Forgetting passwords is one of the most common incidents when one works with a lot of computer devices and web hosting servers. Not remembering the password and being unable to access the computer or server is very frustrating. But fortunately you can reset the forgotten passwords on both Linux Hosting and Windows Web Hosting accounts. Here I would like to share the process of resetting the root password on a Linux Hosting account.
- You can reset your password by rebooting a system in single user mode.
- After booting your server, you can face GRUB boot loader where you should select kernel by using arrow key, because from it you can boot the system.
- Press the key ‘e’ to enter in to edit mode for editing a entry.
- Choose the second line starting with the word kernel, and again press the key ‘e’ to append to the ‘single user mode’.
- To the end of line insert a space and type ’s’ and hit ‘Enter’ button.
- Now press ‘b’ for booting the system kernel in single user mode.
- You will come to shell prompt where you need to type ‘passwd’ command to reset the password.
- Enter your new password and hit the ‘Enter’ key.
That’s it. Here you have successfully reset your password. Now you can reboot the system for normal use.
Apache Servers are one of the most important web server softwares of Linux hosting services and generally it has no demands from the webmasters opting for Windows Web Hosting services. A patch can be defined as a small application or a program of software designed for fixing the existing problems or drawbacks with it’s current version. This fixing can be in terms of vulnerabilities, bugs, inabilities and uncompetitiveness compared to other similar competing softwares. In short the patch is the difference between the previous version and upgraded version of a software. Similarly Apache patches are designed to improve the performance of Apache within different areas. Official Patches released by Apache can be treated as upgraded versions of Apache. If one has the Apache source product installed then the patches will be installed or updated automatically, otherwise the files will be there in the actual patch and one can find them under any of the ‘reloc’ directories. Being an open source a person can develop a patch as per his requirements and can also share it with others. But though the patches are developed with the purpose of fixing problems and bugs, a wrongly developed patch can affect inversely with the performance of Apache. Few of the developers also have provided the patch management softwares in the market to manage the patches with the ease. Even few of such softwares can update multiple computers at the same time withing multiple networks.
The range of these patches is very wide and one can choose from the basic home editions to ones which can mange high number of commercial computers networks. The choice is available according to the webmaster’s needs to make their web hosting services more suitable for their website.. Patches related to improvising security features are supposed to be most popular patches among webmasters.
Note : The official patches downloads are available at - http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
An Operating system’s basic function is to manage all the hardware and software components held by a Computer system which can be also a Web Hosting server. So far Hardware components are concerned there are many things like Diskspace, Network, CPU and RAM which play a key role in running a web hosting server without any interruption. For the efficient use of these all components one should make sure about the following factors while choosing the web hosting services platform or an operating system. This selection also depends upon how GUI conscious a user is?
Popularity and Scope.
Number of Operating systems are available in the market containing various versions of the same operating system. But still Microsoft’s Windows and the widely known open source language ‘Linux’ are majorly considered as two of the highest demanded web hosting platforms. These two are so popular as they made web hosting services providers to provide the services including their names like Linux Hosting and Windows Web Hosting.
Compatibility
Different operating systems have different compatibilities so its essential to make sure that the Operating System you are selecting is compatible enough to run all required softwares and application on your web hosting account. Few applications like ASP, .NET, MsSQL are compatible with Windows based platform only and can not be run on a Linux based platform, but on the other hand Linux is capable of running the applications like MySQL and PHP which are cheaper and as efficient as the applications supported by Windows.
Cost
This is one more sensitive factor for the new webmasters and small scale organizations who run their websites with a limited and tight budget. As most of know that Linux hosting is cheaper than the Windows web hosting, such webmasters can go for it if they find all the requirements are getting fulfilled with it.
Future Upgrades
Any website make progress day by day in terms of visitors and the containing data, so by analyzing your website’s future requirements you should check either the Operating system is easy to find upgrades or not?
Linux is the most widely used OS by the web hosting services providers to host the servers of their clients. Operating a Linux based server is not as easy as operating a windows based one. As Linux is a command driven OS one should be very well familiar with the commands required for particular operations. Here I would like to share some most frequently used commands while working on a Linux Hosting Server.
Hostname - This command is used for finding host/domain name and IP address
hostname –d displays the domain name the machine belongs to
hostname –f displays the fully qualified host and domain name
hostname –i displays the IP address for the current machine
ping - This command is used to test network connection. Testing the network connection is necessary to ensure establishment and Timing information as to the speed of the connection.
Ifconfig – This command is used to view the current network adapter configurations and it is also useful to check the transmit (TX) or receive (RX) errors.
netstat – It is very useful to find connection to and from the host, routing tables, interface statistics with the hosts. Furthermore you can use ‘netstat -g’ to find out all the multicast groups (network) subscribed by this host.
nslookup – It is used for tracing the hostname by entering the IP address, you can also find all the IP addresses for a given domain name.
telnet – It connects destination host via telnet protocol, if telnet connection established on any port then you can predict the connectivity between two hosts is working without any problem.
traceroute – It is useful to view the number of hops and response time to get to a remote system or web site is traceroute.
Finger – When you want to view a user’s login name, real name, terminal name and write status, then you can use this command.
Reseller Web Hosting is one of the best online business available in India as well as all over the world. If we studied this Reseller Hosting India market deeply then we can come to know that the Windows Reseller Hosting has more demand than the Linux Reseller Hosting. Following are the reasons for it which I would like to share through this post.
Development and Design of a Webpage
Windows Reseller hosting platform supports to ASP (Active Server Pages) which is a Microsoft based application and highly used in website development and design, ASP is widely known for availability of various tools and scripts for use of web development and design. This also make you able to feel the suitability according to your requirements.
