If you are thinking about launching a new e-commerce website with the hosting part then, do not forget that your needs are unique. Besides a basic web hosting plan, you will need full support for its e-commerce platform.
Hosting E-commerce: The Basic Needs
As electronic commerce grows,it’s basic needs are as important as the websites. You need fast bandwidth and enough space and support the number of visitors and buyers that you are expecting.
Hosting of E-commerce and Its Process of Payment made by Customers
Once you have decided on the process of paying customers in electronic commerce on your site, you need to make sure that your hosting service can support them and that is efficient. In many cases payment for the purchase of products through the Internet, there is a need for some specific programs or API (Advanced Programming Interface) installed on your server so that you can use it whenever required.
What happens when my hosting provider of e-commerce does not support my payment process?
1. Immediately contact the customer support and ask them if they are willing to install the necessary software. Can take and give some work to get it, but be persistent.
2. If option-1 is not working, you need to change your gateway for online payment or your hosting provider of e-commerce. Anyway, make sure that the new hosting provider of e-commerce support your current payment gateway online.
A platform for efficient e-commerce enables customers know and buying profiles through relationship tools and monitoring processes.
Main Modules and Tools:
1. Design / Layout : Design is responsible for the client to connect emotionally with the store, making the experience of being in your company is unique. This prompts him to seek further information within the virtual structure of your company. It Should be:
- Design Shop 100 % customized
- Have integration between design and programming in an organized and clear manner
- Structure based on usability studies
- Autonomy to customize fields and text directly from the control panel
- Consultancy for creating banners and images for your store
- Customized look for each section of your online store
- Visual theme for each list of “Tips Products”
2. Institutional content : Through a simplified control panel, you have freedom to manage their customer help pages and information about your firm, changing text and images.
3. Clients : Knowing your customer is the first step to success in sales. The e-commerce should provide all the tools necessary for this to occur, such as:
- Simplified register of customers
- Registration of multiple delivery addresses, such as checking online CEP
- Report of purchases made by customers
- Information on individual and overall average ticket
- Product unavailable and that the customer wishes to receive a notice when they come into stock again
- Products the customer has indicated to others
- Checking product reviews made by the client
- List of most profitable customers and assets
- Analysis of client inactivity, allowing contact to return sales
- History of the latest products displayed by the client
- Lock customers with a history of fraud
- Adding comments available only to administrators
4. Customer Area : After signing up at your store the client has access to an exclusive area where you can manage your information and preferences, as follows:
- My Account : Personal information management, such as email, phone, status, etc…
- Delivery Address : Management of delivery addresses
- Order History : Information on the applications already made, such as amount, date, tracking number, etc…
- Wedding List : Managing the list of requested products, products already purchased, that has value as bonuses, etc…
5. Navigation tools : Home page with featured products and promotions:
- Search for products by name, manufacturer or description
- Display of promotional banners
- Easier navigation through historical hierarchical sections viewed
6. Products / Stock : Both their products as their stocks can be managed through a central tool and robust. The e-commerce can be used for selling any type of product. It must have:
- Management Section, Category and Sub-category of your catalog
- Management and creation of individual page of Manufacturers
- Possibility of registration of products in multiple areas of the store
- Registration of products with variations in color, size, etc., defining value, stock, weight and other information on an individual basis
- Registration of individual meta tags for improved positioning in search engine
- Custom description fields
- Determination of featured products
- Possibility of working with free shipping by product
- Sending multiple files and automatic creation of thumbnails
- Determination of minimum stock generally or individually, where the system sends a warning via e-mail stating when the product reaches the limit specified
- Simplified control enabling reporting, and online update inventory
- Statistics and purchased products more accessible
- Verification of customers who bought the product
- Registration of related products or automatic display of “who bought this product also bought X”
7. Tools Relationship / Sale : Through the tools of relationship can offer a better service and also a closer relationship to their customers, customizing them and making their mark fix :
- Discount Coupons : Great option to offer discounts and benefits to both customers and for future customers. You can offer discounts as a percentage (ex: 15% discount), fixed value (ex: $5 or $10 discount), free shipping and determine a minimum value for this benefit is offered.
- Online service via CHAT : Enables a more dynamic service to its customers as it is online. They may contact their team directly through its store, getting even induce an increase in the amount of the request by generating instant discounts
- Suggest this product: Let your customers from forwarding tips to friends via a simple click in your store. Record the information in the database for future generation of sales.
- Tell Me When You Are Available: Have you thought about how many of your customers are waiting to return a product to stock in your store? Through this tool they can register to receive a notice when the product becomes available and you can better plan what and how many products will reset to its stock.
- Wedding List : If your products are commonly demanded by grooms, allow to create lists of marriages and offer discounts on the value of purchases made through its store
- Product Tips : Create lists of tips on products for special occasions or specific audiences that can create pages with unique look for each tip
- E- mail marketing : Integrating your store with a professional tool for email marketing where you can send personalized messages via e -mail to your customers, promoting products and news. After sending, you see a full report of the quantity of emails delivered, read, clicked, etc…
- Tool banners : Distribute their products visually, giving them more prominence. Real time control the amount of views and clicks received by your campaign.
- Gift Wrapping : Determine which products can be packed for this and how much to charge for this service.
- Specialty stores : Want to create an environment with a different layout to disclose a release or a new supplier? Create a “store special” with visual and differentiated products
- Free Shipping : Manage ZIP tracks where the freight will be charged. You can also determine which is the minimum amount of purchase for which the benefit is offered.
- Product Reviews and Rating : Allow your customers to qualify and comment on products in your store.
- Cross-selling : Search and automatic display of “who bought this product also bought xxx”. You can also determine which products are related, “forcing” the view of this statement.
8. Shopping Cart : It is through him that your customers can see products purchased, amounts of freight, discount coupons, etc :
- Smart Cart : Records all actions of his client so that it is not necessary that he inform the characteristics of the application again, such as zip code, Discount Coupon, etc…
- Possibility to change the desired quantity and removing products.
