Tag: web hosting

Managed Virtual Private Server (VPS) / Cloud Server Hosting

EACOMM Philippines is now offering Virtual Private Server Hosting to complement its shared and grid hosting offerings. Features include: Real-time scaling of server resources. Our VPS Cloud Infrastructure allows you to increase and decrease the specifications of your server with little or no downtime. Just give us a call and we will upgrade or downgrade your cloud server specifications in a matter of minutes. Full Root Access with your choice of Linux distribution including Arch, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Red Hat and Ubuntu. Metered bandwidth, pay only for what you use! Daily and Weekly Backups Optional assistance in configuring your server as a web server, email server, VoIP PBX, or even a remote Linux workstation! Housed in US-based Data Centers with 99.99% assured up-time. EACOMM VPS SERVER PACKAGES: RAM HDD Monthly Cost* Test Server 256 MB 10 GB PHP 900.00 Personal Server 512 MB 20 GB PHP 1,700.00 Small Business Server 1024 MB 40 GB PHP 3,300.00 Enterprise Server 2048 MB 80GB PHP 6,500.00 *All Prices are VAT Exclusive BANDWIDTH COST (INBOUND): PHP 6.00/GB +VAT (i.e. uploading content to your server) BANDWIDTH COST (OUTBOUND):  PHP 15.00/GB +VAT (i.e. visitors to your website) OPTIONAL SERVER SETUP ASSISTANCE: Starts at Php 5,000.00+VAT FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT US AT: EACOMM Integrated Solutions Division Telephone: +63 2 438 2986 Email: solutions@eacomm.com

EACOMM Corporation is now offering Cluster/Grid-Server Hosting

EACOMM Corporation is proud to announce it is now offering Managed Cluster Server Web Hosting for its web clients. This is in addition to EACOMM’s current shared and dedicated hosting services. Cluster Server Hosting (or sometimes called Cloud or Grid Hosting) means that your website is hosted not on one server but is sharing the resources of dozens if not hundreds of servers with other sites hosted in the cluster. This provides the following distinct advantages: Reduced Downtime – By not being dependent on just one single computer, the risk of downtime is greatly reduced. For shared hosting, your website is hosted in a single server with a couple of hundred other websites and as such if that server goes down so does your website. By being hosted in a cluster, a single hardware failure will not mean your site will go down! Real-time  Scalability – One of the greatest advantages of a cluster-hosted website is the ability to scale resources in real-time. For example, if your blog/news website has some breaking news that goes viral, the Cluster Server will automatically provide the resources to ensure that your blog doesn’t crash due to the sudden increase in web traffic. On regular shared hosting environments, the massive increase of traffic will greatly slow your website or worse force your provider to shutdown your site so as not to affect their other clients residing on the same server as you. Cheaper than Dedicated Hosting – As you’re still sharing resources with other clients, cluster hosting is a lot more cost effective than dedicated hosting where you have full control of your own server. Cluster Server Hosting is a ‘middle ground’ from dirt-cheap shared hosting costing as less than Php 250.00/month and dedicated hosting that costs upwards of Php 5,000.00/month. EACOMM offers managed grid-server hosting (meaning you don’t need to fiddle with any control panels or setups as we’ll do all the configuration for you and change them on your request) starting at just Php 880.00/month* with the following specifications: 20 GB 50GB of hosting space 500GB monthly bandwidth 50 email addresses 99.9% assured up-time Free domain name registration FTP/SSH Access Web-based e-mail Web-based database management LAMP/Ruby on Rails-ready CPU/Bandwidth Overcharge: Php 7.50 per excess GB or CPU-cycle at the end of the month Cluster Servers located in US-based Tier IV Data Centers Phone/Email Support from EACOMM Corporation For more information email us at info@eacomm.com or give us a call at +63 2 438 2986 *Minimum subscription contract of one (1) year

Choosing a Web Hosting Provider

Choosing a Web hosting provider is perhaps the most difficult task for the new webmaster. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of web hosting providers in the Internet and the sad truth is a vast majority of these are not very good.  Additionally, we all have different criteria on judging whether a host is good or not. Here are some questions to ask to help you make this very critical decision: 1.       Quality of Service/Uptime Commitments – Do you need your site to be 99.99% up? Or are a couple of days of downtime in a year perfectly ok? Hosts that provide up-time commitments are typically more expensive than those that do not. 2.       Technical Support – Do you expect/need phone support? Or are you happy with just e-mail support? Regardless of your preference, make sure your hosting provider gives a fast reply to any technical support request.  Response times of over 24 hours when your email is down is UNFORGIVEABLE, regardless of how cheap you’re paying your provider. 3.       Shared vs. Dedicated – Another critical question you need to ask yourself is whether you need a dedicated server space or you’re fine with shared hosting. Dedicated server essentially means you have a server all to yourself while shared server space means you share a server and its resources with several other clients of the company. For sites with heavy traffic, resource requirements or unique applications then a dedicated server would be more logical. However, sites getting only a few hundred visitors per day would usually do perfectly fine on a shared server. 4.       Company Reputation/Reviews – It is absolutely critical you research hard before settling for a web hosting provider. Ask friends their experience with their hosts, and google heavily for reviews and commentary on hosting providers you’re eyeing. Note that EVERY hosting provider has its good and bad points and it is really a question of what your own priorities are that will ultimately guide your decision. Luckily, sites such as  Web Hosting Choice provides a helpful start for those of you looking for a new web host.

