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Collection of Terms Used in Web Hosting Business

November 16th, 2009

As an amateur, any webmaster can get confused with the common web hosting terms which can make things complicated. Therefore, below is a list of commonly used terms in the business of Web Hosting.

Bandwidth : Bandwidth is the term that is used to describe the amount of data that is passed or is estimated to travel across a communication channel in an estimated period of time. It can be measured monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or Annually. It depends on the plan a client signs-up for.

Hosting Plan (Dedicated Hosting) : A dedicated hosting is recommended for websites that incur high amounts of traffic. A user gets complete root/administrative access to the server. Same is the benefit with a VPS or Virtual Private Server.

Gigabytes (Hard Disk Space) : It is an unit to measure a computers storage capacity. One Gigabyte equals one billion bytes.

DNS : DNS is an abbreviation of Domain Name Server. It differentiates between different institutes such as .com, .us, etc.

Domain parking : When an individual or any company purchase domain names and keep it unused is known as domain parking. Later when required, they can link those domains to their required old domain. Domain parking has become a common way of business, individuals buy domains in a bulk, park it and then resell it at a higher price.

FTP : FTP or File Transfer Protocol is a common way of transferring files or data across a network in a secure way.

Auto-Responders: While auto-responders are not email accounts in themselves, they are assigned an email address and it auto-respond to anyone who sends them an email. The reply is a pre-formatted email and every response is identical to the corresponding queries.

HTTP and HTML : HTTP or Hyper Text Transfer Protocol is used inorder to request or transmit web pages and components over the Internet and various other computer networks.

HTML is an abbreviation of Hyper Text MarkUp Language which is used to structure the multimedia and text present in a website. It also creates hyper text links between electronic documents.

ISP : One might be aware of this, an ISP is the Internet Service Provider. An ISP is essential if one wishes to connect to their servers.

There are many more terms that I would describe in my later post. The above mentioned terms of Web Hosting are some of the very commonly used one’s and are essential for a webmaster to know.

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Why Cluster Dedicated Servers are Better Than Single Ones

September 7th, 2009

The concept of bringing servers together to form a cluster was brought in because one server could not provide assurance on high availability and business continuity. Cluster servers impressed organizations with all the promised they made. Let’s look at how cluster servers can help your business.

  • Cluster servers cause work load to be distributed across several servers. This improves the performance of the network in terms of speed and reliability.
  • Cluster servers offer high availability. If one server fails, other servers will provide the support necessary to help your business. Thus, cluster servers ensure business continuity.
  • One of the biggest advantages of clusters servers is that they support scalability. They can expand and accommodate all the growing needs of your business.
  • Maintenance of cluster servers is easy as you can switch one server off while others work. This ensures that your network applications are always available.
  • Another thing businesses like about cluster servers is that it is easy to configure and manage such servers.

Over time and with growing technological needs of organizations, network applications have become critical for businesses. A failure in the server containing the critical applications can prove miserable, sometimes fatal, to businesses. Cluster servers have become important for this reason. They impart an improved professional image to businesses.

Apart from being advantageous in the current situation, cluster servers can accommodate a business’ future needs. This future-sensibility makes it extremely lucrative.

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Colocation for Fuss-Free Server Maintenance

September 7th, 2009

Dedicated servers are typically kept in-house or kept with a hosting company to manage. However, managed hosting is something not all organizations can afford. There is another kind of system where your dedicated server is kept in the premises of a hosting company, and you decide the level of server management you seek from it. Now, this concept makes your server a colocation server. You have to pay a rent to the hosting company for keeping it. Some hosting companies offer another kind of colocation where they offer you a server on rent.

You can choose if you want the hosting company to simply keep your server in its location or provide some services. If you opt for server management, you can reap several benefits. Let’s see how colocation can help your business.

  • With a colocation server, your websites will have minimal downtimes and high availability.
  • Colocation significantly reduces set-up and maintenance costs. The hosting company has the responsibility of maintaining the server on your behalf.
  • The hosting company will monitor and troubleshoot the server for you.
  • With a colocation server, a business does not need to maintain a datacenter of its own. This not only saves costs but also rescues you of the pressure of maintaining the server.
  • Colocation ensures high security for the server. A hosting company’s datacenters are well-equipped to take care of your server’s security.

A hosting company can take the pressure of maintaining a server off you. However, you need to take care that your server is located within your reach so that you too can monitor it occasionally.

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Use of Parallel’s Plesk Control Panel In Web Hosting Industry.

July 25th, 2009

Parallel’s Plesk Control Panel is considered to be a highly recommended and one of the most used control panels in the Web Hosting Industry today. Plesk control panel can operate with Windows as well as on Linux platforms.