- Check stock at all stages of the cart, not allowing your customer to buy products which are out of stock
- Automatic calculation of freight according to weight and value of the claim
- Modern design and clear, enabling quick understanding of the summary of purchase
- Automatic calculation of values for splitting
9. Multiple Administrators : Thinking about the growth and expansion of your business, you can control multiple administrators with access to your management tool, and to determine which areas each can access. Moreover, the actions taken by them will be logged, allowing you to follow all the steps used in the process of closing request.
10. Order Management : E-commerce offers simplified forms to manage day-to-day operations of their store. This is the module you will have more interaction, managing the processing of applications received :
- Listing quick search requests by customer, date, amount, status, etc…
- Details of products, customer, sending form, form of payment, etc…
- Checking the log of the interactions made in the application as an exchange of status and comments
- Adding comments available only to administrators
- Automatic printing of labels
- Possibility of exporting data to Excel for the issuance of tax-note
- Automatic transmission by the message system after 10 days of delivery to the customer requesting comment on the material received
- Verification of customer order history
- Integration module banners and Email Marketing for measuring results leveraged
- Integration with the anti-fraud tool for analysis of purchases
- Reports on order volume, profit-medium, most sought after products, etc…
11. Statistics and Reports : E-commerce will allow the intersection of diverse information in order to create custom reports and enable a comprehensive analysis of your online store.
12. Shipping Methods and Payment : Because it is modular you can integrate all the tools for collection and delivery controllers that provide gateways calculation or tables so that they are made. Among them we can highlight :
- Credit Cards: All flags credit card
- Credit card authorization form : All banks are available
- Payment Gateway : Digital Payment, PayPal and Google Checkout
- Post office: Express Mail, PAC, e- Courier, Courier 10
- Transport : With national coverage and with gateway or table to calculate freight through scaling, weight and value
13. Safety : Safety of information from your store is one of our biggest concerns. All the code is read-protected through encryption and all processes must be tested and audited so they can not be changed by malicious users. Moreover, every financial transaction is effected in a safe environment and no data for charging his client is stored on the server.
14. SEO : It is a technique of optimizing a page (or even the entire site) to be better understood by search engines. The consequence of using SEO techniques is the best positioning of a site on a results page from a search :
- Good rankings in search engines is now one of the best ways to attract customers to his store, however, is a process that requires great effort and customization of your store
- The e-commerce tool was developed considering the various SEO tools, we can highlight
- Use of URLs
- Setting meta-tags and page title according to products and the page being viewed
- Development layout with source code clean and well structured
15. External Tools : The provider should have strategic partnerships to provide the customers with third-party tools with value and customer care services. E-commerce should be easily integrated with several tools, including:
- EBIT : Qualification tool for online stores
- Google Analytics: Integration for tracking client interaction and visits to the shop
- Click Heat : Tool for positioning analysis of clicks within your site. Allows to identify which areas are clicked by users
16. Module B2B – Wholesale Sales : With e-commerce you can have in a same-store sales in two distinct interfaces : one for the end customer (B2C) and another for wholesale (B2B), and the only option for channel.
The module for wholesale sales makes some changes in the structure of your online store. Among them are:
- Customer base with pre-approval, certain credit limit, and discounting the price table to be used.
- Registration of products with price ranges for amount and type of room pricing.
- Sales reports by customer, outstanding payments, etc…
17. Consulting and Support : The company shall provide all necessary advice during the development of your online store so that everything happens according to plan.
Even after finalizing the development process, you will have continued support of the company to determine the technical and operational questions. In case of purchase of e-commerce tool support will be offered for some months and in case of leasing, while the contract is in force.
18. Hosting and Maintenance Online: Maintenance of special servers for web hosting requirement of your online store, secure environment with unlimited transactions, hits, etc… Besides the website you can use a shared SSL certificate secure accounts or a dedicated SSL certificate, email and various tools for managing email.
Always, look for a solution of e-commerce (online store) that gives you complete flexibility and security, of-course made by a different company that offers differentiated services to not have any kind of headaches in the future.
The Virtualization is a product by Microsoft Technologies, which consists of a wide range of options and alternatives for the corporate clients,from which they can choose the right tool for their business. Its ofent a complex process to decide upon a Microsoft products as it has wide range of products available for high as well as medium sized businesses, which creates confusion in the selection.
Each technology and product have specific focuses, according to the scenario so, if you are developing a project for Microsoft virtualization it is important that you have clearly defined the concept of each tool and in which conditions it should be used. Another issue is that its not very perticular that on what should be emphasized upon, is there any virtualization technology, that is higher than any other?
Why Use Virtualization?
Virtualization offers multiple benefits for the IT environment and it is not another wave of technological or fugitive thing. Nowadays many companies that still do not have virtualization deployed are probably considering its deployment in the medium term.
Things that controls the use of virtualization:
Consolidation Servers : Reducing the amount of servers helps to drastically reduce consumption power.
Reduction cost allocation of physical space : Companies that make co-location data centers seeking to reduce costs with physical space for servers.
Decrease electric power consumption for data center cooling : A large number of servers in a datacenter also requires a high cost to cool the environment where they are. There are two points analysis of electric power consumption : power consumed by server ( equipment) and power consumed by system cooling CPD / Datacenter to cool the servers.
Scenarios Disaster / Recovery : Easy migration of virtual machines between hosts makes it quite attractive option.
Reduction costs of maintenance contracts for servers : Critical servers require high maintenance contract, according to the existing SLA.
The reduction in the number of servers brings benefit of the direct maintenance costs.
Migration Application : The ability to migrate applications to new operating systems quickly and dynamics are the major facilitators to maintain an environment always updated and in homogeneous network.
Environments test / development and approval : Many homologation tests are flawed because not always the gaps production are identical environmental approval. With virtualization it’s possible to have a replica of the production servers as faithful as possible in approval, dramatically increasing the reliability of the tests.
Independence physical limits of the equipment : It is very common nowadays to find the following scenario: a server has an X application and suddenly comes the need to increase memory and / or processor, but the hardware does not support it. It is not so simple to “clone” a disk and download the image on another server with a total different hardware.
