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Upgrading To A VPS From Shared Hosting Environment

November 26, 2007 at 6:51 am · Filed under Virtual Private Server

Upgrading from a shared hosting services to a VPS or a Semi-Dedicated server is sometimes a little intriguing. Its not difficult, if one knows the difference between the two environments. Here is an explanation of the hosting environments.

Shared Hosting:-
As the name itself suggests, shared hosting is an environment where several websites are all hosted on one webserver. Each website account gets its own limited share of disk-space, bandwidth, email accounts, FTP accounts, databases et.al. No server administration, security administration & other system tasks to be performed. Its “plug-and-play” .i.e. buy an account & start using it. This only caters to small websites or individual users.

VPS Hosting:-
VPS or Virtual Private Servers is the technology that separates one physical server into several independent virtual servers parts, each isolated from the other. That is why these are called “Virtual Private Servers”. Each VPS has its own set of processes and resource management, and behaves exactly like a stand-alone server. It allows you a larger amount of resources available for use. You also get full administrator level root access & RDP rights for your linux / windows vps respectively. With a VPS, you are under control of all operations & processes running on your server. Thats also the reason why you are responsible for the overall day-to-day administration of the VPS.

Its a perfect balance of a shared environment (on an average about 12 to 15 VPS are hosted on one server node) & a completely independent hosting environment (dedicated servers). Technical Support is still there to help you with critical issues & problems.

Do not cancel your existing account till the time all the websites start resolving from the VPS.

The Actual Difference:-
The data would already be there for you, unless you specifically asked not to move the files. Once you have verified that everything is correct, then you start off using your vps. First-up, ensure that you have the nameservers in place. Depending on your VPS plan, you are allotted a specific number of dedicated IP’s. You would have to change the nameservers for your domain name in your registrar account. Have the same DNS for all your domains hosted. You may now go ahead & set the hostname for the VPS. Once all the sites have the correct nameservers, you just have to go on adding more websites, everything would be done.

The step-up is when you have to take care of administration tasks. System processes (management), repairing the VPS, backing up data & storing it, vps reinstallation, reboot & overall management. Basic knowledge of linux / windows OS would be a plus point. SSH access & Remote desktop connectivity helps you to actually login to the virtual server & perform tweaks, operations or installations. You may install any application or software which is compatible with the VPS OS. It is always a good idea to ask the technical support staff about the compatibility if you are not sure about it. They would advise you accordingly. One has to remember though that since the applications & softwares would be externally sourced, the technical staff wont support issues arising out of them. This is true for most hosting providers.

A plain VPS works just as good as a VPS with a control panel software. The hitch comes when you want to add more websites or create mail accounts & other related activites. Linux / Windows know-how is essential if you have a plain VPS. Often clients complain when they learn that control panel is not default with the VPS. Each VPS comes with its own control panel license & OS.

There is also a difference between “Guaranteed RAM” & “Burstable RAM”. Guaranteed RAM is what you will always have available for use on your vps. However, you might have occassions where your VPS would require more than the available quota of RAM for the system processes & other applications to be functioning. That is when you use the “burstable RAM”. This is not a resource which is guaranteed. It is something which would be available on the server node to be used whenever there is a short time requirement. However, this is subject to the usage of other vps’ hosted on the node. Abundant amount of resources are almost always available on each server node. But the burstable RAM is not something which would always be available. If your VPS happens to use up the additional RAM available on the main node, it would start hampering the performance of other vps’ hosted on the same server.

That’s when you are asked to either move up to a package which has more amount of guaranteed available resources or a dedicated hosting solution.

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Creating your first Website

November 25, 2007 at 7:58 pm · Filed under Web Site Promotion

Article Title: Creating your first Website…

Creating your first Website is really exciting and this article will help you to create your first Website that will lead its way to success. First I will give you some rough key ideas to what your Website should deliver and then go through them in more detail.

• Your Website should have a domain name that is attractive, and will want people to find out more about.
• Your Website should be unique content-wise and updated regularly.
• Your Website should provide something for the visitor, maybe a service or a bargain - for them to want to visit your site again.
• Your Website should have an appealing design, staying as clean as possible and being easy to navigate around.

