Basic Information On Email Hosting

February 28th, 2011


Email hosting is an extremely precious asset to any organization. Email hosting is a very effective form of web hosting that enables individuals and organizations to have their own customized email accounts. This service gives upscale email services to the individuals and organizations along with customized systems so that large number of email accounts can be hosted. Email hosting also means more advanced email account features including global searching and data processing.

Today every organization is operating in a highly competitive environment therefore it has become very crucial to level up against its competitors; and as a result of this fact the span of web hosting services has also increased. One of the most convenient methods to do this is gaining more clients and increasing productivity through email hosting. With such a leverage, the organizations will have much more benefits without spending a huge amount on operating expenses for marketing their services. In previous times, the email hosting services was mainly used by the large scale organizations. However today the horizon of email hosting has increased to a great extent and even the small and medium organizations can derive great benefits out of it. More info

The web hosting company that offers you the email hosting services will also offer a lot of benefits, extra tools and features like mobile email service, because there are several email hosting services that are provided with email hosting and that can be used in order to synchronize the email with the mobile device. Therefore it is possible for the staff and clients to access their messages and utilize the extra services of email hosting like schedule tasks, contact list management, manage calendar etc. and this can be done anywhere anytime irrespective of whether you are in office or not. Moreover through email hosting, you will have professional email ids that will give a professional look to your business emails.

An Insight On The Technologies Offered With VPS Hosting

February 28th, 2011

VPS hosting is one of the most efficient and cost effective way of hosting. All the websites hosted on a private server are properly partitioned so that they can carry out their hosting activities without any hindrances. Each virtual server has the capacity of running its own operating system and it is also possible to reboot each server independently. In terms of technologies offered, VPS hosting falls between shared hosting and dedicated hosting. It gives complete independence from other customers sharing the virtual private server at a lower price than that of a physical dedicated server. The technologies offered by VPS hosting make it one of the most preferred choices of the website owners. Here’s an insight on the benefits of the technologies offered with VPS hosting.

You can get a cPanel WHM Control Panel with VPS hosting; this is an extremely comprehensive server management tool. cPanel WHM will enable you to do anything from managing bandwidth to managing the disk space of your account, you can also setup MySQL databases, emails and instal security software applications. cPanel contains complete server administration interface therefore you can easily customize your private server according to your needs. With a virtual private server, the user can host unlimited private domains per server. It is also possible to automatically update your server. Fantastico is another major attraction of VPS hosting. It is a leading auto-installer software application that has become very famous in the web hosting industry. Fantastico works in integration with cPanel in order to provide you the capacity to install multiple instances of any of the scripts. With Fantastico, it becomes possible to perform one-Click install of Blogs, galleries, forums, CMS, wikis and much more. A user can also manage and upgrade forums, blogs, galleries and much more within a short span of time. More info

 

Along with the above mentioned technologies, you also get Server Guard security and optimization suite so that you have a better security and the uptime of your virtual private server is monitored. With the above mentioned technologies offered, VPS hosting is definitely something to look forward for in order to get best results with your hosting activities.

Situations When Shared Hosting Is The Best Option

February 28th, 2011

Shared hosting is ht most affordable and efficient form of hosting since it hosts several websites on one server. Along with knowing the framework of shared hosting, it is also important to know when it can be the best web hosting option for you. There are various forms of hosting available; however it is important to make the right investment for your hosting activities. Here is an insight on when shared hosting be beneficial for you.

Blogging

If your online marketing efforts are more concentrated on blogging then you don’t need to have a dedicated hosting plan for this. The server resources required to create and manage the blogs are less and therefore a shared hosting plan is the best option for you. However, if you would like to create dozens of blogs within the same hosting account then you should get a dedicated hosting plan.

 

Portfolio website

If you have a portfolio website, it may not contain a lot of pages, therefor it can be hosted on a shared hosting plan. You will surely save a lot of money by opting for shared hosting  the requirements of your portfolio website will surely be taken care of in the best possible way through shared hosting.

Beginners

If you have just started your internet career, even then a shared hosting plan is the best option for you. This is a good option rather than making making an unnecessary investment in a web hosting plan that is excessive and and complicated. Most of the beginners start out with a shared hosting plan and after the requirement of a larger plan, they move to some other plan.

 

If you are any of the situation mentioned above, then you must invest in a shared hosting plan; this step will ensure that you are only spending for the resources that you actually need. More info

 

The Framework Of A Cloud Server

February 22nd, 2011

You might have heard a lot about the advantages of hosting a website with cloud server hosting. If you are availing of cloud server hosting facilities for the first time, it is important for you to understand the complete framework of cloud server hosting. The cloud hosting environment is based on a cluster of many servers and there is always one server available in order to balance the load on this server and also for the purpose of replacing a clashed server. The hosting activities are spread across the complete cloud and each cloud server performs a single task; this goes on to say that one cloud hosting account will never be dependent on an individual server in the cloud server hosting environment.