Through virtualization there’s the dependency on the hardware a manufacturer.
Once these are clear, then it is time to understand different types of Virualization Technology.
Virtualization Server Hardware
Through a Hypervisor or virtualizer layer, you can host multiple virtual machines. This technology requires support for instruction in the virtualization server processor (Intel -VT or AMD- V). Currently this technology is available in Hyper-V, a component of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Also There is a special version called Windows Server Hyper-V Server, which basically consists of a Windows Server 2008 with graphical interface reduced just doing the virtualization role and completely free.
The components of the Hyper -V is available in the following distributions of Windows Server: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter, Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.
Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation does not have Hyper-V. In addition to that you can not virtualize a server running Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation, because its license is OEM.
Virtualization Server Software
This type of virtualization is not used more intensively, since limits on multiple virtual machines points (out of memory, logic processors, etc). This technology represents the next Microsoft product that is Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. The architecture of the product is like,that there is no benefit in new hardware because besides being the same old product does not support the new virtualization technologies and hardware that are available in Windows Server 2008 R2.
Virtualization software server is based on software that runs on a layer above the operating system. This means that the communication has not virtualizer directly with the hardware, making it impossible to have some performance gains and scalability.
Virtualization Session and Presentation
Formerly known by the name Terminal Services (TS), the technology has assumed new name in Windows Server 2008 R2, to be called as Remote Desktop Services (RDS).
In the virtualization Session, application is installed on the RDS server and made available to the client through a specific protocol (RDP – Remote Desktop Protocol). Only application screen or the whole desktop of the server is sent to the user’s machine. The traffic is generated for updating the screen, keyboard, mouse and sound when any. All application processing and memory usage are the same in RDS server. In case of failure of communication network between the server and RDS client, it is not possible to run the application until the link is restored.
An ideal scenario for this type Virtualization is the remote office. It is very common to find companies that have remote offices, and most of the complaint is just the access to applications that are in the array and need to be implemented in subsidiary. When installing a server in the array with the service RDS / TS it is possible just to install the application on this same server and permit access to branches via RDS / TS Client. The experience of access to the user’s remote location will be improved, as if it were accessing the application of the matrix.
For larger scenarios complexity and / or management is used for Citrix XenApp, a component that is run under the RDS (not possible to deploy the Citrix XenApp without RDS). Another very common in virtualization projects session is the use of thin clients, which make role of the workstation.
Application Virtualization
Through the Microsoft’s Application Virtualization (App-V) an application runs on the user’s desktop in an isolated environment independent of registry and other operating system files. Unlike the Remote Desktop Services, App-V uses memory and processing the user’s machine, but it is possible to run the application even without network connectivity with the server App-V.
App-V is available at Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) and the same is acquired only by those customers holding Software Assurance agreement.
Desktop Virtualization
This technology is much similar to the model Virtualization of server hardware. Many developers and IT professionals need to have a virtual machine at your disposal, without complexity of having a Windows Server with Hyper-V. The tool allows create and manage virtual machines is Microsoft Virtual PC and it does not requires more than the hardware that has support for virtualization (Intel-VT or AMD-V).
Another component of the Virtual PC and that can be installed part is the XP mode, which consists of a virtual machine Windows XP. Through the Mode XP, an application installed on is published as a program item in the Start Menu physical machine, allowing only the application screen is performed and displayed to the user of the machine physically. It can be mainly used where there are applications that only work with Windows XP.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a feature that allows you to centralize desktops of users in a virtualized server virtualization. It possibly work as follows:
a)Dedicated Virtual Machine – every user who accesses has its own virtual desktop (VM) with all the desktop customization details. Each virtual machine has its own user.
b)Virtual Desktops Pool – a pool of multiple virtual machines is shared with a group of users. There is a specific virtual machine to each user, and desktop customization are made using techniques such as Folder Redirection and Profile Roaming.
Another important point is process of sending desktop screen of virtual machine for the season user. This process is done together using the Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and Windows Server 2008 R2.
Virtualization Management on the Server
The product line System Center refer to product management at Microsoft.
One of its components is System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.
The SCVMM allows you to manage Host virtualization and virtual machines and supports the following server virtualization systems:
Windows Server 2008 w / Hyper-V
Hyper-V Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 R2 w / Hyper V
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1
VMWare ESX through VMware VirtualCenter
Important to note that managing a host with VMWare ESX is not done directly by SCVMM, because you must have VirtualCenter for that. This means that SCVMM is VirtualCenter Manager that manages this with VMWare ESX hosts.
If you have a System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 in your network infrastructure, then you can enable the integrated use of two tools, using so-called PRO (Performance and Resource Optimization). This feature allows SCVMM move automatically (or manually) a virtual machine from one host to Another case is detected any chokepoints in performance.
Virtualization Management on the Desktop
For those clients who wish to implement the use of Virtual PC on a larger environment and / or requiring greater control of virtual machines then it can be possible through the Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V). With MED-V it is actually possible to distribute the Virtual PC images and manage from a central point.
Basically, the product is a part of the package of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP).
With KVM Over IP the dedicated server client can manage the dedicated server remotely using his own personal computer. So what is KVM Over IP, also called the KVM – IP or KVMoIP? The full form of KVM Over IP is “Keyboard, Video, Mouse Over IP”. This technology or service basically captures the keyboard – Video – Mouse signals from the personal computer and transmits them over to the dedicated server, remotely. This is a fantastic web service offered by many web hosts to their dedicated servers hosting clients. With KVM Over IP, the client virtually manages his dedicated server remotely as if it is physically front of him and he is managing it.
The common uses for remote dedicated server management are:
- Remote Dedicated server management
- Allowing server access between single or multiple users and a single dedicated server or multiple servers
- Monitoring the dedicated server even if the server is offline, i.e., even if the server’s internet connection is not working.
