Server virtualization has ceased to be a trend. It is a reality that knocks companies, bringing numerous benefits to all who seek the resource savings and a more effective IT management. Furthermore, it is a green technology.

To give a broader view of server virtualization, identified a huge list of advantages and a few disadvantages, which can be compensated by using a cloud provider with recognized market action.

Advantages:

1. Facilities to be simplified and space saving.

2. Centralized management.

3. Full compatibility with applications.

4. Greater availability and easier recovery in case of disaster.

5. Facility for running backups.

6. Support and maintenance simplified.

7. Controlled access to sensitive data and intellectual property by keeping them safe inside the data center.

8. Hardware independence.

9. Best use of space: the fewer physical devices installed, the greater the availability of space in racks.

10. The provision of new servers is reduced to a few minutes.

11. Migrating servers to new hardware transparently.

12. Saving electrical energy used by servers.

13. Security – using virtual machines (VM), you can define what is the best environment to run each service with different security requirements, several tools and operating system most suitable for each service. Virtual machines can be isolated and independent of each other, including the host machine. Using a virtual machine for each service, the vulnerability of a service does not affect the other.

14. Reliability and Availability – the failure of a software does not affect the other services.

15. The use of a VM as the development environment allows testing at different OSs, and for providing an isolated environment that prevents faults in the configuration and / or implementation, or even viruses, damaging the machine hardware.

16. The cost reduction is possible using small virtual servers on a more powerful single server.

17. Adapting to different workloads, which can be treated simply. Typically, virtualization software reallocate hardware resources dynamically between a virtual machine and another.

18. Load balancing: the whole virtual machine is encapsulated. Thus, it becomes easy to change the virtual machine platform and increase its performance.

19. Support for legacy applications: when a company decides to migrate to a new operating system, you can keep your old operating system running in a virtual machine, which reduces the cost of migration. It is worth remembering that virtualization can be useful for applications that run on legacy hardware, which is subject to failure and have high maintenance costs. With that hardware virtualization, you can run these applications on newer hardware with lower maintenance costs and higher reliability.

20. Reduction of personnel costs, power and cooling by using less physical equipment.

21. Better utilization of hardware – the hardware sharing by virtual machines is reduced to idle equipment.

22. With virtual machines, you can simulate entire networks, including heterogeneous networks.

23. You can use operating systems that do not have compatibility with the hardware, using the resources of hardware virtualization. This enables testing and even economy with the purchase of hardware.

24. Reduced downtime.

25. Ease of migration environments – prevents reinstallation and reconfiguration of systems to be migrated.

Disadvantages:

1. Management – virtual environments need to be instantiated (create instances on virtual machines), monitored, configured and saved. There are products that provide those solutions, but this is the field in which they are the largest investments in the area of ??virtualization.

2. Difficulty in direct access to hardware, for example, specific cards or USB devices.

3. Performance – currently there are no consolidated methods to measure the performance of virtualized environments. To compensate, we introduce an extra layer of software between the operating system and hardware, VMM or hypervisor, which generates a higher processing cost than would have without virtualization. Another important point to emphasize is that no one knows exactly how many virtual machines can be run per processor, without the loss of quality of service.

4. Great RAM consumption since each virtual machine will occupy a separate area of the same.

5. Great use of disk space, since it takes all the files for each operating system installed on each virtual machine.

As you can conclude, virtualization has more advantages than disadvantages, because it ends up solving and facilitating many operations. But it is necessary to evaluate all aspects involved in virtualization to avoid crises. For example, the vulnerability or burning a physical host will all virtual machines vulnerable or unavailable, requiring disaster recovery plans. Should also analyze whether the virtual machines have the performance needed for critical operations.

ISPs (Internet Service Providers) apply certain limits over the data sent and received (Bandwidth) through internet connections, by users. Such limitations are called ‘Bandwidth Caps’. Bandwidth Caps may vary according to several plans represented by several ISPs.
In some cases people or organizations may also set such limitations over their own internet connection as security or disciplinary measures.

Q. What is a Managed Dedicated Server?

Ans. A Managed Dedicated Server often referred as a Web Server, is a machine, usually leased by a single client without sharing with anyone. All the resources that are associated with the dedicated server are completely devoted to the client and the client has the freedom of using the resources anywhere as per the requirements. A Dedicated Server offers client the root access to the server, so that he can configure the server accordingly and installs the needed software/applications. Also, in managed hosting, a server is completely managed by the Web Hosting India providers itself.

Q. What Benefits/Advantages does a Managed Dedicated Server Offer?

Ans. With a fully managed dedicated servers, client is provided with the root access (i.e. administrator access to the server), where client can have a complete control over his web server and the hosting environment. A Dedicated hosting server is perfect for websites, software’s, or applications that have huge multimedia and databases, high traffic, secure information and requires high-performance, more flexibility, reliability, stability, high-availability and most importantly advanced security to execute the complicated processes efficiently and effectively.

