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4G Technology
October 1st, 2011What is 4G technology
When talking about 4G, question comes to our mind is what is 4G Technology. 4G is short for Fourth (4th) Generation Technology. 4G Technology is basically the extension in the 3G Technology with more bandwidth and services offers in the 3G. But at this time nobody exactly knows the true 4G definition. Some people say that4G Technology is the future technologies that are mostly in their maturity period. The expectation for the 4G technology is basically the high quality audio/video streaming over end to end Internet Protocol. If the Internet Protocol (IP) multimedia sub-system movement achieves what it going to do, nothing of this possibly will matter. Mobile structural design will become progressively more translucent, and therefore the acceptance of several architectures by a particular network operator ever more common.
Specifics of 4G
4G technologies are geared towards flawless network coverage. This technology is aimed to provide high quality of service to end users without dropping signals. The major problem with the wireless technologies is their signal attenuation. International telecommunication union, which is monitoring the international standards for wireless communication is demanding considerable improvement in multi media services over the cellular network. They require improvement in multimedia message services and video streaming in order to support 4G. This network technology is expected to provide 100megabits per second for mobile users, while 1GBps for fixed users. This network is also forecasted to provide interrelated roaming throughout the world. It is also predictable that this technology would be attuned to all types of wireless devices like wireless adapters, express cards and many more. The infrastructure of 4G will follow all the standards of previous generations.
IPv6 Requirement
4G network is based on IPv6 support rather than IPv4. it is IPv6 which is supports network devices. Increased number of IP addresses also removes the need for NAT (network Address translation). NAT is a term referred to sharing minimum IP addresses with larger number of devices. Besides this improvement Nat would also has to communicate with the other devices on the previous IPv4 devices. 4G has also brought improvements in network infrastructure. For example 3G used both circuit switched and packet switched network nodes, while 4g is merely based on packet switching, hence lowering the latency of data. The basic 4G standards include LTE advanced and 802.16m.
Objectives of 4G:
This wonder technology is expected to cover the data rate deficiency in previous generations. It is also aimed to achieve quality of services. This technology would provide many multimedia services. These multimedia services would not only include voice chat and video calls but also includes MMS, HDTV, video chat, and voice over the internet. This network would allow interactive roaming with existing LAN and digital broadcasting systems. This network’s goal is to provide 100MBps data rate for moving customers and 1GB for stationary users.. So that the users can enjoy uninterrupted connectivity with high speed anywhere they go. Very smooth handover over heterogeneous networks. Flawless connectivity and international roaming across innumerable networks of the world is its next target. It should also provide Very high quality multimedia support in order to get approval from ITU. The interoperability with existing network infrastructure is another prominent feature of this technology. It is an all IP switched network and several working groups propose that it should offer an open internet protocol. The early 4G technology comprise of flash OFDM, 802.16e, wireless or mobile WiMax and HC SDMA. The demand of the wireless network users combined with the efforts of the 4G working groups would give technology and edge over its previous counterparts. This technology would revolutionize the world of cellular networks with amazing wireless broadband speed. This technology would also provide job opportunities for many. The further development for supporting 4G network is dependent upon the approval from ITU.
Interworx-CP Integration
September 29th, 2011You can have ClientExec automatically open hosting accounts for your clients in your Interworx-CP server. The Interworx-CP plugins currently supports shared hosting account creation.
Plugin Configuration
First you need to configure the plugin in ClientExec’s server section (go to admin -> servers) as shown in the picture below.
“Use Secure Connections” should be set to “Yes” if you have cURL and openSSL compiled into PHP. “Verify Certificate” should be set to “Yes” to ensure for maximum security however if you are having problems with this set to “Yes” try setting it to “No”. The “Access Key” is used to access your Interworx-CP server. This value is generated within Interworx-CP under the NodeWorx->API Key menu. Under the “Available Plugin Events” you can check under which events ClientExec will interact with Interworx-CP. At least have “Create” checked to have the accounts created inside Interworx-CP.
