When you begin to look into Cloud services it can be confusing. Cloud is becoming a key talking point for businesses around the world and it is likely to be the biggest change in business IT systems since the introduction of the desktop computer. The best news yet is that Cloud Computing will save your business money and provide better IT services!
What is Cloud Computing ?
Most businesses will have some form of IT infrastructure onsite to provide applications (such as Sage) or services (such as email) to your employees. Running this infrastructure is very costly especially when in reality it is only a platform to serve the applications and services that are important to your business. Cloud computing is about taking away the costs and responsibilities of housing this platform and just providing you access to the things that actually matter to your business.
In physical terms this means the Cloud provider hosts the hardware and systems required to run the applications and services you require and you pay for access to the applications and services. The Cloud provider incurs the cost of purchasing, running, and maintaining the hardware and houses it in a professional Datacentre.
Cloud Computing can provide access to a single application, an end user desktop, a server, and even a set of hardware resources if you have a more hands on IT team.
What are the benefits ?
• Business focused –Takes the emphasis of IT away from the technical requirements and focuses it on the business needs. • Reduced Costs – Eliminate upfront hardware costs and reduce the running • Quick & Easy to Deploy –Reduce rollout time to minutes instead of months. • Anywhere/Anytime Access –Access your business systems and data from anywhere. • Flexibility & Scalability – Systems can grow and shrink as your business dictates. • Reduced Environmental Impact –Significant reduction in your carbon footprint. • Resilient & Secure – Enterprise class resilience and security
Cloud Computing allows business to focus on what’s important to them. Most business do not care about how powerful the server is, how many gigabytes of storage they need or whether its running Windows 2008 R2 SP1 or not. Business care about their employees having reliable access to the applications and services they need, when the need it. That is what Cloud Computing is about.
To find out how JPStream’s Cloud services can help your business, get in touch today!
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We upgraded our hosting infrastructure with a new operating system called CloudLinux that optimizes your site’s performance.
Today, on a shared hosting server, you are sharing resources with other sites, your digital neighbors so to speak. Yet sometimes, unpredictable issues having nothing to do with your site, can slow server performance or worse - cause a complete outage of the server. This can be the result of bad scripting or a spike in traffic on your neighbors site, that impact your website’s performance
That’s why we updated our servers to CloudLinux. With CloudLinux, we can ensure other sites that may have issues do not affect your site. In short, this upgrade prevents a badly behaving website on a shared server from being able to slow down or take down the entire server.
That’s the heart of the CloudLinux solution and it can deliver “rock solid reliability” with its innovative Lightweight Virtual Environment™ technology. It isolates and limits resources of each site creating separation and prevents other sites from affecting you.
We are pleased to be able to offer you CloudLinux – a new solution that “crash proofs” the server so we can deliver:
Increased server capability without increasing risk of a site of going down
More efficient and stable server that lets you add new functions to your site without worry
Reduced impact of unpredictable events like load spikes that can slow down or take down a server
and this even lets us be greener because we service more customers more efficiently with less hardware
Sign up for our new shared hosting offer! Or to learn more about CloudLinux visit www.cloudlinux.com
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been rolling out CloudLinux on our web hosting, business web hosting and reseller hosting servers. Many servers have now been upgraded and the remaining servers will be upgraded shortly. CloudLinux is a new Operating System designed to improve server performance and reliability.
What is CloudLinux?
CloudLinux is an operating system that uses lightweight virtualization to improve the performance and stability of the server. Using some of the latest technology usually found in cloud environments, it brings some massive benefits to a regular hosting environment. In a shared web hosting environment, one web server is shared between a number of users. This means that all users on the server share access to the CPU/Processor, the Memory and the Hard Disks. In a shared environment, it was previously possible that one user could install a bad script or run some bad software (often unintentionally), make a coding/programming error or be responsible for some other mishap that could potentially severely slow down or even crash the server. This causes pain and downtime for all of the users on the server.
