Dedicated Server Tutorial – Novice to Professional
Article by Dedicatedserver Handbook
After globalization and improvement of Internet technology, business owners found new way to reach their customers, get new sales lead and offer better after sales services through it. Internet simply breaks the barriers and helps to spread millions of products and services across the globe without any time constraints.
As we know, a basic Internet based business need a website, but the question is
Starting An Online Business? – Tutorial 3 – Selecting The Business Domain Name
Article by Paul Makepeace
Picking the domain name for a business is of high importance when forming an internet business. Many businesses that have an established business name automatically register that name and use it for their internet business; this may not be the best idea. The best solution is to register several domains names, one that includes the business name, which is aimed at web users who know the business directly and type that into a search engine to find you. The other incorporates the product or service that is being offered by the business, this is targeted to web users who are looking for the product or service online.
Many businesses that sell online through their ecommerce solution have learned that web users type what they want to buy into search engines, the web user will likely find what they are looking for using this method as almost all of the words in the English dictionary are now registered within a domain name.
Finding a domain that fits the business and business product or service can be difficult but there techniques that can be utilized. If the company sells ecommerce software and these words are already taken for the different extensions (.com,.co.uk,.net etc.) then incorporate the business name into the domain such as business-ecommerce-software.com or incorporate another service such as ecommerce-software-solutions.com.
By adding these important keywords into the domain helps search engines identify the business and establish that the website is relevant for web users. The search engines place huge significance on relevance to help the web users and make sure their search engine is offering the best possible results.
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A Simplistic Beginner’s Tutorial To Setting Up A Virtual Server
Article by Dirik Hameed
Virtual Private Server hosts are superior to the shared hosting method in several ways, providing increased stability of the servers, independence from the other virtual servers in the network and overall better performance. Unlike the shared hosting services, the UK VPS hosts also allow the user the freedom of customizing the server and the possibility to use all kinds of programs. Even though it is a bit more expensive, this service incorporates all the hosting features you need, as shared hosting is simply no longer a viable option.
The first thing you will need to do is locate a company that provides VPS hosting services. The easiest way you can find a provider is by checking out several directories and online portals that can give you some information about the services that provide the lowest prices and the best quality. After you have compared a few offers and have decided on the one that can best suit your purposes, the next thing you need to do is create an account and activate it via your email. After the account activation, you should log onto the virtual private server and customize it as you see fit.
The first thing that you will need to choose is the Kernel. Unlike shared hosting, you have a plethora of Linux kernels at your disposal. However, this decision should not be taken lightly, thus you should consider doing some research on the benefits and downsides of each type of kernel. If you do not have the time and the necessary technical knowhow, your best option is to Ubuntu.
You have certain amount of virtual space allocated to you, based on the type of plan you chose for your UK VPS. While you could simply use all this virtual space for a single website, you could also create smaller partitions that enable you to run several sites on the VPS. If you want to make smaller partitions, then you will need to think about the space you want to allocate for each partition you create. It is important that you note the IP of each partition because you will need it later on. On the other hand, if you are using a single partition, then you will only have one IP to remember.
It is important that you choose a software utility that is able to handle the Secure Shell feature. While Windows works well with PuTTY, Mac and Linux operating systems will require you use Terminal. The programs are important as they allow you to log onto the VPS, install the programs required by the websites and customize the settings to better suit your needs.
Virtual Private Servers are a necessity for every online business that aims to expand, as the shared hosting simply does not offer you all the features you need. Since you can find inexpensive VPS servers on several internet portals, you do not need to be worried about the costs. Because you will be able to present high quality websites to all your clients, you can be sure that your marketing and sells will improve significantly.
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Affordable Web Hosting Services: Tutorial for Newbies
Article by Joseph Ryan
Affordable web hosting services are legion on the Web these days. Can you just pick one and run with it?