1.) The first part of starting a Website is having a nice domain name (or site name), a name that tells the visitor in a basic fashion what the site will offer - or what they should expect. A domain name that has just “123.com” doesn’t really explain what the site is about. You need to think of a name that is unique to your Website, a name that isn’t too obvious - but a name that is, a) appealing and gets the person want to visit the website, b) not too long, otherwise the visitors won’t remember the domain name to come back to it, c) explains what the Website is in a nutshell and d) isn’t too obvious - for example a domain name “freesharedresellervpswebhosting.com” is too long, too obvious, too hard to remember - and not appealing at all. Some Websites have short domains like “aaa.com” rather short domains are nice - and rememberable, but unless it’s for AAA batteries - or a company called AAA - it’s not much point. Now, maybe your site or company is called Keyboard Designs, Ltd? How about a domain name called www.keyboarddesigns.com. Although it’s a really long domain name - it’s your company name - and your clients will remember your company name as it’s important to them.

2.) Having content updated regularly is incredibly important if you want your visitors to come back to your Website - and another reason is if you want search engines to keep indexing your Website. Having unique content is important because if you copy other peoples content - or do content similar to others - doesn’t give you a good impression, does it? Provide content that is interesting and will want the visitor to visit your site again. Getting profits out of your site is essential, but adding advertisements everywhere around your site isn’t recommended - because it hides all the interesting content that a visitor wants to see. Another point is adding popups to your site distracts people, especially popups that force visitors to go to another Website - most visitors will press the ‘close browser button immediately after they get popups - and besides, most popup blockers are getting more efficient now.

3.) Having Websites like a blog all about you is very nice - but to be honest, the visitors will eventually get bored and never return. A personal Website is fine, however you want to offer the visitor something - like a service or possibly a competition. These way visitors will want to keep returning. Making a Website aimed at the visitors - maybe an advice column where visitors can get advice and ask questions - is another way of interacting with your visitors. In the long run it’s best to have a Website that keeps updating - like a games Website with more games - which will get your visitors keep returning.

4.) Lets face it, having a Website with an unappealing design is, well… unappealing - and your visitors won’t want to come back. Just imagine, you visited a Website that just has a few links and some content. If there was 2 websites identically the same - one with design, the other without - which one would you prefer to visit? - Exactly. Sticking to designs that has colors that can join each-other easily is best. What I mean by this is having colors that don’t “hurt the eyes” when it’s looked at. Keeping the design as clean as possible is really essential, you need to make sure your designs look the same or similar in most major browsers. Some browsers will render code differently so your designs may look “weird” in one browser, while looking fine in another. Check in many browsers to make sure your design and site looks fine in all major browsers. The browsers that are used the most are Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Opera, Netscape Browser and Safari Browser.

Thank you for reading the article and I hope you have learnt something new out of it, and put these suggestions into action. Remember, if you need super fast Web hosting please feel free to call us on 0808 262 0455 or contact us from http://support.eukhost.com

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Security Tip: Finding working directory of Process

November 20, 2007 at 4:48 am · Filed under Web Hosting, Server Security

Find PID of process
$ps aux | grep
Find out current working directory of the process 1213
$pwdx 1213 >> Output : 1213: /tmp/.abc

This seems to be someone try to hide process directory. You can then try to find out using..
$ls -l /proc/1213/cwd

Output :
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Nov 20 04:35 /proc/1213/cwd -> /var/spool/mqueue

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Importance of On-going Search Engine Optimization-Part I

November 12, 2007 at 3:10 pm · Filed under Web Hosting, SEO Tutorials

SEO campaign on-going basis is inherently important likewise you do often maintenance of your site; it will help you to improve your PR and surpass your position in SERPs. On-site SEO needs level headed work since there are possible reasons for surge and fluctuations in search results due to change in algorithm. Tracking traffic and analyzing the link structure is extremely important since the backlinks degrades overtime, you need to feel the gap with more quality backlinks regularly. Organic search engine listings are most important since there are always sites are competing with you to take leverage and your great position and gain exposure. It is essential that you should more focus on listing in local search engines, local directories, yellow pages to gain popularity to get good results in local search that give you lot of exposure for international search results as well. You should attempt to get more new pages, new inbound links and fresh content, if you are doing PPC leave the keywords that don’t give you results and choose keywords that are less competitive but have worth to target, targeting little narrowly specific keywords for specific niche & demography can bring some significant results.