RDBMS (Relational Database Management System)
On Windows platform one can take advantage of relational database management system which plays very important role for SQL based server.
Compatibility
When compared with the Linux, Windows comes with better compatibility options, which also helps to deal with most of the devices required for a web hosting. Ever websites running on a Unix system can be hosted on a Windows reseller hosting server.
Unique cPanel
Availability of unique cPanel is one of the most important function available with Windows Reseller Hosting, which makes you able to handle and manage all the accounts hosted on a Reseller Hosting Server. In Linux Reseller Hosting you need to create multiple cPanel account for multiple clients.
As above we saw how Windows Reseller Server can have an edge over the Linux Reseller hosting server but you also need to be prepared to pay the extra amount as Windows OS are not for free of charge.
PHP has a reputation of being one of the best scripting language which can be used either on a web server or can be used to write various scripts to help programmers so that they can create interactive webpages. PHP plays an important role to make a webpage with great features and more dynamic. This is an open source product and can be easily supportive for HTML embedding hence it becomes very easy to make not only static pages but also dynamic web pages. PHP website hosting is also based on same platform which adds PHP code as a output to HTML pages as a destination.
Here are some highlights of PHP website hosting
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Direct compilation of the scripts of webpages without any external tools.
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The PHP Web pages effects will only be visible to the viewer of the website if the host has PHP. If the host does not have PHP, the website will be loaded with errors and might not function properly.
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PHP is supportive for the connectivity with various type of databases.
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Its easy to learn php quickly and as it is an open source solutions for programming bugs are available widely and easily which are invented by other users.
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With the usage of PHP a visitor can personalize a webpage in better way by storing cookies and remembering passwords and usernames. These type of things impress a visitor as he feels easy to surf through website and need to not to enter details each time.
A web hosting provider should take various factors in to account such as compatibility issue of old and new versions of PHP, Though PHP hosting comes under one of the cheapest hosting options including cPanel Hosting or Linux Hosting, a client need to clarify the details about the modules used in PHP scripts and another future enhancement wished by hosting client. Adopting PHP scripts with combination of languages and proper synchronization and back-end as MySQL produces one of the best results for a webmaster.
One of the most frequently asked question from webmasters is ‘Is it fair to buy a domain name and using the registrar’s services of web redirecting towards their original domain held by their own website. Though these redirection services are provided most of the time at free cost by there are some issues with the usage of URL redirection services. To misdirect webmasters registrar claims they the website’s URL will be cloaked, even stealth URL is one more similar concept to cloaking URL.
Many times webmasters willing to use these type of services because of setting up a website at a free web hosting and not as a paid shared hosting services provider accounts which generally does not come with domain name hosting. This causes for inability of a hosting provider to point the url to webmasters website. This inability is one of the biggest drawback of free web hosting type.
The feature of cloaking redirection is provided by registrars by building duplicate web pages, which are also called as ‘frames’. Frames are the empty pages which only have title of a website and meta tag information which is to be given by webmasters and thus it loads the real webpage of your website. Though many webmaster will think that whats wrong with this but users who have bookmarked the pages will not be able to view the same pages when they will try to load the bookmarks made in the past time. This will lead to impress badly to the continuous visitors of that particular website.
The biggest disadvantage of this is from SEO point of view because though there are many backlinks exists to your real pages, these links will redirect SEO bots and real visitors towards duplicate page created by registrar as an empty page and you will loose all you efforts taken on link building.
These days lot of discussions are going on superiority of ‘Softaculous over Fantastico. As Softaculous covers more recent updates it is more favorite of not only the webmasters as a consumers but also of many web hosting companies as providers. As Softaculous has 150 scripts which are dehighlighting the Fantastico which has near about 50 only.
I would like to share some important features of ‘Softaculous’ which keeps it much ahead in the race with ‘Fantastico’
- Has much more scripts than Fantastico
- More User friendly than Fantastico
- Less time consuming Installation
- Ability to Import scripts which are already manually installed
- Ability to install Javascript Libraries
- Ratings from the users who already have used by others are viewable.
- Ability to take backup of applications
- Overwrite option for already existing files.
As a statement from Softaculous, they will keep on adding more software applications into their catalog. Currently shared hosting owners are redirecting to Softaculous on a very large scale.
A Linux server will be a cheaper option than a Windows server and can provide you with greater flexibility if you are looking to make more use of open source applications with your servers. As most Windows applications are commercial, you have to pay for a license to use them; on the other hand a majority of Linux applications have followed suit of the operating system and are also open source meaning that not only are they free to use, but their source code is also freely available to modify and recompile as you wish. Linux is seen as a better option for smaller businesses because the cost-free approach of most Linux distributions means that businesses don’t have to invest so much into their web hosting services and can spend the extra money more appropriately around the business and an help to increase output and profits. A Linux server will be able to provide you with an environment that is capable of hosting a website and email services using various technologies; one of the most popular applications for use on a Linux server is Apache, which is currently the most popular web server application in use on the internet by a long shot.
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If you are using dedicated hosting for the first time then your chosen form of web hosting is likely to be a Linux VPS server because it provides you with a low cost web hosting package that can provide you with the necessary resources. Linux VPS servers are fairly low cost because Linux is an open source operating system meaning that you don’t have to pay for a license to use the operating system, and the lower the resources that you are purchasing, the cheaper your Linux VPS server is going to be. A Linux VPS server can still provide you with a fully fledged dedicated hosting environment when using a cheap VPS server, although you will be limited with as to what you are able to use your Linux VPS server for if you have fairly low resource assignments. You can add resources as you need with a Linux VPS server meaning that if you need extra RAM, disk space or bandwidth then you can purchase the additional amount that you require from your web hosting company at an extra cost. Other optional extras available with most Linux VPS servers include control panels such as cPanel and Webmin.
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