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08.28.12
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CPWebHosting announced security tips to configure wp-config file


Security Tips to Configure wp-config in WordPress Hosting

wp-config

The wp-config.php file is the most important file to protect on your site. It contains your username, password, and database name (among other things) for your WordPress install and by default, is accessible from any web browser.

The wp-config.php file is a standard part of your WordPress installation. It defines the configuration settings required to access your MySQL database. If you’re self-hosting WordPress, there’s no way of getting around not using it.

It’s your job to protect it ! You certainly don’t want this file falling into the wrong hands in the event of a server problem. You can protect it by encrypting its content when you upload and denying access to it.

There are two main ways to easily protect the wp-config.php file from prying eyes and hackers. Both methods require you to have sftp or server-level access. Also turn off any caching plug-ins you may be using before attempting these steps.

Move wp-config.php up one directory : This is the easiest way assuming you’re comfortable moving files on your server. Essentially this works by taking wp-config.php and moving it outside of the public realm (typically one level above /public_html).

Modify your .htaccess or .conf file : This option is a little more advanced and requires that you’re running Apache or Nginx. You’ll need to edit your .htaccess file (Apache) or nginx.conf (Nginx) using a text editor. Be careful not to alter any other code in this file otherwise your site may break.

Copy and paste the following code into your .htaccess file to deny access to your wp-config.php file.

# protect wpconfig.php
order allow,deny
deny from all

When saving your changes using “Notepad,” make sure that you change the “Save as type” dropdown to “All Files” so that it does not change your .htaccess file into a .txt file.

How to Secure WordPress website

WordPress is a content management system which helps to create attractive websites or blog. It is important to secure WordPress website from attackers and annoying users who want to hack your admin area.

To increase you security areas there are some actions through which you can protect your WordPress.

1. Use a good Password : To secure your password, you should use combinations of upper case and lower case letters,numbers and special characteristics in a password. Name and company names are bad password because it is very easy to hack these passwords.

2. Never use admin as a User Name : User name in wordpress can be identified easily. Use ‘Admin’ as a user name may disclose your privacy. Use another user name which cannot be guessed or hacked by attacker.

3. Update website Plug-ins and CMS : Keep Plug-in and CMS up to date will avoid security issues of previous versions. update CMS and add new feature will keep your WordPress site bug free. To enhance WordPress you need to add, delete and replace files manually or automatically.

4. Using a Security Plug-in : Good WordPress Plug-in like All in One WP Security and Firewall, Sucuri-Sanncer or Bullet-Proof Security enables to block invalid login attempts from back-end of website. These plug-ins allow to rename website back-end login URL as different name.

5. Secure hosting infrastructure must be provided by hosting providers : security of your WordPress website should be taken care by you as well as your WordPress hosting provider . So make sure how webhosting provider can secure your WordPress website installation.

6. Backup Website : If new content added frequently then backup should be done once in a week. If no new content added then once a month is required. Website hosting control panel is much better alternate then plugins. Hosting provider will give more details regarding backup. You are free to ask hosting provider for help.

7. Monitor your website : Services like Pingdom provides check on your website and receive email or alerts when website goes off.

8. Avoid free website themes and plug-ins : Free themes and plug-ins can allow attackers to break website privacy. Generally Paid themes takes time to design and more secure as they develop in an account.

9. Don’t allow commenting : Through comment boxes attacker might access website back end. It can cause a big risk regarding security. To avoid commenting in the WordPress settings and on individual pages under discussion settings.

10. Disable user registrations : Enabling user registration can lead to hacking. So user registration should be disabled on website.

Contributors:

Hema Sharma

08.28.12
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CPWebHosting guide to protect your WordPress Website


Now protect your WordPress Website

WordPress is without doubt the most popular CMS at this moment in time, dwarfing other options such as Joomla and Drupal. While this is a good thing for WordPress, it now has a very large and active community contributing plug-ins, themes and fixes, but with this growth it now also has its bad points. When anything becomes this big, people will find ways to attack the CMS in question for whatever reason they see fit.

One of the most ignored methods of keeping your install safe is updating your install when updates become available which ensures all of the latest patches and fixes are applied to your site. (You can also remove the readme.html and license.txt files from the root directory as they display the version number of WordPress you have installed.)

Some tips provided by CPWebHosting to secure your WordPress Site:

WordPress as a whole (a website management platform) is very well designed. It doesn’t have any preposterous security issues that beginning programmers could exploit. The problems, however, arise when you try to tweak your installation of WordPress by adding new plugins or themes, implementing hacks, or doing anything else that interferes with WordPress.

Aside from plug-ins there are a number of additions you can make to your .htaccess file which in conjunction with plug-ins and regular updates will tighten up your site’s security and give you that extra level of protection. Wp-config.php is the file in your root directory that stores information about your site as well as database details, this file in particular we would not want to fall into the wrong hands.

