May 16th, 2010 by admin
On a hostgator account you can create an online store with Oscommerce script. Oscommerce is PHP (web programming language) script that uses MySQL (database system) as a storage engine, free and licensed under GNU GPL license which gives you much freedom. It offers many features to merchants including many gateways for payments, unlimited products that may be categorized in unlimited categories, international languages, many purchase options and more. It is one of the oldest shopping cart software. The new version 3 will include many options including a new object-oriented design of core code. There are several forks based of Oscommerce most popular one is Zencart.
On our test on Hostgator OScommerce run without any problems, and we have tested most of the features without any problems. Fast and easy installation can be done via Fantastico de luxe cpanel tool. SSL options are available also on Hostgator for your ecommerce site.
April 29th, 2010 by admin
Hostgator supports both Shared SSL and dedicated SSL certificates. To access shared SSL use the following form:
https://server.hostgator.com/~cpaneluser/
where server is the name of the web server you are on. This is usually in this form gatorxxx where xxx are numbers, and can be found in your hostgator welcome email.
When you access the site this way a warning message may appear. Better option for you would be to buy dedicated SSL certificate from Hostgator. Hostgator sells Comodo certificates which are one of the most recognizable in the SSL industry offering up to 256 bit encryption and free installation. Please note that if you already have the business shared hosting plan you are entitled for free dedicated SSL certifacte as well as free dedicated IP address which is required for dedicated SSL. You may also buy SSL from third party but there is $10 installation fee.
SSL certificates
SSL certificates secure and encrypt the data that is traveling between your computer and the webserver. The standard way leaves the data in plain text and someone might read it while it travels. So if you have an online store or any other site where users enters important information (like credit cards, social number etc) you should have secure connection. SSL creates secure connection.
April 17th, 2010 by admin
Hostgator Nameservers address information is sent in your welcome e-mail when your hostgator account is created. Usually this is within 30 minutes after you signup with them. The nameservers should look like:
nsxxx.hostgator.com
nsxxx.hostgator.com
Where xxx are numbers.If you don’t get them in your welcome email or you have deleted that email contact the support.
Namerservers
Nameservers are required in order your site to be live. Since every computer connected to the Internet (including any servers) requires unique IP address (at the moment of connecting and while is connected). Because IPs are hard to remember (they are numbers) people have invented the DNS (Domain Name System). When you want to visit some site, the browser in background uses DNS to find where the server is. Once it founds it, it connects to it. Nameservers are part of this system and are used to resolve the domain names to their respective IP addresses. At least two name servers are required in case one of them fails the other one will be the backup. They are entered at your domain name registrar.
April 7th, 2010 by admin
Today I will make comparasion between the popular web hosting companies HostGator and Bluehost.
Both are USA based hosting companies, Bluehost based out of Utah, and HostGator based out of Houston.
Statistics
Hostgator hosts more than 2,500,000 domains and 200,000+ active customers, Bluehost with Hostmonster and Fastdomain host more than 1.9 milion domains and have more than 500,000+ customers. Number of employees for Host Gator: 260, Blue Host and others: 240+. So here they are pretty much the same in statistics.
Support
Both Host Gator and Blue host offer support via live chat, phone and and e-mail(tickets) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Features
Almost all hosting features (PHP, MySQL, cPanel etc etc) are shared (same) between these two hosts.
Hosting Services
Blue host offers only one shared hosting plan, while Hostgator offers three shared hosting plans, reseller, vps and dedicated server hosting. This is where host gator beats Bluehost. With Hostgator there is room to grow if your sites become very popular, while with Bluehost you have only one hosting plan.
Reviews and Rating
They have received good reviews from users and hosting reviews sites. Both have good rating and are listed in top 10 best web hosting providers.
March 29th, 2010 by admin
Dedicated IP address
There are many reasons why yous should buy dedicated IP address. Some say that is good for Search Engine rankings (you rank higher than other sites), though this is not proven. Other use could be if you want to install SSL certificate for your website. SSL allows secure transfer between the server (where your web site is ) and the host (the user that access the websites). Installing SSL will allow https version of your site. HTTPS stands for HyperText Transfer Protorocol Secure. Ecommerce websites should have secure access to their websites because the customer when purchases some items it sends sensitive data like credit card, social security number and other.
HostGator Dedicated IP address
On Host Gator you can have dedicated IP address for $2/monthly. ($24 a year) shared and reseller hosting, $1 for VPS . On shared hosting you can have only one dedicated IP. The IP addresss will be assigned to the entire cPanel account (only your websites will shared that IP). Hostgator purchase IP form can be found at https://secure.hostgator.com/ip.php .
March 20th, 2010 by admin
Ruby on Rails (ROR) is Ruby programming language web framework for developing online applications for the world wide web (the Internet). It follows the MVC (Model View Controller pattern) for development of web applications. It is not popular as other programming languages but there are good number of developers who develop apps. Popular websites use Rails including: twitter.com (microblogging service), scribd.com (document-sharing website), github and many others.
