Linux is one of the most popular operating systems in the world and is loved by web hosting providers and web hosting clients worldwide. In this blog posting you will discover why web hosting providers and web hosting clients love Linux.

When setting up your eCommerce site one of the very first things to consider are your hosting options. In order to provide you with some guidelines, this article will cover some basic elements you should consider when choosing a hosting provider.

The three types of hosting options you have are:

If you are looking to get your business or website online and are new to the whole hosting market, searching and selecting a reliable web hosting provider can get tricky. Most small business owners or new website owners do not have the clear idea what to look for.
In order to help you prepare for this decision we have created a short guide that will help you find the right web hosting provider for your website.

Cloudlets have been introduced as a resource unit for Jelastic Cloud Platform to simplify the billing and enable true pay-per-use pricing model. The unit combines RAM & CPU Usage. One Cloudlet equals 128MB of RAM and 200MHz of CPU power. 

All resources are billed on an hourly basis, so if your usage varies on hourly basis you can achieve significant cost savings, compared to other hosting packages with fixed pricing and resources.

When it comes to Windows vs. Linux hosting, your choice boils down to the technologies you aim to use with your server. Linux servers are gaining ground behind the popularity. Windows unit shipments are also growing, albeit more slowly. As of early 2017, Linux Server account for more than 66% of all web server with Linux making up 55.6% of those while Windows represents around 35%

As more and more businesses now prefer to go digital, it has become very important to have your own website that delivers the best user experience. For that, you need to buy a web hosting plan that perfectly caters to your specific website needs without inflating your budget. Any mistake made during the selection of the web hosting provider or plan can be very costly for your business and negatively impacts your reputation and rewards. So, here are major points to keep in mind before you buy hosting packages.


Type and needs of website

The cPanel’s announcement of price revision has disappointed the web hosting industry and the majority of the hosting providers and end-users are opposing the decision. However, the decision has already been taken and now it is the time to know how it would impact you. We have carefully researched the entire scenario and in this blog, we would share the vital information about the old pricing model, revised pricing model, total billing amount and the best options to look for. It would help you make the best decision depending upon your budget, objectives, and profile:

cPanel: Old prices vs. new prices

1. Upload the Joomla folder in httpdocs(window hosting)/public_html(linux hosting) folder through FTP.

2. Browse the website address like (http://www.example.com)

3. Select your language in the screen above, then press the 'Next' button in the upper right corner

4. Runs a series of system and server checks to ensure that Joomla will be able to install, and function correctly. The top section of items should all be green and 'Yes'. If any one of them is not (they'll be red and say "No") then you will need to take action to correct them. The bottom section of items are not required, but are recommended to ensure that Joomla can operate smoothly.

5.Review the GNU license. This is the software license agreement for Joomla use, and simply requires you to press 'Next' in the top right corner after reviewing.

create a new mail id under the domain and than login to the mail account :

1   Log into SmarterMail as a user.
2   Click the Settings icon.
3   Expand the My Settings and Advanced Settings folders in the navigation pane.
4   Click Mailbox Migration.
5   The mailbox migration tool will open in a new window.
6   Select account type " others ".
7   Select emails.
8   Fill up the required details
    type - IMAP
    server ip - 64.71.180.28
    port - 143
    user - emailid
    password - ******
9   Click " test connection " and process ahead.

(1.) Thunderbird will start with the Account Wizard, select Email account then click on Next.

(2.) Enter Your Nameand Email Address: as you want them to appear on outgoing messages, click on Next.

(3.) Select POP as the mail server type, the Incoming Server: mail.domainname.com, the Outgoing Server: mail.domainname.com, click on Next.

(4.) Enter the Incoming User Name and Outgoing User Name: to log into the server. For almost all situations this should be the same. Please note that the usernames are case sensitive and must be all in lower case. Click on Next.

(5.) Enter a unique name for this email account in the Account Name field, your email address is sufficient, click on Next.

(6.) In this summary screen you can double check your settings. Use the Back button to go back and make any changes. Once you are done Uncheck the "Download messages now" checkbox and click on Finish.

1. Open Outlook. Select Account Settings from the Tools menu.

2. On the E-mail tab, click on New.

3. Select "Manually configure server settings or additional server types" and click on Next.

4. Select Internet E-mail and click on Next.

5. Enter the following information for E-mail Accounts.

Start Microsoft Outlook 2013

Go to File at the top and click on the “Add Account under Account Information”.

In the Add account window, check the option at the bottom ”manually configure server settings” then click next.

Select the first option Internet Email and click next.

