cPanel Hosting Blog http://mansoc.com Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:45:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en How to Limit RAM usage for Firefox http://mansoc.com/how-to-limit-ram-usage-for-firefox/ http://mansoc.com/how-to-limit-ram-usage-for-firefox/#comments Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:45:31 +0000 http://mansoc.com/how-to-limit-ram-usage-for-firefox/ Sometime you need to prevent your webbrowser Firefox from eating up your memory unnecessary then you can set limit for RAM consumption by your Firefox Webbrowser. If you want to have more free RAM which can be used by other applications then you can just limit Firefox for RAM consumption. You will have to amend following setting within your webbrowser.
Type about:config into your address bar and just hit Enter key

At the top of the page you will get a Filter text box you will have to type browser.cache.
Double-click the “browser.cache.memory.capacity” entry. You will get the default value as 50000 which you can edit, if you don’t have a huge memory then you can change the number to 15000 or whatever you like and just complete the process by clicking OK.

That’s all, you have limit your firefox webbrowser for the RAM usage. Thus you have free RAM for other applications.

]]> http://mansoc.com/how-to-limit-ram-usage-for-firefox/feed/ Dedicated IP webhosting http://mansoc.com/dedicated-ip-webhosting/ http://mansoc.com/dedicated-ip-webhosting/#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:17:39 +0000 http://mansoc.com/dedicated-ip-webhosting/ Having a dedicated IP for your webhosting account will provide you more freedom and flexibility for your website, you have full control over your website and can make it more secure, you can install SSL certificate on your website if you have dedicated/static IP address for your domain, thus all financial transactions would be safe and secure. All webhost can offer you dedicated IP webhosting servives, you will have to pay extra for getting dedicated IP for your domain charges differ from provider to provider. If you have dedicated IP assign to your hosting package then webusers can access your site using domain name or can also access website content through IP address.
Dedicated IP webhosting will provides a unique IP address that can be used exclusively for each individual server space or domain.
Usually larger business owners or e-commerce websites have dedicated IP for their hosting account so that they have full control over their webspace and can secure their business website. If you want to install SSL certificate on your server/hosting account so that all financial transactions would be carried out in secure manner then you need to have a dedicated IP address where you can install this certificate thus dedicated IP plays and important role in securing your server/business financial transaction. A Private SSL cant be installed on shared IP which you will get by default if you don’t order dedicated IP. You can consider Dedicated IP addresses as highly valued prime Internet real estate.

Having dedicated IP will also help you in better Search engine ranking ie your site may rank better in SE if you have excellent, unique content hosted on dedicated IP.
Thus paying extra for getting a Dedicated IP for your hosting account would worth a lot and would surely pay for your investment.

]]> http://mansoc.com/dedicated-ip-webhosting/feed/ Avoid Overseller Webhost http://mansoc.com/avoid-overseller-webhost/ http://mansoc.com/avoid-overseller-webhost/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:02:23 +0000 http://mansoc.com/avoid-overseller-webhost/ In the competitive world of webhosting services, there are many webhost who just try to attract webmasters by offering them tremendous hosting resources at very cheap prices, they claim to do so as hardware cost have reduce tremendously but they fail to offer you reliable hosting services and support. So its always suggested to be away from such oversellers as there are major chances that you may not get good service and support which is must for successful running of your website. Suppose your host is offering you a shared hosting plan with 100GB diskspace and bandwidth of 1000GB, he may have a server with 1TB diskdrive where he would be hosting your account, your webhost will decide the number of  accounts that would be hosting on this server, as he is having 1TB diskdrive you can calculate maximum number of account which can be created on this server, we are aware that we wont be using full allotted 100GB diskspace which your webhost know better then us and he start creating any number of accounts on this server as he know there is enough space left on his master server. Even if  any account on this server had used all allotted space then there are other accounts which haven’t used 10% of allotted diskspace so your host don’t have any problem in setting up extra account on this server and thus can have more number of accounts then actual capacity of server in the greed for earning more revenue but this may create load on master server if most accounts on this server are using all allotted server resources. This may affect your website loading time and will surely affect performance as if number of hosting accounts on master server increase then they will create load on processor, RAM etc and also there would be huge bandwidth consumption thus your website may not get required amount of server resources. So its always better to go with a webhost after getting good recommendation and positive testimonials also check their support response time and quality of service.