Not if you value your Web business! As all true Web veterans know (many having learned the hard way) web hosting providers vary tremendously in terms of reliability and value. And many if not most of your worst headaches as an ecommerce pro can come from choosing a loser at the outset of your Web endeavors.
May I mention just a few of the experiences I’ve had with a certain web host (which I won’t name) before switching to a more reliable company? Frequent downtime. Busy signal when calling customer service. Customer service reps who barely speak English. Continual
The definition of a Local Area Network (LAN) is a collection of network devices located on a shared broadcast domain. This broadcast domain may comprise one physical backbone like a Co-axial cable with drop cables running back to the hosts on the LAN.
The number of devices on the shared broadcast domain will have an impact on the performance of your network. Hosts on the network are continually sending out broadcasts on discover other hosts on the local network segment. Broadcasts are a necessary evil on your networks, without them your hosts would and could not discover the layer 2 addresses of other machines on the local LAN.
This is where you start to consider implementing vlans on your network. With vlans operating on your networks you can control the scope or range of the broadcast and contain it and prevent it from affecting all host across your lans.
Not only can you prevent broadcasts from unnecessarily interrupting hosts you also use vlans to group hosts with similar functions into a common vlan for the purposes of security. Once a Host is on a vlan it is protected from seeing or being seen by devices on other vlans, even of the host on other vlan is on the next port along. Using vlans allows us to logical partition your switches.
Using vlans to logically partition your switches you do away with the need to purchase any further equipment to segment your network.
Lets look at partitioning the switch into logical segments. When the switch first arrives out of the box or is defaulted back to factory defaults all of the ports are in one common vlan known as VLAN 1.
This entity is also referred to as the NATIVE VLAN.
When you connect your network hosts into the ports all subsequent traffic which they generate will be placed into the vlan of that connected port, in the default case this would be V1, all devices which are connected to this vlan are going to see all other hosts broadcast traffic, so here we see that by merely placing the devices into a vlan does not mean the broadcasts will cease.
We are going to use and example 24 port switch to see how to configure the device.
In this exercise the task is to create 3 additional vlans and place 8 ports into each vlan, the result ought to be that the switch has 3 new broadcast domain.
The ports numbered from 1 through 8 were assigned to v2 The ports numbered from 9 through 16 were assigned to v3 The ports numbered from 17 through 24 were assigned to v4 Switch(config-if-range)#end Switch#copy run start
Finally we save our configuration.
In all our fictional switch now has 3 new broadcast domains, by populating all of our switchports with hosts it would have the effect of securing the visibility of host on one broadcast domain from seeing hosts on one of the other broadcast domains from a security stand point this is ideal and from a performance point of view it achieves exactly what we need
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Cisco CCNA Switched VLAN’s Tutorial As a CCNA students you must be familiar with and comfortable with the concepts of Vlans Before you get into what they are is you need to understand what a Local area network is.
WebSupporters -Tutorial for Uploading File to Web Host Server
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Here is the shown two methods for Uploading your File to Web Host Server
Using FTP Software
Using Web Host Control Panel
1) Using FTP Software
The way of upload files to your server is to use FTP software. FTP software is a feature rich fully fledged version of web design software’s FTP function. Using FTP software you can not only upload files much more than just your web pages and web images also scripts, audios, eBooks, zip files, executable programs etc.
FTP software uploads multiple files at the same time. FTP software has two panes. One for the files on your computer and the other is for the files on your server. If you want to Move a file from one place to another then just dragging the file from one pane to the other.
Just see the Video for better explanation-
2) Using Web Host Control Panel
Every good web hosting Company will give you access to a control panel that makes it easier for you to use the many features that come with your hosting account. So you can upload, edit, manipulate and delete files on your server.
Firstly You should click on a File Manager icon, then you navigate to the folder where you want to upload your files to, choose a file from your computer to upload, then click on the upload button. And you’re done.
Just see the Video for better explanation –
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What is a self hosted email marketing solution? If you use email marketing in your business a self hosted solution would the ability to bulk mail from your own server instead of using 3rd party services like GetResponse and Aweber. If your new to email marketing then this may not be the best solution for you to start with you may be better off using a 3rd party service to begin with.
