Having a website is essential in reaching out to the global marketplace thanks to the affect of globalization. As such, you will require a reliable web hosting company which will provide you with the services you need. One of the most important things you will ever do whilst hosting your website is domain names registration. In computing terms, domain names are sets of characters, i.e. letters and numbers which as utilized to identify businesses and PCs on the web, e.g. “barafu.com” or “herufi.com”. These are what are used to point to your business or personal site. Domain names registration does not require one to own a company or business. As an individual you can register your own domain name.

So, what is the importance of domain names? You may ask. Discussed herein are various reasons why as a business or individual you need to have a domain name.

First and foremost, in case you need to change your web hosting service provider, the domain you have been using comes along with you. As such, you do not have to inform or advertise to your clients who are familiar with your site name, for example, www.barakatele.com of an intended domain change. All they’ll have to do is type the domain name and be automatically directed to the fresh site.

Secondly, as a business entity, domain name provides you with integrity. Only a handful of clients will be willing to transact business with you when you do not have your own domain name.

Thirdly, a domain name that defines your business niche or company name, enable visitors and clients to recall it easily. In case they need to revisit the website, they do not have to check their records in order to do so. In actual sense, if you obtain a name that defines your products or services, chances are you may get traffic when prospects type your product or service name in their browser, for instance www.brickandmotor.com.

Last but not least, when looking for businesses or individuals to advertise on your site, a good domain name comes in handy. It brings along with an air of respect.

Registering Domain Name

When looking to register your domain name, follow the steps provided below.

Foremost, think of good distinct names you would love to have as domain name. It is recommended that you have several of them. This is because the one you are considering may have already been registered by another person.
Secondly, you will need to have a credit card or debit card or online accounts, e.g. PayPal in order to pay for the domain names registration.

Register a .com .net .org .biz .info or .us domain name for just $9.95 /year!

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Domain Features

Free domain privacy

We offer free domain privacy – this means when someone looks to see who owns your domain your private information won’t be readily available.

Full name server control

We give you the ability to point your domains name servers to wherever you like, you’re not locked into our servers. Use your domains anywhere!

Auto-renewal available

When registering a domain you have the option to have it auto renew when it expires so you don’t lose your domain name.

Always $9.95

We’ll never change the price of your domain, you’ll always be locked into the price you originally bought it for.

Extensions	Registration	Transfer	Renewal
.com	$9.95	$9.95	$9.95
.net	$9.95	$9.95	$9.95
.org	$9.95	$9.95	$9.95
.info	$9.95	$9.95	$9.95
.biz	$9.95	$9.95	$9.95
.name	$9.95	$9.95	$9.95
.us	$10.50	$10.50	$10.50
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To get your house in which, navigate to the “Add Services/Upgrades” area found on the remaining aspect of the display screen.
As soon as in that room, discover the range saying “IP Addresses”, choose the amount of IPs that you wish to buy, pick a transaction process that’s most convenient for you personally and click on “Continue” to position the payment.
The price for every further support, including the dedicaed IP details, is actually computed from month to month to the leftover a few months prior to the conclusion of the internet hosting deal. For example, in case your consideration runs out inside 3 months’ time, then your value to the additional support will likely be computed for 90 days only. After your money runs out, it is possible to renew the add-ons, combined with internet hosting prepare by itself.

When the settlement has been put along with accredited simply by our Income Division, it will be possible to determine the actual purchased Insolvency practitioners inside the “Account Usage” kitchen table designated as “Available”. Additionally observe that a new section “Dedicated Internet protocol Addresses” look beneath the Site Supervision menus in your Web Hosting Cp after you get a great IP deal with.

Ordering an Internet protocol tackle doesn’t instantly allocate this for your web hosting account. Once you need to put a good IP tackle into use, merely see a Internet site Administration > Focused Internet protocol Details food selection and click on “Request Internet protocol Address”. As soon as you accomplish that, a good Internet protocol handle will be assigned back and you will be able to utilize it as being you’d like.

Every IP that you determine to your account will likely be revealed inside the checklist proper under the actual “Request Internet protocol Address” key within the “Dedicated Internet protocol Addresses” part. Additionally, any time wanted, the IP details will probably be designated as “In Use” inside the “Account Usage” desk about the still left.

