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Choosing a right webhosting service provider for your ecommerce website is most challenging job. Webhosting industry is overcrowded industry with few reliable webhost along with worst webhost, thus you have to find perfect webhosting service provider who can fulfill all your hosting needs and is reliable, secure and affordable. For all ecommerce websites security is most important aspect which should be considered before placing order for getting hosting account. Second important feature you should look upon is quality of service & support you would be getting after sales, make sure you go with webhost who is Live 24×7 to provide you excellent hosting support and technical assistance. There are many web hosting service providers who are providing many exciting offers and plans to the users but make sure you first do your homework and research on the Internet about the best and cost-effective ecommerce web hosting service provider or you may get fooled by their sales pitch.
Price of the web hosting services varies according to the quality of service, support and the number of features your webhosting service provide will offer you. As a owner of ecommerce website you should not opt for free hosting service provider as you would be facing hosting issues or they may place advertisement banners on your site in exchange of free hosting, which would affect your business so its always recommended to go with Paid Hosting Services. Free webhosting services are quite risky and are not reliable, you would not be getting security for your hosting account nor professional support. Free hosting can be an option for personal or non commercial websites and should not be used for professional or ecommerce websites.
Once you got your preferred webhost you should try to get Dedicated SSL certificate installed on your ecommerce website, SSL provides security for all business transactions which would be carried from your website thus your clients would feel free for making financial transaction using their credit cards thus will help you for smooth running if your online business. Pricing for SSL differs from provider to provider, you can buy certificate from your hosting service provider or can buy from Certificate provider directly. Your webhost should help you for installing Dedicated SSL for your domain. You should also take care for getting backup of your hosting account as you are running online business website you should give backups much priority, you can always ask your webhosting service provider for getting backups for your account or you can do it yourself using your control panel.

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Sometime you may get error while you are creating new account using your WHM hosting control panel, you may get WHM Error : “You do not have access to create that package (undefined)” In this case you will first have to create a hosting package on your WHM before you create the account. Now you will have to use this package in “ Account creation “ page to complete the new account setup process. This mean every new account you create should be assigned with a hosting package you have created. Thus you can’t setup/create any new account without a pre-defined hosting package, this means that system will not allow you to setup nay new account which is not assigned with any hosting packages you have created.

Ex : If you have created a hosting package named “ Starter 200 “ then you create an account which will use this hosting package. You should assigned some hosting package to any new account you want to create under your WHM hosting account.

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cPanel provides you many useful features using which you can easily manage your hosting account. One of most important feature is diskspace/webspace management using which you can get all details about your account/server diskspace. You have Diskspace Usage Viewer option for the same. Using this tool you can get all details about your diskspace usage, can get exact figure for disk space usage and free space for your hosting account/server. There are several different viewing options you have under this cpanel disk usage viewer feature.
•    Show Parent Directories – This will displays the parent directories as individual items.
•    Show More Directory Depth – You can get directories one level deeper as individual items.
•    Show Less Directory Depth – using this option you can get directory structure as one level higher as individual items.
•    Show Top Level – using this option you can have top level display for your website.
•    Clear File Usage Cache – using this feature you can deletes all file usage information from the cache. You may be using this feature for security feature.
•    Show Small Files – it will displays even small files.
•    Show File Size as bytes/Megabytes – If you want to get displayed file sizes as bytes or megabytes. Then you can choose this option.
You also have reverse option for all above options like, if you choose Show Small Files then you will also have Hide Small Files as a option.

Using Disk Usage Viewer :
You need to click on Disk Usage button once you login to your cpanel server. you will get lsit of all items that have consumed allotted diskspace for your website, in order of largest to smallest. You can click on required button to view the diskspace usage for that particular directory for your website.

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As a dedicated server owner you have ability to reboot/shutdown your server anytime you want, as you have root access to your server so you can reboot your server as per your wish. your webhosting service provider may also help you for the same but if you are planning to reboot your server at some specific time then you should be aware of managing scheduled task, with windows OS you can easily shutdown/restart your server but if you want to restart your server at some specific time then you need to have PsShutdown command line utility installed on your server.