CloudLinux ensures that each tenant/user on the server is given a finite amount of resources that they cannot exceed. We’ve set these resources at approximately 200-300% of the limits mentioned in our AUP to be more than generous. This roughly equates to each user on the server getting 1 full CPU/Processor core and 1GB of RAM. Obviously we’re not allowing you to use all of that permanently (you need a VPS if you need this amount of resources permanently) but these are here to allow you to burst during busy times (peak visitor times, installing/upgrading software, etc).
Note – the above is for web hosting and reseller hosting. Business hosting users get approximately double the above resources as our business hosting plans are designed for more intensive users.
This shows the difference between regular operating systems and CloudLinux
What happens if I exceed these resources?
Very few people exceed the generous resource limits we’ve set. So far fewer than 1% have encountered any problems.
Two things happen if you exceed these resources. The first is you may notice a slow down on your website / hosting account as CloudLinux applies a “soft brake” to your account to prevent it from overloading, slowing down or crashing the server. Once resource utilization reduces, your account will return to normal.
If you massively exceed our resource limits, you will receive a 503 error when trying to access some parts of your website or hosting account. This is CloudLinux taking more severe action to prevent an imminent server crash or overload. If you continually receive 503 errors then you need to evaluate your website / hosting account and see where it can be optimized. A common source of resource abuse is the addon modules often found for the popular open source scripts (WordPress, Joomla, phpBB, Drupal, etc). Try remove some of the unncessary modules and see if things improve. If you are unable to determine the source of the resource abuse, submit a ticket via our helpdesk to our Hosting – Technical Support department and we’ll be happy to assist.
Remind me… what specification servers does JPstream use and how many users per server?
We operate a range of servers. New servers are 8 CPU Xeons with 12-16GB RAM. Some older servers are 4 CPU Xeons with 8GB RAM. All servers run RAID hard drives and are and always have been ‘best in class’ when we have bought them. We don’t skimp on lower quality hardware.
Users per server ranges from 300-500 depending on the server specification (many of our competitors will cram 2000+ accounts).
How can I check and optimize my account/scripts?
We’ll be writing a series of blog and knowledgebase articles on how to optimize and get the most out of your hosting account so stay tuned for more.
DNS is an abbreviated term used for Domain Name System, it is the largest database across the world which holds the registration information about every active domain name over the world wide web. Many webmasters also refer a DNS server as Name Server. The information present within the domain name system includes but isn’t limited to the information related to the web host, the domain registrant, and the active name servers for the domain. JPstream offers a minimum of two name servers, it enables the website to send and receive information to-and-from the web.
The concept behind Name Servers
Thousands of DNS servers are situated at nations across the globe. They all hold some portion of database of the domain name system. For maintaining redundancy and security of this database there are thirteen root DNS servers that hold the complete information of the database on every server.
Two main types of DNS servers primary exist, namely the Primary DNS servers and the Secondary DNS servers. Though any web server can be used as a DNS server similarly any DNS server can be used as a primary or secondary server. The server administrator can opt between the choices of using a server as primary or secondary server. Moreover, it is also allowed to use a single server as a primary server in a zone and as a secondary server in another zone.
What Are Primary DNS Servers?
The primary DNS server carries out the responsibility of reading the information regarding a domain zone from a file which is stored on the web server of a hosting package. It is the responsibility of the primary server to communicate with the secondary DNS server, and this process is called the zone transfer due to the basic fact that the zone data is exchanged between DNS servers. Every domain-name is assigned to the DNS servers for the purpose of achieving redundancy and for simplifying the process of server administration. Incase the primary server holds the zone data about a particular domain name, then that data isn’t required to be replicated as the primary and secondary server share zone data on a continuous basis between each other. In simple terms, when a request is made to the server it passes via. primary DNS server which then allocates functions to the secondary DNS server.
What Are Secondary DNS Servers?
The secondary DNS server is referred as the Slave server. It carries out the task of taking data from the primary DNS server instantly as it is set-up.