You can limit who can access your admin folder by IP address, to do this you would need to create a new .htaccess file in your text editor and upload to your wp-admin folder. If you have the same IP address trying to access your content or trying to brute force your admin pages, you can ban this person using .htaccess with a simple snippet

<Limit GET POST>
order allow, deny
deny from 202.090.21.1
allow from all
</Limit>

As WordPress is now so popular many people know the structure of a WordPress install and know where to look to discover what plug-ins you may use or any other files that might give away too much information about your site, one way to combat this is to prevent directory browsing. The wp-content folder contains images, themes and plug-ins and it’s a very important folder within your WordPress install, so it makes sense to prevent outsiders accessing it.

08.28.12
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wordpress security vulnerabilities


WordPress Security

Wordpress SecurityAs we all know that running a WordPress-based website is often a pleasure, enabling you to focus on content and building relationships with readers and other websites.

Half of the WordPress sites out there are self-hosted, which means that the WordPress administrator carries the share of responsibility for a secure installation. Out of the box, there are several ways that WordPress security can be tightened down, but only a fraction of sites actually do so. This makes WordPress an even more popular target for hackers.

However, not everyone on the web is as friendly as you. Somewhere out there is a list with your blog’s name on it, where it sits, waiting to be targeted by hackers? When they get around to your blog, they’ll try various tactics to gain access to it, perhaps with the aim of selling legal drugs or infecting your visitor’s computers with malware.

Here is a list of top WordPress Security vulnerabilities:

1. SQL Injection & URL Hacking : WordPress is a database-backed platform that executes server-side scripts in PHP. Both of these characteristic can make WordPress vulnerable to malicious URL insertion attacks. Commands are sent to WordPress via URL parameters, which can be abused by hackers who know how to construct parameters that WordPress may misinterpret or act on without authorization.

SQL injection describes a class of these attacks in which hackers embed commands in a URL that trigger behaviors from the database. (SQL is the command language used by the MySQL database.) These attacks can reveal sensitive information about the database, potentially giving hackers entrance to modifying the actual content of your site. Many of today’s web site defacement attacks are accomplished by some form of SQL Injection.

Most WordPress installations are hosted on the popular Apache web server. Apache uses a file named .htaccess to define the access rules for your web site. A thorough set of rules can prevent many types of SQL Injection and URL hacks from being interpreted.

2. Access to Sensitive Files : Basically WordPress install has a number of files which you don’t want unauthorized persons to access. These files, such as the WordPress configuration file, install script, and even the “read-me” file should be kept private.
As with preventing URL hacking, you can add commands to the Apache .htaccess file to block access to sensitive private files.

3. Default Admin User Account : WordPress installs include an administrator user account whose username is simply “admin”. Hackers may try to log into this account using guessed passwords.

Any element of predictability gives hackers an edge. Instead, log into WordPress and create a new user with an unpredictable name. Assign administrator privileges to this user. Now delete the account named “admin”. A hacker would now need to guess both the username and password to gain administrator access, a significantly more challenging feat.

4. Default Prefix for Database Tables : The WordPress database consists of numerous tables. In many WordPress installs, these tables are named with a default prefix that begins with “wp_“. For hackers, the ability to predict anything can provide an extra advantage.

An easier way to change table prefixes for an existing WordPress installation is by using the plug-in named Better WP Security. This plug-in contains several defences including some discussed elsewhere in this article, with a simple point-and-click interface to change your table names to include a randomly-generated prefix.

5. Brute-Force Login Attempts : Hackers often rely on automated scripts to do their dirty work. These scripts can make numerous attempts to log into your WordPress administration page by trying thousands and millions of combinations of user-names and passwords.

A successful brute-force attack against a strong password effectively becomes impossible with these limits in place, because the hacker can never try enough variations (or rather, it would take many years of continuous attempts).

Two WordPress plug-ins which let you enforce a login limiter are Limit Login Attempts and the aforementioned Better WP Security.

WordPress is the peak prominent content management system of the online world. Although WordPress from the time of its starting did see the sorrow picture of denunciation. But within a few fraction of time WordPress was adopted by plenty of brands that gives new height to the famous content management.

The feature of open source makes WordPress exposed to hack attacks, hereafter webmasters were bound to consider WordPress Security Issues as a serious matter. Secure WordPress removed the display of or access to information, folders, and protocols that may be more likely to be used by hackers than site admins.

The first and foremost requirement of any WordPress website is its security. Due to outdated core files and /or plugins, website becomes much more Prone to hackers as outdated files are easily perceptible. Therefore,Wordpress Security is an important task and has to be followed in any case. Generally WordPress attacks are caused due to plugin vulnerabilities, weak passwords, and obsolete software. WordPress Security will hide the places where these vulnerabilities reside and thus avoid the attackers to know much more about the site and keeping them away from sensitive areas like login, admin, etc.

The process of Hardening WordPress is not hard or complex, It just requires that we should be well versed to be as webmaster/mistress and be able to understand what our exposures are, and how to minimize our risks for running WordPress on our own website.In other words Hardening WordPress means to Secure WordPress from external attacks.

WP Security scan checks WordPress Security Vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions such as:

  1. Passwords
  2. File permissions
  3. Database security
  4. Version hiding
  5. WordPress admin protection/security
  6. Removes WP Generator META tag from core code

SQL injection is a code injection technique that exploits a WordPress Security Vulnerabilities occurring in the database layer of an application.

