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12Jun

Features of cPanel, Plesk and DotNet Panel Web Hosting.

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cPanel, Plesk and DotNet Panel are the control panels offered by most of the professional web hosting service providers. These control panels provided by the hosting firms, help users to manage different tasks of web hosting. These panels simplifies the tasks for the support staff too, as clients are able to carry out majority of the tasks on their own. Tasks that can be simplified with the use of these control panels, are management of web services, E-mails, DNS and Database on both half’s i.e. client and administrator. Most web hosting service providers offer control panel access as a standard feature for the web hosting accounts. These control panels are simple to use, a person with no webmaster skills can operate it too, and hence this is one of the major reasons why these control panels have been widely preferred by web hosting service providers and their users.

cPanel offers support for Linux Servers only. That limits web hosts to offer cPanel with Linux Servers only. Whereas, DotNet Panel supports Windows Servers only. DotNet Panel Windows Hosting is another type of web hosting solution offered by web hosting providers. While Plesk control panel is compatible with Linux as well as with Windows web hosting platforms. But, DotNet Panel is more preferred for managing Windows Hosting accounts than Plesk due to its stability.

cPanel, Plesk and DotNet Panel all have their own advantages when used by customers and administrators of Web hosting services. Usually, Plesk and DotNet Panel are more preferred and offered with Windows Web Hosting service and cPanel with Linux Web Hosting solutions.

PLESK

Advantages of Plesk control panel.
- Windows Support : Plesk works with Windows Web hosting which enables web hosting service providers to offer Windows based web hosting packages to the customers. Websites designed using ASP and ASP.NET works only on Windows servers, so you are not left with any option other than choosing Windows Web Hosting services. Customers usually prefer DotNet Panel instead of Plesk for managing Windows Web Hosting accounts. But, if DNP isn’t available then Plesk too is a good alternative.
- Windows Service Support : As Plesk can be used on Windows based servers it has the capability to integrate with multiple Windows based programs. It has an advanced feature support for some Windows programs such as Microsoft SQL Server which can be managed by Plesk by server administrators and clients with their own databases which makes it an ideal control panel solution for Windows.
- Cross Platform Compatibility : From a system administrator’s point of view, one may find it more beneficial having a single control panel on all the servers. Mastering a single control panel is much simpler than mastering two. As a customer one may find it easy since it means that one should be able to get the same sort of features from both Linux as well as from Windows web hosting solutions.
Though Plesk seems to be perfect for Windows web hosting packages, it can also be used for Linux packages.

DOTNET PANEL (DNP)

DNP is probably the best available solution that is developed for simplifying Windows Hosting management operations. It offers its users with greater flexibility. It is written in C# and comprises with the latest technologies such as WMI, ADSI, SOAP Web Services with Web enhancements and N velocity Templates engine.

DNP offers support for Exchange Server 2007, Windows Share Point Services, IIS 7.0, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and a new VPS solution for complete Enterprise level automation of virtualization. It is reputed as the fastest AJAX enabled control panel.

Features of DotNet Panel:
- Easy Usability: The installation process is fairly simple and easy. You are not required to waste days for making the control panel work for you.
- Security: Most advanced security technology such as asymmetric cryptography, process isolation and Web Services messages signing is used in DNP.
- Multi-Server: DNP is remarkably scalable, distributed n-tier application.
cPANEL

cPanel is a preferred control panel for Linux web hosting services. Benefits of cPanel are as follows.
- More Features of Linux : cPanel encompasses more features for Linux web hosting solutions than Plesk control panel. cPanel can be used in combination with different add-ons such as Fantastico script installer and CFS firewall to provide customers a wide range of services which can be used from their web hosting accounts control panel, such features can’t be used on Plesk Linux Web Hosting servers.
- Reseller Support : Apart from Plesk 9.0 version, other versions does not provide support for reseller web hosting accounts whereas cPanel offers good support for resellers. cPanel is available with the Web Host Manager (WHM) panel which allows resellers to control all different aspects of their reseller accounts including the configuring of their own packages and the setting up of client web hosting accounts.
- Faster Loading : cPanel’s internal pages load more faster than those of Plesk and certain tasks are carried out quicker than they would be with the Plesk control panel. cPanel does not rely on external databases in much cases, this is one of the reasons of the smooth functioning. cPanel has proven to be more reliable than Plesk on Linux.
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01Jun

An Explanation on Managed Dedicated Web Hosting

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A managed web hosting is a smarter alternative for any small to medium sized business, who wants to make an effective web presence but do not have the time, budget and other required resources of IT. Neither you want to invest in costly hardware required to host a website.

With a managed web hosting solution, an individual leases bandwidth, diskspace and other resources from a web hosting provider. The website is then placed on one of their servers chosen by you. Apart from web hosting, the web hosting provider provides you with number of other features which can prove to be beneficial for companies/organizations using Internet as a medium to accelerate the revenue generation plus attract new customers, which I believe is the main objective of any business.