Setting Up Google Adsense for Domains in Dreamhost

For those of you who have idle domains parked/hosted with Dreamhost, below is a short walk-through on how to use Google’s Adsense for Domains on your Dreamhost domain(s). Go to Domains -> Manage Domains and locate the domain you want to use Adsense for Domains on. On the Web Hosting Column (the 3rd from left)..click on DELETE for the selected domain. If you don’t do this, the DNS settings for the domain will be “locked” by Dreamhost and you’ll get an error saying that your entries are invalid or have a duplicate.  Next, click on DNS on the first column under the domain name of you site. If you did the first step correctly there shouldn’t be a lot of entries left for “Non-editable DreamHost DNS records for yourdomain.com” section. Make sure the Nameservers are pointing to Dreamhost (ns1.dreamhost.com, ns2.dreamhost.com, ns3.dreamhost.com). Next, on the custom DNS section, type”www” for the name, then select “CNAME” for the type and for the “value” put in pub-xxxxxxxxx.afd.ghs.google.com. where pub-xxxxxxxxx is your unique Adsense for Domains ID. (you’ll find this on the Adsense Setup-Adsense for Domains in google.com/adsense). Once done with that it’s time to put in four (4) A records pointing to the following IP Addresses with the “name field” left as BLANK (as oppose to the walkthrough here: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=76049 which says you need to put an “@” value: Host Name/Alias Record Type Value/Destination <LEAVE BLANK!> A (address) 216.239.32.21 <LEAVE BLANK!> A (address) 216.239.34.21 <LEAVE BLANK!> A (address) 216.239.36.21 <LEAVE BLANK!> A (address) 216.239.38.21 After step 5 go back to your Google Adsense account and click “Request Ownership Verification” on the Actions drop-down. That’s about it! Just wait a few hours and your site should be verified and ready for customization via Google Adsense.

Yourname.com Blog Hosting for just US$2.00/month

Yourname.com Blog Hosting for just US$2.00/month EACOMM Corporation is offering for a limited time only,  Blog Hosting for just US$24 per year! Yourname.com (or .org, .net, .biz) 8 GB of  Web Space 8 Email Addresses Pre-installed with WordPress Blog Engine FTP Access (ftp.yourdomain.com) This hosting service is not only ideal for Blogs but for small information websites which can be updated with little to no knowledge of HTML! Unique Web Page Layout for your Website/Blog For a one-time fee of US$150.00 we will provide you with a Unique Layout for your WordPress Blog/Website. Three (3) Layouts/themes will be presented to the client to choose from Inclusion of simple Flash banners/animation For more information about this limited offer email info@eacomm.com or call +63 2 438 2986.

June 6, 2007 Hacking Incident

On Early morning Philippine time, some of our virtual servers hosted with Dreamhost were broken into and a number of webpages vandalized. EACOMM provides hourly, daily and weekly backups of all its web sites and as of noontime of June 7, most, if not all websites have been recovered to its original state. This marks the second time EACOMM servers have been hacked in the company’s six years in existence. At both times recovery of all client sites took approximately 24 hours. For our clients, please notify web@eacomm.com of any further problems with your webpages that might have been overlooked during the recovery process. Please understand that we had to recover a few dozen websites in a span of just 24 hours so please forgive our support team if your specific site or webpage was overlooked. Despite of this we stand by our choice of using Dreamhost for most of our website hosting needs, however,if any client wishes to be hosted elsewhere, please notify web@eacomm.com and we will provide you viable alternatives to our main hosting servers. EACOMM currently maintains 2 Virtual Servers in the United States, 1 Dedicated Server in the UK, and 2 Dedicated servers in the Philippines. Note that web hosting prices vary depending on which server you prefer. For more information about the hacking incident, Dreamhost’s official report on the matter is posted here: http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/06/06/security-breach/  EACOMM CORPORATION WEB DIVISION

Hosting Promo by EACOMM and Dreamhost.com!

EACOMM Corporation in cooperation with Dreamhost.com is offering $50.00 OFF on any ANNUALLY PAID Hosting Plan. Just visit Dreamhost.com, select an ANNUAL plan you like (we recommend the CODE MONSTER SALE!) and type: eacomm50off when asked for a Promotional Code (near the bottom of the Signup page). Enjoy!!!

Los Angeles Blackout Downs EACOMM Web Servers

A Massive Los Angeles Blackout caused by ‘Human Error’ took down EACOMM Corporation’s co-located web servers in the Los Angeles Area. As of 9:45AM Philippine Time, our Web Hosting Provider has indicated that power has been brought back up and Web Services are now being re-initiated. We expect everything to be back to normal in the next 3-4 hours.