- Full-time access to the dedicated server remotely
For any server administrator, the KVM Over IP (KVMoIP) is a very handy application. Of course, this application needs the user to be well versed in the operations and management of the dedicated servers, but it is obvious that most of the users who operate the marvelous dedicated servers essentially are good server administrators, or the novice webmasters who use the dedicated servers either hire good administrators or use their web host’s excellent technical management team to monitor and manage their dedicated servers.
The remote keyboard, video, and the mouse direct console access is now possible using the KVM Over IP, and thus the client gets complete control over his dedicated server. This control is even possible when the dedicated server is offline. With the KVM Over IP, the client can remotely boot-on, reboot, or boot-off the server. He can also get the access to the console, install or reinstall the operating system of the dedicated server, and can also access the dedicated servers’ BIOS settings. With this service, monitoring the dedicated server is made possible as it reboots.
The KVMoIP service is especially useful if the client wishes to test new techniques or needs to monitor the dedicated server’s activities minutely, especially after any Operating System changes are done, or the server has been reconfigured. With the KVM Over IP, the client can remotely monitor all these features any time he wishes.
A Drive Redirection is also made possible using the KVM Over IP service. In a Drive Redirection, the personal computer’s CD-ROM drive or the USB drive can be redirected to the client’s dedicated server remotely.
The KVM Over IP service is especially useful to those clients who like to control their dedicated server remotely. The dedicated server hosting provider’s technical service, of course, provides all the features of the KVM Over IP to the clients if they opt for the managed dedicated server hosting. Hence, unless the client is skilled at doing the server administrator work remotely, or if the user who may not like to use the excellent yet expensive KVMoIP service, or is quite unskilled at using such technical facilities, the client can always use the web host’s professional and well-experienced technical service through email or live help, and the technical team at the data center would provide these services using their own consoles. Using such specific technical support may or may not cost additional fees to be paid to the web host.
The KVMoIP service is still expensive and needs complete understanding of how it can be utilized perfectly, and hence only the best server administrators should use it remotely.
KVMoIP is far more useful for the clients who use colocation servers rather than those who use dedicated servers, especially if they opt for the managed dedicated server hosting. For those who use colocation , these clients usually are the business organizations who employ in-house expert dedicated server administrators and technicians, and thus they can handle their dedicated servers remotely.
Simply open your web browser, and type any website address in it. The browser will take you to the exact page or information that you are looking for. But, how does this happen? How could be browser so sure that the information on this server is what is needed by the user? The browser knows it because of the DNS – Domain Name System.
The fact is, when you enter your domain name in the browser, it sends a request to the DNS server which holds the lists of “domain-ip-addresses”. By searching the IP address of that particular domain, it forwards the request to the specific web server where the website data is stored and once it is found, it is resent to the browser, resulting the expected page or information the user is seeking for.
If the server does not have the information you entered for a domain name, the query sequence is sent to DNS server to a higher level and so on to get the result. Now, just think about the damage that might occur as a result of an attack on a server. That’s right, you need to know, what attack can be performed on this type of server. Lets take a real example of attack that have taken place in the IT world. The attack was most popular and, carried the biggest expense and trouble to owners and users respectively.
It is a kind of attack, which is present in almost all lists of network attacks. Of course, this is DDoS Denial of Service – an attack that causes the victim’s condition. At first glance, the Internet , unlike other networks, is immune because of its global and, as a consequence, fragmentation components. But it is only at first glance, since the basis of this network are “platform components, which are the beginning and the foundation. Consequently, the elimination of the operational status of these components promise if you do not drop network, the serious troubles – exactly.
In the system of domain names there are total 13 root name servers.
These Root Name Servers are the status of Top Level Domain DNS. They have the largest database and are the beginning of the whole system. Ten of these servers are located in the United States of America. In order to avoid the physical impact on the servers, their location remains a secret, unfortunately.
In October 21, 2002 there was a DDoS attack for a very short period, aimed at ten our of thirteen Top Root Name Servers. The attack lasted about an hour. Maximum excess capacity of a single server identified by monitoring the attack, was found to be 40, that is 40 times more than he could handle the server. Naturally, after such an incident, the entire community was looking at the FBI. Those tried to get out of scrapes statement that “hackers used a sophisticated method of attack.” In fact, it was nothing more than an ordinary DdoS attack.
Of course, the one hour of attack does not caused much damage, but made it clear that not everything is as rosy as it seems, because it lasted.
If lasted for five hours and so, the losses would be considered to be billions. Why the one hour attack did not produce big losses? It is due to the fact that the DNS servers have the habit of recording information in the cache. It is this fact, and helped in this situation because the servers that are below the level than attacked, held out for that hour on the cache and have not performed queries. Therefore, the changes were not visible to the regular users of the network.
One of the methods of the DOS on the CSN can be AXFR (Asynchronous Full Transfer Zone) stream queries. Some of the root DNS Servers contain hundreds of thousands of records on servers in its zone of responsibility. Having formed AXFR query those DNS server, obtain this information, any user can. Fortunately, none of the servers in the domain .com, .org, .edu, .net, .mil and .gov allows AXFR queries.
However, much more vulnerable to a wide range of domains : .ar, .au, .bg, .cu, .cz, .ee, .eg, .es, .fi, .hu, .il, .in, .it, .my, .no, .pk, .se, .sg, .Tr, .Ua, .Za and .ru . If you are using BIND server as a solution to a problem with AXFR queries in versions 8 and 9, can use the mechanism limiting the transfer AXFR by allow-transfer.
Such is the history of DNS Servers having an ordinary DDoS attack. Thus, the DDoS attack is on the top of our list of possible attacks.
What are VoIP Servers ?
VoIP is an abbreviation for Voice Over IP, ie. the transmission of voice over the Internet. A VoIP service in essence, consists of a computer that can make phone calls to anywhere in the world. It may be PC to PC or PC to phone, landline or mobile. The voice signals are converted into data packets that travel over the Internet using a VoIP platform, and then converted back into the recipient.
Using VoIP requires specific modules in the router or switch that have the digital processors (DSPs). In this case, the router or switch are called as voice gateways.
