Running a hosting company for quite a few years now, I know what to host and what not to host. And, I guess i can tell most of the times if a site is a legitimate site, or a money making site, or an out right scamming site just by having a look at it.

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…….

Linux, especially ubuntu, is the best operating system that you could install in your computers at your office if you are running a hosting company. No point in getting Windows, paying for the license, getting bugged, and get it resulted in a weak server maintenance or admin work done.

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.