An interview with Aric Pedersen, author of the cPanel User Guide and Tutorial book and the latest book titled, WebHost Manager Administration Guide, by Packt Publishing.

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When you come out and search for hosting company for your site, you
will see that what offers you are getting from the host for launching your site on
his server. Surely they will offer you space, bandwidth and hosting uptime. Most of
the web hosting companies encourages their services by offering uptime assurance.

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If you are like me on a shared hosting server chances are your web hosting
account has cPanel or some other administration panel through which you can
create/delete MySQL databases (DBs)/DB users. But you will not be able to:

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This is a guide to setting up a new WHM/cPanel Server to be used for web hosting accounts. It is intended for web hosting company administrators and dedicated server owners. For under $99 per month, it is easier than ever to manage and run your own dedicated server. You can have guaranteed uptime from your datacenter, and outsourced support starting at $30/month. All you need to do is set up the server and get going. Whether it is for a web hosting company or a couple of personal websites, an inexpensive linux server is powerful, reliable, and easy to setup.

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The Web site hosting business has become more competitive in recent years. If
you can find a better hosting deal, you may be able to save money by switching
hosting providers. But what’s the best way to move your Web site? What if you
have a virtual private server (VPS) hosting several domains? What about PHP and
your SQL data? The thought of moving may be daunting, but moving servers is not
difficult if you plan properly. Here’s how.

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Downtime can disrupt your business, customers, and damage your company’s reputation. But how do you prevent or minimize downtime? Can a server monitoring service help? To answer these questions, first we need to understand the causes of downtime. Downtime can be broken down into three distinct categories.

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It’s been two years since John started his online business. He is very much
satisfied with his current web host whose services he acquired one year ago.
Today John is relaxing in his chair and thinking about the initial days when he
spent many hours on the Internet collecting information related to web hosting.
Like him there are many John’s out there who are in search of information
everyday, visiting this and that website hoping to find the most illuminating
advice.

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Bandwidth is the amount of data transfer that you are allowed to have for a
hosting package i.e. Let’s say you have a web page that is 48KB in size, now
each time a user opens your site and goes to that page S/he downloads 48 KB of
information on to their computer. If a 100 users view that page one time each
then there has been a total of 4800 KB of data transferred from the server on
which your files are stored for the computer of users.

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Sometimes we just have to move on. Your current mail server may just not be

meeting your needs, so you’ve put up something new. But what about old mail? If
your servers are identical (Sendmail to Sendmail, etc.) or use the same mailbox
storage format, you may be able to just transfer files directly. If not, read
on..

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John’s online business is expanding. His customers are increasing day by day.
However, he feels very frustrated at the moment as he finds his website is
‘down’ about every 4th day. Whenever he calls up the support team of his web
host, he gets the same old answer that his problem will be rectified soon. If
the problems do persist it will surely hamper his business. He has been with his
present hosting provider for the last year but now he feels he has to find a new
web host as soon as possible because his present hosting package is also not
able to meet up with his growing demands.

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