August 7th, 2008
If you want to protect your images/video files by getting hotlink and want to prevent your
precious bandwidth from being get stolen then you have to use Hotlink protection tool which comes with your control panel. Few webmaster try to steal bandwidth of other by hotlinking to images/media files hosted on other websites this will preserve their bandwidth when some start browsing your media files. Thus to save your previous bandwidth you should protect your media files and image files from getting hotlinked.
As a webmaster you should keep hotlinking feature enable for all files with extensions which are related to images and video files. If your images are linked on site which is having heavy traffic then your allotted bandwidth may endup with this external website hotlinking to your media/images files. Even if your site is not having huge traffic still you can endup with your allotted bandwidth as other sites are eating your bandwidth as websites which are linking to your media/images files will eatup your bandwidth eachtime their visitor access their sites.
You can protect your image media files from getting hotlinked through your website hosting control panel or just updating your .htaccess file using following code.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?domain.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|wmv)$ http://wwwDOTdomainDOTcom/image.jpg [R,NC]
Note: replace your website with domain.com
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August 4th, 2008
For many reasons you may need to move your hosting account with some good and reliable webhost. Your current host may not provide you all services you are looking for or their web servers are frequently getting down affecting your web presence.
Once you decide to move your hosting account and have got more reliable host then before proceeding with your new host just do your homework so that you will not face any downtime or data loss.
First of all decide when you would like to transfer all your data with new webhost accordingly signup for new hosting package get all login details. Before this take backup of all files/data which is running with your current host. You can keep this backup copy onto your local machine. You should create a directory system that is corresponding to the directory construction on your web server and download the files into the several directories. this will help you while you upload all your data onto new server with your new host.
You will get all login details such as control panel details, FTP details etc. with your new host. usign these details just login into your control panel and upload all data/files using FTP. You should start by oldest created the directory structures on the web server, and then upload all the files to the respective directory.
Once you complete your uploading of data/files, databases you can use tempory URL to cross check everything works fine. Your host will provide you temporary URL for your accountso that you can check if every thing is perfet. temporary URL may look like this http://serverIP/~your-accountname.
Once your site is working fine with temporary URL it’s time to contact your domain registrar to change old DNS to new one which you will get in your welcome email. Once your registrar updates new nameserves you will need to wait 24-72 hr to get the new DNS to propagate worldwide and will reflect accordingly in whois info. After new DNS gets updated worldwide you can see the change in whois records for your domain.
Lastly check again if your site is working fine with updated DNS, if every thing is working fine you can forward request for cancellation of your hosting account with your old host.
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August 4th, 2008
If you have SSL cert for your site and would like to manage it then cPanel will help you. cPanel have SSL/TLS manager using which will help you to manage your digital certificates. It help you to generate private keys and CSR without any intervention from your web host to allow you to buy SSL or TLS certificates. If you are technically sound then you can install your digital cert yourself. Usually you put SSL onto your site if you want to secure encrypted transaction through your site such as accessing credit/debit card data or any highly sensitive data.
SSL certificates come with different encryption levels such as 128bit or 256 bit, higher then number more secure is your SSL and more complex encryption of data is carried out. Prices differs from provider to provide depending on encryption level.
If your site is ecommerce site where user are giving you their credit/debit card details for gettting your service then you should have SSL certificate on your site which will ensure security for your site, you should also display a seal on your website from the vendor that you bought your certificate from saying that your website is secure so that your clients can trust you.
If you have SSL installed on to your site then for your web url will starts with https Rather then http. ’s’ stands for secure site.
All SSL certificates requires an dedicated IP on which they are installed for your domain.
Thus SSL/TLS Manager of cpanel is very good tool for managing all issues related to your SSL certificates.
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July 31st, 2008
If you are tight at your budget but still you want to have your web presence for your website then you have 2 different options Free Hosting or Shared Hosting. Free Hosting is not preferred if you want to host your business website as almost all of them are not reliable or your website hosted on their server may not work well as compare to hosted on paid hosting services. Initially you can opt for shared hosting services if you are tight at your budget. There are few positive and negative points in using shared hosting accounts.
As your account is hosted on shared server you are sharing server resources and thus you get hosting at much cheaper rates thus low cost is main feature of shared hosting account. With shared hosting account you are given fixed amount of diskspace, bandwidth etc…. along with other hosting accounts this reduce overall server cost and thus webhost can provide you hosting at much cheaper rates.
It does not mater if you are have shared hosting account or a dedicated server with your host you will get same level of service and support even if you have shared hosting account. Thus if your hosting requirements are less you can opt for shared hosting account which are cheaper and more reliable then free hosting. You will have specific control panel with your hosting account using which you can manage your hosting account very easily. If you have linux hosting then you will have cpanel as your hosting control panel or any other and if you have windows then you will have Windows then most probably you have Plesk with your account. Both works great with their respective platform. You have opt of cpanel, Plesk, Helm etc but cPanel is won the race and is most popular as compare to others.
