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4Jun/100

Classifications of Web Hosting – Part Two

Managed Hosting : It is one of type of website hosting a bit different from typical web hosting service. Basically, is is bit costly, as the web hosting company will be fully liable to manage and maintain the dedicated servers for you. It is also known as an advanced version of typical website hosting. The web host carries all the responsibility of your website hosted at that particular host.

Clustered Hosting : It is kind of hosting where a bunch of servers are clustered in the same network to provide hosting. The intention of Clustered Hosting technology is to eliminate the difficulties built-in the shared web hosting.

Dedicated Servers : This service simply refers of leasing a whole physical server which will be dedicated only to you. You are the one who will decide how to use that server. With dedicated servers, you don't have to share your server resources with any other client websites. Normally, the dedicated servers housed in a fully equipped data centers, which is much similar to the colocation services. Unlike to the colocation facilities, here the server is owned by the web hosting company and are responsible to provide technical support if mentioned in the SLA.

Colocation Services : Colocation hosting is a service where you own a server but have to pay charges for sharing the data infrastructure. With this service you can save your valuable time as well as money. Here is this service your hardware is colocated at a data center and full control over server is provided to you. The only drawback of this hosting is that you have to spend a lot of time to manage and maintain the server. However, if you don't have time to spend in these things, a managed dedicated hosting or a VDS is perfect match for you.

Grid Server Hosting : It is a new type of hosting similar to shared web hosting. Here in grid hosting a group of websites shares a group of servers, which enables greater speed.

The types of hosting explained here will give you a better understanding and which solution is perfect for you. Choosing the best web hosting service is not an easy task, however, if you know your requirements and budget this article will help you to choose a better solution for your business.

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28Apr/100

Optimizing MySQL Databases on Dedicated Server

The dedicated servers may seems to be advantageous in many conditions, however it can also be time consuming. If you have ever opt for a a dedicated server, then you may have encountered that there are infinite logs, services, and users to check and recheck.

In order to reduce the load people uses some kind of automation to get ease of the work load. Any kind of automation you setup on your server will effectively reduce your daily, weekly, and monthly work load.

There is a popular automation integrated in a server is the Cron. Setting up a cron job is a convenient way to manage your daily tasks.

MySQL databases, which is an important part of any website particularly needs a routine maintenance, though the maintenance includes of just checking the databases and optimizing the tables of it. However, ignoring the database maintenance can make your website face trouble if the databases tables gets corrupted or fragmented.

Both the mentioned tasks are quick and simple, however, going through every single database can consume tremendous amount of time.

Using Cron function, you can easily automate this process and save your valuable time. To do that you will require to edit the crontab file. Below are the simple guidelines to optimize the MySQL databases on Dedicated Servers:

1. Login to your server via SSH

2. Become root:

su

3. Edit the crontab file located at /etc/crontab

crontab -e

4. Enter the follow on a new line in crontab:

0 1 * * * mysqlcheck -Aao –auto-repair -u root -p[password] > /dev/null

5. Save an exit.

Now, every night at 1 AM, Cron will execute mysqlcheck to optimize all of the databases on your server. If every day is to frequent, change the cron settings to whatever you want for your server. This will check all of the databases on the server. If you only want to check certain databases, use the following syntax:

mysqlcheck [options] db_name[tables]

By inserting the one-line command, you will have cut-down your server maintenance and made your server to perform more effectively.