Some webhosting companies are offering the cheapest web hosting plans which allow to host unlimited domains and support unlimited web sites with separate login, email, ftp and other users details - all on one single website hosting account.

The benefit of this unlimited hosting is saving money by hosting all your websites on one hosting account, there are also many other benefits but for us the main benefit is only having to learn one hosting control panel instead of several which could have a long learning curve. Multiple domain hosting all of your domains on one single server and allows you to manage them much more efficiently.

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What is Website Builder?

A website builder is an online/offline HTML editor software application.By using it user can create a website without any knowledge of the underlying markup and scripting languages. Most website builders use easy to use Point and Click or drag and drop technology similar to basic word processing programs like Microsoft Word.A web site builder is used for programming the functionality of a web site. So while a requirements analyst is tasked with determining what a web site should do, the web site builder figures out how it is going to do it and then writes the necessary programming code. Much of this programming code is behind the scenes and not visible to the user. This website builder may also be responsible for the code that the user sees. This is the HTML/DHTML and Javascript that make up most of the web pages which you interact with in your web browser.t’s easy to build a site with Website Builder.

The administration area of website Builder allows you to easily manage and create multiple web sites in 3 easy steps which are as follows:

1) First you must select a website template for your website. This will help you to get started with sample content and ideas on what to say.

2) Now choose one of the website designs that you can customize to match your personal style.

3) Now you can edit it’s text, add images, and add pages to your site.
After doing all these steps just click Publish and you are done.Within few minutes you will have your own personal website published and online.

Website builders can be divided into two categories that is Online and Offline.

Online website builder: Online website builder creates a website with web forms over the Internet. Online website builder does not requires to install any special software, an Internet browser is only the software which it requires.

Offline Website builder:Offline website builder is a program which you install on a computer from a disc or download it from internet. This type of website builder requires that a site is first built on the computer with the software and then uploaded, often with a separate piece of software.

These are the some advantages of Website Builder:-
1) WYSIWYG - (What You See Is What You Get) editing, little or no html or css knowledge required.

2) It put together a website in very short period of time.

3) It can easily add flash, counters, forms, buttons, menus etc with drag and drop features.

4) Website builder always allows for multiple users and it always contains the updated version of pages.

5) Website builders will also be backed-up on a daily basis, which makes your work double protected.

6) Basic builder built into the cPanel of some web hosts

There are many more advantages of Online website builder but in short We can say that it is easy to use, it doesn’t requires more computer experience, and it can also save your time.

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What is Moodle?
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. It has a significant user base with 25,281 registered sites with 10,405,167 users in 1,023,914 courses (as of May 13, 2007).It is distributed under the GNU General Public License and is an active and evolving work in progress, subject to a roadmap.Moodle can also be called as ‘Virtual Learning Environment’ (VLE) or ‘Learning Platform’. It provides a range of functionality covering content creation and delivery, communication and collaboration and management, including tracking and assessment tools.

What do we require to run Moodle?

You can easily install Moodle on a standard Windows computer on your desktop or on a Mac.If you wants to run a stable Moodle service for a school, college, business etc., you should really invest in a dedicated server with more capacity for your users. Moodle runs on a variety of platforms - the most common being Linux/Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP.

How do you login to get started in Moodle?

1) Go to http://moodle.lamission.edu/login/signup.php
2) type in your own username and password - write it down so you do not forget it
3) type in a real email address, and then type it in to confirm it
4) type in first name, last name, country, city and country
5) click on “create account”
6) your registration is not complete
7) you need to go to your home email, and click on the confirmation email, then you are registered for moodle
you only have to do this one time
9) now that you have registered then go to your class under moodle
10) click on it, and then enroll. Now you are then ready to start work on your class.

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What is PHPauction?

Phpauction is a software which help its customers to retain their privacy while they take advantage of what the Internet has to offer.PHPauction includes the main features for an auction website: Reserve price, Buy it now, Standard & Dutch auctions, Item & Auction watch, among many others. If you are planning to develop your own custom web-based auction site than it is a good starting point, easy to install and manage through web based installer and friendly administration back-end. Flexible, reliable & easy to customize.

These are some main features of PHPauction:-

* It is customizable HTML templates for easy design changes
* mySQL database backend for superior control over data
* HTML product listings with uploadable photos
* Complete search function which searches entire database for products
* The display of current users and current auctions
* New user registration
* Users login/logout
* “Forgot your password?”
* User defined usernames
* Password retrevial via email
* Free bids for registered users
* Email notification of bids
* Auctions: User defined Item descriptions
* Users can upload pictures
* Reserve prices, minimum bids
* Standard, dutch auctions
* View bid history
* Auction Displays: Displayed seller name and information
* Displayed quanity of items
* Ability to send auction to a friend
* Browse able categories
* Displays the last created auctions
* Displays the Highest bids
* Displays Auctions ending soon
* Help system
* News system
* Money formatting options

What are the requirements for PHPauction?

