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Colocation and KVM

paul — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:56:48 +0000

A piece of hardware that allows you to control to many computers from a single access point like monitor, mouse or keyboard is called KVM, it can be video, keyboard or mouse. Whole process is controlled by a switch (KVM over Switch) on a hardware. This switch allows to you switch between the multiple computers. There are two forms of KVM, most famous one is KVM over IP it is also known as remote KVM is majorly used in Colocation facilities and Data Centers. The other KVM is the one which can only be used in a radius of 1550 feet. Om order to catch the mouse, video or keyboard signals there is a microcontroller in KVM. The signals received are than compressed into packets and then using Ethernet they are send to a remote location. In this remote location they are decomposed and again are converted into a keyboard, mouse or graphic image command. When your servers are at a colocation facility you can use remote KVM. You can access your servers with the use of KVM over IP from your location and without any need of coming down to the Data Center. Tasks which normally would have required you can also be performed using the KVM over IP. Normal browsers like Mozilla, Internet Explorer, are also provided by some colocation providers with operating systems like Linux, Mac, and Windows. Another major benefit of KVM over IP is that it helps you to upgrade or install new operating systems or other software on your servers sitting at your home. Troubleshoot is also allowed on the server that lost its connection.

Reaping the Benefits of Cloud Computing

paul — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:07:57 +0000

There are many advantages associated with Cloud Computing, but not everyone can be benefited from those advantages. Only few specific businesses are there which can be benefited from Cloud Computing. Below are some of those business which reap maximum profit from Cloud Computing -

Business travelers – Your office changes regularly, you keeps on shifting from one locality to another, one city to another. In such conditions it become hard to keep track of all your important applications and documents. With Cloud Computing you don’t have to worry about which application is installed on your Computer. Also Cloud computing gives you complete freedom of not remembering where you keep the documents. All your applications and documents are safe on Cloud and they will be there wherever you will go and you can access them from anywhere you will get an Internet Connection. Compatibility and reliability are not issues on Cloud Computing.

Users Aware of Cost – We all know cloud computing can save you a lot of money on both software and hardware. You don’t have to invest heavily in fast CPU’s with lots of memory and large hard disks, because everything is stored on Internet and also ran from there. You can save a lot of money by buying a computer with less features. Like wise you can save a lot of on software. For an example instead of spending money on Microsoft Office buy Zoho Office or Google Docs instead and that is for zero. If you are on low budget this will work for you perfectly.

Associates – If you are working on group projects or with many peoples, then cloud computing will work best for you. Cloud Computing makes associate business fun done with a lots of ease. There is great advantage of Cloud Computing that it you can share and edit in real time between multiple users. You don’t have to worry for sharing your documents and applications each and every time you update your work. It will be accessible for all the users in your group, thus a lot of time will be saved.

Increase Needs – suppose your needs keeps on increasing every now and then, you need more hard disk to store new folders. Without Cloud only option left for you is buying a new hard disk that will cost you a lot. Instead you can choose Cloud computing a much cheaper option and with lots of other features. One more advantage it will let you run your favorite program which needs another new software update. Again without cloud computing you will have to buy the whole software which can burn a hole in your pocket.

Important port numbers in cPanel

paul — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:56:20 +0000

The following are commonly used port numbers in cpanel, to login to your cpanel. you’ll have to use those ports in the form of http://www.domain.com:2082/

Port 2082 -> Cpanel default port
Port 2083 -> Cpanel over SSL
Port2086 -> Cpanel Webhost Manager (default)
Port 2087 -> Cpanel Webhost Manager (with https)
Port 2095 -> Cpanel Webmail
Port 2096 -> Cpanel secure webmail over SSL

if you are using a firewall make sure you should unblock those ports in TCP. You can also add the following Ports;

Port 80 > Apache HTTP web server
Port 21 > FTP
Port 22 > SSH (you will get lot of ssh attacks if you leave it open. change the port to something else)
Port 25 > SMTP (outgoing email)
Port 110 > POP3 (incoming email)
Port 53 > DNS server (if you run DNS server)