 Enter your name and email address under user information.  In the server Information, select POP3 as the account type. Enter the incoming and outgoing mail server. The incoming mail server is mail.domain.com and outgoing server is mail.domain.com. Under the Login information, enter your username (your email address) and your password.

Now, go to More Settings. Navigate to Outgoing server and enable the first option My Outgoing server requires authentication. Select the first option Use same settings as my incoming mail server.

Once you’re done with that, click OK. And test Under the Test Email Accounts settings

U can customize these settings by putting a custom php.in in public_html folder or by writing these settings in .htaccess file.

For example,

in php5 register_globals is off by default but you can enable it.

There are 3 different ways to do it.

1. Turn on the register_globals in php.ini by register_globals = On (it will not be possible if you are on a shared web server)

2. Put extract($_REQUEST) on the top of every .php file.

3. Turn on register_globals using .htaccess make a text file with the name .htaccess and put the following code in it and upload to the root folder. Code:-php_flag register_globals on If you already have a .htaccess file in your website, then simply put this code in it.

1. Login into cPanel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Go to Mail section
3. Click on Forwarder icon
4. Type the email address from which mail should be forwarded.
5. Type the destination mail address on which you want to forward your mail.
6. You can forward any mail to any website URL using the pipe to a program option.
7. Click on Add forwarder

Google submit form step

1- http://www.google.co.in/webmasters/tools/
2- Click on add a site button
3- Enter the website name
4- In verification method select upload an HTML file from drop down box
5- Download this HTML verification file
6- Upload the file to http://yourwebsitename.com/ in public_html folder
7- Confirm successful upload by visiting http://yourwebsitename.com/google38f652a9c6606233.html in your browser
8- Click the verify button below
9- After that It will take 24-48 hours for updating the records and then your site will be up.

1. Login into cPanel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Go to Domains section
3. Click on subdomain
4. Type the subdomain name in search box
5. The path can be modified using edit icon in Document root section
6. You can manage the redirection by clicking on manage the redirection.
7. Subdomain can be removed by clicking on Remove.

You need to log in to cPanel  in order to manage your web site.

To access cPanel using your browser, you will need to use the following format:

http://www.yourdomain.com:2082 (where yourdomain is to be replaced by actual IPadress of your server or your website name)

or

https://www.yourdomain.com:2083(secure logon) (where yourdomain is to be replaced by actual IPadress of your server or your website name )

Enter your user name and password in the User Name and Password fields.

Click on OK button. You will now be logged in to CPanel.

1. Login into cPanel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Go to Mail section
3. Click on email authentication
4. Click on Enable to enable Domain Keys and SPF Records

1. Login into cPanel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Go to Mail section
3. Click on default address icon
4. Type the e-mail address (where to send invalid mail send by anyone at client domain) in forward to email address box.
5. Click on change icon.

1. Login into cPanel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Go to Mail section
3. Click on Email Account
4. Enter email-id name and select the domain name.
5. Enter the password
6. Assign the Mail box quota to the mail id
7. Click on create account

1. Login into cPanel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Go to Database section
3. Click on MySql database icon.
4. Go to create a database section

• Type the database name
• Click on create database button

5. Go back to Add new user section

• Type database user name and password
• Click on create user button

6. Go back to add user to database (user to database mapping)

• Select the user with its database (mapping between them)
• Click on Add button

1. Login into cPanel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click on preference section
3. Click on change style icon
4. Click on the theme

1. Login into cPanel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Go to Mail section
3. Click on Email Account
4. Click on Change password option for the particular mail account.
5. Enter new password and update

1. Login into cPanel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click on preference section
3. Click on change language icon
4. Select the language
5. Click on change

1. Login into cPanel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Go to Security section
3. Click on IP deny manager icon.
4. Enter the IP address to be blocked
5. Click on Add

1. Login into cPanel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Go to Mail section
3. Click on MX entry icon
4. Select the domain name
5. Select the email routing (by default automatic detect configuration)
6. Click on Add new record section
7. Type the priority and Fill the destination.

1. Login into cPanel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Go to Mail section
3. Click on MX entry
4. Select Remote mail exchanger
5. Under Add New Record enter all records provided by Google following the priority specified by them and the destination. All will be automatically assigned for the domain name you have chosen from the drop-down menu
6. Remove the default MX record added for your domain name. If no changes were previously made, it will be the one with priority 0 pointing to your domain name.

