If you are a serious webmaster who is very careful about his website then you might have idea about ‘how important a control panel is for your website?’ There are many control panels available and selection of a specific control panel is a difficult decision because each of these comes with their own pros and cons.
cPanel
Many webmasters will claim cPanel as the best control panel and even web hosting services providers provides a hosting package with this name as ‘cPanel web hosting‘. More than being simple and availability of extra features this control panel is very easy to learn and comfortable from both, client and admin side. Latest upgrades of providing better support for service clustering in windows it has captured more share of internet market, but still this feature has few bugs which should be removed very soon.
Plesk
Plesk’s presence is very long in the market as it has few features of its unique type and not available with other control panels. Plesk provides better clustering support than any other control panel. It is possible to set up a network of multiple servers and make them to act as a single service unit. So surprisingly it becomes possible to run both Linux servers and Windows servers as a single unit. According to to recent news Parallels has taken over Plesk
Direct Admin
This control panel is becoming very popular with a cruising speed these days. Though it may not have as much features as other control panels have, but so far stability and resource usage is concerned it is far better than others. Other advantage is because of having less features the ratio of bugs is also less. This is suitable for budget hosts as it is capable of hosting multiple clients with a great stability.
Other control panels like ‘Hsphere’ are outdated already and being dominated cleanly by above three which are really making the choice difficult for webmasters.
Many of us have heard about the syndication process of a website. Near about each website updates new content after a specific time interval, which causes for the feed and the same feed is called as syndication feed. I the past these were used with the blog so that people can know the recent content on that particular blog. Being successive on a large scale they very soon spread to websites. As syndication can help to each type of websites they are used almost all type of websites such as by news sites to alert people by latest breaking news, by picture and video websites to inform about latest uploads, Web Hosting services providers to inform webmasters about recent releases.
A syndication feed is in the form of static XML file which is created automatically when any new content is added. I can be also as a dynamic web page which includes latest updated items and omits the appropriate XML markup. A programmer need to use classes in 'System.ServiceModel.Syndication' to generate the syndication feed output on a web page. So the precaution of not interfering with the master page is necessary while doing this. After the creation of syndicated feeds page, one need to remove all the other content from that particular .aspx page. The only code exists should be of @Page directive.
For controlling a account and making the administration easy one it is necessary to add a control panel on VPS Hosting servers. With addition of a control panel one can look after all websites which are hosted on a VPS Hosting server. There are few control panels available for both Linux VPS Hosting and Windows VPS Hosting. I would like to describe best five of them in brief.
Plesk Panel
As a VPS control panel, Plesk Panel is known to be the best control panle because it can manage any number of plesk VPS servers by using a single interface, many users claims it as a fastest control panel and fully featured with controls.
cPanel / WHM
cPanel which is known a short form of control panel in web hosting industry is one of the most popular control panel type which is also capable of scaling and transferring multiple information among accounts of a VPS server.
Small Business Panel
This type of control panel has a reputation of being able to install applications with a single click from libraries, blogs, cms packages and e-commerce suites. One more specialty this type of control panels has is, you can set multiple level of control for different users. This is most suitable control panel for ‘Reseller Businessmen and Corporate business users’.
Helm Control Panel
This is the best control panel for Windows VPS accounts because it enables the uploading process easy through control panel. Furthermore Helm control panel also has features like high security level and easy file handling.
HSP Complete
This control panel is wel-known for its simplicity and user-friendliness that’s why it suites to newbies. New people can learn and handle it very quickly. It is also fast and reliable for VPS Hosting clients.
All above mentioned control panels are easily available in both Linux VPS hosting and Windows VPS Hosting.
Affiliate Program is becoming a great weapon to promote web hosting services on the internet as an affiliate himself becomes a promoter of hosting business for his own profits. An affiliate can earn a good income if he works hard and succeed to arrange few big deals between hosting company and hosting clients. Web Hosting providing companies have developed a tracking system through which they generate a unique links for each affiliate which is further used for developing business of that particular affiliate. There are few methods which one has to understand before signing up for a affiliate program. Unlike a Reseller Hosting customer, there is no need to become a existing customer of that web hosting company for being eligible to become a affiliate program. In reseller hosting you need to purchase the hosting services from a web hosting providing company and then you can resell those services to another hosting clients, but affiliate business can be started with zero investment.
