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What is RAID Hosting in India?

Posted on June 19, 2010 by Betrand

Categories: Web Hosting

Tags: 100% uptime, RAID Hosting, RAID Hosting India, Web Hosting

RAID means Redundant Array of Independent Disks, when initially developed there are only 5 levels of RAID are available and each having different options in features and performance, now up to 10 levels are defined. Some web hosting companies in India claim 100% uptime guarantee but they don’t provide any details about what kind of hardware and software systems are in place for their servers to actually make 100% uptime feasible over a period of time.

RAID Hosting web hosting packages in India are rare to find due to lack of knowledge and technical capability among the small and medium hosting providers. Some companies who provide unlimited web space don’t opt for RAID because they are on a mission to oversell the server’s disk space to the maximum possible extent. RAID servers are needed to be monitored continuously and some web hosts don’t want to increase their costs. RAID Hosting is not economical because it needs continuous monitoring and number of websites per server will be decreased and can’t utilize full hard drive space.

Why RAID Hosting?

To provide web hosting, RAID is not mandatory and easy to install and maintain on the servers, but if you have ever had a hard drive crash, you know how costly in time and effort it is to restore the data on that hard drive with RAID you can reduce the downtime.
It ensures maximum uptime and minimize the downtime while recovering and restoring the server
Using SCSI and IDE Hard disks, chances of failures over prolonged and continued usage is higher and these are the most susceptible devices on a web server when they constantly being used.
Using RAID will also solve the need of quick access to large data, websites hosted with RAID hosting sites will load faster than other sites
When multiple times data reading/writing happens on the same hard drive which is common in shared hosting because of hosting multiple domains in the same server, chances of Hard drive failure is very high.
Almost all the shared hosting providers clearly mention in their TOS about the data loss and they mention it is the customers responsibility when there is a data loss and customer should make sure that they have proper backups at their local systems, by using RAID in shared hosting will minimize the risk of losing the data and recovering faster.

IBEE powered with RAID Controllers in all its shared hosting consumer and enterprise class servers to provide better uptime and quality hosting. come host with IBEE and feel the difference, you may call at 1800-102-4233 or mail to info@ibeehosting.com for more details.

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Cheap Web Hosting in India means Poor Hosting?

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Betrand

Categories: Web Hosting

Tags: Cheap Hosting India, Cheap web hosting plans, Web Hosting

Some people doesn’t want to hear the word cheap but many of the people look for Cheap Web Hosting packages in India. Cheap doesn’t actually mean Poor service. People often think that if hosting comes cheaper then the quality of the hosting must be of poor quality. Now you may get doubt that how much is actually cheap? there are lot of factors that affect the service of the hosting company. here in this article i will discuss about some myths and facts about cheap web hosting plans offering by Indian companies.

How much is actually Cheap?
Before expecting an answer for this question, first you need to think about what you need?, when you know what is required for you to host your website or application then think about companies provide solutions according to your need. When you come to a conclusion by selecting three or four companies who are providing services as per your need, check their prices, features and technical support or ability to solve your problems until the service period. if you can lock down on two companies finally after the comparison of their services, now think about who is cheap and go for it.

How a company can provide cheap web hosting services

When they adopt new technologies and reduce the TCO
When they believe in going hand to hand with automation and manual process while implementing the systems
When they reduce the profit margin through reducing the spending on extravagant needs
When they are big and if it is volume business

Possible disadvantages when looking for cheap hosting plans

Adopting new technologies which are in beta stage and not proven will actually cost a lot for the end user if that doesn’t work

To reduce profit margin by recruiting unskilled professionals for technical support and server management will actually sees the anger of customer

Where there is volume of business, there is volume of expenses as well, unless a good management takes care of the business, it is hard to manage volume business

Most of the customers seek personalized attention, if you automate the systems fully, your customers might feel they are ignored

lastly obviously when it is cheap, the service either be reduced by automating systems or quality will be compromised

Come to IBEE Hosting to experience the combination of affordable and Cheap web hosting plans, we provide personalized service and adopt new technologies as well to reduce our costs. we test and fine tune our servers before making them available to consumer usage, which reduces the risk of failures.

Call IBEE at 040.4425 4233 or email to info@ibeehosting.com for more details.

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What is a Glue Record?