Plesk is an ideal solution for Dedicated, Shared and Virtual hosting. Plesk control panel is the most stable and secure multi-platform web hosting control panel available for users. Most of the leading web hosting service providers use Plesk for the purpose of increasing their per server profitability. There are many benefits of using Plesk Control panel. Windows and Linux server’s can make use of Plesk.

Dedicated Web Hosting

Plesk’s RPM installation and modular design allow Dedicated Hosting providers to satisfy the needs of tech savvy customers. It deploys and is ready in a very short time. It provides high performance solutions which is comprehensive yet inexpensive. There are many unique features such as XML-API which automize the provisioning process and integrating 3rd party applications, included in Plesk. It includes a complete Software Development Kit with multiple backend utilities delivering service providers and customers more power to adapt their offerings as well as an avenue for easy up selling and additions.

Shared Web Hosting

Plesk’s tiered self administration and uniform multi platform design is perfect for the management of a shared web hosting environment. The control panel strengthens providers for managing multiple domains running reliably on highly scalable  architecture optimizes for the reseller channel. A person with no technical background too can easily create, manage and set-up accounts while customers can administer their virtual domains without the support from the technical staff. Plesk satisfies the needs of both simple and complex web hosting system configurations at the same time allowing full customization.

Virtual Web Hosting

Plesk efficiently delivers management power with a small footprint making it an ideal for Virtual Private Server Hosting solution. With the use of Virtuozzo, Plesk users can deploy templates of Plesk control panel systems. Virtual servers provide an isolated dedicated server environment. Getting upgrades has never been so simple before from a single VPS console. Plesk and Virtuozzo are unsurpassed in their ability to increase ROI and generate revenue for the professional web hosting provider.

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Game Server Web Hosting : Dedicated Server Hosting Is Highly Recommended

July 25th, 2009

Online gaming industry is one of the highest earning businesses in the world of Internet today. The choices of online gamers have drastically changed. Online gamers no longer like to play simple games. Todays trend is of high definition and more realistic kind of games.

Due to the ever increasing users of online gaming, many users have switched to dedicated server hosting to provide their customers with better services. In the initial stages users opted for shared web hosting packages to start the online gaming service. But as the number of gamers increased, the web hosting packages had to be upgraded. Today the big online gaming web-sites are hosted on dedicated servers.

Today those who wish to start an online gaming website either select a VPS hosting package or Dedicated server options. Now-a-days Gaming websites isn’t a normal business website. Though not every gaming website needs a dedicated server. It depends on the type of game that is hosted on a server, the number of visitors to the website etc.

Having an account for dedicated server with a web hosting company means, you are not required to share the server with any other user. Dedicated server hosting has more advantages than shared web hosting solutions. A dedicated server is necessary for the web-sites that has more traffic daily to the website. Usually most of the online gaming websites charge customers with certain amount of money every month for allowing them to play the games. Traffic on the Internet is dynamic, hence if a website is slow or takes long time to respond, then visitors might turn their back to such websites and search for a better option. Falling into such situations means losing out a lot of potential business. Here having a dedicated server hosting package becomes vital.

The fact that dedicated game servers are costly but if thinking of a long term objective then hosting the game on a dedicated server from the beginning itself can repay well in future, because as the web-site grows older on the web, means more traffic and more traffic means more business.

Usually a well reputed web hosting company provides assistance for all the queries regarding dedicated game server options. They would help your business grow. Hence, selecting the correct web hosting company is crucial. Selection of the appropriate operating system, data backups, bandwidth, package, hardware and space is the next thing after choosing a reliable web hosting company.

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Unmanaged Dedicated Web Server Hosting Solution

July 25th, 2009

Unmanaged web hosting is one of the other type of web hosting solution. One can choose the unmanaged dedicated server plan inorder to avail the unmanaged server. A customer is provided with the hardware and the Operating System installed on the server. Other tasks such as installation of applications and server maintenance, needs to be taken care by the user himself.

All the executive files and the dynamic link libraries files necessary for the website needs to be installed by oneself. The user is free to choose and install the applications and softwares required for the website as s/he is the sole controller of the dedicated server.

The user posses the rights to resell the server space at any point of time to others. This can help you cover the cost of the dedicated server in the meantime server your purpose.

A dedicated web server hosting is the best suitable web hosting solution for businesses and large enterprises. An unmanaged dedicated server hosting can prove to be profitable if you posses the required server management skills. There are number of users who have transformed their businesses into huge profit gaining business by opting for an unmanaged dedicated server hosting solution.

However, one needs to carefully select the such a dedicated web hosting provider. The appropriate web hosting server can help the website’s success and in-turn growth in the business.

