Certain datacentres support upgrade of motherboards and processors alone, and you can retain the same IP and the hard drives that you would have been using earlier, while other datacentres ask you to do a complete migration.

When your demand for load increases, it is advisable that you go for the best server that is available in the market, and put it as many processors as possible onto one server, stick in as many hard drives as possible, and use it. Linux can handle multile hard drives easily, while Windows control panels cannot. You will have to use Raid.

But when you have all sites on one server, which is a lot difficult to manage than having them on different servers, how do you manage the load? Even if one site overloads the database engine, all sites hosted on the servers could go down. So why not use multiple servers? Well, I ask, why not virtualize your monster server itself?

Get a VPS license for about 10 nodes, and virtualize your server, and split them into 10 induvidual servers, and allocate resources accordingly and split low resource consuming sites, dynamic sites and overloading sites seperately.

The cost of operation will naturally be a bit high, but compared to the quality of service that you provide to your clients, and the cost of maintaining individual servers seperately, this idea is a lot better. And, you have all under one roof, and the admin can access all files and folders with his root acess.

This is a good idea for all linux servers, while I cannot recommend it for windows. Infact, I dont recommend anything for Windows at all.

Why?

Though their access might be restricted, you are literally giving them previlleges to download and install scripts on the server. They cant do that can they? You manage the server for them, and if they do something irresponsible, it would become your headache to get it fixed, and if they do something that affects your other clients? They will hold you responsible.

When in remote desktop, they can access the browser, and if they use it for some illegal activity, like using fake credit cards or stolen card numbers from your server on some site for some server or buy things, your server’s ips get recorded, and if there is a dispute, not only your server will be suspended, you will become responsible for the transactions that happen.

And if the client installs a mass mailing software on the remote desktop and uses it, your ip gets blacklisted.

There are several other things that could happen. Never give out Remote Desktop or SSH access to any client or reseller. You can always fix this limitation on your control panel when you create the account.

Though you can set limitations in the number of mails send per domain, spammers get hold of scripts that clients use in their websites to send mails, and spam the hell out of your server. And your server just stops working. Or, if your server is powerful enough, your mails just stop working.

Whats the best way to prevent that from happening? Use google’s google apps. The free email service for your jenifaa-sakura domain name.

When you create hosting, make your settings in such a way that the mx record that is created for each domain is set to google’s. When your client gets the hosting, ask him to sign up at google.com/a and get his mail box. There he will have no limitations of mails or mail ids or anything. And there is no way that your IP gets blacklisted.

And google has a great system that they dont let people abuse their systems easily. It is a neat system.

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When you run a hosting company that is fully automated, where visitors come by themselves, purchase hosting on your site, make the payment and the account gets activated, and they start using it, you dont have any work to do there. And you have plenty of time. You could do well to utilize this time to review the various sites that are hosted on your servers. What they have in the front end and what they have behind the scenes.

Most of the times, the datacentre, or the ISP will send you alerts if there are any malicious activities going on on any of the sites on your server, and all you need to do would be to suspend the hosting and the domain. But at times, somethings might go terribly wrong that the ISPs take your server offline by detatching the IP before they approach you. So it is always better to monitor the server yourself, or employ someone who would be good at it.

List of contents that shouldn’t be on your servers.

1. Porn.

2. Unrecognized software sales

3. Un Conformed or unregistered Shopping Sites.

4. Pages that look like any bank, payment gateway, or pages that collect personal information of any sort.

5. Sites that send out a lot of email.

Why?

Contd…….

For Windows servers, naturally, you use the remote desktop. Use the terminal services client, enter your servers IP, and a window opens asking for the username and password, enter that and you are logged into the remote desktop of your windows server. Do you find it not as good as the remote desktop client on your windows PC?

Here we go. Terminal services Clinet is a lot stable than windows remote desktop client. It never gets hanged, or refuses to come out of the remote desktop, leaving you in the middle, and forcing you to log out of the administrator and cancelling all your running applications on the server. You can always close the window to exit and log back in to the same session. Yes, windows remote desktop client is designed to do the same too, but it doesnt work very well. I have seen that myself.

And to connect to your linux servers, though there is putty for linux as well, you dont really need it except if you want to run any command or execute anything. For basic file operations, you could directly connect to the file system with ubuntu and do any file operations as required. With putty, you cannot transfer files from local machine or vice versa. Or maybe I have not come across the command for that.

You can stay connected to linux servers with your linux computers for days and months together if your internet connection or power supply for your local machine doesnt give you away, and you will find that it is completely stable, and not like windows which, as the world knows, will not run for more than 24 hours at a streatch.