For Securing WordPress there are a number of plugins which assures us to give Secure WordPress and also to solve out WordPress Security Issues and they are as follows:

1. WP DB Backup : WP DB Backup is an easy to use plugin and by mean of few clicks we can backup the core of WordPress database tables .It can secure WordPress powered website easily.

2. WP Security Scan : This plugin can simply scan the wordpress powered site. It catches the vulnerabilities in the site and gives suitable guidelines regarding their removal.

3. Ask Apache Password Protect : This plugin doesn’t control WordPress or mess with the database, instead it utilizes fast, tried-and-true built-in features of WordPress Security to add multiple layers of security to the blog.

4. Stealth Login : The Stealth Login plugin will help us in creating custom URL addresses for login, registering and logout of WordPress.

5. Login Lockdown : Login Lockdown will help us to lock attempts for a period of time on logging in to the admin panel after a number of attempts.

6. WP-DB Manager : This is another great plugin which allows us to manage our WP database. It could be used as an alternative to the WordPress Backup Manager.

7. Admin SSL Secure Plugin : It is the another plugin which keeps our admin panel secure. It acts on the SSL encryption and is really useful against hackers or people who are trying to get unallowed access to the panel. It is the competitor of the Chap Secure Login Plugin.

8. User Locker : To avoid brute-force hacking the site, the User Locker plugin should be adopted. It works on the same system as Login Lockdown, however, it’s a 5-stars rated WP plugin which has a great fame among its users.

9. Limit Login Attempts : Limit Login Attempts blocks the internet address from making further attempts after a specified limit on retries is reached, making a brute-force attack difficult or impossible.

10. Login Encryption : Login Encrypt is a security plugin. It uses a complex combination of DES and RSA to encrypt and secure the login process to the admin panel.

11. One Time Password : For Securing WordPress this unique plugin will help us to set a one-time password for the login, in order to prevent logging of unwanted users from internet cafes or such.

12. Antivirus : Antivirus is a pretty common security plugin which will help us to keep our blog secured against bots, viruses and malwares.

13. Bad Behavior : Bad Behavior is the plugin which helps us to fight with those annoying spammers. The plugin will not only help us to prevent spam messages on the blog, but also will try to limit access to the blog, so they won’t be able even to read it.

14. Exploit Scanner : It search the files and database of the WordPress install for signs that may indicate that the files or the database has fallen victim to malicious hackers.

15. User Spam Remover : It helps us to prevent and remove the unwanted spam messages.

16. Block Bad Queries : This plugin attempts to block away all malicious queries attempted on our server and WordPress blog. It works in background, checking for excessively long request strings (i.e., greater than 255 chars), as well as the presence of either “eval(” or “base64” in the request URI.

Thus WordPress Security is not only imperative but the core functionality of its conduct.

08.28.12
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Hackers exploiting the security of WordPress


WordPress is very popular platform these days (around 8.5% of all worlds’ websites are powered by WordPress!). As it is Open Source, everybody has access to its Source Code and can experiment with new cracking/hacking methods easily.

WordPress has become one of the most preferred exploitation destinations for hackers across the globe. While WordPress has been continuously releasing new versions that loop up the security holes, its popularity as a blogging platform has always prompted hackers to come up with new measures to hack information, interrupt service, and redirect traffic or other purposes. At CPWebHosting – secured WordPress hosting provider, the security is very good and all the preventive measures are taken to make your website stay away from hackers.

Although there are several ways in which WordPress issues can be tightened, only a few users follow them, which make the platform even more vulnerable. The open source nature of WordPress means a lot of damage can be done also through vulnerable WordPress themes and plugins or through automated exploits, which can destroy your website and your reputation. These are the top WordPress issues and vulnerabilities that are being exploited by hackers. Having acquired with the latest security tools, at CPWebHosting – cheap hosting provider you can easily develop or create a website with full high security so that the hackers don’t exploit your security.

CPWebHosting – A secured hosting provider gives some tips on WordPerss Security:

1. Insecure Plugins and Themes : WordPress offers many free plug-ins and themes that enhance the functionality of your website with minimum costs. However, you have to be aware of the fact that they may contain vulnerabilities or even hidden malicious code that can compromise your website.

2. Don’t use ‘admin’ username : Anybody who tries to get into your WordPress admin section will try with ‘admin’ as a username. If you change it, potential hacker has to hack both username and password. If you are running older version of WordPress (which I do not recommend), you can change admin username directly in the database.

3. Strong Web Password : A lot of WordPress issues can be avoided with good habits and a strong password is one of them. A good password protects your site from brute attack and acts as a security gateway for your site. If a hacker is able to hack your administrator account, then he can install scripts that can possibly damage your whole server. Do not use predictable and weak passwords.

4. Databases Access via a Root Account : All your WordPress content and web files are stored in one database. If you are using more than one web application, each application will have its own database. Your WordPress root account provides complete access to all your databases that are saved on the same web server or under the same web hosting account. If a hacker discovers your root account credentials, then he / she can get access to all your databases. Therefore, it is highly recommend to create dedicated accounts to access each individual database, rather than using your root account.

