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Windows 7 is the next version of Microsoft Operating system. Windows 7 will be available for 32 bit and 64 bit editions. It will have both client and server versions. So far there are three Builds released for this new operating system. But still the beta version is not available for public to
test it. The builds are Milestone 1 (M1), Milestone 2 (M2) and Milestone 3 (M3). Microsoft will distribute a new pre-beta build of Windows 7 at its Professional Developers Conference. According to Softpedia, the first beta will arrive in December 2008. So far, Microsoft has not announced the release date of Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.

Kevin

Posted under Operating Systems

Hi,

There is one recent big web hosting NEWS. It seems like Alphared is GONE due to some Lawsuit and there are shutting down their business. The detailed information are as follow:

According to a flurry of posts on a variety of message boards over the weekend, the web hosting provider Alpha Red (www.alphared.com) stirred up fears of a shutdown this weekend, after the company's CEO was named in a lawsuit by Microsoft last week.

After what appears to have been a disquieting period of silence, Alpha Red posted to the WHT forums late Friday evening, saying "As of this afternoon, we have received a Letter of Intent and have entered into negotiations with CWIE Holding Company, Inc, parent company of CCBill on an agreement to further protect and secure your ongoing service."

Original Source: http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/100608_Microsoft_Lawsuit_Stirs_up_Alpha_Red.cfm
Reference URL: http://www.web-hosting-top.com/web-hosting/news/articles/18502/microsoft-lawsuit-stirs-up-alpha-red

Kevin

Posted under Web Hosting

Now a days, it is not an easy job to develop and secure web site. Each and every day, you will find a new way to attack on the web site, servers or even entire network. Today I will discuss about two types of web site hacking which are most common.

[1] IFrame Hacking
[2] JavaScript Hacking

In both, the hackers add suspicious IFrame or JavaScript code in your web site page. Such code generally links to the malware or badware site.

There are many reasons for such type of hacking.

- Your control panel or FTP password is compromised. If you system is infected with Virus/Trojan/Spyware then there a chance that hacker gets some confidential information from your system and may damage your system. It is a best practice to have Anti Virus installed on the system and also it should be upgraded to its latest version. To fix this security hole, you
can simply reset your password to hard one. Also never set dictionary words as your password.

- The server where your site is compromised.

- XSS (Cross Site Scripting) vulnerability in your site. If your site has XSS vulnerability then there is a high risk for such type of hacking.

- SQL injection. If your site is not designed to prevent SQL injection then hacker can easily get the access your database and insert suspicious code.

There are many other reasons then as mentioned above. You should test your web in all aspects before putting it on live.

Kevin

Posted under Site and Server Security

Hi,

Many of you are confused while selecting the web hosting plan. Most of you are confused whether to select Windows hosting or Linux. In this article we will discuss the few things related to Windows hosting.

Why to chose Windows Hosting?

- If you are planing to use Microsoft technology like ASP, .Net Platform, MSSQL database in your web site then you will need to go for Windows Hosting.

- In addition to this you can also use PHP and MySQL on Windows platform. This is the added advantage of Windows hosting platform.

Do not chose Windows if you are planing as follow:

- If you have developed your site using HTML and PHP, MySQL then it is advisable to select Linux Hosting. As Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL will give you better performance.

- Also if you have used Apache Mod rewrite rules then you will need to go for Linux hosting, as you can easily write rewrite rule in Linux via .htaccess file.

- Most of the hosting provider do not support ISAPI rewrite rule or they are using lite version of ISAPI rewrite rule, so if you have to go for Linux hosting.

The above are few points that you will need to take care before you select the web hosting service.

Kevin

Posted under Web Hosting

Now a day, the most important part of your website is the data of your website which includes your web contents, databases, email accounts etc. It is recommended that you take the backup of your website regularly. However, most of the hosting providers are taking the backup daily, weekly or monthly basis but to become safer from our side, we have to take the backup at our end also. Many hosting control panels allow you to take the backup directly from the control panel. Today, I will discuss regarding how to take backup/restore your site through cPanel.

cPanel provides the features to backup and restore your site through control panel. You can take home directory backup, database backup, full backup of your website and email domain forwarder or filter backup. To download the backup, follow the below mentioned steps:

[1] Login to the cPanel of your domain.
[2] Go to ‘Backups’ menu.
[3] Click on the appripriate backup copy to download. For example, if you want to download the database backup then click on the database name which is under ‘Download a MySQL Database Backup’.