Be aware: Clicking on the particular “Request Internet protocol Address” switch will simply assign one particular Internet protocol address. When you have bought a number of Internet protocol details, then you will must request these one by one.

After the Internet protocol tackle may be acquired along with asked for, you are able to designate the idea to a certain domain/sub-domain name that you will be web hosting below your bill. This can be done with the Subdomain Director (Web site Supervision > Subdomain Director). Right now there you’ll see an application with regard to creating brand-new subdomains along with a listing of almost all active ones.

When making a fresh subdomain, it is possible to identify an Internet protocol address because of it, choosing the idea through the “IP Address” drop-down selection. In order to allocate a great IP for an old identify, merely employ the particular “Edit” switch beside your subdomain under consideration. Once again, in order to allocate a great IP for this certain subdomain, merely select the idea from your “IP Address” drop-down menu and then click “Apply” to ensure the progres.

Remember that every time a person modify a great IP handle, the system requirements around Ten mins to be able to update the new details. Addititionally there is a different distribution moment, which may be up to A day.
IMPORTANT: The “www” subdomain can be a default subdomain of the site. Altering the IP tackle for the “www” subdomain furthermore changes this to the website name itself. In other words, in order to alter the IP involving my-best-domain.com, and then basically affect the IP regarding online world.my-best-domain.com.

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cPanel/WHM Fantastico  installation, step by step tutorial on how to install Fantastico on to your VPS or Dedicated Server for cPanel/WHM.

Firstly, login to your server through root SSH – If you need an SSH client you can download Putty here.

http://www.whmcs.com/

You can order and receive your free 15-day license for using WHMCS from the following link:

https://www.whmcs.com/members/cart.php

During the order process, you will need to sign up for an account by filling a simple registration form:

WHMCS Signup Form

Once you complete your registration, you will receive your account’s login details at the e-mail address that you have provided in the registration form and you will be able to log in to your account from the following link:
http://www.whmcs.com/members. Via the My Products/Services >> Product Details menu you will be able to download the Free Version of WHMCS. In the License Details field in the Product Details menu you will find the License key for your installation.
Once you have downloaded all the necessary files from the WHMCS website, you will need to begin the installation process. WHMCS requires the following in order to run:

• PHP Version 4.2.x or later
• MySQL Version 4.1.x or later
• Curl Support (with SSL support)
• GD Image Library
• Ioncube Loaders Support

WHMCS does not need to be tied to a server for automatic account provisioning in order to function. You can use the system as a standalone billing & support center without any issues. WHMCS is encrypted using the Ioncube system. There are, therefore, two ways in which you can use WHMCS. You can use the runtime decoders or you can install the Ioncube decoders into PHP directly. The first way is the simplest as all you have to do is upload the Ioncube folder from the Ioncube download in our client area to your WHMCS directory, but it doesn’t always work. So, the second is slightly more difficult, but more commonly successful. As all our servers have Ioncube installed on them, you should not have any problems with this requirement.

Installing WHMCS is very simple. The following steps will guide you through the process:

1. Unzip the contents of the zip file to a folder on your computer
2. Rename the file configuration.php.new to configuration.php
3. Upload the entire WHMCS folder to your website – if you experience problems, try uploading in binary mode
4. Next, you can rename the folder to whatever you like (billing, clients, etc.)
5. Now visit the installation script at http://www.yourdomain.com/whmcs/install/install.php to run the installation process – if you get an Ioncube related error message, see the Ioncube installation steps above
6. Follow the instructions on the screen, which will involve setting file permissions as listed below, entering your license key and setting up your primary admin account
7. When done, delete the install folder from your web server and CHMOD the configuration.php file back to 644.

Required file & folder permissions (unless your PHP is suPHP or PHPSuExec):

/configuration.php CHMOD 777 Writeable
/attachments CHMOD 777 Writeable
/downloads CHMOD 777 Writeable
/templates_c CHMOD 777 Writeable

Installation Process

You can upload the files to the server in two ways. You can do this either by using an FTP client like FileZilla or by using the Control Panel-integrated File Manager. Upload the files in binary mode. Note: Many FTP clients have problems with corrupted encoded files, thus you should make sure that your FTP client can upload in binary mode. The files can be uploaded in the pubic_html folder or any folder under it. Once the WHMCS install zip file is uploaded in the desired directory, you can extract the archive using the integrated option in the File Manager. Once you have extracted the files, please do rename the file configuration.php.new to configuration.php. It is located in the whmcs folder that the extraction of the archive will create in your public_html folder. Once this is done, you can rename the whmcs folder to whatever you like (billing, clients, etc.). Now visit the installation script at http://www.yourdomain.com/whmcs/install/install.php to run the installation process. Please note that if you have renamed the whmcs folder, you will have to change its name in the link to the installation file as well. Now proceed with the script installation steps.