Interworx-CP Package Configuration
Before configuring the packages in ClientExec, you must create package templates in Interworx-CP. This is done under the “SiteWorx” menu by clicking on “Packages”. Clicking on “Add” in the image below will allow you to add new package templates if there aren’t any setup. Once configured remember the package name as we will need to enter it in the ClientExec package configuration.
Package Configuration
Now you have to link a given ClientExec package with a Package you must previously create in Interworx-CP. Remember the correspondant package type in ClientExec must have the setting “Show Domain Options” set to Yes in order for the plugin to work.
The first thing you need to do in the package configuration screen is select the server you configured in the previous step and move it to the right side using the [>>] button. Then enter the Interworx-CP package name in the box as previously setup in Interworx-CP.
10 Things to do After Installing WordPress
September 28th, 2011The WordPress 5-minute install is great, nothing complicated about getting your blog up and running (most of the time). But once you install WordPress there are a number of other steps that you need to take in order to get the most from your blog.
Use the following as a to-do checklist for your future installations and you’ll keep yourself right.
1. Change the Admin Password and Manage Your Authors
WordPress gives you some random concoction of a password that you’re *never* going to remember so the first thing you need to do is change this to something memorable.
Manage your user settings via the Users panel, and you can add any additional blog authors here.
2. Edit Permalinks
By default your articles’ urls will look something likehttp://www.sanyog.co.cc/ This url structure is poor for SEO and poor for usability (makes no sense to your users).
By changing your url structure to something like http://www.sanyog.co.cc/index.php/i-want-nothing-more-than-to-move-on/ you can include the post’s keywords in the url and it makes more sense to your users.
- Go to Settings > Permalinks
- Under ‘Common settings’ choose ‘Custom Structure’
- Enter %postname%/ in the field
- Or if you prefer to have the category in the url as well, enter %category%/%postname%/
3. Upload Your Theme and Activate It
- Download a theme or design your own
- Unzip and upload it to wp-content > themes
- Activate it via Appearance > Themes (then just click on your theme)
4. Add Your Categories and Change the Default
When you install WordPress the default category is ‘Uncategorized’ and this just looks ugly. Assume at some point you’re going to post an article and forget to select a category – what would you want that post to come under by default? I tend to use News or something general like that.
- Go to Posts > Categories
- Click on ‘Uncategorized’ to edit it – change it to ‘News‘ or similar
- Add your other blog categories.
5. Activate Akismet
Akismet is a plugin that blocks comment spam and if your blog allows comments then trust me, you’re going to get spammed.
Fortunately Akismet comes with WordPress, you just need to activate it.
- Go to the Plugins page in the admin area and activate Akismet
- To complete Akismet activation, WordPress requires an API key. You can get this by registering on WordPress.com then viewing your profile.
- Now go to Plugins > Akismet Configuration, and paste in your key.
6. Install Google XML Sitemaps
Google XML Sitemaps generates a compliant XML-Sitemap for your site, allowing the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Ask, MSN) to easily index your site. Every time you edit or add a post, the sitemap will modify itself.
Click here for Google XML Sitemaps plugin.
Now go to Google Webmaster Central and log in with your Google Account. On the first page, there will be a link to “Verify” your site. Follow the instructions there.
Once that’s done, you can then click the “Add Sitemap” link from the first page and put in the URL to your sitemap, which will be http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml
7. Install WordPress Database Backup
Always good to have a backup in place. Things may go wrong with your server, or you could even make a mistake yourself.
WordPress Database Backup will backup your WordPress blog, and you can even set it so it will email you a backup on a weekly basis, so you don’t have to do anything yourself but activate it.
Click here for WordPress Database Backup plugin.
8. Test Your Blog With Dummy Content
You’ll not know what your blog will truly look like until you have thoroughly tested it with multiple posts and all types of formatting applied.
Import the sample post collection (Tools > Import > WordPress) and your blog will compile with sample posts including comments, parent/child categories and formatting, allowing you to thoroughly test it and make any theme alterations.
