Updated on: 13 Nov 2023

CDN stands for content delivery network in which there a farm of servers separated geographically which helps in faster organizing, storing, and streaming web site content (images, text, video and other static content) to end-users. Rather than serving content directly from the host server to the end-user, the Content Delivery Network moves the content source […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

I am shocked beyond belief to note that www.webhostingtalk.com, the largest web hosting discussion forum on the web, is offline. Its not only offline, its data backups (onsite and offsite) alongwith the current site data has been completely wiped out and the only backup which they have is written on a set of DVD disks […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

PHP has some vulnerable functions which can be used to break into your server if your scripts are not coded securely. You can setup a list of functions in php.ini using disable_functions directive. This directive allows you to disable certain functions for security reasons. It takes on a comma-delimited list of function names. This disable_functions […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

As a trusted webhost for SMEs to large businesses in India, we keep getting queries from our clients on the payment gateway service which they can use on their website. A payment gateway is typically a third party provider which allows you to accept credit card transactions through your website, which they than route on […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

Thumbnail are used by graphic designers and photographers for a small image representation of a larger image. The main advantage of creating thumbnails is that it generates the new image with the proportional dimension of the large image and hence the image resolution and quality remain intact. As the thumbnails are smaller in size they […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

Plesk is a great Control Panel in  the shared hosting environment, but there are a few things that are not available in the Control Panel. For example, you cannot create additional FTP user in Plesk Control panel for Linux (this support is enabled in Plesk for windows).  But some time it is required to have […]

Updated on: 13 Nov 2023

There is an issue with Crystal reports support with Plesk installation . We have found that in spite of  installing the crystal report runtime redistributable package the report won’t show in the web page on any hosted domain in Plesk, but if you run the report under a virtual directory under the default website the […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

Welcome to our web log and we hope we can do justice to this endeavor. Setting up a blog is probably the easiest thing you could do online; download and install wordpress, get a free theme online and bingo, your blog is online. However, it will take tons of effort and discipline to ensure that […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

Start your own web hosting business with a reseller account. Investment is small and potential profits are high. There are actually two uses for reseller hosting accounts. Selling web hosting services, and hosting multiple of your own domains under one account. What this article is mostly about is the selling part. Reseller hosting is a […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

Despite all the advancements that have been made in information security, hacking attacks continue to be a major problem, inflicting damage on some of the biggest companies.  Every year, it seems as if we hear a story where some major company has been hacked and thieved of invaluable information. Although large corporations make better targets, […]