Linux Shared Hosting Archive

How to make my website faster ? ( Mod_Deflate )

By
Shashi Kant Pandidhar
 – August 4, 2011Posted in: Linux Shared Hosting, SEO, Things You Should Know, Tips & Tricks
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We have been asked several time by our customer about the way they can make there website faster.
Normally any hosting company recommend upgrading there plan / buying VPS and other stuff, But do you or your website really required this kind of upgrade ? Maybe yes or no, The answer could be anything but you can  always start with some simple step to make your website.
We have started writing a series of article for giving you tips on how to make your website faster.

In  this article we will talk about Mod_Deflate :

Note : mod_deflate will only work in linux server.  All our linux hosting plan are pre configured and does support “mod_deflate”.

What is mod_deflate ?

mod_deflate help Apache2 to compress data before delivering them to client (browser), it can compress your data upto 40 % of original size, helping your visitor to browse your site faster and save there bandwidth.

As a shared linux hosting user, You dont have to do anything as all our linux hosting plan are pre-configured for this kind of compression. If you are our dedicated server user and want to enable to feature, then you can contact our support for the same.

in our next article we will talk about  mod_gzip.

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Connect to remote MYSQL hosted on Linux (Cpanel)

By
Ranjit
 – January 24, 2011Posted in: Linux Shared Hosting, Shared Hosting, Support Announcements, Things You Should Know, Web Hosting
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Ever wanted to connect remote mysql ? Bellow is steps for connecting to your remote mysql hosted in Linux Cpanel.
before continuing i am assuming that you have successfully created a mysql db and the user for it.

1. Login to your cPanel with the username password provided.

2. Click on the Remote Mysql option which is  under Databases tab.

3. Type the ip address or FQDN of the server or the pc from where you are accessing database of this cPanel account in Add Access Host’s text box. If you do not know your PC IP then visit www.whatismyip.com to get your PC IP

4. Click on Add host.

5. Add your PC IP address.

5. Now open your MYSQL Client

6. Enter your server IP, with your database username and password.

It should now connect you to your remote MySql database.

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Shared Hosting Platform For Small Websites

By
sushant
 – January 12, 2011Posted in: Linux Shared Hosting, Web Hosting, Web Hosting India
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Internet has been very successful for product marketing or to make money, no matter how size the business is, you can easily start it with a small budget. So if you are planning to start a website there are a lot options to available for you.

In this article, we will discuss about how to select a hosting for small business website.

As to get your website business online, you need to get a reliable hosting provider. But what about the budget? If you are new to website business, then you can go with a shared hosting which is very easy to host and start with the website. And the budget would be around 10-15$ for year which is affordable in a starting level.

The best thing if I say about the shared hosting is the hosting platform is available at affordable price. A webmaster can start a website with a minimum investment and he get’s the features which his websites need. So you can easily start a blog or small website in this budget and start making money online.

To run a small website, you need to know hot to use the control panel. You don’t need to do monitoring your website, as the hosting provider is responsible for your website security and you site will be secured and you can easily run your website without any trouble.

But if you are hosting your business website which will give you huge return, then you might select a bigger plan such as VPS or dedicated one.

But, if you are at starting level, then shared hosting is the suitable one to start a website.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Shared Hosting

By
sushant
 – November 29, 2010Posted in: Indian Shared Hosting, Linux Shared Hosting, Shared Hosting, Web Hosting, Web Hosting India, Windows Shared Hosting
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There are a lot of  types of web site hosting available on internet. They can be divided in to different platform.

If you are planning to purchase a web hosting, there are a lot of range available in web hosting :-

As there are  free and paid web hosting available on the market, which can be divided in to Linux/Windows in which shared, VPS, and dedicated platforms are available

Every web hosting platform has its own advantages and disadvantages.

In this article, we will discuss about shared hosting platform.

Shared hosting is a type of hosting offering space for web sites on the web hoster’s server where you are hosted and shared this server with other customers’/web sites.

All the users/ websites hosted on the shared server use the same software and operating system. But not like free web hosting which has the same setting, with paid shared web hosting you have much more advantages..

Shared hosting can be separated into two types :-

One is free hosting , not a bad choice for trying something new and in which  you don’t want to pay for it. The free hosting offers you the features which you require for floating your website. But the disk space and bandwidth will be limited. This type of web hosting will not provider you with PHP Support, MySQL and stats and support which is the most essential part of the hosting is also not provided in free one.

Another one if paid shared hosting,  it provides you the features such as, email, PHP Support, MySQL, disk space  which is limited but you can upgrade if you need it and support, which is not available on free hosting. This is a best host for small business website or blog in which you don’t require a whole server space, and you can run your website with the features available according to your requirements’ at low price.

Shared hosting is in great requirement due to its features which is available without having special technical skills.