Almost all webhosting service provider offers you manage hosting services thus you are free to concentrate more on your business rather then managing your hosting account. You can get in touch with your webhost if you need to get some technical help from them. Do check with your webhosting service provider if they will provide you round the clock support for your technical issues.
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July 30th, 2008
Free webhosting is not preferred for business websites but still if you want it for testing purpose or for just getting your hands on hosting stuffs, control panel etc… then you can opt for free webhosting service provider. There are thousands of free hosting service provider in this hosting industry you need to crosscheck for their reliability and should check few things before getting with them. You should not go with a free host who is offering you more features than you are looking for or you would need. You should also look if your free hosting service provide is having some way for getting revenue for his site/service which can ensure your host can be in business for long term.
Try to get what sites are hosted with this free host and what kind of ads can be for your site. Also check the maximum number of domains they would be hosting on their shared server. If possible try to get server configuration where your site/domain would be hosted on. Don’t forget to go through their Terms of Service (TOS) Confirm all hosting features you are looking for, make sure you have enough bandwidth and diskspace for your website, also check if it support all require or any specific scripting options you might be using for your site.
Before placing order you should go through their forum if they have or should search few for their reviews in hosting industry, you can use few hosting forums to get their rating or reviews. If you don’t have your own domain name, you might want to use a free URL forwarding service so you can change your website’s host if needed, you should look for this feature too.
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April 8th, 2008
Online Business is growing at lightning speed so there is much rush for getting such online shop/website . If you are not much into website development/hosting but still want to have web presence then most host will help you with some kind of website builder software. Few host will charge you for such sitebuilder software using which you can build your website easily just for few clicks. So even if you don’t have any knowledge of website development HTML coding still you can create and have your webpresence.
Using such website builder tools you can create professionally looking websites you can easily include your own header banner, change background, navigator, body text, can change color of your text, background as per your specific need. You don’t need to have any coding or HTML knowledge to get your website online jsut need to know the how to work with website builder software.
You can build professionally looking website using such Website Builder Tool within 30 to 45 minutes. Almost all website builder tools comes with step by step wizard which will assit you for developing your website, starting from homepage to more critical online shoping pages.
There are hundreds of such website builder softwares in market using which you can create your website easily, all such softwares are very simple to use with excellent graphical user interface and much easy to operate.
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March 30th, 2008
cPanel offers you an feature for setting autoresponders for your email accounts. Autoresponders are email messages which are automatically sent to all email addresses which are arrived in your mailbox. Autoresponders are usually used when you don’t want to respond each and every message manually. You can just set such Autoresponder for
your mail account. Most common eg for using autoresponder is when you are not in office for longer period of time so that you can forward about the same to all others who have contacted you via emails. cpanel allows you to have more then one autoresponder on single
account. Autoresponder emails can have HTML code included in then or can be just plain text email.
How to add Autoresponder using cPanel.
*) Access your cPanel and click on Autoresponders link in Mail section.
*) Click on Add Autoresponder Link.
*) Specify email address for which you want to set autoresponder so that it will respond to all emails for that perticular account
*) Enter the title for the autoresponder in the Subject field.
*) Select required character set from the drop-down list for this autoresponder if you think it’s required.
*) You can select HTML Messages tick box if you want to use HTML for your autoresponder messages.
*) Now post your message which you need to pass on usign this autoresponder in Body field.
*) Save your autoresponder setting by clicking Create button.
That’s all… Your autoresponder is ready for responding all incoming messages in your absence. This feature is very useful for your website running and maintaining your business relationship.
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March 7th, 2008
cPanel is the most popular and easy to use graphical control panel for managing your hosting account. It’s best suited with Linux Hosting plans. You can make changes to your site as per your need and choice.
It’s most stable, easy to use and secure as compare to other hosting control panels. You can easily manage your site, your server using different features of cPanel.
It’s user friendly web based interface will help you to handle all hosting stuffs such as adding domains, subdomain, park domains, redirecting domains, setting up email accounts, assigning diskquota, taking backups, restoring data, setting hotlinks for your images, managing your databases etc….
most important it comes with built in traffic stat program such as (Awstats , webalizer etc… so that you can keep track of your visitors stats.
Thus before going with any host make sure you have your own cPanel for your hosting account so that you can manage your site without any hassle.
cPanel gives you full authority for managing your emails, datafiles, scripts, databases, domains, backups, setting corn jobs, protecting web directories, setting custom error pages, configuring spam filers, setting shopping cart etc just be using few clicks through your cPanel.
Cpanel also have a special add-on Fantastico using which you can install many ready to use free scripts such as blogs, free applications etc at few clicks. If you opt for cPanel as your control panel with your hosting then account then you need to have to go through many complex Linux commands for managing your server. It’s web-based graphical interface allows you to manage all your hosting stuff easily.
cPanel have almost all tools which are required for managing your hosting account so you can concentrate more onto your business instead of server adminstration.
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February 28th, 2008
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