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In line with our sustained efforts in providing our VPS clients with industry leading hardware and software options, we have upgraded the HDDs on our VPS servers from the current Raptor 10K RPM disks to Seagate Cheetah SA-SCSI 15k RPM drives.

SA-SCSI (Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface) is the gold standard in storage solutions for web servers requiring enterprise class robustness with high availability and fault tolerance features, especially where large databases and mission critical applications are involved. To ensure our clients are able to get the performance of a dedicated hardware at a fraction of its cost, we  have gone ahead and upgraded all our VPS clients to the new hardware without any additional expense and they are all delighted with the improved performance which is being delivered to their applications, as a result of this upgrade.

The SCSI HDDs coupled with the RAID hardware makes it a very stable and robust platform for hosting VMs on the Citrix Xen Server platform. Furthermore, we have also upgraded the Xen Server virtualization platform to its latest version (Xen Server ver 5.6) which is more stable and has several bug fixes implemented in its current verion. We have also added more storage space to our VPS hosting plans alongwith a higher monthly bandwidth allocation for no additional charges.

Bottom line is that if you are looking for a VPS or would like to host your application, website or mail server on a dedicated server platform, you will be hard pressed to find an offering which could better ours!

Check out our new Linux VPS and Windows VPS hosting plans and talk to our sales team today!

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In line with our sustained efforts in providing our VPS clients with industry leading hardware and software options, we have upgraded the HDDs on our VPS servers from the current Raptor 10K RPM disks to Seagate Cheetah SA-SCSI 15k RPM drives.

SA-SCSI (Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface) is the gold standard in storage solutions for web servers requiring enterprise class robustness with high availability and fault tolerance features, especially where large databases and mission critical applications are involved. To ensure our clients are able to get the performance of a dedicated hardware at a fraction of its cost, we  have gone ahead and upgraded all our VPS clients to the new hardware without any additional expense and they are all delighted with the improved performance which is being delivered to their applications, as a result of this upgrade.

The SCSI HDDs coupled with the RAID hardware makes it a very stable and robust platform for hosting VMs on the Citrix Xen Server platform. Furthermore, we have also upgraded the Xen Server virtualization platform to its latest version (Xen Server ver 5.6) which is more stable and has several bug fixes implemented in its current verion. We have also added more storage space to our VPS hosting plans alongwith a higher monthly bandwidth allocation for no additional charges.

Bottom line is that if you are looking for a VPS or would like to host your application, website or mail server on a dedicated server platform, you will be hard pressed to find an offering which could better ours!

Check out our new Linux VPS and Windows VPS hosting plans and talk to our sales team today!

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In line with our sustained efforts in providing our VPS clients with industry leading hardware and software options, we have upgraded the HDDs on our VPS servers from the current Raptor 10K RPM disks to Seagate Cheetah SA-SCSI 15k RPM drives.

SA-SCSI (Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface) is the gold standard in storage solutions for web servers requiring enterprise class robustness with high availability and fault tolerance features, especially where large databases and mission critical applications are involved. To ensure our clients are able to get the performance of a dedicated hardware at a fraction of its cost, we  have gone ahead and upgraded all our VPS clients to the new hardware without any additional expense and they are all delighted with the improved performance which is being delivered to their applications, as a result of this upgrade.

The SCSI HDDs coupled with the RAID hardware makes it a very stable and robust platform for hosting VMs on the Citrix Xen Server platform. Furthermore, we have also upgraded the Xen Server virtualization platform to its latest version (Xen Server ver 5.6) which is more stable and has several bug fixes implemented in its current verion. We have also added more storage space to our VPS hosting plans alongwith a higher monthly bandwidth allocation for no additional charges.

Bottom line is that if you are looking for a VPS or would like to host your application, website or mail server on a dedicated server platform, you will be hard pressed to find an offering which could better ours!

Check out our new Linux VPS and Windows VPS hosting plans and talk to our sales team today!

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In line with our sustained efforts in providing our VPS clients with industry leading hardware and software options, we have upgraded the HDDs on our VPS servers from the current Raptor 10K RPM disks to Seagate Cheetah SA-SCSI 15k RPM drives.