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Betrand

Categories: Web Hosting

Tags: DNS Hosting, Glue Records, Web Hosting

When you look for a DNS report for your domain at dnsstuff.com, you sometimes might get errors like Glue Records not found for the name servers listed. you will be confused to see this error, if you do everything perfectly also you will get this error, it is very simple to fix this error.

A glue record is the IP address of a name server mentioned at the domain name registrar. They are required when you wish to set the name servers of a domain name to a hostname under the domain name itself.

If you want to set the name servers of domainname.com to ns1.domainname.com and ns2.domainname.com you would need to also provide the glue records (i.e. the IP addresses) for ns1.domainname.com and ns2.domainname.com.

If you did not provide the glue records for these name servers then your domain name would not work as anyone requiring DNS information for it would get stuck in a loop:

What is the name server for domainname.com? -> ns1.domainname.com
What is the IP address of ns1.domainname.com? -> don’t know, try looking at name server for domainname.com
What is the name server for domainname.com? -> ns1.domainname.com
…and so on.

With the glue record in place the registry will hold the IP address and the loop will not occur:

What is the name server for domainname.com? -> ns1.domainname.com
What is the IP address of ns1.domainname.com? -> [IP Address]

To resolve this simple point your name servers with A records to the IP addresses assigned. i mean full name server like ns1.domainname.com to A record to its respective IP address. when you do this Glue Records not found error will be solved and no 2 times look ups for DNS, your sites will load faster.

More information about Web and DNS Hosting call IBEE at 09949922500 or mail at info@ibeehosting.com

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Is WordPress Hosting different from Standard Web Hosting?

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Betrand

Categories: Web Hosting

Tags: Web Hosting, WordPress, WordPress Hosting, WordPress Hosting India

If you type WordPress Hosting in the Search engines, you will get many results displaying specialized WordPress Hosting but is it True? Is WordPress Hosting is so different from a Standard Web Hosting? Is there any specific expertise needed for WordPress Hosting? Why should i need to use WordPress? You will find the answers for these questions in this article.

What is WordPress?
WordPress is a leading Open Source Blogging engine where you can download and install it on your domain for blogging or you can create your own blog at WordPress.com, you blog at wordpress.com comes as a sub-domain, For Example ibeehosting.wordpress.com.

Why WordPress?
Most of the companies / Individuals use WordPress for Blogging. WordPress has different flavors for different needs, for Multi users Blogs like blog.co.in you can use WordPress Mu and WordPress recently launched BuddyPress for Social Networking needs. All these are Open Source and Free to use.

Do i need a specialty hosting provider for WordPress Hosting?
No, You don’t require any Specialty Hosting Provider for WordPress Hosting. You just need to have a MY SQL database and PHP in your existing Hosting package of your domain name. Additionally you might need other pre-requisites according to WordPress to install it, like 777 permissions etc. until you install it. These may be available by default with any Hosting Provider.

What is One Click Install for WordPress?
Many of the Hosting companies advertise that they provide Specialty WordPress Hosting and One Click Install for WordPress. Tools like Fantastico will make this happen, by just giving the folder name to load WordPress and a click you can install WordPress. Most of the hosting companies now a days provide Fantastico along with cPanel Control Panel in Linux Hosting.

Above are some of the facts about WordPress Hosting, You might not need any expertise or skill to install WordPress and start Blogging. Do not fall prey for the marketing gimmicks of some companies say they are WordPress Hosting Experts and charge you more.

For WordPress Hosting in India, you can contact IBEE at 9949922500 or mail at info@ibeehosting.com

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What is Green Hosting?

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Betrand

Categories: Web Hosting

Tags: Carbon, Green Hosting, Green Hosting India, Web Hosting

Most of the people in India doesn’t bother about Going Green. Green Hosting in India, is not a common word yet but many of the foreign companies have already adopted Green Technologies to provide Green Hosting. In this article i will discuss about how to ‘Go Green’ in Hosting Industry.

Different methods you can adopt for Going Green:

Upgrading your old energy consuming servers to new energy efficient servers
Reducing paper work by implementing Automated service and billing engines
Use Energy Efficient light bulbs at the work place
Virtualize the Servers
Encourage your team to use public transport system or car pool for transportation
Upgrade your energy consuming appliances at your work place
Usage of Paperless Invoicing System
You may want to Buy some Carbon Credits

The above are some of the methods you can adopt to provide Green Hosting Solutions. IBEE has adopted most of the methods mentioned above and started Green initiative in the Indian Hosting industry.

