The information published on this blog has its material support – the physical space on the hard disk of a server. The service, to provide this space is called affordable web hosting, and the organization, it provides – known as a web hosting provider or a web host.

However, you can do without a hosting provider, placing all the necessary information on your own computer. This requires a specialized program that allows you to publish a site on the Internet which is hosted on a computer. Such program is called a web server. The most popular among web servers use the freely available Apache and IIS (Internet Information Services), distributed with the operating system Windows.

However, to use such software requires special knowledge. In addition, placing the site on your own computer has several disadvantages. For example, most web users are not able to secure my server as a quality defense like the one that is guaranteed by the host. Bandwidth Internet channel, coming from the provider to the home user, and gives the channel capacity. That’s why most of the website owners prefer to use the web hosting services.

Several companies provide Web Hosting for free, but the most important disadvantage of free web hosting is that generally they do not support most of the programming languages. The fact that free hosting comes with force ads (advertising banners), which are placed on websites that gives them revenue.

Whereas, companies that provides website hosting for a fee, commit themselves to keep the server always up that hosts your website, as well as provide high speed network connectivity. In addition, they provide their customers with additional services: register for their second level domain names, keep statistics on site visits, etc., and round the clock customer support always ready to assist in solving problems. As a fact, paid web hosting providers support many programming languages. Also, since WordPress has been a very popular platform, many affordable service providers offer support for WordPress Hosting as well.

To enjoy variety of discounts and bonuses, you can pay once a year to your hosting provider.

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Now it depends on the web hosting provider whether to charge for that or do it as a part of customer service.

An alternative method is to get fantastico back-up restored on your own. The below steps can help you restore your Fantastico back-ups:

Step 1 : Downloading the complete Fantastico back-up archive of the application. You would find that in your fantasticobackups/ directory.

Step 2 : Extracting the downloaded copy onto your local machine.

Step 3 : Using a secure and reliable FTP client, get connected to your web hosting account. Then delete every script files.

Step 4 : Now, you must upload all the files that you had extracted in Step 2.

Step 5 : Access your cPanel, then the Databases and select phpMyAdmin.

Step 6 : Choose the database being used by the script. Incase you aren’t sure about it, you’ll need to check that in your configuration.php, config.php or settings.php file. Once sure you must empty all the tables.

Step 7 : Using the Import tab search for a file named ‘ backup.sql ‘

Step 8 : Import the database.

You should ideally be able to view your restored website if everything has gone as expected.

Its is good to try it out yourself instead of relying on your hosting provider for assistance. You might go wrong a few times, but each time if you rectify your mistakes, you can surely be able to easily get your fantastico restored in future. If you still face issues with that, you can always get in touch with you affordable web hosting provider for help with resolving Fantastico issues.

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Below are some of the log files:

Apache web server

/usr/local/apache/logs/access_log
/usr/local/apache/logs/error_log
/usr/local/apache/domlogs/domain.com

MySQL database server

/var/lib/mysql/server.hostname.com.err

Exim mail server

/var/log/exim_mainlog
/var/log/exim_paniclog
/var/log/exim_rejectlog

Courier-IMAP

/var/log/maillog

cPanel control panel

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log
/usr/local/cpanel/logs/access_log
/usr/local/cpanel/logs/license_log
/usr/local/cpanel/logs/login_log
/usr/local/cpanel/logs/stats_log

FTP server

/var/log/messages
/var/log/xferlog

System logs

/var/log/messages
/var/log/boot.log
/var/log/cron
/var/log/dmesg

Security logs

/var/log/secure
/var/log/messages

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NOTE: These are the logs that one can find if you have a dedicated hosting server, for most other affordable web hosting packages, you wouldn’t get the required permissions of the server

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There are various occasions when help is required with the integration of various offerings with cPanel control panel. Various enterprises and users are usually keen to explore the scope for integrating their products or services with cPanel/WHM. Below are few simple steps that can help you integrate applications with cPanel WHM.