Step 1:
The first one will be to read and agree to the End User License Agreement.

Step 2:
The second step is called System Requirements Checks and it shows if your account is suitable for a WHMCS installation. Everything should be in green and have a Passed status.

Step 3:
The third step is dedicated to your License Key and Database Connection Details. In the License Key field enter the license that you have received from the My Products/Services >> Product Details menu in your WHMCS account. In the Database Connection Details fields you will have to enter the details for the database that will be used by the script. You can create a database through the MySQL databases menu of your cPanel Control Panel.
Once that database is created, you must create a user for it through the same menu and assign the user to the database. The user should have full privileges assigned over the database. This can be done using the Add User To Database option in the MySQL databases menu in your cPanel Control Panel.

Step 4:
Set up an Administrator Account – Here you must enter your personal details for your administrative account such as First Name, Last Name, Email, Username and Password.

Step 5:
This will conclude the WHMCS installation and you will reach the final Step 5. Installation Complete

Here’s what you should do next:
1. Delete the Install Folder You should delete or rename the install directory.
2. Secure the Writable Directories
It is advisable to move the attachments, downloads & templates_c directories (which need to be writable for WHMCS to function) outside of the publicly accessible folder tree on your website.

NB! It is important to know that after you complete the installation, it will take some time for the license to activate. This is due to the fact that WHMCS records the domain name, the directory and the IP to which the billing software is installed.

Move the attachments, downloads & templates_c folders:
The three folders “attachments”, “downloads” and “templates_c” need to be writeable by WHMCS and therefore require the permissions 777 (writeable by all). When folders have this permission level, it is safer to place the folders outside the publicly accessible folder tree on your website. WHMCS allows you to do this. If you do move the folders, then you must tell WHMCS where they have been moved to by adding the following lines to your configuration.php file:

$templates_compiledir = “/home/whmcs/templates_c/”;
$attachments_dir = “/home/whmcs/attachments/”;
$downloads_dir = “/home/whmcs/downloads/”;
Note that if you are running suphp or phpsuexec, you should not make the mode changes as the folders will already be writeable. In fact, you cannot set folder or file permissions to be 777 when running suphp or phpsuexec – the highest permissions are 755 for both folders and files.

Change your WHMCS Admin Folder name

Malicious users who visit your site and recognize a WHMCS installation will know that they can try logging into your admin area via the admin folder. To protect yourself, you can rename the admin folder to any name you like. You cannot move the folder – only rename it. You can then tell WHMCS what the name of that folder is for the links in admin notification emails by adding the following line to your configuration.php file:

$customadminpath = “myadminname”;
Replace “myadminname” above with the new name you just gave to your admin folder.
Please note that if you have already created a cron job, or one has been created for you, you will need to update the path on the cron as well.

Example: php -q /home/mylogin/public_html/secure/myadminname/cron.php

3. Set up a Daily Cron Job

You should set up a cron job from your Control Panel to run once per day.

Here is an example cron job: php -q /home3/manwesu/public_html/billing/admin/cron.php

Install webmin

1.  Download latest version webmin software package from the webmin official site.  Please make sure that you download webmin RPM (webmin that have dot RPM extension).  The example below also show how to download using shell interface, and if you like to download the webmin using wget command (download using shell interface) just follow the command example below, but make sure that you check for the latest version of webmin software package available on the webmin official website… and modify command below to make sure that you download the latest one.

