The company that has grown and needs to move from a shared hosting service to a dedicated server can have as much or as little control over the management of that server as they want. A dedicated server provider can offer your company root administrator access which will leave the management of that server to you and your IT department. This option is often the first choice for companies who have the desire to take a more “hands on” approach to the day to day operations of the dedicated server….

A large increase in web traffic can mean that your business is really taking off. Depending upon the amount of traffic you are getting you may need to answer this increase by upgrading to a dedicated server. Dedicated servers are almost a must when there is a great deal of users accessing your website. This stems from the fact that your current hosting service provider may not be handling the increased traffic properly or giving you enough bandwidth. Prior to making this decision your first consideration should be price –…

The computer service industry has long been offering redundancy and other solutions for when disaster, usually in the form of data loss, strikes a business’ computer network. A power failure while employees are entering data into your system or when customers are accessing your e-commerce web site can cost you a lot of money. The way to combat this kind of business interruption is by having a mirror server working for you at all times. The mirror server is a second server that can be connected to the primary server….

The business that has decided to use a dedicated server for their company usually relies on it primarily for website hosting services. The amount of traffic that you receive is usually the main determinant for moving to a dedicated server as this option tends to offer much more in the way of complementing your growing business. A dedicated server offers the growing business a multitude of useful options like file management and data storage. When you use a dedicated server for these purposes you will need to have a reliable…

The term dedicated server is very appropriate because not only is it a server dedicated for your business it is also like your most dedicated employees because it is working all the time. That is why you need to consider how hard your current server is working prior to deciding if you need to upgrade to a dedicated server. Web sites that need a dedicated server are those that have a lot of visitors and a lot of interaction with those visitors. A good analogy would be a retail store…

If you have a server on premises, as many businesses do, you probably have a service contract with an IT company or you have an entire IT department to do the work for you. The company that keeps their servers in house faces down time issues that affect their ability to provide customers with access to their website. Things like off premises power interruption or failure to back-up data in a timely manner can have a serious effect on your website. If the server was off premises and had a…

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.

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:

One of the first tasks a server administrator will have to perform to setup a web server is to install apache with mysql and php support (LAMP – Linux Apache Mysql Php). In this tutorial we will use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address 192.168.0.1. These settings might differ for you, so you replace them where appropriate.

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.