5. Move your wp-config.php file : In your wp-config.php file there is database connection info as well as other data that should be kept from anybody to access. From WordPress 2.6 you can easily move this file from root folder location. To do this simply moves your wp-config.php file up one directory from your WordPress root. WordPress will automatically look for your Config file there if it can’t find it in your root directory. This way, nobody except a user with FTP or SSH access to your server will not be able to read this file.

6. Database permissions : Database permissions allow a web application to access and also modify specific parts of the database. If database permissions are not tightened down, a malicious user can exploit such permissions and modify the database content and structure. Hacking attacks not only make cyber criminals rich and satisfied, they affect your site’s position in terms of search engine rankings. A site infected by spam is not only ranked low, it also gets highlighted, which adversely affects its reputation and business potential.

08.18.12
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CPWebHosting introduces the tools for marketing


Web hosting service is a type of internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make website accessible via World Wide Web. The hosting companies provide a particular space on the server provided by the web hosting company.

CPWebHosting has announced some new marketing tools for the users. These tools include:

Online Marketing
Google Webmaster Tools
$100 credit for Google Adwords
$25 Credit for yahoo/bing sponsored search
$50 credit for Facebook advertising
Directory Listings
Social Bookmarking
Full SEO Support

Let’s take a look on the tools :

Online Marketing : Online marketing or internet marketing is a relatively new, but rapidly expanding and fundamentally important aspect of strategic implementation. Indeed in many organizations, it may be regarded as a functional aspect of marketing strategy and certainly of the business model.  Here, at CPWebHosting we consider online marketing very different from ordinary business marketing and bring six categories of organic benefit: costs are reduced, capability is increased, communications are refined, control is enhanced, customer service is improved and competitive advantage may be achieved depending on the competitor’s reaction.

Google Webmaster Tools: CPWebHosting provides the tools that will help users to:

  • Submit and check a sitemap
  • Check and set the crawl rate, and view statistics about how Googlebot accesses a particular site
  • Generate and check a robots.txt file. It also helps to discover pages that are blocked in robots.txt by chance.
  • List internal and external pages that link to the site
  • See what keyword searches on Google led to the site being listed in the SERPs, and the click through rates of such listings
  • View statistics about how Google indexes the site, and if it found any errors while doing it
  • Set a preferred domain which determines how the site URL is displayed in SERPs

Google Adwords : Get excellent exposure on Google Search with Google Adwords. See results and gain new customers in minutes!

  • See your ad appear next to the top search results
  • Targeted listings reach out to people with similar queries
  • Your desired target cost-per-click can be as low as five cents

Sponsored Search : CPWebHosting helps user to target new customers with Yahoo/Bing’s search marketing program. With the sponsored search you will get exposure and reach people who are searching specifically for your type of business on Yahoo/Bing.

Facebook advertising : Facebook is one of the most popular websites on the Internet. With CPWebHosting you can increase customer loyalty through a Facebook fan page.

Directory Listings : CPWebHosting provides listing your website in different directory submission sites providing benefits:

  • Improve link popularity
  • Direct Advertising Exposure
  • Online web directories attract a lot of visitors each day
  • CPWebHosting submit your website in the top directories, your website will get the required exposure online and visibility online.
  • When you submit your website to directories, they will get indexed in the search engines.

SEO Support : CPWebHosting provides benefits in the following way:

  • Long-Term Standings
    • Beat Your Competition
    • 24 hour marketing team available
    • Cost effective marketing
  • Increase Visibility
08.18.12
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CPWebHosting announces 75% Discount Promo Code on Hosting plans


75% Discount Promo Code on Hosting plans

CPWebHosting announces promo code CPWEB_Deal_75, offering up to 75% discounts on Business Hosting for first year which need to be entered while signing up for a plan. Business Hosting plan is featured with: unlimited MYSQL databases, free security support, weekly backup, expert WP support, WP Stats tool and automatic WordPress upgrades, comprehensive web solutions package which includes purchasing, designing, developing, hosting and managing site with latest optimization and performance enhancements coupled with proven security techniques having high bandwidth and mission critical security needs. A customer only needs to take care of content.

Other enhanced plans offered by CPWebHosting are :-

  • Managed WordPress Hosting –
    • WP Business: 20 GB bandwidth, 5 GB disk space, Price $ 2.95/mon.
    • WP Professional: 50 GB bandwidth, 15 GB disk space, price $17.95/mon.
    • WP Enterprise: Unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space, price $119.25/mon.
  • Expert Hosting: 200 GB bandwidth, 20 GB disk space, price $13.95/mon.
  • Free Website WordPress Web Hosting: 30 GB bandwidth, 10 GB disk space, free website, price $12.95/mon.
  • Monthly Hosting: 10 GB bandwidth, 5 GB Disk space, price $ 7.95/mon.
  • $1 hosting: 5 GB bandwidth, 1 GB disk space, price $ 1/mon.

The new services provide all customers the ability to reap the benefits of the WordPress – at industry competing prices.

CPWebHosting technical staff says, “Customers do struggles with taking full advantage of WordPress, and sometimes all it takes is an opportunity to spark interest in the technology”.

