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Ixwebhosting OScommerce shopping cart

admin — Sun, 23 May 2010 10:04:20 +0000

Ixwebhosting account is perfectly setup so you can run Oscommerce shopping cart without any problems. Your account have the latest PHP programming language, latest MySQL database system and web server, which is excellent to get maximum optimization and performance with Oscommerce. On our test oscommerce run without any problems.

Oscommerce Shopping Cart

OSommerce is a shopping cart software that allows you to create an online store or ecommerce site. It is one of the oldest shopping cart scripts with lots of features. Supports extensions system where new features can be added without altering core code of the script. Template system is supported as of version 3. Many features by default are included: several languages available, unlimited products and categories, many product options, multi currency, many payment gateways and lots of other features. It is beeing used by many webmasters to create web stores. The latest version 3 will include even more features and options.

Ixwebhosting SSL certificates

admin — Sat, 01 May 2010 19:58:34 +0000

Ixwebhosting supports shared SSL on their servers. Shared SSL protects the same way data like dedicated SSL certificate but the customer may see a warning when access your site and the site seal won’t be valid, but the important thing is that yet it protects and encrypts your data. Shared SSL is accessible to https://domain.c5.ixwebhosting.com where c5 is the control panel you are on and the domain is the domain name. Dedicated SSL is also available and can be installed freely. You need to buy a SSL certificate from third party. Installation is easy and steps are provider in this tutorial: http://www2.ixwebhosting.com/index.php/v2/pages.manual11 .

SSL certificates

SSL certificates encrypt and protect the data that tranels between the server and the computer the visitor access your web site. SSL is a must for ecommerce sites, online stores, banks, or any other sites where vital information (credit cards or the like) is transferred. Visitors and customers are more confident when they know there is a https and site seal, it increases your sales and keeps your customers.

IX Web Hosting Nameservers address

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:07:26 +0000

After the sing up process with ixwebhosting web hosting provider is completed you are sent welcome e-mail with all the information you need to host your website including account username and password and namerservers. Nameservers are in the following format:

nsxxx.ixwebhosting.com
nsxxx.ixwebhosting.com

At least two namserevers are required and need to be changed at your domain name registrar (where you have registered or currently hold your domain name). After you change the name servers typically there is a 24-48 hours propagation before all DNS servers worldwide are updating for the changes.

Nameservers

Nameservers are the used for resolving domain names to IP address. Every host (computer, server or device) that is connected to the Internet needs to have unique IP address at the moment of connecting. So when yo want to open some webpage you enter the web address, and the process of resolving begins. Your computer asks the nameservers of the domain in question and once they are resolved to some IP address the browser connects to that IP address and requests the web page. After it receives the html code it renders it and the page is showed to you.

Ixwebhosting New Home Page Design

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:15:31 +0000

Ixwebhosting.com have recently changed their home page design. The new home page looks better, everything is well structured and in place. Although the structure is not much changed, only there are few new things added. One thing added is the uptime guarantee of 99.9%. This very good plus for ixwebhosting. Uptime of 99.9% is excellent uptime and your site will be available almost all the time. The prices and other features of hosting plans are not changed. There is current ongoing promotion at ix web hosting – regular price is $6.95 discounted price is $3.95 monthly. So if you are thinking of signing up with ixwebhosting then this is the right time to signup and save money. The promotion may end soon. In case you are not satisfied with the service there is 30 day unconditional money-back guarantee, so if you cancel you will get refund. We have been three months with them and we are very satisfied from the service they offer.

IXWebHosting Dedicated IP address

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:41:17 +0000

It is good your website to have dedicated IP address because you have unique address on the internet, you can use SSL certificate for your website, and some say that it helps get better search engine rankings. SSL certificate is a very good to have, because it allows you secure access of your visitors to your website. SSL certificates price is from $50/year and above depending on the certificate. You will probably won’t need to buy dedicated IP address on IxWebHosting because all plans come with a number of unique IP addresses. Expert plan comes with 2 dedicated IP addresses, Business Plus comes with 2 IPs, and Unlimited Pro comes with 15 IPs. VPS plans come with two dedicated IP addresses. There lots of other features with these plans for cheap price.