Firstly you will have to download PsShutdown application on your server.
Now you will have to open Windows command prompt via Start > Run > cmd and enter the following command to schedule your reboot properly:

c:> at TIME c: \FolderName\psshutdown.exe –r –f –c –t 10 -accepteula

You have to specify required time frame when you want to reboot your server at “TIME”
i.e. if you wanted to reboot at 4am, you’d enter: c:> at 4:00am …
You will have to replace FolderName with the location of the directory where you have stored PsShutdown
The –codes are as follows :
-s shuts down your Windows server
-r reboots your Windows server
-f forces all applications to exit even if they are running in the background, etc
-c allows your shutdown or reboot to be canceled
-t specifies the countdown in seconds until the machine reboots or shuts down.

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SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer which is responsible for creating a secure, encrypted link between a Web server and a browser; if you are having SSL certificate for your ecommerce site then all financial transaction would be done very securely and will prevent hacking of your credit card details which you may use while online purchasing.
you have 2 different types of SSL certificates… normal SSL and Wildcard SSL certificate. An normal SSL certificate secures a single domain name where as if you have a Wildcard SSL certificate then you can secures multiple sub-domains of a single domain name and thus can save cost.
When using Wildcard SSL and trying to generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for a your Wildcard certificate, you need to add an asterisk (*) to the left of the domain name so that it can used with all sub-domains. (e.g., “*.domainname.com” would work for www.domainname.com or secure.domainname.com or “www*.domainname.com” if you wanted www1.domainname.com or www2.domainname.com). Thus you can secures all sub-domains for your main domain. Thus you can consider a Wildcard SSL Certificate which will secures your main domain as well as all of its sub-domains.
The Wildcard SSL Certificate works very similar to a regular SSL certificate, it also undergoes the same validation processes, and is available as either an SSL or a Deluxe certificate. The major difference between normal and Wildcard SSL Certificate is that it can be used with all sub-domains of your main domain, though Wildcard SSL is more expensive as compare to normal SSL but its always worth for paying extra amount if you are getting freedom for using SSL for your subdomains.

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You have range of Webhosting Control panels available using which you can manage your webhosting account easily, most webhosting service provide will offer you WHM/cPanel as hosting control panel with Linux hosting packages and Plesk with Windows Hosting accounts. WHM/cpanel is most popular and widely used control panel. Using WHM you can manage your linux server and all hosting accounts you have created under it. Using WHM you can also monitor and limit bandwidth/diskspace for each account.

Following are the features which are included with your WHM control panel :
•    Basic Skinable User Interface,
•    Ability to Change Automatic Update Schedule,
•    Change Hostname, Set Server Time,
•    Three Different Reseller Systems,
•    Unix Quota Support,
•    Ability to Change MySQL Root Password,
•    Interactive Knowledge Base,
•    Server Backup and Restore,
•    Service Status Page,
•    Server Info Page,
•    Quick Access to Apache Status,
•    CPU/Memory/MySQL usage history,
•    Ability to limit users disk space,
•    bandwidth,
•    POP accounts,
•    FTP accounts,
•    shell access,
•    SQL databases,
•    lists and subdomains,
•    Account Upgrades/Downgrades,
•    Ability to rearrange accounts (move access between disks),
•    Suspension of Accounts,
•    Email all users,
•    Change users’ passwords,
•    Change ownership of an account (move account between resellers),
•    Demo Mode and Custom Suspension Pages.
Thus WHM is a powerful webhosting control panel using which you can control your domains and your clients, can create email accounts, FTP accounts, hosting accounts etc…..

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cPanel control panel is most popular and is widely used with linux hosting packages due to its simplicity in use and excellent graphical interface, even a newbie can use it easily and can manage his webhosting account without getting into technical stuffs. cPanel hosting plans have Fantastico as an addon tool which is simply great.
Using cPanel control you can have all important statistics such as about your disk space usage, bandwidth usage, allotted bandwidth for your hosting account, you can also get all traffic details for your website, you have Awstats, webalizer tools included within your cPanel control panel. Most host will allow you to host multiple domain under single linux cpanel hosting account thus you can manage such addon domains through your control panel cPanel easily. Thus you can host multiple site under a single hosting account and can save overall hosting cost.

