Features available with Drupal

Following are the features available with Drupal:-

1) Drupal Allows you to add users and assign roles. Roles are groups of users which share common permissions on what they can or not do within a Drupal site.

2)  Drupal tracks the major activities on the website. Who visited which page, which pages are popular, who posted what, etc.

3) It’s category module is one of the most powerful tools. this allows users to tag content. Unlike any other CMS, Drupal allows multi-tagging. It also allows you to define various tagging hierarchies. Not even Sharepoint or Lotus Quickplace can do this. It allows free tagging and other combinations. Tagging is important in a highly complex intranet or community website because it makes information easier to categorize and search.

4) Drupal makes information friendly to search engines and humans.

5) It allows you to quickly build menus and blocks, without knowing HTML or PHP.

There are many more things you can do with Drupal. You can install Drupal through cPanel/fantastico which available for free with affordable web hosting package.

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This post was written by on December 23, 2009

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Difference Between VPS & Shared Hosting

First you need to understand what is VPS Hosting and Shared Hosting?

In order to understand the complete difference between VPS and Shared hosting I had given a description below :-

VPS Hosting( Virtual Private Servers): VPS stands for Virtual Private Servers. VPS is an isolated server that share the hardware of a single physical server.You can see it as a small dedicated server because it uses its own disk space, RAM , IP address and it can also be rebooted independently. So,VPS performs like a stand-alone server where you can run your own applications. It acts exactly Like a Dedicated Server . VPS server can easily handle the load of medium level business web site.For this servers company is charging very low as compare to the dedicated server.

Shared Hosting ( Affordable Web hosting):Shared hosting is Web hosting in which may sites are hosted on a single server, so each account ends up “sharing” server space with other accounts. Although Shared hosting is a less expensive way for businesses to create a Web presence, it is usually not sufficient for Web sites with high traffic. Shared hosting is best for the normal websites and smaller ecommerce websites. If server gets rebooted for any reason, all the sites will get affected.

VPS Hosting vs Shared Hosting
VPS acts exactly like a Dedicated server, it is with your own resources whereas in a shared hosting environment the server resources are shared among all accounts on a server. In a shared hosting environment you don”t have the permission to use the features enabled by your provider whereas in a virtual isolated private environment you are free to disable/enable features suitable for your website. In VPS Server They are giving full root access to the clients. So if we compare VPS and Shared Hosting VPS Hosting is any time better than Shared Hosting but there is one major disadvantage of VPS when compared to a Shared hosting that is, you won’t be able to use more than the assigned resources with VPS. Whereas Shared hosting account gives you full freedom to utilize whole resources available on the server.

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This post was written by on December 23, 2009

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Affordable Web Hosting account for Backup

It is very risky to keep your backup on the same hosting account because if there is ever a disaster in a data center, you could lose both, your backup data as well as online website data. That’s the major reason many people today are choosing to keep their backup data, over the internet, to an off-site storage facility.

There are many cheap and Affordable Web hosting providers online from which you can select any hosting plan according to your needs and where you can keep your mission critical data. Cost of fully managed hosting packages are very low, so it’s not a big deal to spend few pounds for your business website’s backup.

There are a several things you should remember before you start uploading the entire data of your hard drive from which some are as follows:-

1) Before using any Affordable Web hosting plans you should check SLA of hosting provider because many web hosts have explicit clauses prohibiting the use of your hosting accounts as an online backup device.

2) Always check the data before uploading copyrighted materials to your Affordable Web hosting account, you may face the risk of having your account suddenly terminated without notice.

3) Privacy and security is the most important things you should check before hosting your backup.

4) As FTP doesn’t support block-level incremental uploads like an online backup service would, your backups will take some more time. This could also slow down your internet connection and cause problems with your ISP. So before using Affordable web hosting package as a backup server, you can discuss with your hosting provider. There is a possibility that they can provide a better option/suggestions to you.

5) This method of backup only supports a single “point-in-time” file version so if you accidentally save over write an important file or get a virus, you’ll have no way of recovering your data.

In recent past, many new specialized online backup companies have appeared in the web market. There’s such a huge difference of cost and feature sets that you’re bound to find something that’s just right for your particular requirements. In fact, almost all web hosts today also offer online backup solutions.

Eukhost do provide online backup solution with their Affordable Web hosting and Email Hosting Plans. They use Rsync technology for backup. Rsync is one of the best backup tools available today. Rsync transfers only the changes in files, using the devilishly clever rsync algorithm. It calculates difference without needing both files to be present. By synchronizing only those files that have changed since the last backup, using rsync results in large bandwidth savings. As Eukhost provides fully managed hosting packages they can setup daily, weekly or monthly rsync crons as per client request to copy backup of accounts on their backup space.

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Free Vs Paid Email Hosting

In web world you will find 2 types of email hosting. One is Free Email Hosting services and second one is Paid Email Hosting. You can choose any one of them but before considering any email hosting services it is very necessary to check your requirements. You should check the services both types of Email hosting providers are offering.

