.htaccess is only a file in your home folder. But it can do wonders. It can change settings on the servers and allow you to do many different things. The .htaccess file isn’t difficult to use and is really just made up of a few simple instructions in a text file. Let me note down a few situations where the .htaccess file can be used. These are requests that I get frequently and hope this article will help you get it done, all by yourselves.

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Although there are no secrets to make it to the top of Google’s page ranking mechanism, your site’s page speed can now contribute to it!
Websites are always meant for people, not bots. Visitors would love pages loading faster, and Google is in their favor! Earlier, Google’s ranking of results were based on the relevance of text on a webpage and how many other sites refer to it as a good source of information. Aspects like how fine tuned the web-pages are, and how well you organize and tag information, is still the key factor.

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One thing I adore about the Bobcares family is the enthusiasm to share. I was flipping through the articles already written in the Bobcares blog, and boo!! I stumbled upon an article on LVM, written by Indu Shabna way back in 2008. I guess its a crime to call that an article. One could say, “study“. Or even “thesis“. That is the kind of techs we have here - harbingers of technology and evangelists of information sharing. Now, lets get to the topic, LVM.

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Deleting spam everyday is a sheer waste of time and it sure is frustrating to see them take over our mailbox. Have you ever imagined how nice it would be, if your mailbox could identify these problem makers, get rid of them and help you regain the control of your mailbox?

To help our mailbox battle spam, Parallels Plesk Panel has a perfect killer on job:-SpamAssassin. SpamAssasin keeps an eye on your mailbox and uses efficient scoring heuristics to identify and snatch spam. In fact, it is very powerful and a much sought after filter which explains why it is popularly being used in other web hosting control panels too, like cPanel. So, as a web host, you might want to opt enabling SpamAssassin in the control panel, to give your customers , the best of deals.

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Monitoring and Security has always been a concern of Webhosting Industry. A web host is always in the look out of services, which will guarantee minimal downtime. Similarly, a web hosting client requires a service with which he can promise maximum uptime to his customers and gain the trust of future prospects.

Monitoring a web server essentially means alerting the server owner about the status of a service. It can be done internally where a software checks the service status and notifies the owner if some service goes down, or it can be external, where you have a web server monitoring company to the check the services status with a certain frequency.

There are many server monitoring and website monitoring tools or services available. Ideally every server you have should be monitored, every service you use, along with every domain name you own. If your server goes down for more than a certain interval of time, you should receive a message about the problem. However, if you use the aid of external monitoring companies, this can be very expensive and service fees can quickly exceed your income. You may have to end up monitoring only the most important servers or the websites of most important clients.

In addition, you will have to answer some of the major queries that arise in the mind of customers:

a) How effectively are my servers monitored ?
b) How will I monitor my servers without any external help ?
c) Am I alerted if something goes wrong in my servers

and the list goes on ….
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When your equipment is not in tune with demand, your customers bail out and hit the road to a new service. In the world of Internet business, your equipment is your site. Every second is precious to your customer. What would be your reaction to a site that comes up so slow that you feel your time is wasted just trying to visit it? You would rather use your time to visit another site that loads faster. The same would be the reaction of your customer, when he sees that your site loads too slow. So, that’s the question:

Does your website load quickly enough?

Being in the support industry, I often see the following quotes:

My sites are slow.......
Site running slow.....
I was wondering, the site is running extremely slow! ..... etc etc

Answer is Yes

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