For some reason you want to password protect few folders which you may have on your hosting account. If you are using cpanel as your web hosting control panel then you can simply protect them using few clicks.

Follow the steps mention below :-
1. Login to your cpanel control panel
2. Click on “Password Protection” icon under Services section
3. Browse to the folder which you want to password protect.
4. Click on required folder name.
5. You will get a form which will have two parts and you have to submit then separately:

a) Allow access only to authorized users
[ ] Directory requires a password to access
Check the above box.
and Protected Resource Name:-  [ ] (enter a generic name of the protection such as “My Protected Folder”)
Submit and it will protect it.
Now step (b) for adding username/password :-  Browse to the same form and
b) Add/modify authorized user and enter the username/password and save it.
That’s all… you have successfully protected required directory from unauthorized access.

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Installing Exec-PHP is pretty simple. Download the plugin, put it into your wp-content/plugins directory and activate it… that’s all.
Whenever you want to execute PHP codes, enclose the code with <phpcode> … </phpcode>
Don’t forget to host your Wordpress blog with reliable website hosting company like Webhosting UK
You can download this wonderful Plugin from here : -  EXEC-Php http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exec-php/

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Wordpress is known for the easy to use blogging feature and Joomla for website development though both are popular CMSs but have different taste and feel. Hence if you manage to combine them and use with your website then you can have a great professional website having better SEO effect.
You can use Joomla for developing main website, you can even use joomla templates which are freely available or can also customize them as per your requirements if you are good at web-programming. Once you are completed with main website then you can install Wordpress blog as a sub-folder or sub-domain which you can use as a blogging platform for promoting your main website. You can have very SE friendly blog if you are using wordpress, as it comes with many useful plugins which can help you to improve search engine ranking for targeted keywords.
Managing such dual CMS based websites is easy and doesn’t requires much technical knowledge… using Wordpress you can add fresh content to your blog as and when required, you can enrich it with your targeted keywords so that your main website can rank top for all required targeted keywords. As both CMSs are Open source hence you don’t need to pay anything for using them for your website. Both Joomla & wordpress are secure and hence you can rely on them. Both CMSs always comes with newer version with updated patches as often as possible hence you can have a attractive, professional looking and a search engine friendly website using Joomla & Wordpress.Make sure you host your website with some reliable website hosting service provider for better uptime guarantee.

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Its always suggested to be away from such Oversellers, you should research for potential hosting companies at few popular webhosting forums like Web Hosting Talk or Freewebforums, Digitalpoint etc… webmaster over such website hosting forums have good experience in webhosting world and will help you to choose one who is reliable and honest webhost. You should also stay away from webhost who claim to offer you 50GB diskspace + 100GB bandwidth just for $1 / month then such webhost are into Overselling business and you should overlook such untrustworthy host, they usually offer you such features just to lure in new innocent customers.
Thus you should do your research and avoid such webhosting overseller before signing up for web hosting services else you may end up paying more for getting better services from such overseller webhost.

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Login to WHM >> Account Functions >> Create Account.
* Make sure before you create an account on the server, you need to create a “package”.
A “package” will specify how much web space, bandwidth, mailboxes etc are to be allowed for that particular package so that you can assign it to your customer.  You can create as many packages are you want using WHM. Usually you create a set of different hosting packages which you can sell to your customers. define them in better way, have difference in features…To create a package you will need to login to WHM, then from the menu on the left click on ” Add Packages ” under “packages” section….

Once you define all your packages you can create new account and can select suitable package for it. once an account is created you can login to cPanel for that particular using serverIP:2082 or by domainname:2082 .All accounts created under your WHM will have cPanel for managing it. cPanel is widely used website hosting control panel which is very popular and have many good features for website management like creating FTP accounts, email accounts, setting up password protected directories, adding new domains etc…

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Thus using above code we can redirect http://maindomain.com/index.php to destination-domianname.com

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Many webhosting service provider and domain registrar offers you with an excellent feature using which you can hide your personal information for the domain which you own. Using this feature you can avoid unwanted emails or messages from spammers which they can easily get from the domain whois registry database, if you have activated ” Whois Privacy Protect ” or ” Domain ID Protect ” feature for your domain then your correct personal information like address, telephone number, etc….. will not be show for WHOIS searches that mean using such Whois Privacy option will shields your Private Information which cant be explored by hackers and can’t be missed used by anyone still you retain full legal ownership and control over your domain name. even you can resell, renew, transfer and change settings for such ID protected domains as if you using normal domains. Your domain control panel provides you real-time access to easily manage your domain name.  Recently most webhosting service provider and domain registrar offer this feature for free as a special deal and to attract more customers, make sure you crosscheck if there’s any catch against such special deal.  Not all domain extensions can be protected like “ Domain ID Protect “ is not available for .US names

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now its time to get hosting… try to get a webhosting service provider who is available round the clock and will offer you excellent uptime. Depending on your website makeup and traffic you need to choose most suitable hosting package like shared hosting, VPS hosting or finally a Dedicated server if your budget permits you. Drupal websites can be hosted on both Linux or Windows Hosting Platforms.