A minimum of two authoritative name servers are essential for every DNS domain, so at least one secondary nameserver should be configured. The secondary or slave DNS download or copies information for the domain from the primary server and provides answers to the queries about that domain periodically. A certain time frame is set on how long the secondary nameserver can continue answering the queries when it cannot contact the primary. Despite the fact that a secondary nameserver automatically copies its information from the primary, the DNS does not differentiate between primary and secondary nameservers. More-or-less, they are used equally whenever a domain name lookup is performed. These Secondary servers are equally necessary as the primary DNS servers. Mitigation of the load over the primary DNS server is handled by the Secondary servers as well.
Email Web hosting solutions are designed for every business who do not intend to waste the resources and valuable time to set-up and manage the Business communication infrastructure. Email hosting packages have been designed with a sole intention of helping business cope with the communication requirements. We all are aware about the increasing volume of online threats and attacks, the chances of virus infections, hardware and software issues. Every such issue may hamper your business communication for hours or probably days. To have a secure solution that would eliminate these issues, is the requirement of each business.
It is a wiser decision to outsource the business messaging requirements to a reliable website hosting company. In this article we will try and understand the various aspects of Email Hosting.
Secure Access to the Webmail
Any reputable Japan Web Hosting company that offers Email hosting packages, provide the mail server with an 128 bit encrypted channel. This channel is alive throughout the webmail session. Hence, the data which is sent to server(s) and the data which arrives from the other server(s) is secure from the time a user signs in. This encrypted channel stays active until the user logs-out. It ensures the security of your business communication and avoids any interception of messages and the information.
Secure Access of IMAP and POP Servers
There has been a rapid increase in the demand for email hosting for business communication, mainly due to its feature which allows you securely access the desktop email clients via POP and IMAP. Every email is encrypted, even the username and passwords transmitted to the mailing server are not compromised. Every popular mail clients ie. Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, AppleMail, Outlook Express etc., are supported with the Email hosting packages. No matter how you choose to manage your mails (on/offline), email hosting solution assures reliability, efficiency and security.
Ample Storage Space
When you choose an email hosting plan, as a default feature, you are offered ample storage capacity for every mailbox you create. The basic and the personal packages offer storage space in MB’s whereas with the professional, business and corporate packages, the storage capacity offered is in GB’s. These packages are designed keeping in mind every possible business requirement of electronic mail communication. Users can upgrade the plans at any point of time. The upgrade is hassle free and you can start using the upgraded resources as soon as you place a request.
Spam and Virus Filters
A reliable email hosting solution is the one that filter the suspected traffic and keeps your network secure. There are multiple ways of dealing with spams, but usually, an anti virus scanner is integrated within the host SMTP gateway. Some ways that are pre-dominantly used are blacklisting, grey-listing and white-listing the emails. Once you’ve set these parameters to the email you receive, the suspected emails would be automatically diverted to the quarantine list instead of reaching to the inbox.
Shared Address Book
For any business, the address book is considered to be the most important feature. Every popular email client offer this feature, it is a convenient method for storing the contact details which can be also be easily retrieved whenever required. Users may categories contacts based on Private and Shared address book. The LDAP directory services are usually a default feature of every shared address book.
The three most popular webmail clients that will help making your life easier.
General Features of Webmail
When we are talking about webmail client, it simply refers to an e-mail client, basically which is accessed using an Internet browser, therefore, it can be accessed from any computer having an internet connection, wherever you are. As long as you have Internet access, you always have the opportunity to read your emails. It is believed that the first webmail was disclosed in 1997 by Hotmail.
Squirrel Mail
It is a type of mail client, written in PHP. And it should be considered first and foremost by the fact that it’s free. A complete set of functions: from the list of emails to the address book looks great and easy to use.
You also have great opportunities to setup Squirrel for yourself. You may also choose your thematic design. With the help of different plugins you can extend the functionality, if you feel the requirement. For example, you can add a calendar to empower your address book or add spam filters. It’s a really wonderful webmail client!
