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What Payment Options Available From Host.co.in?

December 30th, 2011 Ajay Comments off

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.

What Are Colocation Services?

August 20th, 2011 Ajay Comments off

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.

How To Set domain.com/webmail To mail.domain.com

April 23rd, 2011 Ajay Comments off

As free emails are provided with many web hosting packages right from cPanel shared hosting to Dedicated Server Hosting, many webmasters prefer to use their emails which are created at their own website with their own domain name, this also provides them a little bit extra security. Following is the process of redirection of ‘yourdomain.com/webmail’ to ‘mail.yourdomain.com’

  • Login in your cpanel
  • You will find ‘Subdomains’ under ‘Domains’, click on it
  • Now you will find ‘Create a Subdomain’ with name mail.domain.com
  • Now click on ”Manage Redirection’ In Subdomain section.
  • Type ‘mail.yourdomain.com’ in the text box, this will redirect yourdomain.com/webmail to your desired mail.domain.com
  • Click on Save and exit.

What Is Enterprise Hosting?

April 15th, 2011 Ajay Comments off

Different types of requirements according to their convenience, different industries caused for the born of different hosting packages and different types of hosting. The resources requirements are different as the business size and type matters a lot for it. The most demanded features by business oriented websites are maximum uptime, e-commerce and ability to perform secured online transactions through their websites.Enterprise HostingThough anyone can not claim a exact definition of ‘Enterprise Hosting’ as people find for other types like cPanel shared hosting, reseller web hosting, dedicated server hosting, windows web hosting. In enterprise hosting there are different types demands from different clients but only sure thing is they are definitely looking for the features and resources like security levels, Uptime guarantees, Scalability and reliability with different priorities. Most of the time big organization approached this type of hosting service because they need to deal with people’s sensitive details like ‘Bank a/c numbers, credit card numbers, telephone numbers etc. Few web hosting India companies claim the provision special support staff which will work for only enterprise hosting clients to provide services up to the mark.

How To Add A User To phpMyAdmin?

March 31st, 2011 Ajay Comments off

Following guidelines are given assuming that you already have created your Wordpress Database on your website hosting account.

  • Find the Home icon in the upper left corner of the main page and click on it.

  • Click on the Privileges. Click ‘Add a new User.

  • Decide a username for Wordpress and enter it in the Username field. While doing this one should make sure to keep ‘Use text field’ as selected from dropdown list.

  • Decide a password woth a good password characteristics such as containing multiple combinations for upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters. Enter it in the Password field. Similar to username you also have to take care of keeping ‘Use text field’ as selected from dropdown list. Re-type the password in ‘Retype’ field.

  • Make sure your username and password are difficult to guess but easy to remember to yourself, if you are not confident about it then it is good to keep record of them in a secret file or diary.

  • Its recommended to leave all the options under ‘Global Privileges as they are by default. And clik on ‘Go’

  • After this you just need to come back to the Privileges screen and click on the ‘Check privileges’ icon on the user created by you. You will come to ‘Databas-specific privileges’ section. Uou will find a dropdown list named as ‘Add priileges to the following database’ where you should select the database created by you. The page will get refreshed automatically, click ‘Check All’ to grant all privileges anc click on ‘Go’.

  • You will come to the resulting page and here you should check that the host name listed after ‘Server:’ is at the top of the page. (This generally is ‘localhost’)

    How To Edit A Wordpress Database?

    March 31st, 2011 Ajay Comments off

    Following are the guidelines I would like to share with website hosting clients who are going to host there blog or website as based on a wordpress. Find out the following in the downloaded and unzipped the WordPress program on your computer and edit it as I am placing the instruction under each of it.

    // ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //

    /** The name of the database for WordPress */
    define(’DB_NAME’, ‘putyourdbnamehere’);

    Replace your desired domain name with putyourdbnamehere


    /** MySQL database username */
    define('DB_USER', 'usernamehere');

    Replace your desired username name with usernamehere

    /** MySQL database password */
    define('DB_PASSWORD', 'yourpasswordhere');

    Replace your desired password name with yourpasswordhere

    /** MySQL hostname */
    define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

    There is no need to change localhost unless any specific requirement.

    Steps To Change The Database Engine Of A MySQL Database Table.

    February 28th, 2011 Ajay Comments off

    Here is the process of changing a database engine of MySQL table.

    Suppose the table name is my_table which resided in your database and it uses MyEng engine which you want to change as myDB.

    • Login into your website hosting account

    • Open your phpMyAdmin tools and click on the database which contains my_table (the table of which you want to change the engine).

    • Click on the SQL tab and type the following query int it.

    ALTER TABLE my_table ENGINE = InnoDB;

    • Click on the go button to run the query.

    • Its finished and this is the quickest way to change your required table’s engine.

    How To Reset The Password In WordPress?

    February 26th, 2011 Ajay Comments off

    In wp-admin for retrieving password one need to click on ‘Lost your password?’ which appears at login screen. After clicking it you will have to enter either your username or e-mail ID which is verified in wordpress database and if found then new password is forwarded to your email address which you used for registration.

    As the above procedure is a little bit lengthy and time consuming one there is another one method can be used for the same. By using particular instances you can access admin area. By using phpMyAdmin which is a utility provided with cPanel Hosting package, one can manage his wordpress database. After accessing the phpMyAdmin it is necessary to select the database which is used by your website. Click on that database and you will find multiple table inside it. Find SQL tab which is located at the top of the navigation bar. You need to type following SQL query in the field available.

    UPDATE `wp_users` SET `user_pass` = MD5( ‘new_password‘ ) WHERE `wp_users`.`user_login` = “your_username

    Replace ‘new_password‘ and “your_username” in the above query with your desired new desired password and your username respectively. After you typed the query accurately, click on the GO tab, this will submit your query. If you have done the above work successfully then you should be able to login in to your wordpress admin area.

    How Install phpBB From cPanel.

    February 24th, 2011 Ajay Comments off

    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.

    An Overview Of Cluster Servers

    January 20th, 2011 Ajay Comments off

    As many of us know that if we lost any important application on a normal server, what happens? The server goes down making the websites inaccessible residing over it. Server clustering is a technology which creates a group of multiple servers which are running independently but acts as a single system, mostly on Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition, or Windows Server 2003, Data-center Edition. Whenever one of these server fails all workload and resources required for keeping the server running are transferred to another servers included in that particular cluster. Having ability to work with each other’s support this cluster technology provides higher level of services and redundant to it’s clients. The inconvenience due to server failure does not has the place at all because other servers within the cluster carries out the job of server failed. The website hosting companies and website hosting client both have a huge advantage of this technology as, uptime-guarantee, security level and data redundancy are get improved on a maximum level with this technology.

    Dedicated Server Web Hosting FAQ’s

    January 10th, 2011 Nishant Comments off

    FAQ

    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.

    Features of AWStats

    January 8th, 2011 Nishant Comments off

    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

    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.
     
     

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