Linux Users:

1. Log into your server via SSH and then become root:

$ su

2. Stop the current MySQL instance (note that this will halt any sites that depend on it, so make sure you do this during the lowest possible traffic time).
3. Start MySQL in safe mode and skip privileges checks:

# mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables &

4. Next, log into MySQL without a privileges check:

# mysql –user=root mysql

5. Finally, reset the password by updating the user table of the default mysql database:

UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD(‘newrootpwd’) WHERE user=’root’;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

(Note: replace “newrootpwd” with your actual password, preferably one you can remember)
6. Restart MySQL to get out of safe mode:

# /etc/init.d/mysql restart.

Windows Users:

Log on to your server as the Administrator. Kill the MySQL server if it’s running. To do this you need the Windows Services Manager, so click on the Start Menu, then go to the Control Panel, then to the Administrative Tools, and select Services. Here look for the MySQL server and stop it. If it’s not listed there and MySQL is till running it means that MySQL is not running as a service. In that case you need to load the Task Manager which you should be able to access using the key combination of Ctrl+Alt+Del. Now kill the MySQL process.

With the MySQL process stopped you need to force a change of passwords on MySQL using a combination of the UPDATE and FLUSH options. So launch your favorite text editor and create a new file. Enter the following text into the file replacing “NewMySQLPassword” with your new password:

UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD(”NewMySQLPassword”) WHERE User=’root’;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

What the first line does is that it updates the value of the field “Password” in the table mysql.user for the user “root” to “NewMySQLPassword”. The second line flushes the old set of privileges and makes sure your new password is used everywhere. Save this text as C:\mysql_reset.txt.

Next, you need to start your MySQL server passing this file as a configuration parameter. Launch a terminal by going to the Start Menu, then to Run, and then type cmd and hit Enter. Now enter the following command:

C:\mysql\bin\mysqld-nt –init-file=C:\mysql_reset.txt

Once the server is done starting delete the file C:\mysql_reset.txt. Your MySQL root password should be reset now. Now restart your MySQL server again. Go back to the Windows Services Manager again to do that. Your new MySQL root password should work for you now.

The following are four steps you can take to lessen the sting of high data transfer for one or multiple websites on your server.

File compression – Bandwidth is calculated in bytes and finally in gigabytes (GB). While HTML and CSS files are generally smaller than Mp3s and other media, multiple downloads can add up. Fortunately, you can save bandwidth with file compression. Most modern web browsers support gzip compression, meaning that users will download your content and then uncompress it seamlessly within their browsers.

P2P File Sharing – Although this is generally thought of as a tool for software, music, and movie pirates, peer-to-peer networks are great for reducing bandwidth, as they offload some of the data transfer to users. Bit Torrent is a very popular file sharing technology that you can use for large file downloads.

File Hosting – If P2P file sharing does not work for you, there are plenty of services that will host your files remotely at a fraction of the cost of bandwidth.

Cloud Storage – Many services such as Amazon S3 offer long-term cloud storage, web application caching, and/or Content Delivery Networks (CDN), all of which can reduce your server’s direct bandwidth and at last save’s your money.

Traffic – The number of hits, page views and unique visits are the main variable to take into account. Obviously, if there is going to be a lot of traffic through your website, you’ll need more RAM; inversely, less traffic requires less RAM.

Operating system – To run Windows Server you’ll need at least 512MB RAM, with recommended 1GB for Windows Server 2003 and recommended 2GB for Windows Server 2008. For Linux based server, 64MB RAM will be enough, or even less depending on a choice of a distro.

Static or dynamic site? Scripts and databases are memory hogs. If you use PHP or other scripting language and SQL databases then you need more RAM. How you use them and the size and the number of the databases will largely influence amount of RAM needed for site to function.

Content management systems – usage of Drupal, WordPress, Joomla and other CMSs will result in need for more RAM. There might be slight differences in memory usage between various CMSs, but the main factor here is how many and which additional plugins/modules are installed and used. The other important factor is the number of logged in/authenticated users in any given time – their hits consume much more memory than those of anonymous users.

Do you use control panel? Controls panels can be resource hog too, some of them less some of them more. Check this control panel’s comparison table for more info.

What other applications run on the server – email clients, antivirus, firewall, email spam protection will also make a difference in the amount of RAM you require.

Caching – if a large part of your site is set to be cached by proxy servers and browsers – that will significantly improve performance and decrease ram usage. Some static content that doesn’t change too often should be always cached. (such as images, css, and js). On Apache server you can use .htaccess to control caching.

So, with all this in mind lets start a “guessing game”, how much RAM do I need? Setup example:

Linux OS

Apache web server

SQL database like MySQL or PostgreSQL

Scripting Language like PHP

Content management system like Drupal, Joomla or WordPress

Firewall

Antivirus software like ClamAV

Email server and web mail client like Open Webmail or Squirrelmail

FTP server with SSH supported like Proftpd

“Light” control panel like Webmin or DirectAdmin

If you have no traffic or very low traffic on a setup like this, you’ll probably be fine with 512MB RAM. If you have 200 000 monthly visits and 500 000 page views you’ll need at least 1GB RAM. If you have more than 1 000 000 monthly visits and more than 2 000 000 page views you’ll need to upgrade to 4GB or more.

