Price increase announcement for .com and .net domains

Verisign, the company responsible for maintaining registry for .COM, .NET domain, will be once again raising prices from $7.52 to $8.03. This change will apply on both, new and renewal of a registration every year. This upcoming rise in .COM price is going to make an overall 31% or $1.86 rise, in the past four years.

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What is VPS?

VPS is the term which is used to abbreviate Virtual Private Server. This is actually a method which is commonly used in server partitioning. A physical server is partitioned through this method into several servers (as per demand). Every virtually partitioned server has the ability of running (same like the physical server) on its own dedicated terminal.

There can be a full-fledged operating system on each of this virtually created server and you may even reboot each server separately or independently. Read the rest of this entry »

How to Keep WordPress Secure

1 – How to Secure WordPress – WordPress Security

Well, you will have detailed information about how to secure WordPress, after reading through this article. You will definitely be able to make your WordPress website or blog nearly impossible to be hacked. The hackers will find it a hard target to get control of the back-end of your website or blog.

A true hacker, that is a master of 01000100 tricks, still has abilities to get control of your website. However, most of the script kiddies can be kept away from your perimeter by following this guide that can ultimately minimize the chances of suffering from any hacking attack. Well, I don’t claim to be a guru but have plenty of experience in this field that has been learned though seeing my websites, which have been playgrounds for: Read the rest of this entry »

All google pagerank datacenters / servers are down

While i am writing this post, all google pagerank datacenters/ servers are down. All pages are showing “not ranked” at the moment.

google pagerank datacenters

google pagerank datacenters

 

Wateen Drama

 

ISP’s are back bone of the web hosting industry because they provide the High volume of bandwidth and IP’s bundle to all IT fields. In Pakistan there are many ISP’s are working like, PTCL, World Call, Wateen and etc.  All the ISP’s are supposed to give the best service to their clients.

CreativeON is the 1st choice in Pakistan for Web Hosting and it’s working from last 10 years. It has best quality Name in hosting industry as well. In 2006-2007 when the entire ISP’s (all over the Word) occupies the port 25 (By default port for SMTP) and at that time Creativeon enabled the alternate SMTP port 587 for our clients so that they can send an Email using our servers. It was the best solution for our clients and they are very happy with us.

In the start of August, 2011 Wateen occupied almost all ports and after that thousands of hosting clients are facing problem. The one of the major problem is that they are unable to send emails within same domains. We and other companies complained hundred’s time but as usual not good response from their side. They are not willing to resolve it and the giving pathetic solution to their client that they need to buy a Static IP.

We recommended to all our clients if the Emails are priority of your business than you must need to leave Wateen and go to any other internet solution.

.Pk Domain

Giving your identity to which land you belong seems vital when you do a local business because it attracts more customers to your product you offer for selling. To do this, a website is needed and when you decide to launch the website for your business’ display, it is much necessary to have a domain name which represents your business. The prime most important thing is to have the URL with your country’s extension to show where you base and your business originates.

Local business owners have to opt for ‘.pk domain’ since they are doing business in Pakistan because this way your business gets listed in Pakistani directories over the search engines and the local customers can easily find you and ultimately giving you the required business.

There are endless amount of good and short domain names available for your .pk domain registration purpose. Even the brand-able names are too available in abundance.

There is hardly any price difference between other extensions (such as .com, .org, .edu, etc) and .pk domain extension. The difference between the .pk domains and .com is Rs. 230 a year.

.pk domains help fully to get highest rankings for local business listings in all search engines.

creativeON is offering .pk domains at much economical prices and thoroughly supports the clients in registration and other customer and technical supports matters.

Myhosting.com launches ‘Website Restore’ service

The leading and prominent worldwide provider of web hosting, hosted exchange e-mail, VPS hosting and cloud services on economical rates, Myhosting.com has launched the new service called ‘Website Restore’ for the customers of Business Web Hosting.

This is undoubtedly a great step and a true add-on service for the clients of Myhosting.com. It is obvious in today’s scenario that a wrong click may harm the website and might also destroy countless hours of work unless you do not have a secured and reliable website restore is there with you.

After this mega and beneficial launch of the website restore service, the webmasters across the world are laced with the power to turn back time and relapse to a secure restore point with this latest launch by myhosting.com.

This ‘Web Restore’ service is readily available to all those clients who have shared web hosting accounts running on Windows 2008 or Linux plus the associated MySQL, Microsoft SQL or PostgreSQL Databases. The backup data gets stored on a secondary server.

The website restore feature is quite simple and user-friendly with simple interface and functionality that appears to be much familiar to the users of Windows System Restore or Mac Time Machine.

This features gets the users create a full website snapshot or restore point. By using this service, the errors or problems like corrupt tables, lost files and database errors are now the things of the past.

Citrix acquires cloud.com for $200 million

The latest reports from the technology world say that Citrix, the coveted Cloud technology provider, has acquired the open source cloud developer ‘Cloud.com’.

The announcement of the acquisition was made by the company earlier today mentioning that the company has acquired the open source could software developer Cloud.com. Although the terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed by the company, but it got confirmed that cloud.com was acquired by Citrix.

The selling price of cloud.com on which Citrix bought it is more than $200 million.

A week back, cloud.com had made the announcement of the new vice president Christian Reilly and after one week, the enterprise was sold to Citrix.

Cloud.com is widely famous for its cloudstack product line which helps service providers install and manage simple, economical cloud services.

After the acquisition, Citrix announced that this acquiring would further establish Citrix as a leader in infrastructure for the cloud provider market.

Ensim Corporataion launches cloud manager platform

Ensim Corporataion, the cloud management software firm has launched the cloud manager platform. Reportedly IT software developer Ensim Corporation made the announcement about its release of Ensim Unify Cloud Manager on Monday.

The reports suggest that Ensim Unify Cloud Manager is a platform which manages the cloud services.

The press release issued by the company says that the software lets the service providers manage, create, activate, configure and administer the cloud services. The cloud manager is laced with the astonishing features such as multi-tenant enablement, automated provisioning, privilege management, and delegated administration.

With the launch of this software, it is said that the system administrators would ne be feeling at ease to enhance the service levels and operational efficiencies by automating repetitive tasks.

CEO of Ensim, David Wippich said in a statement, “In addition to server virtualization, private, public, and hybrid environments must be supported by service providers to remain competitive. With many components, tools, and variations available today, service providers need a single platform that enables them to offer a wide variety of industry leading products and services from vendors such as VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, and others. Ensim’s comprehensive suite of cloud management solutions allows integration of service provider and enterprise-scale management tools, via a centralized, role-based, easy to use, web management interface.”

ViaWest web hosting to launch new data center in Richmond

The reports say that the coveted web hosting company ViaWest has made the announcement earlier today that it would be holding its grand launch of its new data center ‘Synergy Park’ in Richardson, Texas on July 19th this year.

The decision of launching the new data center in Richardson came up after the company held a mammoth opening ceremony of its newest Portland data center. After the addition of the upcoming data center of Richmond, ViaWest web hosting company now owns and operates 22 data centers which pushes the company to further heights of success.

The reports express that the facilities include 500,000 square feet of raised floor space – 110,000 of which lives in the area of Dallas.

The latest data center ‘Synergy Park’ consists of 85,000 square feet of first class space plus the high density power configurations, disaster recovery office space and 24-hour on-site support. In addition to all this, this data center also has the access to the top notch network providers like AT&T and Savvis.

Synergy Park data center would be offering the endless services including the ones like cloud web hosting solution, colocation, complex hosting, and even managed services.