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3 Reasons to Host Your Web Site in a Linux Server

March 28th, 2010 Admin

It’s more and more common that a person owns a web site, which can be for blog, family web site, small business web site or even a forum. And the majority of those small-size or medium-size web sites are hosted in Linux environment. Why so many webmasters would like to make this decision?

I think below are 3 key reasons for it.

1) Stable

As an open source operating system, code of Linux is open to the public so that anyone can read it and suggest improvements or point out bugs. Over the years, Linux has been developed in various flavors (the most famous one is Red Hat). Thousands and thousands of people have contributed their time and effort to making Linux web hosting run faster and to provide simpler, more efficient and bug free code. With an open programming environment, improvements are made on a continual basis and problems are seen relatively quickly and solved with a minimum of difficulty.

And the same reason as why it’s stable, the security level of Linux is also higher than Windows.

2) Cheap

Linux is free to all. Unlike Windows, you have to pay thousands of dollars for a license. And this is also part of reason why the list price of Linux web hosting package is much lower than that of windows web hosting packages.

3) A lot of Free Scripts to Help Setting up the Web Site

Open source world is just as beautiful as it could be. A lot of people contribute to it from different perspectives, such as OS, software development tools or applications. Linux, php, and MySQL have been a very popular platform to build an application. Right now, you can find many very good open source application to set up a forum, blog, image galleries, etc. And all those are free and easy to be installed. Even php and My SQL can work on Windows, Linux just a perfect platform for them.

There are more reasons that the webmasters want to choose Linux to host their web site. But a general guideline is that only if you want to use asp.net or sql server to build your web site, otherwise, Linux is always your best choice.

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Useful Applications for Your Linux Dedicated Server

March 4th, 2010 Admin

Lately, we have been talking about the Linux Dedicated Servers, in this article I am going to show you the three important tools which are useful for your Linux Dedicated Server Hosting.

A fact that most of the people belonging to the website hosting industry knows that the products and applications released for Linux are FREE. The tools listed below are also free to download on Internet.

GRUB : Basically, this is boot loader application unveiled under GNU project available for free. If you wish to use 2 operating systems on one single machine, you will need an option to choose the OS you want to run on start of your machine. GRUB is one of the multiboot specification that can fulfil you needs. This is an application which lets you to install and run two different operating systems (OS) on the same machine.

You can see the option, only if the GRUB is installed on your Linux Dedicated Server, otherwise the feature will not work. One more advantage of this feature is that you can select various images of the kernel and pass boot time parameters on a single operating system partitions to such kernels.

Most of the Linux Dedicated Server Hosting providers will help you to install GRUB boot loader on your server. If not, there is a possibility that you will have to install the GRUB application of your own.

TCP Wrapper : This application is also a free tool that you can download via Internet. TCP Wrapper basically acts as a firewall for your own Linux based dedicated server hosting. A fact that the incoming packets are being monitored by the TCP Wrapper, hence it is stated as an acting firewall.

On linux dedicated server hacking attacks might be possible, hackers may attempts to login into your server. TCP Wrapper ensures it by checking the external source is aurthorized to connect your linux server or not. If the attempt is unauthorized, the application will denied the login permission.

It is also known as a domain computer program, one of the best programs by using it you can keep hackers far away from your Linux dedicated server.

Zend Optimizer : It is a free runtime application that allows PHP to run the scripts encoded by Zend Guard. Those who want to run encoded application can freely use this application.

Zend Encoder and Zend Guard are few software’s which encode specific files and Zend optimizer is a free linux application software which runs these files while boosting the running speed of PHP applications. Basically, it is an application required by most of the scripts to run the scripts on your linux dedicated server while decrypting and running them on the fly while increasing runtime performance.

Maximize your limitations and increase your security by installing these useful tools on your Linux Dedicated Server Hosting.

Robin Dale is an Independent Internet Professional, dedicated to provide quality information about Dedicated Server Hosting Packages ideal for your business Websites.

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Introduction of Cheap Linux Dedicated Server Web Hosting

February 11th, 2010 Admin


There are lots of people suggest Linux server for the reliable web hosting solution, because of its fully security, genuine functionality, very affordable and reliability. You can get it all in the one package.

What are the advantages of Linux Dedicated Servers? A Linux server doesn’t have so much technical problems comparing other servers, has ability to run for long term without disconnecting programs. They don’t take high bandwidth.

Linux is power full operation system that installations have no known exposure in their OS. However, it’s measured for the concern of Linux to stay their running systems with the good security.

Cheap Linux based web hosting is additional advantage of Linux hosting consumers. It’s widely due to open source, hosts generally pass these savings onto their clients. Really make a Linux solution extremely inexpensive.

What are the disadvantages of Linux Dedicated Servers? Every product has its both advantages and disadvantages. Linux based applications could not convert coding and not able to run windows applications. It can spell tragedy for websites that have been coded particularly for windows based applications.

Be sure that they offer all basic services including firewall, security, servers load balance, virus protection, Cpanel details when you are going to choose Linux web hosting services. There are also other services available like MYSQL database, additional FTP creation, Sub domains services, add on domains and many more services. Most important is online chat support supposed if you are new in this field so you can discuss any problems any time with their executive and easily solved it. You could not get benefits of .NET application, Microsoft application if you are Linux web user. Nowadays, they are providing readymade scripts like ruby n rails, PHP 5.0 (latest version) and so on.

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Europe Finally Gives the Oracle/Sun Deal the Nod–Too Late?

January 21st, 2010 Admin
After nearly a year of deliberation and a whole lot of criticism, the European Commission has finally officially approved Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. Sun’s time in no-man’s-land saw it lose many customers and raised questions about key products and divisions that it has

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2010: The Year the Desktop OS No Longer Matters?

January 20th, 2010 Admin
Last Friday, Sam’s Buffer Overflow run-down featured a piece by Walter Koenning discussing why campaigning hard for Linux on the desktop is selling open source — and the operating system — short. I agree with Vincent Danen that wondering whether Linux is ready for the desktop is silly, even irrelevant — wider usage tends to foster growth in related sectors (think cloud computing and virtualization).

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2010: The Year the Desktop OS No Longer Matters?

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