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Shared hosting which is one of the popular form of website hosting is known as a viable option for many of the businesses or individuals who starts out with a small online business. It is solution much affordable for new comers and don’t have to concern about any complicated administrative responsibilities.

Day by day, when your website starts generating higher traffic volume and your web business grows eventually, then you may realize the shared hosting and its limited resources may not be sufficient to suit your website requirements.

In such case, you need to consider a dedicated hosting, but due to insufficient knowledge of administrative and technical skills it requires, you might also require to opt for a Managed Hosting solution.

To know more about Managed Hosting and exactly who requires it, lets move forward.

In simple language, managed hosting refers to a complete management and maintenance of dedicated servers, which is service included in the managed hosting solution. Managed hosting is not only a valuable service to the enterprises who don’t have an IT staff and resources to maintain a dedicated server, but also its ideal those who wish to focus on other critical tasks of their business.

Basically, managed hosting is an ideal solution for anyone who want to get rid of the administration of their dedicated servers as well as those who prefer to devote their valuable time on improving their core business.

The core benefit of managed hosting is that the greater level of control over your dedicated servers operation can still be maintained. The level of server administration and the kind of technical support that you get in managed solution is incomparable with any other web hosting forms.

Being honest, you will find the managed hosting a bit expensive hosting. However, by determining your website requirements and opting managed hosting you can get relax, and let the managed hosting team to take care of your dedicated server.

Due to the budget problem, it not possible for every companies or individuals to opt for the solution they want to. Hence, the web hosting industry had introduced various kinds of hosting such as free web hosting, Shared Web Hosting, Cheap Reseller Hosting, Virtual Dedicated Servers, Managed Hosting, Clustered Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, Colocation Services and Grid Server Hosting.

By going through above hosting types, you should get a better understanding on all these web hosting types that are available online and which solution is the prefect for your business or website.

Free web hosting service : This is a free service offered by few hosting companies, where the account holder is forced to place advertisement provided by the web hosting provider on your website.

Shared Web Hosting : It is a type of web hosting mostly preferred by small businesses. In this hosting multiple websites are hosted on same physical server. It is also known as a cheaper and easier option to get a website live and working. This is a hosting which is a perfect match for web blogs, personal web pages, small forums, small business and small online stores. It is primary choice by people who wish to establish simple websites.

Cheap Reseller hosting : It is a type of website hosting, where a client purchases server space, create small plans by dividing the space, promote it themselves, and sell it to their own customers. This service had opened various opportunities for beginners to generate revenue online without any investments. Reseller hosting is mostly preferred by web designers and consultants as it is simple for them to offer a complete hosting package including their services.

Virtual Dedicated Servers : This service is much similar to the Dedicated Server Hosting where the client gets same security, control and features which comes with dedicated servers, but at a very low cost. As the server space is shared by a few number of clients, it is indeed known as virtual dedicated server or virtual private servers. This service is a perfect match for websites that have outgrown their shared hosting, but can’t afford the expenses of  dedicated server.

Continue Reading… Classifications of Web Hosting – Part Two

As we all are aware of the fact that everything that we go for have some advantages and disadvantages in this world and so do every web hosting package in the internet world have. As for some it might appear that oversold website hosting has only advantages but for many it is proved to be a disadvantage as compared to dedicated server hosting or any other package.

One of the most important thing that people think about is the fact that it is important for any web hosting account is that it has unlimited resources, but the fact is that, unlimited server resources don’t even exist. So if you are hosting your website with an oversold web hosting account you need to switch to a standard shared hosting account so that you can get better value for money you pay as you cannot deny the fact that standard shared hosting provides you with better support and reliability than oversold web hosting.

One of the most important or you can even say that the worst disadvantage of oversold web hosting is the reliability. Oversold web hosting are not at all reliable because there are a lot of users having an account and using the same server at a time and that is the reason why the servers get overloaded and results in a crash which happens repeatedly when it comes to servers of oversold web hosting.

So because of these reasons if you are running a critical or in other words a very important website then it is always good to choose or stick to standard shared hosting or dedicated hosting.

When going for a web-hosting package a question often arises, which package will suit you most? First criteria will be the one, which completes your requirements followed by price. But even after these two requirements are completed, you may still get confused to choose between a Dedicated server and less famous Colocated server. Very few of you know the difference between the two dedicated servers. You can found many companies around the world offering you the services of both Dedicated server hosting and Colocated server hosting. Both of the servers have its own advantages and disadvantages. Final decision depends on the needs for the website.