If you want you can easily modify your website content or table structure for your website using the cPanel. You have built in file manager tool included within cPanel control panel which will help you to edit all your webfiles.  Using this excellent hosting control panel even the webuser who are very new to the Internet can design/develop their website easily. All cpanel hosting packages comes with Fantastico Deluxe which is very useful for installing different open source packages/applications included within it. Fantastico is a great utility which comes with cPanel control panel. It gives you the ability to automatically install a variety of open source scripts on your web hosting package. You can easily install different Blogs, Photo Gallery, survey application , CMS like Joombla, mambo, webCalendar etc…

Thus using Fantastico Deluxe application you can add many free scripts open source applications for your hosting account just with few clicks. Economically, the cPanel with Fantastico Deluxe is best combination and is widely used by all webmasters for creating professional websites.

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As a webmaster you should always keep your contact information up-to-date for your cpanel hosting account so that your webhost will find it easy to get in touch with you with all latest information and important notifications for your account. You can easily update your contact information using your cPanel in fairly easy steps. If you wish to update your contact information, you will have to log into your cPanel account using http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel or http://www.yourdomain.com:2082 in the address bar and will have to proceed with providing username and password. Once you login to your cpanel you need to get into “Preferences” menu.  Using “Preferences” menu you can easily modify the look and feel of your cpanel account, can change settings and can also create shortcuts. You will get several options in the “Preferences” menu such as “Getting Started Wizard”, “Video Tutorials”, “Change Password”, “Update Contact Info”, “Change Style”, “Change Language”, and “Shortcuts”. You need to click on the “Update Contact Info” option and will have to continue by entering your email address next to textbox “Contact Email” and just click “Save Email” button. You will get a message stating that “Contact Email has been set to Contact_Email for Domain_Name”. thus you have successfully updated your contact information for your cpanel hosting account.
Its most important what email address you are using as your contact email address, its always better to have your contact email address different from the email account that is hosted on same cpanel account.
For example, if you are hosting the domain www.mydomain.com on this cpanel hosting account you should not use the email mymail@mydomain.com as your contact information rather you should try using a different email address which is not associated with any of the domain in your cPanel account. This will ensure you that you will get notification email from your webhosting service provider even if there is some problem with your cpanel account or webmail account.

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Renting server or co-locating a dedicated server should be done after doing your homework, if you are not much into technical stuffs and don’t know how to manage a dedicated server then its always better to opt for a managed dedicated hosting services, manage hosting services will grant you peace of mind and thus you can concentrate more on your business rather then concentrating on technical stuffs. You may have to pay some extra few bunks to get a managed dedicated server hosting services but it worth paying some extra for getting better hosting support and service. If you opt for manage hosting services its responsibility of your webhost to take care of your server and thus offering you best secure, highly stable server. usually you will get round the clock service and support for your server and you can get in touch with your webhost if you need any kind of technical help. Managed servers are usually secure and are check for security updates by your hosting service provider. You do not have to worry for making it secure and don’t have to waste your time on managing your server, thus if you are busy business owner and don’t want to learn all technical issues and fixes which may get you in your way related to server hosting then managed hosting is for you.
Usually most host will offer you shared hosting plans are managed hosting plans and may charge you extra for managing other higher hosting accounts. It also depends on your budget and website traffic while deciding for getting a dedicated server, its not always necessary to go with a dedicated server if you don’t have heavy traffic and you don’t need admin access for your server. A VPS may be a good and affordable option for your hosting needs. Even on VPS hosting you will get admin access for your server, you can consider VPS as a cheaper option for a dedicated server, make sure you try to get a managed VPS hosting account so as to make your hosting life easy.

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Many a times you may need to provide login page for your website’s control panel from your website itself so that all allowed users having login details can just login to control panel [ cPanel ] and can use it. You can consider such service as remote cpanel login page for all webuser having access to websites control panel. You need to put a small code in your website so that you can offer a login page for all allowed webusers.
For accessing cPanel control panel you can use following url http://www.domainname:2082 and if you have SSL certificate installed on your site you will have to use http://www.domainname:2083 so as to access secure login. You can use following code for inserting login page within your website using which all webusers who are having login details can access control panel.

In the above code, you just need to replace “www.mywebsite.com” with your website’s domain name. If you have installed SSL certificate on your site then you will have to replace “http” with “https” and “2082″ with “2083″. You can use this code in your website wherever you need to have this code within your site.

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