As most of use know that ‘Magento is an open source utility available free for everyone who want it. Even much stuff like themes, templates, extensions, is available widely for free of cost on the Internet. It is popular as a free e-commerce software application which can be used commercially use by businessmen. It provided enormous flexibility towards both admin side and client side. Other great features like accelerated deployment, versatility, unique modules are included with Magento.

Following are the steps I would include which guides you for installation of Magento using Plesk control panel.

• Login into plesk control panel of your dedicated servers and click on domains section.

• Here you will find list of domains from which you should select the domain on which magento is required to be installed.

• After clicking that particular domain you will find different sections where you need to find Applications & Services under which click on the Web Applications icon.

• Here you need to click on ‘Install Web Application’ and keep the Magento in search box and click the Search button.

• After clicking on ‘Install’ button you also need to accept the License Agreement and start the Magento installation.

• Fill all the required information and provide the directory address in which Magento should be installed.

• Make sure the directory you have selected for installation is correct one because if you make a mistake while doing so then the auto installer will overwrite the selected directory and you would loss all the data already contained by that particular directory.

• If you want to install it in root directory then you need to put ‘/’ as destination directory.

• Click on Install for finish the Magento installation.

For accessing Magento application you need to navigate ‘http://yourdomain.com/magnetodirectory. Hope the above instruction would be helpful for making the installation of Magento application at your own.

Following are the mentioned steps for taking the backup of back-end files which are mostly known as MySQL database on Dedicated servers. Many of us know that SSH (Secure Shell) is one of the best utility for establishing connection with web servers.

• Log in to your Dedicated server using SSHMake sure that you log in as root via SSH

• Use following command to perform backup”mysqldump DATABASE_NAME > BACKUP.sql“

• Change the name as you want for the Backup file to be saved with.

• The file called as BACKUP.sql will be created here and you get completed the process of backup your database which can be utilized to restore later on whenever required.

Q. How can I check the free disk space on my Dedicated server?

Ans. You need to be logged into your Dedicated Web Server account as root via SSH, then you need to type in the below mentioned command to check the disk space used :

df -h

The above command will display the disk space usage on your Dedicated Server in a readable format.

Q. How can I suspend an account on my Dedicated server?

Ans. For suspending an account on your dedicated web server, firstly you need to log in to WHM with your root password. Once you have logged in into WHM, you need to click on the Suspend/Unsuspend an Account option located on the left menu. The accounts list will be displayed, now you need to select the account you would like to suspend either by its username or domain and then click on the Suspend button.

Q. How can I unsuspend an account on my Dedicated server?

Ans. You need to follow the same steps as followed for suspending an account on your Dedicated Server

Q. How can I change the passwords of the accounts on my Dedicated server via WHM ?

Ans. For changing the password of an account on your Dedicated Web Server, you need to login to your WHM account with your root password.

Then you need to click on the Password Modification option located in the left menu. After that you need to select the account for which you would want to change the password for either by its domain or username. Then enter the new password in theNew Password writing field and Password (Again) field and click on the Change button.

Q. How can I delete/terminate accounts on my Dedicated server?

Ans. Please be advised that Terminating an account will completely delete all the information stored for that account on your Dedicated Web Server. It is strongly recommended that you have a back up for the account, which will help you to restore it if required.

For terminating an account on your Dedicated Web Server you would need to be logged in to your WHM account provided with your web hosting account with your root password.

Then you need to select the Terminate and Account option located in the left menu. Then from the list of accounts you need to select the account either by its domain or username and then click on the Terminate button.

Corn is a server based utility which makes you enable to run a task or program on a required scheduled time. This utility is very helpful for running a log processor which are required day-wise, week-wise or month-wise as a part of data compilation.

Commands for Cron

Following are the commands used to manage a cron file.

• crontab -e – This command is used to crate a new crontab file or Edit a crontab file which already exist.
• crontab -l – This command is used to Display your crontab file.
• crontab -r – This command is used to Remove your crontab file.

For Creating or Editing a Cron file on a virtual private server, you need to connect to your vps account through SSH, then type the command editcron -e at command line. Now the enter the information you want to your cron to follow. This can be done in both windows vps hosting and Linux vps hosting.

For growing businesses now a days, email is a very important and critical communication tool allowing them to generate the best results. With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 this objective cab be achieved with optimum utilization of resources and also provides great usage of your web hosting capabilities. It can be hosting on a Dedicated Server.

Below mentioned are some of the Key features of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 :

Better Security and Protection : Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Its made more secure with in built defenses against spam email, also provides additional integration filtering and multiple engine scanning provides enhanced protection. Data replication capabilities helps keep the system available highly limiting the requirement for tape backup. Latest encryption features supp0rting both internal and internet based messages help protect the confidential messages.

Remote Access : Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Latest Exchange ActiveSync technology provides an enhanced email and calendaring experience on your mobile device, with reliable device and security policy control. Exchange Server 2007 is powered with the new Exchange Unified Messaging which provides a new level of technology to provide more types of communications like faxes and voice mails, as well as offering capabilities like voice access from any standard phone. Web based access provides a great user experience from any Internet connected computer.

