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.

I had named my company long before it was started, as webaholics. And in 2005, when I looked for the domain name, I found that webaholics.com was taken, and with webaholics.in not public yet, I had to settle for webaholics.co.in. And this is that domain.

I was running a web hosting site on this domain name. When I started all I had was a reseller account taken from datapacket.net, which eventually got blocked for spamming. One of my clients spammed their servers off it seems, and the one who spammed got his money back from me, and I learnt the lesson and took my first server.

With the servers I was able to offer Windows Reseller Accounts with Helm control panel, and slowly the sales boosted, and i started acquiring more and more servers, and learned a lot of thing myself, such as Plesk is the best hosting control panel for windows and Cpanel is the best for linux, and that Red Hat is best for servers while ubuntu is best for PCs. This is because Red Hat’s support is cheaper than ubuntu’s

Later I went on to start a website called indyahozting, which Im still running, and this domain was pointed to indyahozting for 3 years, driving all traffic that comes to this to indyahozting.com.

Very recently I realized that this is a PR3 domain name, and I could make it into a blog, and spread the word out about web hosting, and help people who are in peril with their servers, completely free of charge.

In this blog, god willing, Im hoping to write about all the business aspects of running a hosting company, and the technical and support side aspects will be written about at hostshub.com. Blogging was completely gothic art to me when I started. I didn’t understand a thing. But now I guess Im good enough at doing it.

Now that the hardware part is over, you need software to run the machine. The first thing that you will ever install in a PC is a software called an Operating System. When it comes to an operating system, you have a very wide range to choose from. It is always recommended to take the wisest decision while choosing the platform you work on. The choices that you have:

1. Genuine Windows Vista or XP

2. Pirated Windows Vista or XP downloadable from thepiratebay.org or demonoid.com

3. A suitable Linux Distro like ubuntu, fedora, opensuse, mandriva etc.

4. Solaris

5. Unix or Unix Like OS such as BSD.