CPWebHosting competes other hosting companies as one of the cheapest hosting plans provider in the market. A 30 day no-question-money-back guarantee gives every reason for potential customers to get the best service from CPWebHosting.

CPWebHosting Servers have always put forth its vision on high availability hosting solutions with today’s industry-leading technologies on latest updated servers for customers.

Expert developers can build your business cutting edge web design that meets the newest standards. If you have a web site “Powered by WordPress“, you probably spend hours setting it up, upgrading, and managing the installation, which essentially takes your time and focus away from running your business.

With CPWebHosting you can receive much more than hosting. Some additional WordPress services to add more value to Hosting :

  • Extensive free features
  • Free WP tutorials
  • WP related articles
  • Continuous updates based on the WP development
  • Automatic upgrades (Plugins, themes etc…).

Along with being extremely fast in resolving the hosting issues, support team also provides some expert WordPress support along with :

  • Support team special for WP
  • WordPress installations
  • 24 / 7 professional customer service
  • Excellent response time
  • 99 % uptime guarantee
  • 100 % customer satisfaction
06.16.12
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web hosting affiliate


Web Hosting Affiliate

Internet marketing can be run by what to which we call Websites Affiliate. Companies run affiliate

programs to generate leads and sales from other Websites. They pay the sites who host their ads a commission for products sold through the links on their sites. Thus this sort of e-business activity which is carried out by mean of web-hosting services is termed as Web Hosting Affiliate. For example, if a site owner signs up for Amazon.com’s affiliate program, he will receive ad banners or links from Amazon.com that he can place anywhere on his site. Then, if a visitor clicks on the Amazon.com banner or a link on his site and buys something, he will receive a commission. Unfortunately for Website owners, affiliate commissions are seldom above 5%, since most Web sales are made with small profit margins.

Hosting affiliate was introduced in the late 1990’s and thus raises the level of internet marketing to a good position. Hosting affiliate involves two or more parties that work in conjunction to provide a certain level of benefit to each other. The websites of affiliate hosting are run by third parties who sell products and services for the Internet Company. Affiliate hosting is meant for everything which we can imagine.

The advantages of webmaster affiliate program are as follow:

  • High commission rates;
  • Min Trade Point (MTP) equal spread for each instrument;
  • An opportunity to create your own partner network;
  • 5 levels of affiliate commission;
  • No initial investment required;
  • Easy registration of a partner account;
  • Detailed statistics on trade transactions;
  • Reports on partner commission;
  • A wide choice of advertising materials;
  • Informational support by RoboForex

Domain Hosting Affiliate can be discussed with regard to its following features:

  • Client earns commission as long as he remains a referral.
  • The cookie duration is for 6 months in domain hosting affiliate.
  • Domain hosting affiliate does not comprise any sort of risk and it only provides an opportunity to earn extra income.

Here is a list of the best affiliate programs:

  1. Commission Junction
  2. ShareASale
  3. Amazon
  4. eBay
  5. ClickBank
  6. Max Bounty
  7. Peer Fly
  8. Link Share
  9. Never Blue Ads
  10. Pepper Jam
  11. More Niche

The best affiliate programs which are mentioned above are relative to what market we are in.

By mean of above discussion, we are well known about the fact that what Affiliate Program is. Now we will discuss about Web Hosting Affiliate.

Advantages Of Web Hosting Affiliate

  • Existing clients know other people with websites, and with the incentive of an affiliate program, they’re more likely to refer people they know to their web host.
  • Affiliate marketing is a way to earn money without having any responsibility for the clients after they’ve signed up for a service.
  • Expenses incurred by affiliate marketing are low.
  • Affiliates who have accounts with several web hosts put their own reputation less at risk than web hosts do as they aren’t the ones providing the ongoing service.

Disadvantages Of Web Hosting Affiliate

  • Affiliate marketing is very competitive in the web hosting industry, and a lot of big web hosting companies have affiliate programs with high payouts. It can be difficult to compete with their affiliate programs.
  • Affiliates generally prefer affiliate accounts with established companies, so new companies may have difficulty attracting affiliates.
  • Some affiliates become spammers by posting their affiliate links in forums, blogs, and wherever they can without regard for the rules and conventions where they’re posting. This practice makes these affiliates and the companies they’re promoting look bad.
  • It takes a lot of work (and sometimes a lot of money) to set up and maintain. Thus, smaller companies may not find it very beneficial to offer a web hosting affiliate program.

Thus, inspite of such disadvantages there is no better time to join a web hosting affiliate than now as it is one of the easiest ways to earn high commissions with nominal effort.

06.13.12
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Website page rank


website page rank

This is a normal question for Everyone That “Is website Page Rank Important Or Not ?”

Basically a website page rank is created by working on the important pages of your website and how many times that page is visited by the users and what all kind of links you provide to that page. website Page rank is actually judged by the number of incoming links on the page. Page rank is basically a value given to that web page. The page rank is given out of 10 that mean if a page is ranked good and is searched by many users then its rank will be 1/10.

website page rank is displayed as a green bar to the left of the webpage in the Google directory. The basic factor behind page rank is the keyword. If your keywords are rare and unique then your page rank doesn’t matter and if your keywords are in the competition the page rank becomes an important part as that you have to compete with the rest of the sites that use the similar type of keywords.