Advantages
Increased Control Of Data Security – You don’t have to rely on 3rd party’s to secure your data from spammers or risk having untrustworthy employees who have access to it.
Increased Control Over Technical Issues And Down Time – If there is a problem you have root access to the server to fix it without having to wait for 3rd party technical support to contact you back about your problem.
Reduction In Costs – If your mailing are large volume of data then you will find it significantly cheaper that using a 3rd party service (they have to make a profit)
Increased Control Over Mailing Platform And Customization – Need extra features added or switch to a platform that has the features you need for your email marking campaigns? Then you are able to implement these changes as you have full access to the server.
Can Mail Single Opted In Leads – Moving your data from one platform to another? No need to get every one to opted in again like with most 3rd party auto responder services force you too. You have more control over your data and can even mail co-registration leads.
Fully Customizable Double Opted In Confirmation Messages – Unlike most auto responder services its your confirmation message you can customize it as much as you like, you can even put the people that did not confirm onto a different auto responder and mail them with follow up messages.
Disadvantages
Decreased Security – If you no nothing about computer security and don’t have adequate technical support then it could leave you more vulnerable to SQL Injection and other data theft type attacks.
Server Downtime – If you don’t have the technical skills to fix server issues and don’t have adequate technical support to assist you then you could suffer longer than normal from any downtime that your server experiences.
Increased Costs – If you only mail very small volume like 1000 emails then you may find it cheaper not to have your own server and may be better off with a 3rd party solution.
Technical Knowledge – You need to be able to run and manage your own servers as well as install and upgrade software, if you don’t know how to do this and cant learn it quickly then you may struggle managing the project.
Responsibility – with 3rd party services your are mostly outsourcing the responsibility in terms of CAN-SPAM compliance although if you try hard enough you could probably still violate it by for example providing an invalid postal address.
With your own solution you are responsible for making sure you are compliant and can be sued if you don’t follow the guidelines most self hosted mailing software may inform you what you trying to do may be non compliment but wont force you to follow the guidelines like most 3rd party solutions will.
For example you can mail your leads without including an opted out link and can continue to mail people that have unsubscribed from your list. If you ignorant of the guidelines and the law then this could get you in trouble.
Server Type
VPS – This stand for “Virtual Private Server” this gives you root access and the same degree of control as dedicate server and can have your own IP address space but your are still sharing the same server with other users so there is a limit to how far you can push it.
This is a good starting solution and can be suitable for people with mailing lists of 10,000 – 50,000 subscribers depending on the server specifications.
This could cost you anywhere between – 0 a month dependant on country and specification
Dedicated – If your mailing larger volumes of leads or are doing time based mailing where you find that people are most responsive at a certain time on a certain day for your market then you may need to be able to process a huge amount data in a very short period of time.
You will need to get your self a dedicated server. The most I have head of a single server being able to process in a 24 hours period is about 7 Million emails. But you wont get this kind of performance from one of the low end specification servers you would start out with.
This could cost you anywhere from 0 – 00 a month dependant on country and specification.
Software Solutions
There are many types of software solutions available for this, some are free some are paid. The paid ones may be better in terms of giving you more features and better support. Just to name a few, this is not a complete list I have certainly come across better free solutions than the one listed just cant remember what they are called but this should get you started.
