Successful Digital Marketing Seminars in Cyprus

The success of Digital Marketing seminars in Cyprus is a fact. The necessity for implementing a correct digital marketing strategy in a company has already started concerning the Managers, Marketing directors and Sales executives.

The Social Media Marketing: Best Practices is a series of seminars that aim to introduce the Social networks to businesses and guide them on how they can implement successful marketing strategies through the Social Media.

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How to generate SSL Key, CSR and Self-signed Certificate (SSR) in Linux Apache

SSL Certificate is used to convert your website from http:// to https://. The protocol was created by Netscape to ensure secure transactions between web servers and browsers. It uses a third party, a Certificate Authority (CA), to identify one end or both end of the transactions.

In this article, we explain how to generate private key file (server.key), certificate signing request file (server.csr) and webserver certificate file (server.crt) that can be used on Apache server with mod_ssl.

For the sake of example we will be using www.my-server.org as our domain.

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How to create Email Accounts in Webmin

In this article we explain in simple steps how to create an email account in Webmin.

Webmin is a free control panel that provides a simple yet effective user interface for website and server owners to manage their services (mail server, dns, apache, ssl etc).

Here are the steps to create an e-mail account:

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Microsoft Hires a 14-year-old Hacker

What’s the best way to land a programmer’s job at Microsoft? Well, there’s the standard method of going to school for computer science, succeeding admirably, creating programs of your own and then applying and hoping you get the nod.

Then there’s the slightly less orthodox method employed occasionally by young and ambitious hackers.

In this case, a 14-year-old Irish hacker managed to break into the online servers for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 last month and start a phishing scam that tried to get other players to divulge personal information.

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How To Install cPanel/WHM on CentOS (3 Steps)

Dear customers, friends and blog followers,

in this article I am going to show you the basic steps for a clean installation of cPanel/WHM in the most simplified steps. What I will mention below is applicable to any VPS or dedicated server that runs CentOS 4.x/5.x, has minimum 512mb Ram and more than 4GB hard disk available. cPanel is, indeed, a powerful platform, but demanding as well in terms of resources.

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Conventional VPS hosting vs Cloud VPS Hosting

VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting has become a common and very popular hosting service for webmasters and e-Commerce professionals because of its various advanced features and capabilities. A VPS account/slice utilizes the  resources of one server, and these resources are allocated to the VPS slices according to their particular plan size and features. However, a new type of VPS hosting has arisen in the past few years known as Cloud hosting.

What is Cloud Hosting?

Cloud hosting is a term used to describe the practice of combining the resources of multiple web servers to create a single network in which server resources are allocated and distributed to sites as they are needed. In essence, this gives every web site on the network access to a seemingly unlimited amount of server resources at any given point in time, as they are not limited by the restrictions of a single web server.

Conventional vs Cloud VPS Crash Test

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How To Install cPanel and Fantastico on Linux CentOS 5

cPanel is software that provide an interface to help website owners manage their sites (FTP, Email accounts, statistics), while WebHost Manager (WHM) automates server management tasks for server administrators. cPanel makes it very easy for the hosting company to give the client total control of their website without the requirement of providing full server access. cPanel has lots of advantages and disadvantages but we won’t go through them as it is not of this article’s focus. You can read more about pros and cons of cPanel on this article here.

This article mostly interests webmasters, system administrators and any individuals who own a Virtual Private Server and wish to install cPanel and Fantastico on it.

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15% Discount on Cyprus VPS Hosting Plans

NetShop Internet Services announces a 15% discount on the Cyprus VPS Hosting Plans (VPS-256, VPS-512, VPS-1024, VPS-2048)!

Make sure you type in the promo/discount coupon: CYVPS15 on your sign up

The offer is for a limited period so hurry up!!

For sales inquiries and questions please contact sales@netshop-isp.com.cy.
If you are an existing customer please contact billing@netshop-isp.com.cy.

Common Questions about VPS Hosting answered

Many people who decide to go for a virtual private server (vps) end up disappointed either because their VPS’s resources were not being used efficiently or simply because they ran out of resources! In both cases, VPS was not what they needed. In the following article I am listing the top 5 common questions about VPS Hosting that someone should consider before making the decision to go for it.

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The advantages and disadvantages of cPanel

As a Senior System Administrator of Netshop-Isp.com.cy the technical and server-wise issues of the company concern me. I have made several crucial decisions up to now and one of them was about the control panel that we should be offering. One of the most important decisions in hosting is choosing how your users will use the service. There are many options for Linux hosting like Plesk, LXAdmin, and the most popular: cPanel.

What are the advantages of cPanel? Are there any disadvantages ? In the following article I will introduce cPanel and WHM to those who are not very familiar with and of course produce a list of advantages and disadvantages, based on my personal experience and my clients’ feedback.

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