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You can consider Free Email Hosting, if one simply want to use it for personal email communication and just for being a member in various social networking sites. If you won’t require it for your business communication then there is no need not spend a lot. However, it will be a different thing if you will be using an email for business purposes. Ir-respect to how money-saving free Email Hosting is, your business will still definitely benefit from paid Email Hosting services. One of the major advantage that a paid Email Hosting can give you is a thorough security. As they are charging you some amount for their services, you will be sure that part of that amount will be allotted in enhancing your email’s security. Once you consider a Paid Email Hosting package you can remain hassle free means you need not to worry about viruses that would possibly infect your server and have an enhanced anti-spam features. The next advantage of Paid Email Hosting is it provides the bigger allotment of disk space for mails so that you can be sure to never miss any important mail. With such, you can also be sure that you will also have some extra copies of the most important mails that you will be receiving from your clients of business partners. Paid Email Hosting services also keeps you away from all the unnecessary advertisements that keep on popping up when you work in your email accounts. You can also be assured that your email page would load up faster if you would have the paid service. And last thing but not the least, you will get a more professional look and impact since you can personalize your business mail accounts by applying your business name in the email address itself. Surely, your potential clients would see you are more believable and would leave them an amazing impression that you are not a scammer. By searching online, you will find ‘n’ numbers of paid email hosting providers but if you are looking for Affordable Web Hosting then Eukhost is the best hosting company to go with. This is worth the investment especially if the success of your business would greatly rely on this.

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This post was written by on December 9, 2009

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Affordable Web Hosting:Plesk Features

Plesk is the most popular and widely used control panel for Windows Hosting or Linux Affordable web hosting plans.

Plesk offer you many features and functionality as compare to other control panels which had made it most best web hosting control panel .
*) You get number of professional looking skins for your Plesk control panel from which you can select which you like.

*) It’s very easy to learn as it’s interface is very easy to understand and is based on logical reasoning.

*) You can easily implement many advanced applications/features for your account just by few clicks of mouse.

*) Plesk is much reliable giving you much piece of mind so that you can concentrate on your business more.

*) Plesk is most secure and it keeps you away from threats and vulnerabilities, it is most stable and secure control panel.

*) Plesk effectively utilizes all your systems resourses giving you best performance.

*)  Plesk has built-in features which handles all errors very intelligently and trouble-shoot then thus ensuring you a more reliable control panel.

*) Plesk can be customized with your local language so that you can efficiently work on it. Using Plesk language pack you can install Plesk with your preferred language. Most languages are supported with Plesk.  eg : Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish etc… This will help you to display messages, context help and other file in your preferred language which can be changed anytime.

If you are looking for a reliable and  affordable web hosting or email hosting Plans then you should go with Eukhost.

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This post was written by on November 26, 2009

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Hosting levels in Plesk Control panel

Plesk is the most popular and comprehensive control panel which is widely used on windows hosting platform. You have different levels of logins under plesk control panel using which you can manage your shared, virtual and dedicated or small Business hosting account very effectively.  Plesk is designed in such a way that will help you to manage and administer your website easily. Using plesk as control panel you can save lot of time for managing your website hosting  accounts, you have many automated features using which service provider can reduce operating cost and resources thus increasing profit margin and customer satisfaction. Plesk offers you 4 different login levels viz Administrator, Client/Reseller, Domain Owner and Mail User. Each level have it’s own importance, role and responsibilities. Administrator level being the most highest level.

*) Administrator Level : – it’s the highest individual server level login usign which you as a website hosting account administrator to create and manage all system features. Using master level login of Plesk you can centrally manage multiple web hosting or Email hosting very effectively.

*) Client/Reseller Level :– It’s Second tier login account under which users can create domains and can manage them. System Administrator provides you all necessary rights which are required for creating and managing domains. you can easily administrator multiple domains using a single login under Client/reseller Level access of Plesk control panel.

*) Domain Owner Level :– It’s third tier of plesk controller. It’s an individual domain owner account with all predetermined permissions and interface which are given by system administrator. This type of control panel is mostly provided with Affordable hosting accounts.

*) Mail User :– Last but not the least Plesk login level specifically for managing individual Email hosting account. it’s fourth tire individual mail account using which user can log into their mail account and can manage and set passwords, spam filters and anti-virus for their mail account.  Mail User level of plesk login can be consider as most basic type of plesk login.

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Email Hosting-Mailing list using Plesk

E-mails are one of the most powerful feature we had in internet world, today emails have become a integral part of our daily routine. Today the number of emails send are much more then phone calls made around the world, thus you can see the importance of  email hosting. Thus for making most out of emails we have a feature called Mailing list. It’s a list made up of subscribers who have preferred emails as the medium of communication.  You can consider joining a ‘mailing list’ is a way of saying “Keep me informed”;
Usually emails are considered as one to one communication activity but in mailing list you get in touch with hundred/thousands of people at a given point of time.  Mailing list encourage us a greater and more varied amount of email activity as bothway communication to a full interactive open to public communication. You can restrict the list for private circles also. Usually emails are used for circulating announcements, newsletters and advertisements.  You can classified mailing list in 2 different categories ‘ One-Way and ‘Two-Way’ mailing lists.  In one-way mailing list either accepts or sends information, the user only interacting with the list server; and a two-way list creates interaction between sender and receiver.  One-way incoming mailing lists are still used for sending announcements, newsletter etc. E-mail Spam is another example of a one-way outgoing mailing list. Using two way mailing list users can interact with other subscribers to that mailing list. Its based on subscribers and all users involved in it are requested for signing up for this service. Such list subscription can be open or public. If its open/public then anyone can subscribe to it and if its private then restricted or known authorities can subscribe to it.  Almost all affordable web hosting service provider do support mailing list.