9. Add your RSS feed to Feedburner
First edit your RSS settings. Settings > Reading and you can edit how many posts you want to show in your RSS feed and whether they should show the full post or not.
Now you want to burn your feed with Feedburner. Feedburner will provide you with stats on your feeds and automatically ping services so your new content is updated immediately along with a whole host of other services.
Once you have signed up to Feedburner, change your feed subscription link in your theme. Place the following code between the head tags.
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”Feed Title” href=”YOUR FEEDBURNER URL” />
10. Activate your Analytics
Keep track of your users and traffic. I recommend Google Analytics. Other good analytic services available include Mint and StatCounter.
Optional
Here’s a few optional to-dos. Not as major as the above but you still might need to check them.
Change your Media image sizes
Change your image sizes depending on the size of your content area.
Settings > Media
Change your blog tagline
Your tagline may or may not be included in your theme but it’s most likely included in your RSS feed.
Settings > General
What else?
Is there anything else you do after a fresh WordPress install? Please share.
Send Email from a PHP Script Using SMTP Authentication
March 30th, 2011This post about “Sending Mail using SMTP and PHP“. Now you can send emails with SMTP authentication using this script. Every mail needed server authentication, So you have to buy mail server. It’s very useful you can implement this on your web projects.
This tutorial contains three files.
- Index.php //Run Mail Form
- SMTPconfig.php // SMTP Server Cofiguration
- SMTPClass.php // SMTP Mail Sending Class
SMTPconfig.php
You have to change SMTP server details.
<?php//Server Address$SmtpServer=”127.0.0.1″;
$SmtpPort=”25″; //default
$SmtpUser=”username”;
$SmtpPass=”password”;
?>
SMTPclass.php
SMTP mail sending class.
<?phpclass SMTPClient
{function SMTPClient ($SmtpServer, $SmtpPort, $SmtpUser, $SmtpPass, $from, $to, $subject, $body)
{$this->SmtpServer = $SmtpServer;
$this->SmtpUser = base64_encode ($SmtpUser);
$this->SmtpPass = base64_encode ($SmtpPass);
$this->from = $from;
$this->to = $to;
$this->subject = $subject;
$this->body = $body;if ($SmtpPort == “”)
{
$this->PortSMTP = 25;
}else{
$this->PortSMTP = $SmtpPort;
}
}function SendMail ()
{
if ($SMTPIN = fsockopen ($this->SmtpServer, $this->PortSMTP))
{
fputs ($SMTPIN, “EHLO “.$HTTP_HOST.”\r\n”);
$talk["hello"] = fgets ( $SMTPIN, 1024 );
fputs($SMTPIN, “auth login\r\n”);
$talk["res"]=fgets($SMTPIN,1024);
fputs($SMTPIN, $this->SmtpUser.”\r\n”);
$talk["user"]=fgets($SMTPIN,1024);
fputs($SMTPIN, $this->SmtpPass.”\r\n”);
$talk["pass"]=fgets($SMTPIN,256);
fputs ($SMTPIN, “MAIL FROM: <”.$this->from.”>\r\n”);
$talk["From"] = fgets ( $SMTPIN, 1024 );
fputs ($SMTPIN, “RCPT TO: <”.$this->to.”>\r\n”);
$talk["To"] = fgets ($SMTPIN, 1024);
fputs($SMTPIN, “DATA\r\n”);
$talk["data"]=fgets( $SMTPIN,1024 );
fputs($SMTPIN, “To: <”.$this->to.”>\r\nFrom: <”.$this->from.”>\r\nSubject:”.$this->subject.”\r\n\r\n\r\n”.$this->body.”\r\n.\r\n”);
$talk["send"]=fgets($SMTPIN,256);
//CLOSE CONNECTION AND EXIT …
fputs ($SMTPIN, “QUIT\r\n”);
fclose($SMTPIN);//}
return $talk;
}
}
?>
index.php
<?phpinclude(‘SMTPconfig.php’);
include(‘SMTPClass.php’);
if($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == “POST”)
{
$to = $_POST['to'];
$from = $_POST['from'];
$subject = $_POST['sub'];
$body = $_POST['message'];
$SMTPMail = new SMTPClient ($SmtpServer, $SmtpPort, $SmtpUser, $SmtpPass, $from, $to, $subject, $body);
$SMTPChat = $SMTPMail->SendMail();
}?><form method=”post” action=”">To:<input type=”text” name=”to” />
From :<input type=’text’ name=”from” />
Subject :<input type=’text’ name=”sub” />
Message :<textarea name=”message”></textarea>
<input type=”submit” value=” Send ” />
</form>
Manner to ensure & secure web hosting.
