cPanel is the most popular way for both web server staff and webmasters to accomplish technical chores regarding websites.
That’s because it’s easy for non-technical website owners to understand and use.

It’s a software program that displays a screen of icons that you can double click on to accomplish different things. This is a big improvement on the old-fashioned alternative — prompt line commands such as Microsoft DOS and UNIX use. These days, most computer users including webmasters have no experience or even knowledge of this.

cPanel is combined with another proprietary software program called WebHostManager (WHM), and they must be used together. WHM displays a control panel for server administrators and resellers. To keep things simple, I’ll refer just to cPanel.

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Selecting a web hosting provider for your company may seems to be a confusing and disheartening task. There are about thousands of web hosting providers offering several varieties of web hosting plan to select from. In order to make the best choice, you first need to make sense of the entire options accessible and what web hosting means. Some of the common web hosting types is recognized as Shared Hosting. Such option is the most compatible kind of web hosting and is especially offered to fit the requirements of small business.

Your website would be placed at the same web server as other does when you go with share hosting and you can also share the PC resources like RAM. However, nothing to worry about, your system will certainly not be slow as some of the plans also offer 600 GBs of server space. This further enables the web host to provide high performance web servers to your small business at a suitable cost, sometimes even under $5 per month.

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Reverse DNS other wise recognized as RDNS is a process of utilizing standard DNS to translate IP addresses into Host Names. RDNS also determines the hostname or host related name with a given IP address or a host address. In simple terms, like how domain name system turns domain name into related IP address, the same way RDNS turns IP address into a domain name.  For instance, if you have an IP address of 192.0.3.26 then it will turn your IP into xyz.example.com. For your computer domains, normal DNS begins with the company, which you listed your domains with. So, anybody can access your domains, and you could send them to any IP addresses you may desire. Reverse DNS on the other hand, works in the same manner. For your IP’s, normal reverse DNS begins with your ISP begin registered. So, anybody can look up the reverse DNS entries for your IP, and you could come back to any Host Names you desire.

So for both typical DNS and reverse DNS, there are two steps:

1. You require DNS servers.

2. You require telling the right company where your DNS servers are placed. Without Step 2, no one is capable to reach your DNS servers.

A standard DNS lookup is utilized to decide which IP address is related with a hostname. A reverse DNS lookup is utilized for the opposite reason, to decide which hostname is related with an IP address. Sometimes reverse DNS lookups are obligatory for analytical purposes. Today, reverse DNS lookups are utilized often for security purposes to mark out any hacker or spammer. Many modern mailing systems use DNS reverse mapping to offer simple verification using dual lookup: hostname-to-address and address-to-hostname.

Also Read Understanding DNS

Many claim to be the "website designing gurus" but it suits to very few persons who imbibed the qualities of a professional by themselves and who formed the theories of field later to be followed up by successors. In fact, website designing and search engine marketing has been a foundation stone for many success stories in augmenting their day to day income. Apart from being interesting, website designing is also an online self of any company or individual incorporated in Internet Marketing. The main task associated with website is simply to represent or sell company’s name. In addition website designing and development plays a real crucial role in attracting more visitors and for generating more leads in turn helps to gain more and more income. We have been discussing about making money online by website designing such as affiliate marketing, popular product blog and through auction website. Today I am going to talk about the most easy to make money online by dating websites.

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Every computer on the internet has an assigned Internet Protocol (or IP) address. IP addresses are a series of four number separated by periods, and usually appear in the following format: 45.208.359.88. IP addresses allow computers to send information across the internet to a specific recipient. While these numbers are easy for computers to read, they can be confusing for humans to memorize. Instead, we use Domain names to access websites (www.minterest.com, www.yahoo.com). The system that translates these human-readable domain names into machine-readable IP addresses is called Domain Name System (DNS). But how do all these names and numbers connect? The answer is through a series of DNS steps.

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The fact is not unknown that website designing is one of the top growing fields in the globe today. With each day emerging new global economy, Internet is a fresh marketplace where any company’s own website directly reflects on the company. Now, more or less each product is offered to research and purchased online. This only amplifies the requirement for every business to have a website. While the Internet area is as well growing, so the users are also budding. Bearing this in mind, many people even pay a huge amount to have a website that is professionally designed. Regardless of what your business is, be it small or big, owning a website on internet would give your exact parameter you require. In the Make Money Online by Website Designing (Part I) I discussed about the importance of having Affiliate review website and now am going to speak about every body’s favorite - "Blog".

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HostGator Web Hosting

I’ve already recommended HostGator Web Hosting earlier in the article Ultimate Guide to Web Hosting, Review of Best Web Hosting Service Provider and its Coupon Code. Then what’s the need for another review? Well, that was my web hosting experience with StartLogic.com, PowWeb.com, and HostGator.com, not necessarily a review of HostGator. But today am going to give a full review of HostGator Web Hosting.