Operational Efficiency : Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Management and administration can be done easily with the new graphical and command-line interfaces providing increased automation with supreme integration with various tools. Exchange Server 2007 provides improved storage efficiency which can be achieved through the extended memory, use of more efficient and effective routing ensures optimum use of bandwidth. Third part application or custom applications can be integrated.

On certain occasions when Internet connection is lost then there are different possibilities of disconnection, If we want to check out our LAN (Local Area Network) then we need to perform a ping check to our local assigned IP if it responds then there is nothing wrong with the LAN connection or settings, one of the next remaining possibilities is checking that particular domain, if it does not respond then there are two possibilities, Either the ISP where the domain is hosted has suffered downtime or there is an issue with our own ISP connection. For investigating furthermore we need to perform ping check for the other domain and if it responds then there is nothing wrong with our ISP connection and the only remained possibility is that there is something wrong with the ISP of the domain hosted place. As Servers are hosted on two main platforms ‘Windows Hosting and Linux Hosting‘ I would like to share following Pingcheck procedures for both Windows and Linux.

For Windows

Start Menu >> Click Run

In Run Window type the command ‘cmd’ and hit enter key.

Command prompt window will open where you need to type the following

For checking LAN connection ”ping IP Address”

For chcking ISP connection “ping domain.com”

For Linux

Accessaries >> Terminal Window, this will open a terminal window where you need to type these command

‘ping domain.com’ or ‘ping IP address’

PhpList can be used to send mass emails on our shared server. PhpList can be located and installed from your Fantastico in cPanel, is a one-way announcement delivery system

With the view of ensuring that our servers work with optimum performance we have set limits on the number of outgoing emails being sent from a particular account. These limits are different for the various types of servers provided by Host.co.in

Below mentioned is the limit for Outgoing Emails for the various types of Servers:

Shared and Reseller Server –                  200 outgoing emails per hour

VPS Service – 500 emails per hour

Semi – Dedicated Hosting –                     750 outgoing emails per hour

Dedicated Servers –                                 3600 outgoing emails per hour

Your account will be blocked, if the specified limits are exceeded. This will be done on the grounds of suspicious spamming.

Wordpress makes one able to overcome the inabilities which we saw in Drupal and Joomla. Some great addition in terms of easy installation, availability of more themes and plugins and better functionality make Wordpress the most popular CMS applications for both bloggers and webmasters. The administration tasks feels very easy when performed through wordpress. A great utility of wordpress is that the each page has it’s unique identity and is configurable with a unique title and URL. From SEO point of view, these features encourages bloggers to go for Wordpress, as each blog post can have a unique url which is editable. Similar to Drupal it is also supportive to web 2.0 as well as granting permission option is completely extensible. Lack of multi-site and SSL features as a standard one known some of the drawbacks of Wordpress CMS furthermore scalability is said to be limited with Wordpress. After studying wordpress we can say that it is far ahead of the other CMSs in terms of suitability, functionality and supportive for themes and plugins and this makes it first choice for web hosting and blogging enthusiastic people.

IP address is one unique number of 32-bit which is assigned to website which resides on the internet. General users of internet identify and remember a website by it’s domain name but logically it need to have a IP address to be found by a internet user. As many of us know there are main two types of IP Addresses as Static IP address and Shared IP address.

Static IP Address -
When a website holds its unique IP which is not shared by any other website and just limited to itself only is called Static IP. The major cause of using a Static IP is, one can have SSL encryption process which is limited to a Static IP only. Having a Static IP make your data more secure which is transferred throughout the Internet because of being encrypted to avoid any kind of interception. When a website needs anonymous type of FTP access which makes it possible to download the data for any user, in such cases also that particular Website needs a Static IP. These type of IPs are mostly used by Dedicated Hosting Services customers.

Shared IP Address -
When a single IP address is shared by multiple websites then it is called a Shared IP. Today Corers of websites exists on the internet so allocation of a unique single IP address to each website is not possible and practical from the point of view of web hosting services providers and IP registrar, specifically when that particular website has no need for it. To avoid such type of shortage of IP addresses Shared IP is allocated to multiple websites which do not require a Static IP. These type of IPs are mostly allocated to those webmasters who go for Shared Hosting Services.

PhpList can be used to send mass emails on our shared server. PhpList can be located and installed from your Fantastico in cPanel shared web hosting account , is a one-way announcement delivery system.

With the view of ensuring that our servers work with optimum performance we have set limits on the number of outgoing emails being sent from a particular account. These limits are different for the various types of servers provided by Host.co.in

Below mentioned is the limit for Outgoing Emails for the various types of Servers:

Shared and Reseller Server –  200 outgoing emails per hour

VPS Service – 500 emails per hour

Semi – Dedicated Hosting –  750 outgoing emails per hour

Dedicated Servers –  3600 outgoing emails per hour

Your account will be blocked, if the specified limits are exceeeded. This will be done on the grounds of suspicious spamming.