• For cPanel Shared hosting customers Host.co.in’s shared servers come with pre-installed firewall which is reliable and up to the mark when compared to industry standards.
• For VPS Hosting customers, no hardware firewall can be installed as the VPS server hardware is shared virtually by more than one individual, but still you can choose any software firewall of your own choice.
• Dedicated Server Hosting customers have the full freedom to choose and customize firewall option according to their own choice.

So far currencies are concerned we receive payments if following two currencies.

1)Indian Rupees (INR)
2)US Dollar ($)

You can avail this option of selecting your required currency after you registered account at the time of ordering the web hosting services.

We receive payments through following methods

1) PayPal
2) 2CheckOut
3) Credit Card Bank Transfer
4) Cheque EBS Cash Payment (For local clients)

You can see all these options available on the order form.

Yes, Host.co.in provides its own Cloud Hosting Services with many great unmatched features. You can experience a new level of performance with the cloud technology based servers provided by Host.co.in. Similar to all other web hosting services provided by Host.co.in, cloud hosting services also come with the guarantee of being the best value for money deals. Host.co.in’s Cloud web hosting services enable you to add or remove the resources without the associated factor of cost consideration.

Maintaining the web servers at your own at a private place is a costly affair. Colocation services simply means the services which allow you to move your server hardware to a place called Data Center which are mostly owned by web hosting services providers. Data Center is a place developed specially for maintaining the web servers with the best required infrastructure and environment.

Email Forwarder is an important utility comes with web hosting services plans. It makes it possible to forward the copies of mails received at a particular email address to another desired email address. Most of the time you do not want to use two email Ids separately as it is a time consuming factor.

For example one has used an email ‘abc@yourdomain.com’ and later one he left it and started using ‘xyz@yourdomain.com’, but while using it he do not want to loose any emails coming on the abc@yourdomain.com the he can us email forwarder to forward all the emails coming at abc@yourdomain.com to xyz@yourdomain.com

One copy of each email is forwarded to second email saving time to check separately by logging into the first email. This features comes with almost all the hosting types right from basic cPanel Hosting to Dedicated Server Hosting.

Let the web hosting account be of any type either Windows Web Hosting or Linux Hosting, MySQL supports to both type of web hosting services and is very  popular as a database. The websites which has large data in their MySQL databases are supposed to be optimize it which enable them for enhanced collation of data and indexing. When the number of cases of slow speed of database, queries, rise in backlogs and user unable to connect the database then you can know that you need to optimize your database as soon as possible. Then main causes behind this are non existed or improperly defined indexes. Common people can sort out these causes and tries for some other solutions like implementation of any other costly system but by fixing these small issues one can feel great improvisation in website functioning.

Following is the example I would like to share to get a brief idea of the above discussed issues.

Suppose there is a table ‘emp’ with three different fields as following

emp_code, emp_name, emp_age

For finding the information of an employee the query is written as following

SELECT * FROM from ‘emp’ where emp_code is = 3;

Now the above query will be performed for finding the all records of the employee who has been assigned code as 3, but lets imagine if the number of records existed in the table are in billions then the same query will have to through each record for matching the given condition and the execution of that particular query will need more time.

To avoid the above long time process you need to create an Index. As you have a separate field created as emp_code an index would be a separate file which contains the only records you have inserted in a particular field in sorted manner. If you creates an index for emp_code the MySQL search query is able to find the given record very fast. Indexation causes to sort and search the records at an amazing speed. Here index works very similarly to an Index you know in a book.

Following are the steps to install phpBB through cPanel using softaculous.

• Login to your cPanel web hosting account by using your username and password.

• Click on the ‘Softaculous icon, which will carry you to newer screen where you will see ‘phpBB’ listed under the forums to the left side.

• Click on the phpBB and you will see the overview page of particular phpBB Version.

• Find the ‘Install’ tab and fill all the required details in the form such as Protocol, Domain, Directory in which phpBB is to be installed, Database name etc.

• Now find the ‘Install’ button at the bottom and click on it, your installation will get started and you will receive the message “Congratulations, the software was installed successfully.” after successful completion of it.

Now you can login into your phpBB control panel through the url provided at confirmation page and arrange the setting as required.

phpMyAdmin is widely used by large number of web hosting clients because it is one of most reliable way to backup and restore MySQL database. There are following simple steps to backup and restore your MySQL database from your hosting account.