There are two types of website page rank :

First is the rank which sits in the algorithm on the Google. And the second is the visible page rank which is what we can see in the browsers on the toolbar or by using a widget in your browser.

The visible page rank is not updated oftenly for rankings and is just a snapshot. Suppose you have a page rank of 4 which were made few months ago but the now Google has stopped updating the ranks oftenly and the ranks are updated within a period of long time. Google says that the visible page rank is now updated only a couple of times a year.

But most of the people are focused on their website rank which is probably not an issue. If your website page rank has dropped but the customers have risen up then page rank does not matter in that case. The website page rank does not matter a lot the page owners because if there sales are rising up and the rank is not good then who cares about the page rank of that web page.

Website Page Rank

The importance of inbound links is known to everyone. As the number of links in the website increases, the performance of the website will becomes much better in the search engine ranking. For example, if you place the website to the competition, and everything on the page (metatags and keywords) are the same, and then the website with the most inbound links would rank higher. The above stated theory is termed as link popularity. What most people are not aware of is that some websites make for better link partners than others. A system which measures the link value of any webpage is called Website Page Rank.

Page Rank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns weight or a value to web pages. The algorithm is used in determining the authority and relevance of a webpage for search engine results. Basically the higher the Page Rank, the better the search engine ranking.

So having higher Website Page Rank linking to lower Website Page Rank will benefit the lower Website Page Rank, but not necessarily detract from the higher Website Page Rank. The criteria for determining Website search engine Page Rank is different for every engine, but all engines share several commonalities. Thus tailoring the website for getting improved Website Search Engine Page Rank is termed as Search Engine Optimization, or SEO. Page Rank was developed at Stanford University by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996.

Google Page Rank

Google Page Rank is a number between 0 and 10 that a web page receives from Google. As it is the intellectual property of google so there is no need to apply, buy or rent it. Having a higher Page Rank than your competitor’s PageRank is what defines a “good” Page Rank, regardless of its absolute value.

Google Page rank is based on backlinks. The more quality backlinks the higher Google Page Rank.

If a page rank of 4 is compared to page rank of 3 then page rank of 4 is five times more valuable than page rank of 3.Similarly, page rank of 5 is five times more valuable than page rank of 4. There is no “good” or “bad” Page Rank in an absolute sense. The page must be at least equal our competitors’ Page Ranks. For selling shoes online, a PageRank of 2 can be enough if the corresponding competitors’ Page Ranks are lower. Higher is always good, of course, but the value of PageRank can be determined by its corresponding competitors’ Page Ranks.

Google uses its indexes to find and display the most relevant pages. The relevancy of a page is called its “PageRank,” and Google calculates PageRank in a number of ways. For getting the site to the top of Google search results Understanding PageRank proves to be very helpful.

Web Workshop, a Search-Engine Optimization resource, explains the calculations that Google uses to calculate PageRank. It’s a complex formula, but the basics can be simmered down to this: When another site links to our site, that site is basically casting a vote for our keywords. When someone types “cat medicine” into Google, Google looks at the meta tags and body content of all the websites in its index and pulls out all the ones that match “cat medicine” exactly. It then looks at how many “votes” our site has from other sites. Lots of links equal lots of votes, and the number of outbound links from your site to those other sites are taken into account, too. Google crunches the numbers and creates a ranking, which it displays as the search results.

The Top Page Rank sites are-

The List of Top Page Rank Sites which is mentioned above reveals that the blogs behind the website can easily be found by such a list of Top Page Rank sites.

Thus, Website Page Rank determined the relevance of a webpage by looking at what other pages link to it, as well as other data.

06.13.12
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Linux Hosting


linux hosting

Linux Hosting

Linux is the open-source operating system and has a greater amount of protection & flexibility than options such as windows when used on servers. It also has a reputation for stability and speed. The cost of it is also less in comparison to other OS. It also supports a wide range of software’s. It is highly reliable and secure OS for use with web hosting services. Many versions of Linux are also available, each one with different set of software.

The next version of web hosting solutions is the Linux hosting services is actually a common name with quality website hosting services for a variety of operating systems. Linux itself is open source and Linux hosting offers all the advantages associated with open source software. Open source software allows constant improvements to be made by any person who is interested to do so.

Linux hosting refers to a web host that is running the Linux operating system on their server, as well as the database and other software. Linux web hosting is sometimes referred to as a LAMP, which is a server model based on the Linux operating system, plus Apache server software, MySQL database and PHP programming language. Linux is the first choice of many website owners for serving web pages and powering web based applications.

Linux hosting has a good reputation in particular for the provision of both stable and reliable web hosting solutions. The stability of Linux comes with quality website hosting such a website is very good. Linux hosting is also compatible with e-commerce functions for small business web hosting.

Linux hosting supports more cross platform applications, and offers a higher portability than most proprietary operating systems. Linux runs on a variety of hardware platforms, which means that you have the freedom to select the hardware or even migrate to a different hardware later without any hassles. Apache is the server of the operating system of Linux. It is also a better accessible project and largely acclimated web server.

