The terms cloud hosting, virtual private server and dedicated server are thrown around so often these days that it is becoming easy to assume everyone knows exactly what each one is . For the benefit of those that don’t work in computer services, let’s take a look at one of them, the Virtual Private Server and offer a more detailed explanation. Starting at the beginning a server is a specialized piece of computing equipment that connects many users via a specialized operating system. A Virtual Private Server is actually a…

With the explosion of computer network capability in your office many employees can work simultaneously on the same job without moving from their desks. If you want to expand this capability your company can look into creating a Virtual Private Network (VPN). A VPN enables employees to access your computer network from remote locations and do anything from read their emails to join in on a teleconference. This network can also allow you to hire a great person who can’t move to your location but can still work for you…

The Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a very affordable option for a business that has a high amount of internet traffic but not enough to make the expense of a dedicated server necessary. These businesses will have a lot of inquiries about their products or need a lot of memory for specific applications but not necessarily a large ecommerce application such as a shopping cart. The perfect VPS client is one who needs more capacity than their current server can provide but less than what a dedicated server offers. The…

As we said in part one, the choice of operating system you use is a major consideration when building your business website. The way you set up your website is usually the best determinant of what OS you choose. If you have primarily wanted to set up a site that will allow you to blog or as a way to present your products for online sales using an “etail” shopping cart a Linux hosting system may very well be the best choice. This system gives you more flexibility as Linux…

The perfect host lets the guests choose what they want when it comes to food, drink and even mood music. The same holds true for web hosts – they offer you many choices and you want to choose properly for your business’ particular needs. One of your first decisions after choosing a web host is which operating system you’ll use for your website. Its okay to ask advice from others based upon which operating systems they use but this decision is ultimately up to you as the website owner. You…

The small business owner has many choices to make – some in areas that they have little or no expertise. This tends to be especially true when it comes to IT solutions. The demand for computer storage space is one problem with many solutions. Throwing money away on a large computer system may not be the best answer for upstarts or small companies. The new business owner may be best served by a web hosting service that supplies free domain registration and other amenities that will require only a small…

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.