When the decision’s been made to adopt a hosting solution, as so many leading organizations are doing in today’s competitive business environment, choosing a Control Panel that suits your requirements is a sensible move.

WHM/cPanel and Plesk are both feature rich control panels with similar functionalities. They are, however, organized completely differently.

Quick Overview..

cPanel/WHM

cPanel is one of the most popular and widely-used control panels. It’s quite complete and allows a business to manage and maintain nearly all aspects of server operation. The basics, such as email and file hosting, are handled with ease. Web statistics are part of the package. “Site builder” feature, which helps to automate the building of a website and populating it with content, is among the most powerful available. The “Fantastico” package allows one-click installation of popular software packages, such as blogs, forums, and merchandise catalogs. Going a little deeper, domain name server (DNS) management is also available.

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Long time since I wrote something. I had a spamming story left half way through. Let me get to the meat of it right away…

The first step in the analysis was ascertaining the volume of e-mails still in queue. I must say Qmail is really good in handling the mail queue effectively(when compared to exim).

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It was a great week of celebration and joy for me. All was good, with relatively lower volumes of ticket, and better than average sales. Yet again somehow bad things just don’t wait for season changes.

Well, I take it for granted that one should learn from mistakes. But then you need not wait untill you end up with a mistake; You could very well learn from mine

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The day was special. Unlike normal days, that day there were about a dozen new sign-ups. It was indeed good news to me, and I suddenly felt - business is indeed getting better!

The competition is tough, margins meager and the technology is advancing day by day. The Hosting business wasn’t as lucrative as I thought it would be.
But I knew very well, that a bit of technicalities did fascinate me! Moreover, this is an industry that has grown phenomenally in the recent years, still leaving room for new players like me.

I gathered the basics of the industry early on, when I decided to become a Webhosting Reseller. The best part of it then was that I had very few accounts, and I did not have to do much to get that steady flow of income. With my move to a dedicated server, it started looking even better. I believed, “once I have a server housing enough accounts, it would be profitable”.

Believe me or not, I hardly think of profits now. These days, It’s just about a dream. Read the rest of this entry »