]]> http://mansoc.com/avoid-overseller-webhost/feed/ Anonymous FTP Access. http://mansoc.com/anonymous-ftp-access/ http://mansoc.com/anonymous-ftp-access/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:12:58 +0000 http://mansoc.com/anonymous-ftp-access/ Anonymous FTP as the name suggest is a way using which you can allow users to retrieve documents , files, programs, and other archived data from your server using Internet from anywhere in the  world without having to create a separate userID and password. Usually anonymous FTP servers contain software, documents of various sorts, files for configuring networks, graphic images and all sorts of other information.
An enormous amount of information is generally stored on these anonymous FTP server which  can be used by anyone.  You can create a special userID  of “anonymous” all network user can bypass local security checks and can access publicly accessible files stored on the remote FTP server. If you allow anonymous FTP access to your server then all your visitors who wish to download or upload files can do so easily without requiring any user ID and password to login to your server.  Using anonymous FTP all users can access your upload directory or any directory on your domain that has been set for “public” read/write permissions thus any website visitor can have upload or download files to and from your domain. Thus as a security measure you should set appropriate permissions for such directories on which you wish to restrict anonymous FTP access. If you want to restrict such anonymous access to specific files and directories on UNIX servers you can do so using your File Manager, you need to disabling public read and/or write access to the files or folders for which you don’t want anonymous access this will ensures you that non of any anonymous users will be able to access these restricted files or directories and your server is safe and secure.

]]> http://mansoc.com/anonymous-ftp-access/feed/ Google Chrome need updations http://mansoc.com/google-chrome-need-updations/ http://mansoc.com/google-chrome-need-updations/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:01:01 +0000 http://mansoc.com/google-chrome-need-updations/ Recently Google had come up with its browser popularly know as “ Google Chrome “ which was unique in its type and was a product from Great Google….. everybody was thinking it as great launched and helpful product but there are few things which need to be considered by Google for making it a great product.

Following are few points which can be consider by Google for making it a powerful web browser.
Google Chrome don’t have any plug-in capability so we cant use any third party plugin with it eg.. Alexa rank checker. Firefox allow such plugins to be installed thus give use more freedom.
When we click on any link within webcontent its color changes after its visit which indicate that particular link has been visited already Google Chrome lacks this feature. Google Chrome cant fails to remember field values which we usually submit in most forms.
Need to change the logo design as its much similar to Visual Studio 2005, which sometimes can  be clicked mistakenly.
Need to replace “STOP” button which is located on the right side of the browser and is not much user friendly. Also it should be grouped with other features which are provided with browser as other browser do.

]]> http://mansoc.com/google-chrome-need-updations/feed/ Choosing perfect domain name http://mansoc.com/domain-name-tips/ http://mansoc.com/domain-name-tips/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:29:46 +0000 http://mansoc.com/domain-name-tips/ Choosing a domain  is vital process when you are trying to setup your webbusiness, you have to do your homework for getting a most perfect domain name which will represent your business. Domain name would be identity for your business thus you should take it very seriously while booking it,
You should consider following points before you proceed to register a domain name.
Decide what domain extension would be most prefect for you. You can opt for .com if you want to present your business for whole world else if you want to target some specific region/ country then you can consider getting ccTLD.
Decide domain name which you want to register, check if it is available, try to find a reliable and repeatable domain registrar who is available for you to support any issue. Check prices, renewal fees, transfer fees etc….
If it is possible try to register all available extension for your preferred domain name.
Try to use keyword you may be targeting within your domainname, it will help you in SEO and thus you may get better traffic. Keyword in domain name is one of the important factor for getting better position in search ranking.
If possible try to get short domain name which is easy to remember and can be easily type, make it a brand name for your web business. Your domain name should be easy to spell out thus people can tell about it to their friends and other concern.
You should try to get domain name which would be most relevant to your business or service. So people can easily remember it and thus you may get mouth publicity benefit.
Once you have your dream domain name you need to get a reliable webhost where you can host your website around it. Excellent domain name without reliable host is of no use.

]]> http://mansoc.com/domain-name-tips/feed/ Webserver backups using Rsync. http://mansoc.com/webserver-backups-using-rsync/ http://mansoc.com/webserver-backups-using-rsync/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:20:09 +0000 http://mansoc.com/webserver-backups-using-rsync/ Rsync is more advance command for copying synchronize and transferring data from server to server, you can consider it as an replacement for rcp command (remote copy program) Rsync is widely used for mirroring Web sites, web server as its most sophisticated means of synchronizing and transferring files/data and directories from one location to other.
Rsync technology uses and transfer only the changes in files, using much clever rsync
algorithm. Rsync technology calculates the difference in files without needing both files to
be present. Thus its very useful for taking backups as it will use minimum bandwidth while data backups/transfer. Rsync is commonly used to keep clustered server working together.
Rsync works better and more effictively as compared to traditional remote backup methods as Rsync will only synchronize those files which have being changed since last backup, thus there would be less data transfer and hence you can save bandwidth.
When you are performing daily rsync backup it will result in less data transfer than it
would take to perform two backups using the .tar.gz method.

