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At some point of time when the service offered by the current Web hosting service provider starts falling short of the requirements of the user or the website owner, users tend to seek some other Hosting company. But switching onto another Hosting company might be a little messy. So here are a few steps that might be helpful when switching to another service provider.

Taking Backup Is most Important:

Users should ritually taking back-ups, it always helps when they want to switch the service providers. Users should take the backup of every data on the server. It is recommended that two copies of back up should be taken and stored in different locations.

There is a possibility that the new service provider has a different control panel. Then a manual backup must be done by downloading all the files as a different control panel might not be able to restore the backups taken by the old host. They might or they do have different directory structures so it might be a messy job to get all the files with the new service provider. Also the old server configuration must be noted. This helps when as you make changes on the new host server. Users should make the correct transfer type as the download initiates. If the download does not happen, then there are wide possibilities that the website might not work properly or may not even work.

The server logs too should be backed up. The best thing to do is to download it and use a log analyzer on your computer to make references to later on.

Gathering Odds & Ends Is Essential

1. A Good FTP program you should have.

2. Get your new host server’s DNS
3. It’s also helpful to have a script that tells you the server environments installed on your new host server for quick reference.
4. Get the temporary URL on your new host so you can check your site before you make a DNS change.
5. If you have your host control the domain inform them not to change your DNS until you tell them to.
6. If you run scripts:
- Get a copy of the original installation guide and the script. Sometimes after moving the scripts just do not work right so you might need to install the script from scratch.
- Get a list of all the server paths such as Perl, Send mail and home directory on your new server.
- If your script needs special server modules or programs ensure they are installed and where. Even though these might be covered before you ordered the account with the host but sometimes your host has removed it or haven’t installed it yet.

Visitors Must Be Kept Informed:

This is always proven to be a very good practice of informing the visitors of the server move. This helps building trust and awaring them of the possible downtime. This results in retaining the customers with your web hosting service. There should always be an alternate e-mail id so that no mails get lost at the time of transfer. If the web-site is large then doing periodic update can be helpful as visitors can inform you if any part of the web-site isn’t functional.

Day Of the Movement:

The time of movement must be when there is least traffic on the web-site. Latest back-up must be taken just before the movement. The most visible parts of the site must be backed up. If the web-site is large and are moving to a new web hosting service provider then, the pages must be split and must be moved on different days with moving the critical parts first then the less. Take care of taking the back-up before every move. The temporary URL must be checked of the site.

DNS Change:

Once everything is fine, change the DNS. Usually it takes 24-48 hours so users have ample time to make some minor adjustments (If required). Make small changes onto the new page to differentiate between the old and new to help determine if the DNS has been resolved.

Now Comes The Part Of Monitoring:

After the movement is successful and the DNS is resolved, don’t release the old account immediately. Parallely keep it running for atleast two weeks. Check the activity on the old server. Checking the old e-mail account is always beneficial to see if any communication has been left unseen.

Once everything is in place, user can cancel the account from the old service provider.

AMD has announced the availability of new quad core Shanghai 45 nanometer processors for servers, Shanghai chips has been concentrated on the virtualization features. AMD expects the recovery of its image from the delays of the Barcelona processors.

Shanghai is the code name for the latest quad core Opterone processors. The chips have been manufactured to compete with Intel’s Nehalem processors which too are expected to be introduced to the market soon. AMD’s new hardware provides 35 percent better performance than it previous Barcelona quad core Opterone processors. At idle conditions Shanghai is expected to reduce power consumption by almost 35 percent. The chip is expected to deliver enhanced virtualization performance and improved performance per Watt. Shanghai is an upgraded version of AMD’s previous Barcelona chips, increased speed and improved performance. The chips are designed with 45 nano meter layout and has re-architected parts of its cores. It has a Direct Connect Architecture and AMD virtualization technology which offers faster world switch time, improved virtual machine efficiency, the chips have been created focusing on server platforms.

The Shanghai server processors are available in nine models each having four cores.

Internet Domain Hosting can also be called as Web Hosting. Internet domain hosting is a cheaper and simpler way of hosting your web-sites. Selecting an internet domain hosting package helps you set up and run your own websites. You need not spend on hiring or owning large and expensive servers and keep it in a data centre.

