You should know what to do while you go to the home page of registrar. There is no use in confusing the customer service representative. When you want to move a domain name registered with one registrar to another registrar you have to be extra careful in conducting the procedure. While changing registrar of record into domain name you have to initiate the transfer needs. You can move your domain to the gaining registrar company. For initiating the transfer, you can either go to website or call up the registrar. If you do not have an account, you can set up a new account in a few minutes. With a simple online procedure, registrars allow you to easily initiate the transfer. You have to simply log on to your account, click transfer domain, enter domain name and click OK. With this, the transfer process begins, and an email is sent by gaining registrar to admin contact for domain name in WHOIS database. The email contains the link to be clicked and acceptance of domain transfer takes place. If the transfer is not accepted through the hyperlink by the admin contact, the gaining registrar will reject the transfer. The entire process may take just a week for you. In case the email address in WHOIS record of admin contact is not correct, you have to update them. The process depends on the information contained in database of the registrar. You have to take adequate steps to initiate the transfer before its expiry. When the transfer request is approved by admin contact, gaining registrar notifies the domain ID to the registry. The registry informs registrar about the continuance after checking status of domain. When you know the steps and remember key points, transferring your domain name becomes a very easy and smooth process.

On the linux platform, simply enter

traceroute www.thehostuwanttotraceroute.com

on windows OS (from the DOS command line shell):

tracert www.thehostuwanttotraceroute.com

You can also turn off the hostname resolving, -d on the Windows, -n in Linux Shell.

As a web address proprietor, you had better be knowledgeable of how to protect yourself.

Make sure you keep track of your domain names & when they expire. Keep your contact details fully up to date.

Be aware who is listed in your domain contact information.

Be wary when using free e-mail addresses from services like G Mail or Yahoo mail Many free e-mail services will remove or suspend your e-mail account if you do not log in frequently enough. Any emails sent in the period that you are suspended will bounce and you will never receive them.

Always make sure you place a registrar lock on your domain. This allows you to lock your domain record at the registry level and prevent it from being transferred, modified or deleted by a third party. This change to your settings is vital and your domain company should be able to help with how to do this.

Remember that any email you receive could be spa, or phishing for your details. Make sure you don’t click on any links or reply to any domain related e-mail correspondence you do not recognize.

In addition to this be careful not to reply to any ‘official looking’ renewal notices you receive in the mail from companies you do not recognize.

Domain hijackers are ‘professionals’ and will often go to any lengths to get your domain name if they think it will be of benefit to them. If there is every doubt, immediately contact your original registrar to verify any suspicious messages.

To make sure that you do not miss any real emails you may have received from your registar, make sure your registrar’s domain name is added to your spam filter’s approved sender list.

To make sure that if there are any delays that your doman is not ever left unregistered – consider renewing your domain name early and for a longer amount of time. If your domain name is critical to your business and is one you will want for years to come, consider renewing your domain registration in five year increments.

All in all there are a small number of mistakes or over sights that could result in the loss of your domain name. Lucky there are just a few simple steps you can take to protect the domain name and make sure it stays yours.

Over the last two years, shared hosting has become quite popular. One reason for this is because they support a number of important file formats and they give the users a great deal of freedom. It is first important for you to understand the difference between these two server types.

As the name suggests, shared hosting is when a user shares the server and its software programs with multiple users. Some of the things which has made it popular are rapid deployment, as well as its reliable resources. Perhaps one of the best things about shared hosting is the costs. In addition to this,shared hosting gives users access to power servers that doesnāt require them to have advanced technical skills. Shared hosting has become a powerful option for either small businesses or individuals. However, shared hosting is not without its disadvantages. The biggest problem with this hosting option is that you must share the server.

Because you are sharing the server with someone else, the server has been calibrated by someone other than yourself. This individual will generally be the server administrator. In other words, you have little control over the server, and you are susceptible to any changes that are made by the administrator. If you need to make an adjustment to the server, you will need to contact the administrator. Getting a hold of the administrator can be challenging, and there is no guarantee that they will honor your request once you contact them. The next server type that you will want to look at is the virtual private servers. Virtual private servers are the talk of the hosting world, and for good reason.

For example you have a web site www.domain.com and you set-up the www.domain2.com as an add-on domain you get the following structure of the directories

Domain.com main folder:
www.domain.com/www/

Domain2.com main folder:
www.domain.com/www/domain2/

so as you see domain2.com will be placed under your main account, so everyone will be able to access domain2.com content as

www.domain.com/domain2/

You can set-up .htaccess redirect or mod rewrite redirect so that all users trying to access the folder using www.domain.com/domain2/ will be automatically forwarded to www.domain2.com

This is very load balancing and clustering comes in – you share the load between multiple hardware boxes, thus your web site is accessible even it’s accessed by thousands of simultaneous web users.

Load is usually balanced in the front-end, thus the backend database is still one or it could be a cluster of databases.

You LAMP box and enjoy the best performance, or even use nginx or cherokee as a front-end web server doing load balancing and static content serving.

Trust me, Cpanel is going strong with a really large market share and it’s quite good for hosting multiple domain names. You have multiple choices:

1. Add-on domains
You have a main site account and you can add on domains that will reside under your homedir as a new folder however it also works with own domain name.

2. Reseller account
Create new account per domain and there you go. The best option of course and best recommended.

3. Normal account per web site
If you have a dedicated server running Cpanel you create new account per site as you would with a full reseller account.

With Cpanel hosting multiple domain names is easy.

Earlier websites were composed of html pages which contained all the data on an individual page. Now, you can find the large portions of website stored in a single MySQL database. When you have MySQL you can work with any major programming language and you can install MySQL on major operating systems. As it is an open source component of LAMP, it is improved in security and operation and is available free of cost. You can use MySQL for most of the popular softwares which operate on the web server. By installing MySQL you can have free access to the programs. To organize the site’s content by database, you can change design of the web site without touching the content. You can learn MySQL on a clean server without losing the data. You can make enquiries whether MySQL is installed in default by the server. When MySQL is not there in the server, you can be download the MySQL from the company and install it yourself.

If you are a new web administrator you can study the detailed manual provided by MySQL AB Company to know more about the software. This manual will be of great help to you in solving the problems. With MySQL, you can index, manage and store the data in database more efficiently. PHP has an integrated and custom MySQL module and communicates with MySQL in an efficient manner. Hence, if you have websites scripted by PHP you can use MySQL database for better performance. The communication between PHP and MySQL is also possible through standard ODBC. MySQL is also very popular as it is ODBC compliant. You can use PHP for connecting with a MySQL database and execute SQL statements. It is easy for you start session with MySQL. You have to first simply connect to MySQL server. Then you have to specify the database in MySQL server for operation. The light and fast database server MySQL has been designed and built to suit high speed tracks. As a prevalent database, MySQL is the best option and feasible method for you to suit your needs.

the default:

$table_prefix = ‘wp_’;

if you plan on having two different wordpress blogs in the same MySQL DB, then specify

$table_prefix = ‘wp_’;

for the first blog, and for second

$table_prefix = ‘wp2_’;

And you should be set-up and running without any problem.

Simple math – I have 3 domains paying $9 per month for each web site – my monthly hosting expenses are $27. I found a multi domain name hosting provider that charges me $20 monthly so I save $7 per month. I can save much more if I register new domain names and launch the web sites. The only drawback is that usually you can have one main user that manages all multiple domain web sites. You cannot share it with others or you break the service agreement.

The only drawback is that if the server goes down, all your sites that are hosted on one multi domain hosting account will be down….