. Previously, a 32 bit host server was limited to approximately 4 Gb RAM memory and the ways to divide the memory into different guest sessions were limited, but with 64 bit host servers supporting 8Gb, 16 Gb or more, guest sessions can easily consume 4Gb or 8Gb memory, yet leave ample room for other guest sessions and functions. All the guest sessions on a Hyper V administration host resides within a single server. Hence, the virtual switch capability built in to thw Hyper V Administration tool enables the Hyper V administrator to create special network segments to ensure the virtual guest sessions to specific network adapters in host servers to ensure that the virtual guests can be connected to network segments to meet the needs of the organization.

    Today, many web hosting companies provide Hyper V technology with their VPS packages.

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  • 30Jan

    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.

    search Understand Windows Indexing Service.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.

    audio-video-ifilter-60133-sm Understand Windows 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 windows_xp_logo Understand Windows Indexing Service.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

    global_domain_names-285x300 Understand Windows Indexing Service.

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

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  • 12Jan

    ws08hypev_logo_250 Microsoft’s Hyper V : A Windows Server Virtualization ToolHyper 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.

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  • 08Jan

    vps_hosting_india-150x150 Windows or Linux VPS Hosting The Best Alternative To Windows and Linux Dedicated Hosting.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.

    windows-vps-logo-150x149 Windows or Linux VPS Hosting The Best Alternative To Windows and Linux Dedicated Hosting.linux-logo-250x300-150x150 Windows or Linux VPS Hosting The Best Alternative To Windows and Linux Dedicated Hosting.

    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:

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  • 10Dec

    There is a misconceptionlinux-windowsweb-hosting Windows Web Hosting and Linux Web Hosting : : Difference and Preference 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.

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    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.

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  • 09Dec

    Dedicated Server hosting service, managed hosting service or Dedicated server is one of the different types of Web Hosting service. Dedicated web hosting is more flexible type of web hosting solution as compared with other types of hosting solutions. The organization who have chosen a Dedicated hosting package from a Web Hosting firm, has the complete control over the server(s). The organization(s) can choose the operating system, hardware etc. to be installed on the server. As an add-on service, server administration can be offered by the web hosting firm. The dedicated servers are housed in data centers, just like collocation facilities, with a provision of redundant power sources and HVAC systems.

    managed-dedicated-server-hosting-300x107 Dedicated Server Hosting Service : An In-depth Explanation

    The organization(s) can choose the operating system to be installed on the dedicated server. The Commercial operating systems include Microsoft Windows Server, it is offered through a special program known as the Microsoft SPLA. Different variations of Linux which is an open source operating system is usually included at zero charge for the customers. But Red Hat Enterprize is a commercial version of Linux which is offered to the hosting service providers with a monthly fee charged. The monthly charge provides updates on the OS through Red Hat Network.

    The support for any operating systems depends on the level of management offered with a particular dedicated server hosting plan provided by the hosting service provider. The updates include updates to the core system in order to acquire the up-to-date security fixes, system-wide vulnerability resolutions and patches, kernel upgrades, application updates, service packs etc.

    The data transfer rate or the amount of data that is carried from one point to other in a given time is known as Bandwidth. It is represented in bits per second.

    Methods of Bandwidth Measurement

    1. Unmetered Method : In this type of measurement the web hosting providers control the top line speed of the server. This speed in unmetered bandwidth is the total Mbits/sec allocated to the server and configured on the switch level.
    2. 95th Method : The Line Speed billed on the 95th percentile, average or peak usage, it refers to the speed in which data flows from the server or device. This measurement can be compared to the Miles Per Hour (mph) which means with what speed it travels. The Line speed is measured using bits per second, kilobits per second, megabits per second and gigabits per second.
    3. Total Transfer Method : Depending on the web hosting service provider, some calculate the Total Transfer, it is the measurement of the actual data arrival and leaving. It is measured in bytes.

    One of the following equations are used to measure:

    1st Method : IN TRAFFIC + OUT TRAFFIC = TOTAL TRANSFER

    2nd Method : IN TRAFFIC = TOTAL TRANSFER

    3rd Method : OUT TRAFFIC = TOTAL TRANSFER

    Due to the availability of high powered networks from multiple providers people choose to outsource the dedicated servers. The server use large amounts of bandwidths. Usually the providers of dedicated servers include a service level agreement based on the network uptime.

    There are no clear industry standards set that can define the role of management of dedicated server providers. Every Web Hosting provider defines the term differently but use the industries standard term.