CLICK to view the headaches involved in opting for owning your own servers. Internet domain hosting exists almost from the beginning of the internet era, as people need a place where they can host their websites with simplicity. Web hosting providers have to manage domains as well with their internet domain hosting packages offered to customers who have hosted their web-sites with them. Now a days we can find many Internet Domain Hosting providers.

There are multiple factors that one should take into consideration. The most important factor that you must keep in mind is your requirements, and accordingly you should select a web hosting package. Many times a good and reputed web hosting service provider asks you various questions and accordingly after understanding your requirements, suggests you the best web hosting package. For selecting such a web hosting service, one should do a good research before hosting your website with any of them. Doing this will save your money as well as time.

A good Internet Domain Hosting company has powerful and fast computers which are also called as servers to host their clients websites onto their servers.

Incase some does not know terms here are few terms that can be seen on any of the web hosting service providers websites :

RAID : This is a form of server back-ups. On a timely basis the content of your website is backed up, it is helpful incase your website fails or is not funtioning. Using the back-up, it can be restored and your website would be operational again within a very short period of time.

Bandwidth : It depends on the bandwidth of the server to transfer data to and from your website and the visitor’s computer. The bandwidth is measured in Giga Bytes (GB)

Disk Space : This is the amount of server space that is allotted to your website. It may vary depending on your web hosting package.

The success of your website largely depends on the selection of web hosting service provider. If the hardware that the hosting service provider is poor, then the services that you get are definitely going to get hampered. So it’s a crucial decision for you to select the Web Hosting Service providing company.

Dedicated server hosting also known as managed server hosting is a type of hosting where a user gets to use an entire server. S/he does not need to share the server space with any other user.

SUPPORT FOR OPERATING SYSTEM

IF the user opts to have Linux, then most of the hosting companies do not charge any amount to the users, as Linux is an open source OS and can be freely downloaded. But Microsoft Server edition software isn’t free, the user needs to bear the price. Depending on the hosting provider company, the charge might be monthly, half yearly or yearly.

CONNECTIVITY AND BANDWIDTH

Nowadays people have started outsourcing dedicated servers due to high powered network availability elsewhere on the planet and I guess INDIA has started becoming a hub for such provision’s .

MANAEMENT OF

It is the headache of the of the hosting company. The company must be capable of handling all the technical issues.

1) 2002 - The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server’s socket is not correctly configured).

Ans :-

Built in mysql.sock file path is /var/lib/mysql/ phpmyadmin search it in /tmp. To solve error just create symlink of mysql.sock under /tmp. Please use following command to create symlink.

ln –s /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock mysql.sock

2 Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly.

Ans:-

We receive above error while accessing phpmyadmin due to wrong session file path or wrong session handler type mentioned in file “/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/phpmyadmin/php.ini” . Please find following and change it as per below.

Search for

session.save_handler = sqlite

session.save_path =/var/cpanel/userhomes/cpanelphpmyadmin/sessions/phpsess.sdb

Replace to

session.save_handler = files

session.save_path = /tmp

3 Your configuration file contains settings (root with no password) that correspond to the default MySQL privileged account. Your MySQL server is running with this default, is open to intrusion, and you really should fix this.

Ans:-

Please check you have set root password of mysql. You can do it from whm >> sql services >> mysql root password.

Please check password is correctly saved under

/root/.my.cnf

The evaluation copy of Windows Server 2008 software does not require product activation. The basic edition comes with an evaluation period of 60 days which can be further extended to a total time of 240 days.

Follow below steps to extend the initial evaluation period.

STEPS TO INSTALL WINDOWS SERVER 2008 (Without its Activation)

• Run Windows Server Setup program
• Do not enter the product key for activation when prompted, just click NO and proceed.
• Select the edition of the Windows Server that you wish to Install. You cannot change the edition once selected a particular option. You will have to re-install to change the edition.
• Read the evaluation terms and click Accept.
• When the set up program is completed the initial 60-days evaluation period begins.
• The slmgr.vbs -dli command displays the number of days that are left in the current 60-day evaluation period.

STEPS FOR MANUALLY EXTENDING EVALUATION PERIOD

When the initial evaluation period nears its expiry date, run Slmgr.vbs script to reset it.

Here is how you do it :

Start >> Command Prompt >> Type slmgr.vbs –dli and Enter. This will show the number of days remaining.

Start >> Command Prompt >> Type slmgr.vbs –rearm and Enter.

Now Restart the computer.

This would again extent the evaluation period to further 60 days.