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cPanel VPS and Plesk VPS Hosting Differences

Friday, May 9th, 2008

The biggest difference between Plesk VPSand cPanel VPS is the user interface.both of the feature sets are pretty much comparable, and both are reasonably fast, secure, and reliable.Plesk as well as cPanel are very good control panels and many people had a lot of success with each of them. Ultimately however, it’s just a matter of personal preference over with interface you will be most comfortable with it. If you have used one over another, It is recommended to continue with the one you are familiar with.

Some of the biggest differences between the two control panels:

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PLESK
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Advantages of Plesk are as follows:-

1) Plesk provides better support for automation, including an XML-RPC interface allowing PHP or Perl scripts to call functions from a remote computer.

2) With Plesk you will get large variety of plug-ins, adding to the available features.

3) For unlimited domain licenses, Plesk is cheaper than cPanel.

4) It supports SuSE Linux.

Note:Plesk is a good control panel but the user interface is slightly harder to use and customise than cPanel’s, and it is generally preferred by most of the clients.

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cPANEL
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Advantages of cPanel are as follows:-

1)Most of the softwares are integrate with cPanel.

2)Out-of-the-box, it has slightly more features than Plesk control panel.

3)cPanel is cheaper to rent per year, as compare to Plesk.

4)cPanel is very easy to use, and many clients are used to and prefer the cPanel interface.

Disadvantages of cPanel are as follows:-

1)cPanel does not provide any XML or similar interface.

2) It does not support SuSE Linux.

Frontpage Extensions on cPanel VPS Hosting

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Frontpage Extensions provides access for website publish from Frontpage. This provides a better interface while uploading data content. Please be assured that while Installating or Uninstalling Frontpage Extensions, it is a possibility that .htaccess file could be lost. Following are the steps to install Frontpage Extensions through cPanel on VPS Servers :

> Click on cPanel
> Click on Frontpage Extensions icon through cPanel
> It will then proceed with the installation of Frontpage Extensions on the VPS

Linux Cheap VPS Hosting by Bodhost.com

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Bodhost.com Cheap VPS hosting is for those who want control and flexibility of a dedicated server at a very low cost. All Bodhost.com Cheap VPS packages come with a control panel option such as cPanel and Plesk etc. and all other features, as well as Bodhost.com amazing 24/7 customer service with Toll free phone support. Bodhost.com guarantee you won’t be disappointed and each Bodhost.com Cheap VPS is backed by 30 days money back guarantee if they fail to offer as described.Bodhost VPS are setup on the powerful node with latest configuration : Servers are setup on powerful Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 8MB Cache and 8GB ECC RAM.

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cPanel VPS Tutorial : How to Change a Password

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007


To Reset your domain password in your cPanel Server, you may follow these steps :

1) First click on the Change Password button on the home page.

2) In the Old Password field enter your current password .

3) Now Enter your new password in the New Password and New Password (again) fields.

4) Click on the Change your password now! button. Your password has now been changed.

cPanel Tutorials : How to Configure Add-on Domain

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

In cPanel Addon Domain is a feature which provides you to add extra domain name to your hosting account and each domain has its own separate website. (for example: yourdomain1.com & yourdomain2.com, etc) as your visitors can access each addon domain separately and each addon domain will appear as a completely different website.

To add an Addon Domain follow these steps:-

1) First log-in to your cPanel.

2)Click on Addon Domains icon and enter the following info:
New Domain Name: the addon domain which you like to add to your account (example: bodhost.com)
Username/directory/subdomain Name: the name of the subfolder of your account to upload the files of that addon domain (example: bodhost)
Password: any password (NOT your main account password), this password will be used to access the special FTP account of that addon domain

Note:Once the domain is added, you should be able to see a folder with the name of your domain (e.g. if your domain is bodhost.com your folder name is going to be bodhost – unless you change your folder name).

cPanel VPS Tutorial : Autoresponder

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007


What is AutoResponder?

This feature allow you to send an automatic response to anyone who sends an email to your email account. When an email is sent to your account, the response which you have created will be sent back to the person who send you the email. This feature will not prevent your email from being delivered. This feature can be useful for informing customers that you are on vacation, or providing useful information when a customer submits a question or order.


Follow these steps to configure AutoResponder in cPanel:-

1) To Access the Mail Menu, click on the icon above the word Mail on the main screen of your cPanel interface.

2) Now click on Autoresponder to enter it’s maintenance screen.

3) To add a New Autoresponder, click on Add Autoresponder.

4) Enter the email address you wish to send the autoresponses from, the name you wish the message to come from, the subject of the autoresponse email, and the message in the respective fields.

5) If you wish the message to be displayed in HTML format, check the box next to HTML message.

6) Use the drop down box to select the character set you wish the autoresponse to appear in.

7) Click on Create/Modify to create the Autoresponder.

Auto-responder can easily be setup on cPanel Virtual Private Server

cPanel Virtual Private Server Tutorial : How to Backup Data

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Just follow the steps below to perform a full backup in cPanel Hosting:-

1) Login into your cPanel with the Username and password

2) Click on Backup cPanel backup, backup website cpanel, cpanel hosting backup.

3) Click on Generate / Download a Full Backup.

4) Select Home Directory in Backup Destination and enter your email address. others just leave blank and click Generate Backup.

5) Done! You just perform a full backup in cPanel. You will received a notification email once the backup is done.

6) Once the backup is ready, you can FTP into your Account to download the backup file. CPanel locate your backup file in your root directory (/home/username/) and cPanel backup filename normally look like this:-
backup-mm.dd.yyyy_hh-mm-ss_username.tar.gz

Note:You also can FTP your full backup file to your another FTP server (if you have more than 1 server). Just enter the Remote Server (FTP / SCP) which is the IP or domain name, Remote User (FTP / SCP) and Remote Password (FTP / SCP) in the Generate Backup page before you hit Generate backup button, your Backup File will be transfer to the remote server.

Unlimited Domain Hosting

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

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.

PHPauction

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

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

Access to Edit php.ini file?

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

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).

8) 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.