So now we can pick out advantages and disadvantages of shared hosting:

Advantages :-

Low price

Server management is good & easy

Support MySQL, email , PHP Support , etc

You don’t require technical knowledge, as you will require some basic things in website and server management.

Disadvantage:-

Security level is as not good due to resources are shared.

Resource limitation – customers shares the  memory, CPU and Hard Drive.

Limitation is hardware resources – all users hosted on same server use the same disk space, system and bandwidth.

You cannot install any software which is required for your, you will have to use the software which is provided by your hosting provider.

The major feature which is available on shared hosting is you don’t need to worry about the technical issues. As it is totally managed by your hosting provider, so if you face any problem it will be solved by your hosting provider immediately.

So, if you are looking to host your small business website/blog, you can select a shared hosting platform which will suits your requirements.

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New Firewall and AntiVirus Installed

By
Shashi Kant Pandidhar
 – January 16, 2010Posted in: Important Notifications, Linux Shared Hosting
New Firewall and AntiVirus Installed

Dear All,

 

We have just finished installing several security features to our linux box which will provide more security to our shared customers, bellow is the list of features and services that are installed in the server :

  1.  ConfigServer Security & Firewall  :
  • Straight-forward SPI iptables firewall script
  • Daemon process that checks for login authentication failures for:
    • Courier imap, Dovecot, uw-imap, Kerio
    • openSSH
    • cPanel, WHM, Webmail (cPanel servers only)
    • Pure-pftd, vsftpd, Proftpd
    • Password protected web pages (htpasswd)
    • Mod_security failures (v1 and v2)
    • Suhosin failures
    • Exim SMTP AUTH
    • Custom login failures with separate log file and regular expression matching
  • POP3/IMAP login tracking to enforce logins per hour
  • SSH login notification
  • SU login notification
  • Excessive connection blocking Block traffic on unused server IP addresses – helps reduce the risk to your server
  • Alert when end-user scripts sending excessive emails per hour – for identifying spamming scripts
  • Suspicious process reporting – reports potential exploits running on the server
  • Excessive user processes reporting
  • Excessive user process usage reporting and optional termination
  • Suspicious file reporting – reports potential exploit files in /tmp and similar directories
  • Directory and file watching – reports if a watched directory or a file changes
  • IDS (Intrusion Detection System) – the last line of detection alerts you to changes to system and application binaries
  • SYN Flood protection
  • Ping of death protection
  • Port Scan tracking and blocking
  • Permanent and Temporary (with TTL) IP blocking
  • Exploit checks
  • Account modification tracking – sends alerts if an account entry is modified, e.g. if the password is changed or the login shell
  • Shared syslog aware
  • New in v4: Messenger Service – Allows you to redirect connection requests from blocked IP addresses to preconfigured text and html pages to inform the visitor that they have been blocked in the firewall. This can be particularly useful for those with a large user base and help process support requests more efficiently
  • New in v4: Country Code blocking – Allows you to deny or allow access by ISO Country Code
  • New in v4: Port Flooding Detection – Per IP, per Port connection flooding detection and mitigation to help block DOS attacks

 

 

  1. ClamAV Scanner
  1.  
    1. advanced database updater with support for scripted updates and digital signatures
    2. virus scanner C library
    3. on-access scanning (Linux® and FreeBSD®)
    4. virus database updated multiple times per day (see home page for total number of signatures)
    5. built-in support for various archive formats, including Zip, RAR, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, BinHex, SIS and others
    6. built-in support for almost all mail file formats
    7. built-in support for ELF executables and Portable Executable files compressed with UPX, FSG, Petite, NsPack, wwpack32, MEW, Upack and obfuscated with SUE, Y0da Cryptor and others

 

At netspaceindia we take all security steps to keep our customer in safe list however we still recommend taking regular backup of your files and database as second line of safety.

Regards,
NetSpaceIndia – Support Team

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Shared Linux Hosting

By
Shashi Kant Pandidhar
 – July 1, 2009Posted in: Linux Shared Hosting
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There are many benefits that you will receive when choosing Linux shared hosting services, The main thing which shared Linux hosting services can offer which shared Windows web hosting packages can’t offer is reliability; this is one factor which is incredibly to businesses and individuals who are running important, mission critical websites. Security is another factor which shared Linux web hosting packages can offer safely whilst Windows web hosting packages lack tough security; Linux servers are a lot less susceptible to viruses and there are also a lot more security measures which web hosting providers can put in place that are unavailable on Windows web hosting servers. You will also find that shared Linux web hosting packages are a lot cheaper than their Windows counterparts; this helps to make Linux shared hosting packages much more cost effective and offers users a cheap way of getting started with Linux web hosting services. In summary, Linux shared hosting packages can offer you the following advantages over Windows shared hosting services:

  • Reliability - the reliability of a web hosting service is one thing that both businesses and individuals are likely to consider in a web hosting package, and Linux shared hosting services are seen by many as a good way to get a reliable web hosting package for the price of a cheap web hosting package – the reliability of a shared Linux web hosting package will differ between web hosting providers, but the concensus is that Linux servers are much more reliable because Linux as an operating system uses up less system resources meaning that a Linux web hosting server is able to handle a higher load than a Windows web hosting server
  • Security – there are many different security measures which your web hosting provider can put in place on their shared Linux web hosting servers to ensure that malicious attackers are unable to gain entry to the web hosting server, no matter how hard they try – with Windows web hosting servers the most that a web hosting provider can do is install a firewall and anti-virus application even though Windows servers are much more susceptible to attacks and viruses than Linux servers – if you are going to be using your website for the processing of personal data then shared Linux hosting services will suit you, although depending on the information you will be processing it may be more beneficial to consider Linux VPS hosting
  • Cost – because web hosting providers don’t have to pay any fee in order to use a Linux distribution, the overall cost of a shared Linux web hosting package will be much lower than that of a shared Windows web hosting package – although web hosting providers have to take into consideration the cost of the control panel on their cPanel based Linux shared hosting packages, most cPanel web hosting providers opt to use the VPS version to offer their cPanel web hosting packages which means that they are able to offer their shared Linux web hosting packages as cheaply as possible.

The above factors show just how much a standard shared Linux web hosting account has to offer over any shared Windows web hosting service. It is advised that you use Linux shared hosting services if possible and that you only consider Windows web hosting services if absolutely necessary, such as for the hosting of Windows based websites and applications. Both security and reliability are large factors which will influence the decisions of most when it comes to their choice of web hosting package, and so it is important for you to choose a reputable web hosting provider that can meet your requirements and offer you a shared Linux web hosting package on a server that is secure and reliable. Those who are considering shared Linux web hosting services are likely to be taking their budget very seriously, and because of this Linux shared hosting packages are perfect for those with low budgets because of the average price of a shared Linux hosting package.

What are the disadvantages of using shared Linux web hosting packages?

Due to the fact that shared Linux web hosting packages are a form of shared web hosting there can be some disadvantages to using them, although they are still the best web hosting solution available for someone with a small budget. The main disadvantage of shared Linux web hosting services is the amount of uptime you will receive; although Linux web hosting servers are more reliable than Windows web hosting servers, it is still easy for one website to overload the entire server which would cause it to crash which would in turn cause downtime for you and the other users who are on the same. Vulnerabilities in the scripts and web pages used by other websites on the same server as you could also pose a very credible security risk both to your website and all the other websites hosted on the same server as yours; although most web hosting providers make use of the latest security measures that are available such as the CSF firewall and mod_security, no server is immune from being hacked. Shared hosting in general can sometimes be inconvenient for those who are wanting to run custom-built applications in a shared web hosting environment; with shared Linux web hosting packages this could mean that there are certain server-side applications which you need to be able to ensure that your website will function correctly, but your web hosting provider may not be able to supply them. In summary, the main disadvantages of shared Linux web hosting services include:

  • Uptime – it is important to choose a reputable web hosting provider who doesn’t oversell their shared Linux web hosting packages as by doing this you will be able to ensure that you receive a high level of uptime with your shared Linux web hosting package – web hosting providers who oversell their web hosting services or host too many websites on one web hosting server are putting the reliability of their customer’s websites at risk as if the server isn’t able to cope with the load that all the websites are putting on it, it will simply crash
  • Vulnerabilities – because of the number of websites that every shared Linux web hosting server will be hosting, it is highly likely that at least one of these websites will have some sort of vulnerability in it which could be exploited by spammers and hackers in order to get access to the entire server – although your web hosting provider should have measures in place to prevent this, it is suggested that you don’t use shared web hosting for the processing of personal information since if a hacker was to get access to the hosting server then it would be fairly easy for them to steal any data which the server has
  • Custom programs or applications - sometimes you may require an additional piece of software or a server side component to allow your website to function correctly, but you may find that in such cases your web hosting provider won’t have the needed component or application installed on their web hosting servers, and because of the nature of shared web hosting services it is unlikely that your web hosting provider will be willing to install the application or component for you.

The disadvantages of shared Linux web hosting services are only going to affect those who are using shared web hosting services when really they should be considering VPS server hosting services for their needs. Shared Linux web hosting packages are only meant for the hosting of smaller websites, and if you use shared Linux web hosting for this purpose then you are unlikely to face any issues.

In conclusion, shared Linux web hosting packages offer much better value for money than Windows shared web hosting packages. Users can obtain an acceptable level of reliability for a cost which is suitable for most people, and as long as you choose a reputable web hosting provider then you are unlikely to face any problems. You should take into consideration the other users who will be hosted on the same server as you when it comes to security, and this means ensuring that any scripts or web pages that you are using are as secure as possible.

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