Yes, I made a mistake in my sick and sleepless state and push the theme live, I hope you all like it. Just one thing, I broke the blog here and am too tired at the moment to finish it up. Will do tomorrow if I have time. Thanks for understanding and I hope you all like the new theme. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

This is why we choose to run everything in VPS!

Virtualization allows constant-hosting to put many virtual servers onto a single physical server, increasing the physical servers efficiency and shrinking our physical, electrical and heat footprint. Servers run very HOT. Each Individual server can chew up to 400 watts or more continuously, while usually running at 10% capacity or less. Very wasteful. Converting these servers to virtual machines allows us to utilize 70% and more of the physical capacity of the server. Go Green!

There are many benefits to using Virtual Private Servers.

Each VPS account provides the user of the VPS with a full root enviroment. None of that chroot and jailshell stuff. This allows you to have your own personal configuration and version for all the services, such as http, ftp, bind, etc etc. You can install your own applications.

Each VPS has it’s own IP and Ports. When you get a Dedicated IP with shared hosting you are still limited to the ports that the shared server allows you. With a VPS you have the use of all available network ports.

VPS allows for portability. If a dedicated machine goes offline hopefully you have a failover machine. Replication of the dedicated to the backup can be a pain, Especially with MySQL (hopefully the next few versions of MySQL will solve this issue). If a VPS node (the machine running all the VPS systems) goes offline and you have your VPS running from a backend filesystem you can instantly load your VPS on another node, This can even be set up to do this automagically.

VPS provides better server security. One time I would have had to have multiple chroot (jailshell) environments to run multiple services (httpd, mail, dns, ftp, etc) instances securely and effectively (should always have bind(dns) in a chroot in my opinion). With VPS I can now run a few instances of the services in multiple tiny VPS systems and not worry about someone hacking one service and taking down another as they are completely separate virtual machines.

This also improves the over all efficiency of the physical server. I won’t get into the technical details of this unless you want me too. I could go on and on about the positives of VPS’s related to security, control, and performance.

To summarize,

1. VPS is the leading technology today for providing greener solutions to the IT industry.
2. VPS allows you to have a virtual dedicated server on a large dedicated server. Your VPS is private and separate from the other VPS’s on the server.
3. VPS is scalable, We can add ram and harddrive space to your VPS as you need it.
4. VPS is a cost effective solution to having a dedicated server.
5. VPS when set up properly has greater uptime than most dedicated server. One way to achieve this uptime is every physical server that hosts the VPS machines has at least two arrays of harddrives. The extra harddrive array is used to store backups of the Virtual Private Servers that are on other physical machines. This ensure that if one server starts having issues, either through hardware or host o/s corruption, we can load the VPS’s from that server onto another server. In addition to this we have a storage server cluster that stores backups of all VPS’s. Any VPS can load directly off the storage cluster if required. This offers unparalled redundancy capabilities.

Some highlights of a VPS at Constant-Hosting.com

1. Our plans have 64 bit or 32 bit VPS’s available.
2. OpenVZ runs all our Virtual Private Server Systems on all of our VPS plans.
3. Our VPS servers start with dual core servers and 8gb of ram.
4. We use only components with solid capacitors for proven reliability.
5. A major percentage of our equipment uses Areca RAID cards with battery backup units; Intel network cards; Intel Processors.

Are you tired of the support your current webhost provides?

Looking to move to hosting with phenomenal support?

Don’t know how to move your website? Lets us move your account for you!

We will move all your files and your databases off your old host for you at no additional charge!

Please note, You should definitely make a backup of all your emails, as we can usually move emails, but due to differences in the versions and/or the specific server programs between your old host and here, the actual emails in an email account may not move properly.

Hey There,

We have experienced a DOS attack this morning.

All servers should be up and working, Please send in a ticket if you are experiencing any issues with your site.

Ahh, The good ole traffic report.

Do you have users of your website experiencing slow access from other parts of the world? The Internet Traffic Report is a good place to get a good idea of what’s going on with the internet.

I’ve been using Addme.com for a quick and easy way to submit my websites to the top search engines for a few years now. I hope their service is as helpful to you as it has been to me!

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A lot of hosts offer unlimited bandwidth, unlimited storage, etc, etc.

This is just not reasonable. Price a few harddrives and then compare that to the monthly cost of the hosting.

We provide Unlimited Stuff on a few of our hosting account options. Why? This is only ‘unlimited’ within reason. If you want to have 10,000 domains (websites) each with 1mb of space on your account, This may be attainable, You have to remember that even adding domains to your account takes up a tiny bit of space.

We provide hosting accounts where you can use the entire hosting space of your account without fear of having your account shut off. You should remember tho, that MySQL databases and other dynamic parts of your websites take up space. If you use all of your space, you have left no space for the dynamic parts of your site to generate. For example, No one will be able to post in your forums anymore. You should always leave a few hundred MB of space free in your account for dynamic content.

I saw this article just now. After reading it I decided it was a good guide to follow when registering a domain.

10 things to know when you register a domain name

Please note, You do not have to worry about any of the issues presented in this article here at Constant-Hosting.com

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