A simple plugin design has been used to carry out the integration process. Such plugin encompass a list of items that are related to the applications that you wish to integrate with cPanel WHM. Generally, the list of items are nothing but the bundles with an installation and uninstallation application for assisting the deployment process. You can choose if you wish to have a link in the interface to a resource which is on a distant server or maybe a collection of codes which extends cPanel’s APIs along with standalone applications running in a cPanel/WHM execution environment.

Integrating with cPanel:

Before proceeding, one might want to go through the cPanel Install File Generator. This is nothing but a web-based application which would enable you to generate a cpanel plugin file, also, it holds the capability of answering some of your queries.

Integrating with WHM:

Inorder, to do this, you are required to write a CGI plugin script which has some special comments holds the capability of controlling the plugins display within the WHM interface. With this script, you can redirect users to any external source or an internal source in PHP.

License for Developers

For developers who wish to further enhance the product, cPanel offers license for integration development. There are some criteria ’s as well, which are : Developers are required to install cPanel on its supported platform and must have a static IP.

Linux- Cheap VPS Hosting packages come equipped with WHM/cPanel.

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Excel is the spreadsheet calculation package Microsoft Office, Considered the best there is in the market by many specialists in the subject. I personally do not use, and when I need to use a spreadsheet opt to at Google Docs, always free and functional. But there are situations in the office, day-to-day work that you can not access the Internet and the way is to turn it with Excel.

Today a co-worker asked me how could I identify and remove duplicate records in Microsoft Excel. Of course it was a short list, you could even look at her and put an X in the column that represents the duplicate filter and then to remove, but we are talking here of a list of more than ten thousand records.

How to Identify and Remove Duplicate Records in Excel

Let’s use the function COUNTIF.

Imagine we have a list of names with cell phones and want to know who has two phones.

In column C, put the formula = COUNTIF (A2: A6, A2)> 1

we count the cell A2 to A6, differing only by A2, who has more than one returns True (true).

Copy to the end of the list (or drag down to cell C2) to process all records.

Once you do a column C will have only true or false (true or false), and you can use the filter to display only those with true value, which represents people who have a listing in our two cell phone numbers.

This same reasoning with the COUNTIF function can be used for other values and records, simply expand the selection of records.

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A computer system called server provides services to a network computers, they store several files in your database. Number of computers accessing the server are called clients.

Dedicated Servers are computers that are leased by a customers to host their websites. These servers have their own characteristics for each type of accommodation, they are projected to stay connected round the clock in order to provide data at all times.

They serve mostly to provide space and accommodation so that clients can access the files and show the end user of these files.

There are several types of servers classified as uk dedicated servers and NOT DEDICATED, some of them are: Fax Server, File Server, Web Server, Email Server, Print Server, Database Server, DNS Server, Proxy Server, FTP Server, Webmail Server, server virtualization and servers for games.

Currently there are two types of dedicated servers, managed and unmanaged. An unmanaged dedicated server is the server type in which the customer will have to completely manage the server, performing tasks for software updates, application patches, system restore, manage security and software installation. In this case the web hosting company is completely responsible for providing connectivity and repair of any hardware problems. The option of an unmanaged dedicated server is recommended for users with more experience in managing machines.

Managed dedicated servers possess as care taken by the web hosting provider. The contract for a managed server, the company takes the responsibility to maintain the updated software, apply patches, accounts for the smooth operation and security of hardware, monitor the external Internet network connectivity. One option recommended for users without experience in server management, or lack of time for more complex task.

The advantage of opting for a dedicated hosting is that performance is larger for being a dedicated machine just for hosting services, it has everything that makes the site have a connection speed broadband internet access, and security updates when necessary.

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People think that search engines are not smarter but they are, and algorithm keeps updating as per requirements of Google. I have not seen anyone who knows the page rank algorithm of Google apart from its founders. So if you are using such techniques, stop using them and be careful now onwards.

Guaranteed Ranking: Never believe the one who can guarantee the Google ranking. If any SEO consultant company says that they guarantee for best rankings, then it is possible that they are just tricking you. You can only try to optimize the website and using SEO Servers for better results in ethical way and wait for Google to rank it on higher position.

