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DomainGurus Forums: Forum: Hosting - Recent Posts http://forums.domaingurus.com/ Our Community en Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:05:13 +0000 korpa on "What is Virtual Hosting?" http://forums.domaingurus.com/topic/what-is-virtual-hosting#post-265 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:12:06 +0000 korpa 265@http://forums.domaingurus.com/ Can I offer Virtual Hosting using the Cloud Computing? Chris on "What is Shared Hosting?" http://forums.domaingurus.com/topic/what-is-shared-hosting#post-263 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:38:05 +0000 Chris 263@http://forums.domaingurus.com/ Ok rather than speak about how they differ i think it is better to define each. What is shared hosting? shared hosting is to "rent" a space on a server that is being used by some more people, this give us certain limitations like space or bandwidth but it is a cheap solution for a quick start!! What is Cloud Hosting? Cloud Hosting enables users and developers to utilize services without knowledge of, expertise with, nor control over the technology infrastructure that supports them. It is, almost literally, operating the service in a cloud. This is really good!! you or your compay do not have to worry about infrastructure, if you don't need or don't want to or dont have enough human resources to set up your infrastructure you dont have to worry, you can hire Cloud Hosting. It's all about scalability up and down. Pay for what you need and use. Why would anyone ever pay more than that? You get to deploy applications instantly with infrastructure that grows and shrinks with your business needs. Merlin on "What is Shared Hosting?" http://forums.domaingurus.com/topic/what-is-shared-hosting#post-262 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:27:04 +0000 Merlin 262@http://forums.domaingurus.com/ As we saw in previews replies, shared hosting's been used to allocate multiple websites on the same server, with same IP address and other futures within. Cloud hosting (named Cloud Computing as well) could be defined as the use technology that takes advantage of many inter-networked computers hiding the structure that is behind it. Cloud computing does not require extremely powerful hardware to manage complex tasks. The idea behind cloud computing is that multitudes of cheap computer hardware could be assembled to create vastly networked data center just as good as smaller amount of more expensive, higher quality server hardware. For cloud computing the hardware in the server environment does not necessarily need to be high end. It is helpful for the global organization to have cloud computing capabilities because it allows all of their users to have access to information from any computer when needed, which can help prevent lost data or bad organization of digital files. As long as a user is connected to the Internet, the power of cloud computing comes into play, cloud computing provides networked users with an extension of their own machine. One example would be processing power. Applications can be run on the fly from a terminal machine when processing power is not a concern; the only thing that users need to worry about would be their bandwidth connection and its reliability on the network. Anonymous on "What is Shared Hosting?" http://forums.domaingurus.com/topic/what-is-shared-hosting#post-260 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:57:40 +0000 Anonymous 260@http://forums.domaingurus.com/ Some other differences: With Cloud computing - Services and applications can grow rapidly - Faster and quickly - Rarely fail - Repaired automatically - You can climb - Is virtualized - Have multiple purposes. With Shared hosting - Cheaper cost, great for small businesses or starters - Can still get multiple database, management tools and many other services - More likely to face security issues due to many users using the same resources - Higher probability of downtime. Those are some of the differences I can think of. = ) k1ll3r on "What is Shared Hosting?" http://forums.domaingurus.com/topic/what-is-shared-hosting#post-258 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:48:10 +0000 k1ll3r 258@http://forums.domaingurus.com/ Answering your ask: The differences between Hosting and Cloud Hosting This differs from typical Shared Hosting, because web hosting gives you a fixed server or a portion of a single server, where cloud computing gives you the benefit of many servers all working together as one. Your particular website or application may only need one small portion of a single server, so there's no need to get a dedicated server. Those servers sit on, consuming power and space even if it isn't needed. The differences: Scalability: Traditional Hosting - Manual provisioning of extra resources - Any extra hardware must be paid for up front (ie. the cost of a new server) - Huge traffics spikes must be planned for or reacted to accordingly Cloud Hosting - Extra resources provisioned automatically - Extra hardware allocation is paid for on a utility basis at the end of the billing period (similar to your electricity bill for example) - Traffic spikes are handled seemlessly and automatically Cost: Traditional Hosting - Payment up-front (usually on an annual or quarterly basis) - Generally more expensive, especially for larger sites that have large amounts of traffic Cloud Hosting - Payment on a utility basis after resource is used. There is usually a flat monthly fee plus variable fee depending on the resources used. - Cheaper and you only pay for what you use. No need to buy extra hardware that will only be used for 5% of the year to cover for traffics spikes. Redundancy: Traditional Hosting - Must be manually architected and managed thus requires expertise (load balancing provisioning etc) Cloud Hosting - Automatic failover in the cloud, redundant SAN storage as standard Technology: Traditional Hosting - Tried and tested, plenty of knowledge. Cloud Hosting - Cutting edge, more advanced, BETA versioning, possible failures. Framework: Traditional Hosting - .NET / PHP / RoR are all possible, but separate physical or virtual servers must be used and configured separately to cater for each. Cloud Hosting - Upload a mixture of ASP, PHP and RoR and the cloud will automatically provision the correct environment accordingly. Security: Traditional Hosting - Data location is known and access can be configured by the webmaster - Sensitive data can be stored on a separate physical machine. - Shared hosting operations are at the mercy of other sites on the same server, for example if a spammer on the same server as you takes up all the resources on that server. Cloud Hosting - Actual location of data is unknown (lost in the cloud), the webmaster can therefore no longer control access as directly as in the traditional sense. - Sensitive data may share the same physical machine as other web sites / users, although the data will be virtually separated. - Virtual partition of files and the associated environment allied with on-the-fly resource allocation ensures that your web applications are completely separate from other users. Infrastructure: Traditional Hosting - Customers control the infrastructure they require. Cloud Hosting - Customers are unable to control the infrastructure and rely on the cloud for this. korpa on "What is Shared Hosting?" http://forums.domaingurus.com/topic/what-is-shared-hosting#post-232 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:05:18 +0000 korpa 232@http://forums.domaingurus.com/ what is the difference between shared hosting and cloud hosting? Chris on "What is Shared Hosting?" http://forums.domaingurus.com/topic/what-is-shared-hosting#post-215 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:17:52 +0000 Chris 215@http://forums.domaingurus.com/ <div class="post"> If we want to understand what does shared hosting means we first need to know what hosting and shared means, the first one hosting is a term referring to the storage of a web site via the Internet, and shared is a term we all are familiar with. So concluding the shared hosting is a shared space on the web, lets look the shared hosting like buying a department on a big building, comparing it to a dedicated hosting that would be like buying a chalet. This will give us an idea of what shared hosting is, nevertheless we can explain what shared hosting is from a different point of view, lets say that my company needs to have its own web site but its too expensive to hire a systems administrator for setting a network, setting a server, setting your applications and setting your web site, so you will look for a different solution one cheaper solution will be the shared hosting, you can hire a space on the Internet for less money than the one required to get a server set up for your company. Of course shared hosting means to share a server with more people, remember the department analogy?, this could be achieved on different ways but the main idea is to host several people living on the departments that are located on the same building, but it will be faster and cheaper to get a shared hosting for your site than to set a server, a network, hire a system administrator to set everything up and maintain them. Your designers can work right away you do not have to wait for the systems administrator to finish setting things up around, your website already have his space on the web, you can upload a “under construction” page and see it available almost immediately. </div> k1ll3r on "What is Shared Hosting?" http://forums.domaingurus.com/topic/what-is-shared-hosting#post-95 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:17:17 +0000 k1ll3r 95@http://forums.domaingurus.com/ <h1>What is Shared Hosting? </h1> A shared hosting is a web hosting service that allows a customer to take over its Web site on the same computer, and using only a web server program. Commonly implemented by the technique of virtual hosting, available on most servers. Shared accommodation is made to a web server computer serves multiple domains. There are several ways to do this (see web hosting), but only for hosting virtual memory you need a copy of the web server, and one network card is sufficient. A company can do this because it has several similar sites, and wants to share information (for example, that everyone can access the same database). But it can also happen that hosted sites are not related, for example, a small business accommodation will have all the pages of their customers on the same computer. Types There are two ways to do virtual hosting: name (domain name) and IP (IP address): * By name Two domains can lead to the same IP (using DNS). So when a visitor enters the IP, has a page view or the other depending on the domain name that has written to enter. When the browser connects to the server to ask for the page, not only sends the address (URI) you want, but the domain that is accessed through the field Host: HTTP protocol. This is automatic, and HTTP/1.1 is required. The web server can read this information and use it to decide which of these domains have to show. * By IP It is also possible to cause the server to listen not only to an IP address, but several, each one responds with a different page. For this you can use multiple network cards, though it is not necessary because the current operating systems allow you to create virtual network interfaces, multiple IPs to allocate to the same card. admin on "What is Virtual Hosting?" http://forums.domaingurus.com/topic/what-is-virtual-hosting#post-83 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:04:20 +0000 admin 83@http://forums.domaingurus.com/ <h1>What is Virtual Hosting?