Take this advice only as a starting point; as I already said this was a “guessing game”. The actual amount of memory that will be required by your website will vary on your site setup, optimization of every piece of software on your server and number of logged in users. If you plan to have more than one site on a server, things will get even more complicated. Feel free to post question in comments about estimated RAM consumption for any particular setup and we will try to answer it. Some more tips:

• It is easy to upgrade RAM, so you can start your project with lower and buy more when needed.
• Before going live you can use load testing tools like LoadImpact or similar to examine system behavior under working load.
• Optimize Apache, SQL, PHP, CMS for better performance

  Optimizing Apache

  Optimizing PHP

  Optimizing MySQL

  Optimizing Drupal

  Optimizing WordPress

  Optimizing Joomla

• Set up caching for better performance

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Since firms that lease dedicated servers to organizations hold expertise in all technical aspects of the servers, they carry out the administrative activities on your behalf,while you rest back. The fee levied by the hosting firm is quite nominal, it is quite cost effective and helps in more ways than one. Such web hosting firms examine the hardware as well as the software of the server in a skillful manner, something a beginner can never achieve This way, the server delivers better performance than it would in case of unmanaged service.

Due to the expertise of the hosting firms in executing the administration of dedicated server they become more stable and reliable and operate exceptionally well over long durations without any glitches. These also attain the feature of greater security due to the familiarity of the specialists with the servers and their details. Furthermore, if you are not satisfied with the dedicated servers management by such firms due to some customary problem, they provide 24×7 support as part of their hosting package.

Dedicated server hosting provides your website with the resources, reliability, security, and control not available with any other type of hosting solution. And forget the word “sharing” when you choose dedicated server hosting. Dedicated server hosting means no sharing is included in the hosting package – all of the server resources and bandwidth are yours.

Explores the benefits of dedicated server hosting

What dedicated server hosting has to offer

With a dedicated server, you get all the resources that come with your dedicated server hosting plan. Resources include hard disk space, CPU power, bandwidth – all used exclusively for your website. Forget lags, downtimes, security risks, space limits, and lack of control inevitable with other types of hosting. A dedicated server is exactly what you need when you want top performance and high-end speed and agility with your website.

First, with dedicated hosting you get total control of your server. From hardware to operating system to control panel to 3^rd party scripts – you decide what you need for your website. Next, if you are concerned about website security, rest assured that your server will be extremely secure with the help of Certified Hosting engineers and security specialists. Your website will also enjoy the unprecedented uptime only dedicated server hosting can provide, meaning your website will always be online. These are only a few features from a long list of benefits you get when you choose a dedicated hosting solution.

Make use of all the resources that come with a dedicated server

Regardless if you run a single resource-intensive ecommerce website, multiple websites, or you host a lot of media content – dedicated hosting will definitely meet and exceed your needs. Choose any of the dedicated hosting plans Certified Hosting has to offer and enjoy an enormous 10 Terabyte bandwidth that will surely provide plenty of room for your website visitors to browse and interact with your website. Regardless of which dedicated server you choose, you will get all the disk space and processor power that comes with a dedicated server in order to keep your website up and running without delays.

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Take advantage of an Unlimited Management Plan Certified Hosting offers with dedicated servers. Our experts take care of every aspect of server management and monitoring so you can concentrate on your website instead of managing your server. In addition to unlimited sub- domains, FTP accounts, email accounts and MySQL databases, our plan includes free installation of your 3^rd party scripts required for running your website. Toss in unlimited support requests and 24/7 expert support via phone, live chat, and ticket system and get assistance when you really need it the most.

Dedicated server hosting for top-notch website performance

Like high-end performance cars – Ferrari, Porsche, and Lamborghini – dedicated server hosting gives you the performance, blazing speeds, and complete control your website needs. If you want the best performance, uninterrupted operation, highest security, and all the resources needed to power your demanding website – a dedicated server is ideal. With a dedicated server and dedicated server hosting, you will definitely get a return on your investment and a guaranteed satisfaction as a bonus.

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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:

1. I need at least one IP address per customer, to handle IP based reputation
2. I need many IP addresses so my MTAs can handle the volume of mail sent
3. I need many IP addresses so that I can work around ISP throttling limits
4. I need multiple IP addresses per customer so that that customer can deliver mail in a timely manner
5. I need multiple IP addresses per customer so as to manage filtering issues
6. I need multiple IP addresses in different locations to provide redundancy against network outages
7. I need multiple IP addresses in different locations so as to provide redundancy against blacklisting of my ISP

If you are a web host which is providing a responsible and sensible service, then in your terms and conditions you will probably have conditions set out regarding up uptime, which in most cases states things such as if a customer’s service is down for over a certain amount of time, or if the monthly uptime record doesn’t meet the one which is guaranteed then customers are able to request a refund; this in itself should provide you with the motivation to fix a server problem if you have set such rules out in your terms and conditions, since most companies wouldn’t want a servers worth of customers requesting refunds since they don’t think they have been provided with the amount of uptime which has been guaranteed. Most web hosts use their own internal monitoring system for their servers, since in most cases it will alert them quicker to a problem than an external solution would since an internal system is most likely monitored more closely, but with an external solution in place as backup in case the internal one fails. One thing to consider is that most external monitoring services monitor your website or server from multiple geographically different locations which means that they are able to provide a more reliable source of information when it comes to checking to see whether your VPS or dedicated server is online or not when compared to a monitoring system which is monitoring your VPS or dedicated server from one location or from one country or data center, which means that the produced results might not always be accurate and reliable.