The VoIP (Voice over IP) enables the Cisco gateway (router or switch) to carry voice traffic (for example, phone calls and faxes) over an IP network. Support for Cisco’s voice is deployed using the technology of voice packets. In VoIP, the digital signal processor (DSP) segments the voice signal into frames and stores them in voice packets. These voice packets are transported over the IP network, in accordance with specific protocols such as H.323 ITU-T (International Telecommunications Union-Telecommunications), also used for transmission of video over the IP network. As this is a delay-sensitive application, it is necessary to use equipment that supports Quality of Service parameters (QoS), and a well-defined network design.
What type of equipment do I need?
In order to use VoIP services, you will require a computer system along with the Internet access and a microphone, if your computer is not equipped with it. Although most VoIP providers and IP telephony connections require high-speed Internet, some can be used on dialup connections as well.
How can I make or receive a phone call?
Basically, the same way you would a regular phone, except you use your PC or IP phone. When you use VoIP, or Voice of an IP phone software on your computer, a phone usually appears on your screen. These telephones are called as SoftPhone and IP phones are called IPPhones or HardPhones.
The phone works on the computer like any other phone where you can dial numbers, or click a name of a contact pre-programmed, and press the call button. You will then hear the phone ring for the person you called and can then talk to him/her when you answer the call. When you receive a call, the phone will ring on your computer and you can click to accept the call and talk, or let ring (based on the number of rings you set) and route the call to voicemail or a forwarding number.
What type presents a VoIP Phone?
Typically a VoIP phone is not only capable of audio, but also can be used to maintain contacts list, for caller ID and call forwarding. Some IP phones even have webcam capabilities. The most popular VoIP software limits PC to PC calls to its own subscribers in order not to compromise the sound quality.
Typically a VoIP phone is not only capable of audio, but also can be used to maintain contacts list, for caller ID and call forwarding. Some IP phones even have webcam capabilities. The most popular VoIP software limits PC to PC calls to its own subscribers in order not to compromise the sound quality.
Advantages of IP Telephony and VoIP Servers / Services
1. Calls from IP phone to IP phone are free. You can talk endlessly with someone with an IP phone without paying anything beyond your Internet connection.
2. IP telephony providers offer drastically reduced costs for telephone calls to IP phones.
3. The cost of IP phone calls to cell phones are below those of traditional carriers.
4. Save up to 80% on current phone bills.
What are the costs for VoIP’s?
There are several options for soft phones that allow free calls between computers. There is also the option of signing of additional services paid for calls to landlines and mobiles. You should be aware of the fees and compare them with those of other carriers. In the case of IP phones you have the cost of equipment, but fares are generally cheaper and better service.
Care to Acquire VoIP Services :
1. Hidden costs
2. Lines unsafe – in some cases the conversations may be heard by others. This happens due to shared servers or open platforms, thus making you vulnerable to viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and unscrupulous hackers, which ultimately can corrupt your computer and disable it.
3. The inability to be used with dial-up connections. Check with your provider to avoid headaches.
4. Public listing of your name and / or phone number in published catalogs on the World Wide Web.
5. Many VoIP services bring spyware, compromising their safety.
Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is nothing more than a configuration which uses two or more HD’s together for a particular purpose, usually for backup purposes, superior performance, or both. This age has come to desktops around about five years as a board feature of the motherboard, it was previously only possible via PCI controller cards. Almost all motherboards today have support for some RAID systems usually RAID0 and RAID1. Top-line motherboards can support RAID3 or RAID0 +1, but it is quite unusual. The performance of onboard RAID controllers is still well below the PCI cards, but for a home user is more than enough. Just remember that if you want to buy a new motherboard and RAID is something essential to you, it is always recommended to choose cards with Nvidia chipset.
Fortunately or unfortunately, Intel has yet to put a driver onboard as efficient as that of its competitor. Do not know if the standardization of motherboards with onboard RAID controllers that happened every day, the line that defines what is a desktop and a server that is or becomes more tenuous by the simple fact that manufacturers needed something to differentiate themselves from competitors. As was said initially emerged in RAID servers in order to improve stability and fault tolerance. But this is just one of more than 10 possible configurations of a RAID storage system, we’ll discuss about them below.
Types of conventional RAID :
RAID 0 : This is the configuration or applications-oriented enthusiasts who need speed, because the increase in machine performance is tremendous. In this configuration the controller will be in charge of dividing and distributing the data amongst all HD’s set up for RAID0. Thus two HD’s in RAID0 even have a nominal gain of 100% on a normal hard disk and an effective gain of about 30% which is still a lot. Striping mode it handles all the HD’s that way as a single HD, adding the capacity of all volumes and treating as a single disc.
For example: If you have two disks of 250GB, this configuration you will see as just a disk of 500GB. The biggest disadvantage with this setup is that, as all information is divided between the volumes, if by chance some volume is corrupted or damaged, all data will be lost and the configuration must be re-done.
RAID 1 : Known as mirroring, is a setting dedicated exclusively for backups purpose. It is used to mirror all data from one disk to another while maintaining an identical copy in real time of everything that happens in the disks primary, if the primary disk dies, or gets corrupt you won’t lose anything. For this, it is recommended to use HD’s of the same capacity, otherwise flush by the capacity of HD mirrored. And the HD backup can not be smaller than the main HD.
Example: If the principal is the 250GB backup also has to be at least 250GB. If the backup has 300GB, 50GB lose, it simply will not use. If you have two 250GB HD’s as major, need other two HD’s at least 250GB as backup.
RAID 2 : It is a way which is no longer used nowadays. RAID 2 is to embed error correction codes in each cluster of data recorded. However, all current drives systems comes with built-in error correction, making the system obsolete.
RAID 3 : This is a very complex system as well as requires too much capital to maintain it. RAID 3 requires 4 HD’s (actually may be less, but only justified with 4). There, the first three disc’s work just like RAID 0, all information is divided and saved as if it were a single disc. The difference is that the fourth disc serves as a recovery disk, it will save information in the other 3 disk so that if one of the first 3 disk’s die, you can recover the data from the recovery disk (ie. Disk 4). With it you receives high performance, because you have three disks in striping mode and still have the fault tolerance of these disks. Basically, it is perfect for large companies where money doesn’t matters.