The best feature of a cloud server is that you only have to pay for the resources that you have actually used, there is no need to pay for all the resources available on all the servers. Moreover as there are many servers in a cluster, there is no question of downtime or crashing of the server; this is a rare phenomena as compared to the other forms of internet hosting services. The load is equally balanced between all the servers and this makes the functionality much more efficient than the others forms of hosting. You have the opportunities to scale up your hosting activities and add a server whenever required. This is a very beneficial aspect from business point of view and also helps in terms of getting a competitive edge. There is also a range of smart software systems used in a cloud server; therefore when there is a competition between the resources within the cloud, the cloud can get more power and capacity from other clouds present in the same network of servers. More info

The backup system provided for the cloud servers is also very efficient. This backup system ensure that there is always a copy of the stored items that can be recovered in the event that a server crashes or in case of failure of a disk within the clouds. If you have been thinking about getting into cloud server hosting, then you can trust this amazing framework to cater to your requirements in the best possible way.

Wealth Creation With Reseller Hosting

February 22nd, 2011

Web hosting can indeed prove to be very profitable for the people who aspire to start their own business. For starting a reseller hosting business, all you have to do is provide complete hosting facilities to the website owners. What really happens in reseller hosting is that you buy space from a web hosting company and then you start distributing this space to the other website owners. In this way you start earning as soon as the server space is allocated to the website owners. In reseller hosting you offer your hosting services by leasing space and time from another web host server rather than having your own server. In this way you get access to all readily available resources. Sometimes the services offered by the web hosts are so good and efficient that the end customers don’t have an idea whether they are dealing with resellers or the web host themselves. The resellers also have the right to choose their servers, therefore they are able to provide the customers with prompt and good services.

Reseller business can prove to be a profitable venture for you once you understand the complete mechanism of reseller hosting and the actual profit margins involved. With reseller hosting you can buy around 1000 MB space from the web hosting company at am approximate cost of $25 per month. You can redistribute this 100 MB space to the other website owners who need server space for uploading their websites. Suppose you give around 25 MB space for about $5 per month you can earn a monthly income of around $200 if you sell 40 hosting packages. Some hosts will also allow you to oversell the space you have bought and they wont charge you for this space unless the total usage of your account exceeds 1000MB. More info

This is surely a very profitable way of starting your own business and increasing the profit margins. If you have been thinking about getting into reseller hosting and if you are looking out for a good web hosting company then you must consider the reseller hosting services offered by Web Hosting UK. Web Hosting UK offers cPanel and Windows reseller hosting services and you can be rest assured about the technical support provided.

Load Balanced Dedicated Server

July 29th, 2008

Load Balancing Service

If you are entertaining the idea of distributing your site load across multiple servers or would like to be able to do server maintenance transparently to the end users MMKhosting can help. We have put together the network architecture you need to distribute your load, lower latency, and reduce downtime to the end users.

Our load-balancing system has been built flexible enough to meet almost any load balancing needs. We can distribute the load to your servers according to your needs and monitor your services to provide hands-off failover in the event of a singe server outage.

The active Load-Balancer has a virtual IP address that is made known to the world via DNS for your domain. When requests come to this IP the Load Balancer passes the connections out according to its configuration to the servers. There are many algorithms that can be used and we can customize the configuration to meet your needs.

What is load balancing?
Any method of directing traffic across more then one server to reduce latency. This can be done as a hardware or software process.

What are the common uses of load balancing?
Most people use load balancing to help revive servers that are under heavy use. This coupled with the ability of removing a server from a pool of load balanced servers for maintenance gives administrators greater flexibility and reduce down time of overall applications and services.

What can be done with databases?
Most web applications today are becoming more dynamic in nature and are using some sort of database as a backend to store and retrieve information. The way to handle this is by making database servers very powerful clustered environments that sit behind the load balanced servers.  This keeps databases consistent and allows servers to be configured for the database serving function while keeping databases consistent.

What are the differences between load balancing and failover?
Load balancing is a method of distributing load across multiple physical servers while failover addresses where load should be directed during a server or service failure. The configuration options of the two are very extensive and can be tailored to fit the need at hand.

