FileZilla is one of the most efficient and reliable platform for cross platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP and is powered with a lot of attractive features with a graphical user interface. Very useful in regards to your web hosting account.

Some of the key features for FileZilla are mentioned below :

• User Friendly interface making it easy to use
• Compatibility with Linux, Windows, Mac and other Operating systems
• Supports Ipv6
• Available in multiple languages
• Large files can be transfered easily with resume and transfer options
• User interface is tabbed for better use and performance
• Effective transfer queue geared up with a efficient site manager
• Drag and drop options available
• Transfer speed limit can be configured suiting your requirement
• Filtration according to file name is possible
• Comparison by Directory
• File editing and searching can be done remotely

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You can transfer your osCommerce application from one web hosting service provider to another, by copying your application files and database’s and modifying the two configure.php files located at includes/ and admin/includes/ folder to ensure smooth functioning with the new server settings.

The settings that need to be modified in includes/configure.php are mentioned below:

HTTP_SERVER : You need to set this up to your domain name

define (’HHTP_SERVER’, ‘http://mydomainname.com’);

DIR_FS_CATLOG : Then you need to define the absolute path to your shop

define (’DIR_FS_CATLOG’, ‘/home/user/public_html/shop’);

DB_SERVER : You need to set this to the localhost

define (’DB_SERVER’, ‘localhost’);

DB_SERVER_USERNAME : Assign the username with permissions and privalages to access the shop database

define (’DB_SERVER_USERNAME’, ‘user_osc’);

DB_SERVER_PASSWORD : Assign the password to access the database

define (’DB_SERVER_PASSWORD’, ‘password’)

DB_DATABASE : Define the the shop database

define (’DB_DATABASE’, ‘user_osc’)

The settings that need to be modified in admin/includes/configure.php are mentioned below:

DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT - Then you need to define the absolute path to your shop

define(’DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT’, ‘/home/user/public_html/shop/’);

DIR_FS_ADMIN - Then you need to define the absolute path to the admin folder

define(’DIR_FS_ADMIN’, ‘/home/user/public_html/shop/admin/’);

Some of the older versions of osCommerce need register_globals to be enables for the shop to function.

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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.

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Managed Web hosting is one of the fastest growing and one of the most preferred web hosting solution. Companies and enterprises looking to outsource the IT hosting requirements or businesses that already have a dedicated web server can consider co-location web hosting services.

Whereas, if you have a business and now you wish to make an online presence and have mission critical business data,managed Dedicated Server Hosting is the most suitable solution for you.
Managing the server is a complex and 24×7 task and requires experienced,dedicated technical staff who monitor the servers round the clock.

There exists a huge difference between standard dedicated hosting also known as Self Managed Hosting and managed Dedicated Server hosting.Managed hosting is the involvement of the host to provide the end-customer or business with the support for website/s. Most managed hosting solutions encompass the entire hardware situation which includes connectivity,maintenance of the   equipment and continuous server monitoring. Web hosting companies offer some softwares and applications along with the server as default,but if you wish to have additional softwares,an additional charge needs to be paid.An alternative can be to purchase the software on your own and install it on the server by your own or seek help from the host.Mind that most of the web hosts do not offer support for any third party softwares installed on the server.You must check the terms of service of the hosting company before signing up for the plans.

Companies providing managed dedicated server hosting solutions, offer various hosting-related products such as server security products, private networking, and database administration. In other words, managed hosting takes a more holistic view towards server needs and attempts to provide everything that a company would need to be successful over the World Wide Web.

Companies that choose Managed Dedicated Server Hosting solutions gain several advantages. First,you are not required to invest in costly server hardware.Each time your website falls short of resources available with the current server,you are not required to keep paying extra for upgrading the server. Secondly, you need not worry about monitoring the server functionality,since the company will monitor your server and provide extensive technical support access to ensure maximum server uptime. Thirdly,with a dedicated server you gain additional flexibility.Fourth, as many managed plans include server administration and extensive technical support, businesses and enterprises can save on in-house technical support staff. Web Hosting companies offer flexible  upgrade options,which means,if the allocated web server resources reach their limit at the mid  of the month, you may contact the host and upgrade to a higher package within least waste of time.Usually,every professional web hosting company would alert you when you reach 80% of the allocated server resources,this proves to be a helpful and you can either cut down the resource hungry applications or upgrade the server and avoid the additional charges or account suspension.

