July 12th, 2009

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If you’re a college student that is new to online business, you likely have many questions about web hosting. Luckily, you don’t need to be technically savvy to understand how web hosting works. With the right information, you can choose a reliable web hosting company that provides your website the customized hosting plan it needs.

Who needs web hosting?
Web hosting is a crucial component involved in taking your business online – along with your domain name and your website design. In order for your website to “go live,” you must have a web hosting service.

What is a web hosting service?
A web hosting service provides physical storage for your website’s content.  Your web host’s server functions as the home of all the data – files, graphics, audio files, etc. – that visitors see when they navigate your site.

Why pay for web hosting services?
If you’re serious about making your business a success online, it’s best to consider a  monthly hosting fee a small price to pay for the support you will receive. Think of your hosting costs as renting space for your website – much like rent you may pay on your dorm room or college apartment. While free web hosting options certainly exist, they often carry too much risk for the prudent business owner. These risks include insufficient space and bandwidth, frequent downtime and the inability to profit from advertising placed on your website.

Where can I find a reliable web hosting provider?
In today’s crowded online arena, there is no shortage of web hosting companies from which to choose. However, many of these companies attract customers with misleading offers and false information. Before you get stuck with a web hosting company that can hinder your online success, be sure to ask questions and read the fine print. A professional web hosting company should offer uptime reliability, customer service, and other tools that can help you manage and promote your website more efficiently.

When do I choose web hosting – before or after I register a domain name?
While web hosting and domain name registration are two important parts of your website,  they may exist separately. Your web hosting company should be able to accommodate your hosting needs regardless of where you register your domain name. Your web hosting company may, however, offer a free domain name with your hosting package – an added bonus, especially if you are just getting started.

How much web hosting space and bandwidth do I need?
Hosting is not a one size fits all package. In fact, your web hosting needs will depend on the unique needs of your business and the nature of your website content. For example, if you have an ecommerce site that uses many images to promote your products, you will have an increased need for storage space. Also, the more your site asks visitors to interact, the more bandwidth you will need. Finally, consider the amount of traffic you expect and find a website hosting package with enough bandwidth to accommodate your visitors.

Your choice of a web hosting provider – and a hosting plan – will depend on several factors. By giving careful consideration to your business’ current needs and future goals, you can find the hosting that works for your business website.

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The Basics of Website hosting

July 12th, 2009

The individuals, who want to share their ideas and business with the rest of the world, are no doubt in need of website hosting information for launching their own website. Gone are the days when the practice of web hosting had to incur the cost of thousands of dollars. Still, the intender’s can find web hosting at higher cost, however there are lots of companies that are offering cheap web hosting solutions.

The users will probably know the fact that various web hosting companies are there which are claiming to render free web hosting services. However, if one wants to give a professional appearance to a website, it is not a good option; the companies can have some other ways to take out money from you such as irritating pop up advisements etc. Not only this, the free web hosting solutions offer a smaller disk space limiting the customers with images and amount of data the site can hold up. Also, the need may arise to hire some other company for having technical support because those free web hosting services will not provide complete technical support.

Need of a Web Hosting Account: If one is looking for a reasonably priced web hosting technique, there is a multitude of great alternatives available. One should be capable to find the best which has strong technical features. If you want to create a website, you need a web host. A web hosting server stores all important information of the website on the system and is responsible for displaying the entire information set over your website whenever the request is received. There is also a web site hosting company involved in the entire procedure which sees running the hosting server and ensuring that the information is obtainable from your website quickly as and when needed.

There are also some web hosting sites which facilitate a number of articles and web hosting reviews and ensure that information is being updated constantly. Highly efficient and independent web hosting reviews will save huge time and help you in considering best price rates. Moreover, these sites offer a splendid prospect to acquire inclusive direct data web hosting solutions and also provide a great option for those who are searching for premier and best web hosts that will custom fit the requirements of intenders.

Dream host comes equipped with the facet of backup and offers around four gigabytes of storage room for backup settings and files. If a customer has some hosting account, then he/she probably will have certain settings made to the account and also there are lots of database and files included as well.

Once the development of website has been completed, the very next step includes publishing it over the internet so that it can be accessed by the visitors looking for the products and services offered by your company. There are 3 major choices to get the website published on the internet as selecting suitable web hosting site on dedicated server and hosting the site directly on computer. The last one is somewhat practical and involves running a business portfolio as dedicated. Moreover, fast internet connection is also required if one wants to get all jobs done without any major difficulty.

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Google Chrome 2.0 is even more Secure

May 25th, 2009

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Google Chrome 2.0 browser includes some new security features with which to arm itself as it competes in a browser market still dominated by Microsoft Internet Explorer. The new Chrome features include protections against cross-site request forgery and clickjacking. UPDATE: Google Chrome 2.0 apparently beats the speed of other browsers in many test by anywhere from 20-32% in performance across multiple systems.

The latest update to Google Chrome came with a few new bells and whistles, and lots of talk about speed. But what about security?

Browser vendors have been struggling to keep pace with the growing Web threat landscape. Internet Explorer 8 added a number of security features. In the latest release of the browser, Google has included some new protections behind the scenes, including defenses against cross-site request forgery and clickjacking. CSRF is an attack whereby a user is forced to execute unwanted actions in a Web application the user is authenticated in. To guard against CSRF in Chrome 2.0, origin information is sent for POST requests for which the server might change state.

