by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Nov 22, 2011 | cPanel, Server Administration
The IP Deny feature is useful to block access to your websites from a single IP address, a range of IP addresses or even a fully qualified domain name. The IP address(s) can be banned in the following way : => Single IP Address (Example: 10.10.10.1) => Implied Range...
by admin | Nov 15, 2011 | Server Administration
We discussed Google analytics, and it’s basic features in the last blog. Lets now find out “How to setup Google Analytics”. Setting up Google Analytics in three easy steps : Step 1: Set up your Google account To use Google Analytics, you’ll first...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Nov 2, 2011 | cPanel, Server Administration
The ability to redirect a user visiting one page to another page is something that almost all website owners would try some day. It usually starts with the need to redirect users to a temporary “under construction page”, and the list goes on endlessly. The...
by admin | Oct 25, 2011 | Server Administration
Server hacking is a common problem that webhosts face. The intrusion can be caused by several reasons like malicious scripts, vulnerabilities in the server etc. It would be of real help, if we had a good tool to find such scripts running in the server. iScanner is one...
by admin | Oct 13, 2011 | Server Administration
How is it that some websites are always successful, while others never reach the glory? The reasons for this could be improper marketing of the web-site. I am not talking about giving ads and promotions here, but an insight into finding out more about your site’s...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Oct 6, 2011 | cPanel, MySQL, Server Administration
Managing a database and its user is a simple task, when done from within cpanel. Creating a Database, assigning the DB user, and associated privileges.. all are covered in this quick...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Sep 22, 2011 | Server Administration
Days are gone when we needed a dedicated IP for each website with SSL! With Server Name Indication(SNI) extension of the Transport Layer Security protocol, it is now possible to use authentic SSL certificates for sites hosted on shared IP addresses. If you are on a...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Aug 25, 2011 | Server Administration, Server Management
IT experts, analysts, industry leaders and everyone around, talks about Cloud Computing today. Everyone admits that we need to include Cloud, in our existing system. But the question is how and what to use. Which Cloud to use You might know that there are two types of...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Aug 15, 2011 | Server Management, Technical Support
VPS hosting has made significant inroad into the web-hosting arena, and today dedicated servers are becoming less popular. The technical challenges involved in maintaining a virtualized platform can be greatly simplified with the aid of powerful control panel...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Aug 8, 2011 | Server Administration
Proactive monitoring of the hard-drives with Acronis drive manager, informs the user of imminent drive failure and thereby prevent data loss. Acronis drive monitor checks the disk health in three categories and reports deviations to the user. The manager uses...