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As most are aware SEO is an abbreviation of Search Engine Optimization.It is important for getting organic search traffic to the website.Whereas,hosting is all about placing your website on the server owned by either you or by the Web Hosting provider.Here is some information about the relation between web hosting and SEO.

With the changing visitor choices and search methods,search engines have started to monitor almost every information which is related to the domain.This is something more than just the content on your website.

According to the search engine liking, backlinks or link building is considered to be the most essential aspect of SEO.Each backlink added to the list,acts as a bonus point in view of the search engine.Though,link building is not a laymans task.It is important for any website’s success to get backlinks from websites/domains that are hosted on different web host servers and with different IP addresses.The main intention should be,that the entire linkbuilding process must look natural.Incase most of the backlinks to your website comes from the same websites/domains,search engines may either think that you either own that domain/s or you maybe have purchased links from them.Here in both the cases, may create a negative impact in terms of seach engine rankings of your website.Therefore,it is necessary that the backlinks you get to your domain,comes from websites hosted on different servers from various locations that has different IP addresses to increase your authority in the search engines.

A straight forward approach to get online success is to adopt natural ways or pretend to be natural in the view of the search engines.The search engines bots determine the authenticity by validating the volume of backlinks coming from various authoritative websites hosted on different servers of different web hosting providers.

Therefore,if you are looking forward for a successful website, and with that intention,if you are setting up number of domains,it is advised to host it on different web servers offered by different web hosting providers.This move in SEO can help you achieve better results in the search engine result pages.Most of the web hosting service providers offer free dedicated IP addresses with their web hosting packages.You may contact your web hosts for inquiring about IP’s from different servers.Installing your website on such IP’s can prove to be fruitful and can save some extra bucks that you would have to pay to the other hosts for signing up for new web hosting packages.

There are various benefits of having a dedicated IP assigned to your website, one of the benefit from SEO point of view is that you are prevented from falling prey to the common IP assigned to the shared web hosting server that may be blacklisted by the search engines.If you are working on optimizing your website for particular geographic location,IP’s from servers from that region is the most effective way of geo targeting SEO.

Inaddition to this,it is required that you get your website optimized from a third party SEO firm or you may even use the freely available softwares that are already optimized.You may may even use such softwares on your server leased from the web hosting provider.Ofcourse not all web hosting packages offer you the privileges to install third party softwares onto the server. Usually, the web host offer such privileges with the Dedicated Server Hosting and VPS or Virtual Private/Dedicated Server Hosting packages,where you get the root or admin access to the server,with these packages you can install almost every third party softwares (ofcourse you need to check the terms of service of the host).

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Most of the users are unaware of the actual of a Web Host.It is a common understanding that a Web Hosting service provider is the one who offers their servers or space of the server to host your websites.But,as a matter of fact,there are many more responsibilities that they need to play.

Basically it is the responsibility of the web host to keep your website up and running smoothly over the World Wide Web.There are various factors that a hosting provider is responsible of to keep the site function smoothly.

To name a few, below are few basic responsibilities that a Web Hosting provider should keep in mind when offering services to customers.

A) Server Monitoring service: Usually, server monitoring service is offered by web hosts with Managed Web Hosting packages.It is the responsibility of the host to monitor the servers on which your website is hosted.With managed web hosting packages you are freed from the time consuming server monitoring tasks, hence you can concentrate on the other aspects of your business.The staff of the web hosting provider takes care of various tasks such as scanning event logs, tracing the problems and rectifying them if any.Server monitoring is a service that needs to be done round the clock,hence it is suggested to host your website/s with a web host that is operational 24×7.

B) Installation of Software/s: It is the responsibility of the web host to provide the software platform or applications that are required by your website.Inaddition to that, they are responsible for the messy task of its installation,its testing and deployment of the software for you.

C) Software Upgradations: A Managed Web Hosting service provider takes care of upgrading the softwares with latest patches and updates. A professional web hosting provider would not wait for their clients to ask for upgrading the softwares used on the servers.

D) Hardware Upgrades: The Web Host should be capable of providing flexible upgrades or downgrades to your existing web hosting packages.It may happen that you start getting loads of sudden traffic to your website/s and your server starts falling short of resources,then it is necessary to  upgrade to a higher server. Upgrading the plan should be fairly simple, you can contact your web host and ask them to upgrade to a higher package.