“If you’re a bank, you would check the request to make sure that it came from your own site and not from the attacker’s site,” explained Adam Barth, a software engineer for Chrome. That, he said, is where the origin information would come in handy.

In addition to CSRF protection, Google also added HTML 5′s PostMessage to help Website developers build more secure mashup applications.

“As we get into sites that try to do mashups and you take gadgets and interesting things from all over the place, so maybe there’s a cool little gadget that shows a bunch of ponies dancing around, and people like ponies so they want ponies on their Web page,” Chrome Product Manager Ian Fette said. “I might be fine with having ponies on my Web page, but I don’t want to give that gadget permission to muck around with my password … so the PostMessage API allows me to communicate with the ponies gadget … but it doesn’t actually give that gadget the ability to reach out and directly control the rest of my page.”

Google also followed in the footsteps of IE 8 with clickjacking protections and the ability to remove thumbnails from the New Tab page for added privacy.

When the browser was first launched in September 2008, Google tried to make a big splash about its security features, touting Chrome’s sandboxing of the rendering engine, for example. But the company also experienced a few challenges—the initial release of the browser used a vulnerable version of WebKit, and other vulnerabilities appeared as the security community took the browser for a test run.

Looking ahead, Google has said it has no immediate plans to add Website security zones as in Internet Explorer or to add the ability to disable JavaScript within the user interface. It is possible, however, to disable JavaScript through the command line if that seems to be a way to thwart attacks.

“Our approach with Google Chrome has been to make things as secure as possible by default without the user having to take any actions to go and configure settings,” Fette said.

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Checklist: Establishing a Web Site

April 2nd, 2009

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Today’s information technologies are expanding at an astounding rate, with everyone going online. Establishing and maintaining a Web site for your business can be very useful to the future success of your business. The following guide provides basic procedural information and helpful hints for establishing a web site for your business.

* Choose an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

An ISP will provide you with an Internet account. Your Internet account should include e-mail access, the ability to access other computers, the ability to transfer files between networks, and server space for a Web site. Your ISP will charge you a monthly fee for its services.

* Select and Register a Domain Name or Universal Resource Locator (URL).

You should choose a name that represents your product and/or services and is easy to remember. We recomend using EZ DOMAIN NAME Before you decide on a name, a full trademark search should be done. On its Web site, www.uspto.gov, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has a free search tool for making limited searches of the federal register of trademarks. You can then search EZ DOMAIN NAME, to determine whether your desired URL is available.

* Design Your Web Site.

We recomend DWHS Web Hosting for this. Think about what you want to accomplish with your site. You can obtain ideas for your site by looking at the Web sites of your competitors. You can then design your site yourself or hire a Web design service or Internet consultant to design the site for you.

* Register Your Site With Different Search Engines.

* Inform Others About Your Site.

Include your URL on your letterhead, business cards, in all advertisements for the company, and in the Yellow Pages.

* Track the Visits to Your Site.

Log data software is available to record the number of hits your site receives. In addition, some ISPs provide access logs. You can ask visitors to your site to complete a questionnaire or to provide input as to your product or services.

* Keep Your Site Current.

No one likes outdated information. Make sure your site is updated.

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Spam Volume Returns To Pre-McColo Levels

April 2nd, 2009

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Spam volumes have finally returned to the same high levels seen prior to the November McColo ISP takedown, according to a Google Postini report.

Overall, the Google Postini spam report indicated that spam growth during the first quarter of 2009 was the strongest it had been in more than a year, increasing an average of 1.2 percent a day. The 2009 growth represented a slight increase over the first quarter of 2008, in which spam volume increased at a slightly slower rate of 1 percent per day.

Spam levels continued to rise steadily in 2008 before taking a nosedive in November of that year following the takedown of ISP McColo. Upstream providers disconnected from McColo after a security report emerged indicating that the ISP was reputed to host phishing, child pornography and malware sites.

Meanwhile, data suggest that spammers are adopting new strategies to prevent future McColo-type takedowns that would permanently disconnect them from their upstream providers. Specifically, the report states that recent spam trends indicate that spammers are building botnets that are more sophisticated but send out diminished total quantities of spam.

The most significant development in spam was the appearance of location-based spam, in which users click on an embedded link in a message and are subsequently directed to a Web site that contains a phony news headline describing a crisis or disaster in a major nearby city.

The attack, which appears legitimate due to its specificity, actually customizes the user’s location by determining the user’s source IP and then identifying the nearest major city. The phishing messages will often lure users with news of an area that has relevance to their home town and will often contain a video or malicious link that the user is instructed to open. However, once opened, the downloader will often contain malicious code designed to steal sensitive information and record keystrokes.

In addition, spammers are continuing to send out messages capitalizing on the weak economy, the credit crisis, widespread layoffs and resume help services. Spam also spiked near the presidential inauguration and St. Patrick’s Day — major news events and holidays that historically have generated higher-than-average Web traffic.

In malware trends, payload viruses — spam messages with attached viruses — have experienced a nine-fold increase between February and March 2009, according to the report. Google researchers say that one explanation for the uptick could be that spammers resorted to payload viruses after finding limited success with other kinds of targeted attacks.

In addition, viruses delivered from blended attacks — phishing messages sent via e-mail, which then redirect users to a malicious Web site to download malware — were also on the rise. E-cards, in particular, were a popular vehicle in blended threats, especially during Valentine’s Day this year, when users were more likely to open e-cards and other attachments sent from unknown sources.

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