There are number of affiliate programs available on the internet from which you just need to calculate the output and select the best paying affiliate program. In other aspect of this business you also need to be sure about the service quality provided by that particular web hosting provider company because you only receive your commission until the customer refereed by you stays with the web hosting provider company. Most of the web hosting companies provides banners to make advertising easy for affiliate member. Affiliate member has to place this banner on targeted traffic generating websites backed by unique affiliate link assigned for his own account.
One can describe PuTTy as a client program for the network protocols which are mostly used for running a remote sessions on a computer system which is connected to a network. Such programs include SSH, Rlogin network protocols and Telnet. This PuTTY obligates towards client side of a particular session and not on the server side where does it actually runs.
In other words one can say that PuTTY makes it possible to analize a operation on the computer system which can be different that the computer system where actually it is running. For example you can operate a computer system having any operating system, software etc from other computer which has different parameters.
PuTTY supports both xterm terminal as well as DECterm but PuTTY's default terminal type to any server is as xterm if any problem persists with it then it can be reconfigured as vt220.
If anybody has a question that 'Which commands can be executed in a PuTTY terminal window?' then it is basically wrong question because no process occurs inside PuTTY but it only a tool of communication which forwards the commands typed by you to the another computer and responses from that computer back to you. PuTTY has nothing to do with running applications on any of the both computer systems ans so that command execution depends on the system's execution compatibility to those commands.
By using PuTTY the security level of web servers can be maintained. It is very easy to run PuTTY by downloading 'puttygen.exe' which is widely available on Internet.
Here are the remaining shortcuts of the previous post I would like share with all of you.
| Alt – 0188 ¼ |
Alt – 0203 Ë |
Alt – 0218 Ú |
Alt – 0233 é |
Alt – 0248 ø |
| Alt – 0189 ½ |
Alt – 0204 Ì |
Alt – 0219 Û |
Alt – 0234 ê |
Alt – 0249 ù |
| Alt – 0190 ¾ |
Alt – 0205 Í |
Alt – 0220 Ü |
Alt – 0235 ë |
Alt – 0250 ú |
| Alt – 0191 ¿ |
Alt – 0206 Î |
Alt – 0221 Ý |
Alt – 0236 ì |
Alt – 0251 û |
| Alt – 0192 À |
Alt – 0207 Ï |
Alt – 0222 Þ |
Alt – 0237 í |
Alt – 0252 ü |
| Alt – 0193 Á |
Alt – 0208 Ð |
Alt – 0223 ß |
Alt – 0238 î |
Alt – 0253 ý |
| Alt – 0194 Â |
Alt – 0209 Ñ |
Alt – 0224 à |
Alt – 0239 ï |
Alt – 0254 þ |
| Alt – 0195 Ã |
Alt – 0210 Ò |
Alt – 0225 á |
Alt – 0240 ð |
Alt – 0255 ÿ |
| Alt – 0196 Ä |
Alt – 0211 Ó |
Alt – 0226 â |
Alt – 0241 ñ |
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| Alt – 0197 Å |
Alt – 0212 Ô |
Alt – 0227 ã |
Alt – 0242 ò |
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| Alt – 0198 Æ |
Alt – 0213 Õ |
Alt – 0228 ä |
Alt – 0243 ó |
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| Alt – 0199 Ç |
Alt – 0214 Ö |
Alt – 0229 å |
Alt – 0244 ô |
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| Alt – 0200 È |
Alt – 0215 × |
Alt – 0230 æ |
Alt – 0245 õ |
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| Alt – 0201 É |
Alt – 0216 Ø |
Alt – 0231 e |
Alt – 0246 ö |
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| Alt – 0202 Ê |
Alt – 0217 Ù |
Alt – 0232 è |
Alt – 0247 ÷ |
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When you don’t find a particular symbol on your Keyboard keys, What do you do? You need to search it through various options of the application you are using. So avoid this time wastage I would like to share some shortcuts which can be created by combination of certain keys given in the following table.