Contact IBEE at 09949922500 or mail to info@ibeehosting.com for more details on how to Go Green in Hosting.

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What is 32 bit web hosting and 64 bit web hosting?

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Betrand

Categories: Web Hosting

Tags: 32 bit, 64 bit, RIA, unlimited hosting, Web Hosting

Have you ever heard about 32 bit and 64 bit web hosting? You might not, most of the hosting companies promise to their customers that their servers are equipped with high memory like 8 GB, 16 GB etc. and some companies in India claim that they provide unlimited hosting by having more RAM/Memory but they don’t mention more details about how this RAM or memory being utilized for the applications or websites hosted within the server. Here we discuss what are the advantages of 64 bit hosting over 32 bit web hosting.

32 bit systems or software supports up to 4 GB memory at any one given point of time. some of the recent Rich Internet Applications requires much more memory than this to complete the tasks. This may be one of the reason for chip making companies to introduce 64 bit processors.

The problem with most of the hosting companies to provide 64 bit hosting is, still most of the available software like control panels, plugins, tools today is 32 bit, but the processors are 64 bit. Microsoft is catching up pretty fast on this by releasing 64 bit Windows 7, windows server 2008, databases and other Operation systems so as other operating systems also catching up well.

Here is the diagrammatically explanation about the layers effect:

If you want to run a 64 bit application, you need to have support from all the lower levels.

So, building a server only with 8 or 16 GB memory/RAM will not suffice to support the Rich Internet Applications which consumes lot of server resources. You need to have OS and other depended software like databases, Control panels etc. also have 64 bit. A 64 bit OS and other software will use the maximum memory provided and support RIA to perform complex tasks.

Contact IBEE at 09949922500 or email at info@ibeehosting.com to know more details on how to build Rich Internet Applications supported Hosting Infrastructure.

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What is the difference between Cloud computing and Grid Computing?

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Betrand

Categories: Web Hosting

Tags: cloud, Cloud computing, grid, Grid computing, Web Hosting

You might have heard many times about these buzz words Cloud Computing and Grid Computing by now and you might be really thinking about what is the real difference about these two technologies. Everyone talks about Cloud nowadays, what actually is cloud and grid? here l discuss about the similarities and differences between Grid and cloud computing.

Both Cloud and Grid computing are Scalable. Cloud computing evolved from Grid computing. you might have heard about SaaS, IaaS and PaaS. All these buzz words have a link with cloud and Grid computing. All of them are inter linked. Grid is mostly used for High intensive computational requirements where as cloud can be used for High CPU usage, High storage and bandwidth etc.

Cloud Computing:
Using Cloud Computing, companies can scale upto High capacities immediately without investing in new infrastructure, training the people or new software licensing. It is more useful for small and medium scale businesses who wants to outsource their Data Center infrastructure, or some larger companies also prefer if they want to cut down the costs of building data-centers internally in order to get peak load capacity. In short, consumers use what they need and pay accordingly.

Additional advantages for the consumer are, they no longer has to be at a computer to use the application. they can access it by using smartphones, PDA or which the medium Cloud supports. By adopting cloud, consumer does not need to own the infrastructure, software and also consumer doesn’t need to worry about the network maintenance. By choosing this he can reduce the capital expenses, Upfront costs and operating expenses.

Grid Computing:
Grid Computing is the parent of Cloud computing, cloud actually evolves from Grid Computing. Grid is more useful in provisioning resources on-demand. Some people say Grid computing can also be called Cloud computing but it depends on what type of users using the Grid, if they are system administrators and integrators, they bother about how things are maintained in the Cloud and their work is to upgrade, install and virtualise the servers and applications. Consumers don’t care about how things are running at the system end, they simply try to check whether their application is working or not.

Grid Computing needs a software to divide and farm out into pieces of a program as one large system image to several thousands of computers. Major disadvantage with Grid Computing is, if one piece of software on a node fails, other pieces of the software on the other nodes may fail. It can be rectified by installing a failover component on other nodes, but when some components depend on other components the same problem may arise. To Build and Manage a Grid you may incur huge capital and operational expenses.