Horde Mail
With it you can easily compose letters and manage incoming mail. To do this, there is a great address book, to structure your contacts. If you have an unfinished letter, you can easily keep it in the drafts and then continue it with Horde Mail.
Speaking of the Horde can be a kind of parallel with the widespread Outlook Express. The only difference – is that with Horde you can access your mail wherever you are, you may only have access to the Internet.
RoundCube Mail
RoundCube is a free webmail client and is probably the most common of the three webmail clients. It has got great potential when working with a mailbox, for example, drag & drop, protection of personal information, an integrated address book, as well as multi-level support – all integral elements of this first-class customer.
If you have any questions while working with your mail, RoundCube provides excellent customer support to help you resolve the existing problems. This webmail client provides a high level of performance.
You can enjoy all these three most popular webmail clients and features by choosing even any of the web hosting plans as well. These webmail clients are free and integrated with the cPanel and provides an opportunity to a user to access his/her emails from anywhere in the world.
Almost all the websites on internet are built using the server-side scripting, hence, it is very much predicted for dedicated servers to have some form of database management system, either it can be a database server or a set of database libraries. MySQL is one of the world’s most popular open source Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS). It is a most important part of the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) family. Customers opting for cheap web hosting services, will possibly expect the latest version of MySQL installed on the server. However, if you have your own server, you might want to take a look at the following choices for MySQL database.
MySQL Database Alternatives
MariaDB is a database software created by the MySQL founder, Michael Widenius (often called Monty), by bifurcating the MySQL software after the Oracle acquired Sun. MariaDB is a completely free and open source version which includes some unique features and functionality.
PostgreSQL is one of the rivals of MySQL. It is an object relational database management system (ORDBMS) providing various appealing features and high-level performance.
SQLite is a kind of relational database libraries, which doesn’t need a database server. These libraries are completely portable and simple to use, even in those situations where full database servers are not possible.
Cassandra is an open source Apache project originally designed and developed by Facebook Inc. It is also known as a NoSQL solution, that offers greater scalability and several appealing features that makes it ideal for high traffic and high content websites, which is being used by sites like Digg.
If you search you will find plenty of alternatives to MySQL database with many appealing features and functions. Though MySQL is known as one of the most popular database in the Japanese web hosting market, but it is surely not the only one.
Server Virtualization is a technology used to partitioned a physical dedicated server into small mini-dedicated servers and creates a virtual environment. The machines running in a virtual environment are also known as Virtual Private Servers.
Using the server vitualization technology, infrastructure can be strengthen, optimze utilization, total cost can be reduced and improves the longtivity of a business.
With server virtualization technology, in the virtual environment multiple operating systems and softwares can be used on a single processor based platform. The server resources can be allocated to meet specific business and web application requirements. Today, server virtualization softwares supports a variety of features, which makes the server management easier. It helps in improving security, robustness and ability of server. It also boosts server performance and uptime.
There are a plenty of server virtualization softwares available on the market. Some of them are quite affordable and free and some are bit expensive. In order to decide which server virtualization software meets your requirements, you need to know the types of server virtualization softwares.
Free Virtualization Softwares:
Virtualbox: Its an free open source, easy to use and excellent for testing environments.
KVM: This a linux based virtualization technology has a built-in kernel module, which is supported by most of the Linux distributions.
Xen: It is a hypervisor virtualization software application, which can be used to run long term virtual environment.
OpenVZ: It is also a software virtualization technology, free and open source a competitor of Virtuozzo.
Premium Virtualization Softwares:
Vmware: This is one of the most promising and popular virtualization technology offering both small business and enterprise versions.
Oracle VM: This technology is completely based on Xen.
Microsoft Hyper-V: This is a hardware virtualization technology designed only for Windows.
Parallels Virtuozzo: It is a software virtualization technology designed for virtual private server.
First you need to understand the exact functioning and purpose of each virtualization technology and decide which server virtualization software meets your requirements and opt accordingly.
