Thursday, April 26, 2012

How Much Space & Bandwidth?

How can a normal user determine the disk storage size and bandwidth that is right for his / her website? Generally speaking, text does not take much space, if any. When it comes to images and videos, it's totally a different story.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Beware of first year hosting offers

You browse for a hosting plan, you find iPage offering unlimited everything with $42/year price tag. What you fail to notice is that this price is for the first year of hosting only. After that, the price goes up to $110 per year. In light of that case, you need to re-calculate your numbers before you go ahead with any hosting plan.

Monday, April 23, 2012

CPU Quota Errors

So your site is growing, your scripts are being heavily utilized, and then suddenly your webhost sends you an email, warning you about the CPU quota errors and that if you do not sort them out, your hosting account can be stopped or cancelled.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

How Is The Monthly Fee Calculated?

 How does webhosting service providers calculate their hosting fees? Based on a simple equation: Web Space + Bandwidth = Monthly Fee. How do they make their profits? From overselling their bandwidth and web space.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Five Common Migration Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them

Migrating to new versions of Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, Office 365 and even Windows OS brings some important benefits, including enhanced reliability, usability, manageability and security, but it also can result in down time,  risk factors for compliance, governance, and productivity abound, especially when moving critical applications and data across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.

Quest Software has identified five common migration mistakes and offers tips on how to avoid them.
  1. Poor PlanningCompanies often plunge into major migrations without reviewing existing environments (e.g., users, DLs, groups, public folders, etc.) as well as what needs to be moved (e.g., data stores, users, mailboxes) and what doesn’t (e.g., unused accounts, stale data, empty mailboxes). Assessing application and browser compatibility and preparing for the move are crucial, especially when dealing with Office 365, Windows 7 and Active Directory migrations.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

[HostGator] Fantastico Is No Match To In-house Script Installer

A lot of angry comments have been coming out after HostGator stopped offering the Fantastico script installer for free among its list of services.

HostGator answer was simple, they have another yet better option, the HostGator Script Installer, which will install scripts with one click, and based on HostGator's clients recommendations, that one does a very good job installing scripts, if not better than Fantastico!

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

[VPS] CloudLinux Best Choice To Manage Resources

So you bought a VPS server from say, HostGator, and you are wondering how to manage that server to start your reseller business, and start offering shared hosting.

The best way to achieve that is to rely on CloudLinux on your VPS. CloudLinux automatically divides the resources so each client can get specific resources. Later on, you can start charging extra money for additional sites hosted on your VPS.