There are various benefits of Managed Web Hosting for a business, some of them are listed below:

Professionals Take Care of One’s Website

When it comes to any business, as we all are aware, its better to let experts handle critical responsibilities for you. Failure to do so, would spend a lot of amount of time and resources and ultimately add to the loss incurred by an organisation.

By, letting a professional web hosting provider host a site for you, you are getting rid of waste of time and resource required to maintain the website and related tasks. Their staffs consists of professionals and have good experience in maintaining the hardware and programming necessary for keeping one’s website up and running all the time. The uptime of a website is most crucial for any online business. A web hosts knowledge and experience can suffice your business additionally and you can direct your resources to other crucial tasks of business.

Save Crucial Resources by opting for Managed Web Hosting

Applying cost-effective techniques to any business is crucial in terms of its growth. Managed hosting has proven to be one such wise decision and has added exponentially for businesses profits.

If one plans to host a website and related components in-house, the hardware required isn’t cheap. Then, you would need professionals for setting up the server and the website. The costs charged by these professionals aren’t cheap. After the set-up is done, you’d later need them again for maintenance and resolving other problems, which means you would once again need to put hands in your pocket in order to make them payment.

This expenditure can be avoided by opting to submit your website to be managed by a third party professional, who charge nominal fees to execute the crucial tasks. The web hosts also offer range of different plans suitable for your requirements. They offer cheap web hosting solutions with Good Quality Branded Hardware with latest and up-to-date technologies. They take complete responsibility of keeping the servers up and running, incase a problem does occur, they can get that sorted within few minutes. You can get an option of switching between plans , depending on the provider they offer Windows Web Hosting as well as Linux Web Hosting solutions. Incase you run out of resources you have the privilege of upgrading to a higher plan within minutes. The only task that you or the owner of the website needs to do is to keep the website updated for the visitor. Varying from web host to web host, come provide back-ups of the sites and applications.

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20May

Active Server Pages (ASP) Web Hosting

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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.

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17Feb

Criteria’s For Choosing A Dedicated Server Plan.

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Usually when someone starts a hosting business, one starts with a reseller hosting package. As the web hosting business starts maturing and the amount of traffic grows, the server needs to be updraded to VPS hosting server. Ultimately, when the resources of a VPS starts falling short of the requirements one is left with the option of upgrading the VPS hosting plan to a Dedicated Server web hosting plan.

But, when do you actually need to upgrade to a dedicated server? As a well known fact that dedicated servers are expensive than a shared hosting or reseller and even VPS hosting, one must understand if they really need to upgrade to a Dedicated server hosting plan.

Dedicated server means that the entire server is leased by you. The resources are not shared with anyone. With a dedicated server one can enjoy dedicated guaranteed bandwidth and disk storage space. The hardware and the software can be customized according to the needs and requirements. Apart from this, choosing the right dedicated server plan is equally important.

The main reason for upgrading to a dedicated server is because of the high volume of web traffic and critical operations. The dedicated servers are designed for the businesses which require the support for high volumes of web traffic. If one or more web-sites are large and play a major role in the profits and has the capability to bear the expenses of dedicated hosting then opting to upgrade to a dedicated server can prove to be a profitable move.

An ideal host can be the one that offers comprehensive tools which allows you to perform tasks on the backend as well as on the front end of the server. To manage the activities of the server, web hosting firm’s offer advanced control panels such as cPanel, WHM, Plesk etc.

Generally depending on the web hosting provider, one can choose between the operating systems to run on the servers. Most of the web hosts provide pre-installed applications and software’s on the servers. Windows and Linux operating systems are available in the market as the OS for servers. Linux being an open source OS is cheaper and is preferred by the people who have an inclination towards flexibility, whereas Windows is usually expensive due to the licensing fees but due to its familiarity its easy to use. Both the platforms perform well on the dedicated server. It is important for you to choose a system that offers the highest level of comfort.

After the decision of platform is finalized, one needs to decide between the option of choosing a managed service or an unmanaged service. A typical dedicated server comes with the hardware, a web server software and an operating system, commonly known as an unmanaged hosting, apart from the disk space, physical security and bandwidth everything can be customized. By opting for a managed hosting the provider takes the responsibility of all the maintenance with an additional cost to pay.

A dedicated server provides a fast performance which isn’t possible on a shared server plan. When choosing a dedicated server one needs to check for a package that offers RAM, processor speed and bandwidth for optimal performance.

Before finalizing a dedicated web hosting package one must make sure that the hosting provider has a good reputation. There are various ways of judging the capability and service of a web hosting service provider.

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06Feb

Important Criteria’s To Check When Choosing The Perfect Web Hosting Provider.

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First of all I feel that Price is not everything. It does not matter if you have chosen cheap web hosting package. Ideally one gets attracted towards such offers, but are not aware or do not think that how web hosting companies offer packages at so competitive rates. One should not forget that its not a charity work, it BUSINESS. So some way or the other the company is going to compensate it.

Let me take you through the aspects one should look for while choosing a web hosting company.

