We hosting service has come a long way in the Indian market. If we were to track down Web Hosting industry, many things have changed from later 90's to till now. The current scenario can be broken down on following parameters - pricing, offerings, quality of service, business sustainability and client awareness. Soon we will dwell upon these parameters, but the biggest difference between then and now is the COMPETITION. The competition is so fierce in the Indian Web Hosting market that it is now literally a dog eat dog world.

We have some good news for those who are already running Linux hostings with us or plan to buy a new plan. We have in-house developed a cPanel plugin called PH-777 a.k.a. Permission Handler. This module lets you manage/change permissions and ownership of any folder/file recursively right through your own cPanel account. This module is ideally most suited for Joomla and Wordpress developers who have problems installing modules/components. Also it is useful if you have files/sub-directories owned by user nobody.

Nearly everyone of us have seen the 'https' in the address bar. In-case you have a gmail account or are using any Google service, you will generally see it more than once a day. So what does this 'https' means? It means two things :

A webmaster may encounter certain issues while installing Wordpress through Fantastico on a server running Pure-FTP.

Ideally we would prefer that you directly download Wordpress from wordpress.org and use it. But if still you want to use via Fantastico, here is the way to go forward. Steps in this article do not apply if you are using Wordpress 3.2+

Well this article of mine is a biased article which is being written to put forward the case of Linux Hosting (PHP/JSP Java Developent) viz-a-viz Windows Hosting (.NET/ASP Development). Also we look into the various metrics which make the case for Linux Hosting stronger apart from just development reasons. Our earlier article http://packwebhosting.com/content/myths-about-hosting-platforms explored the common myths of Web Hosting platforms.

Having been in Web Hosting industry for last 9 years, we have seen that many users have certain myths with regards to the Hosting platforms. This article of mine intends to dispel those myths so that a user can make a better decision while buying a hosting service.

Myth 1 : Websites hosted on Linux platform cannot be opened from a Windows system.

As server admin's, we always strive to provide top notch service and support. Running a server not only involves keeping the server online, but also we have to ensure that data on the server remains secure and safe.

At Pack Web Hosting our aim is to offer services which provide a better value for money proposition with each passing day. It is towards this endeavor that we have now launched a new Dedicated MySQL Server for our Linux Hosting customers. This setup alone can provide you as much as 2x performance gains for your websites as compared to when MySQL is run on the same machine with CPanel, Apache/PHP, Mail Server etc. This is primarily so because MySQL consumes more Computing/CPU Power than any application running on the server.