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23Oct/110

Difference Shared Hosting vs Dedicated Server – Which is the best for you ??

Essentially, there are 2 options in regards to web hosting solutions. You can host your website via a shared server  or look into dedicated servers.

Either option comes with its own pros and cons.

Shared Hosting

In most cases, shared servers are utilized by website owners who are working with a tight budget and whose websites do not need a robust server solution.

If your main goal is to post a personal blog or a one-page website detailing basic information about a service you offer, a shared hosting would be the appropriate choice.
Shared servers come equipped with plenty of disk space and bandwidth for the small-business owner and the expense only costs several dollars per month, all without the typical maintenance issues associated with having a dedicated server account.

The down side of shared servers is that resources such as CPU and RAM are shared with dozens of other websites. Your IP is also shared.
The sharing may cause down times and slow access to your site and times (shouldn’t be too often though), because traffic picks and server bottlenecks caused by other sites may affect your site as well.

Dedicated Server

Once your website is large enough for you to consider paying for the technology of a dedicated server, you will know that you are finally among the other “big boys” of the Internet.

While some providers of dedicated server hosting offer to fully manage your server (at an additional cost of course), you can choose to save some money by handling the technical stuff on your own.
However, if you are not skilled enough as an administrator, you run the risk of facing complicated situations. On the up side, you are in complete control of every part of your site.

Remember, do not select from among cheap hosting providers if your site requires a great deal of bandwidth as well as disk space, even if you feel confident that your website will grow in the future. Make the right choice in the beginning and prevent problems in the future.

We at SiliconHouse.Net provide both shared as well as dedicated servers to meet your requirements.

21Oct/110

Benefits of Reseller Hosting

A reseller hosting plan is great for allowing a large allotment of storage and bandwidth that can be used by a customer in whatever way they wish.  This means that creating multiple websites with domains attached to them or having access to large storage locations is possible.  Reseller hosting even provides the ability to customers to sell off their own bandwidth and storage to create their own personal webhost services that they can market to friends, family, acquaintances and even complete strangers online.

Advantages of Reseller Hosting Plans

Complete control over resources - Account owners of reseller hosting plans can easily create their own plans to sell to others.  An added benefit to many of the reseller hosting services is an automated system that allows for this type of selling to be done.

Tools - Reseller hosting services come with a large selection of tools that make the entire process very simple and can reduce the time spent doing everything from scratch to nearly zero with automated tools as well.  There are even default options which may be optimized to help reseller hosting customers start their business or entrepreneurship online through this service.

Lower cost - Reseller hosting customers get to purchase the bandwidth and storage for this use at a wholesale price, meaning that everything they sell will either have part profit or full profit once the resale of hosting services has begun.

Completely managed - All support and help requests are done with the reseller company.  Reseller hosting customers do not need to handle customer support for their service.  It is not necessary to deal with any customers other than getting them to make a purchase from the service.  Any and all updates and upgrades are done by the systems and administration personnel at the reseller hosting provider's side while the customer simply keeps reselling the hosting and making profits.

Options for accounts - Some reseller accounts will be able to upgrade for additional benefits such as storage and bandwidth amounts.  Some upgraded service options may also include things like unlimited storage and bandwidth which increases the earning potential for the customer of the reseller hosting to infinite amounts if they put in the work to get the necessary hosting sold to their own customers.

Reliability - reliability is always an issue with any service provider.  The one thing that resellers can do is help their customers by providing them with adequate amounts of bandwidth and storage to help reduce issues and claims of instability.

Reseller programs are easy to sign up with. We provide many special offers in reseller hosting packages both in linux as well as in windows platform. Contact us @ 9361777518 to place your order for the reseller program.

10Sep/110

Who should use Silicon House Java Cloud Servers?

 Silicon House fully managed java cloud serversSilicon House Java Cloud Servers come with Tomcat Server and cPanel pre-installed. You can run JSP/Servlets with MYSQL backend. You can deploy .war files, run struts/beans which are not available in shared environments. With root access you can install any third party component or implement advanced features such as LDAP.

  1. If your application requires .war files to be deployed or If you require complete control over Tomcat using a Tomcat Manager.
  2. You need advanced features such as struts/beans for deploying your application.
  3. If you require java application to talk to remote servers or applications.
  4. If are developing a web application in JSP/Servlets/MYSQL and require a dedicated environment to test and deploy custom modules which are not a part of standard shared hosting.
  5. If you wish to run web services or SOAP API for others to connect to you in a particular port. 

