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10 reasons why a VPS is good for business

Virtual Private Server Hosting is an innovative approach to partitioning physical servers into several virtual machines. It is the future of modern hosting as it provides the power and functionality of a high-end dedicated server but at a much lower price or in other words it is a low-cost alternative to a full dedicated server. By purchasing a VPS for your business website, you get a 100% individual machine with root access and your own dedicated CPU and RAM. Using a VPS has a number of strategic advantages for small and medium sized businesses. Among those advantages are the following:…

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Configure mod_geoip module on cPanel server

How To Install mod_geoip On Your WHM/cPanel Server mod_geoip is an API module released by MaxMind for Apache (or interchangeably, LiteSpeed) to quickly and easily obtain your website visitors’ geographical information. It offers high performance IP lookup especially when used together with PHP. See benchmark While instructions to install mod_geoip on Linux with Apache are easily available on the Internet, not much is written on how to install the module on WHM/cPanel servers. This tutorial will walk you through installing mod_geoip on your WHM/cPanel step-by-step. To be able to install mod_geoip on your WHM/cPanel server, you must have root access and is able to SSH to your Virtual Private Server (VPS) /…

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UK Web Hosting ★ USA Web Hosting ★ Linux cPanel or Windows Plesk ★ 15% Discount

RShosting is offering 15% discount on any of our Linux cPanel or Windows shared web hosting plans, off any payment term. Not only do we offer you a choice of Linux or Windows web hosting platform, but you also get to choose your server location from our UK or US datacenters. Where to order : http://www.rshosting.com/web-hosting/ Linux cPanel Web Hosting Features: Choice of UK or US datacenter cPanel 11.36.1 for Linux with Softaculous Unlimited POP3 Email accounts Online Webmail and FTP (includes Roundcube, Horde, SquirrelMail) Unlimited Email Aliases Unlimited Addon or Parked Domains Unlimited Subdomains PHP 5.3.24 with suphp Unlimited Mysql databases Perl,…

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Traceroute On Mac

How do I run a traceroute on a Mac? Traceroute is a utility that records the route between your computer and your RSHosting server. It also displays the amount of time each hop takes. If you cannot reach your site, a traceroute will help us determine the issue. To run traceroute on a Mac, follow these steps: These steps were created using Mac OS X. For earlier operating systems, you will need to download and use a third party program. (1) From your hard-drive, open the Applications folder, and click to open the Utilities folder. (2) Double-click Terminal. (3) Type…

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Difference between Addon and Parked domain in cPanel

What is an addon domain in cPanel? An addon domain is a fully functional domain that can be created from within your control panel. Think of it as having multiple hosting packages all sharing the same control panel. You can give them email addresses, forwarders, and more the same way you do for your main domain on the account. The addon domain will appear as a totally separate domain from your primary domain. There should be no evidence that your domain is an addon domain to incoming traffic when they visit your addon domain. What is a Parked domain in…

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VPS hosting versus Reseller Hosting

Mentioned the 3-letter words, VPS, it carves a smile to certain people. Why? Because it resembles a dedicated server. This is particularly a cheerful news for those folks who wish to own a dedicated server but cannot afford to do so. Basically, as most of you would have known by now, VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. The physical server is separated into a few partition and these partitions are the VPS-es. It gives you the feeling of having a stand-alone server when you purchase the hosting spaces. You are isolated from your neighbours and barely know each other although…

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WordPress Security Tips

Step 1 : Create a backup of your site. If you have cPanel you can do this with the backup manager. If not we would recommend “backup buddy”, a WordPress plugin you can find with a google search. Step 2: Update WordPress Version This is critical because WordPress issues updates that close security vulnerabilities; it’s things like this that could keep your site healthy! Step 3 : Change Your Login/Password The default WP username is “admin” and hackers know this. So you should change it to something more personal for eg. “DanielStar” or “Keith23″. Best thing to do is to…

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Linux Hosting Vs Windows Hosting

We have been asked this question from our customers several times, about the difference between Linux and Windows web hosting. Well, just because you have been using Windows Operating system on your local machine, and have not used Linux operating system, does not mean you need to buy a hosting package that uses Windows servers. Linux and Windows are two different types of operating systems. Linux is an opensource and the most popular operating system for web servers. Since Linux-based hosting is more popular, it has more of the features web designers expect. So unless you have websites which need…

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UK Dedicated Servers, Enterprise US Dedicated Servers with 10% Discount

Get 10% Off with the first payment on our fully managed servers in UK and US datacenters, with FREE control panel (WHM cPanel OR Plesk) RSHosting is glad to offer 10% off on the FIRST payment with any of our fully managed dedicated servers located in US and UK datacenters… The 10% off is applicable for the first payment that you make. In addition to the 10% discount, we are also offering heavy discounts with Annual, Biennial and Triennial billing cycles. To enjoy the 10% discount offer, all you need to do is simply use the coupon code as “DEDI10″ (without quotes)…

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Cannot send mail. “503 AUTH command used when not advertised”

Recent changes in PCI Complinace have required us to make changes in the outgoing mail authentication method of our e-commerse servers. A common error message you’ll see when affected are as follows: “Error: 503 #5.3.3 AUTH not available” “503 AUTH command used when not advertised” Our outgoing server connections now require STARTTLS encryption on our PCI compliant servers. Here are instructions for making this change in Outlook. “The screenshots used in this article are from Outlook 2007. Other versions will be similar, but may have variations in wording. 1. Start the Microsoft Outlook program. When it opens, click Tools, then Account…

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