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Using a  website may provide you with your first opportunity to use a Linux-based operating system. For the most part, Linux accomplishes tasks in a similar fashion to Windows or Mac OS X, but there are some important filesystem differences that you will need to know. One of them is how Linux recognizes hidden files.

If you use Mac OS X, you are already familiar with the Unix hidden file method. Often called dotfiles, these files are hidden because of the dot or period that precedes the file name. As long as that dot is there, the file stays hidden. Remove it, and the file instantly becomes visible.

Generally, only a few files are hidden on a website. The .htaccess file is one of the most common. The main purpose of hiding certain files is to prevent users from accidentally removing important data. If, however, you are comfortable with your file system, you can safely enable viewing of hidden files to make it easier to work with them.

In cPanel, the file manger will ask you if you want to show hidden files in the preliminary “File Manager Directory Selection” popup that appears when you start it. Simply check the box next to “Show Hidden Files (dotfiles)” and click “Go”.

If you have disabled the above-mentioned popup and need to enable hidden files, you can get the popup to appear again by clicking “reset all interface settings” at the bottom of your main cPanel administration page. You can then proceed using the same instructions mentioned above.

Hidden Linux Files and How to View Them in cPanel

There are many reasons why you might want to block a user from your website. They could be trying to gain access to passwords, sending spam, or harassing users on a forum or comments section of your site. One way to stop them is to block their IP address. It is not fool proof, as some people may have dynamic IPs or use a fake IP address. Still, it may be a good temporary solution.

cPanel provides a tool that makes blocking IP addresses very easy. To use it, do the following:

1. Login to cPanel
2. In the security section, click “IP Deny Manager”
3. Type the IP address into the box
4. Click “Add”

That IP address will stay banned as long as you have it on your list, so you should make sure that it is one that you actually want to ban. You can also ban entire ranges of IP addresses like the following:

11.12.13.14-11.12.13.18
or
11.12. (implies everything in 11.12.*.* will be blocked)

In addition to IP addresses, you can also ban fully qualified domain names (FQDN). Whenever you want to unban an IP address or domain, simply click the “x” button next to the address under the “Remove” header.

As stated above, the effectiveness of an IP ban largely depends on the stability of the address. If you are sure the user will continue to have that IP address, the ban will be effective. Otherwise, it may only be a temporary solution to a problem that necessitates more creative security measures.

How to Block IP Addresses with cPanel

(The Hosting News) – The hard costs of storing data in a private cloud have long proved elusive to IT managers.  On Thursday December 1^st, a panel at the very first CloudBeat will examine different storage technologies as they relate to particular use cases – so that we might finally “Understand the True Cost of Storage.”

The panel’s expert participants include Scality CEO, Jérôme Lecat who recently made the controversial, although research-backed claim that private cloud storage is cheaper than public for capacity over 100TB. The other panelists include executives from Coraid, Crossroads, and WhipTail Technologies. Representing venture capitalist investment of over US $100 million, these storage innovators will dissect a use case from DNAnexus, a DNA data management and analysis platform – currently using Amazon S3 storage.

Guest Andrew Reichman, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., will moderate the panel, entitled “Understanding the True Cost of Storage” as the panelists debate which cloud storage approach is the most cost effective for a specific use case.

According to Forrester Research, Inc., in the report “File Storage Costs Less in the Cloud than In-House” (August 25 2011), Reichman wrote, “Quick storage comparisons don’t measure storage costs effectively. [...] An accurate comparison requires a more detailed model.” This Forrester report, along with Lecat’s views on the total cost of ownership of cloud storage, formed part of the inspiration behind the CloudBeat panel session.

Where/When/Who:

“Understanding the True Cost of Storage” will take place in CloudBeat Salon 4 at Hotel Sofitel in Redwood City, California on December 1st from 11:15am to 12:10pm. Panelists include Jérôme Lecat, CEO, Scality; Kevin Brown, CEO, Coraid; David Cerf, Executive VP of Business & Corporate Development, Crossroads; Dan Crain, CEO, WhipTail Technologies; and Andreas Sundquist, CEO & Co-Founder of DNAnexus, a DNA data management and analysis platform.

Panel Debate:

Innovation Unveiled: The panel will explain how the different storage vendors represented cover the whole scope of storage in innovative and cost-effective ways. The vendors will each have just 60 seconds to present and position their products.

Use Case: Andreas Sundquist of DNAnexus will expose his cost for Amazon storage and computing and present DNAnexus’ use case.  Sundquist will also share under what circumstances he would move to a Private Cloud or Hybrid Cloud model.

Best Fit: Each vendor will present a use case of one of his company’s own customers, highlighting the best fit use cases for their respective solutions.

