• 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.

For a webmaster it is one of the regular tasks to shift files and folders from one directory to another. If you are a webmaster using cPanel Hosting which comes with cheap web hosting plans, then it’s an easy task to move files and folder from one directory to another. You just need to follow the following instructions.

• Log in in to your cPanel account, here your can find ‘File Manager’ Icon under Files category.
• Click on it and You will come to one message window providing you the following options

1. Home Directory
2. Web Root (public_html/www)
3. Public FTP Root (public_ftp)
4. Document Root for (For Exchanging Data among sub-domains created on a main domain)

• You need to select the appropriate option to find the destination of file or folder you need to move from and click ‘Go button. (’Home Directory’ contains all the sub-directories so you need to follow longer path if your went through it)
• After reaching to your destination file or folder you can find all editing options at the top of the window including ‘New File’ ‘New Folder’, ‘Copy’, ‘Move File’, ‘Upload’, ‘‘Download’, ‘Delete’ etc.
• As you want to move the File, you first select it and click on ‘Move File’ now it will ask you the destination folder where you want to move the file, just provide it and click on ‘Move File(s)’ button.

That’s it you can check for the file you have moved in the respective folder.

There are certain key elements which should be taken in to consideration while your move your website from current web hosting services provider to another.

• Unlock you Authorization Code. (What is Authorization Code?)
• Take backup of all files, emails, databases.
• Remember all the settings you have on your old hosting account to keep them unchanged at the new web hosting services provider.
• Checkout for all operations after you uploaded it at your new web hosting account.
• Newly set up all your previous email accounts on your domain and make sure they all are sending and receiving email as usual.
• After uploading your backed up data safely and checking all the operations successfully you can update your nameserver from your domain to point to ns1, ns2, ns3 and ns4.yourdomain.com

Generally your website and your emails are expected start resolving in the next 24 hours, if it happens then you need not worry and you have successfully transferred your website successfully from your old web hosting provider to new.

When you transfer your website to a new web hosting services provider they ask you for ‘Authorization Code’. It’s a Unique 6 to 32 character lone code which is specially created to prevent any unsecured or unauthorized transfers of website. This ‘Authorization Code’ provides a security feature as it works as an unique Pin for your website (domain name) and it certifies that person who is demanding the transfer of domain is the real owner of that particular website. This code can be found in the control panel of that website. With the help of the ‘Authorization Code’ you can also lock your website and prevent any attempt of transformation without your authority. When you want to transfer it they you can unlock it.

In previous post we saw how to change MySQL password using mysqladmin command at shell prompt. But there is another way to do it by updating the MySQL database.  As usernames and passwords are stored in a user table in MySQL database so you can directly change password of any user by following the below given method.
First you need to login into MySQL server and type the following command

$ mysql -u root -p

For using MySQL database you need to type the following command

mysql> use mysql;

Suppose that you want to change password of a user having username ‘XYZ’, then type the following command

mysql> update user set password=PASSWORD(“NEWPASSWORD”) where User=’XYZ’;

After doing these changes it’s recommended to reload privileges before you quit so type the following command.

mysql> flush privileges;

Now to exit MySQL use following command

mysql> quit

Changing password is quiet a regular type of task for many webmasters and the same is also applicable to database administrators also. Here I would like to share the procedure of changing the password of MySQL. Root user is the admin of a MySQL account. Remember that it is different than login to root account of a Linux hosting server.
If it’s your first time you are facing the question ‘How to change MySQL password?’ then the server will not require any password at all to connect as root. You will have to use mysqladmin command at shell prompt as shown following.

$ mysqladmin -u root password NEWPASSWORD

If you have your old password set and want to change it then you will have to use a different following command.

$ mysqladmin -u root -p oldpassword newpass
Enter password:

If you want to change the password of a normal user then again the command is different for that as following.

$ mysqladmin -u user -p oldpassword newpass
$ mysqladmin –user=root –password=’old_password’ password ‘new_password’

Maximum Scalability with Resources
This is one of the most important features and also the major reason behind making cloud hosting services different than the other hosting services. A webmaster is totally free to scale the resources as per his own requirements. Without any limitation, he can assign the amount of RAM, Bandwidth, Disk-space and other resources.
Cost Effective – You pay for what you use.
Unlike the regular payment method followed with other web hosting types, a webmaster is not entitled to pay for the resources he has not used, he just needs to bear the expenses for the resources, his website has actually utilized. So far all the costs required for all the web hosting types are concerned, cloud has proven itself to be true value for money ‘web hosting services’.
100 % Network Uptime
Before the arrival of the cloud hosting service it was just a dream for any webmaster to see his website up for all the time, which is not possible with any other web hosting type except cloud hosting. Due to availability of resources on multiple physical servers you need not to face any kind of downtime.
Data Redundancy And Back Up
Cloud technology is known for  it’s high fault-tolerance quality and for achieving data redundancy by making few copies of the data on separate server nodes. In any uncertain circumstances when any software or hardware fails, the virtual server automatically starts to fulfill the resources required to keep the website working. Webmasters are also able to reboot the virtual server manually. This ‘redundancy feature of cloud, also backs up your website’s data so that it can be made available whenever required.
Application Programming Interface (API)
After moving to Cloud technology a website can get better API to any operations needed to run over it.

