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“Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

as the saying goes, simplified web hosting provider “Hexahost” has added new feature to its web hosting kitty. A easy to use web site builder along with web hosting, without any additional cost. One more step [...]

In our endeavor to improve shared hosting quality and service transparency, Hexahost implemented online web hosting monitor service. We offer 99.9% guaranteed server up time as part of our service level agreement. monitor.hexahost.com Online monitoring utility will monitor all our server’s up time, connectivity, Service status, current memory utilization, current and cpu load. Monitor utility [...]

In view of security Anything occupied by more than one leads to complexity, Shared hosting is one such complex environment. A well designed place to park your web contents “Hosting” is the origin for many security threads around WWW (World Wide Web).  A common storage/hardware used by number of users. Service provider responsibility is to provide safe shared hosting environment in both physical, and systems front. Web site owners also equally responsible to mange their allocated space and services through their web site.

Few points to improve shared hosting Security

• Operating System – unless other wise very demanding do not go for Windows hosting. A well known fact billion dollar anti virus business is based on not so protected Windows environment
• Do not use

Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery is a process, policies and procedures related to preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure critical to an organization after a natural or human-induced disaster. Hexahost provides DR(Disaster Recovery) solutions in Shared hosting environment.

How HexaDR works ? :

1. Once a customer signup for HexaDR the customer will be provided with a sftp account in HexaDR storage servers.
2. DNS records for HexaDR Customers will be maintained in our Anycast DNS clusters. The DNS records will be ponited to his current hosting server.
3. The customer will login to his cpanel account and configures remote backup.
4. Once the backup completed, the tar-ball will be stored in his HexaDR Storage account.
5. From HexaDR server all the accounts will be backed up on a daily basis.
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