What is a dedicated server?

There are 2 main categories of server based on the accounts it holds. The normal kind is a shared server which hosts many different accounts/sites belongs to different owners. All sites share the server’s resources (more…)

What is CRON job and what can or does it do?

Cron is basically a task scheduler, which runs your selected job at a particular time of day. They are great tools to (more…)

Web Hosting Billing Solutions

A timely and accurate billing solution can enable you to increase the speed, capacity and accuracy of your customer care and billing operations. It is very important to automate and streamline billing processes in order to (more…)

How to understand your website traffic?

Ok, you have launched your online business and also spent money on ads and publicity. Now the question arises as to how effective your marketing has been and whether your site is reaching the right audience. This is where your website statistics tools come in. Nowadays various Web statistics tools can provide you with flood of information. It is up to you to analyze and use them to your advantage. Some common terms associated with Web statistics are:

Hits: Hits refer to the number of times that a page, image, or file on your site is viewed or downloaded by someone.

Visits: It gives you’re the number of each new incoming visitor to the web page who was not on your website during the last 60 to 90 minutes

Uniques: It refers to number of client hosts that come to visit the site and visit at least one page.

Most control panels like cPanel come with inbuilt tools like Awstats, Webalizer which provide you with easy to understand data. Apart from above give data, you can also get information as to from which country is your site most viewed from, the most popular page on your site, bandwidth consumption, and lots more.

If you want to keep your site up in popularity ranks then you definitely need to make use of these statistics about your Website traffic.

Setting up Your Mail Server

Most spammers take advantage of the default address settings of your account whereby the mail will still reach your account even if the address is wrong. This causes large Influx of spams and will take your valuable disk space.

There are 2 options for dealing with this

1. Setting default address as :blackhole: - This will let us first allow the mail to reach your server, accept it, validate it and throw it if it has a non-existent address. The drawback of this is it still consumes your server’s valuable bandwidth and processing time.

2. Setting default address as: fail: - This will stop the mails from entering the server in the first place and send a bounce message back to the sender. This method is more preferable as it saves the server’s resources and thus keeps it performing even under spam attacks.