It’s always better to take a static IP address for your website if you are really serious about your websites reputation and business identity. A static IP provides lots of benefits in terms of mail availability, DNS and obviously making use of SSL certificates like wildcard SSL or Green bar SSL. However, the major benefit of using static IP is for “Mails”. Emails sent from your domain or website will be from your own IP instead of shared IP [...]
What is actually PCI Complaince and why it is required? The PCI (Payment Card Industry) is a data security standard that must be followed by all the financial institutions, credit card companies, Payment gateway and merchants those are processing the online card payments. The server, computer or any other IP equipment’s processing these data by MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Visa, and JCB International must compliance with these Data Security Standards. PCI scan is very essentials and should meet these Data [...]
Revolutionize MySQL Monitoring With These 5 Cutting Edge Tools Monitoring the performance metrics of the MySQL database on a regular basis will help it to run smoothly and flawlessly. As a matter of fact, it is feasible to get a real-time insight into the performance and health of the database by measuring some essential metrics. Fortunately, there are quite a few MySQL monitoring tools at present which will help to make this happen. In the following paragraphs, we are going [...]
When you leave the house, you make sure that doors are locked. The reason behind this is that you do not anyone to enter your private property. Speaking of a Shared hosting environment there are 1000’s of websites/domains hosted on the single web server. This is where you store the data which is quite confidential/important and you do not want anyone to get access to this. As you know there are malicious hackers around the world that are looking [...]
Fed Up? Really? What is the reason email goes into the junk folder instead of Inbox? Well, this is a very known issue if you are not managing your mail server properly and allowing bulk emailing and regular spamming on server. Mail servers IP reputation is very important and you need to maintain good reputation with some good policies implemented on mail server. Especially if you are offering business email services to premium clients and can be really frustrating. Today these [...]
What is CloudLinux ? Cloudlinux provides cloudlinux operating system mainly a OS, which is a modified kernel based on an OpenVZ kernel and with just few steps it is easily interchangeable with the current CentOS kernel. Working in a shared hosting environment can be quite challenging and more importantly you need to keep the resources intact thus not allow to abuse the server resources. There are situations when there is a sudden spike in the resource usage or an increase [...]
Amazon Web Service (AWS) is a widely used cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service solution. It offers more than 70 services on a pay-as-you-go payment plan. Amazon’s Cloud Computing (EC2) is the cornerstone of Amazon Web Services (AWS). The model comes with several advantages and project managers can develop new projects without paying any upfront fee for all the infrastructure under their app or project. Besides, it also allows one to adapt quickly to their changing business needs. While there are several ways [...]
Whether you are considering cloud server or VPS, choosing the right web host provider is critical undertaking. Today there is a great deal of talk revolving around cloud hosting or computing and many companies use these terms interchangeably to talk about both VPS and Cloud servers. As the new Cloud concept is gaining ground, more and more people and companies are wondering what distinguishes these two hosting solutions. At a glance both of these technologies may seem similar, there [...]
While there are lots of articles available that can differentiate pros and cons of Apache vs Nginx, we are here to shed some insights for both these web server for popular hosting control panel cPanel/WHM. Let’s understand the things one by one, Apache Overview Apache is an open source, cross-platform web server. In today’s world, about 92% of Apache server copies run on Linux distributed systems It is one of the components of LAMP stack. Where LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. Apache [...]
It is a prime responsibility of a system administrator to make sure that the backups are enabled on the server. In case of disaster recovery, these backups would be essential to recover the client’s websites and data. The Backup configuration Manager under WHM, provides an interface for the system administrators to schedule the backups as per requirements. This interface a available under Home >> Backup >> Backup Configuration. The structure of the interface is quite simplified and broken into sections for [...]