February 22nd, 2011
If you want a secure and reliable web hosting, you must know some basic things before you confirm a particular web hosting company. The following tips are some of the simple methods to ensure reliable and secure web hosting.
You must select a web hosting company that has dedicated servers. See to that the company has established themselves as secure and reliable web hosting company. A reliable web hosting company must have more than five years of experience in the web hosting field. Only a reliable web hosting company can provide you with reliable and secure service that helps you to expand your website and its operations.
Normally, the web hosting companies offer domain registration. So you need to confirm whether the web hosting company is ready to register a domain name which you desire. The web hosting company must be ready to help you in domain registration.
Make sure that the web hosting company provides you affordable plan for hosting your website. See to that the web hosting rates offered by the web hosting company is affordable and minimal.
A secure web hosting company will regularly monitor security. But you must also ensure whether the company will continuously improve security measures so that it allows secure payments to the customers. Ensure that the web hosting company manages and protects their server by firewalls. This is because a firewall can protect server from any attack and ensures that your website remains functional. If you choose a reliable and reputable web hosting provider it will offer secure servers that cannot be hacked by anyone.
You must also ensure whether the web hosting company offers 100 percent server availability. A reliable web hosting service must provide you strong technical support and must guarantee minimal downtime so that your website will be always accessible to your customers. A reliable web hosting service must offer secure and fast server connection. It must also provide you email virus scanning and spam filtering options.
Make sure that the web hosting company conducts regular backups for its web hosting clients so that you need not worry about losing your website contents when your website collapses unexpectedly.
You must make sure whether the web hosting company will host your website on window or Linux operating system, whichever is best for your website. Since windows operating system and Linux operating system have their own advantages and disadvantages, you should identify the better operating system for your website.
Only if you choose a reliable and secure web hosting company, you can ensure that your website data is safe. Only then you can be sure to contact a professional support team when you face any problems with your website or reliable web hosting package. Once you are hosted on secure servers and have access to well-informed support agents, you can ensure that you are with the right web hosting company.
Your established Web hosting company must offer the most reliable and most powerful web hosting method at affordable price and lowest downtime rates. It must also offer a range of web hosting packages which suits your budget. The web hosting companies must not only offer reliable, secure and affordable web hosting, but must also ensure flexible services and packages that suits your growing business needs.
The Benefits of Email Hosting
February 4th, 2011
Email hosting is designed for businesses that cannot or simply do not want to spend their precious time and resources on setting up and managing an internal messaging infrastructure. This is very understandable because the continued maintenance and support can raise costs and also greatly increase the probability of virus infections, hardware and software problems. All of these issues could leave your business without email functionality for hours and possibly days.
There are many benefits to outsourcing your messaging needs to a professional hosting company. This article will go over some of the most significant.
Secure Webmail Access
Email hosting providers generally equip their mail servers with industry standard 128-bit encryption, which is active during the entire webmail session. This essentially means that any data sent to and from the server is encrypted from the moment you sign in, until the moment you sign out. With this proven security protocol, you can ensure that your sensitive messages will not be intercepted or compromised in any way.
Secure IMAP and POP Access
Businesses are increasingly opting for email hosting solutions because they enable secure access to desktop email clients through IMAP or POP. All email traffic is encrypted, including user names and passwords sent from the email client to the mail server for authentication. The best hosting providers support all the popular mail clients such as Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird and Apple Mail. Some even offer support for Linux and BSD clients as well as PDAs and pocket PCs. Whether you prefer to manage your mail on or offline, an email hosting plan can ensure that is done in an efficient and secure manner.
