1mbps 95th percentile means you can use the full 100mbps connection, but 95% of the time you're at or below 1mbps of actual usage. You'll hear varying guesses of how much data you can actually transfer, but I usually estimate that each mbps is 330GB up or down. Think of it in terms of water. Your provider is offering to give you a 100 gallons per second pipe to your house. You're welcome to use that entire pipe should you have the need for a lot of water at any given time, which is handy because that allows you to shower, water your lawn, and run the dish washer all at the same time. If...
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Control Panel Benefits A dedicated server is only as good as the software used to manage it. Control panels simplify the day-to-day management of your dedicated server, whether it's for the individual use of your business or to facilitate shared hosting for multiple customers. Windows or Linux, this is your choice. Control panels, through a web-based interface, are designed to automate a number of hosting related server administration functions for Web sites making complex administration tasks much easier. A server administrator uses a control panel to set up new Web sites, e-mail...
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My Hosting Provider Offer Control Panel, What Is It? A control panel is additional software, which is installed on dedicated web hosting server to simplify the administration and management of web sites. It automates numerous tasks such as FTP accounts, control of email boxes, web statistics, databases and many more. The control panels provides user with an easy to use graphical interface, which is somewhat similar to your web browser. The control panels make the job of managing a web site so easy that anyone having a little web site or computer experience can create email boxes,...
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Have a slow website? Upgrade to a dedicated server:
A slow web site can affect your business prospects. One of the main reasons for the customers to stop browsing a particular web site for their e-commerce is its slow performance. It can be very frustrating for the customers to wait for a long time for the transaction process to be completed. More often than not, the user will leave your web site after waiting for 8-10 seconds and never return.
Hence, to enhance your business prospects, it is essential for you to have a high performance, fast web site. If your web site is too slow, it...
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Securing Your VPS How to secure your VPS. SECURING CPANEL - WHM - AND ROOT on a VPS With a VPS hosting account, you do not have access to your kernel. That is good because if you don't have access to it, neither to hackers or spammers (which limits what they can do). 1- Checking for formmail Form mail is used by hackers to send out spam email, by relay and injection methods. If you are using matts script or a version of it, you may be in jeopardy. Command to find pesky form mails: find / -name "[Ff]orm[mM]ai*" CGIemail is also a security risk: find / -name...
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Are you at a crossroads now, deciding which type of hosting best suits your needs? This is definitely an important decision as it will affect how your business will run on the webspace in the future. So, before you start submitting a ticket to the support department or calling the sales department of any hosting provider to ask regarding your confusion, take a look at the guidelines and tips which I'm about to introduce to you. First of all, ask yourself, which type of web busineses are you planning to get involved in? Next, I'll show you the advantages, disadvantages and features offered...
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Communications and data access are integral for business operations. Websites, email and messaging services, and servers have to be up and protected for business communications to function. Data centers that house mission-critical infrastructure – the most vital parts of the company network, like servers and databases – must sustain the power, climate-control and connectivity that network infrastructure demands. Redundancy The colocation facility should have redundant systems, with sufficient capacity, at every point of operation, from climate control systems to network equipment. Having...
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There are many tools of the trade in the world of Web site development, but very few have as many good uses as your .htaccess file. What, you don't have one? I'll admit, information on these little darlings are confusing to some and hard to find. Hence the reason why we need an explanation of what it is and what it can do for you. Inside your Web hosting space, you know you have folders, HTML documents, and other things that make your Web site work. Think of this file as just another addition to the many thing you have inside there. It usually sits inside your root directory, such as...
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Every Web host provides you with one, and if you do a lot of work on your Web site it could be something you curse or something you get to adore every single day. A control panel is like the brain behind your Web site’s body. It gives you one place to look at to do everything you would ever need to do to your Web hosting account. You can create E-mail accounts, create FTP accounts, track statistical information and so much more.
Did you know that there are different types of control panels though? I do not think anybody can argue with the fact that the most popular control panel software...
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Tracking advertising campaigns performance
with 3dstats.com
Case Study
Advertiser: 3DStats.com. Keywords: 'web stats'
Advertise on Google.com (AdWords Select)
We have a Pay-per-Click campaign on Google.com and we would like to track our campaign performance.
I. Track the visitors sent by our Google campaign.
First, we need to create the campaign tracking destination URL. To do this, we selected the option
'Create Campaign URL' in the campaign menu.
We filled the form with the information requested.
and got the following...
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John is very happy today, for the first time in his life he has created his very own website. Now he is looking for a web host so that he can put his identity on the net. Casually he asks his friend Mac about it. Mac tells him that web-hosting directories are the best place to look for a web host. Getting curious John then asks Mac what exactly a Web Hosting Directory is. Mac responds that web hosting directories are a web hosting marketplace where prospective hosts list their products, plans, prices and other important information so that according to their requirements, customers can choose...
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OverviewFrontlineMail is a network-based content filter designed to help businesses and other domain administrators deal with the growing problem of spam and viruses. FrontlineMail works by intercepting unfiltered Internet e-mail via SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), passing the e-mail through a number of local and external tests to determine whether the message is spam or a virus, and then delivering filtered, spam-free and virus-free e-mail via SMTP to a recipient mail server. Identified spam and viruses can either be delivered to the recipient mail server for further processing or...
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Testing web hosting companies the final stages of your search for a good web hosting company, a very important step is to test "the finalists". Because most web hosting companies have client support email(s) listed openly on their website, testing the quality and speed of their support is quite easy. All you have to do is send an email with one or more questions. Let's take things step by step. First you have to find that email address. Usually you can find it in a "contact us" or "about us" section. Different email addresses result in different test results. What I mean by that is...
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If you want to sell online, you need to be able to accept credit card payments. The traditional way is to open a merchant account. However, opening a merchant account is expensive, especially for small businesses who are just starting. In the last few years, however, a number of companies have entered the market with a new concept: third party credit card processing services (for example, Paypal). This option offers small businesses a quick and easy way to accept cretit card payments. It by-passes the need to open a merchant account, plus, the sign-up process is much easier and faster:...
Written by: Mario Sanchez | General Hosting | |
So you want a domain name... You want your very own "yourcompany.com" Internet identity. You want to stamp it in your business cards, brochures, and all your marketing communication vehicles. And you want it know. Problem is: you don't know where to start. Let's start from the beginning. What is a Domain Name? A domain name is what you type in the browser's address bar to go to a specific website. For example, our domain name is: http://www.askwebhosting.com (in today's browsers, it is not necessary to type the symbols http:// any more). A domain name provides an online identity and...
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