Linux Hosting Services Features:

  • PHP and MySQL support
  • Apache Web Server
  • Mod Rewrite Support
  • Chmod file permissions

Why cheap Linux hosting is preferred?

There are many reasons as for which cheap Linux hosting is preferred. The reasons are as follow:

  • When you are at the start of your website or business, you don’t need a big website and a huge disk space on the server and probably look for companies offering affordable web hosting plans.
  • Linux operating system for computers remains one of the most common examples of free software services available for users.
  • The flexibility of availing the best and popular technologies like MySQL, Python, XML and PHP remains with Linux based hosting platforms.
  • A Linux web hosting company follows in line with a strict tradition of budget web hosting and turning heavy profit in little time and this signifies a lot to the consumer as many consumers react to profit in a positive way, you can see the same at linuxhost.net
  • Linux is basically one of the worldwide growing operating system and many consumers and business owners are interested in running their on line business using Linux web hosting.
  • For the midsized and the small sized enterprises it is best to go for the shared server. The downtime of a site influences mood of the browsers and to attract and motivate web travelers it is necessary to ensure fast downloading speed.
  • If you are looking for a cheap web hosting then Linux hosting is best choice for you as it comes with free of setup charges.

Features of Linux scored over MAC and Window hosting:

  1. If you are looking to make your determination on price, you will likely find that Linux if usually more affordable than both Windows and Mac web hosting plans.
  2. Linux is well known throughout the industry for being as stable as they come, able to maintain a hosting operation under a wide range of demanding situations.
  3. Linux is the operating system that can truly help you harness the processing power of the underlying machine.
  4. In order to make more resources available to the computer and users, Linux utilizes a command line similar to old DOS systems, making it a real challenge for those who lack technical experience. Windows and Mac OS X platforms both offer graphical user interfaces, presenting vivid backgrounds, icons and links to greatly simplify the administration process.
  5. When it comes to web hosting, it is easy to host on Linux web servers. The process of uploading and hosting is almost same for both Linux and Windows web servers.
  6. A web site designed to be hosted on a Linux based web server can be hosted on a Windows web server easily, where as the reverse is not always true.
  7. If you want to host ASP/ASP.NET and MS SQL/Access then Windows. If you want to host PHP and MySQL then Linux.

Basically, Linux is a Unix-based Operating System. Although, presently it support GUI features but still it is superseded by window application. It was developed by Linus Benedict Torvalds in 1991 when he was the student at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Now, it has become most widespread web hosting platform.

The web hosting which drive its server by using the free and open source Linux Operating System is called Linux Web Hosting. Hosting Linux mostly depends on a LAMP structure where LAMP stands for:

L – Linux Operating System
A – Apache Server Software
M – MySQL database
P – PHP scripting

Linux Operating System is free and open source means there is no need to pay licensing fee in order to use it. Linux Web Hosting is highly termed as Affordable Linux Web Hosting as it offer relatively cheap web hosting packages. Affordable Linux Web Hosting offer the ability to reach customers around the world, increase revenue, improve efficiency and enhance communication and customer service with little investment. The first, foremost important, thing that we are going to need in order to start our own web hosting company is an account of Cheap Linux Reseller Hosting. Cheap Linux Reseller Hosting does not bother about pricing it only deals with the fact that what sort of company it is, to

which we are going to be considered. Cheap Linux Web Hosting is the most basic entry-level form of web hosting which we can consider if we wish to receive the best value for money from our chosen web hosting package. Cheap Lin

MyIdealHost is Cheap Linux Web Hosting with free domain registration, unlimited hosted domains and mailboxes, cPanel control panel, 24/7 mail/chat/ phone etc.

Linux operating system is much more compatible with the two technologies i.e. PHP and MYSQL. Linux Website Hosting Provider offer stable and reliable environment to the website.

Features Of Linux Hosting

Low Cost Hosting:

Linux Hosting is going to be the cheapest Web Hosting platform available to us at any stage. Linux Shared Web Hosting packages are ideal for those who are on a lower web hosting budget.

PHP And MYSQL Hosting:

Linux Website Hosting is much more suitable to PHP and MYSQL technology.

Ruby Hosting:

The server side scripting language that can be used to create dynamic web pages and script for hosting in a Linux Web Hosting Environments.

SSH Access:

SSH Access is provided by default with all Linux VPS server and Linux Dedicated server as it enable us to have a root access to Linux Server Hosting Service. It proves much helpful in performing advance administrative tasks.

Advantages/ Disadvantages Of Linux Hosting

The advantages of Linux Hosting are:

  • Due to free and open source feature of Linux Website Hosting, it provides Cheap Hosting services as Linux Website Hosting Provider don’t have to pay for Linux Operating System.
  • The security offered by Linux Hosting is at par. By applying security measures and tools we can protect Linux server from direct external attacks.
  • Hosting Linux is reliable.

The disadvantages of Linux Hosting are :

Linux is exploitable if the server is not secured beforehand. Linux is not compatible with Windows applications and the coding conversions.

  • A Linux Web Hosting Server will not be able to support popular Microsoft technologies such as classic ASP and ASP.NET, nor will the user be able to host databases that have been created in Microsoft Access or Microsoft SQL Server.
  • In some situations, the security measures that are put in place by web hosting providers actually have a negative impact and instead affect the performance of the websites that are hosted on the server concerned.