Backup Process

Go to phpMyAdmin

Click on the database name which is shown in the list.(shown at right side)

Here your will see one ‘Export Link’, click on it and you will be redirected to new window ‘View dump of database’

Click on ‘Select All links if you want to backup all the table from database.

Select required options from SQL options and click on the save as file option, you also need to click on the required compression option.

Click on the ‘Go’ button and you will see a dialog box asking for location where the file to be saved.

Restore Process

Restoring the data is also an easy process like backup process

Go to phpMyAdmin

Create a database with the required name, which will appear in the list. You can also overwrite the backup which already exists in the database.

Mark all the check-boxes of all the table names with checked mark and select the option Drop to delete all existing table in the database.

Click on the SQL link, it will bring send you to a new screen where you can upload your SQL file or also type SQL commands.

Click on the browse button and select the database file from the location it resides at.

Click on ‘Go’ button which will upload the backup, execute the SQL commands and create your database.

This is one of the most believed reliable connection solution stands for Secure Shell. In detail its a network protocol which allows optimum encryption and data transmission on any type of network. It takes care of the communication among the computers connected within a network and and also works as an alternative to remote shells (TELNET), which possible circulates important and sensitive data thorough insecure areas.

Unlike FTP (File Transfer Protocol) a SSH Telnet keeps watch on the security level of the connection among multiple computer machines, while doing this there is an issue of possible drawback of server stability. This special utility for the web hosting clients is provided on demand by hosting vendors.

There are different method for building SSH connection according to different Operating Systems and different kind of web hosting services.

CGI stands for ‘Common Gateway Interface’ Programs which run from cgi-bin directory to show the information who is accessing the script are CGI Scripts. The common languages used to write these CGI scripts are Perl, PHP and C. Apart from this these scripts can also be written in plain text. In some cases some scripts need compilation which makes them suitable to be read by machine of computers.

The number of problems which may takes place in scripts are very large which makes it impossible to provide the support for any new script or the script which is already installed. If one could not find out the problem in the script of his own then he can take help from the available community and groups who are related to script, there are many examples of solutions found as each member of this community has his own experience with the script. It is essential to learn few Unix, Telnet and FTP terms before starting the installation of scripts.

Following are the paths to the general server resources and required by CGI scripts.

Sendmail:                    /usr/sbin/sendmail/

Perl:                             /usr/bin/perl/

Date:                            /bin/date/

Java:                            /usr/local/java/

Python:                        /usr/local/bin/python/

Root Web Directory:   /var/www/html/

Cgi-bin path:               /var/www/cgi-bin/

There are 5 types of time intervals can be set for a cron entry depending one the time at which it should run on web hosting servers.

• The first number comes as a time interval of a minute, so after the time interval of per minute that particular command can be executed.

• The second number comes for an hour, so after the time interval of an hour that particular command can be executed.

• The third number comes for a daytime, so after the time interval of a daytime (24 hours) that particular command can be executed.

• The fourth number comes for a particular month, so after the time interval of a month that particular command can be executed.

• The fifth number comes for a particular day of a week, so after the time interval of a whole week that particular command can be executed.

Following is an example of a cron entry in tabular format.

AWStats is short form used for Advanced Web Statistics. AWStats is powerful and efficient log analyzer which provides advanced web, ftp, mail and streaming server statistical reports from the data stored in the server logs. The data is graphically represented in easy to read and understand web pages.

AWStats is designed keeping in mind flexibility for users, it can be run or used through a web browser CGI or directly from the operating system command line. AWStats is free software application distributed under the GNU General Public License. As AWStats works from the command line as well as a CGI, it is compatible with web hosting providers which allow CGI and log access.

Reports generated by AWStats include a wide range of information on your web site usage, some of the key features are mentioned below:

• Its provides a count of Number of visitors and the number of Unique visitors.
• It displays the visit duration and visits.
• List of Authenticated users and latest authenticated visitors
• Usage bifurcated by Months, Days and Hours of the day
• Domain names and Countries
• Provides details of Most viewed, entry and exit pages
• Displays Web Compression Statistics
• Visitors Browser information is also provided
• Search Engine crawler and Robot visit information
• Tracking of downloads like PDF, compressed files and others can be done easily
• Search engines, Keywords and Phrases used to find your website
• HTTP Errors if any are displayed
  
• The number of times your site is added to Bookmarks / Favorites can be tracked.