webhosting Control Panel checklist :

Control panels are must for managing your webhosting account and are offered for free or at much cheaper cost. All webhost offers you control panel with their hosting plans. You have range of webhosting control panels available, you can choose any one as per your requirements and budget. Most popular webhosting control panels are cPanel, Plesk, Helm, WHM etc… Control panels are very useful for managing your webhosting account they  give you freedom for managing all your domains, subdomains, FTP accounts, email accounts, adding blogs, forums to your website etc… If you are not much technically sound then webhosting control panels are made for you. They have very user friendly interface and are easy to navigate and manage.

What to look while choosing control panel :
You should go through demo version for your provided control panel so that you can go through its interface and can crosscheck for its functionality. Most webhost offers you with control panel but as a webmaster you should always check its functionality. You should also check for its Graphics Interface, OS they support, their features etc…

Graphical Interface : Structure and design of your control panel should be easy to understand and navigate as you would be using it most of the time and thus its interface should be easy to understand and operate. Almost all control panels provides you with different skins which can be customize as per your feel and requirements, you can change fonts, colors and structure for design of your control panel.

Support for operating system : This is most important feature which should be look into before proceeding with any host. Make sure the OS you are using is supported for the provided control panel. Most control panel support Windows OS and Linux OS but if you are using Apple Mac OS X then you should check if provided webhosting control panel would work fine on Apple systems.

Fulfilling your needs : Make sure to check if the control panel which is provided by your webhost has all features that you are looking for. Your webhosting Control panel should fulfill all your technical stuffs which you may need to get done. If your main concern for using control panel is for setting domains and email accounts for your clients then make sure you can manage these stuffs easily using your control panel.

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This post was written by on September 29, 2008

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FTP error codes…

FTP is most widely used application using which you can manage upload download data for your website/server. While using FTP program you may come across many error or message which you need to understand and will have to react accordingly.
Following are few of them which you should know.
421 -: too many users logged to the same account.

530 -: It represent that wrong login password has been used

550 -: If the file exist it means you have no access to the file or dir. 550 error message stats that the account you have currently logged in does not have permission to perform the action you are trying to execute or you may be trying to upload to the wrong directory or trying to delete a file.

120 :- Service ready in  minutes.

125 :-  Transfer of data started, data connection is with server is open

150 :- File status okay; about to open data connection.

200 :- no error with fired command.

202 :- specified command is not implemented

211 :- System status

212 :- Shows directory status.

213 :- shows file status.

214 :- you can get meaning of a particular non-standard command very useful for non technical support guys.

220 :- Service ready for new user.

221 :- it stats that particular service is closing control connection.

225  :- Data connection open; no transfer in progress.

226  :- Closing data connection.

227  :- Entering Passive Mode

230  :- User logged in, proceed.

250  :- Requested file action okay, completed.

331  :- User name okay, need password.

332  :- Need account for login.

350  :- Requested file action pending further information

421  :- Service not available, closing control connection.

425  :- Can’t open data connection.

426  :- It indicates that connection is closed; and transfer is aborted.

450  :- Requested file action not taken.

451  :- Requested action aborted. Local error in processing.

452  :- Requested action not taken may be due to insufficient storage space in system.File unavailable (e.g., file busy).

500  :- Syntax error, command unrecognized. This may include errors such as command line too long.

501 :-  Syntax error in parameters or arguments.

502  :- Command not implemented.

503  :- Bad sequence of commands.

504  :- Command not implemented for that parameter.

530  :- Not logged in.

532  :- Need account for storing files.

550  :- Requested action not taken. Reason : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access).

551  :- Requested action aborted. Reason :  Page type unknown.

552  :- Requested file action aborted due to exceeded storage allocation (for current directory or dataset).

553  :- Requested action not taken. File name not allowed.

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This post was written by on September 26, 2008

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WordPress : Most popular Blogging software

There are many blogging softwares available on the net which can be used for developing your dream blog. Few of them are Wordpress, Drupal, B2evolution, Nucleus etc…  You can see most webmaster prefer  WordPress as their blogging software as its most easy to use and is more Search engine friendly, You can consider Wordpress as most popularly blogging software and is widely used by webmaster who are behind creating blogs.  Installing a wordpress blog is very easy and does not require much technical knows, even a newcomer can install it and can start blogging.  You just need few tuning within wordpress so that your blog would be much Search engine friendly. You can do so using Wordpress interface, you don’t have to get into programming like PHP if you need to change anything if you want to do so.  WordPress also offers you many useful plugins which can be used/install for your blog so that you have all latest utilities for your blog thus it can designed much search engine friendly.  You can consider a special plugin for getting meta description tags for all of your blog post, as you don’t have this feature activated by default.

WordPress is best for you if you just want to blog your articles and don’t want to get your hands dirty into programming, designing etc…
If you are satisfied with all theme ( appearances ) which are provided with WordPress then WordPress is for you.  You can consider Wordpress as a good choice for most casual bloggers who are not much tech savy or a newcomer.

There are thousands of most popular blogs which are created using Wordpress and are running smoothly, thus you can consider WordPress as a Gift for you :)

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This post was written by on September 24, 2008

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