Free
PHP List
PoMMo Mass Mailer
Paid
Interspire
Autoresponseplus
Configuring Your Server Properly
Make sure your server is not running an open relay find out more about this form wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_mail_relay
Setup SPF for you domain so that other people have a harder time pretending to be you. This can also help with Hotmail deliverability (SenderID actually but in most cases it works out to the same thing)
Setup domainkeys to help with deliverability to Yahoo mail accounts
Some web mail systems (e.g. Hotmail) base (at least in part) junk filtering on the reputation of your ip address. If you have only just gotten an IP and are getting filtered to the junk then you may need to build up reputation as a legitimate mailer before you stop getting filtered to the junk mail folder
Ensure that you send from a domain which actually has MX records setup in DNS and that each mail server listed will accept mail for the domain you are sending from
Check Your Mail Queue
If you are running WHM on your VPS or Dedicated server it can be a good tip to check your mail queue after you do a send out, as the mailing software you use will just send to the mail queue and will report the emails as sent, but they may not have left your server yet. If this seems to be building up and being slow to send out then you may need to upgrade your server.
Blacklisting
There are three main things that can get blacklisted when your sending mail and these are
IP Blacklisting – This is when your IP address that your server uses gets blacklisted
Domain Blacklisting – This is when the domain your linking to in your emails gets blacklisted
DNS Blacklisting – This is when the name server that points to your hosting gets blacklisted so if everything is going to junk mail and your IP and Domain seem fine this may be the thing that is causing it.
What to do if you get on a blacklist?
Simply contact them and ask them to remove you works most of the time. They may ask you to provide them with the “Time Stamp” and “IP address” of the subscriber that made the complaint. Which you should have if your mailing a legitimate list. If you don’t collect this information then you could find it hard to get out of any escalating complaints against you and may end up in legal trouble
Seeding Your Mailing List
There are 2 things this can do for you, one is help identify any data theft attacks if the emails you seed your list with start receiving emails from anyone else but your self then you know someone has stolen your list some how. But more importantly is having email address with all the major email providers and ISP’s so that you can check that your email is making it to the inbox not the junk box.
White Listing
To get around the problem of blacklisting, and deliverability problems you can get white listed. Once you have done this correctly all emails you send will be trusted treated with less suspicion and delivered to your subscribers. You will need to maintain good relations with all ISP’s. Different ISP’s and Email Providers have different requirements and it can be a long and time consuming process but ultimately worth it.
CAN-SPAM Compliance
Make sure you stay compliment some of the things you will need to do
Collect IP Address and Time and Date Stamp for all subscribers for proof
Include a valid return email address in all emails you send out
Include a valid postal address in all your emails
Don’t falsify email headers this is very illegal
Include unsubscribe link in all your emails
process unsubscribe requests
This is not legal advice please seek a more compete set of requirements or if your concerned speak with a lawyer.
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WebSupporters -Tutorial for Uploading File to Web Host Server
Article by Web Supporters
Websupporters.com has become a world renowned leader in the Indian hosting market, in Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune.
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Here is the shown two methods for Uploading your File to Web Host Server
Using FTP Software Using Web Host Control Panel
1) Using FTP Software
The way of upload files to your server is to use FTP software. FTP software is a feature rich fully fledged version of web design software’s FTP function. Using FTP software you can not only upload files much more than just your web pages and web images also scripts, audios, eBooks, zip files, executable programs etc.
FTP software uploads multiple files at the same time. FTP software has two panes. One for the files on your computer and the other is for the files on your server. If you want to Move a file from one place to another then just dragging the file from one pane to the other.
Just see the Video for better explanation-
2) Using Web Host Control Panel
Every good Company will give you access to a control panel that makes it easier for you to use the many features that come with your hosting account. So you can upload, edit, manipulate and delete files on your server.
Firstly You should click on a File Manager icon, then you navigate to the folder where you want to upload your files to, choose a file from your computer to upload, then click on the upload button. And you’re done.
Just see the Video for better explanation -
WebSupporters Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Provide the fully video tutorial for Web Hosting in India. .
Just go to the – http://www.websupporters.com/technical-support/tutorials/video-tutorials/hosting-video-tutorials.html
WebSupporters Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is Top Company for Web Hosting Bangalore & leading IT Services provider Company in Pune, Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai & all over India.Websupporters.com offering Web Hosting Services Bangalore, Web Hosting In India, Web Hosting In Bangalore.
but this should get you started.