Remote Control to your Web Server

If you have bought a dedicated server hosting, an unmanaged service, you might need to remote access your server often.

You can use Remote Desktop to remotely control your server. Now you have another choice. The other day, I stumbled accross a remote computer control called LogMeIn

LogMeIn has variety version, they do provide free service as well as paid service. Of course, paid service has more feature, but for me, free service is more than enough now.

Why LogMeIn? Yeah, you may ask this question, first and foremost, LogMeIn is FREE! wahahahahaha. On top of this, LogMeIn is web-based application, and you do not have to install except some plugin, in order to access a computer. Morover it performs ultra-fast Remote Control with patent-pending, point-to-point technology. Thus you can remote your computer in Japan if you have a PC in Malaysia, this is most suitable for those who need to go outstation frequently!




System Requirements

For the remote computers that you will support:

Windows Vista, XP & Server 2003 (all including 64-bit); Windows 98, ME & 2000
Broadband connectivity to the Internet (i.e., T1, cable modem, ISDN, or DSL) For the local computers you will use to support remote PCs:
Windows Vista, XP or Server 2003 (all including 64-bit); Windows 2000
Internet Explorer or Firefox
Broadband connectivity to the Internet (i.e., T1, cable modem, ISDN, or DSL)

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Web Technologies, Scripting

Well well, i think most of you, have ever heard about Php, ASP, ASP.Net, JSP, CGI bla bla bla etc.

They are called server-side scripting. So you may ask, what is server-side scripting?
Ok, when you type http://webchong.blogspot.com/ in the browser, you are actually requesting html page from server, and the server returns the file upon your request to the browser.

But if the file contains a server-side script, the script inside the HTML file is dynamically generated by the server before the file is returned to the browser as plain HTML.

ASP and ASP.Net was developed by Microsoft. ASP.Net has come to version 2.0, and ASP classic final version is 3.0.

JSP is yet another server-side scripting developed by Sun. With JSP you can create dynamic web pages by putting Java code inside your HTML pages.

Window Hosting or Linux Hosting?

There are several types of operating system provided by most of the web hosting companies. Mainly they are Window Hosting and Linux Hosting.


The Window Hosting means hosting of web services that runs on the Windows operating system, whereas Linux Hosting means hosting of web services that runs on the Linux operating system.

If you want to host your ASP.Net or ASP files, then you definitely need Window Hosting instead of Linux Hosting. Today, most of the Window Hosting is referring to Window Server 2003 as operating system in the server.

Well, if you want to save some cost, you can go for PHP with MySQL, and you can choose either Window Hosting or Linux Hosting.

Both of these operating systems provide the utmost in stability, security and are ideal for server use in hosting.

Why is there a difference in pricing between Windows Hosting and Linux Hosting? The reason is Window requires licensing fees. Linux is open source software which is maintained by individuals who are not getting paid for their contributions. The developers at Microsoft are getting paid. And as such to run the Windows software requires fees being paid to them. Therefore the reason for the difference in pricing.

In term of reliability, actually it really does not matter whether you choose the Windows 2003 operating system to host your web sites or a Linux based solution.

In the past people used to use Linux because of its increased reliability over Windows. But since the Windows 2003 release of their server software Microsoft has definitely closed the gap in this area.

Snail mail or Email?

Well well, if most of your hosting provider does provides proper Email Accounts and Email Services.

Normally,hosting solutions includes email accounts for each person in your company.

Normally the email format is as below:

E.g. abc@companyname.com

I believe most of you have come across POP, IMAP and SMTP? So what are they actually?

I will explain all of them next. To be continued......

Ferrari speed or turtle speed?

Your host provider should have a much faster connection, although your visitors to your web site will often connect via a modem.

T1 connection was considered a fast connection in the early day but today, connection speeds are much faster.

1 byte = 8 bits (and that's the number of bits used to transport one character). Low speed communication modems can transport from about 14 000 to 56 000 bits per second (14 to 56 kilobytes per second). That is somewhere between 2000 and 7000 characters per second, or about 1 to 5 pages of written text.