SA-SCSI (Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface) is the gold standard in storage solutions for web servers requiring enterprise class robustness with high availability and fault tolerance features, especially where large databases and mission critical applications are involved. To ensure our clients are able to get the performance of a dedicated hardware at a fraction of its cost, we  have gone ahead and upgraded all our VPS clients to the new hardware without any additional expense and they are all delighted with the improved performance which is being delivered to their applications, as a result of this upgrade.

The SCSI HDDs coupled with the RAID hardware makes it a very stable and robust platform for hosting VMs on the Citrix Xen Server platform. Furthermore, we have also upgraded the Xen Server virtualization platform to its latest version (Xen Server ver 5.6) which is more stable and has several bug fixes implemented in its current verion. We have also added more storage space to our VPS hosting plans alongwith a higher monthly bandwidth allocation for no additional charges.

Bottom line is that if you are looking for a VPS or would like to host your application, website or mail server on a dedicated server platform, you will be hard pressed to find an offering which could better ours!

Check out our new Linux VPS and Windows VPS hosting plans and talk to our sales team today!

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Our new website is finally online. After about 3 months of planning and implementation, we have finally been able to put up our revamped site online. Though I might sound superstitious, I consider ourselves fortunate that the site has been launched on the same day when India celebrates  Rakhi or Raksha Bandhan which is an auspicious event for most Indians.

The updated site has had a major overhaul and following are the key changes implemented:

• The backend CMS has been upgraded from Joomla1.x  to Joomla 1.5 which is considered to be the most popular CMS on the planet.
• The site template is built from scratch and cannot be found anywhere else on the web. This gives our site a unique sense of distinction, unlike most other Joomla based websites which use free or commercial templates.
• The site has a clean and uncluttered feel to it and we have placed special emphasis on the typography, navigation system and most importantly, meaningful and relevant content. We have dumped fancy javascripts, over the top graphics and animation which cry out for your attention in favour of a clean, simple and fast loading website.
• New hosting plans (Windows and Linux) and upgraded VPS hosting plans have been launched with this site (more on this in our next post).
• Pages are made SEO friendly to enable deeper indexing by search engines and more visibility for relevant organic searches on the search engines.

This is the fifth major revamp of our website over the past decade and it will be updated on a consistent basis with new services and offerings, so stay tuned with us!

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In sync with the launch of our new website, we have also revamped our shared web hosting plans for both Windows 2008 Enterprise and Linux platforms and the new hosting plans are now available online. The new hosting plans have enhanced web space, bandwidth and email id allocations amongst other updates and the key benefits are given below:

• No limits on mailbox quotas: You can now define your own mailbox capacity on a per mailbox basis and the total storage limit allocated on your domain would apply for all users on your domain.
• No limits on web hosting space: For Linux hosting plans, we have removed web hosting space limits. The total applicable limit on your hosting plan can be used your website, emails or a combination of both, as per your choice.
• Additional mailboxes: Starting with the SOHO plan onwards, we have increased the no. of mailboxes on every hosting plan by as much as 50% than our previous hosting plans for no additional charges.
• Latest OS & Control Panel: Industry leading Plesk 9.5 control panel is available to all our clients. We also host ASP/ASP.net enabled websites on Windows 2008 Enterprise Edition for enhanced performance and IIS 7 Support.
• More server storage space: We have upped storage limits on our hosting plans by nearly 50% across the board. The additional storage space is matched by the upgraded hardware to make your websites and applications run better and faster.

These feature enhancements coupled with our commitment to providing our clients with the most responsive hosting support team in the country clearly makes it a win-win deal for our clients.

Want to learn more? Check out our new Linux and Windows 2008 enterprise hosting plans and signup online.

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It might sometime happen that your ISP assigned Internet IP might be blocked by other servers and you might not be able to access those sites or services from your PC. To know your internet IP address (as opposed to your local LAN IP), www.whatismyipaddress.com, allows you to get your ISP IP without a fuss.

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A ‘catch all’  subdomain allows you to redirect all users who might type in http://subdomain.yourdomain.com  where ’subdomain’ could be any subdomain which you would like to redirect users from.