F) Hardware Maintenance: Unless you have signed up for unmanaged colocation services with the hosting provider, you are not required to bother about the maintenance of the server hardware.The managed web hosting provider is solely responsible of fixing or replacing the faulty server hardware.

G) Data Back-ups: The provider should automatically take back ups of the website data stored on their server or alternatively should offer Back up plans.You can choose any of the suitable back up plans for your back ups.When choosing a web hosting service provider, make sure that the backup servers are located at a different DC than the one where your website is hosted.

H) Hardware Security: It is the sole responsibility of the web hosting provider to make sure that the hardware equipments have adequate protection.

We at Host.co.in strive hard to serve our customers, keeping our responsibilities in mind.We are well aware of the responsibilities as Web Hosting service providers, hence we have a good reason for our customers to choose our services.

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India has always been a hub of Information Technology in the East.Now, its making its way to be the future preferred location of the Web Hosting Industry. Hence, one can expect that more datacenters and webhosting companies to setup here in India. Host.co.in is such a Web Hosting company that was established in the year 2005.It has undergone constant technological advancements since then and have managed to prove itself as one of the highly preferred and recommended Web Hosting company for hosting your website/s.Host.co.in has earned the reputation of providing customers with excellent uninterrupted hosting environment.
Host.co.in is a Web Hosting company that is one of the highly rated dedicated Server Hosting in India.They strive to offer 24×7x365 Customer Support, High End Hardware and highly integrated technologies. Host.co.in has been successful in developing a reputation for honesty and brilliant technical service in Indian Web Hosting Industry.
With Host.co.in, you can find a wide range of fully Managed Dedicated Servers in India.They have also been reputed for offering custom dedicated server hosting plans.

Managed Server Hosting is type of hosting service offered by the company to make sure that the client websites functions smoothly all the time over the World Wide Web.They offer Clustering or Mirroring service with their servers,hence the ability to offer 100% uptime with high quality, reliable and affordable web hosting.
Webmasters and geeks have always been suggesting to opt for Managed web hosting solutions for your large and mission-critical websites.Hence,Host.co.in has been offering such services to their customers on the purchase of their affordable web hosting plans.
Managed Dedicated Server Hosting in India can be further classified between two types,namely Managed Windows Hosting and Managed Linux Hosting.With  this type of services, clients can concentrate completely on the other aspects of business.The server management and maintenance is  taken care by the team of experienced and highly professional administrators of Host.co.in.Their staff is dedicated to offer good quality support 24×7 at really reach prices.Technologies such as the Failover Clustering too is offered by them,which most of the web hosting providers fail to provide in India.
The servers offered to the customers are equiped with latest back-end processors and technology .Servers are setup on  100Mbps Dedicated Network with 5 x 10 Gbps uplinks to the Data Center. Each server has a 100 Mbps Nic card and are connected to 1 Gbps switch. Every server is fully managed with current PHP / MySQL versions, control panels, Operating systems with latest software updates and firewall protections from any external infiltration with complete backup restoration facilities.

Alongwith, Managed Dedicated Server Hosting plans,you can find various other plans such as Shared Web Hosting,Reseller Hosting and VPS Hosting are cheap prices.Inorder to get an indepth understanding of the various plans,you can access the Live Chat service at any point of time.Host.co.in staff have a friendly approach and strive to offer the best customer service to customers.

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Interested people in Web hosting usually should survey the market a bit before making any decision for choosing a web host. You will get several of the good web hosting companies and with good offers. However before trusting on the web hosting provider, let us reveal some facts about the web hosting. It will help a beginner to understand about the web hosting and its basic types. There are two basic types in web hosting. One is Dedicated Web hosting and other is Shared Web Hosting . Each of this has its own advantages and disadvantages. You can choose anyone according to your needs and budget.

In case of the dedicated web hosting you will get the full control over the server, shared hosting doesn’t allow full control as many web sites together are hosted on single server. Your access is limited in the shared web hosting. If we compare this two in price, dedicated hosting is costlier than shared hosting, and this is the reason that most of the people chooses shared hosting.

