The web hosting charges have come down to such an extent that now a days reseller hosting account and a VPS (Virtual Private Server) are available for the same cost. But what should you choose between a VPS and a reseller account? Let’s find out.

What makes a VPS better than reseller account?

VPS is a virtual server which means it’s entirely yours, basically private and the resources of the VPS are not shared with other users. VPS virtual servers are available as managed, unmanaged and also unmetered depending on the offer. You get the root access of the virtual server and mostly free to install softwares of your choice. In short, you are the administrator of the server and have the ability to manage every aspect of it. If you have the time and skills to manage the VPS server, VPS is what you should opt for. But if you have no intention of installing softwares such as IRC on the VPS and not even need root access, reseller hosting should be considered.

What makes reseller account better than virtual private servers?

Reseller accounts share the common server resources and most often are a result of oversold resources of the dedicated server. A reseller hosting will not require a lot of technical experience or hosting expertise. If you need to host multiple websites or if you are new to hosting and want to start your own hosting business, reseller account is what you should consider. But if you want to install softwares, use command line, need access as root user, then go for VPS.

We hope you find this information useful and it will help you choose between a reseller account and VPS.

cPanel is the most widely used hosting control panel to manage websites that are hosted on remote servers. Using cPanel, one can administer various features of a website such as email account setup, FTP account management, File Manager, database setup and installing applications using Fantastico.

The following cPanel 11 video tutorials will help you manage your websites using cPanel.

Manage Email Accounts in cPanel

• Manage the email accounts associated with your domain – cPanel official tutorial
• Manage Email forwarders – cPanel official tutorial
• Manage Email Auto-responders – cPanel official tutorial
• Manage Email Mailing List in cPanel – Official cPanel tutorial
• Learn how to enable/disable Spam Assassin
• How to use cPanel Webmail in your domain

General site maintenance activities using cPanel

• How to set the Preferences in your cPanel – SiteGround Hosting
• How to manage Domains via cPanel – SiteGround Hosting
• Updating Your Contact Information and Preferences – cPanel official tutorial
• Learn all about creating and managing subdomains via cPanel – cPanel official tutorial
• Learn to manage parked domains – cPanel
• Learn web page redirects in cPanel
• Password protect directories of your website via cPanel
• Hotlink Protection – Prevents other websites from directly linking to files on your website.
• IP Deny Manager – Block a range of IP addresses to prevent them from accessing your site.

Manage database in cPanel

• Learn to create and modify MySQL databases in cPanel
• MySQL Wizard – Create and manage MySQL databases with this step by step wizard.

Manage site backup via cPanel

• How to make Website backup via CPanel

There are a lot of other cPanel tutorials that we will be adding to this post, so you may want to bookmark this page and come back again.

Are you planning to host your personal website and trying to find how much of space and bandwidth is needed to host your website? This mini tutorial will help you calculate how much of those resource is needed.

Let’s start with determining the space that will be needed to host your website. Almost all websites consists of various files such as html, jpg, txt, zip etc. If your website is already designed, calculating how much of space it will take to host it on a server is quite easy. Just place all the files in their respective folders on your hard disk and then right click to find the size of the main folder that contains all the files of your website. That’s it! That’s exactly the space you will need on the server where you wish to your host your website.

Let’s now see how to find the bandwidth you will need on a monthly basis. Although most of the hosting packages offer plenty of bandwidth now a days, in fact much more than what most of us actually need, we will still look at the formula to calculate the estimated total bandwidth consumption every month.

The formula is actually quite simple, here it is.

[total size of all the files of your website including graphics] x [number of visitors everyday x number of pages each visitor will view] x [number of days in a month, i.e. 30 in our case] = Total monthly bandwidth required

Let’s understand this with an example. Suppose, you have a website that consists of 10 html pages and 2 images. All the html pages put together is 100KB and 2 images are 100KB in total. Your site might get 100 visitors every day and each visitor might see 2 pages of your site, then using the formula we arrive at the monthly bandwidth required.

[ 200KB ] x [ 100 x 2 ] x [ 30 ] = 1200000 KB which is ~ 1.2GB of bandwidth

In the formula mentioned above, the total size of the files can be replaced with average size of the files and you will still be able to calculate estimate bandwidth. However, one thing to remember is that browsers cache static content such as html pages and graphics files, so your actual bandwidth required may be less if there are a lot of repeat visitors.

Easyspace has announced the addition a new range of low cost, feature rich, shopping cart solutions to its product portfolio.

A new e-Commerce solution from Easyspace offers an intuitive way for users to start or improve their business online. The solution has the ability to accept payments via a number of the most popular methods already built in (including Paypal and Worldpay), as well as exporting options allowing you to easily list your products on sites such as ebay, Google Base and Kelkoo as well as on your own site.

“We’ve offered off the shelf eCommerce solutions in the past,” states Errol Vanderhorst, Sales and Marketing Director for Easyspace, “but in all honesty, the high price associated with them in relation to the price of our other services, meant that they weren’t a natural fit or upgrade option for the customer. Our new Online Shopping packages have been developed specifically with the customer and our general pricing in mind, meaning the customer can now add a shopping cart with an extensive range of features for a low monthly cost.”

The Shopping Cart range from Easyspace is delivered in 3 packages – Starter, Business and Pro – ranging from £14.99 per month through to £44.99 per month depending on requirements.