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Windows Server 2008 – Dedicated Server Hosting

July 25th, 2009

Windows Server 2008 Datacenter edition offers large scale virtualization to small to large server systems with workloads which require highest levels of availability, scalability and reliability. Memory and processing requirements of large scale, critical applications like ERP, databases, server consolidations, custom and line of business applications are well supported by Windows 2008 Datacenter Edition. Datacenter edition is a good option for virtual workloads as unlimited virtualization licensing is coupled with scalability.

Windows Server 2008 is one of the most preferred server’s by Web Hosting firms.

Main scenarios of Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition :

A] Windows Server 2008 with SQL Server and Exchange Server

  1. E-mails are considered to be critical applications as downtime affects productivity. Implementation of high availability solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server becomes very important in such cases. Scalability too is important as it enables users to provide more mailboxes or else to increase the size of the mailbox with lesser server footprint.
  2. Customers make use of Microsoft SQL Server for database applications where high availability and scalability are important.

B] High Availability

Windows  Server 2008 Datacenter edition helps in keeping vital server workloads available to customers, partners and employees around the world and around the clock using

  1. Geographically scattered clustering which spans network subnets
  2. Dynamic hardware partitioning which supports Hot/Add Replace Memory and  Hot Add/Replace Processor.
  3. Failover clustering which supports upto 16 nodes
  4. Flawless real time operating system memory backup

C] Identity and Security Management

This new authentication architecture in Windows Server 2008 datacenter delivers advanced identity and access management features which help in maintaining employee productivity, parallely enhancing security of the IT operations

  1. Better management of certificates and smart card enrollment with Advanced Certificate Management Services (ADCS)
  2. Federated access to internal resources for external users through Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).

D] Large Scale Virtualization

Server virtualization technology allows to optimize the resources and realize significant infrastructure and management cost saving. It offers an ideal platform for enterprise scale virtualization:

  1. Quick migration couples the failover clustering of Windows Server 2008 Datacenter edition with Windows Server 2008 Hyper V for moving virtualized server workloads from one host server to another with minimum disruption. It maintains the availability of virtualized servers in the event of both planned and unplanned downtime
  2. Its license include unlimited virtualization rights  providing customers to use rights to run an unlimited number of virtualized instances of Windows Server on processors licensed with Windows Server 2008 datacenter without purchasing any additional licenses

E] Increased Scalability

Windows Server 2008 Datacenter easily scales to adapt to the increased needs of data warehousing and transaction processing .

  1. Supports upto 2 tera bytes of RAM (64 Gb on 32 bit system)
  2. Authentication and authorization for unlimited number of network connection requests
  3. Support for upto 64 processors i.e. 32 processors on 32-bit systems
  4. Supports unlimited Virtual Private Network connections (VPN).

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Understand The Difference Between Dedicated and Colocation Server Hosting.

July 25th, 2009

Dedicated server hosting and Colocation Server are two of the common terms frequently used by webmasters. Here is a explanation of the difference between the two.

A dedicated server hosting is one of the very well known type of web hosting service. Dedicated servers are used by large organizations and enterprises as they have to manage large amount of data. This service is further distinguished as Linux Dedicated Server Hosting and Windows Dedicated server hosting, depending on the platform a customer chooses.

A customer leases an entire server from a web hosting provider, it is as good as owning a server yourself. The customer has the privileges of using the server as per their own choice. One can opt for Managed Dedicated Server Hosting solutions, in this the hosting provider takes care of the maintenance, data back-up, security etc. A dedicated server provides an assurance of better security and speed.

With a dedicated hosting solution, one has the complete freedom to modify the server settings of sever hardware components and operating system as per business requirements. Depending on the web hosting service provider, one can get the dedicated server customized as per requirements. A control panel alongwith the server can add to the ease of managing the web hosting accounts. With a dedicated server, one gets complete administrative access to the server, enabling customers to install, uninstall, modify, delete, upload, download anything of their choice.

Colocation which is also referred as “Colo”, is a Web server hosting service offered by Web hosting providers. In this type of hosting solution, a customer can place his own server hardware in the data center of a third party. The customer is required to have their own server hardware and software licenses to place in the data center. In this type of service, the customer has the flexibility to manage, secure and take care of maintenance of their servers. In this, the data center provides only the space, security, redundancy etc. Colocation service is one of the most expensive type of web hosting service. Only people with good experience in server administration opt for such a service. Also, the maintenance, upgrades of the server needs to be taken care by the customer themselves (Some of the web hosting providers do offer managed collocation services too.).

Both these types of server hostings have their own advantages and disadvantages. With a dedicated server hosting solution a customer gets all the services provided in a collocation hosting solution, except that the customer does not own the hardware. Whereas, in Colocation Hosting solution, the hardware is owned by the customer, therefore the customer needs to bear initial set-up costs and the charge of placing the hardware in the facility of a third party.

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