Hostgator Ruby on Rails
Hostgator supports ROR on all its shared and reseller servers. The latest version (currently installed) is:
Ruby Version : ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [i686-linux]
Gem Version : 1.0.1
Rails Version : Rails 2.0.2
Ruby on Gator it comes with the following gems preinstalled: actionmailer, actionpack, actionwebservice, activerecord, activesupport, bluecloth, builder, daemons, feedtools, gemplugin, gnuplot, htmltools, mongrel, mysql, payment, rake, sources, tidy, uuidtools, xml-simple and others. Refer to this forum post for more: http://forums.hostgator.com/ruby-rails-support-t13038.html
You will need SSH access to develop Ruby applications. Visit
https://secure.hostgator.com/sshrequest.php for more info on enabling SSH access on your account. You may also want to enable SVN (Subversion), you submitting a ticket.
March 10th, 2010 by admin
If you to test hostgator then the one cent hostgator coupon is for you. This coupon “freemonth” actually takes $9.94 off of any hosting plan. The monthly price for the baby plan is $9.95 monthly ($7.95/monthly if you pay 3 years annually).If you use it for the baby hosting plan you can get the first month for a penny $0.01. You still get 45 days money back guarantee on the penny and everything else that goes with a hostgator account! So with this coupon you can try host gator risk free. You may cancel at anytime if you wish, but I don’t think you will because Hostgator offers excellent services, top support, uptime, features. All hostgator coupon codes have the same discount, except the “SPRING” which is 20% off. If you know any other coupons please comment on this post. It have been almost two years with Hostgator and I am very happy with them, everything is great, websites load fast uptime is great (100% for January, February and March 2010, check this monitoring report if you don’t believe me).
March 2nd, 2010 by admin
Fantastico de Luxe is commercial cPanel addon that HostGator offers for fast one-click installation of popular web applications. Included are: Wordpress (blog software), Drupal – Content Management script (CMS), Joomla – CMS, shoppin carts – zencart, oscommerce, forums – phpbb, mybb, galleries, polls and other cool scripts. What Fantastico does is setup/create databases and users, create tables and setup initial settings and permissions for the selected software. Though Fantastico is popular one-click setup tool it is not recommended by most developers of the popular scripts mentioned. This is because the latest version of the software is not available always (or at least not immediately) after it is published. So you may end up installing old version with security holes and bugs. So the better way is to manually install the software. I use fantastico only when I am installing wordpress, and update it right after login with wordpress automatic update tool. Here is a screenshot of Fantastico:
February 22nd, 2010 by admin
Unlike shared hosting where you are limited by resources (CPU processing power, RAM memory) on dedicated server hosting those resources are dedicated only to you and you are only limited by the hardware. Dedicated servers are great if you have high traffic websites or you offer a web service where more CPU power or RAM memory is needed. You can host unlimited websites on your server (only limited by the hardware). If you have very popular website, you may buy additional server only for MySQL data processing and storage. What is important is the CPU Speed and type and the RAM Memory (the bigger the better). There are several popular CPU model are Intel Xeon Models.
HostGator Dedicated Server Plans
Hostgator offers Linux and Windows servers. Both are same with hardware. There are three four linux server plans: Basic, Standard, Elite and Pro. They differ in Processor, RAM Memory, Disc space, Bandwidth and price. There is no setup fee for any dedicated server, the contract is month to month and you can cancel at anytime. All linux servers are fully managed and come with CentOS Linux with Full Root Access (64-bit with 32-bit Compatibility), cPanel with WHM Control Pane), Apache Web Server, MySQL, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby (on Rails), FFMpeg Support, Secured Server with IPTables Firewall, Free WHMCS or WHM autopilot client billing software, sitebuilder and many other features. Windows servers also come fully managed with Windows OS with Remote Desktop Access (64-bit with 32-bit Compatibility), Parallels Plesk Control Panel, IIS Web Server, MSSQL, Mysql, ASP, ASP.Net 1.1 2.0 & 3.5, PHP, Perl, Python, Secured Server with Windows Firewall & IPsec Policy and other features. The prices start at $174/monthly.
February 14th, 2010 by admin
phpBB (PHP Bulletin Board) is one of the best free open-source community forum creation software. It is built with php and uses mysql (postgresql, mssql, oracle and other database management systems are also supported) as a storage engine for forum data, settings, permissions, post, threads etc, licensed under the GNU General Public License. It supports module system with auth and other apis, where developers can easily add new features and settings to the standard ones. There is also a theme system where webmaster can add new themes and change the layout of the forum. Other standard features included are: user management with user registration, permissions per user/thread, administrators, moderators, usergroups, internationalization (available in several languages) with UTF-8 support. The current version is 3.06 released on 17 november 2010. Development for version 2 have ceased on 1 January 2009 and it is no longer supported. PHPBB3 is the best and the latest version offering much more features than the previous version, better security and optimizations. Many mods and templates are available free and paid ones. Before I installed vbulletin on my hostgator account I had phpbb version 2. I did not like that version so I bought vbulletin license. Currently I have vbulletin and though phpbb3 is very good forum software, I will not replace it with vbulletin because many features are same in both scripts.