When considering uptime solutions for your VPS or dedicated server, you should always take into consideration the effect that a program might have on the performance of your VPS or dedicated server; for example if you use an internal solution then you might need to install an ‘agent’ program which posts data about your server back to the master monitoring node, since information such as the speed that your server’s CPU is running at and the amount of memory that your server has left are factors that can only be gained by internal access to your server unlike other factors such as whether certain services are running or not that can be found out easily via pinging the port which the service runs on. You want to try and maximize the uptime of your VPS or dedicated server, which means that you should optimize the programs that you have installed on it, so that they don’t use up too many resources since the most common reason for a server crashing is that there aren’t enough resources available to keep the operating system going, which means that it just crashes because it is unable to run for any longer on the scarce resources that are available for it.

Conclusion

In conclusion, with the use of either internal or external monitoring systems, you are able to maximize the uptime of your VPS Hosting or dedicated server, thus ensuring that your customers, if you host them on your server, are happy with the service and level of uptime that you have been able to provide them with; you are also ensuring if you use your server for other purposes such as for receiving emails or for a website that emails are received as often as possible, and that visitors will still return to your website thus increasing your amount of revenue that you earn from adverts if applicable. You can also optimize your VPS or dedicated server as well as the programs that it runs to ensure that the amount of resources used is far lower, thus ensuring that you can install some more applications on your VPS or dedicated server or leave it as it is so that it is able to run fast; if running cPanel, then you can use the new optimized version since this will run much fast on a lower specification machine since it has been designed to take up less memory and utilize less CPU.

If you choose to use an internal monitoring system then you gain the ability to monitor internal factors of your server, such as the amount of CPU and memory that is available for use by the operating system and programs that you have installed on your VPS or dedicated server – this is very important if you are running a server which is hosting web hosting and design clients, since you don’t want their websites going down because of a lack of resources. Other factors which you might want to consider when choosing a monitoring system is the accuracy of the results that are collected and in turn produced; for example, with an external monitoring system you will want to be considering how spread the multiple geographical monitoring stations are and with the case of an internal monitoring system, you should find out whether internal server resources can be monitored or not – this will give you an advantage since you will be able to monitor all aspects of your server then, both internal and external which means that accurate results should be produced.

Every once life one is the time when he/she have his own game to play. In today’s market you can see allover digital games are more popular like xbox360, play station and Nintendo games capture the game markets. But can you think it why everyone likes to play online? And this base idea of dedicated server games theme.

Everyone cannot afford to buy Xbox 360, play-station or Nintendo But; current games versions available on Internet are better than to play alone. There quality display, speed is specially made to give you a high quality excitement, and these kinds of things are possible through dedicated servers.

There quality, display, speed are in particular made to give you a far above the ground quality thrill, and these kinds of things are probable through dedicated servers. If you pay money for a game DVD, how much time you play? At one period, to play that game getting so boring, this is the major reason behind popularity of online games. With lend a hand of dedicated game servers’ people can play against someone else there is no want of same play station. This is the main reason, the online game providers never end require of dedicated game servers. Network bandwidth is one the crucial part in gaming business, because it must be compulsory always in upstream. Here home or office broadband Internet connection is not plenty. Normally with this type of connection, player does not get upstream bandwidth to host out-and-out game servers more than five to ten clients, but in the past years this is the only option was available for game hosting.

Couple of years before, the player who have the game, host the server and also run the client. However, on another side, the bandwidth provider of latest broadband service, handle the outgoing traffic at same time, therefore the host computer struggled to provide a good quality of service to the players on the network, while at the same time running the game on the same computer.

However, the online game providers realized, the importance of dedicated servers, because they need professional server to read data and transferring huge amounts of data as fast as players need it, therefore they purchased rack mounted server machines and collocated them inside Data Center Services to host their games Website. They paid monthly charges for it and the services they got is invaluable, these set ups improved the quality of their games.

Reseller Hosting – Buying a reseller hosting plan or dedicated server and starting your own company that sells web hosting to end users.

In a version-next, reseller hosting is a bit like sub-letting an apartment – or more accurately, sub-letting each individual room in an apartment.  You lease a chunk of web server space from a parent company, divide it up into smaller chunks or hosting packages, and sell it on to other people.  As far as your customers are concerned, you’re a hosting company, although from your point of view, all the tricky stuff such as technical support continues to be handled by the parent company.

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