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Whatever your vps hosting needs, WebHosting UK has the answer. From simple branded e-mail to full featured VPS Web hosting services, you’ll find the right plan for you or your company at WebHosting UK.

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Because we own our servers, you will NOT pay for us and our provider. We sell you today what your site needs today, and you can buy later what you need later. Our unique vps hosting plan is enough for most web sites, you will never pay for something you will never use. In the same time you can add any features for extra charges.

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Key Features
:: Linux RedHat 6.2 System
:: Host Unlimited Domains
:: Unlimited Bandwidth/Hits.
:: full CGI access & Perl 5.
:: MySQL.
:: PHP4, ePerl, Python.
:: Multiple FTP accounts.
:: Server Side Includes.
:: Control Panel.
:: Web based email.
:: web based file manager.
:: Domain pointers.
:: Subdomains (with FTP).
:: Site States.
:: Preinstalled Programs.
:: Reselling oportunity.
:: 99.95% uptime.

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WebHosting UK virtual private servers are a perfect solution for personal, business and popular sites, a large company, an online mall, or reseller/presence providers.

Application Uses of Virtual Private Servers (VPS) Hosting

* Run multiple websites on VPS
As long as you have enough resources available you can host number of website on the vps.

* Become a web hosting provider
VPS gives you the opportunity to become a web hosting provider. cPanel or Plesk are comprehensive control panel through which you could start your own web hosting company. A virtual private server gives you the freedom to install third party applications or software of your choice.

* Primary or Secondary Mail or DNS Server
You may already have a linux or windows reseller hosting plan or a full fledge linux windows dedicated web server elsewhere, but what if this goes down for any period of time. A MX server or backup DNS will make your infrastructure more resilient and your domains will continue to resolve and mail won’t bounce. You can install DNS and Mail services into your VPS, including Bind, Postfix, Qmail, Sendmail and more

* Personal Game Server
You will be able to install and run games software into your VPS. cPanel and Plesk control panels now have server support for games softwares.

Virtual Private Servers (VPS) Hosting Containers perform exactly like a stand alone dedicated web server, and has its own users, applications and processes, can be rebooted independently. Its has its own root/administrator access, users, IP addresses, memory, processes, files, applications, system libraries and configuration files. VPS hosting is based on the concept of partitions on mainframes that allow dozens of divisions to run multiple applications on the same server with advanced resource scheduling.

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Q: Does my Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting come with a control panel?
A: Control panel is optional with the VPS hosting. We provide cPanel or Plesk control panel options with the vps hosting. You can opt for anyone of them you will have to pay additional for the control panel.

Q: How many Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting accounts will be setup per server?
A: We place 15 - 20 vps hosting on each VPS server.

Q: How much disk space the OS is using on the VPS hosting account?
A: VPS hosting files and cPanel control panel install takes around 1GB of vps disk space. This is counted to your VPS quota.

Q: How long does it take for the VPS hosting to be setup?
A: VPS hosting setup process takes 2 - 3 Hrs after payment verification. Once we get the payment confirmation we instantly proceed with the vps setup process.

Q: Is there a possibility to have a dedicated SSL certificate setup on the VPS
A: Yes, it’s extra option. SSL certificate will be installed your vps hosting.

Q: Do you support other cpanel softwares? Plesk, DirectAdmin
A: We support cPanel and Plesk control panel. We do not provide support for any other control panel.

Q: Is it possible to run IRC softwares, game servers? Chats?
A: IRC Demons is not allowed. Game servers, chats, custom software is allowed.

Q: Can I host adult content?
A: Yes, you can host legal adult content on our vps hosting.

Q: Is RvSkin Cpanel Theme And Fantastico Installed on Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting accounts?
A: No, RvSkin Cpanel Theme and Fantastico is part of regular reseller accounts. VPS hosting accounts require to purchase license for these software.

Q: I am existing vps hosting customer do I have access to VZPP?
A: Most of the vps hosting clients already have access to VZPP. VZPP accessible via 4643 port. Example: If your main VPS server IP 10.10.10.1,

VZPP would be accessible as:

https://10.10.10.1:4643
username: root
password: your_current_root_password

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What is Virtuozzo Power Panel?
Virtuozzo Power Panels (VZPP) is a powerful web-based recovery and administration tool, intended for use by VPS owners. VZPP can be used on a standalone basis or within the Plesk interface. With VZPP, a user with administrative access to a VPS can easily perform many critical management tasks:

VPS Start/Stop/Reboot
Start, stop, fast stop and restart the VPS

VPS Services Management
Manage VPS services and processes such as stopping an offending task or restarting a service

VPS Resource Monitoring
Monitor VPS resource utilization for CPU, system, disk space and disk inodes

VPS Backup/Restore
Back up and restore the VPS from the backup including all system and user files

VPS Repair
Start the VPS in repair mode when a VPS is broken and does not boot

Embedded SSH Client
Connect via integrated SSH client to the VPS

VPS Re-install
Reinstall the VPS from scratch, either saving or discarding existing files

VPS Actions Log
View the VPS actions log to monitor resource shortage alerts and various VPS events

VZPP accessible via 4643 port. Example:
If your main VPS server IP 64.202.123.197, VZPP would be accessible as:

https://64.202.123.197:4643
username: root
password: your_current_root_password

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Q. How do I prepare Plesk for migration?