Jérôme Lecat, CEO, Scality, said, “People tend to think that you need to go to a large established player to have the full spectrum of storage, but our panel session will be a chance to see the senior executives of some of the most heavily invested storage startups explain how the combination of their products cover all storage use cases.”

With a dizzying number of storage options available, it is often difficult to determine which storage technology would be most effective while providing lowest total cost of ownership for a particular situation. Aided by real numbers on the cost of storage, the panelists will get past the hype to answer the difficult questions and identify situations in which their technologies would or would not be best.

For more information, please visit http://venturebeat.com/events/cloudbeat2011/, http://www.Scality.com, or follow Scality on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Scality.

Scality Discusses Cloud Storage Costs

(The Hosting News) – Hosting company the UK2Group is known for its various hosting brands such as VPS.NET, Midphase, UK2.NET, and Resell.biz.

And today, the company unveiled yet another hosting brand.

Called HostPuro, the new site is geared towards Spanish speaking clients.

Commenting on the matter in a press release, UK2 Group President Jeff Hunsaker (US Operations) stated, “Web hosting is a global need and we’re very pleased to offer affordable shared hosting solutions now to the Spanish-speaking community.”

He continued, “The great thing about HostPuro is that it’s supported by a company and employees who have been in the web hosting industry for over a decade.”

Specific details of HostPuro include five dollar monthly accounts that come with a domain, along with unlimited features such as bandwidth and space.

The company is aiming the new site at Spanish customers worldwide.

The UK2Group’s brands operate from data centers in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Aside from launching HostPuro, the UK2 Group also recently celebrated reaching a million registered domains totaled through its various hosting brands.

Based in the United Kingdom, the UK2Group is an ICANN accredited domain registrar and its various services include web hosting for Linux and Windows, dedicated servers, enterprise solutions, web design, and more.

Meanwhile, the UK2Group’s website signals that the company is “always” looking to expand in the area of acquiring web hosts. For more information on the UK2Group, visit: http://www.uk2group.com/ . To visit HostPuro, go to: http://www.hostpuro.com/ (in Spanish).

Spanish Hosting: UK2Group Unveils HostPuro

(The Hosting News) – The UK2 Group reached and surpassed one million registered customer domains across its numerous web hosting companies operating inside the United States and United Kingdom.

The UK2 Group is an ICANN accredited domain registrar with over 13 years’ experience retailing domain names and considered a global leader in small business and enterprise web hosting.

The 1,000,000-domain mark was attained through a steady stream of domain sales via its family of hosting brands including Resell.biz, UK2.net, WestHost, midPhase, AN Hosting, 100TB.com, VPS.NET, Another.com, and others.

“This is a significant achievement which underpins our status as a reliable, affordable and innovative web hosting company,” said Phil Male, CEO of UK2Group.

With ICANN confirming at least 2 billion Internet users active worldwide and over 1.5 billion domains registered since 1985, the UK2 Group milestone is an important barometer in measuring business activity online.

“Exceeding one million domain registrations is based on a broad and powerful range of services we offer in conjunction with a domain name purchase. These include, but are not limited to: Shared Hosting, Dedicated Servers, Colocated Servers, VPS, Cloud Servers, Content Delivery Networks and a wide range of business collaboration and website building tools,” said Jeff Hunsaker, President of US Operations for UK2 Group.

UK2 Group will also be at the forefront of offering what may be the next great gold rush in business branding: A new set of ICANN domain extensions that will allow Internet users to create their own extensions including city names like .London or company names like .Apple.

“These custom branded and generic domains names will start becoming available early next year and will especially appeal to large enterprises who seek to entrench and extend their marketing appeal,” said Mr. Hunsaker.

ABOUT UK2 GROUP

The UK2 Group is ICANN accredited and has over 13 years’ experience retailing web hosting and domain names. The UK2 Group is global group of web hosting and domain name brands, that has provided web hosting and Internet services to customers and business alike since 1998. The UK2 Group operates its services out of several state of the art, multi-million dollar data centers in the UK and US, and is committed to providing secure and reliable products and services underpinned with excellent support.

For more information on the UK2 Group, please visit: http://www.uk2group.com/

UK2 Group Surges Past One Million Domains

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(The Hosting News) – DNS Made Easy, the world leader in enterprise IP Anycast DNS services, announced the official release of Control Panel 3.0. After a well-received public beta site of the control panel, Control Panel 3.0 was made available to the full DNS Made Easy client base. DNS Made Easy reported that clients were impressed with the overall ease of use and many of the new features that were introduced. DNS Made Easy has incorporated years of user-feedback and suggestions into the design of Control Panel 3.0. This open invitation for user suggestions and the engineering process which incorporated customer feedback into the development process of Control Panel 3.0 allowed DNS Made Easy to tailor their services to meet client requirements and continue to be the preferred choice to over-priced and underperforming alternatives in the enterprise IP anycast market.