Some of the concerns i still have with Cloud and Grid computing are: Security, Privacy, Network latency when integrating with in-house sytems or during peak loads and hidden costs etc. Though scalability is the common factor between the Grid and Cloud Computing and scalability can be achieved by using load balancing techniques and connecting application through web service but Scalability in Grid is, for a company who wants to scale their computational resources and scalability in cloud is, for a consumer who wants to scale their application resources.

Contact IBEE for more information about Grid and Cloud computing at info@ibeehosting.com

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Unlimited Hosting Space means Customer Cheating?

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Betrand

Categories: Web Hosting

Tags: unlimited hosting, unlimited space, unlimited web hosting, Web Hosting

You might have heard many times about Unlimited Hosting space offers. Most of the foreign companies and some of the indian companies are now selling this unlimited hosting packages. Even IBEE has got some requests from our existing customers asking to introduce unlimited packages during our last Customer satisfaction survey.

You might want to know the realistic scenario of this unlimited packages:

There is no Hard Disk available with unlimited size to sell the space, even if you buy a 1 TB hard disk, the TOS from the vendor will be pretty clearly written stating that you cannot use more than 500 GB. Some companies may cliam that they can attach a new hard disk to the server after they completly filled with the existing one and they dont answer how will one server run backups every day or week of unlimited space. In this scenario the server will be very slow if they attach another drive and run automated backups in one server.
You have to read the TOS and AUP before you buy any unlimited hosting package because they dont allow you to host files not related to your business or domain name. doesn’t this looks funny? And they dont allow you to use more than 10% of CPU usage per hour and like this so many restrictions.
Some unlimited hosting companies will even restrict the number of files hosted on your account. you need to make sure you check the TOS before you buy this service.
you can check the total disk space available in that server you are hosted by using this tool http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net/, this will give you information about server CPU, uptime, disk space and other important details.
some unlimited hosting companies may limit the bandwidth to restrict user to use the unlimited space, without appropriate bandwidth you can’t do anything with disk space.
Some companies might oversell their server space thinking that customer will not host those many domains under a reseller package and they think customer won’t be able to get that much business and host files with huge sizes. These companies servers are affected with lot of downtime and very slow in accessing the websites. Recently a web hosting company in India faced this problem and people wrote lot of bad reviews about them
If you buy an unlimited plan from a host, lets say if you use 5GB for a website that has 30,000 uniques a day that consumes alot of cpu I can guarantee the host will suspend you even though you have only used minimum space of unlimited plan. So unlimited hosting packages will always have restrictions.

Hope i have given enough explanation about unlimited hosting and now readers might get an idea about how these unlimited hosting companies force their Marketing Gimmics to innocent customers. you need to go through their TOS and AUP before making a decision to buy unlimited hosting packages.

For example, companies like Google and Amazon are not giving unlimted hosting space even though they have world’s largest data centers. Google App Engine is a hosting package which google sells but they charges on basis of several components like per hour CPU usage, disk space, bandwidth usage etc.,

IBEE committed to limited packages but not the least space like 50 Mb or 100 MB, we offer maximum upto 5 GB packages and starting with 250 MB in shared hosting to give better hosting experience for our customers. We are working on cluster and grid computing technologies further to introduce much better hosting experience for our customers in 2010.

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Web Hosting Approach / Methodology of IBEE

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Betrand

Categories: Web Hosting

Tags: hosting methodology, Web Hosting, web hosting approach, web hosting process

What is Web hosting approach or methodology? this might be the question in your mind. As like as software development process, web hosting also need to have some process to ensure customer satisfaction. Below is the method IBEE follows in providing share web hosting.

Build => Configure => Secure => Monitor

Build:
Under Build sub process, we understand the shared web hosting requirements and choose the right configuration to build the servers.

Configure:
Under configure sub process, we configure the control panels, packages and automation

Secure:
Under secure sub process, we secure the web servers based on the checklist like securing DNS, securing Mail servers etc.,

Monitor:
Under monitor sub process, we monitor the websites hosted and services running on the server and maximise the uptime of the servers.

For more information on web hosting processes and other details call IBEE at 9949922500 or send an email to info@ibeehosting.com

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How To Choose The Right Web Hosting Services

Posted on December 7, 2007 by Betrand

Categories: Web Hosting

Tags: hosting services, Web Hosting

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