Ans: 1. All Plesk components that you wish to use have to be installed on the destination server. For example if the source server has Postgres or Mailman, these packages must be on the destination server, otherwise these components’ data will not be migrated and you get the list of errors after migration is completed.

2. Plesk license on the destination server also must meet all requirements that exist on the source server.

3. Enable “Server->Mail-> Only use of full POP3/IMAP mail accounts names is allowed”.

4. Configure Mailman on the Server->Set Up Mailman, otherwise mailing lists will not be created during migration.

5. Check that there is enough free disk space to make dump on the source server. It should be the same amount as data size you wish to migrate.
Destination server must contain free disk space at least twice the size of the data being migrated. It is needed to store the dump on the destination server and extract data from it.

6. Make sure that the default MySQL character set is ‘latin1′. This encoding is used by Mysql by default, however if it was redefined in /etc/my.cnf, it is better to switch it back to avoid the problems with database restoration.

Current default characters set can be found with:

# mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` -e ’status’ | grep characterset
Server characterset: latin1
Db characterset: latin1
Client characterset: latin1
Conn. characterset: latin1

Further information can be found here: http://download1.swsoft.com/Plesk/Plesk8.2/Doc/plesk-win-pmm-guide/index.htm

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Q. How do I set up my SMTP server?

Ans: When using a Windows VPS, the simplest way to install and configure your SMTP service is from directly within your server.

However, The SMTP does not come installed by default, and must be installed before the service can be used. Upon installation a default configuration is created, which then allows you to configure the service to your particular needs.

The following steps explain how to install SMTP on your server:

1. Firstly, you will need to be connected directly to your server, not via a control panel. You can do so by using a remote connection client such as the one found on most windows machines.

2. Once on your machine, select control panel from the start menu.

3. Select Add or Remove Programs.

4. Select Add/Remove Windows Components from the left hand navigation pane.

5. Within the components list, you will see Application Server, select this and then click Details.

6. Navigate to the Subcomponents of Application Server list, select Internet Information Services (IIS), and then click Details.

7. Under the Subcomponents of Internet Information Services (IIS) list, select the SMTP Service check box.

8. Now click OK.

9. Finally click Next. At this stage you might be prompted for the Windows Server 2003 CD or the network install path, the path is C:\i386

10. Click Finish, and your SMTP service will now install.

When the install has finished, a default SMTP server configuration will have been created with a message store in C:\Inetpub\Mailroot.

As you will be setting up the SMTP service for the first time, you will need to configure global settings for a SMTP virtual server, as well as settings for individual components of the virtual server. To do this you must be member of the Administrators group on the local computer in order to perform the following procedures.

For security reasons, it is always best practice to log on to the server by using an account that is not in the Administrators group, then use the ‘runas’ command to run IIS Manager as an administrator.

If you are going to adopt this method, At a command prompt, type runas /user:your-admin-account-name “mmc %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\iis.msc”.

Where/How to configure global SMTP settings:

1. Navigate to within the IIS Manager, expand the local computer and right-click ‘Default SMTP Virtual Server’, then select Properties.

2. Next, simply change the default settings on the property pages as required. If you require information about the individual settings, simply click ‘Help’ for an explanation.

To configure SMTP virtual server components settings:

1. Again from within the IIS Manager, expand local computer, then ‘Default SMTP Virtual Server’ and right-click the individual component which you wish to configure and select Properties.

2. Finally, change the default settings on the property pages as required. Again, for additional information about individual settings, simply click ‘Help’.

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Q. Can I use repair mode to attempt to fix my virtual private server?

Ans: Yes you can.

The repair operation is used to recover your virtual private server if it becomes out of order. In the repair state, you get file access to your server (to backup critical data or edit configuration files).

To put your system into repair mode:

1. Click the System tab.
2. Select Server Info. The most general information about your server appears on the screen.
3. Click the Switch server to repair mode link. The screen reloads with Repair server status.

To access your server in repair mode via Control Panel:

1. Click the System tab.
2. Select File Manager. The list of server files appears on the screen.
3. Proceed with data recovering.