    Java Cloud Servers are available from as low as Rs.2499 per month
    View available Java cloud configurations

8Sep/110

SiliconHouse.Net – Customer Feedback – SiliconHouse Web Hosting Review

Semi Dedicated Customer Testimonials

 

 

Mr.P.Suresh, Library Officer and Head IT Division, CSIR MADRAS COMPLEX

Siliconhouse.net Happy Customer for 7 Years(Since 2005)

"We at CSIR Madras Complex, Chennai are very much comfortable with Silicon House, in all their services and support. Our association is for more than a decade now, we appreciate and thank their support in all our IT related activities."

Mr.P.Suresh, Library Officer and Head IT Division, CSIR MADRAS COMPLEX

4Sep/110

SiliconHouse.Net – Quick Payment Gateway Implementation

Silicon House gives more emphasize on implementing Payment Gateways at the shortest possible time. We have been helping thousands of customers around the world to enable ecom. This gives us enormous advantage over others. We know the exact requirements and pre-requisites for enabling payment gateways.

Pre-Application Stage: During this stage we collect meticulous information as much as possible. This allows our risk and legal team to analyze and flag under different segments. You will be allotted with a unique case number and have a dedicated Account Manager interacting with you.

Processing Stage: Once our risk and legal team accepts for further review of your application, the processing stage starts. You will be required to submit various documents varying from 20 - 60 in numbers for review. On satisfactory submission of all documents based on our requirements, you will be required to send the payment. Each and every communication is documented and can be tracked by you in our pre-sales portal. You will be verified by a third party on various grounds. On satisfactory verification, you will be allotted with a merchant id.

Implementation Stage: With our in house experts having more than a decade of experience in implementing payment gateways, you can go live within minutes from your approval. If the payment gateway is hosted with us, you will have your environment preset with full integration samples for testing in Sandbox environment. Once you have successfully tested, you can go live within minutes. Our processes take 75% lesser time when compared to others [ provided you fulfill all our technical and commercial requirements ]. You can track each and every stage of your Payment Gateway processing in our Automated Service Engine.

2Sep/110

SiliconHouse.Net – Types of Payment Gateways

Silicon House offers the following payment gateway solutions;

Shared Payment Gateways: This type of payment gateways are issued as a third party payment processing to the vendor. The per transaction fee is very high when compared to Dedicated Payment Gateways. Billing is not done in the vendor name. Hosting environment does not require any special environment setting to be done. This consists of Economy and Premium Packages.

Dedicated Payment Gateways: This type of payment gateways are directly issued to the vendor. Usually the per transaction fee will be lowest for this payment gateways. Billing is done in the Vendor Name Itself. Hosting environment needs to be setup specially for running sites with Dedicated Payment Gateways. This consists of Economy and Premium Packages.

29Aug/110

SiliconHouse.Net SMS Gateways

SMS Gateway is a service that allows you to send or receive sms to or from a mobile network using various media like web / software applications etc.

Silicon House has an exclusive tie-up with HiSpeedSMS which is a leading sms aggregator delivering mobile messages through majority of the service providers in India and abroad. We deliver almost all registered mobile numbers in India. Our SMS Gateways can be integrated with your applications such as CRM / ERP / Billing / Marketing Campaigns etc.

You can integrated your website / enquiry center or CRM / ERP with Hi Speed SMS API. This API is flexible and allows you to integrate using various methods such as HTTP / HTTPS / XML / SOAP / SMPP. Such a wide range of APIs allows any of your applications either desktop based or online to seamless integrate with Hi Speed SMS gateway.

Once the API receives the data, it is streamed to the Hi Speed SMS gateway. This gateway is located in a 800 Mbps uninterrupted internet pipe. The gateway runs in Monster Series Servers which is unique to Hi Speed SMS alone. Such a robust internet backbone and server environment makes sure that your SMS is delivered instantly and your SMS gateway is available 24 X 7.

Features:

Control Panel: Reseller SMS Gateway Accounts comes with a two-tier control panel. As a reseller you can create / manage users. You can control credits, view status reports etc. Every user created will be allotted with his own control panel where in Target lists, Campaigns, Scheduling, Reports can be managed. This allows users to operate independently reducing the servicing burden for you.

Sender IDs:
 Each user will be able to create Sender ID by themselves. This allows to send SMS under their own brand name itself. Sender IDs are applicable for GSM numbers alone, CDMA allows only numbers and not alphanumeric.

Coverage & Filtering: Almost all mobiles registered in India is under our coverage. This allows you to deliver to any mobile under any operator in the shortest route possible. Also our FREE NDNC filter automatically filters SMS that are sent from a user's account. This is very vital for recent TRAI compliance on mobile messaging.