1. Click on the E-mail Filtering link in the Mail area.   

    2. Click on the Add Filter link.       

    3. Click on the required header field in the first drop-down list. These are the various fields  in any e-mail message.      

    4. Click on the required filter action in the second drop-down list. This action will act on the text entered in the third field. * equals - match the text exactly (whole words only). "Credit" will block "Credit". * matches regex - matches the text based on regular expression (regex) rules. Regular expressions are a powerful but complex area. You do not need to use regular expression filters for most circumstances. * contains - match the specified text in any circumstance. "porn" will block "porn" and "pornography". * begins with - match the specified text when it is the beginning of a word. "porn" will block "porn" and "pornography" but not "teenporn".  

1. Login into cPanel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Go to Database section
3. Click on the Remote MySQL icon.
4. Enter the IP address or wild card of that computer from which you want to connect the MySql database.
5. Click on Add Host button.

1. Login into cPanel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Go to Files section
3. Click on backups
4. To take back up of website Click on home Directory
5. Select File location and Click on save
6. To take back up of database, select the database
7. Select File location and Click on save

1. Login into WHM reseller panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click on Account function
3. Click on Modify account
4. Select the particular domain
5. Make the changes and click on save

1. Login into WHM reseller panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click on left side Account function option in the homepage
3. Click on create a new account option
4. You will get five section (Domain information, Package, Settings, DNS settings, Mail routing settings )
5. Domain information-:

• Fill the domain name
• Credential(Username, Password) to access the panel as a End user
• Type the email id

Note-: In case of client fill all details related to client (as like Client_DomainName, Client_Credential, client_E-mail ID)

To access webmail in linux using your browser, you will need to use the following format :

http://yourdomainname/webmail ( where yourdomainrname is to bo replaced by your actual domain name)

or

http://yourdomainname:2095 (where yourdomainrname is to bo replaced by your actual domain name)

or

https://yourdomainname:2096 (where yourdomainrname is to bo replaced by your actual domain name

1. Login into plesk panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click on Website & Domains tab
3. Click on domain name
4. Click on File Manager
5. Select folder name where you want to create your directories
6. Click on add new File
7. Browse your file from PC or any other location
8. Click on OK

Login into plesk panel using provided URL and its credentials

Click on website and domains tab

Click on "Show Advanced Operations

Click on "virtual directory"

Click on "directory property"

Click on "document section"

Enabled "Use default documents

Set your default page in "Default documents search order"

Click on OK

     1.  Login into plesk panel  using provided URL and its credentials

     2. Click on  website and domains tab

     3. Click on "Show Advanced Operations

     4. Click on "virtual directory"

     5. Click on "directory property"

     6. Click on "document section"

     7. Enabled "Use default documents"

     8.  Set your default page in "Default documents search order"

     9. Click on OK

1. Login into plesk panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click on Website & Domains tab
3. Click on Secure your site
4. Click on manage next to the domain for which you want to create a certificate.
5. Click on Add SSL certificate
6. Click on Buy SSL certificate
7. Click on OK

create a new mail id under the domain and than login to the mail account :

1   Log into SmarterMail as a user.
2   Click the Settings icon.
3   Expand the My Settings and Advanced Settings folders in the navigation pane.
4   Click Mailbox Migration.
5   The mailbox migration tool will open in a new window.
6   Select account type " others ".
7   Select emails.
8   Fill up the required details
    type - IMAP
    server ip - 64.71.180.28
    port - 143
    user - emailid
    password - ******
9   Click " test connection " and process ahead.

1. Login into plesk panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click to Application tab
3. Click on all available application
4. Select the application
5. Follow the steps for installation
6. Click on OK

1. Login into plesk panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click on Mail tab
3. Click on change settings
4. Enable Use Domain Keys spam protection system to sign outgoing e-mail messages
5. Click on OK

1. Login into plesk panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click on Account Tab
3. Click on My Profile
4. Change Profile information
5. Click on OK

1. Login into plesk panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click on Website & Domains tab
3. Click on Add new sub domain
4. Fill up the details
5. Click on OK

1. Login into plesk panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click on Mail tab
3. Click on create email address option
4. Enter the email address and password
5. Click on OK

1. Login into plesk panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click on Website & Domains tab
3. Click on Add domain alias name
4. Fill up the details
5. Click on OK

1. Login into plesk panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click on Website & Domains tab
3. Click on File manager
4. Select httpdocs folder
5. Select the particular folder
6. click on "lock" icon to check the all permission on folder

1. Login into plesk panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click on mail
3. Click on change mail setting
4. In webmail option select the drop down list in right side of webmail
5. Select webmail interface and click on OK

1. Login into plesk panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. & Domains tab
3. Click on DNS settings tab
4. Select following 3 records-:

                        mail.domain.com: A records,

                        webmail.domain.com: A/CNAME records

                       domain.com: MX records.