Easyspace via press release

GoDaddy recently announced the launch of their new hosting related products to help businesses and online entrepreneurs excel by saving their money and also make money for them at the same time.

These new products include simple-to-use survey tool for instant customer feedback, a service allowing access to hosting accounts while protecting the owner’s confidential information, a new catchy domain extension and a product providing a hassle-free way to make money with parked domains.

Go Daddy Site Surveys makes it easy to request, track and measure customer attitudes and preferences anytime.

Go Daddy Hosting AccountExec allows any person or business to assign trusted individuals limited access to a hosting account, while passwords and account details remain confidential and the domain owner remains in control. Very helpful feature for those domain owners who want their friends or anyone else to manage their domain without losing the control.

Go Daddy Quick Content is an easy-to-use service that can instantly boost the value of parked domains by turning them into fully functional Web sites. Go Daddy Quick Content provides professionally written search engine optimized content and allows you to enable monetization options like Google AdSense, Kontera and Shopping.com. Hosting comes built-in and it’s easy to tie it to your Google Analytics account and monitor traffic.

GoDaddy has now started to offer domain registration for .BZ (“Buzz”) extension. Originally, .BZ is the country code Top Level Domain of Belize on the east coast of Central America.

GoDaddy via EarthTimes

MD based hosting firm, WebNet Hosting, has begun offering a new suite of tools aimed at small-business webmasters.

The website editor tool will allow a great degree of control over the look and feel of the website and structure management of the website without having to spend in expensive site development software. People who are not skilled with HTML and other essentials skills will be able to edit the site using this tool’s simplified GUI. This tool is included with Business Builder, Reseller, and E-Commerce accounts.

The next tool that comes from WebNet hosting is Site Studio. WebNet is offering 600 template themes for users to build their site from scratch and that too rapidly. Site studio is a quite popular tool that many web hosting companies have been offering.

Urchin 5 is the next tool in offering which is a website-statistics tool that enables owner of a website to capture and manage site traffic data. Analyzing website analytics is very helpful and offers great degree of insight into your website’s visitors. Urchin V5 is standard with WebNet Hosting E-Customize and Business Builder e-commerce and hosting plans.

WebNet Hosting via WebHostingDir

Parallels, a leading web hosting automation provider, has announced the launch of its new Business Automation 4.4 support system solution.

Business Automation 4.4 will enable web hosting companies, software vendors, enterprises, ISPs and other service providers automate their billing, online ordering and order processing activities. Some of the key aspects of these activities includes workflow automation, reseller management, marketing promotions and campaigns to billing, taxation, reporting and fraud detection.

The new business automation solution also enables selling SSL certificates by automating the complete cycle of SSL certificate management such as purchasing, processing, delivering, tracking and renewing SSL certificates. Business automation 4.4 is available as a standalone purchase or as an integrated offering.

Parallels Business Automation 4.4 enables service providers to focus on their core business. By automating with Parallels, hosting service providers will no longer need to waste critical resources developing back office functions and can instead focus their technical staff on revenue generation and service differentiation.

For more information, visit Parallels Business Automation.

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Hostway Corporation, one of the leading web hosting services provider, recently announced the launch of their White-Label Reseller Program, called Hostway Tango, which offers the broadest set of products and web hosting services in a single reseller program. The program actually costs $400 but will be offered free of cost for a period of one year to resellers who join the program before June 30, 2009.

Resellers can use an easy to use web interface to sell various web hosting services that Hostway Tango has to offer to their clients. The list of services that resellers can offer to their hosting clients are as following:

• Web hosting (Linux and Microsoft® Windows)
• Hosted Microsoft Exchange®
• Hosted Microsoft SharePoint®
• Domain name registration
• Business-class email
• Plus a full menu of add-ons for these products

Resellers under this program can set their profit margin at any level as they resell products to their customers. If you are planning to enter the reselling market, the Hostway Tango program is a good starting point for you.

For more information, visit Hostway Tango.

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For a limited period of time, through March 31st, The Planet is running a web hosting promotion that will allow customers who purchase one of the six discounted dedicated servers as an add-on to an existing or new dedicated server and also receive free R1Soft CDPServer backup software worth $50.

These discounted servers can be added to an existing server with The Planet for backup and development activities. If you are an existing customer, this might be a one time opportunity for you to get an additional server that can take care of your current server’s backup or can also be used for development by your company’s development work.

The following are the configuration information and pricing for the second server which comes at a discounted price to you.

The Celeron 2.0+ is now just $49 per month, down from $89.
The Pentium 4 2.4+ is priced at $59, reduced from $109.
The Dual Xeon 2.4, regularly $209, is now $75, a monthly savings of 64 percent.
The Dual Xeon 2.8 has been reduced 66 percent to $89 per month.
The Dual Xeon 3.2 is available for $94, a price reduction of 69 percent.
The Xeon 5130, typically priced at $239 per month, is now $125.

For more information, visit The Planet

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Rackspace, the ultimate leader in the web hosting industry, has unveiled cloud hosting. The cloud hosting services offered by rackspace are called cloud files, cloud sites and cloud servers.

The first service, cloud sites starts at $100/month, runs on both Linux and windows, and rackspace claims it to be the fastest way to put sites on the cloud. The second service, cloud files starts at $0.15/GB and can be scaled to store unlimited amount of data. The third service, cloud servers starts at just $20/month and is currently available in only Linux.

For more information, visit rackspace.