Hosting Zoom Acquired by Landis Holdings
Hosting Zoom, web hosting service provider is acquired by Landis Holdings. Landis Holdings is one of the web hosting solutions providers. They have acquired Hosting Zoom to maximize resources, enhance support service, to offer new service etc.
Greg Landis, President of Landing Holdings remarked, ”We are proud to welcome the users of Hosting Zoom, Reseller Zoom and modVPS to the family. There will be zero impact to how existing customers conduct their business. We want to simply turn our focus inwards and look to invest in increasing support and development personnel immediately. JaguarPC and Hosting Zoom are already profitable so the goals are simple moving forward, leave what works alone and bring extra equipment online now in anticipation of the greater demand.”
For more details about Hosting Zoom, please visit: www.hostingzoom.com
Kevin
WebHostingTalk Australia is acquired by iNET Interactive
WebHostingTalk Australia is one of the online community for web hosting talk. Now iNET Interactive has acquired WebHostingTalk Australia, considered Australia’s largest web hosting community. More than 5,000 members of WebHostingTalk Australia will benefit from new site functionality provided as a result of iNET Interactive’s expertise in online communities.
For more information about WebHostingTalk Australia, please visit: www.webhostingtalk.com.au.
For more information about iNET Interactive, please visit: www.inetinteractive.com.
Kevin
Third Party Script and Software installation and upgrade
Hi,
We are glad to inform you that we have started a new service called third party script and software installation and upgrade. In which we will install / upgrade the third party scripts on your domain at nominal charges. You can send us your request at support@webhostingdiscussion.net.
In addition to this, if you have any problem in your script or software in your domain, you can submit the error in our discussion board at http://www.webhostingdiscussion.net/forums/script-software-installation-and-upgrade-f54/. This category is dedicated to such third party scripts problem.
Regards,
Kailash
Microsoft Windows 7 - Next Windows Operating system
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
Alphared is GONE - Microsoft Lawsuit Stirs up Alpha Red
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.
UPDATE: On Monday, CWIE Holdings Company confirmed that it had agreed to buy Alpha Red, which will continue operating without McCreary's involvement.
Microsoft, along with the Washington State Attorney General said last week they had filed a suit against James McCreary whom they say, in addition to being CEO of Alpha Red, is the director of Branch Software, a company that makes and distributes the so-called "scareware" Registry Cleaner XP, designed to trick users into paying for unnecessary "cleaning" software.
Well documented in a report last week by Ars Technica's Joel Hruska, the lawsuit alleges that McCreary was responsible for the software, which used pop-up windows to tell users it had found "errors" on their machine, and to offer a supposed solution designed to clean their systems for $39.95.
Aside from McCreary himself, the connection between Alpha Red and Branch Software was less clear. While it appeared the site was hosted (and presumably software distributed) by Alpha Red, it seemed to many that shutting down an otherwise above-board hosting provider for hosting an illegitimate service would be an overreaction.
Microsoft's full complaint (linked here in PDF format) says McCreary, Branch Software and Alpha Red were each "directly engaged in the marketing and sale of software products over the Internet," referring to the Registry Cleaner XP software.
In several online discussions last week, and over the weekend - including several threads on WebHosting Talk (www.webhostingtalk.com) and several others on the popular adult webmaster board with the unprintable name, known in abbreviated form as GFY - users voiced their concerns about Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna's apparent desire to shut down Alpha Red, along with the Registry Cleaner XP business. They reasonably feared the shutdown of the company could hurt their unrelated businesses hosted with the company.
Further discussion gave the impression that users were having trouble reaching Alpha Red, and several more alarmist posts seemed to suggest the company might be closing its doors without warning.
In a Thursday post on GFY, a user named "Milan" said "I have heard from multiple clients, some who have already been able to move out and others who are in a frenzy trying too get out that things are coming to a grim ending. Allegedly, the lawsuit has put Alphared into a position that it can't recover from and according to some rumors that we have heard the staff has been completely fired."
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: thewhir.com
Reference URL: web-hosting-top.com
Kevin
IFrame Hacking - JavaScript Hacking
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
Windows Web Hosting
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
cPanel Backup
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
Operating system
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