</h1> In appearance you have server for your own company, but the truth is that you can only manage certain space in a shared server. On these services you have your own identity and don’t need to take care about the management of the server. This kind of service is perfect for small business that can have some features with this service like good plans of bandwidth, e-mail accounts, and additional services like database software and others. With the virtual hosting you don’t need to worry too much about the internal managing because this kind of plans almost all can offer a control panel where you can manage your products and services. If you have a couple of websites and you’re a beginner, but your websites can’t be on simple shared hosting, because the amount of visits, the virtual hosting is perfect for you, for some websites a dedicated server could be expensive. This is perfect for personal reasons. admin on "Dedicated Server Hosting" http://forums.domaingurus.com/topic/dedicated-server-hosting#post-75 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:38:44 +0000 admin 75@http://forums.domaingurus.com/   <h1>Dedicated Server Hosting</h1> This is one of my first post, and because this forum is dedicated to expand the explanation of other users about the hosting world, specially for dedicated hosting, the more I can expand this information, the more useful this could be for you to know about the dedicated hosting. Dedicated Server Hosting You're managing a business, but you want to expand your market, the easiest way and cheapest are the Internet, the publicity could be all on a web site, so you have the idea to design your web site and all stuff you need for it, but the question is, where to store the site? Here's an explanation about a solution, dedicated hosting is a solution. What is dedicated hosting, simply is a web-hosting service where you can store all for your site a server, is called dedicated because is totally used by your web-site and other things you want to store on it. There's also the shared hosting, simply, another web-hosting service, where your share a little space in a server, the difference is that you won’t control the other stuff in this server and won't be capable to repair possible malfunctions on the server. If you decide for dedicated hosting, you will need to choose between a unmanaged and managed dedicated server. This depends from the experience you will have on the manage of your server, the unmanaged server is where you have some expertise help, you contract for a extra support and you will not be at the total care of your server, in other hand, the managed server it refers about that you can maintain the server with your own personal or by yourself, this can be more cheap, it depends some on knowledge. The dedicated server hosting is used for more efficiency on your web-site. Powerful tool if you use it efficiently. admin on "What is a Subdomain?" http://forums.domaingurus.com/topic/what-is-a-subdomain#post-51 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:11:04 +0000 admin 51@http://forums.domaingurus.com/ <h1>How do I add a subdomain?</h1> Here are the steps to add a subdomain within the iBizPanel <ol> <li>Click on Websites</li> <li>Click on Manage Sub-domains under the Quick Menu, located on the left hand side of the screen</li> <li>Select the web site you wish to add a subdomain to and click Go!</li> <li>Click New Sub-Domain</li> <li>Enter the Sub-domain name, such as example.example.com.</li> <li>Set the FTP User name, if the user name is left the same as the main site, the main sites password will be reset to what is entered in the password field. Also, if the user name is left the same as the main site, the subdomain user is allowed to modify and delete content for the rest of the domain.</li> </ol> admin on "What is a Subdomain?" http://forums.domaingurus.com/topic/what-is-a-subdomain#post-50 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:08:49 +0000 admin 50@http://forums.domaingurus.com/ <h1>What is a Subdomain?</h1> A subdomain is an addition to a registered domain name, which allows a website to have specific pages loaded when a user types http: //subdomain.example.com. For example, it would be possible to have a companies billing department page loaded by typing http: //billing.example.com. With each subdomain, a user for that subdomain can be added to the system, meaning that they can FTP to the server and upload content for that subdomain. Subdomain users will not be able to change the main sites content. A Subdomain shares the same resources that the main site uses. * Note: The subdomain user name must be different than the main sites FTP user name. If the usernames are the same the subdomain user and the main site user will be the same account, allowing the subdomain user to modify and delete the main web sites files. admin on "Buying Domain Name" http://forums.domaingurus.com/topic/buying-domain-name#post-9 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:37:37 +0000 admin 9@http://forums.domaingurus.com/ <h2>Buying Domain Name</h2>Why You Need A Domain Name On the World Wide Web your domain name is your own unique identity. No two parties can ever hold the same domain name simultaneously; therefore your Internet identity is totally unique. If you have a business site on the Internet your domain name is your own online brand and in a sense you can use your domain name as your online business card. With your own domain name your web site, and e-mail addresses for example will have that professional look, being unique to your business. Many people often miss the importance of having and then keeping their domain name until they lose it. Once this happens they soon realize that they have lost their whole online identity. How does a domain name work? To understand why you need a domain name you first need to know how a domain name works. A domain name is an addressing construct, used for finding and identifying computers on the Internet. Computers use Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses, which are a series of numbers used to identify each other on the Internet; however, many people find it hard to remember IP Addresses. Because of this, domain names were developed so that easily remembered names and phrases could be used to