Drupal is an application developed by php, and run against MySQL or PostgreSQL. So, a support for php with database MySQL or PostgreSQL is the basic requirement for using Drupal. Its always suggested to go with a Linux web hosting package considering it is the perfect platform to run php and MySQL as compare to windows

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Before placing order for dedicated server or any hosting package with any webhosting service provider , you should look what network speed you would be getting for your server. There are many ways to test network speed of your webhost. one of popular and widely used method is by pinging your server in MSDOS. You can also tracert it in MSDOS to see how many hops it takes to get from your computer to required server. You may ask your webhost to provide you download speed test.

Following instructions would help you to test network speed of your webhost.

Testing network speed is a measure on how fast can the data be delivered between the visitor and the host’s server. you can use Ping command on your Dos prompt so as to test network speed. You can easily test network speed by pinging the server. you just need to open MS-DOS prompt and fire a simple command: ping serverID, where server ID is either a domain name (e.g. C:\>ping yahoo.com), either an IP (e.g. C:\> ping 128.65.134.89) once you fire ping command you would be getting results similar to these:

Reply from 64.190.235.64: bytes=32 time=432ms TTL=45
Reply from 64.190.235.64: bytes=32 time=180ms TTL=45
Reply from 64.190.235.64: bytes=32 time=377ms TTL=46
Reply from 64.190.235.64: bytes=32 time=216ms TTL=45

Ping statistics for 64.190.235.64:
Packets: Sent=4 Received=4 Lost=0 (0% loss)
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 180ms, Maximum = 432ms, Average = 301 ms

A ping time of under 200ms is very good, 200 to 400ms is average and 400ms and above are poor ping times. Make sure a poor ping times do not always indicate a problem or slow network. If you are pinging servers that are very far away (pinging a server located in USA from a computer located in Australia), then you may get poor ping times then normal even you have a good connection.

The Loss % represents the percentage of packets (sent messages) that were “lost” (did not return within 1 second). High Lost packets are not good but few web hosts disable the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), so pings are not responded. Usually webhost do this is to increase security for the server.

Another method for checking network speed you can use is Traceroute : This traces the route between the computer and the server. All information goes from your computer to the server, is passed through a few routers to get its destination. A traceroute will tell you how many routers are involved in between your computer and server and all information about the routers. You can fire this command at MS-DOS prompt as tracert serverID or domain name. C:\WINDOWS>tracert www.mysitespace.com

Download speed test : You can ask your webhosting service provider to provide you with test download file using which you can download at your local end can thus can test network speed of network. You should go with a host who has the capability of sending at least a few hundred kBytes/second but if you are on dial-up connection you’ll not be able to test this yourself. There are chances that webhost may try to fool you by providing you a test file located on a fast, empty server so that you can get best speed so its always suggested to contact some one who is using their services [ current user ] and ask him to post a test file on his account which you can download and can check speed. This download test file should be big enough so that you can see the speed and stability over time, you can think of getting 10-15MB file, also try to test this download file at pick hours when server might be busy. Most important point to be noted is that all results depend on location, ISP etc. you can request few forum members to check what speed they get for your download test file and if you get good response from them, you can surely go with your preferred host.

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Thus if you have a website and you want to create your own blogging community then you can easy set it up using single installation. You can control, manage and can moderate all blogs which are created on your main blog through a single dashboard. All plugins, themes can be controlled by a central system thus unlike the single-user version of WordPress, individual MU bloggers cannot upload their own plugins and themes and can only choose
which are offered by blogging administrator. WordPress MU administrator can assign individual themes for each blogs or can make them available for every other user.
Thus if you are planning to offer your website users to have their individuals blogs hosted on your main blog then you can offer such facility to all users and can manage/moderate then using single board. Each individual blog would be independent and will have its own templates, setting which will not affect other micro blogs created on your master blog. You can have unlimited users with unlimited blogs.
You can assign different roles for all your members like (admin, editor, author, contributor, subscriber) for all blogs created under your main blog.
There can be more then one site administrator who can perform and can execute all required site-wide operations and managements like changing permissions, granting access, assisgning themes etc….
WordPress MU would be best used with websites related to magazines, newspapers, college, universities and other large companies who are looking to offer such facility for all  their users.

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