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Web Host Manager Administration Guide- Author Interview

admin — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:40:30 -0400

An interview with Aric Pedersen, author of the cPanel User Guide and Tutorial book and the latest book titled, WebHost Manager Administration Guide, by Packt Publishing.

Web Hosting Uptime

admin — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:31:07 -0400

When you come out and search for hosting company for your site, you will see that what offers you are getting from the host for launching your site on his server. Surely they will offer you space, bandwidth and hosting uptime. Most of the web hosting companies encourages their services by offering uptime assurance.

phpMyAdmin Installation Tutorial

admin — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:27:18 -0400

If you are like me on a shared hosting server chances are your web hosting account has cPanel or some other administration panel through which you can create/delete MySQL databases (DBs)/DB users. But you will not be able to:

Step by Step Guide to Setting up a New WHM cPanel Server for Web Hosting Accounts

admin — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:53:18 -0400

This is a guide to setting up a new WHM/cPanel Server to be used for web hosting accounts. It is intended for web hosting company administrators and dedicated server owners. For under $99 per month, it is easier than ever to manage and run your own dedicated server. You can have guaranteed uptime from your datacenter, and outsourced support starting at $30/month. All you need to do is set up the server and get going. Whether it is for a web hosting company or a couple of personal websites, an inexpensive linux server is powerful, reliable, and easy to setup.

How to migrate your Linux Web site to another hosting company

admin — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:02:52 -0400

The Web site hosting business has become more competitive in recent years. If you can find a better hosting deal, you may be able to save money by switching hosting providers. But what's the best way to move your Web site? What if you have a virtual private server (VPS) hosting several domains? What about PHP and your SQL data? The thought of moving may be daunting, but moving servers is not difficult if you plan properly. Here's how.

System Downtime

admin — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:33:00 -0400

Downtime can disrupt your business, customers, and damage your company's reputation. But how do you prevent or minimize downtime? Can a server monitoring service help? To answer these questions, first we need to understand the causes of downtime. Downtime can be broken down into three distinct categories.

Information on Domain Names: Multiple Domain Hosting, Domain Parking, Sub Domains, WhoIs Record, Domain Renewal

admin — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:50:00 -0500

It's been two years since John started his online business. He is very much
satisfied with his current web host whose services he acquired one year ago.
Today John is relaxing in his chair and thinking about the initial days when he
spent many hours on the Internet collecting information related to web hosting.
Like him there are many John's out there who are in search of information
everyday, visiting this and that website hoping to find the most illuminating
advice.

Unlimited Bandwidth in Web Hosting

admin — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:05:00 -0500

Bandwidth is the amount of data transfer that you are allowed to have for a hosting package i.e. Let's say you have a web page that is 48KB in size, now each time a user opens your site and goes to that page S/he downloads 48 KB of information on to their computer. If a 100 users view that page one time each then there has been a total of 4800 KB of data transferred from the server on which your files are stored for the computer of users.

Transferring mail to a new mail server

admin — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 15:43:00 -0500

Sometimes we just have to move on. Your current mail server may just not be meeting your needs, so you've put up something new. But what about old mail? If your servers are identical (Sendmail to Sendmail, etc.) or use the same mailbox storage format, you may be able to just transfer files directly. If not, read on..

Changing to a New Host? No More Worries!

admin — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:27:00 -0500

John's online business is expanding. His customers are increasing day by day. However, he feels very frustrated at the moment as he finds his website is 'down' about every 4th day. Whenever he calls up the support team of his web host, he gets the same old answer that his problem will be rectified soon. If the problems do persist it will surely hamper his business. He has been with his present hosting provider for the last year but now he feels he has to find a new web host as soon as possible because his present hosting package is also not able to meet up with his growing demands.