RAID 4 : It is similar to RAID 3, the only difference is their way of recording data. While the RAID 3 splits the data into smaller chunks and writes in various HD’s, RAID 4 saves in large blocks. Writing in large blocks you get in a lot of speed or reading or writing data, adds up an advantage of allowing you to quickly access a larger quantity of information. In some applications, RAID 4 is on leave to RAID 3 but are quite rare and for very specific purposes.
RAID 5 : The basic idea behind RAID 5 is same as RAID 3, use of striping and fault tolerance, but works quite differently. In this configuration instead of you having a single drive with data recovery, the system spreads the data on all other HD’s. That way you don’t require a dedicated disk to that, as information is on all disks. If a disk fell, with the help of other disks you can restore it. Only two records fall you will have problems. There is a loss of performance compared to RAID 3 however, it is a more robust solution that allows greater flexibility. It is also worth remembering that you will spend a larger space, because content of recovery that was once intended for a single disk is spread to others.
So, if you have three 20GB disks in the system, you will have only 40GB free, since 20GB will be distributed among the disks so that you can recover them in case of failure. Although this system operates with three HD’s, the ideal is five. RAID 5 is great to gain speed without sacrificing fault tolerance and ideal for those companies having limited budget.
RAID 6 : RAID 6 is the setting more new and relatively rare to be found. It follows the same idea of RAID 5 but uses double-byte para for recovery. Thus, the system has fault tolerance of up to two HD’s. It is by far the conventional RAID system more expensive, which requires a minimum of 4 HD’s, but is recommended only up 6. If before with RAID 5 you had to recover the contents spread in other HD’s, here in RAID 6 you have twice the content. So if you have 10 HD’s 20GB/HD of this system, it will have 160GB free, 40GB (ie. two disks) will be distributed among the rest. RAID 6 is ideal for high risk who requires optimum performance.
Today, with so much advancement in the technology, doing online business has become one of the best ways of making profits and making your online business or you’re your offline business global. If you know how to make use of the web technology that is available today, your online business will only expand, and that too in many countries worldwide, which in turn will bring in lots of profit-making opportunities for you.
However, there are few important things that you need to know before you start your very important business online. The first thing that you need is a top-class commercial website that not only contains very good information, but is also very informative that makes it “sticky” – that is, it becomes very popular on the internet. The next very important thing you need is a dedicated server or a complete VPS hosting package offered by a top quality professional web hosting service. There are number of web hosting services available on the internet that offer good high-quality hosting packages which can match all the requirements off your website. Some of them are the dedicated hosting service, the reseller web hosting service, the shared web hosting service, and many others.
If you really want to do some serious business over the internet, then the dedicated hosting service will be of great use. Even though the dedicated hosting services may be a bit costly, and would require you to invest some heavy amount of money in the beginning, it makes up for the output that you get in case of the dedicated hosting service. With the dedicated server, you get the privilege of having control over the entire web server. Further, there are very less security concerns in case of the dedicated hosting services, as you can have only those applications and softwares installed which are used by you. There will be fewer problems with the bandwidth, the web-space, memory and other security issues.
In case of the dedicated hosting service, you do not even have to share the IP address with other users. Where as, when you consider some of the other types of web hosting server, since you share all the web hosting resources, you may face a lot of problems even if one of the account of any of the users go down, making the whole web hosting server slow. One more benefit of using a dedicated server is that, even if you go over the limit of the resources that is allotted to you, you do not have to pay a lot of penalties since you are the owner of the entire web hosting server.
Also, for modifying any internal settings, or for changing any codes and features of the dedicated server, you do not require any permission from your web host. You can easily customize and change the web hosting server’s settings as per your website’s requirements and maximize the performance of your website and the web hosting server.
Another important advantage of dedicated servers is that, if you have some extra resources like the bandwidth and the web space, which you do not really require, then you can even resell it to any other user, thus making money out of something that you actually do not require. The dedicated server supports almost all the codes, scripts, and also lets you to install some of the very important .com and dll files that may be required by your website or the content that is present in it.
1. How many years have you been in business?
Ans. BODHost has been providing Web Hosting Service since 1999 – 11 Years Of Hosting Presence.
2. What Hosting packages do you offer?
Ans. We offer VPS – Virtual Private Servers, Cloud server hosting and Dedicated Server Hosting packages.
3. Do you provide linux Servers with Plesk installed on it?
Ans. Yes, we provide linux VPS and Dedicated Servers with Plesk Control Panel installed on it. Our standard linux control panel is cPanel – WHM.
4. Does Linux have more advantage over Windows Operating System?
Ans. Both Operating Systems are based upon the requirements of the client’s applications. The only main difference between them is that Linux is an Open-Source Platform whereas Windows Operating System requires additional licensing which is charged additional by the hosting provider.
5. Is a dedicated server better than a VPS?
Ans. The requirement is the priority. If you do not have much requirements, then it is always advisable to be more wise and opt for a VPS Hosting package rather than a dedicated server. However, if your resource utilization is high and cannot be managed on a VPS, then you will definitely need a Dedicated Web Server.
6. Are your Servers Fully Managed? And what does it include ?
Ans. Yes, our servers are fully managed and they include the following :
* Initial Server Setup.
* Routine server monitoring.
* Server Migration (If applicable).
* Disaster recovery planning and procedures including system and file backup.
* Server backup restoration in the event of a hardware failure.
* Server troubleshooting – We will help you trouble shoot if the server is not performing well.
* Regular maintenance of the operating system (updates & patches).
* Firewall configuration and Much More
7. What is your guarantee on a VPS ?
Ans. We guarantee 100% Network Uptime SLA which practically means “No Downtime”. This includes our VPS Hosting and Cloud server hosting packages.