Login to Webmail 

Click on "options"

Click on "Personal Information"

Select Your current timezone: 'Asia/Calcutta' under "Timezone Options"

1. Log into Plesk
2. Click on Domains
3. Click on Manage Domain or Manage Hosting
4. Click on Websites & Domains
5. Click on Backup Manager
6. Then, click Back Up.
7. Adding a prefix to the backup name ( example.bak ), and if a notification is desired give the mail id.
8. Choose the Domain configuration and content option. When this is done, the drop down box to the right will become active and you can choose the type of backup you want that will include content for your domain. The All configuration and content option will make a full backup of your domain.
9. Click Back Up to immediately backup your domain.
10. When the backup is complete, you will see it listed below. You may need to refresh the page to see the new backup.
11. You may also choose to save a copy of this backup to your local computer. To do so, click the green arrow that is to the right of the desired backup.

Kindly follow below steps to take the backup of database -

1. Go to Domains
2. Domain name
3. Backup Manager
4. Database Backup Repository
5. Select a check box corresponding to the database you want to back up and click Back Up.
6. Specify the name of the backup file (databasename.bak)
7. Click OK.

Google submit form step

1- http://www.google.co.in/webmasters/tools/
2- Click on add a site button
3- Enter the website name
4- In verification method select upload an HTML file from drop down box
5- Download this HTML verification file
6- Upload the file to http://yourwebsitename.com/ in public_html folder
7- Confirm successful upload by visiting http://yourwebsitename.com/google38f652a9c6606233.html in your browser
8- Click the verify button below
9- After that It will take 24-48 hours for updating the records and then your site will be up.

Steps to Creating an backup in plesk reseller

1  Log into Plesk
2  Click on Domains
3  Click on Manage Domain or Manage Hosting
4  Click on Websites & Domains
5  Click on Backup Manager
6  Click Back Up
7  Fill up the details and click on backup
8  When you are finished customizing your backup, click Back Up to immediately backup your domain.
9  When the backup is complete, you will see it listed below.
10 You may also choose to save a copy of this backup to your local computer. To do so, click the green arrow that is to the far right of the desired backup.

1. Login into reseller control panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click on Customer Tab
3. Select the customer name
4. Click on change login info.
5. Type new information
6. Click on OK

1. Login into reseller control panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Open reseller home page
3. Click on interface preference option
4. Click on check box to allow multiple session

1. Login into reseller control panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click on Customer Tab
3. Click on Service Plan Tab
4. Click on Add New Plan.
5. Enter a name for the new service plan.
6. Fill the Required Details (Resources/Permissions/Hosting parameters/PHP settings/Mail/DNSsettings/Application )
7. Click on OK

1. Login into Reseller Control Panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click on Customer Tab
3. Click on Add New Customer.
4. Fill up the Required Details(Contact information, Access to Panel, Subscription)
5. Contact information: Fill up all necessary details in contact information section(Contact Name, E-mail Address )
6. Access to Panel: Fill the Credentials that the customer will use to access their Control Panel (User Name, Password)
7. Subscription: If you want to create subscription while you are creating a customer then select the checkbox create subscription for the customer.
8. Fill the domain name for which you are creating subscription
9. Type the credential (Username, Password) to access or manage files and folder of your website (i.e. create your FTP Account to access website content )
10. Select the service plan (resources assigned) which you want to assign for the domain.

Please find the following steps to add domain/website from WebsitePanel

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1.  Login to WebsitePanel. WebsitePanel is located at URL http://serverIP:9001

2. Once you are logged into WebsitePanel, click on All Customers link.    

3. In the next screen, you will see the list of all created users. If you have not created any user yet, you'll see the default admin user there. Click the username link under whom you want to add a subdomain.                     

1. Login into WHM reseller panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click on Account function
3. Click on Modify account
4. Select the particular domain
5. Make the changes and click on save

1. Login into WHM reseller panel using provided URL and its credentials
2. Click on left side Account function option in the homepage
3. Click on create a new account option
4. You will get five section (Domain information, Package, Settings, DNS settings, Mail routing settings )
5. Domain information-:

• Fill the domain name
• Credential(Username, Password) to access the panel as a End user
• Type the email id

Note-: In case of client fill all details related to client (as like Client_DomainName, Client_Credential, client_E-mail ID)

To access webmail in linux using your browser, you will need to use the following format :

http://yourdomainname/webmail ( where yourdomainrname is to bo replaced by your actual domain name)

or

http://yourdomainname:2095 (where yourdomainrname is to bo replaced by your actual domain name)

or

https://yourdomainname:2096 (where yourdomainrname is to bo replaced by your actual domain name