Phpauction’s basic server requirements are as follows:

1)an Apache web server
2)PHP 4 (or above)
3)MySQL Database
4)Ability to run cron jobs

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By following these steps you can edit a php.ini file:

1) First find the location of php.ini file

2) Place this script on your server.

3) Run this script in your Web browser by going to http://anyofyour.url.here/phpinfo.php in your Web browser (on your own computer, this may be like http://localhost/phpinfo.php or http://localhost/~username/phpinfo.php).

4) In the result page, look for the line which says “Configuration File (php.ini) Path”. It should be about 6 rows down in the table.

5) Note the location of your php.ini file. It is the active file PHP is using. Your server may have multiple php.ini files on it but this is the one that counts.

6) If you don’t have a php.ini file on your server (if the value is blank in the phpinfo.php script or if you go to the directory it lists and there’s no php.ini file there), create it one by one :
a) Download the complete source code from http://www.php.net/downloads.php.
b) Extract the source (unzip or whatever)j so that you now have a folder of files.
c) Find the php.ini-dist file, located in the main folder.
d) Rename this file as php.ini and move it to the proper directory.

7) Open the php.ini file in a text editor (do not use Notepad, Word, TextEdit, or any other text editor which will not properly display line or will not let you save a plain text file).

Make the changes you want, keeping in mind the following:

a) Comments are marked using a semi-colon(;). Anything after the semi-colon is ignored.
b) Instructions on what most of the settings mean are included in the file.
c) The top of the page lists general information with examples. Do not change these values. Change the settings where they appear later in the file.
d) Note for safety purposes, do not change any default settings, just comment them out (by preceding the line with a semi-colon), then add the new, modified line afterwards.
e) Add a comment (using the semi-colon) to mark what changes you made and when. For example:

; register_globals = Off
register_globals = On ; Added by LEU 1/9/2007

9) Save the file.

10) Restart the Web server (Apache, IIS, etc.). You do not need to restart your whole computer.

11) Rerun the phpinfo.php script to make sure the changes took effect.

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cPanel Dedicated Server Web Hosting

These are some Steps to secure your cPanel Dedicated Server:-

1) Use secure passwords:

Insecure passwords are the most common security vulnerability for many servers. If an account password is not secure and is compromised, client websites can be Hacked, infected, or used to spread viruses. Having secure passwords is paramount to having a secure server. Generally, a password utilizing at least 8 characters including alphanumeric and grammatical symbols is sufficient. Never use passwords based upon dictionary words or significant dates because it is easy to crack that.You can also edit /etc/login.defs to configure many password options on your system which is well documented.

2) Secure your SSH:

Disable password authentication and enable public key authentication for SSH .Move SSH access to a different port. People are looking for port 22 as a possible way to access your servers. Moving SSH to a different port will add a simple way to deter those without specific knowledge of your server from easily discovering your SSH port.You should always use SSHv2 only as SSHv1 is not secure.You can also set Shell Resource Limits for your users to prevent applications and scripts from using all up your resources and taking down your server.

3) Secure Apache:

The most easily available source to access a web server is the web server application. So it is important to take steps to secure your Apache installation.

a) The best tools for preventing malicious Apache use is mod_security.

b) When compiling Apache, you should include suexec to ensure that CGI applications and scripts run as the user that owns / executes them. This will help identify where malicious scripts are and who is running them. It will also enforce permission and environment controls.

c) It is also recommend compiling Apache + PHP with PHPsuexec. PHPsuexec forces all PHP scripts to run as the user who owns the script. This means that you will be able to identify the owner of all PHP scripts running on your server. If one is malicious, you will be able to find it’s owner quickly and resolve the issue.

d) Enable PHP’s open_basedir protection because this protection will prevent users from open files outside of their home directory with PHP.

e) You may also include safe_mode for PHP 5.x and below. Safe_mode ensures that the owner of a PHP script matches the owner of any files to be operated on.

4) Secure your /tmp partition:

It is recommended that you use a separate partition for /tmp which is mounted with nosetuid. Nosetuid will force a process to run with the privileges of it’s executor. You may also wish to mount /tmp with noexec after installing cPanel. Check the mount man page for more information.Also, Running /scripts/securetmp will mount your /tmp partition to a temporary file for extra security.

5)Turn off daemons and services which you are not using:

Any service or daemon that allows a connection to be established to your server is away for hackers to gain access. To reduce security risks, you should disable all services and daemons that are not being used.