[root@fedora10 ~]# wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.480-1.noarch.rpm

–2009-06-18 02:15:45–  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.480-1.noarch.rpm

Resolving prdownloads.sourceforge.net… 216.34.181.59

Connecting to prdownloads.sourceforge.net|216.34.181.59|:80… connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 302 Found

Location: http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/webadmin/webmin-1.480-1.noarch.rpm [following]

–2009-06-18 02:15:46–  http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/webadmin/webmin-1.480-1.noarch.rpm

Resolving nchc.dl.sourceforge.net… 211.79.60.17, 2001:e10:ffff:1f02::17

Connecting to nchc.dl.sourceforge.net|211.79.60.17|:80… connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK

Length: 15544781 (15M) [application/octet-stream]

Saving to: `webmin-1.480-1.noarch.rpm’

100%[===============================================================>] 15,544,781   162K/s   in 1m 49s

2009-06-18 02:17:35 (139 KB/s) – `webmin-1.480-1.noarch.rpm’ saved [15544781/15544781]

[root@fedora10 ~]#

2.  View and list the downloaded package in the current directory, make sure downloded webmin rpm file is on the list.

[root@fedora10 ~]# ls

anaconda-ks.cfg  install.log.syslog

Desktop          Package

Finished         Running

folders.db webmin-1.480-1.noarch.rpm

install.log

[root@fedora10 ~]#

3.  Import webmin RPM pgp key into RPM key database.

[root@fedora10 ~]# rpm –import http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc

[root@fedora10 ~]#

4.  Now we can start install webmin on Fedora system… execute yum localinstall command (as show on command example below) to start the webmin installation process.

[root@fedora10 ~]# yum -y localinstall webmin-1.480-1.noarch.rpm

Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit

Setting up Local Package Process

Examining webmin-1.480-1.noarch.rpm: webmin-1.480-1.noarch

Marking webmin-1.480-1.noarch.rpm to be installed

Resolving Dependencies

–> Running transaction check

—> Package webmin.noarch 0:1.480-1 set to be updated

–> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================

Package     Arch        Version        Repository                      Size

=============================================================================

Installing:

webmin      noarch      1.480-1        webmin-1.480-1.noarch.rpm       37 M

Transaction Summary

=============================================================================

Install      1 Package(s)

Update       0 Package(s)

Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 37 M

Downloading Packages:

Running rpm_check_debug

Running Transaction Test

Finished Transaction Test

Transaction Test Succeeded

Running Transaction

Operating system is Redhat Linux

Installing     : webmin                                                1/1

Webmin install complete. You can now login to http://fedora10.jmti.gov.my:10000/

as root with your root password.

Installed:

webmin.noarch 0:1.480-1

Complete!

[root@fedora10 ~]#

5.  Now open your web browser and start login to webmin system.  Point browser URL to http://127.0.0.1:10000/ (loopback address) or http://put_here_server_hostname.com:10000/ (hostname domain name) or http://192.168.1.1:10000/ (network card IP address), hit Enter key… and now you should be prompt with wbmin login screen…. if nothing happen, recheck your system firewall rules… add port 10000 on firewall rules for webmin system.

At the time of writing cPanel/WHM was not officially support Fedora OS, however to install cPanel on fedora you need to follow these steps:

• yum -y install tcp_wrappers-devel perl tar
• mkdir /home/whm
• cd /home/whm
• wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest
• sh latest &
• Done.

If you have any problem with this guide ask us in comments.

In case you want a trial licence for cpanel you should go to : http://www.cpanel.net/store/

How to Install cPanel on VPS

1 – Login to your VZMC and get inside your server
2 – Create a new VPS with the Sample Ve Config call vps.cpanel
3 – Select the ips you want to use in that VPS and the dns servers.
4 – Select RedHat Enterprise Template (not minimal)
5 – Dont select any addon.You dont need it for cpanel.
6 – Select the Space / Memory / CPU . All the normal stuff of your normal VPS. Put Start on boot and the rest of the normal stuff. Rememeber to use unlimited VPs.
7 – Go to your Ev1 Member section, open a ticket with your IP / and root password and request ev1 to get your VPS register in up2date. CHECK IT IF IT IS WELL CONFIGURE!! JUST IN CASE.
8 – Go in ssh and do the following steps:
mkdir /home/cpins
cd /home/cpins
wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest
sh latest

This should install cpanel without asking you any questions.

If you have any problems you should check: http://www.cpanel.net/install.html

9 – Login to : https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:2087 and setup your server.
If you never setup a cpanel server, you can find some usefull information here: http://www.cpanel.net/docs.htm or search ev1 forum or ask me. I will be happy to help.

Note that cPanel needs 128 MB to work, but we recommend 256MB.

If you have any problems with the guide ask us in comments.

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