Web hosting become nice business these days. I know people are saying this cloud computing age and shared and dedicated hosting are going to dead. I think 95% of people who has web sites doesn’t even know about the structure of cloud hosting. So shared hosting,vps and dedicated still rule the web hosting field!
Here are 10 facts that I think you should need before starting successful webhosting company.
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If you are running wordpress in your vps or dedicated and if you are newbie to linux it will be hard to fix if something goes wrong.
Also if your server is sending thousands of emails per day with wordpress and got blacklisted on gmail,yahoo accounts it will be real pain. And you will need to move to new ip or work to get new ip assigned to your server.
But there is a nice way of fixing things if you got php send mail function not working or ip blacklist problems. Actually I recommend this even you didn’t got such problems because risk of getting blacklisted will be solved by doing this!
Its simple there is a wordpress plugin called “WP Mail SMTP” and you can use it to easily configure wordpress to use external email provider who support SMTP functions like gmail,google apps to send your wordpress emails such as new comment notifications.
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Editing simple HTML or PHP script with notepad is not actually very good practice because editing large code pages such as big CSS table is very hard with notepad even with “Word wrap” .
And if you are on Windoze making linux bash scripts on notepad is terrible because it doesn’t saves unix bash script correctly so makes it impossible to execute in linux environment.
There is a freeware called notepad++ which makes editing your various scripts very easy and and also eye candy.
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Having 100s days of server uptime with your shiny linux box? Wanna showoff like I want to do? 
Or want to monitor server uptime without SSHing to server? There is nice way to showoff your uptime in simple PHP script which requires nothing fancy changes on your linux box. Ill will display system time load averages and uptime in simple layout.
You just want to do is create a .php file in your notepad and enter this syntax on notepad
<?PHP system('uptime'); ?>
When saving dont forget to choose “all files” and then name it whatever you want end in .php as file name.
ex- uptime.php and then move the saved file to your server path. ex- www.domain.com/uptime.php
If you are too lazt to create the php file on notepad just download the uptime.php file here and unrar it and put in to your web site directory.
www.ruchirablog.com/tools/uptime.rar
Thats it.
See it live on ruchirablog.com
http://www.ruchirablog.com/uptime.php
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I have hosted on many places until now. Lessons learned and things changed. Early times I didnt had money to buy hosting account so went with
Actually good alternative if you dont have money to buy paid hosting. I have hosted Ruchirablog there for about a month. Not bad for free hosting.
On that times dreamhost had a promotion to give out a free domain and free hosting account for a year for $9.99 it was blessing for me and I have moved to dreamhost immediately. Believe me I n ever bothered to backup my data for whole year and dreamhost worked like a charm without giving nightmare of losing data. Read my 1 year review here.
Those times I have started proxy hosting business And bought my own 4GB RAM OpenVZ VPS and deployed Kloxo there and also moved this blog to that proxy hosting server. It was nice experience and the service was excellent.I have pushed 300GB a day with my proxyhosting biz.
I was busy because of some brutal exams and decided to close out my proxyhosting business after sending out a notice to clients few months before closeout. Then I have got 512MB RAM openvz vps from burstnet to handle Ruchirablog and one of my proxy site got 2000 visitors a day. And I didnt had any problems with them you can read my review here
Remember I said I got 2000 visitor a day proxysite? Proxy site traffic is very unreliable because when sites becomes famous they gets automatically blocked buy web filters of user end. So I lose that huge traffic after few months. And Exams was to start soon. So I have decided to move my blog to shared hosting server with backup solution with RAID so I can forgot the risk of monitoring vps servers. Stayed few months with hawkhost you can read my review here
I got a sponsor for hosting this blog its www.net4ever.eu I have chosen linode because they have data centers in London which gives fast latency to my visitors from Asia and so far so great thanks to net4ever . Actually net4ever servers are great but I have choose linode because they have daily backup options so I dont need to make backups daily 
So far so great with linode. And Ill never move hosts again. Im very impressed with linode performance with XEN. And also I ll never move to openvz instead of xen.
Take my word for linode and if you got your mind to try linode use my referral code when you purchasing. You can get best performance on linode while helping me to get some credits. Order here
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If you have a VPS or dedicated server you might be definitely interested on keeping long uptime record ( Online time of server without restart). But if you have VPS or dedicated server you will probably have SSH access to your server so you can view uptime using just 1 easy command below
uptime
But if you are on shared hosting server things different and 99% of shared hosting companies doesnt allow SSH access to your hosted server because of security purposes. So its not possible to access the server and view the uptime of your server. But 95% of worlds linux shared hosting companies have cpanel as their server control panel and even they had other control panel like directadmin,kloxo they definitely have phpmyadmin as their mysql control panel.
So there is a cool trick that you can server uptime with phpmyadmin. 99% of you guys might haven’t noticed this yet. Not even uptime you can even view how many queries to the server in any given minute,second,hour etc.
So open up your phpmyadmin and navigate to home or phpmyadmin then status tab, So now in this panel you can see uptime of your server and some other use full stuff.
So its easy like as seen on Ruchirablog
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few days ago I signed up for sixXS ipv6 tunnel broker and they seems like providing good service for free. I really cant complain because its free service but there are things needs to be complained even its free service. I know sixXS is not a scam and people are using it.
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Hmm. I have used sitemeter alongside google analytics to track down my visitors for more than a year and recently I felt that sitemeter slows down my page loads because of their java code which i placed on my footer took more times than before to load. Slowing down page loads is not good because these days speed of web sites plays major part in SEO also its annoying to wait until footer gets loaded. So I decided to give a shot to statcounter and leave sitemeter.
I have used sitemeter because it has some great functions like real time visitor counter to see who is online at the given moment and stuff. And the interface is pretty clean and I have used to run sitemeter open, means anyone can view my visitors by clicking the icon on footer. And overall sitemeter provided great interface without ads and its very easy to manage.
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