8. Is cPanel better than Plesk ?
Ans. cPanel is supported with Linux Only as of now and is known for it’s easy interface. However, Plesk supports Linux as well as Windows Operating System. It’s hard to distinguish their pros and cons as both compete with each other at high standard levels. DotNet Panel – control panel will also be provided with our Windows VPS and dedicated web servers.
9. How many IPs do you provide with a VPS Hosting Package ?
Ans. We provide standard 2 Dedicated IPs with each VPS Hosting package – Linux Or Windows. However, you can definitely request for additional IP addresses for additional cost of $1.00USD per IP per month.
10. What is Linux Virtual Server Mirroring ?
Ans. This basically refers to Mirroring Setup of 2 VPS’s which includes replication of data between 2 VPS’s and also a setup of fail-over. In case one VPS fails, the other VPS immediately takes it’s place and guaranteed 100% Guaranteed Uptime – Redundant Solution.
11. Do you offer Colocation Services ?
Ans. Yes, we do offer colocation Servers. Price of Colocation Servers are as follows :
1U Rack Server : $199.00USD Per Month
2U Rack Server : $249.00USD Per Month
This plan includes :
- Fully Managed Colocation Unit
- 3000GB or 3TB High-Quality Bandwidth Per Month
- Dedicated IPs : 5
- 24×7 Customer Support
- No Additional Costs Involved
- No Setup Fee
BODHost – Colocation Services are offered for only high-end Web Server Hosting Solutions which are definitely value-for-money.
12. Do you provide Full SSH Root Access with your Linux VPS Hosting Package ?
Ans. Yes, we provide full SSH Root Access with our Linux VPS Hosting Packages.
13. Do you provide Full Remote Desktop Access with your Windows VPS Hosting Package ?
Ans. Yes, we provide full Remote Desktop Access with our Windows VPS Hosting Packages.
14. Do you support ASP and .NET on your Windows VPS Hosting Packages ?
Ans. Yes, we support ASP and .NET on our Windows VPS Hosting Packages.
15. What Operating Systems do you support on your servers ?
Ans. We Support Latest version of the following Operating Systems :
- Linux – centOS
- Linux – FedoraCore
- DebianOS
- Ubuntu
- Redhat Enterprise Linux
- FreeBSD
- Windows Server 2003 ( Web Edition, Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition )
- Windows Server 2008 ( Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition )
16. What Plesk Domains Control Panel Options do you provide ?
Ans. We provide the following Plesk Domains Control Panel Options :
- Plesk 10 Domains
- Plesk 100 Domains
- Plesk 300 Domains
- Plesk Unlimited Domains
17. What’s the basic difference between Managed and Unmanaged Dedicated Web Servers ?
Ans. The basic difference between Managed and Unmanaged Dedicated Web Servers is that with unmanaged servers, you will need to managed all installations of applications and softwares on the servers and also fix issues without any technical support assistance whereas with the managed dedicated or VPS Web Server is that you do not need to worry about the installations / configurations of applications and also security maintanence can be taken care of by the hosting technical support team.
All BODHost Servers are fully Managed without any additional fee. All you need to pay is the price on the website for the hosting packages and you will have your own fully Managed VPS Web Server or a dedicated server hosting packages.
18. Do you provide Server Monitoring System with your Servers ?
Ans. Yes, we provide Server Monitoring System with our Servers and can also set notifications to your emails with current status of the server hosting package.
19. Can i install custom applications on your Servers ?
Ans. As BODHost only provides VPS and dedicated servers, which means no restrictions. You can install custom applications on our Servers.
20. Can i resell my VPS Hosting Package ?
Ans. Yes, you can resell your VPS Hosting package. You will need a main VPS Control Panel installed on the VPS Hosting package that will allow you to resell your hosting space and bandwidth. You can also set your VPS Hosting package to provide Master Reseller Hosting Packages to your clients.
21. How much is for additional IP address ?
Ans. If you need additional IP address, it will cost you $1.00USD Per IP Per Month. Please be advised that we will need IP justification for each IP allocation to maintain records. For more information on IP justification allocation policies,
please view the link : http://www.bodhost.com/web-hosting/dedicated-servers-and-virtual-private-servers-ip-address-allocation-policies/
22. How much is bandwidth Overage Charges on a VPS or Dedicated Server ?
Ans. Bandwidth Overage charges on a VPS is 0.10 Per Gigabyte and for a Dedicated Server is 0.30 Per Gigabyte. However, it is always advisable to upgrade your bandwidth to unmetered bandwidth on a dedicated server and if you have a VPS Hosting package, you can consider upgrade of the hosting plan.
23. Can i host multiple domains on a single VPS Hosting Package ?
Ans. Yes, you can host multiple domains on a single vps hosting package. There are no restrictions in creation of multiple domains, sub-domains, email accounts etc.
24. Is there a maximum file size limitation ?
Ans. There are no such restricitions when we speak of uploading file size on to the VPS or a dedicated Server. All you need to watch is your disk space and not exceed the allocated disk space. However, you can always upgrade for more Hard Disk Space which will eventually increase your file size uploads.
25. What kind of Support do you offer ?
Ans. BODHost provides 24×7 US & Canada Toll-Free and International Phone Support, 24×7 Live Chat Support and 24×7 Email Support.
26. What is your guaranteed email response time ?
Ans. Our guaranteed email response time is 15 minutes.
27. Is there any montlhy contracts or commitments with your dedicated servers or VPS’s ?
Ans. There are no monthly contracts or commitments with our dedicated servers or VPS Hosting packages. You can always cancel the hosting package with a simple cancelation email ticket.
28. Do you offer 30 Days Money-back guarantee on your dedicated servers ?
Ans. No we do not offer 30 days money-back guarantee on your dedicated servers. However, we do offer 30 days money-back guarantee on our VPS Web Servers and Cloud hosting solutions.
29. How long does it take to setup a VPS ?
Ans. It takes about couple of hours to Setup a VPS – Approx. 3 – 4 Hours from the time of Signup and completion of verification process.
30. How long does it take to setup a dedicated server ?
Ans. It takes about 24 – 48 Hours to setup a dedicated server and complete all security tests carried out by our Server Security Department.