| Alt -0128 € |
Alt – 0143 ? |
Alt – 0158 ž |
Alt – 0173 - |
| Alt – 0129 ? |
Alt – 0144 ? |
Alt – 0159 Ÿ |
Alt – 0174 ® |
| Alt – 0130 ‚ |
Alt – 0145 ‘ |
Alt – 0160 |
Alt – 0175 ¯ |
| Alt – 0131 ƒ |
Alt – 0146 ’ |
Alt – 0161 ¡ |
Alt – 0176 ° |
| Alt – 0132 „ |
Alt – 0147 “ |
Alt – 0162 ¢ |
Alt – 0177 ± |
| Alt – 0133 … |
Alt – 0148 ” |
Alt – 0163 £ |
Alt – 0178 ² |
| Alt – 0134 † |
Alt – 0149 • |
Alt – 0164 ¤ |
Alt – 0179 ³ |
| Alt – 0135 ‡ |
Alt – 0150 – |
Alt – 0165 ¥ |
Alt – 0180 ´ |
| Alt – 0136 ˆ |
Alt – 0151 — |
Alt – 0166 ¦ |
Alt – 0181 µ |
| Alt – 0137 ‰ |
Alt – 0152 ˜ |
Alt – 0167 § |
Alt – 0182 ¶ |
| Alt – 0138 Š |
Alt – 0153 ™ |
Alt – 0168 ¨ |
Alt – 0183 · |
| Alt – 0139 ‹ |
Alt – 0154 š |
Alt – 0169 © |
Alt – 0184 ¸ |
| Alt Р0140 Π|
Alt – 0155 › |
Alt – 0170 ª |
Alt – 0185 ¹ |
| Alt – 0141 ? |
Alt – 0156 œ |
Alt – 0171 « |
Alt – 0186 º |
| Alt – 0142 Ž |
Alt – 0157 ? |
Alt – 0172 ¬ |
Alt – 0187 » |
Furthermore shortcuts can be found in next post.
If you are facing an issue wherein PHP scripts does not show the correct time, the reason for this can be mostly said to be because your web hosting server is based in a different time zone. The issue can be simply sorted out by changing the date.timezone setting in PHP.
As per your location you can set the date.timezone value in PHP by adding the below to your php.in file :
ate.timezone = “Asia/Calcutta”
The example is stated assuming that you would like to set the timezone for your PHP script to Asia/Calcutta.
If you face any issues while executing the above, you can contact your web hosting service provider for further assistance on the same.
The ways to connect by FTP to a host for your web hosting account are mentioned below :
The most simple way to connect is by using IE which has proved to the best in regards to FTP support. For connecting with your browser, you need to use the below mentioned address :
ftp://FTPUSER:FTPUSERPASSWORD@mydomain.com
If your FTP user to connect is similar to user@mydomain.com, then you will have to make sure that you URL encode it like the below mentioned :
ftp://FTPUSER%40mydomain.com:FTPUSERPASSWORD@mydomain.com
This address is URL encoded and comes from YourFtpUser@YourDomain.com where @ has been substituted with %40, which is the ASCII code for @.
Generally you would require to change your MySQL collation in order to solve any problems with foreign character encodings. The very common step that can be taken here is to change your MySQL collation from latin1 to utf8. The same can be changes by using phpMyAdmin and the by following the below mentioned steps :
1. First you need to login to your cPanel account provided with your web hosting account and then click on phpMyAdmin icon located in the Database Box.
2. Now you need to select the Database you would want to manage from the drop down menu located on the left.
3. Then click on the Operations tab in the top menu of your phpMyAdmin
4. Once you click on Operations you will see at the bottom of the page the collation option. You need to now select a collation from the drop down menu and click on the Go button.
Please be informed that after you change the collation of a database only the new tables will be created with the new collation. All the other tables will remain with the collation, they were initially created with.