Usually Rsync is effectively deployed on load balanced servers with utmost care which plays an major role in synchronizing data amongst all the database and http servers.
Rsync data transfer technology can ensure 100% data transfer between 2 or more dedicated servers and is cheapest and reliable option.

Implementing Rsync is more critical and should be implemented very careful.
The general form is : rsync source destination

You can consider this examples :
rsync -vrplogDtH /old/usr/local/apache/conf /usr/local/apache
Using this command you will sync the /old/usr/local/apache/conf/ directory to the
/usr/local/apache/conf/ directory on the same server.

If you want to use rsync and want to transfer data between different servers then use
following command :
rsync -ave ssh root@192.168.0.1:/backup/ /backup/

Using above command you can take backup directory on 192.168.0.1 and copy it to the server from where the command is run from.
If you want to implement same data transfer strategy for remote destination you can do so easily, you just need to adjust the command line accordingly with remote server address.

]]> http://mansoc.com/webserver-backups-using-rsync/feed/ Blogs for better revenue http://mansoc.com/blogs-for-better-revenue/ http://mansoc.com/blogs-for-better-revenue/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:03:22 +0000 http://mansoc.com/blogs-for-better-revenue/ Today millions of webmasters are earning their daily bread through internet, so if you want to start earning some extra revenue you can do so easily. you need to know few internet fundamentals and should be able to write good content. You can start with your own blog and can put ads on it or can also join some affiliate program and can start earning, You need to good traffic so that you will get good revenue.

There are many sites/services who will provide you free web space so that you can have your blog also you can have your blog at Blogspot, thoughts or any other blogging service provider. For setting up your blog most blog service provider offers you variety of themes, such as 3 column blogs and 2 column blogs. there are advantages and disadvantages of both and totally depends on what level of traffic you have and how you want to use your ads.

More about 2 column blogs :
clean Interface, easy to navigate, thus download time is very less but in this type of blog structure you have less space for widgets, for advertisements and your content should be large enough to fit space.

More about 3 column blogs :
You have enough space for widget, advertisements and you have more information about blog at side widget but such 3 columns blogs dont have clean, neat design and look.

If you are a popular blogger having a great blog with good traffic you should use 2 column blog. So that all visitors to your blog have more concentration on the content of your blog. Using 2 column blog you can present all your content in more clean and professional way thus all visitors may give you a repeat visits.

If Google is the main source of traffic for your blog then you should use 3 column blog, so that you can make more money from non-returning visitors. Using this structure you can give much information about your blog in side widget, thus non-retuning visitors can view other links of your blog and they may find this blog useful and may bookmark your blog and can become regular reader of your blog .

]]> http://mansoc.com/blogs-for-better-revenue/feed/ cPanel Hotlink http://mansoc.com/cpanel-hotlink-feature/ http://mansoc.com/cpanel-hotlink-feature/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:59:49 +0000 http://mansoc.com/cpanel-hotlink-feature/ If you want to protect your images/video files by getting hotlink and want to prevent your precious bandwidth from being get stolen then you have to use Hotlink protection tool which comes with your control panel. Few webmaster try to steal bandwidth of other by hotlinking to images/media files hosted on other websites this will preserve their bandwidth when some start browsing your media files. Thus to save your previous bandwidth you should protect your media files and image files from getting hotlinked.
As a webmaster you should keep hotlinking feature enable for all files with extensions which are related to images and video files. If your images are linked on site which is having heavy traffic then your allotted bandwidth may endup with this external website hotlinking  to your media/images files. Even if your site is not having huge traffic still you can endup with your allotted bandwidth as other sites are eating your bandwidth as websites which are linking to your media/images files will eatup your bandwidth eachtime their visitor access their sites.
You can protect your image media files from getting hotlinked through your website hosting control panel or just updating your .htaccess file using following code.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?domain.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|wmv)$ http://wwwDOTdomainDOTcom/image.jpg [R,NC]

Note: replace your website with domain.com