Fully Brand-able

Reseller SMS Gateway Accounts is fully brand-able. You can run the SMS Gateway under your own [ website ]branded URL. For example, your SMS gateway URL can be http://sms.yourdomain.com. This allows you to sell and impress your client in your own brand name. Your users can also create their own Sender ID thus sending SMS under their own brand name.

APIs & Developer Tools

You can integrate with major scripting languages like php, asp, .net etc using HTTP / HTPPS / XML APIs. Once you become a reseller, you will have access to our code base for integrating with your applications like CRM / ERP and other business applications.

HTTP / HTTPS API is the easiest way to integrate a SMS Gateway with your day to day business applications such as CRM / ERP / Billing Softwares. This requires less technical skill to implement.

HTTP / HTTPS API allows you to integrate your custom built software to talk to our SMSC easily irrespective of the language in which your application is built. Once the API receives the data, it is streamed to the SMSC. This is located in a 800 Mbps uninterrupted internet pipe. The gateway runs in Monster Series Servers which is unique to Hi Speed SMS alone. Such a robust internet backbone and server environment makes sure that your SMS is delivered instantly and your SMS gateway is available 24 X 7.HTTPS is secured posting of your messages via 128 bit Secure Socket Layer. This way the data that is passed to the API is protected.

XML API is one of the most preferred method by programmers around the world to integrate with a SMS Gateways. The reason being, XML is portable in almost all languages, precise control over data types, data formats. More secured.

In XML API, the data to be posted to the SMSC is sent XML via HTTP. This enables the user to send bulk messages with ease. XML is highly portable and hence easily integrated irrespective of the language in which your application is built. Once the API receives the data, it is streamed to the SMSC. This is located in a 800 Mbps uninterrupted internet pipe. The gateway runs in Monster Series Servers which is unique to Hi Speed SMS alone. Such a robust internet backbone and server environment makes sure that your SMS is delivered instantly and your SMS gateway is available 24 X 7.

SMPP is Short Message Peer to Peer used to send and receive SMS between SMSC. As the name implies SMPP is one of the fastest and most reliable mode to send bulk text messages. Hi Speed SMS supports industry standard 3.3 and 3.4. Unlike other methods, SMPP uses transceiver, which can send and receive messages in a single connection itself. SMPP method is used for sending bulk SMS by banks, large logistics companies, online results publishers etc.

SMPP requires high resource allocation and hence a large volume commitment is required to avail this facility. Hi Speed SMS supports both synchronous and asynchronous data exchanges.

Once you sign up as a customer, you will have to access our APIs and Developer Tools based on the package you choose

25Aug/110

SiliconHouse.Net Theft Protection

Domain Theft Protection  feature helps ensure that your domain name remains safe from illegal domain name transfers.

Enabling Theft Protection on your domain name will result in a Transfer [Away] Request for this domain name to another Registrar to fail at the Registry itself.

Theft Protection can be enabled/disabled by anyone in the entire Reseller chain.

SiliconHouse.Net provides Free Theft Protection

Register domains and Lock your domain name, so that your domain is not transferred out accidentally or without your permission.

20Aug/110

SiliconHouse.Net – Xmail TRac

What is XMAIL Trac ?

XMAIL Trac ™ 2011 XMail Trac™ 2011 is a comprehensive email tracking solution which allows you to keep track of mails that are sent or received in your domain name. No matter how far your branches or employees are... you can keep track all the mails that sent or received through any standard mail client such as outlook etc. Why XMail Trac ™ 2011 Absolute Tracking of your corporate mail communications. In view of the latest compliance requirements, it is essential to safe guard and archive communications that different personnel in an organisation make with outside world. Apart from security, issues such as mail loss, improper documentation, communication proof etc requires such a software. Difference between LAN Based Tracking and Server Side Tracking Traditional

XMAIL Trac ™ 2011

XMail Trac™ 2011 is a comprehensive email tracking solution which allows you to keep track of mails that are sent or received in your domain name. No matter how far your branches or employees are... you can keep track all the mails that sent or received through any standard mail client such as outlook etc.

Why XMail Trac ™ 2011

Absolute Tracking of your corporate mail communications.

In view of the latest compliance requirements, it is essential to safe guard and archive communications that different personnel in an organisation make with outside world. Apart from security, issues such as mail loss, improper documentation, communication proof etc requires such a software.