After you received the email which contains download link of SSL certificate, you need to download it by clicking that link and follow the following steps to configure and activate it in your web hosting account.

Configuration of SSL certificate

• Login to the Control Panel
• Click on SSL / TLS Manager
• Click “Generate, view, upload, or delete SSL certificates” option
• Paste the CSR supplied by the Certificate Authority in the “Certificate Signing Request (CSR)” section
• After the page is loaded, click the “Browse” button and locate the CRT file which is created by the SSL provider. Or if you have highlighted and copied the contents of the CRT file, paste it in the
• Click on the Upload button
• Click the “Go Back” link to return to SSL/TLS Manger

Activation of SSL certificate

• Click on SSL/TLS Manager > Setup a SSL certificate to work with your site. Contact your ISP, if this option is not available.
• From the Domain drop down menu select the domain that uses the Cheap SSL Certificate. The SSL Certificate and the related private key will be fetched by the system.

• Open the Intermediate CA certificate in any plain text editor copy all the certificate content and paste it into the CA Bundle (CABUNDLE) box.
• Click on “Install Certificate.” Keep watch on a message that the certificate was successfully installed.

Verification

After installation, configuration and activation of the SSL certificate it is recommended to verify the processes are carried correctly, you can do this by using online SSL Certificate Checker available on the internet.

As most of us know the importance of .htaccess file for a web hosting account, here you can know one of the most useful utility of this file. It’s possible to block users or website which are causing for any malicious activities on your website. This utility not only make your website more secured but also saves your money which is needed to install any third party security software within your web hosting account.

The Apache module ‘mod_rewrite’ is needed when you want to block the access of your website by referrer in .htaccess. In most of hosting plans of Web Hosting India, this module comes as inbuild with any particular web hosting package. This module help you to deny access to all the traffic which is coming from a particular domain (IP)

Following is the way to Block traffic from a single referrer

RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} suspecteddomain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* – [F]

Following is the way to block traffic from multiple referrers

RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} suspecteddomain\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} anothersuspecteddomain\.com
RewriteRule .* – [F]

For generating certificate signing request all the cPanel shared hosting customers will not have direct access. Web Host Manager is the central control from where the CSR can be generated and installed to the issued to the client who has requested it.

Follow the below mentioned steps to generate a CSR certificate

• Click on the Link ‘Generate a SSL certificate and Signing Request’ which is found in the SSL/TLS menu.
• Provide a email address at which the certificate to be received.
• In the ‘Host to make cert. for’ Provide the domain for which the SSL is to be created.
• Provide other details like Country, State, City, Company Name, Company Division, and Email fields. Make sure to provide password and then click on ‘Create’.

After completing the above procedure you will receive an email at the email address you had provided, you can download the certificate by clicking the link provided in this email.

SSH keys are the great utility for cPanel shared hosting clients. These SSH keys play important role while allowing a specific computer system to access your website’s information through a SSH session.

Find the ‘Generate a new Key and Import Key links and follow the following the steps.

• Click the ‘Generate a new key icon.
• Fill all the required information properly. This is to be done by keeping in mind your requirements as RSA keys creates a faster confirmation of identity and DSA keys are known for fast key generation and signing times.
• Choose a key size using the pull-down menu. While doing this you should know that a bigger key size provides more security but will take more time for authentication. So you need to decided the proper combination of security level and time consumed for authentication.
• Click on Generate Key for the generation of new SSH key and it will get automatically installed on the web server.

When you have a cPanel shared hosting account for your website then this is the utility which makes you able to provide the email addresses at which you want to receive all the updates and messages from your web hosting server. These provided email addresses works as the main communication point with you and used for informing you any new information about your website and its updates. It is always recommended to use an email address which is not of your website, because it will not face any problem when your website’s emails would stop working.

Have look at the following steps for configuring these preferences.

• In the first text field you should enter the email address which you would like to be used while making contact from web server to you.
• Second text box is provided for entering other optional extra email if first email failed to receive the messages.
• Here you will find 3 check boxes which will decide when server should contact you by sending the email. Following are their descriptions.

1. Your disk quota is almost full :- When your website is close to reach the maximum disk space provided to it then it may cause for failure in modifying the current files and addition of any new files to the website, after receiving this message you need to delete any unwanted old files or upgrade your hosting account with more disk space.
2. Your bandwidth is reaching its limit :- When your website is visited a large number of visitors than normally expected then you face bandwidth issue. Similar to disk space, bandwidth is the resource which is provided with certain limitation for your website, and if it exceeded than the provided limitation then your website will not remain accessible anymore. This type of the problem occurs mostly at month ends and to fix it you need to upgrade your web hosting account with more bandwidth resource.
3. Your email accounts approach the quota :- This notification shows that email address provided by you are about to reach to their maximum limitation of the disk space allocated to it. For resolving this issue you need to delete any unnecessary mails of upgrade your account with more disk space.

• Remember to click ‘Save’ for confirming any changes made by you.