Also different datacenter get altogether different set of information from your website so the output will be different, however if you focus more on relevancy and uniqueness in content it will give you good output in search results altogether. As discussed earlier the search engine devalue the links or can remove the pages of some site from getting index that have not improved and updated. Since search engines update their indexes and algorithms fairly often, they reduce the value of pages like which have not relevant content, ugly theme, bad linking structure, page error, broken links etc. Always remember the search engine principle are based on to provide the most relevant results to their users the relevancy is to be top up. Ongoing SEO also include link analysis, traffic volume, keyword analysis, quality content, site stats, site referrals, link development, page indexation, competitive analysis, benchmarking, these all factors require regular work to improve search results on-going basis.

To be continued in next post..

-Paul

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Load Balancing Servers

November 1, 2007 at 7:10 pm · Filed under Web Hosting, Web Hosting Articles, Server Security, dedicated linux hosting, Computer Technical Support, Computer Networking

One server responding to all the incoming HTTP requests for a website might not able to handle all the incoming traffic of a website. This would become more difficult if the website becomes more popular. As a result pages will load slowly and users will have to wait for a long time to view web pages. Due to increase in traffic and connections to website there will be need to upgrade the server and it would be no more cost effective.

To improve the server scalability, more servers are needed to add more scalability and distribute load among the servers which is also called as clustering and load distribution among these servers is called as Load balancing. Load balancing applies to all types of servers including application and database servers.

Load Balancing Mechanism

The load balancing mechanism used for spreading HTTP requests is known as IP Spraying. HTTP traffic needs to be evenly distributed when there are multiple servers in the group. It acts as one server to clients for example an internet browser. “Load dispatcher” and “network dispatcher” are the equipments used for IP spraying. You can simply call them as “Load Balancer”.IP Sprayer redirects HTTP requests to a server in a server cluster. It all depend on the type of IP sprayer involved so that the architecture can provide more scalability, load balancing and overcome all the fail-over requirements.

You can have a look at Load Balancing Servers offered by eUKhost.com for a complete load balancing solution.

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Redeployment Questions for Sales Department

October 29, 2007 at 11:35 am · Filed under UK Web Hosting

EUKHOST LIMITED

Sales Department Question Paper

Please Read before you start answering questions:-
1) Each question carries 2 Marks
2) 1 Mark will be deducted incase of wrong answer
3) You have 1 Hours time to answer all 50 questions
4) Multiple answers for a specific question should be chosen only if specified.

SEO Questions:-

1) Name the three most important elements in the head section of an HTML document that are employed by search engines. Check all that apply.
a. Title
b. Meta Description
c. Meta Robots
d. Alternate text

2) Which tag is given the highest priority on a page by search engines?
a) Alt Tag
b) Meta Tags
c) Title Tag
d) No follow tag

3) Which of the following techniques is unethical and can be a reason for banning?
a) Building backlinks.
b) Rewriting the titles to include the target keywords.
c) Creating a doorway page instead a home page.
d) Rewriting dynamic URLs into static.

4) Which of the following techniques are white hat seo techniques? Check all that apply.
a) Hidden Content
b) Quality Inbound Links
c) Link Farming
d) Quality Content

5) For which of the following file types a SEO expert needs to provide an alternative textual description? Check all that apply.
a) html.
b) swf.
c) pdf.
d) gif.

6) What does “organic search results” mean? Check all that apply.
a) It is the same as “natural search results”.
b) These are the results from .org domains only.
c) This is the opposite to paid listings.
d) Organic are the sites that are most recently added to the index.

7) How important are metatags today?
a) Not important at all.
b) They have only minor importance, but it can be neglected.
c) Somehow important.
d) Very important, almost as much as keyword density.