Difference between LAN Based Tracking and Server Side Tracking

Traditional tracking facilities are LAN based. That is, a software is installed in the local area network and that takes care of mail monitoring. This system has the following disadvantages;

1. If the company has multiple branches, then each branch needs software to be installed.
2. As the number of systems increase, the expense also increases as the software license is based on number of users.
3. Each branch requires a system admin to maintain and monitor the software.
4. There is a possibility that the system admin at the branch might abuse this system.

XMail Trac ™ 2011 monitors and tracks all the emails at the Server side. This has the following advantages;

1. No need for a local software
2. No need for licenses upgrade if the number of users increase as the software is charged on per domain basis.
3. No need for system admin.
4. There no way that a system admin or an employee could abuse the system.
5. Since the tracking and shadow copying is done at the server level, the bandwidth consumption is low when compared to LAN based servers.

XMAIL Trac ™ 2011 tracks all the incoming and outgoing mails in a particular domain name or mail server. It works on the edge of the network and hence copies of mails tracked are made seamlessly at zero server resource. The tracked messages are archived in a centralized location which can later be retrieved by a system admin. No matter how far the users are geographically distributed or how many email accounts are created, tracking is done without any extra settings. Tracking at the server level has the following advantages;

1. No abuse of the mail tracking system by any user.
2. Tracking, Copying and Archiving of the mails are done at zero server resource.
3. No need for additional user level licenses, local LAN based software.

XMAIL Trac ™ 2011 allows you to apply multiple message rules.

Message rules comes handy in applying business rules in enterprise mailing. For example, if a sales manager has to keep track of all enquiry mails coming in and responses sent out by different sales persons, it is possible using message rules in XMAIL Trac ™.

Another key advantage in message rule is keyword based mail tracking. This is essential to keep track of enterprise communications based on sensitive key words.

Many federal laws such as sorbs Oxley, IT Act, financial regulatory acts requires corporate to keep their communications archived for certain number of years. This is a very cumbersome process keeping in view of various branches and number of employees.

Due to the increasing number of regulations and need for operational transparency, organizations are increasingly adopting the use of consolidated and harmonized sets of compliance controls. This approach is used to ensure that all necessary governance requirements can be met without the unnecessary duplication of effort and activity from resources.

XMAIL Trac ™ tracks and archives mails at the network level. There is no need for manual intervention to monitor the tracking. Since tracking is achieved at network level, tampering is impossible.

18Aug/110

Register Various Domain Extensions now with SiliconHouse

Silicon House is one of the fastest growing ICANN accredited domain registrar in terms of number of domains registered. Our high volume allows us to offers domains at the lowest cost in the market. Silicon House offers bulk domain registrations in .COM, .NET, .ORG, .INFO, .BIZ .IN, .CO.IN, .NET.IN and many more.Below are the Top Level Domain Names According to ICANN List

Generic top level domains (gTLD)

.aero Aviation

.asia Asia

.biz Business Organizations

.cat Catalan language and culture

.com Commercial

.coop Co-Operative Organizations

.edu Education

.gov US Government

.info Open TLD

.int International Organizations

.jobs Jobs

.mil US Dept of Defense

.mobi Mobile devices

.museum Museums

.name Personal

.net Networks

.org Organizations

.pro Credentialed professionals and related entities

.tel Publishing of contact data

.travel Travelling

Country code top level domains (ccTLD)


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.ac Ascension Island

.ad Andorra

.ae United Arab Emirates

.af Afghanistan

.ag Antigua and Barbuda

.ai Anguilla

.al Albania

.am Armenia

.an Netherlands Antilles

.ao Angola

.aq Antarctica

.ar Argentina

.as American Samoa

.at Austria.au Australia

.aw Aruba

.ax Åland Islands

.az Azerbaijan

B
.ba Bosnia and Herzegovina

.bb Barbados

.bd Bangladesh

.be Belgium

.bf Burkina Faso

.bg Bulgaria

.bh Bahrain

.bi Burundi

.bj Benin

.bm Bermuda

.bn Brunei Darussalam

.bo Bolivia

.br Brazil

.bs Bahamas

.bt Bhutan

.bv Bouvet Island

.bw Botswana

.by Belarus

.bz Belize

C
.ca Canada

.cc Cocos (Keeling) Islands

.cd Congo,Democratic republic of the (former Zaire)

.cf Central African Republic

.cg Congo

.ch Switzerland

.ci Côte d’Ivoire

.ck Cook Islands

.cl Chile.cm Cameroon

.cn China

.co Colombia

.cr Costa Rica

.cs Czechoslovakia (former – non-existing)