    Server Management includes the following:

    • Intrusion detection
    • Updates on Operating System
    • Database administration
    • Updates on Applications
    • Performance tuning
    • Server monitoring
    • Software configuration and installation
    • Simple Network Management Protocol hardware monitoring
    • User Management
    • Application monitoring
    • Consultation on Programming
    • Technical Support
    • Backups and restoration
    • Firewall Services
    • Disaster Recovery
    • Updates of Antivirus
    • DNS Hosting Service
    • Security Audits
    • DDoS protection and mitigation
    • Load Balancing

    Depending on the services offered, Dedicated hosting server providers define their level of management.

    The Dedicated hosting server providers usually provides the below mentioned types of Server management support

    - Fully Managed : This includes monitoring, security patches, software updates, operating system upgrades and reboots.

    - Self Managed : It includes regular monitoring and some maintenance.

    - Managed : This type of support includes medium level management, updates, limited support and monitoring.

    - Unmanaged : This includes little or no involvement from the web hosting service provider. Customers provide all the maintenance, patches, upgrades and security concerns.

    The Dedicated Hosting provider apply extreme security measures to ensure the data safety of the stored on their servers. The Web Hosting firm often deploy various software programs for scanning systems and network for spammers, invaders, attackers and other problems like Trojans, worms etc.

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  • 07Dec

    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.

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    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 Hostinglinux-logo-250x300 Difference Between Windows and Linux Web Hosting : Choosing The Right One

    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.

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  • 05Dec

    Today most of the Web Hosting service providers offer Windows Server 2008 hosting.

    Following are the hosting technologies and Add-on softwares which are fully compatible with on Windows 2008.micsilvrlight Compatibility Features Of Windows 2008 Server Web Hosting

    Supported Hosting Technologies:

    1) Silverlight Hosting – The Microsoft Silverlight is a cross browser, cross platform plug-in designed to deliver a next generation .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications over the Internet.iis7 Compatibility Features Of Windows 2008 Server Web Hosting

    2) IIS7 Web Hosting – This version of Internet Information Services is integrated with Windows 2008 Web Hosting.

    3) ISAPI Rewrite – ISAPI_Rewrite has proved to be a powerful URL manipulation engine, it is based on regular expressions. It operation is similar to Apache’s mod_rewrite. But it is designed for Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS).sql2008 Compatibility Features Of Windows 2008 Server Web Hosting

    4) MS SQL 2008 Web HostingMSSQL 2008 has been designed to target the data management to be self tuning, self maintaining and self organizing with the development of SQL Server always on technologies inorder to offer zero downtime to the customers.

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    5) MS SQL 2003 Web Hosting – SQL Server 2003 is a comprehensive database platform that offers enterprise class data management.

    6) ASP.net 3.5

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    Web Hosting - With .NET framework 3.5, ASP.net 3.5 provides features, flexibility and functionality to help build better web sites. The ASP.net 3.5 hosting includes professional design, authoring, publishing and data tools which are required to create dynamic and sophisticated Web sites.

    7) ASP.net 3.0 Web Hosting – The .NET Framework 3.0, the latest hyped version of .NET is a new programming tool for Windows. It proves to be useful in Windows Web hosting. It is merged with the power of .NET Framework 2.0 with new technologies for building applications having visually compelling user experiences.

    8) ASP.net 2.0 Web Hosting – Microsoft ASP.net 2.0 is one of the most powerful and quick growing Web development platform. The ASP.net .NET Framework 2.0 powers few of the world’s biggest websites, it is one of the largest demanded applications.ajax Compatibility Features Of Windows 2008 Server Web Hosting

    9) AJAX Hosting – ASP.net AJAX is a free framework. It is used for building rich and interactive, cross browser web application

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  • 04Dec

    The users who have hosted their websites on a Windows server do not get access to the operating system. Yet the operating system plays a crucial part in the web hosting account. It enables direct control, operation and administration of the server on which the website is installed. There are two types of operating system platforms to choose for hosting a website: Linux and Windows platforms. Below is a quick introduction of benefits of hosting a website on a Windows OS platform.

    Advantages of Windows Hosting for hosting a website on a Windows Server

    One major benefit of Windows Web Hosting is the ability to easily incorporate the number of Windows compatible technologies in the website. As we all are aware that Microsoft products are widely used across the world, the vendors constantly develop solutions to support the Windows platform. Alongwith ASP, one can make use of the programming languages like JavaScript, Cold Fusion, PHP and VB Scripts. Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) can be decided when choosing a Windows Web hosting solution on a dedicated server. This feature is not supported on most of the Unix and Linux systems.

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    Understanding the Windows Technology

    Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 are powerful softwares that take the responsibility of serving the web pages on a Windows platform. These systems are capable, offer dynamic back end management and simple accessibility features. The Windows system supports variety of Microsoft technologies which can be used effectively as development tools.

