Web hosting is a competitive business. As such, we are always searching for ways to distinguish ourselves from our competitors. With cPanel being our preferred hosting platform that provides our clients with numerous benefits and features, we have found a product that will not only differentiate us from the pack, but it will also provide our clients with a product they can use.
Although RVSiteBuilder is a product that is targeted primarily for web host providers, its primary purpose is to allow our clients to generate a professional website in a short amount of time. This not only provides our clients with a product they can use, it fosters goodwill with our clients. This goodwill can potentially lead to client retention, which is good news for us.
The RVSiteBuilder website claims having approximately 900 templates that are ready for our clients to use. The WYSIWG interface allows both seasoned and novice webmasters to take their sites from concept to operational status with minimal effort.
When you purchase a RVSiteBuilder license, you will have access to a full-featured web application that allows most any user to design their website without having to hire a web developer to do it for them. Listed below are a few of RVSiteBuilder’s many features.
- Full integration with WHM and cPanel.
- A WYSIWIG system that has been recently improved in version 4.
- Automatic updates capability.
- Provides admin with the capability to either enable or disable support for PHP, Java, or Applets.
- An infinite number of end-users.
- An unlimited number of pages for our client’s websites.
- Backups that have been improved with no timeout issues.
- The ability to embed the web host’s ads or PPC codes.
- Templates that are royalty free.
- Both flash and standard templates are available.
- Available for resellers as wells as root access hosts.
- Can be deployed across your entire server network.
- A new publishing and preview system.
- Many more.
There is something that requires mentioning at this point, however. RVSiteBuilder does not come with an integrated store function. If your client needs to set up an ecommerce site, they will need to use the standard shopping carts to do so. As of this writing, there are no plans to implement these functions into RVSiteBuilder. There are also no inbuilt search functions at this time either.
Installation of RVSiteBuilder is only available if you have SSH root access. After you receive your RVSiteBuilder license, you will need to run a command that will both download the script and install RVSiteBuilder onto your server. Updates can be done in a similar manner if you are not using the RVSiteBuilder manager.
RVSiteBuilder integrates seamlessly with cPanel. Once RVSiteBuilder has been installed, the icon will appear just as any other application. You can change the settings in either the WHM or the RVSiteBuilder manager, and your client can launch the application in the same way they do with any other program.
You have your own servers, yet before you are ready to offer web hosting to the masses, you realize that you need a solid, reliable interface. After all, you cannot simply allow your clients access to your server administration interface. That would be an administrative and security nightmare. Do you simply directly contact the folks at cPanel? Is cPanel all that you require, so as to get your servers online and start recovering your investment? No, you contact a reliable business partner whose sole purpose for being in business is for businesspersons like yourself. That business partner is MycPadmin.Com.
The folks at MycPadmin.Com are an enthusiastic group of motived and technically educated people who are there to help aspiring,as well as established web hosts. For more than 10-years, this highly skilled group of individuals has been providing web host support services, and will not only help you with your cPanel setup, they will monitor, maintain, and repair, those setups so that you can focus on running your business.
MycPadmin.Com was founded by a group of entrepreneurs, just like you, who sought to fulfill the need for web hosting support. They understand the negative effects of when a server goes offline, and they know what it takes to maximize the use of your servers.
MycPadmin.Com offers a variety of services that are designed to keep your servers online and functioning properly. This gives you the peace of mind that your clients’ sites will be online and your clients are satisfied. They are also the exclusive server management partner of the largest cPanel license provider, buycpanel.com.
Listed here are a few of the services that this dynamic partnership provides for their clients:
- Server upgrades and securement
- Setting up new servers
- Their Apache experts will be able to secure and optimize your Apache setup.
- Your Mod_Security and PHP will be setup properly.
- They will secure your servers with appropriate rootkit and virus checking.
- They will both install and remove any software for you.
- Log analysis of current logs, and the removal of older logs.
- Disk space cleanup and optimization.
- Firewalls and other security issues.
- Many more
Most of us have been in this situation, where it is 3 a.m.; the server hiccups, and our client’s websites are offline. Our email boxes begin filling, and our phones start ringing with unhappy clients on the other end of the phone wanting to know what is going on.
Web hosting is a 24-hour a day, 7-day a week business, and the people at MycPadmin.Com understand this. That is why there is always someone available at MycPadmin.Com to respond to these kinds of situations should they occur. Servers are monitored; the helpdesk is staffed; and the phone lines are open, 24 hours a day, 7-days a week, including weekends and holidays, so you will never be left to deal with these issues alone.
MycPadmin.Com’s customers are important to them, so they know how important your customers are to you. When you contract them for web hosting support, you are contracting a partner that will be there for the duration.
Fantastico has been making website owner’s lives easier for many years, and continues to be the preferred auto installer on many web hosts and dedicated servers worldwide. The Fantastico website boasts of more than one million end users that have the ability to install a variety of web applications for their websites. The ease of use of having an auto installer, allows everyone with a website to use more of our time in being productive and less time installing software.