Biggest difference between Colocated server and Dedicated server hosting is the possession of the server. If you go with Dedicated server you will be provided with the exclusive use of the server, but that server will be owned by some another entity, mostly the hosting provider. On the other, hand a Colocated server is owned by the user and is placed in a space rented by the hosting provider. You can say in a Colocated server you rent the space to mount it in the server and in a Dedicated server, you rent it directly. Although both of them are the option of cheap, hosting when compared to purchasing and housing your own server, but they differ from each other in many fields.

A big advantage of having collocation server is that, it will give the user a full access to the server at any point of time. All the applications can be run from a remote location while the server is placed somewhere in a secure facility known as Data Center. Data Centers are well equipped with internet connectivity, uninterpretable power supply and security. This will give the user a valuable space in business or home that would be needed to place the server. With a Colocated server individual can divide the cost of utilities between all the individuals with servers housed in the area. One of the biggest drawbacks of the Colocated servers is that all the issues, maintenance cost and all the time-to-time needed repairs to the server are handled by the users. Also, Colocated server will cost you more then Dedicated servers as the whole hardware will be from your side. These two drawbacks suggest to go for Dedicated server instead of Colocated server. One should only go for the Colocated server only if he/she has a large network. For the small network or average network Dedicated server is the best.

Coming to the Dedicated Servers Hosting, a user with a dedicated server can have exclusive access to it and can install any software, upload or place any content or application on the server as per their needs. Websites hosted on dedicated severs also have higher reliability and can handle more traffic the websites hosted on shared servers. All the issues arising with the dedicated server will be handled by the hosting company. Many believe that the problem with the dedicated servers is you only own the data on the server, not the whole server. If any kind of problems is occurs with the quality of service provided, a very little option is there for the users until their contracts expires.

Looking for a cheap dedicated server hosting package? Dedicated Server Management is what you concern?

A dedicated server is a web server which offers maximum performance and full control to its user. Well, there are many big enterprises in the market that are much impressed by dedicated servers and knows the benefits of buying a dedicated server.

However, there two most important factors that restricts them from buying a dedicated server for their business. Let me tell you that these web hosting providers offer a wide range of features and tools, which may not be necessary for your business. If you search a little bit on search engines, you will find many web hosting companies that are much affordable in cost and provides you all the required features. One of the leading cheap web hosting company in US is BODHOST LTD.

Bodhost.com is a leading web server hosting provider since 1999. They are specialized in various forms of web hosting, a few of them are listed here : Dedicated Servers, VPS Hosting, Managed Colocation and Cloud Server Hosting. Buying a fully managed dedicated server doesn’t require you to manage the responsibilities of the server. The server won’t reap you benefits unless it is looked after well.

Dedicated Servers are always been a challenge for organizations not having a technical staff to handle the server management services. This is the primary reason why most of the small businesses don’t put their foot into dedicated server hosting. Even if you managed to outsource the server management you will have to pay huge bucks, that won’t take your burden off.

Well, with dedicated servers offered by Bodhost will help you to manage all your server management tasks that comes along with it. The professionals at Bodhost are fully trained and has expertise in handling the server issues as well as the server management. All the tasks such as optimization, troubleshooting, monitoring and maintenance are take care by the team of experts and available 24×7 for solving customer issues.

Dedicated Servers are available in different packages, depending on the features and price you choose. The fully managed dedicated servers are the only reliable web hosting packages that offers you flexibility, advanced security, scalability, full customer support and a complete control over your server.

Dedicated Servers by Bodhost takes care of every aspect of your server management services and permits you to concentrate fully on your business to produce maximum productivity.

This article provides you brief idea about setting up vnc server on Linux.I had setup vnc server on fedora core 3. however you can apply same steps with other distro.

Step 1 : Enable vnc services on host MyServer.
?#setup
???????? go to system services
???????? check out that vnc and vncserver are enabled.
???????? if not enable it using space bar.
???????? quit from setup.

?# service vncserver start

Step II : Start the VNC server.
# vncserver
…
vncserver started on MyServer:1.
Note : Only one instance of server is created.

#vncpasswd
password:*****
retype password:****
Note : This will set vnc password for accessing vnc server.

Step III : Testing
From client run vncviewer (don’t run remote desktop connection from winxp or win2003, they are using different protocol)

In server enter : MyServer:1

enter password:

and you will see the screen with one terminal open.

Thats because by default vnc starts twm desktop.

For getting your gnome desktop

Go to /root/.vnc/

vi xstartup

change the 4th and 5th lines to look like this

unset session manager

exec /etc/x11/…/initrc