    Microsoft Office Suite’s popular apfrontpage Quick Overview Of Windows Web Hosting Solutionsplication “The Front Page” is a building tool that allows creating pages without any necessity of experience. This can also be done online with the associated server side extension. ASP (Active Server Pages) is another common technology offered by Windows, it is a Microsoft patented server side scripting language. Dynamic web pages can be created with the use of this programming language. While Unix or Linux platforms usually makes the use of of open source database systems such as the Postgre SQL and My SQL. Windows Web Hosting offers Microsoft Access or SQL Server. The different technologies are valuable features which offers many advantages to the website.

    Price Difference

    Previously Windows Web Hosting seemed to be more expensive hosting solution due to the exclusive use of Microsoft based servers and commercial products that require providers to pay licensing fees for its usage. But recently after the introduction of Linux Servers to the web hosting industry Windows Servers faced competition. Hence Windows packages can now be affordable though not as cheap as Linux packages.

    Summarizing everything and coming to a conclusion, Windows hosting no doubt yet remains a better option specially if user believes in Microsoft technologies.

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  • 04Dec

    Windows Web hosting is able to support variety of scripts just like Linux. Windows offers two common options are ASP and PHP. In the Web Hosting Industry ASP is exclusively used for Windows Web Hosting and Web Hosting platforms also use PHP. SQL server and My SQL databases are relational in nature allowing communication with customers websites for quick retrieval of information through the Internet.

    php1 Beneficial Features Of Windows Web Hosting Scripting and ASPicon_frameworkdotnet_asp_logo Beneficial Features Of Windows Web Hosting Scripting and ASP

    The major benefit of Windows web hosting is that it also comes with many pre-installed applications specifically written for Windows Servers. Some of these programs are free small in size whereas some are expensive and have the ability to power prominent corporations. Web Hosting with Windows as a platform can be a unique experience.

    There are few factors that make Windows a better choice for Web Hosting of a site on Windows Server.

    Use of ASP for Windows Web Hosting

    Windows hosting has the advantage of the use of ASP scripts where Linux lags behind in this feature. But a Linux server can make the transition of hosting a site running on Windows operating system, it is not designed for compatibility with ASP. Because of the popularity of ASP, it has its own web hosting platform. Most of the hosts implement Windows operating system, not to forget the fact that this often is expensive than the open source Linux Hosting. The common web hosting platforms users often find for this scripts are ASP.net and ASP4 as it supports VB and Java scripts. ASP is an abbreviation of Active Server Pages. When the ASP pages are sent to the user they are dynamic in nature.

    ASP Dynamics

    PHP and ASP are designed to perform the similar functions but Windows based scripts are bit more advanced. Internet web pages can be distinguished between: static pages and dynamic pages. Static web pages show simple contents which do not change throughout, whereas Dynamic web pages get modified when they reach the users computer. Java Script has the capability of automatically changing page appearance, a process known as the client side scripting. Scripts written in ASP can modify a page before it gets loaded in the web browser. This is known as the server-side scripting. The Dynamic web pages that are created in ASP are embedded in the base language and the URL.

    ASP enables web programmers create a web site and produce dynamic content based on commands. The powerful commands give users more control over the web pages and hence the complete web-site. Integration with MS SQL provides strength to ASP and also allows users to build a phenomenal website without self scripting the design, other contents and background for each page. Database is an essential element in the appearance of a website. ASP pages do not necessarily need the aid of a database for loading the dynamic content.

    ASP’s role in Enhancing Web Hosting

    There are multiple reasons to reside with Windows web host, ASP scripts is one of them. Like PHP, ASP too is easy to translate. ASP.net is a user friendly language. ASP.net takes very less load time. ASP language is capable and compatible.

    ASP Features

    Due to the popularity of ASP, users search for a Windows Web host that uses ASP. For such seekers users need to check for: frequent updates, scripting support and add-ons.

    • Add-Ons: The add-on application for Windows have the capability to make a website prosper in performance and presentation. ASP is bundled with programs that are pre-installed on the server. Apart from the initial payment and agreement of terms, these applications mostly are free and easily available on demand.
    • Scripting Support:

    If a user intends to implement dynamic web pages in the web-site the scripting support prove to be very important. The Scripting support from the web host assists the users with all the programming issues. Most of the Windows Web Hosting providers provide support through phone calls, e-mails or support tickets, interactive applications such as blogs and message forms. By seeking help on ASP through such services can offer most from the Windows hosting.

    To summarize, ASP is an absolutely solid script which has earned reputation in a short span of time. The Dynamic web language usage causes Windows Web hosting grow and make the best websites over the internet. The ASP feature can be helpful for users who wish to publish their websites on the Windows Server.

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