Posts Tagged ‘Domain Name System’

Getting New Web Hosting Service for your Web Site

July 16, 2009 - 8:40 am No Comments
Web Host asked:

Due to various inefficiencies in the old provider of Web Hosting Support I like the poor, down web server, old provider’s inability to meet his requirements, costly service web hosting, online business owner decided to go for a new web hosting provider. Because of all the above and more not on the list you opt for new web hosting service. The next step is to transfer your website as the current web host to the new web host that can be done following the steps below. The transfer time to transfer the old web hosting, planning must be done in advance, can atleast a month before that to ensure smooth transfer, and transferring in less than a month led to the inaccessibility of its Web site. Register as a new web hosting service. The above passage is once complete, the user must go to a new web hosting service and therefore must be signed within 24 hours to allow new account as early as possible. Take the backup files as soon as you create a new web hosting account, you should take backup of all your web files to the new supplier. You usually have and all your website files on your local computer is still beneficial to backup all your files from the old web server. Encourage including HTML files, backup any script file, database file and even file server must be taken daily. Create after that a directory structure similar to the structure of web server directory and then load the file into its respective directory. The loading of filesYou receive an email notification of their new web-hosting provider after notification of your new web hosting account. The information required for setting up a website including FTP server information all will be provided within that email. With the help of that user’s information can now ftp ftp your new web-hosting server and can upload all your files. First the user must create a directory structure and then can upload all their files in their respective directories. The user can also install any file or database of writing if used on your website and should also set their email accounts with the help of the administration panel. After finishing the loading of all files and installing the script files or temporary URL of the databases can be used to test the new site. The temporary URL can be obtained from direct mail notification of new web hosting provider. The test of the new web site of the new websiteThe can be tested online using a temporary URL directory. As different server web hosting server environment requires different work, that ‘s why the user needs to verify all the scripts as CGI, Perl if they are working as per the requirement or not. All hyperlinks should be tested further in standard web pages to confirm that no broken links there. His website received at the old provider of web hosting continues to be operational, even when you are testing through the temporary directory URL. The transfer of the domain name after finishing the new website of proof on the temporary URL and verification of its perfect execution, next step is to contact the new domain name registrar to change the old domain name server to point the new DNS web hosting provider. There, after the user gets the DNS information via email after he finished the successful registration with the new web hosting provider and also get information from websites of your new web hosting provider. The purpose of domain name servers is to control how to resolve the domain name. The Domain Name are commonly in the following format: The domain name registrar for NS1.THE-NEW-WEB-HOSTING.COMNS2.THE-NEW-WEB-HOSTING.COMSome requires the IP address of the DNS. In this case you must provide the IP address of your new DNS. For example: NS1: 216,193,194,212 NS2: Information 216,193,207,106 DNS to change and spread through all the shots of the WHOIS servers typically 24 to 72 hours. Tools such as Whois whois.com Internet can be use to monitor the transfer status of the DNS. The DNS will be displayed again once the transfer is complete. Even minor changes are possible as the user can upload his own file or table to the new web-hosting server. When the user checks their homepage with the normal Domain Name he may notice the new home page, making sure that the transfer of the DNS is correct. The final test now, its Web site in the new web hosting provider is officially transferred and online. You must repeat all tests to make sure it is fully – functional. You may continue thereafter terminate your old web hosting account after it receives the final confirmation.

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What is Shared Hosting?

April 5, 2009 - 1:18 pm No Comments

Luigi Castagna asked:

When a single server serves pages for many websites, each with its own domain name then this type of hosting is known as shared hosting.

What happens is that some small companies do not want to use their resources to host their website on a dedicated server, as it requires a system administrator and the companies want to save their own time and money.

As the companies want to minimize the cost so the shared hosting service provider is mainly responsible for the management of the servers, server software installation, installation of anti virus and security updates, technical support related to the above-mentioned services. As many companies use Linux operating system because of its reliability, so many companies mainly offer Linux basted servers. Some hosts also provide Microsoft windows based servers and solutions. Both of the operating systems have similar functions but they differ in operating system related issues.

How it works:

Web hosting can be done by two methods; name based hosting and IP based hosting. The name based hosting uses a single IP that is utilized by different hostnames/web sites. When a browser requests a web page from a server using HTTP/1.1 then it also includes a hostname that is used for finding the web site that can then be delivered to the user.

IP based hosting has the advantage that each host has its own IP address. This helps the sites to use their own SSL certificate, which helps in increasing the security. In contrast to name based hosting method, where there is only one IP address used by all the hostnames/web sites. Many people/companies prefer IP based hosting method because of the above mentioned reason. Many servers are changing their web hosting method to IP based hosting as it offers much more security then name based hosting method. But one important thing to remember about shared hosting, no matter which method is used, is that they are always a bit insecure.

Advantages and Disadvantages:-

The companies lack control over the server as the server is shared by many, so they cannot ask for extra privileges. There is an added threat of insecurity as the shared server might not always be secure. On the other hand, one can save quite some money and time by using shared hosting. No system administrator is needed as it is a shared hosting.

Name based hosts are not compatible with old browsers that do not send the hostname as part of the requests. For example, the older HTTP/1.0 browsers that were not upgraded cannot send the hostname as part of their requests. They also do not support HTTPS websites, as all name-based hosts using the same IP must share the same digital certificate. A TLS extension gives a way for the client to provide the hostname as part of the handshake’. If the DNS or Domain Name System is not working properly then the name based hosted website is difficult to use and using an IP address in the address bar would not work as many website are sharing same IP.

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