Do you know that you can use ASP.Net 1.1, ASP.Net 2, PHP 4 & PHP 5 on your hosting account?

Yes, you can use ASP.Net 1.1, ASP.Net 2, PHP 4 & PHP 5 simultaneously. They are installed on all Windows servers. So if you have windows hosting account with us, you can now experiment with those 4 versions at the same time

In order to use them, you must first select the version you want in your hosting control panel.

1. Login to control panel and choose Web Options.
2. If you have more than 1 domain then choose which domain you want.
3. Change the version
   

That’s it. You can start playing with all 4 versions, which ever you want

Have you ever seen hosting providers offering unlimited space or unlimited bandwidth in their hosting package? We bet you have seen it. Some hosting providers use those two terms as marketing traps to attract their customers. We use the term “traps” because the term unlimited for space & bandwidth surely don’t exist.

How do we prove it?
Simple, have you ever heard about harddisk with unlimited capacity?

No such thing ever existed. Never! So how can the hosting providers claim that they can host your website with unlimited disk space quota?

So how about unlimited bandwidth?
Every hosting providers have their own contract with ISP that provide their internet connections. ISPs have the price for internet connections based on bandwidth. The higher the bandwidth, the higher the price would be. However, no ISP has ever offered a package for unlimited bandwidth.

ISPs offer only unlimited access with limited bandwidth, not unlimited bandwidth. So, how can hosting providers can have hosting packages with unlimited bandwidth while they have limited bandwidth from their ISP?

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Webmasters often confuse deciding whether to use dedicated IP or shared IP. The purpose of using dedicated IP is actually based on the website requirements of two things:

1. SSL (Secure Socket Layer)

Websites that use SSL are those that need secure / encrypted data transfer between web server and visitor’s browser, such as e-commerce websites, corporate portals that contain confidential information, corporate webmail, etc.

With SSL, information transferred from web server to visitor’s browser will always be encrypted. Data encryptions are used to scramble the information that is being transferred so that any attempt to steal the information, while it’s still on its way, will be useless as the data they captured have been encrypted and can only be decrypted by the legitimate visitor’s browser.

However, in order to install a SSL certificate onto a website or domain, the domain must be configured with a dedicated IP.

2. Anonymous FTP

Websites that offer file download sometimes want to have anonymous FTP enabled. Anonymous FTP is used to let visitors download files from web server through FTP without having to provide user name & password. In order to enable the anonymous FTP, the domain must be configured with a dedicated IP.

So, based on the two requirements explained above, you can now easily decide whether using dedicated IP or shared IP.

It’s better to take the decision since the very first time, as changing from shared IP to dedicated IP or vice versa will cause the website to be inaccessible during DNS propagation which can take from 24 hours up to 72 hours.