A] Don’t just go for size but also look for stability. One should not get tempted just because a web hosting company is offering unlimited space with unmetered bandwidth. Check your websites requirements and accordingly decide the resources to be opted. Later one may find that there is a lot of server downtime that you need to face or the server gets overloaded. One should do a fair amount of research when choosing the web hosting service provider.

B] The chosen web hosting company must have professional technical staff, customer service should be their major focus. Check for the availability of their administrators. Check what support options are available such as unmetered, Support tickets, Phone support (Toll Free I prefer :-p) etc. Also don’t forget to check the response time.

C] The web host must be flexible, I mean they must have the provision of upgrading or downgrading the package according to the customer needs.

D] Understand the different types of services offered by web hosts such as Managed/Unmanaged Dedicated/Semi-Dedicated/Shared/VPS/Colocated/Reseller Windows/Linux. A new website usually does not need higher packages, one can start with cheaper packages and later upgrade as per requirements.

E] Check if the servers are placed at fully redundant data centers. Even if the hosting firm is small, then check if they have ample power and connectivity.

F] One way of knowing more about a firm is checking the customer reviews on forums and testimonials .

G] The most important aspect that must not be neglected is that the web hosting firm should not have blacklisted IP’s. The web hosting firm should not be promoting illegal sites, other security issues or spammers. Get a confirmation of the server that your account would be placed on.

Following these simple but vital steps can add substantial benefits to one’s business.

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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.

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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.
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14Jan

Competing Features Of cPanel 11 and Plesk 9

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cPanel 11 and Plesk 9 are the latest control panels available for the web hosting service providers. These panels enable them to provide their web hosting services to their clients. With the help of these control panels provided by the hosting firms, clients can manage different tasks involved in the web hosting accounts, these panels simplifies the tasks for the support staff as clients are able to carry out majority of the tasks themselves. There are many different tasks that can be simplified with the use of these control panels, it involves the management of web services, E-mail, DNS and Database on both half’s i.e. client and administrator. Normally most of the web hosting service providers provide control panel access as a standard feature for the web hosting accounts. These control panels are simple to use, a person with no knowledge of web hosting too can operate it and hence this is one of the major reasons why these control panels have gained popularity in the web hosting industry.

Until now cPanel is compatible with Linux Servers only. Which means cPanel can be provided by web hosting firms only to the clients that choose Linux Servers for hosting their web sites. Which is not the case with Plesk, Plesk control panel is compatible with Linux as well as with Windows web hosting platforms. Plesk is majorly used by web hosts due to its stability.

cPanel and Plesk have their own advantages when used by customers and administrators of Web hosting services. Usually Plesk is provided with Windows Web Hosting service and cPanel with Linux Web Hosting solutions.

Below one can find the advantages of Plesk control panel.

>> Windows Support : Plesk works on Windows Web hosting service allowing web hosting service providers to provide Windows based web hosting packages to the customers. Customers ASP and ASP.NET websites can only work on Windows servers, so Windows Web Hosting service needs to be opted. Customers usually prefer Plesk with Windows Web Hosting.

>> Windows Service Support : As Plesk can be used on Windows based servers it has the capability to integrate to integrate with multiple Windows based programs. It has an advanced feature support for some Windows programs such as Microsoft SQL Server which can be managed by Plesk 9.0 by server administrators and clients with their own databases which makes it an ideal control panel solution for Windows.

>> Cross Platform Compatibility : From a system administrator’s point of view, one may find it more beneficial having a single control panel on all the servers. Mastering a single control panel is much simpler than mastering two. As a customer one may find it easy since it means that one should be able to get the same sort of features from both Linux as well as from Windows web hosting solutions.

Though Plesk seems to be perfect for Windows web hosting packages, it can also be used for Linux packages.

cPanel is a preferred control panel for Linux web hosting services. Benefits of cPanel are as follows.

>> More Features of Linux : cPanel encompasses more features for Linux web hosting solutions than Plesk control panel. cPanel can be used in combination with different add-ons such as Fantastico script installer and CFS firewall to provide customers a wide range of services which can be used from their web hosting accounts control panel, such features can’t be used on Plesk Linux Web Hosting servers.

>> Reseller Support : Apart from Plesk 9.0 version, other versions does not provide support for reseller web hosting accounts whereas cPanel offers good support for resellers. cPanel is available with the Web Host Manager (WHM) panel which allows resellers to control all different aspects of their reseller accounts including the configuring of their own packages and the setting up of client web hosting accounts.

>> Faster Loading : cPanel’s internal pages load more faster than those of Plesk and certain tasks are carried out quicker than they would be with the Plesk control panel. cPanel does not rely on external databases in much cases, this is one of the reasons of the smooth functioning. cPanel has proven to be more reliable than Plesk on Linux.

To sum it up, both the control panels cPanel and Plesk provide web hosting service provider firms a reliable control panel service but come with their own advantages and disadvantages. But, Plesk for Windows and cPanel for Linux is the perfect solution offered by web hosting firms.

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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.

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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.

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