Ixwebhosting VPS Virtual Private Server Hosting Review

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:47:35 +0000

VPS or Virtual Private Servers are Virtually created servers where parent software manages its resources (CPU, RAM, Disk space and other). They are between shared hosting and dedicated servers. The difference between VPS and dedicated is that dedicated servers have more resources available than VPS, but VPS are cheaper and you can install software, custom programs for services, add custom modules, pretty much anything you can do on dedicated you can do on VPS. Most hosts allow root access so you have full control over your VPS. VPS hosting have become very popular in recent years, mostly because on shared environment you are very limited with resources while with VPS you have more freedom and more resources. For example you may want to create your own game server (something you can’t do in shared hosting).

Ixwebhosting VPS hosting

Linux and Windows VPS are available on IX Webhosting. Linux VPS is better and cheaper unless you need some special windows software to be installed on your virtual private server. There are 3 linux plans offered and each plan includes unlimited hosted domains/sites, burstable RAM, 2 dedicated IP addresses, Root/Admin access, Free cPanel/Plesk on selective plans and several operating systems to choose from.

IX Web Hosting Uptime for February 2010

admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:12:49 +0000

Ix webhosting uptime have been good in February, though other hosts I have an account with are better. Out of 1321 checks only 16 failed, with total of 97.279% uptime for February 2010. The average response time (the time the web server needs to respond) was 0.571 seconds which is excellent. So far, the average uptime since December 2009 is 97.962% which is good. For monitoring the uptime of this review blog which is hosted at ixwebhosting.com, I have an account with serviceuptime.com. The check interval is 30 minutes. Click here to view the current uptime – live link of the monitoring report. Here is also screenshot:

Three months have passed since I signed up with ixwebhosting, and so far they have been great. I have not had any issues whatsoever.

How to get the best discount ($417.24 off) on IX Web Hosting

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:29:04 +0000

To get the best discount on IXwebhosting follow this secret link and get 20% off of any hosting plan. You do not need to use any ixwebhosting coupon.

In my example below I choose the unlimited plan. You can choose the economy plan or other plan and still get 20% with this link.

The price for one month is: $16.95 (with $30 setup), for three months is $11.95/monthly, 1 year is $8.95/monthly.

You will save this way the most because the monthly price is lower when you go for 3 years annually. The total savings will be $360(regular savings for choosing triennial billing cycle) + $57.24 (secret link) up to $417.24 in total savings!!

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The best ixwebhosting plan is the unlimited pro hosting plan and on this plan you will get the best discount possible. The plan comes with tons of features including 3 Free domain names. This ixwebhosting review blog is hosted by ixwebhosting.

Ixwebhosting FTP Review

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:46:06 +0000

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) sets the standard for transferring (uploading, downloading and other commands) files (text/binary) over the TCP/IP (The Internet as we all know it). To use ftp you will need ftp client and server. The server have access to the files and folders and manipulates them when commands are send from the client. Files or directories may be uploaded, deleted, modified, download from the server. The server can be configured to allow anonymous logins or can be configured to allow only authenticated users (and those users to have special permissions on what files/folders can they have access to, how much bandwidth or storage are they allowed etc, etc). The most popular FTP client is Filezilla – the free FTP solution, is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, or you can directly use your browser (firefox supports browsed based FTP) to access your FTP server.

IxWebhostingPad FTP test

Ixwebhosting FTP was excellent. Files and folder transferred fast with no lags or delays. You can have unlimited FTP accounts on Ixwebhosting, you can setup them so they have access to specific folder (domain), which is quite useful if you plan to give your friends access to specific parts of your web site.

IX Web Hosting phpBB Review

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:59:31 +0000

PhpBB (short for php Bulletin Board) is forum software for creating online communities. It is free open-source, licensed under GNU GPL license. It offers many features found in paid ones of this kind. Some features are: powerful user/permissions setup with usergroups, moderators, administrators, access control lists, create forums, subforums, internationalization/localization, user registration with captcha validation(optional), bbcode and many others, check the official website: http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/ . Template and extension systems are also one of the features available. PHPBB is built with php (the best web programming language!) and uses mysql database as a storage. Several other database systems are also supported: postgresql, mssql, oracle, firebird, sqlite and others. Since its creation in 2000, it have become the most popular free internet forum software. There is large phpbb community of users, individuals and developers. So if you do not have money to buy software like vbulletin, phpbb or mybb is the choice for your next online community.

I have tested phpbb on Ix Web Hosting, and it runs great. Though I think that for serious website, you will need vbulletin. PHPbb can be installed manually or via the one-click installer control panel tool.