One kilobit (Kb) is 1024 bits. One megabit (Mb) is 1024 kilobits. One gigabit (Gb) is 1024 megabits.

Surf some other web sites on their servers, before you sign up a contract with any hosting provider and try to get a good feeling about their network speed. Also compare the other sites against yours, to see if it looks like you have the same needs.

Traffic Volume and Hard-disk Space of your Server

Well well, make sure you get the disk space that is enough to cater your web files, such as .html, as well as pick the traffic volume that you need.

For a small or medium website, 10MB to 100MB is pretty enough for your website. Despite of this, you should take note to those multimedia files such as image files, flash files, your website probably needs those multimedia files, and you would find the size of these files are relatively big.

Make sure that you know your needs before you start looking for your web host.

For traffic volume, a small to medium website will consume between 1GB and 5GB of data transfer a month. The traffic volume can be calculated by multiplying your average page size with the number of expected page views per month.

If your average page size is 50KB and you expect 10,000 page views per month, you will need 0.05MB x 10,000 = 0.5GB.

Larger commercial websites probably consume than 100GB per month.

Therefore, several things need your attention, before you sign with your vendor.

• What are the restrictions on monthly transfer
• Will your site be closed if you exceed the volume
• Will you be billed a fortune if you exceed the volume
• Will my future need be covered
• Is upgrading a simple task

How to find a Good Web Hosting Provider II

Many of you might have across the phrase of "Domain name". But what is that, a domain name?

A domain name is actually a unique name of a website, such as www.sun.com, www.applemalaysia.com.my

Domain has to be registered. A registered domain will be added into a large domain name register, as well as site information, which contains the mapping of IP to a domain name in a DNS(Domain Name Server)

How to find a Good Web Hosting Provider I

I am an anlayst programmer in a Multi-layer network marketing company. My company sells videos on the internet. Our videos are seminar videos, hence the quality of video streaming is paramount, in order to give the best quality of video for our clients, we ought to ensure the quality of video is smooth, therefore the video hosting server is the main aspect.

I would like to share with everyone, who is looking for good video or web hosting server.

For those, who have no idea what web-hosting is, you have come to the right place.

Important aspect, such as whether the hosting provider does provide round the clock technical support. In case, your server is down, action to recover or restore can be taken immediately, to reduce the lost.

Another aspect is, the allowed traffic volume.There are Unlimited and Limited traffic volume to your website. If the your website is going to have high traffic volume, you may consider to choose the unlimited traffic restriction. This is to ensure you can avoid from paying a fortune for unexpected high traffic.

If your website is ASP or ASP.Net technology, make sure, you subscribe a Window-Hosting service instead of Linux-hosting. Operating system is another point should be taken consider, when you want to host dynamic website, such as JSP, Php, ASP or ASP.Net.

USA Web Hosting Hunting

My company has planned to penetrate US market soon. Hence in order to provide the smoothest quality of video streaming, the management has decided to host our product which is video in North America instead of in Singapore.

I was so "fortunate", been assigned to do hunting by my superior. In the beginning, I suppose, it would be a piece of cake for me to buy a hosting service in USA and Canada. I was thinking to accomplish the task in LESS than a fortnight time!!!!

I started the hunting by the way, whereby typing "Web Hosting" in Google.com. The result is amazing, thousand of choices as I expected.

The price of web-hosting is very competitive, other word saying, they are cheaper than the one in Japan or Singapore.

I send "Request of Quotation" emails to at least 15 web hosting providers in US. Haha, now and here the problem arises.

First of all, the time difference, their reply emails can only received on the next day of my email dispatch, this is due to, they do not have 24 hours Sales support, most of them. Even they do, I guess, most probably, they are freaking of my special request.

Until, i stumble accross the web hosting provider from Canada, the sales person, had taken initiative to approach me, provide detail information, promptly reply, etc. I am impressed with their service. 2 thumbs up.

Check the SuperbHosting out, you won't be regret.
Of course, you would have alternate choice at Exabyte for Linux hosting