“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 simplifying the web hosting service.Gone are the days were skilled technical people and designers have to work together and follow the process to create a web site. We live in a connected world, simplified technology solutions are the differentiators.  Our website builder RV-Site builder is integrated along with web hosting control panel “Cpanel”. This means no additional searching and cumbersome document reading exercise. RV-Site builder with Cpanel is been in the industry for a while, but only few providers have it only few providers are providing this feature without any additional cost. In a series of blog posts, Hexahost team will help you in building a beautiful website with less cost as possible.

Steps to Use WEB SITE BUILDER:

• Log in to your Cpanel
• Go to Software/Service & click “R-Vsite builder”

You will be redirected to a step by step transition window in sitebuilder application. Seven (7) easy steps will create beautiful web site for you.

• STEP 1: Give a  name to the design project, Title, Company name, Slogan and Logo (120×70)
• STEP 2: Select the template. 713 template at your service with options to create your own as well
• STEP 3: Define your web site style, Color, font, size etc
• STEP 4: Define your page structure Menu, sub-menu
• STEP 5: Key-in your web site content
• STEP 6: Key-in details like META TAG, Title, effect for individual pages
• STEP 7: Define the path and click “PUBLISH”

Why not CMS?

Using a CMS is also one of the fast and easy way to build a web site. Hexahost supports this with automatic script installer Fantastico de luxe. Site builder simplifies the job of web site owners, You need not know about java script, You need not know how to create a CSS/style sheet. A few minutes of work in cpanel will help you to create a beautiful website. Publish option generates HTML, Java script, PHP pages automatically, to fine tune them later you can use web Site builder editor as well as individual file. Sitebuilder simplifies the job, and works well than a CMS system. To create a simple static web site is site builder is a the best tool. CMS works well for large web sites.

What matters the most is creating something on your own. With RV-Sitebuilder and Cpanel feature in Hexahost, i am sure you will be happy to enjoy your new role  “Web site designer”.

HAPPY WEB HOSTING!

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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 is not just for customers but also for monitoring team and disaster recovery team. Monitoring team will monitor the service, load and up time on 24×7 basis. Monitoring utility constantly monitors our web hosting network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages.
 

Why Monitor.hexahost?

Monitoring is essential to ensure that a website is available to users and downtime is minimized. We understand the criticality of your websites. WWW is the core medium of information sharing place. Users that rely on a website or an application for work or pleasure will get frustrated or even stop using the application if it is not reliably available. Monitoring can cover many things that an application needs to function, like network connectivity, Domain Name System records, database connectivity, bandwidth, and computer resources like free RAM, CPU load, disk space, events, etc. Commonly measured metrics are response time and availability (or uptime), but consistency and reliability metrics are used by internal teams.

How monitor.hexahost works ?

To determine the status of hexahost webserver, monitoring software will periodically send an HTTP request to fetch a page. For email servers, a test message will be sent through SMTP and retrieved by IMAP or POP3. Physical connectivity to the system, latency to the server, server response time are computed using ICMP ping request and response methods. Server CPU usage, memory usage, disk usages are monitored on system level checks using scripts.

We also monitor our servers from third party system for second level monitoring. We also advise our customer to use 3rd party utilities like host-tracker, hostmonitor, host peek.

With this we are a step ahead of reaching our aim “SIMPLIFIED HOSTING”

HAPPY HOSTING!

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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 Web hosting and email hosting from same server. Email is a popular medium to spread infections. Separate email and web hosting server increases service redundancy. It helps on saving server load too
• Use SMTP for system/CMS/application emails. Avoid scripts to send/receive emails
• Be careful when you upload files to server
  • Hosting panel mode of uploading file is preferable
  • Do not use web browser as FTP client
  • Do not save your FTP user name and password
  • Use gftp instead of FTP
  • protect your files with md5 hash and tar/compress/zip it unzip/untar/decompress it in server
• Implement password policy and change frequently
• Check your web hosting server IP before you take up the service
• Check twice before you add external scripts to your web site
• Check twice before you add iframe tags to your site

Securing your web hosting doesn’t stop with above mentioned points. A lot have to be done including log tracking, access tracking, web site usage tracking. Webmaster tools will help in grater extent about site security.

Happy Hosting!

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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.
6. HexaDR Daily backups retention will be 30 days. ie the daily backup stored on day will be maintained in the backup for the next 30 days.
7. In case of human error and the error is not uncorrectable, the customer request a HexaDR ticket. HexaDR team will restore the backup from HexaDR server to his original Cpanel server.
8. In case of the original cpanel server fails due to hardware failure, the backup will be restored to another HexaDR hosting server.
9. In case of Natural disaster such as earthquake etc, the backup will be restored in a HexaDR hosting server located in another geographical region.
10. The DNS records will be pointed to the new location ie: HexaDR hosting server. The time when the HexaDR restoration initiated is called DR invocation Time.
11. From HexaDR invocation time the hosting account will be hosted in the HexaDR hosting server for 30 days. This 30days period is called HexaDR hosting period.
13. During the HexaDR hosting period, the customer may a) Rebuild his website in his original hosting account b) Choose a suitable hosting plan for his website in Hexahost or any other hosing provider of his choice.
14. Once the HexaDR hosing period is over, his account will be revoked from HexaDR hosting server. But daily backups will be taken from HexaDR storage server.

HexaDR Specifications: :

1) HexaDR is an annual subscription plan. Charges for 1 unit of HexaDR subscription is 10 USD per year.

2) One unit of HexaDR service includes

a) 2GB Storage from HexaDR storage server.
b) Daily backup from HexaDR Storage server with a Daily backup retention of 30 days.
c) HexaDR invocation of upto two times in a year.
d) Hosting account specifications during HexaDR hosting invocation:
3000 MB diskspace
30000 MB of transfer(both download and upload included for 30days)
Unmetered E-mail accounts
Unmetered Addon domains
e) Once HexaDR hosting period is completed the hosting account will be revoked and daily backups will continue till the HexaDR service subscription expires.

3) For all Hexahost Premium hosting customers 1 unit of HexaDR service is free as long as they are Hexahost Premium hosting customers. In case of Change of plan or the customer moved out from Hexahost, his HexaDR account will be removed.

Note :

1) HexaDR service is not a backup/mirror hosting service. Your website in HexaDR will not be live when your current website is active. It is a Disaster recovery service.
2) No illegal content allowed. There is no space for spam, illegal contents, wares, cracks of any kind.
3) Proxy IRC hosting is not allowed in HexaDR.

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