What is the difference between load balancing at one site and load balancing across geographical regions?
Some companies want further load balancing and failover options and do this by placing pools of servers in different geographical locations. Imagine the one being located in London, UK and the other in Durham, UK. This redundancy is essential if service need to be made available during a major crisis. This configuration can become very advanced depending on the various characteristics of the services in each region so further consulting would be required on a case-by-case basis. Common issues would be data replication and custom DNS configuration and service monitoring.

Maximize Performance:
Load balancing maximizes hardware performance by directing traffic to the most available server. In other words, it makes decisions based on current load, rather than a pre-determined alternating schedule.

Distribute Traffic Evenly:
Our local distributed load balancing solutions distribute traffic evenly, skipping errant servers and providing an additional level of fault tolerance to enhance performance and reliability. This service allows easy scalability and is ideal for any website or server farm needing maximum uptime.

Failover or Stand By:
The failover solution allows an additional server to be put in place and direct all web traffic to it in the event of a primary failure. This will maximize your uptime if you experience hardware or software failure on your primary server.

Why choose MMKhosting Dedicated Server Hosting Services

July 29th, 2008

What products and services does MMKhosting offer?
MMKhosting was formed by a team of innovative computer professionals with experience in telecommunications, UNIX systems, NT servers, network integration, programming, and hardware technology. As an established provider of Internet services, MMKhosting offers custom Linux/Windows dedicated servers, Apache Web Servers, SQL Servers, Load Balanced Servers, Mirrored Servers, Custom branded dedicated servers for lease. Our primary goal is to allow your business to work more efficiently more effectively more intelligently in today’s networked marketplace.

What sets MMKhosting apart from its competitors?
MMKhosting offers an array of products and services that meet or exceed those offered by even our largest competitors. But there are two areas where MMKhosting clearly separates itself from the pack: flexibility and value. We at MMKhosting take great pride in our commitment to providing our clients with systems and services designed to meet their business needs, not ours. We take our role as business process evaluators very seriously.  If a technology solution does not fit your business model or does not satisfy all of your specific business needs then you have sold yourself, and your business, short. This is precisely why we provide the industrys first tool to help you customize your server to meet your business’ specific needs. Don’t waste days of your time waiting for a quote on a dedicated server that only partially meets your needs - custom build your dedicated server in real-time with MMKhosting. If there are options or features that you need but are not listed in the tool, contact our sales staff to discuss your needs. MMKhosting strives to accommodate special requests.

It is this type of thinking that helped establish MMKhosting as a leading system-outsourcing solution provider. In today’s fast-paced business world it is not uncommon to find small and midsize businesses that have fallen prey to the glitz and glamour of information technology. Bells and whistles are great, but only if they accomplish the goals set out in your technology plan.

MMKhosting can also help you sort the hype from the facts. MMKhosting’s extensive experience in serving the needs of its customers allows us to help customers find the ideal solution to their needs. These services combined with our innovative, value-based solutions are quickly making MMKhosting one of the most trusted names in the industry.

How does MMKhosting service its customers’ needs?
Our service philosophy centers on one thing: personal attention. As a client of MMKhosting, you are given a single point of contact within our organization. This means that no matter what type of problem you might be having, your dedicated account representative will make sure it is resolved quickly and efficiently. This allows you to avoid the frustration that often accompanies dealing with multiple people within an organization, none of whom know who you are or what your needs are. This also provides you (and us) with a single point of accountability when your needs are not met.

We believe that putting a face and name behind our service helps put the MMKhosting signature on all our work. We put our reputation on the line every time we deal with each and every one of our clients and take pride in everything we do. In addition, our staff keeps detailed service records for all clients including all problems reported and services performed so that we can more effectively serve our clients if other problems should arise in the future.

Dedicated Server FAQs

July 29th, 2008

Q. What is MMKhosting and what does it offer?
Ans: The MMKhosting offers a full suite of Internet services with remote administration capabilities, prepackaged in a single rack-unit height. Included are Linux, Apache, Sendmail, Bind, Perl, and many other applications. The MMKhosting is perfect for hosting many virtual websites.

Q. What’s new in MMKhosting?
Ans: The MMKhosting expands the web server appliance product line by providing a larger, more powerful and broader availability of partner applications. The array of solutions available for the MMKhosting will make it an ideal appliance platform for high-traffic Web portals, e-commerce, and application hosting.

Q. What third party applications are available for the MMKhosting?
Ans: The array of solutions available for the MMKhosting make it an ideal appliance platform for high-traffic Web portals, e-commerce, and application hosting. MMKhosting customers and developers can build on leading edge Web and Internet technologies from industry leaders including Intershop, Oracle, OpenMarket, Miva, RSA, Sane Solutions, CyberCash, Signio, and Real Networks.

Q. What MMKhosting configurations are available?
Ans: You can custom configure your MMKhosting dedicated server in any configuration.

