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Web Hosting and Domains for Windows
web hosting and domains for windows
what is web hosting and domain names , Linux and windows hosting
iran tour via irtouring offers info’s about Website is actually a collection of computer files including the images, sound files, flash files. These files need to be store in a computer with high speed internet connection and these computers are called the servers. These servers and placed in a good place where there is no dust and temperature are maintained. These places are called datacenter. Many companies host their web servers in datacenter for providing the server space to the people for hosting the web site. These companies are called web hosts or web hosting services providers. They charge monthly or annual or both the fees for providing the space for your site.
Different Level of Web Hosting
There are three level of hosting
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Shared Hosting (Virtual Hosting)
Servers are expensive so hosting service provider shares the sever space to host many sites on the same machine. So the one server servers many web sites. Usually on one server 1,000 web sites can be hosted. This makes web hosting affordable because you pay a portion of the server fee instead of the entire server. Over 95% of websites of the internet are hosted on shared hosting environment.Shared hosting is an economical, flexible Web solution for both individuals and small- to medium-sized businesses looking to establish an online presence through static, personal and “test” Web sites.
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Dedicated Server
If you planning to host big application on the internet in that case you need a full server for running the application. In this case you are using the Dedicated Sever (server dedicated to your web site only). -
Server Co-Location
In some cases you can buy your own sever and setup the applications according to your requirement and place the your server on some ISP with high speed internet connection. This is called Co-Location hosting.
Linux vs. Windows Hosting?
Which is better?
We are often asked which hosting platform one should choose: Linux or Windows. Below, we’ve listed the major differences between the two that you should consider in making your decision. In the process, we have also tried to dispel any common misconceptions regarding these platforms. Generally, we recommend to use Linux, unless they need specific features/applications only available on the Windows platform.
Reliability
The general consensus is that Linux is more reliable and our experience also shows this. We have had servers up for over one year without any downtime. Microsoft’s Windows 2000 is much more stable and reliable than previous versions, but there are still cases where a server will require a reboot to resolve an issue.
Functionality
This is where these two platforms differ the most. There isn’t much that can be achieved using one platform that can’t be done on the other one. The main difference are the underlying technologies. For example, if you need a database driven web site, you can choose either PHP/MySQL combination under Linux or ASP/MS SQL combination under Windows®2000.
Security
Out of the box, neither Linux or Windows is very secure for Internet use. So some modification is required to make it secure.
Price
Linux holds an edge due to the fact that the most of the software we use is open source (free) and that it’s easier to maintain Linux servers than Windows servers for the same level of reliability and performance. On Linux apache web server is nearly bullet proof and it is very stable and gives high performance.
Hosting Choice
When it comes to Web hosting, Linux has, for some time, been widely considered the best OS for Web servers. It’s typically found to be the most reliable, stable and efficient system and, as such, it’s commonly used for the demanding environment of Web and mail servers. If you use PHP, Perl or MySQL, Linux is the way forward. If apps are Microsoft-specific, then Windows is what you need. But the fact that over 75 per cent of all sites are hosted on a Unix platform tells you something.
Speed
There is no difference in terms of speed between the two platforms.
File Types
Almost all the file types are supported on Linux web server. Commonly, the following extensions are supported:
.cgi, .html, .htm, .pl, .php, .shtml, .asp (requires additional plug-in), .xml, and others. Basically it means that you can host web sites that use different types of server side scripts including .cgi, .pl, .php, and .asp (with plug-in).
Easy to move to other Hosts
A web site designed to be hosted on a Linux based web server can be hosted on a Windows web server easily, where as the reverse is not always true. This provides flexibility in changing hosts as required.
Scalability
Usually, a web site starts with a few pages of html and grows over a period of time to suit the customers requirements. It is preferable to design a web site keeping this requirements in mind. A web site designed for compatibility with a Linux/Unix based web server meets the scalability requirement easily without making any site wide design changes .
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DNS pass through help?
A client of mine has DNS running on a Windows Server 2003 install. They have an email server running as well (same box) and were also previously hosting their own website (same box). I had a forward lookup zone setup for “domain.com” and A records for “mail”,”*”,”www”, etc. Everything worked great.
They are now using a free web hosting provider for the website so we’re just handling email internally. I modified the forward lookup zone and removed everything put the “mail.domain.com” A record and the MX record that points to it for email purposes.
Problem: after flushing the dns on both the server and workstation computers, nothing but mail.domain.com can be resolved internally. So my question, should the unhandled records of a dns automatically foward to another DNS server or because I’m handling the domain on that server, do I also have to handle ALL records?
Thanks!
INTERNALLY only you must handle ALL records for a domain, or NONE. The moment any machine sees a DNS server for a DOMAIN it expects ALL information to come from that server. Anything missing from it is treated as a DNS error. It will then just return errors. If you are using external DNS servers you need them to point to your server. Unfortunately you would then need to manually set all internal machines with mail settings pointing at your server, or check the records of the public DNS and add all these to your server DNS, and just change the MX and CNAME (for mail) to point to an internal address. Or subscribe to 2 static IP addresses, in which case your own machines can then rely on external DNS to divert them back to your second public address.
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