8) You have just launched a new site. Unfortunately, nobody visits it, even search engines’ spiders don’t notice it. What can you do for its SEO success? Check all that apply.
a) Get some fancy fonts for the titles and headings.
b) Add gorgeous Flash movies to the site.
c) Submit the URL of the site to search engines and search directories.
d) Get some free links from the greatest hacker sites because backlinks always boost rankings.

9) You have been doing perfectly in Google but all of a sudden you drop low. What will you do? Check all that apply.
a) Sue Google for the damage they are inflicting me.
b) I will immediately revamp my site to get higher keyword density.
c) I will monitor my site for a month and then I will decide what to do.
d) Since I am so much dependent on Google, I will consider buying paid listings.

10) What is necessary to do for optimizing Flash sites? Check all that apply.
a) Put the most important items in a Flash presentation on the home page
b) Add descriptive metatada to the Flash presentation.
c) Provide alternative pages that describe the contents of the Flash presentation.
d) Have a good keyword density in the Flash presentation.

11) Which of the following techniques is best for dealing with duplicate content?
a) Rewriting the title and the headings.
b) Rearranging the placement of paragraphs.
c) Changing the directory in which a file resides or renaming it in order to make the URL different.
d) Re-wording the text.

12) Which of the options below is the best way to select the keywords to optimize for:
a) See which keywords have the highest density at the sites of your competitors.
b) See in Overture which of the keywords that are related to your site had most searches recently and optimize for them.
c) Write a list of the keywords that come to your mind and optimize for at least 3 of them.
d) Use a tool to determine the theme of your site.


13) What aspects of a hyperlink are important for SEO? Check all that apply.
a) The visibility of the link text.
b) The anchor text, especially the keywords in it.
c) The place from which the link originates.
d) The image that is used as an anchor for the hyperlink.

14) If you have a site that is targeted at a particular country only, which of the following are recommendable to do in order to rank well in country specific search results? Check all that apply.
a) Add the name of the country in all page properties
b) The site should be hosted in the same country, so that its IP falls in the range of IPs that are specific for this country.
c) Submit the site to local search engines and directories.
d) Use geotargeting.

15) What is meant by “Google bombing”?
a) Submitting the site again and again in order to include it in Google’s index.
b) Multiple sites linking to the same site, with the same anchor text in order to get high ranking for the keyword in the anchor text.
c) Extensively using the word “Google” on your pages in order to get high rankings with Google.

16) What does the term “Sandbox” mean in SEO?
a) The box with paid ads that appear when you perform a search.
b) The first 10 search results for a particular keyword.
c) This is where sites are kept till they get mature enough to be included in the top rankings for a particular keyword.
d) A special category of sites that are listed in kid-safe searches.

17) How long is the period of keeping sites sandboxed?
a) 4 weeks.
b) 3 months.
c) 1 year.
d) Not defined.

18) What are “supplemental results”?
a) Paid listings that appear for a particular keyword.
b) Listings that do not have all the keywords in them.
c) Filtered results that are similar to the ones already shown.
d) Additional search results that will be served on your request.

19) When do you apply for re-inclusion in a search engine’s index?
a) When you have made changes to your site.
b) When you have changed your hosting provider and the IP address of your site.
c) After you have been banned from the search engine for black hat practices and you have corrected your wrongdoings.
d) When you are not happy with your current ratings.

20) What are the advantages of submitting sites to web directories? Check all that apply.
a) Submitting to directories increases your rating with search engines.
b) By submitting to a directory, you get a backlink to your site.
c) By submitting to a directory your site gets certified.
d) When your site is listed in search directories, this increases the chances that search engines will index it sooner, compared to when it is not listed.