Adequate Storage Space
When signing up a for an email hosting account, you typically get a robust amount of storage for each mailbox created. Some give you MB of storage; others give you GB per mailbox. All tend to provide you with more than enough to efficiently store tens of thousands of messages. A more flexible solution will allow you to easily upgrade as your storage needs increase.
Spam and Virus Filtering
A quality email hosting solution blocks potentially harmful mail before it even enters the network. Anti-virus scanners are usually integrated into the host’s SMTP gateways while spam is dealt with in numerous ways. A company that truly wants to help keep spam out your life will employ filtering methods such as blacklisting, white listing and grey listing, and allow you to make a configuration that automatically sends it to a quarantine folder instead of your inbox.
For more visit: www.version-next.com
Can I Do Web Hosting on My Own?
February 1st, 2011Using the correct hardware and software with a specific computer server, a person can do their own web hosting using a T-1 Internet connection in any other fees that may come with purchasing the server.
Web and Domain
Once a person decides to do their own web hosting, there are two choices: 1) They can host their own domain or 2) They have the option of choosing a sub-domain free. When a person chooses to do their own web hosting, it is supported by nearly every domain name, such as domainname.com or if the person does not have a registered domain they can opt to choose to use free hosting of a sub-domain.
Domain Names and Ways to Get Them
In simple terms a domain name is just a web address commonly known as a URL. These are used every day even though I person may not know the technical terms for what they are called. All domain names are either a .com, .net, .org or some other variation. A domain can be anything that a person chooses as long as the title has not been taken by someone else.
Hosting a Website
The first step to a person hosting their very own website is to register the domain name that they have chosen. The next step is to apply to host that particular domain. Then all a person has to do is to upload their site that they have created an application. A person has yet to create their own webpage, there are many sites that offer help and support in creating web pages in his little as five minutes.
Protection
There are ways to set the password for specific areas of the website so that no one can alter or vandalize the website. This option is used easily by going to the control mechanism on the website.
Virtual Domain
Virtual Domain Hosting is defined as a way of hosting multiple domain names while using only a single IP address. Choosing to host this way allows for one server to share resources such as memory or processor speeds, which overall allows for the machine to use its resources more effectively. One of the best ways to choose to do this is to use a shared web host because it is low cost web hosting and easier to use.
Home Computer Hosting
Choosing this route will mean that a person hosts their website using their home computer. One of the most common ways to do this is to purchase Windows home server which is easily configured and has simple instructions to set up. Some technical know-how may be required in order to properly configure the server and receive the best performance from it.
Installing a Web Server in Windows
The most common operating system used by users is Windows. This is also arguably one of the easiest systems to install a Web server onto. One of the most popular products to use is Windows IIS (Internet Information Services) which is also called Internet Information Server. It is the Internet-based service specifically created for Microsoft Windows operating systems. If a person is going to be using Microsoft Windows 7 Home Edition, then this program will not work because this version of Windows is not meant for networking. Any other version of Windows 7 will be suitable. Configuration and installation is straightforward and does not need any extra explanation than what comes with the product. Following the product guidelines and on-screen instructions will be more than enough for a person to install their server.
Making the Website Available
The first thing that needs to be done for a new Web server is to allow incoming requests on port 80. Most firewalls for the computer and the router will block this port, but it needs to be open to allow access to person’s website. The next thing that is important is to make sure that the IP address of the Web server is static, which means that it is never changed. This is important because with a changing IP address is impossible to browse to the Web server from an outside source. There are many websites that will make it available for a person to make their IP address static, but the first step to changing it is defining out what the Web servers IP address is. There are many ways to accomplish this but the easiest is to choose a website that will search the IP address automatically. Once the Web servers IP address has been determined, then the next step is to find a website will allow for free IP address changing. Once the instructions have been followed from the website and update software has been installed onto the server, then IP address will always be static and allow for outside access.