Control Panel 3.0 has been actively developed for the past ten months and incorporates over 10 year of user suggestions, feedback, and feature requests. Early reviews from DNS Made Easy clients are that Control Panel 3.0 makes DNS management much faster and more intuitive than ever before. Compared with competing services in the enterprise DNS space, Control Panel 3.0 is being considered another huge step in the industry and is considered the new standard of DNS management.

DNS Made Easy staff and management indicated they are confident they now supply the best interface in the industry for instant provisioning of DNS services. The new control panel will secure DNS Made Easy’s position as the fastest, most reliable DNS provider available based on both network infrastructure and now web/API management of DNS.

Additional features available with the new Control Panel 3.0 include advanced reporting, multiple user accounts, query usage graphs, a simplified and revamped purchasing system, bulk record modification wizards, an audit log, advanced import/export features, instant domain creation and myriad of additional capabilities to support cloud based technologies.

Earlier this year DNS Made Easy released the fourth generation of their DNS network. The new triple-cloud anycast network has integrated the latest of the DNS Made Easy proprietary technologies of the the Elite Resolution Platform (ERP) including Peregrine Instant DNS Updates, DNS Defense, and their advanced IP Anycast network. DNS Made Easy claims that their new network rollout increased speeds and exponentially increased redundancy. The release of Control Panel 3.0 concludes a strong year of engineering by the DNS Made Easy group.

“The release of Control Panel 3.0 and the deployment of the fourth generation of the DNS Made Easy network are two outstanding engineering accomplishments that demonstrate the continuing dedication to excellence of our technical group.” stated David Miller, CTO of DNS Made Easy. “We have always provided the greatest DNS performance with the highest ROI in the industry. With the release of Control Panel 3.0 our clients now have a DNS management interface that matches the quality of the DNS services that we offer.”

More information about DNS Made Easy suite of services is available at http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com

About DNS Made Easy

DNS Made Easy is a subsidiary of Tiggee LLC and is a leader in providing global IP anycast enterprise DNS services. DNS Made Easy implemented the industry’s first triple independent anycast cloud architecture for maximum DNS speed and DNS redundancy. DNS Made Easy originally launched their DNS services and web management portal in 2002 and has grown to manage hundreds of thousands of customer domains receiving more than 5.0 billion queries per day. DNS Made Easy has a proud history of industry leading uptime and ROI since launching their DNS service. DNS Made Easy has been the preferred choice for most brands on the Internet compared to the over-priced and under-performing enterprise IP anycast alternatives.

About Tiggee LLC

Tiggee LLC (tiggee.com) is a privately held company, formed in 1999 to provide innovative internet solutions for businesses. “Putting your business on the Internet is our business.” Tiggee LLC’s subsidiaries include DNS Made Easy (IP anycast enterprise managed DNS services – dnsmadeeasy.com), VPSit (enterprise virtualization environments – vpsit.com), Host Made Easy (dedicated server hosting and co-location services – hostmadeeasy.com), Top Level DNS (TLD name services – topleveldns.com), Resolving Name Server (resolvingnameserver.com), Show My Host (showmyhost.com), Reverse DNS Trace (reversednstrace.com), IPv6 Verify (ipv6verify.com), and Domains Made Easy (domainsmadeeasy.com).

DNS Made Easy Announces Control Panel 3.0

(The Hosting News) – ASEOHosting, an industry leader in providing quality SEO hosting services and domain registration to both the US and Europe, has announced that they now offer dedicated SEO servers for their European clients.

ASEOHosting has already been providing SEO hosting services for customers throughout Europe and those who prefer to host their websites on various GEO locations with different private name servers and Class C IP’s. They company has now expanded their European product and service offerings to include dedicated SEO servers. These servers allow clients to better manage larger networks as they are accompanied by a variety of Class C IP addresses from different nations.

Director of Business Development, Daniel Page says, “These servers are perfect for organizations that perform work with international SEO in mind, particularly since Google shows significant preference for sites that are hosted in the nation in which user searches are being conducted. They also contribute to an enhanced user experience because of the low latency they provide to European nations. What this means is a higher level of importance placed on our clients’ sites by the major search engines in terms of SEO.”