New innovations in the web hosting industry is making the progress fast, new technologies and new market strategy has become the most updated section now a days. Some of the new hosting innovations are Blog hosting and Video hosting. Now the bog hosting service are very popular as the new generation people on the internet is attracted towards the Blogs and has a very huge bloggers community around. Every body uses blogs for there own reason, some use them for personal , advertisement. One of the best thing is that it is easy to use and Free service. If you need some more facilities with this blog and want to make this blog a very useful tool to you, you can host this blog to a good hosting company. There are many such sites where you can submit your blog and drive a huge amount of traffic, for making your blog successful it is necessary to have a good amount of traffic. More traffic to your site, more is your sale and good rankings in the search engines. It is good in the SEO point of view.

Video hosting is also very popular hosting service now a days. This is a very complicated service that the web hosting industry offers. It needs a good server platform, huge amount of bandwidth so that you can host videos on it at ease, high disk space for video hosting. These are the main concerns that you should consider while going for the Video hosting provider. Many more concerns are there about this , such that the loading speed of the website should be good, 24×7 support from the web hosting provider, back up facility etc. Once you are done with this check up , you are free to enjoy the hosting as the hosting provider will take care of the rest.

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The internet has deeply influenced the human life in all ways. Internet has made available everything available with just a essence of click. With the advantage of reaching to the mass at wide range , it touches every aspect of life and has a great tool for the business entrepreneur. This suggest that almost all business opts for having a business website and need a web hosting to host the website.

When you think of hosting a web site, the first thing which to your mind is about the budget of hosting and the expenses you need to spare for hosting the website. This means that almost every body on the internet are looking for the inexpensive web hosting. There are many web hosting providers that allow you m any facilities with mere cost.

Web hosting is now available with all your customizable needs and the price range that you can afford, many of the web hosting companies advertise with the packages of the affordable web hosting and business web hosting. The web hosting business works on the supply chain management. The need for the good web sites is increasing day by day and so as the need to the host the web sites.

Web hosting provider continuously research the market about the needs for the people and add it to the hosting packages and try to give at the price that every one can afford it. Some web hosting needs only to be up for the sake of existence , these web sites doesn’t require much hosting specifications and can be hosting with any cheap hosting package, However some of the web sites needs are very large and they try to cope up with it by the hosting package that suits there needs.

Inexpensive hosting is best as per the expense you save for your other requirements. Web hosting companies have cleverly sorted the requirements and provided with the packages that will be accepted by the people

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Most online users wish to start a forum of their own, but due to lack of detailed procedures they are simply stuck with the idea itself. Below are steps that would help you start with an online forum  with your own domain.First you need to contact your web hosting service provider asking to provide one of the forum softwares such as phpBB, vBulletin etc. Most of the reputed web hosts would offer an installing service called “Fantastico” using which, you can build your forum with comfort.You do not have to be a skilled webmaster to set up a forum on your domain.

Below are the Tips to set-up a forum:

Tip No. 1: First of all you are required to Register a domain name. A domain name would be the one that be an identity of your online website.
Tip No. 2: Now you need to sign-up with a web hosting provider for a package that would include phpBB, vBulletin or a similar forum software. A web hosting service provider is the one that would provide you an online web server space and the necessary softwares. This would allow you to get your forum online. A shared web hosting package can be an ideal option to start with.A web hosting service provider is the one that would provide you an online web server space and the necessary softwares. This would allow you to get your forum online.
Tip No. 3: Once your account is set up on a server,install your preferred forum software onto your domain. You can install the forum software automatically using Fantastico. PhpBB and vBulletin are one of the most preferred forum softwares available in Fantastico. To install, you need to first log into your web hosting account. Then select the  Fantastico in cpanel. Click on the preferred forum software, phpBB is great for a new forum and has some great features, vBulletin is easier to use and maintain. Choose the domain name you would like to install the board to. You can leave the “Install in directory” box empty in case you wish to have your forum as the starting page for your website (http://www.abc123.com). You can specify a directory, e.g forum, in case you want to have your forum installed at http://www.abc123.com forum.
Tip No. 4: Now you will need to choose the username and the password for the forum administrator.
Tip No. 5: Fill in the Site Name and the Short Description field that appears in the header of each page of your forum. Continue by clicking Finish installation. You will be lead to a page with the administrative panel of the board.
Tip No. 6: Here you will have to describe the categories/sub-categories of the forum.

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