Once all of these steps have been completed, a person will not be ready to host their very own website from their home computer. The hardest part about hosting a website is the process of installing the server and getting everything set up. Once the server is configured in the website is created, then all a person has to do is make minor adjustments to the website and make sure all software is up-to-date. Other than that, there’s basically no more work that needs to be done in a person can enjoy their newly created website.
This article is submitted by Daniel from Webhostingsearch.com
How Many IP Addresses Do I Need?
December 28th, 2010
As you may have heard, there are a finite number of IP addresses available to Internet Service Providers (ISP). Once they are all used up, the only way to get more is to reassign them. In technical terms, the limited number of IP addresses refers to the IPv4 address space, while there is plenty of room in the IPv6 address space.
Until ISPs begin fully adopting IPv6 technology, however, IP addresses will be sold at a premium. The question is: how many do you really need for your dedicated server? The answer really depends on where and how your server is hosted, the number and type of websites you are running, and how you use your server.
For a server with a single enterprise website and one central focus, a single dedicated IP may be all you need. This, however, assumes you also have nameserver IPs on another machine or from a service. If your server is housed in a remote datacenter, your nameservers may be managed by the provider. If not, you will need at least two IP addresses.
If you have more than one website, you can usually use shared IPs for most of them, unless they require SSL for ecommerce or community logins. For encrypted sites, you will need an IP for each one, if you want authenticated SSL certificates.
If you are using your server for web hosting, you may need to regularly acquire IP addresses for your customers, and you should use a service that will allow you to quickly and easily add more. Often times, you can purchase them in bulk, depending on the number you need.
It is a good idea to know ahead of time how many IP addresses you think you might want, but even if you repurpose your server at a later date, you should still be able to add more IPs without any difficulty.
I’ve seen a lot of reasons given by ESPs for why they need so many IP addresses:
- I need at least one IP address per customer, to handle IP based reputation
- I need many IP addresses so my MTAs can handle the volume of mail sent
- I need many IP addresses so that I can work around ISP throttling limits
- I need multiple IP addresses per customer so that that customer can deliver mail in a timely manner
- I need multiple IP addresses per customer so as to manage filtering issues
- I need multiple IP addresses in different locations to provide redundancy against network outages
- I need multiple IP addresses in different locations so as to provide redundancy against blacklisting of my ISP
Using Short Codes for SMS Marketing Campaigns.
December 21st, 2010
Mobile marketing is one of the fastest-growing segments in the marketing industry. The use of cell phones to participate in promotional programs is increasing dramatically, as more and more real-life results demonstrate and document the effectiveness of this medium.
A key contributor to the success of SMS marketing is the adoption of the Common Short Code (CSC) by wireless carriers. A short code is a five or six-digit number that is assigned by the Common Short Code Administration (CSCA). Once assigned, a short code is common across all wireless carriers, and identifies the application that is associated with that number. One widely known example of short code usage is the contestant voting on, “American Idol”. Using short codes for SMS marketing programs simplifies, and broadens the reach of any promotion, doing away with the need for more limited and much less effective methods of capturing participants.
Opting into a promotion is simple, and immediate, when using a short code to enroll. For example, a restaurant might have signage in its establishment, as well as wording on its register receipts, stating; “Text ‘ribs’ to 12345 to receive meal and drink specials on your cell phone”. Patrons, at their convenience, use their cell phone to text in, receive a confirming text message; that’s it, they’re now enrolled into the restaurant’s program, ready to receive money-saving offers.
Using short code marketing programs guarantees virtually 100% text message deliverability. Participants can opt out of any program at will, simply by texting an industry-accepted keyword, such as “stop” to the short code. No other medium can provide such ease-of-use, immediacy, and effectiveness.
If you’re ready to implement your own short code SMS marketing program, Version Next will help you to get started. With its aggregator partners, Version Next will assist you in obtaining your short code. If you require your own private short code, Version Next will also guide you through the process of carrier approval. Version Next can also provide “shared” short codes, which dramatically lower the cost and lead time for starting your marketing campaign.