Why would you need catch all subdomains

Maybe you have a few subdomains but sometimes your visitors are accessing non-existing subdomains. So the most appropriate solution would be to either redirect them to your main website or at least show them a list of available pages.

Step-by-step configuration in Plesk

1. Create a subdomain ‘z-WILDCARD’ in Plesk – under the admin section of the right domain.
   Why do we need this name?  Because this entry should be the last entry in the list of subdomains, otherwise this “trick” will not work.
2. Add special configuration (catchall for all subdomains) to the vhosts.conf file of this subdomain.
   Normally it’s located in /srv/www/vhosts/domain.com/subdomains/z-WILDCARD/conf/vhosts.conf. You have to create it – normally you need the root user to do this. Copy the following content into the file:
   ServerAlias *.domain.com
3. Apply the new configuration – recreate the Apache configuration. You have to run the tool websrvmng which is a Plesk tool that manages and creates the webserver configuration. Execute the following as root user.
   /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -u --vhost-name=domain.com
4. Finally – restart Apache to load the new configuration, also as root.
   service httpd restart

That’s it! Now your users can access non-existing subdomains as e.g. doesnotexists.domain.com and you should see the Plesk page displayed for new pages.

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A ‘catch all’  subdomain allows you to redirect all users who might type in http://subdomain.yourdomain.com  where ’subdomain’ could be any subdomain which you would like to redirect users from.

Why would you need catch all subdomains

Maybe you have a few subdomains but sometimes your visitors are accessing non-existing subdomains. So the most appropriate solution would be to either redirect them to your main website or at least show them a list of available pages.

Step-by-step configuration in Plesk

1. Create a subdomain ‘z-WILDCARD’ in Plesk – under the admin section of the right domain.
   Why do we need this name?  Because this entry should be the last entry in the list of subdomains, otherwise this “trick” will not work.
2. Add special configuration (catchall for all subdomains) to the vhosts.conf file of this subdomain.
   Normally it’s located in /srv/www/vhosts/domain.com/subdomains/z-WILDCARD/conf/vhosts.conf. You have to create it – normally you need the root user to do this. Copy the following content into the file:
   ServerAlias *.domain.com
3. Apply the new configuration – recreate the Apache configuration. You have to run the tool websrvmng which is a Plesk tool that manages and creates the webserver configuration. Execute the following as root user.
   /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -u --vhost-name=domain.com
4. Finally – restart Apache to load the new configuration, also as root.
   service httpd restart

That’s it! Now your users can access non-existing subdomains as e.g. doesnotexists.domain.com and you should see the Plesk page displayed for new pages.

Note: There is a rating embedded within this post, please visit this post to rate it.

A ‘catch all’  subdomain allows you to redirect all users who might type in http://subdomain.yourdomain.com  where ’subdomain’ could be any subdomain which you would like to redirect users from.

Why would you need catch all subdomains

Maybe you have a few subdomains but sometimes your visitors are accessing non-existing subdomains. So the most appropriate solution would be to either redirect them to your main website or at least show them a list of available pages.

Step-by-step configuration in Plesk

1. Create a subdomain ‘z-WILDCARD’ in Plesk – under the admin section of the right domain.
   Why do we need this name?  Because this entry should be the last entry in the list of subdomains, otherwise this “trick” will not work.
2. Add special configuration (catchall for all subdomains) to the vhosts.conf file of this subdomain.
   Normally it’s located in /srv/www/vhosts/domain.com/subdomains/z-WILDCARD/conf/vhosts.conf. You have to create it – normally you need the root user to do this. Copy the following content into the file:
   ServerAlias *.domain.com
3. Apply the new configuration – recreate the Apache configuration. You have to run the tool websrvmng which is a Plesk tool that manages and creates the webserver configuration. Execute the following as root user.
   /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -u --vhost-name=domain.com
4. Finally – restart Apache to load the new configuration, also as root.
   service httpd restart

That’s it! Now your users can access non-existing subdomains as e.g. doesnotexists.domain.com and you should see the Plesk page displayed for new pages.

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