Today, when I checked HostGator’s shared hosting and reseller hosting to test a coupon code I was surprised to see that HostGator upgraded all their shared and reseller web hosting plans, added HUGE amounts of disk space and bandwidth to their hosting plans without any additional cost. Earlier HostGator didn’t gave any discounts if you pay the hosting bill in advance, their hosting fees remains the same no matter you pay for one month or for one year but now they are giving discounts for one year, two year and three year plans. And there is no setup fee at all even if you pay your hosting bills monthly. Also, HostGator now offers a full 45 (was 30) Day Money Back Guarantee.

HostGator offers cPanel based Linux Web Hosting Service. HostGator do offer 24/7/365 Live Chat, Email, and Telephone Support. Your web site will be hosted on a Dual Xeon server that can provide instant backups of your website. As a cPanel based web hosting service they supports Fantastico which has over 52 ready to install scripts.

The account setup with HostGator is really fast. You wont have to wait for hours or even days to get your setup email. HostGator setup all accounts with in 20 minutes. When I registered the Baby Plan for this blog I got my account setup email in just 3 minutes.

HostGator’s billing system is exceptional and as I said they now offers 45 Day Money Back Guarantee. You can cancel your account anytime by filling a cancellation form. No questions asked! Regarding payment methods HostGator accepts all major Credit Cards and they accept PayPal too.

HostGator Shared Web Hosting Review

HostGator offers three Shared cPanel Linux Web Hosting Plans namely Hatchling, Baby, and Swamp.

Hatchling Plan is HostGator’s cheapest plan and it offers 350 GB Disk Space and 3,000 GB Bandwidth. Before the upgrade of their web hosting plans it offered just 50 GB space and 200 GB bandwidth. Even now, I don’t recommend Hatchling Plan due to it’s limitations but if you think that it suits you then go for it. Hatchling Plan allows you to host only one Domain Name. It offers 99.5% Uptime Guarantee (and not 99.9% Uptime Guarantee) but it offers Unlimited Subdomains, Unlimited FTP Accounts, Unlimited POP3 Accounts and Unlimited MySQL Databases. HostGator recently upgraded the Hatchling Plan earlier it offered just 20 Subdomains, FTP Accounts, and POP3 Accounts. Now I see that its Unlimited.

The Hatchling Plan costs $8.95/mo. OR $6.95/mo. for one year plan OR $5.95/mo. for two year plan OR $4.95/mo. for a three year plan.

Baby Plan is HostGator’s most popular as well as best selling web hosting plan. It offers 600 GB Disk Space and 6,000 GB Bandwidth. Before the upgrade they offered just 100 GB web space and 1,000 GB bandwidth so now they are offering 500% more disk space and bandwidth at no additional cost.

Baby Plan allows you to host Unlimited Domain Names and offers 99.9% Uptime Guarantee. That’s not all it supports Unlimited sub-domains, Unlimited FTP accounts, Unlimited POP3 accounts, and Unlimited MySQL Databases.

The Baby Plan costs $9.95/mo. OR $8.95/mo. for two year plan OR $7.95/mo. for a three year plan.

Swamp Plan is the high end shared hosting plan of HostGator. It offers 1,000 GB Disk Space and UNLIMITED Bandwidth. The features of Swamp Plan is same as Baby Plan except that supports Anonymous FTP and Private SSL.

The Swamp Plan costs $14.95/mo. OR $13.95/mo. for two year plan OR $12.95/mo. for a three year plan.

Why HostGator Sucks

I’ve recommended HostGator by pointing out all it’s features and advantages. But no web hosting company is perfect in all terms. I have noticed that some HostGator users says "HostGator Sucks" only because of the following two reasons.

First of all HostGator don’t give a free domain name with their hosting plans even if you order a three year plan. But it’s a matter of just $1.99 or $4.95. Get a top level Domain Name from Yahoo! Domains for just $1.99/year or get a $4.95/year Domain Name from Netfirms which offers free domain privacy and reliable services.

Second, HostGator doesn’t offer any Free Marketing Credits (PPC Credits) of their own. Again, I’ve a solution for that I’ll tell you How to Get Over $1,000 in Free Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising Credits from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Others.

HostGator Web Hosting Discounts & Coupon Code

HostGator have only one coupon code as of now which gives you a discount of a flat $9.94.

Try HostGator Web Hosting Risk FREE for One Month!

Want to Try HostGator BABY Plan for FREE? Simply follow the link below to signup and enter the HostGator coupon code "JURY" without the quotes, that gives you a discount of $9.94. And you pay just 1 Cent for your first month of hosting with HostGator. And, if you are not satisfied then you can cancel your account and can ask for a refund of that 1 Cent too.

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