Web Hosting Questions:-

1) Where is eUKhost Datacenter located in UK?
a) Durham
b) London
c) Maidenhead
d) Edinburgh

2) What is the name of our Datacenter where we have setup our new high configuration Q6600 Servers ?
a) GNAX
b) Bluesquare
c) Fastservers
d) Rackspace

3) Which of these control panels is not offered with our Dedicated Servers?
a) cPanel
b) Plesk
c) LXAdmin
d) Hosting Controller

4) Each Server in our datacenter is setup on ________ Mbps, fully-switched port on an edge switch. (Fill in the blank)
a) 1
b) 10
c) 100
d) 1000

5) What is the percentage of commission we offer to our affiliates (eUKhost)?
a) 5 %
b) 10 %
c) 15%
d) 20%

6) What Brand of servers do we use for our servers?
a) HP
b) Dell
c) Compaq
d) Sun Microsystems

7) How many MySQL or MSSQL databases can a client create on any of our hosting plans?
a) 10
b) 50
c) 100
d) Unlimited

8) If a client wishes to host multiple website on our shared hosting plan what would you suggest him? Check all that apply.
a) Suggest him to use separate package for each domain
b) Use Add-on domain function
c) Suggest him a reseller or a vps
d) Multiple website hosting is restricted on shared hosting

9) In the case of ______ domains transfer, you will have to change the IPS TAG to ENOM to get the domains transferred to our hosting.
a) All UK TLDs
b) .com, .net, .info, .org, .biz
c) .us
d) .in

10) Which of these is not a VPS platform?
a) OpenVZ
b) Virtuozzo
c) Xen
d) Zen

11) Which of the following shopping carts can be installed through Fantastico ? Check all that apply
a) Zen Cart
b) osCommerce
c) RealCart
d) StaticCart

12) What is Drupal ?
a) HTML Editor
b) Content Management System
c) Community Forum Software
d) Operating System

13) Is it possible to create sub reseller account under main reseller account ?
a) Yes
b) No

14) Do we provide SSH / RDP access with our semi-dedicated plans ?
a) Yes
b) No
c) Optional

15) This locates a specific page on the World Wide Web.
a) IP address
b) Domain Name
c) URL
d) Path

16) This term means dividing the amount of work that a computer has to do between two or more computers so that more work gets done in the same amount of time and, in general, all users get served faster.
a) Routing
b) Shared hosting
c) Load Balancing
d) Colocation

17) In the Web hosting business, this refers to the rental and exclusive use of a computer that includes a Web server, related software, and connection
to the Internet, housed in the Web hosting company’s Datacenter.
a) Reseller hosting
b) VPS Hosting
c) Co-location
d) Dedicated hosting

18) Which of the following databases is supported on both Linux and Windows Hosting?
a) MSSQL
b) MySQL
c) MS ACCESS
d) ODBC

19) How many gigabytes are there in a terabyte?
a) 100 GB
b) 1000 GB
c) 10000 GB
d) 100000 GB

20) What is MySQL?
a) MySQL is a popular database tool that developers use.
b) MySQL is another name for SQLServer, since they were both created at the same type by competing companies.
c) MySQL is the sequel to a romance novel written by a survivor of the Titanic disaster, whose genius was not realized until after she died a few years ago.

21) Using which login credential do customers login in their client area of our modernbill
a) username & password
b) email address & password
c) domain & password
e) none of the above

22) Fantastico is a product of ?
a) cPanel.net
b) swsoft.com
d) p-soft.net
d) netenberg.com

22) what is the approx GBP to USD currency conversion rate right now ?
a) £1 = $2
b) £1 = $1.5
c) £1 = $2.5
d) £1 = $3

23) .ch domain TLD belongs to which country ?
a. China
b. Switzerland
c. Czhecoslovakia
d. Chile

24). .mod.uk domains are reserved for ?
a. Ministry of Defence and HM Forces public sites
b. government (central and local)
c. network moderators use only
d. UK Registered companies.

25). .me.uk domains are for ?
a. Ministry of Defense and HM Forces public sites
b. government (central and local)
c. personal domains
d. Aeronautics.

26). .eu domain registry is managed by ?
a. European Union
b. Nominet
c. ICANN
d. ARIN

27). .com and other gTLD domains registry is managed by ?
a. ENOM
b. ICANN
c. ARIN
d. Networksolutions

28) Which of the following is mandatory to run a website?
a) Domain Name
b) IP Address
c) Web Hosting Company
d) Browser

29) A Domain name can have maximum how many characters?
a) 64
b) 48
c) 32
d) 128

30) Biggest number that an IP address can have in any of its octet is ?
a) 256
b) 255
c) 264
d) 254

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