To access your server in repair mode via ssh:

1. Click the System tab.
2. Select Users and Groups;
3. Reset password for the user root.
4. In the command line, type: ssh root@your_server_IP_address.
5. Type the password you set for the user root, when prompted.
6. As soon as you log in, change the working directory into /repair.You entered the
broken server.
7. Proceed with data recovering.
8. Log out the server.
9. Start server.

To start your vps server from repair mode:

1 Click the System tab.
2 Select Server Info.
3 Click the Stop server button. The screen reloads with the ‘Stopped’ server status and the Start
server button;
4 Click the Start server button. The screen should reload with the ‘Booting’ and after a few
seconds with the ‘Running’ server status.

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In order to set up the Windows VPS hosting logging of terminal service connections: -

1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Terminal Services Configuration.
2. In the Terminal services Configuration box, right-click RDT-Tcp, and then click Properties.
3. In the RDP-Tcp Properties box, click the Permissions tab, and then click Advanced.
4. In the Advanced security Settings for RDP-Tcp box, click Add.
5. In the Select User or Group box, click advanced, then click find now, and select ‘Everyone’, and then click OK.
6. In the Auditing Entry for RDP-Tcp dialog box, click to select the Successful check box and the Failed check box for the following entries:

• Remote Control
• Logon
• Logoff

7. Click OK three times.
8. Close the Terminal Services Configuration window.

To turn on the functionality to log terminal services and remote desktop session events, you must add LogTSLogOff and LogRemoteControl registry entries to the registry.

To do this, follow the below steps: -

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server
3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click REG_DWORD Value.
4. Type LogTSLogOff, and then press ENTER.
5. Right-click LogTSLogOff, and then click Modify.
6. Type 1 in the Value data box, and then click OK.
7. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click REG_DWORD Value.
8. Type LogRemoteControl, and then press ENTER.
9. Right-click LogRemoteControl, and then click Modify.
10. Type 1 or 3 in the Value data box, and then click OK. (#1 - Instructs TS logger to output to debugger / #3 - Instructs TS logger to output to log file (Tssdis.log in the System32 folder))
11. Quit Registry Editor

Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4) adds the EventMessageFile registry entry that is located under the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\System\TermService

Additionally, you must append the EventMessageFile entry with the following value, including the leading semi-colon: - ;%SystemRoot%\System32\sp3res.dll

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Virtuozzo for Windows VPS

Q. What are my Virtuozzo, HSPComplete and Plesk login details?

Ans: HSPcomplete Control Panel

Login: Your email address
Password: The password you entered when you created your account. This password was also sent to you as a “New person created for xxxxx” email.

Virtuozzo Power Panel

Login: root (if you purchased a Linux VPS) or administrator (if you purchased a Windows VPS)
Password: The password you entered when you created your account. This password was also sent to you as a “New person created for xxxxx” email.

Plesk

Login: admin
Password: setup
Please ensure that you change your Plesk password as soon as you have created your account and have logged in, as hackers may be familiar with the default account settings.

Q. Can I run Windows Updates?

Ans: No, there is no need. Windows automatic updates are disabled as standard in a Windows Virtuozzo VPS due to the way in which a VPS is provisioned. All Windows updates are installed automatically and are pre-tested by the Parallels (Virtuozzo developer) to ensure that they do not cause conflicts with Virtuozzo or installed template applications.

Enabling automatic updates will potentially cause problems with a VPS, including preventing a user from logging on, maybe even to the extent of causing the server to become un-usable. It is therefore advised that Windows automatic updates are left disabled. If you require a particular update which is not installed, please log a ticket through the Support Center ticket system.

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Virtuozzo for Linux VPS Hosting

Q. What are my Virtuozzo, HSPComplete and Plesk login details?

Ans: HSPcomplete Control Panel

Login: Your email address
Password: The password you entered when you created your account. This password was also sent to you as a “New person created for xxxxx” email.

Virtuozzo Power Panel

Login: root (if you purchased a Linux VPS) or administrator (if you purchased a Windows VPS)
Password: The password you entered when you created your account. This password was also sent to you as a “New person created for xxxxx” email.

Plesk

Login: admin
Password: setup
Please ensure that you change your Plesk password as soon as you have created your account and have logged in, as hackers may be familiar with the default account settings.

Q. How do I monitor Linux processes?

Ans: Here are some useful methods that can be used to monitor running processes.

From a Linux Shell (i.e. logged in using an SSH client such as Putty)

For a snapshot of running processes type: ps -aux | more
For a real-time list of the top few highest CPU utlisation processes, type: top

From Virtuozzo Power Panel

Click on System Processes on the left-hand menu bar

Q. Where can I find the Sendmail log

Ans: The email log for the sendmail mail server, is found at the following location /var/log/maillog

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