Q. Can I install third party software’s & applications on the dedicated server?

Ans. Yes. As mentioned before, the client is allowed to install any third party software’s and applications as required, however, we do not offer support to the third party applications installed by the client. Clients need to ensure that such third party applications issues are carried out by themselves. But, we do offer support for all server side issues.

Q. Do you offer Fully Managed Dedicated Servers?

Ans. Yes, we do offer Fully Managed Dedicated Server Hosting. All of our dedicated servers are fully managed and are monitored 24×7.

Q. Do your offer Server Management Services with Dedicated Servers?

Ans. Yes. Since, all of our dedicated servers are fully managed, the server management comes included in the package. Our server management responsibilities includes but not limited to the following tasks:

• Free Server Setup
• Installation of Necessary Software’s such as Apache, MySQL, Mail and DNS Server
• 24×7 Routine Server Monitoring
• Server Migration (if necessary)
• Disaster Recovery Planning & Restoration (includes backup of system & files)
• Server Troubleshooting (if necessary)
• Operating System (OS) Maintenance (with latest updates & patches)
• Firewall Configuration (software or hardware if purchased)
• Preventive Measures for DDoS Attacks (using mod_evasive)

Our 24×7 server monitoring ensures that your server is online round the clock and performs according to your expectations. Every dedicated server offered by Host.co.in is completely secured, well-configured and customized for your special business requirements. All the updates to software are performed on a regular basis, ensuring that your server is fully secured and there is zero possibility of security holes.

Q. Do you provide any Offsite Backup Plans for Data Protection?

Ans. Yes, we do offer Offsite Backup Plans based on R1Soft server backup software. The R1soft offers disk-based data protection and recovery for web servers and workstations running Windows or Linux operating systems, in a virtual or physical environment. The data is protected by replicating and synchronizing over the network with end-to-end encryption, storing all the point-in-time snapshots (i.e. recovery images consisting your files and formatting) on a disk-based storage. R1Soft also enables you to recover your data remotely.

Q. Can I upgrade my Managed Dedicated Server in future?

Ans. Definitely! All our server are highly customizable and flexible. You can upgrade it anytime you want.

Q. Where do you locate your Dedicated Servers?

Ans. For our Asia-based clients, physically we locate our servers at India’s Best State-of-the-art Data Center based in Nashik, Maharashtra, whereas for foreign clients servers are physically located at a World-Class Data Center based in Maidenhead, UK.

Q. What network uptime do you offer on Dedicated Servers?

Ans. Normally, we offer 100% power and network uptime guarantee on our Dedicated Servers, however, we can guarantee that the network will be available at least 99.95% always including scheduled maintenance. Our servers are setup on 100 Mbps dedicated network with 2 x 10 Gbps uplinks to the Data Center. Our every server has a 100 Mbps NIC card and are connected to  a 1 Gbps switch.

Q. Which one is better – Linux or Windows platform?

Ans. Linux is an excellent operating system supporting a huge number of applications and programming languages such as PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, and SSH. Speaking about Windows, it is the most friendly and reliable operating system as well as hosting platform best suited for websites based on Microsoft Technologies such as MS Access, ASP, ASP.NET, MS SQL 2005/2008 and many more. If you are new to the hosting world and your purpose is to host emails and small website, we would recommend you to choose a Linux platform.

To know more about benefits and how to choose the platforms, check out the following blog post:

Blog Post: How to Choose a Hosting Platform?

Q. Can Host.co.in migrate my data from the previous web hosting company?

Ans. Yes, we can certainly migrate all of your data including files, databases, images, etc… from your previous web host to our dedicated servers. However, in order to migrate the data from your previous web hosting company, it is necessary that you have cPanel or Plesk control panel or FTP access (i.e. login credentials) with your old web hosting company.

Q. What payment options are accepted at Host.co.in?

Ans. The payment options that are accepted at Host.co.in are: Paypal, Bank Transfer/Cheque, Credit/Debit Card, Cash Payment and Net Banking.

Here are seven services that your web hosting company can offer to add value to your product:

Domain Registration

Although obvious, many companies still do not give prominence to register domains on their websites. Why give your customer the chance to do this somewhere else?

Backup services

Offer a off-site backup (elsewhere) as an additional data service to ensure your client, and the backup already done (if you do).

SEO and Marketing

By offering these services, you have a team of weight to your side. Since this product may acquire a bad reputation for lack of results.

Coupons / Discounts

Although not exactly lucrative, is a customer need. So a client can gift one another with a hosting account.

Affiliates

Why sell your product if someone can do it for you? Paying a commission to sellers, you reward the community to share the “love” for their product.

Web Design

Surely it is a service that adds value over to your host, because it’s your client’s site. It’s one of those things that everyone needs but not everyone can or have time to do.

Other Types Of Hosting Services

Besides all, there are services like VPS hosting, Dedicated Servers, Cloud Hosting, Colocation and etc. Even plans that have fewer resources but that meet some niche, as well as a more complete and with full extra features.