.cu Cuba

.cv Cape Verde

.cx Christmas Island

.cy Cyprus

.cz Czech Republic

D
.de Germany

.dj Djibouti

.dk Denmark

.dm Dominica

.do Dominican Republic

.dz Algeria

E
.ec Ecuador

.ee Estonia

.eg Egypt

.eh Western Sahara

.er Eritrea.es Spain

.et Ethiopia

.eu European Union

F
.fi Finland

.fj Fiji

.fk Falkland Islands

.fm Micronesia

.fo Faroe Islands

.fr France

G
.ga Gabon

.gb United Kingdom

.gd Grenada

.ge Georgia

.gf French Guiana

.gg Guernsey

.gh Ghana

.gi Gibraltar

.gl Greenland

.gm Gambia

.gn Guinea

.gp Guadeloupe

.gq Equatorial Guinea

.gr Greece

.gs South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

.gt Guatemala

.gu Guam

.gw Guinea-Bissau

.gy Guyana

H
.hk Hong Kong

.hm Heard and McDonald Islands

.hn Honduras

.hr Croatia

.ht Haiti

.hu Hungary

I
.id Indonesia

.ie Ireland

.il Israel

.im Isle of Man

.in India

.io British Indian Ocean Territory

.iq Iraq

.ir Iran

.is Iceland

.it Italia

J
.je Jersey

.jm Jamaica

.jo Jordan

.jp Japan

K
.ke Kenya

.kg Kyrgyzstan

.kh Cambodia

.ki Kiribati

.km Comoros

.kn Saint Kitts and Nevis

.kp Korea, Democratic Peoples Republic of

.kr Korea, Republic of

.kw Kuwait

.ky Cayman Islands

.kz Kazakhstan
L
.la Lao People’s Democratic Republic

.lb Lebanon

.lc Saint Lucia

.li Liechtenstein

.lk Sri Lanka

.lr Liberia

.ls Lesotho

.lt Lithuania

.lu Luxembourg

.lv Latvia

.ly Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

M
.ma Morocco

.mc Monaco

.md Moldova

.me Montenegro

.mg Madagascar

.mh Marshall Islands

.mk Macedonia

.ml Mali

.mm Myanmar

.mn Mongolia

.mo Macau

.mp Northern Mariana Islands

.mq Martinique

.mr Mauritania

.ms Montserrat

.mt Malta

.mu Mauritius

.mv Maldives

.mw Malawi

.mx Mexico

.my Malaysia

.mz Mozambique

N
.na Namibia

.nc New Caledonia

.ne Niger

.nf Norfolk Island

.ng Nigeria

.ni Nicaragua

.nl The Netherlands

.no Norway

.np Nepal

.nr Nauru

.nu Niue

.nz New Zealand

O
.om Oman

P
.pa Panama

.pe Peru

.pf French Polynesia

.pg Papua New Guinea

.ph Philippines

.pk Pakistan

.pl Poland

.pm St. Pierre and Miquelon

.pn Pitcairn

.pr Puerto Rico

.ps Palestine

.pt Portugal

.pw Palau

.py Paraguay

Q
.qa Qatar

R
.re Reunion

.ro Romania

.rs Serbia

.ru Russia

.rw Rwanda

S
.sa Saudi Arabia

.sb Solomon Islands

.sc Seychelles

.sd Sudan

.se Sweden

.sg Singapore

.sh St. Helena

.si Slovenia

.sj Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands

.sk Slovakia

.sl Sierra Leone

.sm San Marino

.sn Senegal

.so Somalia

.sr Surinam

.st Sao Tome and Principe

.su USSR (former)

.sv El Salvador

.sy Syrian Arab Republic

.sz Swaziland

T

.tc The Turks and Caicos Islands

.td Chad

.tf French Southern Territories

.tg Togo

.th Thailand

.tj Tajikistan

.tk Tokelau

.tl Timor-Leste

.tm Turkmenistan

.tn Tunisia.to Tonga

.tp East Timor

.tr Turkey

.tt Trinidad and Tobago

.tv Tuvalu

.tw Taiwan

.tz Tanzania

U
.ua Ukraine

.ug Uganda

.uk United Kingdom

.um United States Minor Outlying Islands

.us United States

.uy Uruguay

.uz Uzbekistan

V
.va Holy See (Vatican City State)

.vc Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

.ve Venezuela

.vg Virgin Islands British

.vi Virgin Islands U.S

.vn Vietnam

.vu Vanuatu

W
.wf Wallis and Futuna Islands

.ws Samoa
X

No Domain Extension Found

Y
.ye Yemen

.yt Mayotte

.yu Yugoslavia

Z
.za South Africa

.zm Zambia

.zr Zaire (non-existent, see Congo)

.zw Zimbabwe

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