Therefore, Linux Hosting has got preference due to its features of low cost, stability, uptime and speed. As all Linux website Hosting Providers guarantee reliability, security, speed and money back at low cost. Linux Web Hosting can be highly effective for those who are on a budget but wish to be able to make the most of what web hosting has to offer.

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Expert Hosting


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Expert Hosting

CPWebHosting offers Expert Hosting Plans to fit any need. No matter whether you’re starting a Blog with Word Press, installing a CMS solution with Drupal, opening a Forum with PHP, starting an Online Store with e-commerce, or any number ventures beyond those mentioned above, our Expert Web Hosting plans are exactly what you’ve been looking for.

As a expert web hosting service provider, it is most essential to know the importance of having a top-notch army of server administrators and specialists who cannot just install, configure, maintain or backup an OS but can effectively keep the server and your website operational with optimum performance.

An expert hosting provider offers a bunch of advanced web servers to ensure fast and prompt response from the server and other vital operating systems resources. Most of the web hosting service providers offer good amount of support in very affordable price on the Operating systems like Windows NT, Sun Solaris UNIX or LINUX.

An additional part of expert hosting provided by CPWebHosting is that you can acquire enough web space to aid additional content, for example pictures, videos and audio tracks. Can be challenging be a vital strategy for making your web blog be noticed, or of communicating information for your readers. Again, without having enough bandwidth, adding this additional content can very seriously lessen the pace of your blog, so having expert hosting professional’s on-hand to offer advice and support is certainly worth the investment.

Expert Hosting Package for Customers:

Price $13.9
No. of Websites 40
Bandwidth provided 200 GB
Disk space given 20 GB
Email Accounts 40
MYSQL Database 40

Expert hosting is that hosting activity which comprises all the Web Hosting features in a perfect manner, it avail the services of Web Hosting in an efficient and convenient way as per the user requirement.

The concept of Expert Hosting undergoes different functionality and strategies if web hosting services are taken into account. This would be clear by the following example which explains the services and strategy rendered and followed by Expert Hosting.

If the strategy of Expert Hosting Online is considered, a person needs not to order products and to be an affiliate member for registering an account on the specific website. Each affiliate user is given a unique affiliate link and banner advertisement that can be post on his/her website, any user who follow the link and purchase the items within a 90 day period will earn that affiliate commission.

A cookie is placed on the user’s computer with a life span of 90 days, if it is purchased within that 90 day period the cookie is used to make sure the correct affiliate earns commission payments. Thus, this system will not work if people delete their cookies meant for corresponding website since there is no way of knowing which affiliate link they came to us from. There may be a minimum amount of commission earnings before a payment is made, if used, the commission delay will usually be set to around 25.00 which means that once an affiliate has earned at least that amount, a payment will be made on the next commission payment run, this usually occurs on the first of each month.

The plan of Expert Web Hosting is designed for webmasters or those who are comfortable with the website development and hosting. The package of Expert Hosting includes cPanel access and pre-installed scripts (wordpress, joomla etc.) for easy automation or installation. It allows us to easily set up and control the website(s) by mean of in-built features i.e. rich Control Panel. With the package of Expert Hosting, up to 10 commercial websites can be hosted. It proves a perfect solution for those acquiring personalized websites. This is a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) package. WordPress Hosting Experts can help track down and troubleshoot WordPress issues. The WordPress Hosting Experts are ready to solve every issue and find a solution for every need.

Features Of Expert Hosting

The most common features of Expert hosting are:

  • Unlimited E-Mail Accounts
  • Perl, PHP5, C++, Python
  • Unlimited MySQL Databases
  • Full CGI Access
  • Unlimited Mailing Lists
  • Free SSL Secure Server
  • Detailed Website Statistics
  • SSH Secure Shell Access
  • Add-on Domains
  • Redundant Nightly Backups
  • Virtual FTP Accounts

It is necessary to hire an expert web host for running online business successfully. If a company has newly started it’s business then it is necessary to check whether their hosting partner is capable enough to deliver the desired services. The basic hosting is sufficient at the time of pre-stage of the business which has been started recently. Not all the startup businessmen are much familiar with the hosting requirements so in such a situation hosting partner should impart knowledge about the benefits of different plans and packages that is suitable for the business.

Any reliable and expert web host can provide the technical assistance to the areas of obstruction which is due to poor performance of the website.

Now we will study about the companies providing services of Expert Web Hosting:

  • The Hosting 24 hosting company : The hosting 24 hosting company was started about 8 years ago to provide expert hosting services to people from all over the world.
  • Maya Web Services : This hosting plan provides much better services so as to meet the requirement of large or personal website.
  • Liquid Web : A variety of Expert Shared Hosting Plans are offered by Liquid web so as to meet out any sort of requirement and this requirement can be start-up of a Blog with word press installation of a CMS solution with Drupal, Forum-opening with PHPBB, start-up of an Online Store etc.

Thus, Expert Hosting is essential to meet out every sort of business need and application which is possible by mean of updated technological features and tools.