Do you offer any of these or other service?

1. Think Before You Download

When you load the private information to a remote server, do not forget about the risks. Before downloading, think whether you want to store specific information on the cloud. The cloud is great for storing email, photos, and entertainment, but I do not advise to keep it private information such as birth certificates, tax returns and other important documents.

2. Know Your Cloud Hosting Provider, And Its Policies

Before you start to use the service, read the rules of use and privacy policy. Most services are working on hosting providers, so it makes sense to learn more about the policy of the secondary platforms. In politics, the provider must respond to the following questions:

• Who owns the data when they are uploaded to the server?
• Which provider has the right to the data after they are loaded?
• Under whose law is the contract?
• Is there a right to data portability? (How easy to transfer data from one service to another?)
• What happens if you decide to refuse services? Leave if the right provider at the data, and for how long?
• Deactivates a service into your account and you will destroy the data after a certain period of inactivity?
• Can your relatives or designated individuals request access to the data and the action to cancel your account, if you become disabled or cannot have access to the account?
• Does the provider of independent third-party verification of compliance with privacy and security, to ensure that he adheres to his own policies?

3. Keep A Copy

If you choose to upload files to the cloud, always keep a spare copy. Especially for family photos and home videos.

4. Keep It A Secret

It is reasonable to deal with their accounts in the service as well as the mail account. User names and passwords must be kept secret and change them often. Do not share these data with anyone unless absolutely necessary.

Utility computing One of the forms of computer use, it is possible to pool the service provider which is collectively computer resources (CPU, memory, and software), at the request of the user, it provides the amount of resources when you need it. There can also be a business model (cost structure) or the technology behind it.

The public services such as telephone, water, electricity, gas can be used without providing a generator to individual users of electricity, utilities and here refers to the user hardware features of the computer without having to install the equipment and software, usage patterns that could be used across the line is utility computing.

In recent years, various technologies (which adjust dynamic changes of resources that can be grid computing, autonomic computing, cloud hosting solutions, virtualization, provisioning, SOA) has become a keyword of new emphasis.

As the definition of the word ASP provides software services are also included, such as utility computing, often refers to the provision of hardware resources, storage and CPU / memory in general.

Yes Host.co.in provides dedicated IPs with its most of its hosting plans as following.

Linux VPS Hosting
Windows VPS Hosting
VMware Cloud Hosting
Hyper-V Cloud Hosting
Dedicated Server Hosting

The concept that is using computing resources to spread globally on the Internet, and application services that provides information services to the user, and the configuration that can be used with the computer, is cloud computing.

TCP/IP network or the Internet, often cloud is expressed as cloud computing. From here, the environment that can be used without the user being aware of the internal structure and its location of hardware resources which is “somewhere” on the Internet, software resources, data resources, referred to as “cloud computing” to style its use.

In a conventional computer network, the network route simply pass data or messages, it is a subject where individual computers performs information processing. Multiple computers in cloud computing for this grid and virtualization have been put in group of computers that are connected in the network which becomes one huge paradigm.

If only in terms connected to the = Internet “cloud” in an appropriate way, the user get a variety of services that can be used immediately, SaaS – ASP is close to it. However, the era of ASP was processing (data center) for the specified server farm, in the cloud if the data processing is distributed, it is assumed and is considered as the reason for metaphor “cloud” around that it will use this.

Becoming a major trend involving the IT industry as a whole is known as cloud hosting solutions, various proposals have been made from IT vendors. The idea like private cloud has also appeared in internal systems. On the other hand, the original cloud computing can also be referred as public cloud.

There are various advantages of having a Dedicated IP for your web hosting account, described as following.

• As there is a single owner of the Dedicated IP, so the web hosting account is free from any possible blacklisting related issues which are found in shared IPs.
• One can view his website by entering his Dedicated IP address in address bar of browser.
• One can access his accounts through FTP or through web, such requirements arises especially when a domain name is in propagation periods.
• Websites having dedicated IPs responds faster despite heavy traffic loads.
• One can set up SSL protection on a website which has Dedicated IP.

A Dedicated IP means an unique Internet Protocol address which is assigned to a single hosting account solely. Ordinarily multiple web hosting accounts use a single server with single IP address but is not the case if webmaster have dedicated IP to his web hosting account. If a website receiving heavy loads of traffics, is SSL-encrypted and need extreme security measures then Dedicated IP is recommended to such website.

Leeching protection sets maximum number of log-ins which can occur withing a specific time limit (normally 2 hours). If this limit is exceeded then the user is detected as allowing other people to use his log-in credentials and blocked immediately.

Leech Protection is the great feature for cPanel shared hosting consumers, provided in cPanel version 11.30, which allows you to restrict log-ins you want to allow each user within a particular (generally 2 hour) period. Leeching takes place when multiple users try to submit their username and password multiple times, allowing other visitors to use the log-in information.