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.
Debian Dedicated Servers are yet another Operating System Distribution for Linux. Many users prefer using DebianOS on their dedicated Web Servers. There are few of the basic installation procedures that we need to follow :
- Language Selection as per preferance.
- Confirmation of keyboard setup
- Installation files directly load from CD or source.
- Manual Network Setup
- Clock / Time Zone Setup
- Disk Partitions
- NTFS partition should be kept intact
- Boot Load Installation
Debian Dedicated Servers are compatible with cPanel, yet the stability has not yet out-performed.
DNS (domain name system) is the base of the internet and is the system of resolving names to IP addresses to help servers talk to one another both via local networks but also on a wider scale over the internet. DNS is a protocol that encompasses a wide variety of other features that are well-known including IP addresses and domain names because DNS records are what help resolve domain names and hostnames to their relevant IP addresses so that the correct server is contacted for a specific request. DNS is a standard feature of any web hosting account as it is required for visitors to be able to load the website that they are requesting in their web browser. The internet is based around ‘name servers’ which are responsible for holding the DNS records for domain names as well as the reverse DNS records for IP addresses.
The root servers are the firs to be contacted during most DNS requests since they then respond with the name server that is responsible for the TLD (Top Level Domain) in particular, the name servers then in turn respond with the name server that is responsible for managing the DNS zone in question which is where the query ends since hopefully the server managing the domain name will respond with the record preferred.
When purchasing a new domain name you will notice that you will be required to assign at least two name servers that will be responsible for the management of the domain name – most web hosting providers will provide DNS hosting free of charge to new domain registrants, although if you are an advance user then you will probably want to be using your own DNS setup. In the case of a domain name the name servers will be responsible for hosting the records related to the physical location of your website and email servers meaning that in order for your domain name to be fully functional, DNS servers are required.
DNS can also be applied in reverse, this of course being called reverse DNS, and this is the situation where IP addresses are resolved to hostnames and is normally more applicable to servers that are responsible for sending emails these days. There are a number of procedures that should be followed when running a mail server to ensure that the emails sent from your server aren’t bounced back by the recipient’s servers and at the same time that your own mail server isn’t blacklisted. Setting reverse DNS (or rDNS) is one of these procedures and helps to verify that the server sending the email is indeed related to the domain name that the email is originating from.
An IP address is the physical address of a computer or server as seen from the internet and IP addresses effectively form the heart of the internet as every device that is connected to the internet will have an IP address assigned to it. When using a web hosting account you may be provided with the opportunity to purchase a dedicated IP address for your website. This is something that could benefit you greatly since it will provide you with an opportunity to capitalize on any SEO that you can carry on your website and at the same time it will also allow you to set reverse DNS on your IP address that will then point towards your domain name, something that will aid your professional identity online.
Redundancy is something that is important to consider with DNS because if all of your DNS servers fail, no-one will be able to access your website and any emails sent to addresses under your domain name will bounce back because the sending server isn’t able to find the email server responsible for your domain name. Web hosting companies offering professional DNS hosting will likely be using a redundant setup of DNS servers in a cluster to help minimize the chance of any problems being caused when downtime occurs. Redundancy can easily be achieved by using multiple DNS servers that are located in separate geographic locations; this can be costly in some situations. If using VPS server hosting or dedicated server hosting then the chances are that you will be using a single server for DNS purposes which creates a single point of failure, something which you could try and avoid.
DNS servers are standard with both Linux servers and Windows servers meaning that regardless of the operating system that you choose to have installed on your server, you will be able to setup your own DNS server. If using a Linux distribution on your server then Bind will probably be the best DNS software available for you to use; Bind is a highly popular piece of DNS server software and since it is open source you can be sure that you will be able to use it to its full extent without having to pay a penny. Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 both come with DNS server software as standard, although you can add and remove it from your Windows installation as you see fit. In both scenarios you won’t have to pay a penny to use the DNS server software meaning that setting up your own DNS servers doesn’t have to be costly at all and can provide you with a wide variety of benefits, especially if you are managing a large number of domains or have a rather large DNS zone file.
In conclusion, DNS is something that is highly important to the running of the internet because it is the method through which domain names are resolved to IP addresses which is allows servers to find one another over the internet. DNS hosting is something standard to most domain name registrations which will allow you to make the most of a domain once you have purchased it, although you will be able to change the name servers that your domain name points to at your own will without any issues because the domain name is essentially your property.