If you are worried about your business email accounts then Eukhost is the best option who keeps you hassle free. Eukhost provides managed Email Hosting accounts.

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This post was written by on November 23, 2009

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How to setup an Email Account in Plesk control panel

You can use Plesk to set up POP3 email hosting accounts for your domains just login to your Plesk as Admin and access domain administration page. You need to choose the domain for which you are looking for adding email accounts.

Please follow following steps for setting email accounts for your domains.
1. On the Domain admimstration page click on Mail Icon.
2. Under tools section proceed with clicking Add New Mail Name.
3. Set a proper name for this new email account.
4. You will need to enter new password for this new email account and you will need to confirm it.
5. If you wish to allow this mail user to access control panel then you will have to select check box ” Control panel access ”
6. Now check box for mailbox, you can also specify mailbox quota if you want to assign it.
7. Finally submit these setting by clicking OK.

You can customize your email hosting account any time using your Plesk control panel.

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This post was written by on November 15, 2009

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All about Affordable Microsoft windows server 2003.

Microsoft windows server 2003 server is a product of Microsoft and is the successor of windows server 2000 and is more scalable and better in performance than windows 2000 server. It was released on April 24,2003. Windows server 2003 has its latest version is 5.2 and it is said that it is the cornerstone of windows server system line of business web hosting server products. Windows server 2003 is also referred to as Win2K3. It’s basically a server operating system which is very capable for managing server and have excellent performance.

Following are important components :-

IIS - IIS is a a set of information based services for the servers which are using microsoft windows. IIS was previously called Internet Information Server but now it is called as Internet Information services. After Apache HTTP server the world’s second web server which is most popular in terms of overall best web hosting is none other but IIS server. According to netcraft IIS server has served 35.39% of all business websites. The servers currently include FTP, SMTP, NNTP, and HTTP/HTTPS.

Windows security :- IF you are using Microsoft’s windows XP and Windows vista operating systems then it is possible for you to view the status of computer security settings and services thanks to Windows Security Center which is a component included in both of them. Also,the user is informed if there is a problem in the security settings by a pop-up notification balloon as windows security center continuously monitors these settings.

Firewall :- A device or a set of devices configured to permit, deny, encrypt, or proxy all computer traffic between different security domains which is based upon a set of rules and certain other criteria’s is called as firewall.

Antivirus :- Antivirus can be described as a software package which studies the data such as email file attachments or web file transfers, to detect worms, viruses, trojan horses or other malware and to prevent the malware being activated on target computers or other systems.Signature databases are used by antiviruses to find out the different viruses. Arkoon FAST360 appliances include antivirus software developed and which are continuously updated by Sophos, Which is Europe’s leading antivirus developing company.

IE7 Browsers :- IE7 is a short form for windows internet explorer.It is a web browser for Windows vista, Windows XP SP2 and Windows server 2003 SP1 launched by microsoft in late 2006. It is offered as a replacement for Internet explorer 6 on Windows XP via Windows update as it ships as the default browser in Vista.It coincided with the release of Windows Vista,as it is a part of long line of the different versions of internet explorer and the first major version of the browser in round about say 5 years. While sources do not agree to what is said that about IE7’s global market share,the rough idea given from three sources in February 2008 estimates from 23% to 44%).When combined with IE6, the two browsers represent the majority of browsers worldwide.

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This post was written by on November 12, 2009

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MS Access Database Hosting

Database  refers to Affordable Web Hosting services under which you can host your databases connected to your website. You can create Access database, MSSQL databases, MySQL or even Oracle databases.  Almost all best web hosting service provider will support all databases on their hosting plans.
ms access MS Access Database HostingAll webhost can offer you database web hosting as a standard feature with their hosting plans, few hosting providers may charge you extra if you want to host many multiple databases under a single hosting account.  There may be limit of database size and number of databases which you can host using your hosting package.

Most common types of database web hosting are as follows:

  • Access database web hosting.
  • MS SQL Server database web hosting.
  • MySQL database web hosting.

Access database web hosting : If your webhosting service provider allows you to host MS Access databases on their servers then such webhosting accounts are referred as “Access Hosting”, “MS Access hosting”, or “Access database hosting” so you can use Access databases for your websites. You will have to consider Windows web hosting plans if you want to host MS Access databases as Linux hosting packages don’t support MS Access databases. MS Access is an entry-level database, which is perfect for Small Business Web Hosting websites which requires database backend. If you are getting many concurrent users hitting your Access database then have to upgrade your access database to MS SQL database or to MySQL database as they are higher level databases.

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This post was written by on November 12, 2009

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