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IIS is a Web server produced by Microsoft. This IIS will only run on computers using a Windows operating system. Microsoft Web servers are used by approximately 20% of all Web sites.It is the world’s second most popular web server in terms of overall websites, behind Apache HTTP Server. Internet Information Services (IIS) makes it easy for you to publish information on the Internet or your intranet.IIS includes a broad range of administrative features for managing Web sites and your Web server. With programmatic features like Active Server Pages (ASP), you can create and deploy scalable, flexible Web applications. IIS is not installed by default but can be added using the Add/Remove Programs dialog box from the Control Panel.

How to Install Internet Information Service (IIS)?

1)Insert your Windows XP Professional CD-Rom into the disc drive.

2)Go to Add or Remove Programs: Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs

3)Click on the Add/Remove Windows Components button on the left hand side of the window.

4)The Windows Components Wizard will then appear. Scroll down to Internet Information Service (IIS) tick the check box and click next.

5)If you do not have Windows XP Professional in your disc drive you will be asked to insert it at this point.

6)The installation should now begin, you will be prompted once the installation is complete, then click finish.

7)You will now be able to view your home page in a web browser by typing http://localhost into the address bar.

8)You should now be looking at the IIS documentation.

Your default web directory for your website files is C:\Inetpub\wwwroot you can set up your own virtual directory through the Internet Information Services Window:

1) Go to Administration Tools: Start > Control Panel > Administration Tools

2) Double-click on the Internet Information Services icon.

3) To add a new virtual directory, expand the Web sites folder in the left pane of the window and right click on Default Web Site. Select New from the pop up menu followed by Virtual Directory.

4) The Virtual Directory Creation Wizard should appear, click next.

5) You will then be prompted to give your virtual directory an Alias to access the it from your web browser (this is the name you will type into your web browser after localhost/ to view any web pages you place in the directory).

6) Click Browse to assign the directory location of server files then click next.

7) Lastly you will see a series of boxes, this is for security. If you are not worried about security select them all and click next.

Once the virtual directory is created you can view the web pages in the folder by typing http://localhost/alias into the address bar of your web browser

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You can easily install joomla by following these simple stepswhich are as follows:-

1)First extract all the files from the Joomla archive into a directory on your hard drive.

2)In the directory where you extracted the files, create a blank text file named configuration.php

3)Now log into your CGI server and create a directory to put your Joomla files into. Upload the files and directories which you have extracted from the Joomla archive to this new directory.

4)Set the file permissions for the configuration.php file to 666.

5)Now change the permissions of the following files and directories to 777:

administrator/backups/
administrator/components/
administrator/modules/
administrator/templates/
cache/
components/
images/banners/
images/stories/
images/
language/
mambots/content/
mambots/editors/
mambots/editors-xtd/
mambots/search/
mambots/system/
mambots/
media/
modules/
templates/

6)Now point your web browser to http://cgi.bodhost.com/joomla/installation/ Replace bodhost.com with your actual domain name and joomla with the name of the directory you uploaded the Joomla files to.
Note: Please note that for security purposes, we have Safe Mode set to on.

7)Click on the Next button at the top right of the page.

8)Please read the Joomla license. If you agree, click the Next button at the top right of the page.

9)Now Fill in the following properly:

Host Name: localhost
MySQL User Name: bodhostcom (Your domain name without the dot.)
MySQL Password: Your MySQL Database Password
MySQL Database Name: (This is the same as your MySQL User Name.)
MySQL Table Prefix: jos_
Drop Existing Tables: Unchecked
Backup Old Tables: Unchecked if first installation.
Install Sample Data: Checked

10)Click the Next button at the top right of the page. When prompted, click the OK button. The database tables will now be added.

11)Type in the title or name of your web site and click the Next button at the top right of the page.

12)Please check that the following is set correctly:

a)URL: http://cgi.bodhost.com/joomla (Replace bodhost.com with your actual domain name, and joomla with the name of the directory you installed Joomla into.

b)Path: /var/www/sites/yourdomain.com/joomla (Make the same replacements as you did above.)

c)Your E-mail: (Any E-mail sent to the site administrator will go to the E-mail address you type in here. You must provide a valid E-mail address here.)

d)Admin password: (Pick a password for your administrator account. Note that the username will always be ‘admin’ unless you change it within Joomla after installation.)

c)Leave the CHMOD options at default (Don’t CHMOD). You can always change them later in the Joomla configuration.

Now click the Next button at the top right of the page when done.

13)Do not exit your web browser yet. Log back into your CGI server and remove the installation directory from your Joomla directory.

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