Cloaking: It is one of the black hat methods where we can present different content to search engines bots and something different to the viewers. This is done by providing content that is based on the IP addresses.  If we take a user as a search engine spider, a server side script is delivering different types of web pages, where one content is visible but only for the search engine but not for user and because of this, we can see unreliable rankings in search engines. This is only reason because of which search engines says.. “Don’t Cloak” in their webmaster FAQs.

Keyword Stuffing: With this technique, webmasters try to hide the keywords inside the pages. It is usually done by putting lots of keywords in the matching color of background. The keywords are not visible for the viewers but search engine crawlers can read them. So it is always good to avoid such bad tricks.

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As most of you already know, many affordable web hosting companies will offer better prices to those whom sign up for a full year package, as opposed to a monthly one.

Of course it may be tempting to just go with that annual package, but that would be assuming that you knew and trusted the host enough not to burn you.

In few cases, paying monthly charges until your sure that the host can fulfill your requirements makes sense. There are too many functions, mods and plugins to know for sure if they can fulfill your technical requirements just by reading their official website.

As well as you can go through their support to try out how efficiently they can solve your problems. Support is always a big key which helps a client to make a great decision, if they cant do something simple like care about their clients requirements then its clear that they don’t really need clients.

After using a service for few months, if you are satisfy with the providers website hosting service, then you can think of proceeding for annually. It’s not worth the few dollars in savings if you need to move on and you must hope to get a refund to do so.

A client can pay the web hosting charges for the whole period at once, however, the drawback of it is that some of the companies have bad reputation and you may face some issues with their service afterwards.

Hence, it would be better if you try their service by paying only for a month, and if you find the service bad you can just cancel the account or can migrate your website to another reliable and affordable website hosting company.

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You should go with the hosting provider who will take care of all software upgrades, installing security patches, tweaking server configuration settings etc. for free of cost. Its always recommended to go with fully managed dedicated servers hosting service provider for complete peace of mind.

Managed dedicated server hosting services includes following configurations and installations which your web hosting  provider would need to take care of:

•    Control Panel (cPanel, Plesk, H-Sphere)
•    Web server (Apache or Microsoft IIS)
•    Mail Server
•    Database Server (MySQL or MS SQL)
•    FTP Server
•    SSH Server
•    DNS Server
•    Application servers
•    Web development technologies (PHP, Perl, MS SQL)

Usually the initial configuration of a dedicated server is based on the information which you have provided while placing order for your server hence you should take care to mention about all applications you would like to have on your server.

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Dedicated servers is a form of web hosting in which an enterprise hires a complete server without a share with other clients, as it is done in shared hosting. The server will be dedicated only to you and not for others. This allows a client to have a total access to the server. The customer has full rights to choose his choice of operating system that he wants to install on the UK Dedicated Servers.

The server management tasks on the server are performed by the website hosting provider at extra charge. However, there are few web hosting service providers who includes the charge in the monthly fee.

The web hosting company has the authority to determine what OS to be offer to be included in the hosting package. But,  most of the times default is Linux as it is an open source platform which is absolutely free to download.

Almost, all hosting companies offer both Linux and Windows platform as an option, however those who don’t have enough technical staff and proper support for windows offers only Linux. With dedicated server hosting, a professional support team is dedicated to assist the clients in installing the operating system with mandatory updates and patches for softwares. Other services and security on dedicated hosting environment are also managed by the provider, only if it is mentioned in the Service Level Agreement (SLA).

Due to the high availability of uninterrupted network connectivity, dedicated server hosting in UK is much considered by the customers worldwide as a 100 Mbps dedicated network speed is provided to the clients. The web hosting providers in UK are specialized in offering quality hosting services for the small enterprises, webmasters, individuals and the companies of the corporate world.

Outsourcing a dedicated server in UK gives you a benefit of getting high bandwidth as there are many website hosting companies ready to offer high network speed at very affordable rates. It gives you a complete freedom to select the configuration of your own UK dedicated server.

The Dedicated Servers in UK offers you complete hosting freedom to manage all your website aspects without any restrictions.

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