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cPanel and DirectAdmin Hosting Control Panels Comparison

Posted by Smirnovi4 in Reviews on March 19, 2010

DirectAdmin control panel logocPanel control panel logoWeb hosting control panel is a set of tools and interfaces designated to maintain and monitor a hosting account. On shared and reseller hosting plans such panels are installed and configured by a provider company. Depending on the type of VPS and Dedicated server, control panel software can be either pre-installed or be absent at all. The main advantage of using a control panel is the ability to control your account via a comfortable web based graphical user interface, which, in turn, means that you do not need to possess any knowledge of OS specific console commands to maintain your hosting. Control panels features normally include (but are not limited to):

  • Viewing server logs
  • Monitoring quotas usage (e.g. disc space, bandwidth, mail accounts, ftp accounts etc.)
  • Working with e-mails (creation, modification, termination and checking of e-mail accounts, modification of MX records, autoresponders, forwarders and many more)
  • Managing FTP accounts
  • Managing domains, addon domains, subdomains and parked domains.
  • Managing databases
  • Collecting and viewing web statistics (e.g. visitors, pageviews etc.)
  • Working with files of the hosting account (using a web based file manager)

A fast and feature rich webhosting control panel can significantly increase both productivity and quality of any online business or project. Webmasters obtain impressive management tools for performing most crucial administrative procedures for every day account operations with the help of it. In absence of an efficient hosting control panel every webmaster and user would need an extensive internet and OS administration training in order to effectively use their hosting accounts. There are many control panels these days (you can find a list of 4 famous ones at http://webhostingrating.com/articles/2009/12/4-most-influential-control-panels/ ), but not all of them are as popular and widely used as cPanel and Direct Admin. This is mostly due to the unique set of features and capabilities included in the latter two. Although cPanel has a Windows platform version as of today, both cPanel and DirectAdmin are normally regarded as Unix OS designated. Read the rest of this entry »

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OpenVZ and XEN virtualization technology insight and comparison

Posted by Smirnovi4 in Technology on December 8, 2009

Virtualization is a widely used technology nowadays. A whole set of hosting plans is based on it – the so-called Virtual Private Servers (VPS). They allow steady transition from regular shared to the most powerful dedicated solutions. While big projects may require the power of an independent dedicated server, some personal and small-to-medium businesses may not need such resources at high costs at first. At the same time the needs of  such customers may not be satisfied with what regular shared hosting has to offer due its nature . Unlike shared hosting, V PS allows full isolation from other users on the host server. It provides full control over the account (i.e. root access), remote reboots and system restore.

Nowadays various approaches and implementations of virtualization exist. In this article we will compare two most widely used virtualization engines: OpenVZ and Xen. The main goal of the article is to provide basic concept, and outline the differences and similarities of the two engines.

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