Q. How can I get a feel for the ease of use of the product?
Ans: Please click here to see sample screenshots of the convenient GUI interface the dedicated server offers.

Q. What Internet services does MMKhosting provide?
Ans: MMKhosting comes pre-configured with Apache Web server, ProFTPd FTP server, Sendmail Email services, DNS, Front Page 2000 server extensions, 56-bit SSL, and Bandwidth Management service.

Q. Would it be cheaper to build my own box?
Ans: No. You will find that the price of the build your own box is very comparable our dedicated web servers. Also, the MMKhosting comes pre-configured with all the Internet service software wrapped in a very easy to use browser based interface that takes the hassles out of adding and configuring the software. Moreover, we provide ongoing support and continuous product enhancements.

Q. Are NT, NetWare, Macintosh or UNIX licenses needed to use MMKhosting?
Ans: No, there is no additional software license required to run or use the MMKhosting.

Q. Is MMKhosting Year 2000 compatible?
Ans: Yes

Q. Is the CPU upgradeable?
Ans:
Yes

Q. What Network Protocols Does the MMKhosting support?
Ans: TCP/IP.

Q. What network connections does MMKhosting support?
Ans: Dual 10/100 Base-T auto-sensing Ethernet Ports

Q. How can I back up my MMKhosting?
Ans: In addition to the standard web-based backup support, we offer a RAID1 backup solution that allows for hard disk mirroring. This means that not only is there an identical copy of the data from the first disk on a second hard disk, but if a drive failure occurs, the second redundant drive takes over immediately with no downtime.

Semi-Dedicated Server

July 26th, 2008

Semi-Dedicated Hosting

Need more resources but don’t want to maintain your own server?

Our semi-dedicated accounts are the natural step between shared accounts and having your own dedicated server. Semi-Dedicated Hosting is basically dedicated hosting, except the server is shared between a very limited number of users. We maintain the accounts just as we do on our normal shared accounts but you will have many more resources available to you.

We restrict the accounts for the semi-dedicated servers to not more than 10-20 per machine. We average 12 per server to allow for growth and massive amounts of excess resources. Each server is examined individually to determine the acceptable amount of accounts to place per machine based on current and expected usage of accounts already on each server.

All semi-dedicated servers are setup on custom built dedicated servers and ordered when you place your order. Your server will be setup on our fast reliable network with the most powerful server software available.

Semi-Dedicated Server Hosting Features:

- Dedicated resources
- Privacy and Isolation
- Guaranteed RAM
- SSH/RDP access
- Host Unlimited Domains
- Unlimited Email hosting features
- Unlimited MySQL MSSQL Databases
- PHP, ASP, ASP.NET
- MS Access, ODBC
- Relaible Servers

Semi Dedicated Hosting is the perfect intermediate step between migrating from virtual to Dedicated Server. By going with a semi-dedicated server they will be on a machine where they have access to a large portion of the resources, allowing them to run more traffic intensive websites as well as more complex scripts and software.

Semi-Dedicated Server would give you more reliability and room to expand.

Dedicated Server Features

July 26th, 2008

MMKhosting offers the highest quality in web hosting to companies world wide. Get your site placed on our fast and reliable servers with 24/7 monitoring. All sites are setup within 24 hours or the first month is free.

Dedicated Web Servers:

Whether you need a top of line server, web server, load balance server, mirrored server, windows server, linux server or if you’re just starting out, we can configure a server for you today. Or you can choose from one of our pre-configured servers starting as low as £79 per mo.

Our servers are equipped with:
- Dual Core and Dual Quad Core Processors (Intel Xeon)
- Abundent high quality DDR RAM
- Linux CentOS
- Linux Fedora Core
- Linux Debian
- RHEL
- Windows 2003 Standard
- Windows 2003 Enterprise
- Windows Server 2008
- Cpanel and Plesk control panel

Semi-Dedicated Servers:

Need more resources but don’t want to maintain your own server?

Our semi-dedicated server is the best option for you. You will get dedicated amount of resources, Guaranteed RAM, full root SSH or administrative RDP access to the server.

Web Commerce

All customers can take advantage of the simplicity our shopping cart and SSL solutions provided. Even get your own merchant account with no signup fees. Just one of many free features from MMKhosting.

Reseller Accounts

Easily provide web hosting services under your own brand name with our turn-key solutions. Be your own web provider with discounts starting at
50% regular prices.

Domain Registration

Get established on the web today with your own domain name. You can purchase domains for as low as £7 per year.

Affiliates

Earn money just for being a client by referring a friend or simply by driving referrals to us from your own site.