identify entities in the Internet instead of using an IP Address. For example, the domain name DomainGurus.com identifies the company DomainGurus.com. When a user types the domain name DomainGurus.com in their browser or sends an email to DomainGurus.com, the Domain Name System (DNS) will translate the domain name into IP numbers. These are then used by the Internet to connect the user to DomainGurus.com’s web presence. What should I use as a domain name? You can use a word or phrase as a domain name. When thinking of a domain name, think of catchy words or phrases that are easy to remember and that will bring more traffic to your site. Try to use a domain name that is relevant to your web site. If your web site is a business site, it is a good idea to use the companies name as the domain name or if your site is a personal site try to think of a domain name that is related to the topic of your web site. Also try to keep your domain name as short as possible, around 5 to 20 characters is fine. The shorter the domain name the easier it will be to remember. How do I acquire a domain name? There are two main ways you can get a domain name. The easy way to register a domain name is by clicking here. Make sure that your information is registered properly, especially if you didn’t register your domain name yourself. Ensure that your information is displayed as the registrant, administrative and billing contacts; most importantly make sure that the email addresses for these contacts are ACTIVE. When you receive any information about your domain name, such as renewals, price changes, etc… an email will be sent to this email address. If you can’t receive any mail from the email addresses listed under the domain names contact then you are at risk of not receiving important notifications about your domain names, which could result in loosing your domain name. People often miss the importance of having their own unique domain name for their web sites. A domain name represents you, your company and your online presence; as does a ‘business card’. If you don’t have your own domain name you won’t be able to promote your own online identity and web site on the World Wide Web.  admin on "Developing a website (Guides)" http://forums.domaingurus.com/topic/developing-a-website-guides#post-8 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:35:54 +0000 admin 8@http://forums.domaingurus.com/ <h1>Developing a website (Guides) </h1>The first steps in developing a website Start planning your website by doing some research. A competitor analysis will be the first step. Use the Internet search engines to find out who is already offering your particular services, whether in Australia or overseas, and make some notes as to the functionality they offer. It is also worthwhile just looking at websites you like. Why do you like them? Are they easy to use, offer good services or do you like the way they look? This type of information will be extremely helpful when you approach a design firm or set out to design your own site. Users of the Internet have become accustomed to certain types of layout and design. Think of sites like Amazon and Yahoo – you know where to go and what to do and many companies have followed their lead for good reason. Your design should reflect the type of services you are offering (e-commerce, information, news) and it should appeal to your target market. Before you approach a web design or development company you need to have a ballpark budget in mind. Web development can well turn into a bottomless pit as more and more features are added. Mystery shop for some quotes, or ask friends and colleagues who have websites what they believe is reasonable. Remember there are also set-up and ongoing costs associated with the development to consider. You also need to establish how complex or large you want your website to be. Is it a five-page brochure or are there hundreds of pages of information? You may well have heard the expression 'look and feel'. This refers to the combination of what the user can see and the voice on the site. Your content is vital to the success of your venture. There are a few ways content can be used. Some people refer to the text on the site as the content, others refer to content as the text plus graphics and images. In this case we are referring to the text. Writing for the web is a specific skill. There are plenty of sites that can give you tips on how to write for the web, but if writing is not your core skill hire a professional. Remember, this is the voice talking to your customers. Even if the site’s pretty and you’re offering a great service, badly written text, obvious spelling mistakes and confusing instructions will put off your customers. Also try to plan for the future. Find out if your design or development company will be able to help you with future development. You may want to add features and services or a lot more content. One of the main advantages of web over print is that it can be altered and updated as you go, so plan your site in phases if you can’t afford to do it all at once. admin on "Uploading Website Content" http://forums.domaingurus.com/topic/uploading-website-content#post-7 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:35:02 +0000 admin 7@http://forums.domaingurus.com/ <h1>Uploading Website Content</h1>In order to upload your site, you will need to download an FTP client, such as CuteFTP, or WSFTP, Dreamweaver, etc. Using one of these programs, you then can upload your site under your domain, using the same username and password as you created. Make sure the file containing your default homepage is renamed as “index.html” all in lower case. You can alternatively upload content using the FileManager inside the iBizPanel or by using a web content publisher. The fast way to upload a site within the iBizPanel is to ZIP all your website content first, connect to the site using the FileManager within the panel, use the tool to allow you to upload your ZIP and it automatic unzipped for you.