In addtion, you can also take the full backup (backup of your whole site including database, web contents, emails etc.). To generate the full backup, click on ‘Generate/Download a Full Backup’.

Regards,

Kailash

Posted under Web Hosting Control Panels

An Operating System (abbreviated as OS), is a software that is responsible to manage the system resource. An operating system contains many applications in it.  Operating system is directly handle the request which are received from Hardware devices (i.e. Keyboard, Mouse, Motherboard etc.).

There are many operating systems provide GUI (Graphical User Interface) through which you can manage it and some others provide CLI (Command Line Interface). It is easy to manage the Operating system which provides GUI. For CLI operating systems, you should have strong knowledge of commands.

Now a days, most cmmonly used operating systems are Windows, Linux, Unix, Solaries, CentOS etc. Some of them are commercial version and you will need to purchase the license to use it.

Linux is the open source and hence it is freely available. However if you want enterprise edition of Linux then you will need to purchase the lincese for Commercial version.

Kevin

Posted under Operating Systems

The most important thing while transferring the server is to transfer the web sites including database, emails, email forwarders etc. If you do it manually then it takes long time to migrate the web sites. cPanel/WHM has a feature to transfer the web site from one server to another. There are many options available as follow:

[1] Copy an account from another server. [You would require root password of the old server]
[2] Copy an account from another server with account password.
[3] Copy multiple accounts/packages from another server.

Based on your requirements you can select the option to transfer the web sites.

Kailash Aghera

Posted under Web Hosting Control Panels

Hi,

The Google page rank update has been started from past week of July 2008. You may check the page rank update from different Google data center from the below link:

http://digpagerank.com

Kailash

Posted under Search Engine Optimization

What is FSCK? Why is it required? There are several reasons behind the system file corruption. For example, you forgot to shut down your system properly, suddenly cut off the power supply, a storage device was removed when system is in process to write the data on it, accidentally press the restart button of your system.

In Linux some data is kept in the memory before it is written to the disk. This speeds up the process and it used in many systems including Windows OS. If the system is turned off or improperly shut down before it writes the data from memory to disk then there is a chance of the system file corruption. Hence, it is required to shut down the system properly. During improper shut down, the file systems are unmounted from the memory. FSCK will unmount these file systems during boot automatically. You can also run FSCK program manually using the below command:

To check root file system:
fsck -V -a

For all other than root file systems:
fsck -R -A -V -a

The last command will check everything except root (-R) file systems.

You can also tell fsck to show what it did using echo option as below:

fsck -A -V ; echo ==$?==

The fsck codes are listed in the below table:

Code Explanation
0 No errors
1 File system errors corrected
2 System should be rebooted
4 File system errors left uncorrected
8 Operational error
16 Usage or syntax error
128 Shared library error

Generally, fsck repairs the file systems automatically. If it fails to repair the file systems then you probably have a corrupted superblock.

Kailash Aghera

Posted under Operating Systems

Did you face the problem to getting traffic to your website? If yes then below are the few ways to bring traffic to your website:

1. Search Engine Optimization (SEO):

Search Engine Optimization is very important aspect to optimize your website. If you have optimized your website properly then it helps to increase your search engine ranking and you will get the more traffic to your website. You should submit our web site to the popular search engines. Before submitting your web site, you have to add the proper Meta tags in all the web pages of your web site. The Meta tags should be related to your web site.

2. Link Exchange:

Link exchange is the one of the best way to increase the search engine ranking. By exchanging your link you will get the number of inbound links toward your website which increase the search engine ranking of your website. You should exchange your links which are related to your website that means your site should have relative link exchange.

3. Forums and Blogs:

Another great way to get the traffic toward your website is participating forums and blogs. Use your website link in your signature or post it another way. (Many forum administrators do not allow the links before you post specific number of posts. Hence, before using your website link in your signature first go through their terms and condition of the forums).

4. Submit your site to Directory:

You may submit your web site to popular web directories. There are many free or paid web directories available in which you can submit your web site.

5. Advertise your web site:

You may advertise your web site by putting the banner, link ads or popup on the popular web sites. However, you have to pay for the same to the administrator of the web site where you are putting your web site’s ads.

Kailash Aghera

Posted under Search Engine Optimization