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VPSs are high performance web hosting packages which are widely used by webmasters for hosting their websites. There are many advantages of using VPS as compare to other lower hosting packages like shared or reseller hosting plans.
Following are few advantages of using VPS for your website hosting needs :-

• You will get root access to your linux VPS and Adminstrative RDP access to your Windows VPS.
• You will have access to manage your OS and applications, softwares installed on your server and can upgrade them as and when required for your server.
• Usually VPSs are setup in no time.. ie instant setups & upgrades are possible.
• Migrate VPSs in the time of network data transfer, nearly eliminating planned downtime and enabling fast reaction to unplanned downtime situations
• You can automate all the routine tasks such as software versions upgrades and all application updates can be performed.
• Using VPS hosting you can reduce the number of required physical server hardware and thus the corresponding technical support.
• On a single hardware you can setup multiple VPSs which will minimize software licensing cost and thus all support related issues.
• Increase server utilization and maximize server potential.Make sure you go with reliable webhost who is available round the clock to serve you with best quality hosting services.

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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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Well, CMS are getting more and more popular day by day among them Drupal is trying very hard to get into heart of webmasters. Basically Drupal is one of the best widely used content management system after wordpress which is freely available and can be installed using control panel via cpanel [ Fantastico ] for just by downloading it from their website. Its very easy to use and many thousands of people and orginazation use it for developing their websites, community web portals, discussion forums, ecommerce websites etc… making it more popular.
Before we proceed we should choose or should have suitable domain name which can be used for your Drupal based website. You should try to search good easy to remember domain name, can try to get keyword rich domain name which will help you in SEO.

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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As a webmaster you should always check what keywords are used by your visitors to get into your website, here comes the role of website stats program. There are many such applications using which you can trace traffic details for your website one of them is Awstat which is very popular and widely used. It provides you detailed report about your website like keywords, keyphrases used for getting your website. Number of unique visits, browsers used by your visitors, their IP addresses, page hits, backlinks for your website, error pages of your website etc etc… thus using this information you can concentrate more on your website and can optimize your website more search engine friendly.

You would be getting Awstat if your website is hosting on Linux server and you are using cpanel as webhosting control panel.

Following are Important features of Awstat program :
1. Number of Unique visitors.
2. Number of visits.
3. Visit Duration.
4. Authenticated users.
5. IP addresses of Visitors.
6. OS used by the Visitors.
7. Browsers used by the Visitors.
8. Keywords, Keyphrases and Search Engines used to find your website.
9. HTTP Errors.
10. Most Visited links.
11. Visits of Search Engine robots.
12. Worms attacks.

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Joomla is most popular content management system (CMS), using which you can develop excellent websites and powerful online applications. It’s a open source solution which can be used by anyone making it most popular CMS for building interactive websites. But many webmaster believe that Joomla websites face constant intrusion and hacking attempts are are not safe and secure.
Thus to make your Joomla based website safe and secure you can use following steps :-

1) You should always keep on updating the Joomla Admin account name and password.

2) You should always keep your Joomla website updated.

3) Disable writeable rights of configuration.php file.

4) For directories change the files permissions to CHMOD 644 and for files to 755 .

5) By using the Joomla Diagnostic tools check the weak point and the corrupt files.

6) You should take regular backups of your joomla website.
Hope your website would be safe and secure now

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FSCK is widely used utility for repairing linux file system if you face some issue with installed  filesystem on your server. FSCK can be fired manually and can also set for auto execution so as to check for file consistency.  FSCK is usually fired as a part of system maintenance by most server administrators.
You would be getting following codes as a exit code once FSCK is completed.
Following are numeric code with their explanation :
0 – No errors
1 – File system errors corrected
2 - System should be rebooted
4 - File system errors left uncorrected
8 – Operational error
16 – Usage or syntax error
32 – Fsck canceled by user request
128 - Shared library error.

All above exit code values are returned when multiple file systems are checked OR are the exit codes for each file system that is checked. Such exit codes are useful for all webmasters to know the status of files which has been scanned.

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If you are looking for some free ecommerce shopping cart then  you can consider Magento. It’s a feature-rich eCommerce application offering you complete flexibility and control over the look and feel, content, and functionality of your online webstore. Magento have many useful features which are very helpful for creating a robust ecommerce website/application. Following are few important features of Magento application. For hosting magento based websites or shoping carts you will have to get good, reliable and secure webhosting account.

• You can control multiple websites and webstores using one Administration Panel It’s a Multi-Lingual supported.
• It support localization.
• You can use different currencies as it support multiple currencies.
• You can have Administration Permission System, roles and users
  You have option for Web Services API using which you can easily integration any third-party application with Magento.

• It has flexible tax rate management system which support US and International market.
• You can have 100% customizable design for your webshop using provided templates.
• You can easily create customer Groups for better management.
• Its easy to upgrade, just One-Click Upgrades
• You can use it as Content Management System for having your Informational Pages.

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Spam is technically defined as an electronic message as any unsolicited e-mail messages sent or posted as a part of a larger collection of messages, all having substantially identical content. You can consider a real spam as a e-mail advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup. Such unwanted emails eats up a lot of network bandwidth and can waste our precious time. Thus to overcome this problem you can follow few steps. If your hosting account is setup on cpanel hosting server the you would be getting cPanel as your webhosting control panel using which you can prevent such spam emails through use of “Default Address” option.
By default all your unrouted emails are received in your main users inbox.
So you can avoid it by adding the following line in your cpanel >> mail >> default address option
•  :fail: no such address,  in this option
Second way you can also prevent spam emails using email filtering option
Cpanel >> Email Filtering  >> add filter
In this section you need to use your own filtering techniques like filter spam emails with specific subject, email address, contents, message ID etc.  using above two methods you can prevent spam emails flooding your mailbox.

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Most dedicated server owner may experience some kind of user-initiated attacks or DDos attacks for their servers so as precautionary measure you should know few settings using which you can prevent such culprit away from your server.

First of all you need to get reliable dedicated webhost who can offer you secure hardware and services, secondly try to install APF firewall on your server to prevent such unauthorise attacks for your server and lastly you should know how to ban specific IP from accessing your server. This can be somewhat tricky, you need to get IP address which is trying to create problem for your server and once you have manage to get such IP you can easily ban such IP from accessing your server. you just have to add this IP in your APF Firewall setting.
*) Login to your server as root
*) Now you need to add IP which is creating problem for your server Within APF Firewall, you simply need to enter apf –d <ip>
*) By default, rebooting server will resets all your IP bans, thus its always recommend to use APF firewall for your dedicated server – with APF, there is an easy workaround. Just open the deny hosts file scroll to the bottom of the file and paste in the IP address you want to ban.
Just save and exit using Ctrl+X then Y, this will save all edited settings as default.
*) Lastly just restart your APF and thats all you have successfully banned the culprit IP which is hammering your server and overloading it.

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For some reason if you want to redirect all your website visitors to a page of your choice, you can set redirect rules in .htaccess file on the root of your website or even you can do it using HTML code.

You can use a nifty trick using which you can set redirect to another page within your site or for other site.

Open the source code of the page on which you want to set redirect, your page may lok like this : —-

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1? />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
</body>
</html>

you will have to put below code in between <head> & </head> tag

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”3; URL=http://URL_of _redirected_page”>

Explanation : “refresh” content=”3; means that current page will refresh in 3 seconds, you can change this number to any value you want. Page will refresh after the specified value for seconds.
You need to replace “URL=http://URL_of_redirected_page” with the URL you want to get current page redirected to.

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