31. Do you offer Unlimited Bandwidth Hosting plans ?
Ans. Logically, it’s not possible to offer Unlimited Bandwidth hosting plans due to the basic reason that bandwidth allocated is backbone of ISP providers assigned to every hosting provider and has a price for every bandwidth connection and henceforth, the price of bandwidth cannot be avoided. We never Over-sell our hosting servers and believe in providing quality hosting service to our clients.
32. Do you host Adult sites, warez sites or sites containing illegal material?
Ans. We DO NOT allow any illegal content websites.
33. What is the connection speed of your dedicated servers ?
Ans. Our Servers have 5 x 10 Gbps uplinks for our Datacenter. All servers have 100 Mbps Nic card and they are connected to 1 Gbps switch.
34. Do you accept Paypal ?
Ans. Yes, we do accept paypal.
35. What are the other modes of payments that you accept ?
Ans. We accept Credit Cards, paypal, money-bookers and Wire Transfers to our United Kingdom bank accounts only. Our Administration currently operated from 1 KING STREET,
ALTOFTS, WAKEFIELD, WEST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Each and every website that is present on the internet is hosted on some or the other web hosting server. Currently, there are various types of web hosting services available on the internet. Some of the most powerful dedicated hosting servers available are the dedicated server, the colocation web hosting server, the virtual private web hosting server (VPS), the shared web hosting server, the reseller web hosting server, and there are many others.
The dedicated server, the colocation web hosting server, and the virtual private web hosting server are the top quality web hosting servers that are a bit expensive, but offer a very high quality for your business or internet marketing website. There are many other types of web hosting server, for example, the shared web hosting server that are not as costly as the dedicated servers or the colocation servers, but the web hosting service and the web features that you get with a shared web hosting are not as professional when compared to these high quality dedicated hosting servers.
There are many internet marketers who do not want to invest a lot of money in the beginning itself. There are many others who do not afford a top quality web hosting dedicated server. So, they choose the shared web hosting server without considering the impact on their marketing efforts using such shared servers, which in turn might even harm their important website and the data that is present in it.
The shared web hosting, as the name itself suggest is shared among many users. All the features like the bandwidth, the web space, memory, and other web tools and applications. There can be a lot of security issues that you might have to face if you opt for a shared web hosting server. Furthermore, the shared web hosting server is always vulnerable to all kinds of virus and other harmful attacks due to the very fact that there will possibly be hundreds of other websites sharing the server with your site and some may carry harmful scripts on it that can cause problems to all other sites present on that shared server.
On the other hand, the dedicated server hosting are the best if you really want to do some serious business over the internet. The dedicated web hosting servers are used by top organizations as these servers offer great qualities and excellent features which often satisfy the requirements of the important websites of these organizations. Also, you do not have to share the dedicated web hosting server with any other website. This makes the dedicated web hosting server safer and very stable. You can also install only the operating system of your choice, and those softwares and web tools which are required by your website. You can also have complete control over your dedicated web server at all times. Due to this, there will be no unwanted softwares or applications running on the web hosting server, making it run smoothly without much load or problems.
In case of dedicated web servers, even though the initial investment may be a bit high, the quality of service and the features that you get along with a dedicated web hosting server makes up for the cost in the long run. With the dedicated web hosting server, you get total control over the dedicated server. The dedicated web hosting servers are also quite reliable, flexible, scalable, and offer very high quality features that helps in running your website smoothly, at very fast speeds, without stoppages, and very securely.
With dedicated servers, you get almost 100% network uptime, very high bandwidth and the complete web space which you do not have to share with anyone. Also, you get the luxury of 24/7 top-quality and dedicated customer supports, and almost instantaneous support by some top IT professionals working for these top web hosting companies offering quality dedicated server packages. You can further optimize the entire dedicated hosting server and allocate the web space and the bandwidth according to the requirements.
There are a lot of advantages of investing in dedicated servers and quality dedicated hosting packages. Even though the profit potential can be extremely rewarding, you will require some basic knowledge and idea about the operations of a dedicated server. You can also opt for and make lots of money using the great resources of a dedicated server by using it for your own web hosting reseller business. Hence, a dedicated server offers you unlimited opportunities – for your internet marketing, for your online business, or even as a base for your very powerful reseller business!
VPS Server vs. Dedicated Server
VPS servers and dedicated servers are the two forms of dedicated web hosting offered by most web hosting providers and allow for businesses that require reliable and secure web hosting services to use a web hosting package capable of meeting their requirements ideally. Although VPS servers and dedicated servers are separated by their separate form factors, with VPS server hosting being a form of virtual web hosting and dedicated server hosting being the only form of physical web hosting that is available. If you require a web hosting service that can provide you with large resource allocations then a dedicated server is going to be the way for you to go since the only restrictions you will face resource wise are going to be the actual limits of the server; however, VPS servers can still provide you with decent resource assignments that are capable at meeting the requirements of most users, just at a more affordable price. Windows server hosting services are offered by many web hosting providers although Linux server hosting servers generally tend to be more prevalent as they are normally cheaper and easier to provision for web hosting providers.
There are several different editions of the Windows server operating system meaning that there is a good range of choice to choose from depending on what your needs may be, however the use of the Windows operating system will also cost you more since web hosting providers will need to factor in the cost of the Windows operating system license; Linux on the other hand is an open source operating system meaning that it costs nothing to use and there are many different versions, or ‘distributions’, of Linux available that have all been designed to be used in different situations. Apart from the difference in form factor between VPS server hosting and dedicated server hosting, there isn’t a great deal else that is different; both forms of dedicated web hosting will provide you with guaranteed assignments of RAM, disk space and bandwidth that you will be able to utilize as you see fit – with a dedicated server you will also be able to make full use of the server’s CPU whereas with a VPS server you will have to share the hosting node’s CPU with the other VPS servers that are hosted on the same node. Server hosting services are able to provide you with greater reliability in the long run, and for most uptime is one of the most important factors to consider in a web hosting package these days.