Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:56:54 -0400 http://bobcares.com/Cat2allstories.html Latest Technology trends from the Web Hosting World. Learn to setup and configure Control panels, VPS, Operating systems, Web Servers, Database and more en-us http://bobcares.com/images/logo.gif http://bobcares.com/Cat2allstories.html http://bobcares.com/article90.html The boot process starts when you turn on your computer and ends when you log on to Windows Server 2003. There can be various reasons for startup failures. Some can be easily corrected, while others might require you to reinstall Windows Server 2003. This article will help you understand and troubleshoot most of the errors commonly occurring during the Windows Server 2003 boot process. While diagnosing a server error, it is important to first determine at which stage the error occurred. A server error can occur when the server is booting, during its running time or even when it is shutting down. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:56:54 -0400 http://bobcares.com/article89.html What will make a customer choose your hosting company from thousands of others? Will brand-name, pricing, up-time or backup tools be enough? Probably not. These criteria may not be sufficient in today's market. You need to give them more than what they ask for or dream about. In this article, I will explain one efficient way to give your company, this much needed edge in the market. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:00:20 -0400 http://bobcares.com/article88.html Managing Disk space on live servers is often a complex and also a time and energy consuming job. It can be made a lot more easier with use of Logical Volume Manager, or better known as LVM in short. This article is a complete guide on managing your disk space using LVM, its requirements and also some of the most commonly used LVM commands and files. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:10:49 -0400 http://bobcares.com/article87.html "Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness." Napoleon Hill Linux has been emerging as a substitute for Windows in our PC's. Linux based technology are now catching up fast with other technology in the world. What is the reason behind this emerging boom? Is it because of itz Reliability, Flexibility or Security? Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:25:21 -0400 http://bobcares.com/article86.html "Working smart" means to work in the most efficient manner, improving productivity which in-turn results in lesser working hours. Increased productivity at works gives better job satisfaction and ultimately a huge change in the quality of life. Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:27:23 -0400 http://bobcares.com/article85.html January 10th 2008 was special for Bobcares in two ways. The day saw the release of Bobcares' first open source software venture vTonf. The second speciality was the visit of Dr. RICHARD MATHEW STALLMAN, Founder of Free Software Movement, who did the honours by releasing the software and addressing Bobcares. It was indeed a dream come true for every BOB. Poornam Media Representatives, Vinu Deena Mathew and Kichu Mubarak covered an exclusive interview with Dr. Stallman. The conversation between them and RMS elicited a lot of information. A special mention and a huge load of thanks to Amit James and Unni Krishnan, who helped us compile a good set of questions. Read through... Thu, 22 May 2008 11:05:51 -0400 http://bobcares.com/article84.html Talk about server virtualization, you go on talking about Virtuozzo, Xen, VMWare Server etc. This article aims to present another virtualization application offered by Microsoft - Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. A couple of attractive features about Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 are: it is available free of cost and also it supports the usage of Microsoft Windows as well as Linux distributions as guest operating systems. Thu, 08 May 2008 17:48:03 -0400 http://bobcares.com/article83.html Are you in the lookout for a good open source mail server? Well, then your first stop would be Zimbra. Zimbra provides open-source server and client software for numerous applications like messaging and collaboration: email, group calendaring, contacts, and web document management and authoring. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:50:41 -0400 http://bobcares.com/article82.html Ever found it frustrating that your monitoring system alerts you in the middle of the night with a false service down alert? Ever found it difficult to trust the monitoring system alerts because of the network issues in your NOC? The solution to you, is distributed monitoring. The main aim of distributed monitoring is to produce the exact result of server service checks with the help of distributed, central monitoring servers and to avoid incorrect information. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:13:05 -0400 http://bobcares.com/article81.html Sangeetha Naik, the Co-Founder of Bobcares and Tobby Davasia, Member of the Executive Team in Bobcares, spoke on this topic in WebhostingDay-2008 work.SHOP. Read the session presentation here Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:38:40 -0400 http://bobcares.com/article80.html "..The means can be likened to a seed, the end to a tree, and there is just the same inviolable connection between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree. They say: “Means are, after all, just means.” I would say: “Means are, after all, everything.” As the means, so the end.........If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later..." - Mahatma Gandhi There is a lot of information scattered across the Internet about the different utilities used for network troubleshooting. Yet, few articles detail the background processes taking place while using these utilities. To get a complete and precise idea on how tracing and troubleshooting work in a network, this article analyzes the internal working of 3 network utilities and checks what makes each of them unique. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:20:24 -0500 http://bobcares.com/article79.html The term high availability is the buzz word nowadays. Nobody tolerates downtime, whether it is the owner of a web site, owner of a server or owner of a data center. The challenge is how you can offer the least down time and the term "high availbility", has it all. Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:15:19 -0500 http://bobcares.com/article78.html One of our customers requested for a pop server connection and I started searching for a pop server which is capable of working with sendmail already running in his server. He had a server without control panel, with Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike). The research ended up with the term Dovecot. This article describes how to install the Dovecot mail server from source as an imap / pop3 mail server, and how to set up the sieve plugin so that the customers can use the sieve mail filtering language for their mail accounts. Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:05:07 -0500 http://bobcares.com/article77.html "Kernel compilation is a tough nut to crack" - Most frequently this would be followed by a sigh if the recompiled kernel is not booting up. Though the nut has the look of a tough one to crack, kernel recompilation is still an inescapable affair that every Linux system administrator runs into, sooner or later. I too had to. With this article, I intend to walk you through the phases of compiling a kernel. I am sure it will inspire confidence in you so that compiling a kernel is no longer a "mission impossible". Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:40:04 -0500 http://bobcares.com/article75.html If you haven’t already been introduced to Vyatta… Vyatta meet reader, reader meet Vyatta.Vyatta is a fairly new Opensource, Debian based router that’s taking geeks by storm. And I can tell you from personal experience with Vyatta that it’s a powerful system. So, I would put together a quick start guide on getting Vyatta working “out of the box.” Here it is… Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:00:00 -0500 http://bobcares.com/article74.html So you have Asterisk installed to your CentOS hardware. Now what? Let’s open up the hood and see what Asterisk can do… Before we do that, let’s examine some things that you need to know about Asterisk to setup and manage your Asterisk box… Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:12:42 -0500 http://bobcares.com/article73.html There’s a dozen other quick installation guides for Asterisk. So why write another? Well, unless you a Unix/Linux Guru you might find yourself confused when getting your Asterisk setup off the ground. Even if you are an experienced Linux user, you might find yourself running in circles trying to get that “special feature” working just so in Asterisk. So here it is, a straight forward beginners guide to Asterisk. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:07:20 -0500 http://bobcares.com/article72.html A review of the Web Hosting industry shows that Virtualization is the rage these days. The ability to collapse computing resources into abstraction layers enables greater flexibility and storage. This article introduces Xen Virtual Private Server(VPS), advantages, comparison to similar technologies and primarily why we should choose Xen Technology. Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:08:29 -0400 http://bobcares.com/article71.html I have been using and recommending Xen for Full Virtualization for a while now. Yet, when I tried to install Xen on my old PC that ran on AMD's Athlon XP processor, I was not able to enable Full Virtualization using Xen. I know that Xen uses technology that demands higher hardware specifications to provide full virtualization. Somehow, I wanted to make my old PC a fully virtualized machine. I evaluated a few virtualization applications to make that possible. A few of them were.. Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:09:05 -0400 http://bobcares.com/article70.html Ajaxterm is a web based terminal. It is a simple solution for those who wish to run a terminal on web. Ajaxterm is fully written in python and Ajax. Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:26:30 -0400 http://bobcares.com/article69.html Virtualization is a technique of dividing a single server into several Virtual Servers, according to hardware and/or software, CPU Time/Process scheduling and memory allocation. Users can install and use their own Operating Systems simultaneously on these virtual servers. Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:43:56 -0400 http://bobcares.com/article68.html Shared and dedicated hosting prices have reached their rock bottom and profit margins are very narrow. The differentiator today is marketing skills, customer support and hardware reliability. Customer support and marketing are both dependent on stability of the hardware. Hardware prices have hit the rock bottom and today we are looking at reducing the number of times a customer has to get back to the hosting company complaining about their sites being down due to hardware failure. Enter high availability hosting. With the downward spiral prices of hardware and the higher quality, we are looking at clustering as the new age solution to reduce site downtimes specially of critical websites. The huge popularity of community portals like Orkut, YouTube, Flickr, etc. speak of the change from individual websites to uptime critical web portals. Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:08:17 -0400 http://bobcares.com/article67.html Network-attached storage (NAS) is a dedicated data storage technology. The NAS server provides centralized data storage, which is easily accessible to users who belong to different networks over the Internet. There are different applications that can be implemented using NAS, such as data storage and file sharing. The purpose of the NAS server that I am going to set up, is that of data storage. It is to be used to provide remote backup of the data in clients’ servers. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:29:29 -0400 http://bobcares.com/article66.html MySQL is the most widely used multi-user, multi-threading SQL database management system. To optimize MySQL performance, a DBA should have reasonable knowledge of MySQL system variables. This article covers the basics of MySQL server optimization. We will first discuss MySQL optimization during installation. Then we will discuss the seven most important and common system variables. Plus, a brief note on how to optimize the server using those seven variables. We will also discuss MySQL status variables. This article would be very useful for a newbie MySQL DBA when setting up a MySQL server. Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:45:16 -0400 http://bobcares.com/article65.html If you are looking for a fast webserver, stop searching and take a look at LiteSpeed Webserver. It is an apache emulator with high performance. It can double the server speed at the same time reduce the server load by half.  LiteSpeed has now powered some of the world's popular websites like Wordpress.Com, AirLiners.Net (both having 30+ millions hits per day). Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:20:47 -0400