Once you purchase a Fantastico license and install it on your server, you have essentially increased the overall satisfaction of your clients through its simplicity and convenience. Although the ease of use is greatly appreciated by seasoned website veterans, Fantastico allows those who are relatively new to web hosting to get their websites operational in less time and effort. Of course, a Fantastico license is available to those who operate their own dedicated servers as well.
Licensed cPanel users who want to implement Fantastico should have no problems as once installed Fantastico operates from the cPanel just as most any other web application. When you want to run Fantastico, you simply click on the icon in your cPanel and the program will launch. It is as simple as following the on-screen instructions.
Fantastico does one thing and it does it very well. It provides an almost one-click application installer that is accessible from cPanel. Unlike some applications, Fantastico will also install applications to subdomains as well as the website’s root domain. It will also install applications to add-on domains as well. This one feature alone provides our client’s with enhanced flexibility.
From a server administrator’s perspective, Fantastico provides:
- A page that allows the administrator to view all applications that our clients, and in the case of resellers-their clients, have installed on their accounts.
- The ability to manage languages.
- Email notifications from users who are requesting installations and removals.
- The ability to provide custom solutions to different users and resellers so they may have or offer a different set of options for their own needs and users.
- The ability to report and correct common problems.
- Instant notification of available software updates.
- A news feed from the Fantastico developer that notifies the administrator of news, updates, security issues, etc.
Of course, not all of the admin features are strictly for server administrators. Our clients also benefit by knowing what applications they have installed; the ability to select a language; email notifications; and a warning if they are logged in on the reseller or user password.
While auto installers such as Softaculous may offer a greater number of available scripts to those who have purchased their license, Fantastico continues to provide those who have purchased a Fantastico license a great variety of scripts that continue to fulfill many of our needs. Among some of the types of scripts that Fantastico is able to auto install include:
- Blogs
- Forums or discussion boards
- Customer support
- Shopping carts
- Billing
- Mailing lists
- Image galleries
- Wikis
- Many, many more
You still cannot go wrong when you purchase a Fantastico license and enjoy the many benefits of a tried and true industry leader.
Operating a web hosting business requires each of us to update constantly not only our knowledge and skills, but also the functional stability and reliability of our servers. Many of the servers in the world today rely on the tried and proven Linux platform. Even with the many different variations of web hosting packages that have become almost common in the web hosting industry, such as shared hosting, VPS hosting, and dedicated servers, Linux is the solid workhorse of the industry. However, one of these hosting packages has its own set of problems.
Shared hosting allows for us to maximize the use of our servers while serving more clients and their web hosting needs. While this concept does work very well, it does present us with a persistent problem. When one of the individual accounts on a shared server has an increase in traffic; executes a poorly written script; or encounters a security problem such as a denial of service attack, most if not all of those accounts on the shared server would experience significant issues, or the server could crash altogether. Given Linux’ strong history in the industry, it is little wonder that there is a Linux based solution to this problem — CloudLinux.
CloudLinux is one of the latest innovations and is capable of running our shared hosting environments even more efficiently, while providing added security to our servers. In examples as we mentioned previously, when one of the individual accounts on our shared server encounters a spike, CloudLinux isolates that account so the other tenants on the server can continue functioning normally.
- One of CloudLinux’ most valued features is what CloudLinux refers to as “Tenant Isolation.” Each “tenant” on the shared host is isolated from the other tenant. This isolation maintains the stability for everyone, and the only tenant that is affected is the tenant that created the issue initially.
- CloudLinux sets the resource limits for each tenant on the shared server. This resource limit is achieved at the kernel level, and it ensures that each account uses only its allocated resources and does not impose on any other account.
- Conversion from CentOS to Red Hat Linux (RHEL) is easy and only takes about 5-10 minutes using yum, and only involves a few rpm’s.
- Customer support is available 24/7 to respond to any inquiries or concerns.
- Security patches are regularly released.
- CloudLinux provides the capability to limit the amount of resources that each of your applications is permitted to use.
- CloudLinux can also be set to update automatically.
- CloudLinux is also available for virtual machines.
- CloudLinux is completely transparent to clients, end-users, and administrators.
- Once the tenant that has experienced the spike has reached its resource limits, the users that visit that site will receive a 503 error until the tenant is within its resource limits.
Switching your cPanel server from CentOS to RHEL is very easy. Unless you have purchased CloudLinux from the cPanel, you will need your activation key when you run the downloaded script from the command line. Once the script has completed, you will need to reboot your server, then CloudLinux will then be the live kernel on your server.
We have only touched the surface of this exciting new version of Linux that is set to improve the reliability of our servers, and the satisfaction of our clients. There is also the greater enhancement of security that CloudLinux brings as well. When one site is attacked, then CloudLinux isolates the tenant, thereby protecting the other tenants as well as the server. In today’s global environment, any added security feature that works is a good thing to have on our servers.
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