ASEOHosting’s dedicated server packages include root level access, 24/7 technical support, port monitoring and 99.99% network uptime SLA and are compatible with a number of operating systems. Clients also receive the benefit of being able to manage and control all of their hosting needs under a single server. This latest announcement comes on the heels of their recent addition of a web-based IP picker, further enhancing the extensive line of services they provide to their valued clients across the globe.

About ASEOHosting:

ASEOHosting is a Hudson, Florida-based web hosting company owned and operated by Ahosting, Inc. ASEOHosting provides multiple IP web hosting services in an environment considered to be ideal for SEO professionals. Clients of ASEOHosting can subscribe to SEO hosting services across 400+ U.S. and 150+ European IP Class C’s, and rest assured that their provider is paying relentless attention towards other server-side factors that contribute directly to the success of their SEO campaigns. For more information, visit http://www.aseohosting.com.

ASEOHosting to Offer European Dedicated SEO Servers

(The Hosting News) – Zayo announces today it will be expanding its fiber network into San Diego, CA. Upon completion, Zayo’s network will exceed 400 route miles throughout the San Diego metropolitan area. The new network will extend from the heart of downtown San Diego, north to Oceanside, and east to Escondido. Zayo will provide dark fiber and bandwidth infrastructure services on its San Diego network.

This network expansion will provide customers with dedicated infrastructure to improve network reliability and performance. As the use of high bandwidth applications increases, Zayo’s network growth in the San Diego region will offer leasable dark fiber assets that were not available previously in this geographic area. The expansion in San Diego adds more capacity at a lower price point with the opportunity to upgrade when necessary.

“Investing in the San Diego network serves our customers’ bandwidth needs and allows Zayo to expand our presence in Southern California,” states Matt Erickson, president of Zayo Fiber Solutions. “Zayo’s network expansion will offer those in the area the ability to increase dark fiber capacity at a cost effective rate.”

In addition to the San Diego dark fiber network investment, Zayo has recently expanded its existing fiber network in downtown Los Angeles. These markets will also be interconnected to Zayo’s national fiber network following the anticipated completion of the previously announced acquisition of 360networks.  For more information on Zayo, please visit www.zayo.com.

About Zayo Group

Based in Louisville, Colo., privately owned Zayo Group is a national provider of fiber-based bandwidth infrastructure and network-neutral colocation and interconnection services. Zayo serves wireline and wireless carriers, data centers, Internet content and services companies, high bandwidth enterprises as well as federal, state and local government agencies. Zayo provides these services over regional, metro and fiber-to-the-tower networks. Zayo’s network assets include 25,000 route miles, connecting 153 markets across 31 states plus Washington D.C. Additionally, Zayo has 4,500 buildings on-net, 2,100 cell towers on-net, and over 170,000 square feet of colocation space. Zayo was recently named one of the Denver-areas Fastest Growing Private Companies by the Denver Business Journal.  On October 7, 2011, Zayo Group announced the execution of a definitive agreement to acquire Seattle-based 360networks holdings (USA) inc. (“360networks”), a leading provider of fiber network and telecom services.  The transaction, subject to customary approvals, is expected to close by late 2011.

Zayo Expands to San Diego with Network Build

(The Hosting News) – It’s that time of year again. Time to start Christmas shopping (if you haven’t already), or time stock up on items you may want for yourself, thanks to the many discounts and sales going on.

If you’re going about doing your shopping online, beware: Counterfeiters are out there selling products.

According to the U.S. government, illegal sales of pirated products can weaken the American economy, stealing profit from legitimate businesses.

But as of yesterday, the internet now has less piracy. And it’s thanks to an ongoing investigation launched by the Federal government in June of last year.

Specifically, ICE (The U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement), working with other government organizations (such as the Justice Department & FBI), has succeeded in recently seizing 150 more sites allegedly selling counterfeit products such as sports handbags, DVD sets, sports jerseys, and a whole lot more.

Commenting on the matter in a Government release, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder focused on the threat of counterfeit operations, stating, “Intellectual property crimes harm businesses and consumers, alike, threatening economic opportunity and financial stability, and today we have sent a clear message that the Department will remain ever vigilant in protecting the public’s economic welfare and public safety through robust intellectual property enforcement.”

Since beginning the operation earlier this year, the U.S. Federal government has succeeded in stopping a total of 350 websites from selling counterfeit items by taking them into Federal custody.

Stopping piracy this time of year is especially important, considering it’s the holiday shopping season.

The announcement by ICE was made yesterday, coinciding with Cyber Monday, a day in which online retailers offer discounts on products. To find the violators, authorities made purchases while posing as online shoppers. For more information on the matter, view ICE’s news report here (ice.gov).

ICE Continues Online Piracy Crackdown, Nabs Websites