WHMCS Billing & Client Management System
By admin | September 1, 2008
If you’re looking for a billing system which is easy to set-up and use, WHMCS might be one of your preferred choice to give a try. It has simple setup and integration, and once you’ve set it up, all packages are quite easy to restore and maintain. WHMCS follow the industry standard, and uses excellent template system which is just simple whenever you would like to change the header and footer files.
WHMCS isn’t constrained to just web hosting, You can sell all kinds of tangible or intangible products integrating a shopping cart and add configurable options for dedicated servers and custom fields for additional data. It is best billing & support solution for Web Hosts & Other Online Businesses. Some of the feature here which make it truly a powerful billing system.
* Easy to Use Client Area with Integrated Support Tools
* Fully Customisable Client Area with a Powerful Templating System
* Automated Hosting/Domain Provisioning & Management
* Payment Tracking, Accounting Features & Statistical Report
* Automated Recurring Credit Card Billing
* Development Kits, Action Hooks & an API for integrating & extending
* Automatic invoice generation x days before items are due, reminders and overdue notices all automated
* Ability to create one-off invoices - ideal for web design/consultancy firms
* Automated Recurring Billing & Simple One Time Invoicing
* Flexible Product Options, Custom Welcome Emails, Fields & Options
* 3D Secure (Verified by Visa & Mastercard SecureCode) for gateways that support it (ProtX & Quantum Gateway)
* PDF Invoicing Support
* Automated credits on overpayments and application to invoices
* Account Prefunding Option for Clients
* Clients can order upgrades/downgrades to their products & services from the client area
* Promotions support both one time & recurring, fixed value or percentage incentives
* Offer Free Domains when bought in conjunction with certain packages/billing cycles
* Tax Support with ability for Multiple Tax Zones & Tax Exemptions
I have just added few important features above however their feature is not just limited to this, to check more about their feature and support tools you may wish to check their main website.
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Hosting Bookmark
By admin | July 26, 2008
Hostingbookmarks.com has most of the similar feature like digg, its good platform to share hosting news and useful information with social hosting community. It let you share hosting experiences, hosting news, technical news and other useful articles with users. It get much similar like digg functionality with an average social voting system where users can vote the best article.
They cover most of the categories for just about every hosting topic that include topic from General hosting news, SEO, e-mail, domains, tutorials, events…and so on.. They invite people from specific hosting field to get involved in sharing knowledge and experience of various products and services to each other through bookmarking valuable content.
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Streaming Media
By admin | June 14, 2008
Streaming media allow you to stream video content live and in real time, you can swing viewing or listening such as preview, video clips and view again features. With little simple equipment and little censorship or viewing control, you can be able to broadcast an audio-visual material on a worldwide.
Through Internet-connected device, or a PC or something more specific, the user can access on-line media in much the same way as it was earlier feasible only with a television or radio receiver. However the range of content vary like for Podcasting you can use variation, you can download in full the audio material and play back on a computer or shift to a digital audio player for listening. Also On -demand streams are being stored on a server for a longer period, and are made accessible at a user’s request.
YouTube, is one of the best example for video streaming because of the enormous number of daily users and grown up popularity in a short time span since it was launched on February 15, 2005 and now it is world number one website for free streaming video. It uses a flash-based web player which streams video files in the format FLV. Users are able to watch videos without creating account. The users those wish to upload video can get an unlimited amount of videos and create own personal profile and subscriber list. As per an estimation currently approx 825,000 new videos are uploaded every day in youtube, which is really amazing!
For web hosting of streaming media site you need greater network & control, higher bandwidth and 24×7 technical support, this should be your priority while looking for video hosting providers.
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Backup Bookmark in Firefox
By admin | June 8, 2008
Due to some glitches you may find sometime the bookmarks stored in Firefox become corrupted or by any reason you lost your bookmarks within couple of days, you need not to worry as you can restore them from the set of backups that Firefox maintains. Here below are steps to restore your bookmarks backups;
* Select File from the menu at the top of the Firefox window and then select the Exit menu item.
* Reboot your computer.
* When the computer restarts, select the Start Menu in the Windows Taskbar and select Run.
* In the Run dialog, enter the following:
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
* Click OK.
* A window displays all your Firefox profiles as a set of folders.
* Each Profile folder is named something like the following:
xxxxxxxx.<ProfileName>
where xxxxxxxx is an assortment of random letters or numerals
<ProfileName> corresponds to the name of the profile.
* For example, the folder containing the default profile is named xxxxxxxx.default.
* Select the folder for your current profile.
* In the profile folder, the file bookmarks.html stores your bookmarks and has become corrupted. Right-click this file, and select Rename….
* Rename the file to a unique name, such as the following:
bookmarks_backup.html
* Open the folder named bookmarkbackups.
* In the bookmarks backup folder, you should see up to five files with names like the following
bookmarks-xxxx-xx-xx.html
The xxxx-xx-xx corresponds to the date the backup was made.
* You must copy one of these backups to the profile folder. Right-click the most recently dated backup. Select Copy.
* Go back to the previous folder, which now contains the bookmarks_backup.html file.
* Right-click in the white space of the folder. Select Paste.
* Right click the file you just pasted (bookmarks-xxxx-xx-xx.html). Select Rename….
* Rename the file to bookmarks.html
* Restart Firefox. now you can locate your bookmarks from the bookmark Menu.
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Choosing a Backup type
By admin | May 25, 2008
Here are the different types of backup which you can do yourself following simple instructions.
Systems Backups
Check if it is enabled on your server, you can download a backup that was created by the server with either a daily or weekly backup depending on your need.
Full Backup
Especially if you’ve planned to switch over another web hosting company, a full backup is necessary. It makes it very easy to have everything back as it was earlier. To generate a full back up just click the Generate and Download a Full Backup link in through your cPanel back-up utility Image: backup.gif. It will then take you to a page to fill to further procedure to complete back up process.
Backup Destination: You will need a destination once the server has finished making backup. However it would be better if you leave this as default or make it password protected directory so that no one else may have access to it.
Email Address: once the back-up is complete and downloadable you will need to get notification sent to your email address.
Remote Server (FTP/SCP only): This is used for if you want the back-up sent to a location that is not within your own web space.
Remote User (FTP/SCP only): Username for above remote server.
Remote Password (FTP/SCP only): Password for above remote server/username.
Port (FTP/SCP only): Port number required for remote server.
Remote Dir (FTP/SCP only): The directory in which you want the back-up saved ( on the remote server ).
Usually leaving the default selections is fine. Once you get the e-mail confirmation, download your back-up and delete it from your web space for security reason.
Home Directory Backup
it is almost like full back-up, but cannot be used to transfer sites across web hosts using cPanel.
To get your home directory backup, just on clicking the Download a home directory Backup link in your cPanel’s back-up utility Image:backup.gif will appear. Your browser will prompt you to download your back-up.
MySQL Database Backup
Depending on your need you may require only back-up your individual MySQL databases, you can get full your home back ups, your databases are also located inside of your Full and Home back-ups which let you do the backup.
In addition through cPanel you can find your each database listed there. You’ll require just to click on the database you wish to downloaded.
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