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30Aug/110

SiliconHouse.Net – Payment Gateway

Payment Gateways are online credit card validation and processing system that allows vendors to sell their products and services online. Silicon House has helped hundreds of businesses to accept payments online. Silicon House is the only organization in India to offer payment gateways with the lowest transaction rate [ Rate charged per transaction made online ]. Our aim is to provide Payment Gateways at the lowest possible cost so that Small and Medium Businesses can harness the full potential of Internet.

Why go for a Payment Gateway ?

Payment Gateways are very handy in completing a sale online. For instance, there are many items such as gifts, electronic gadgets, software etc which are purchased online. The whole activity of online sales ends with payment processing using Payment Gateways. Payment Gateway also indirectly serve as means of Validity of a company, Makes impulsive buying possible, Allows clients to use their card and use their credit period.

Acquiring the payment is the most significant process in a e-business. Without this an enquiry is not converted into an order. Typically a Payment Gateway involves Customer, Vendor, Issuing Bank and Acquiring Bank and the Card Service Provider. Above all, it shortens the duration for making payment for a client as well as realization of payment by the vendor.

Our Expertise in hosting can make your payment gateway up and running within few minutes from approval. That's why payment gateway implementation with Silicon House takes 75% lesser time than what others promise. What are your waiting for ? Sign up for our payment gateway services and start accepting major credit cards for your website.

27Aug/110

SiliconHouse – Personal DNS

SiliconHouse is providing FREE PERSONAL DNS;

~  The customers  can have their own name servers in their own company or brand name

Example:

ns1.yourcompanyname.com
ns2.yourcompanyname.com

~  Reseller's clients will not know that you are a SiliconHouse Reseller

26Aug/110

SiliconHouse.Net – Free Lock/UnLock facility

SiliconHouse.Net Offers you Free Lock/UnLock Feature

The Domain Name Lock feature provides the most security for your domain name. It will prevent any changes to your domain name.

Apart from enabling Theft protection for a domain name, you may also place a Lock on it. Applying a Lock on any domain name, has the following effects:

When you place a Lock on a domain name, all actions available for domain names may still be performed by only you or SiliconHouse.Net.

Types of Actions possible from the Order Details view

1]Contact Details modification

2]Name Servers modification

3]Child Name Servers modification

4]Theft Protection,

5]Suspension/Unsuspension,

6]Internal Move/Push/Transfer to another Customer Account, etc.

A Transfer [Away] Request for this domain name to another Registrar will fail at the Registry itself and will not be allowed (also supported by Theft Protection.

24Aug/110

Open Univ Launched – Silicon House Press Release

CHENNAI DEC 24: Silicon House launches Open Univ, a self learning portal with latest web2.0 technologies like video streaming, knowledge base, exams etc. Silicon House Open Univ is an online self learning portal aimed at enhancing our hosting resellers and customers knowledge about different products and services.

A comprehensive set of videos about kick starting hosting account, products, marketing tips, best practices, step by step procedure for managing different aspects of your hosting accounts like email, ftp, control panel is available under this section.The aim of SH-Open Univ is to help you train resellers as well as their employees who handle technical, marketing etc. Open Univ will help you analyze their performance in their learning.

8Aug/110

SiliconHouse.Net Support

Silicon House - Rapid Action Force™ offers worldwide support services using state of the art Automated Service Engine.

How do you stand to benefit as a Reseller ?

As a reseller you can start serving your clients with our industry acclaimed Automated Service Engine within minutes. You can install our support system in your domain with full branding and start using its features such as Infomine, A.I.Chat, Interactive Support Systems, Free Downloads, Alerts, RAF Technical Journals etc. This will allow you to spend more time on Selling than Serving your clients.

How do you stand to benefit as a Customer ?

As a customer you can use our support system such as Infomine, A.I.Chat, Interactive Support Systems, Free Downloads, Alerts, RAF Technical Journals etc. Moreover, you can also train and educate your company users , administrators using these systems. This saves your precious time and also maintains continuity in your web presence.

How does it work ?

The key to quicker and reliable service is our well defined and constantly updated work systems and our drive for automation. This enables us to provide almost full control of the services that we offer to the client themselves. But this requires years of experience and heavy investments on R&D and systems development.

Our simple and cellular hierarchy of Silicon House - Rapid Action Force™ enables us to provide personal and customized service for all your requirements. All our key infrastructures are monitored constantly with over 300 random samples at any given working time. Any deviation is intimated with proper escalation procedure.

The support systems does not end here. It is constantly updated with the help of CBG [Core Business Group ] and R&D [ Research & Development ]. This ensures that our services not only meets your present requirements, but also takes care of future upgrades that we may have to undergo.

Cellular Model - Silicon House - Rapid Action Force™ Support System.

Infomine: Infomine is a key component in Automated Service Engine. It follows a similar industrial practice of Knowledge Management. It also includes interactive support systems.
A.I. Chat: A.I.Chat is a 24X7 automated chat system which allows you to get trained in our products and services. This provides base level support throughout the day.
Co-ordinator: coordinators manage and update Infomine and A.I. Chat. They offer a personalized and custom solution for all your issues.
Team Lead: RAF Team lead completes a Cell and is responsible for interacting and monitoring the coordinators and system administrators.
Manager: RAF Manager overviews the Silicon House - Rapid Action Force™ and also keeps abreast to the latest technological innovations and market situation with inputs from CBG and R&D.

Support [ Existing Customers & Resellers ]

Contact us : 91 44 24405807 / 24412448 / 24412748 Extn :22 / 24 / 26

If you are a direct customer or reseller of Silicon House, you must use https://members.siliconhouse.net for all your support requirements including domain names.

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7Aug/110

SiliconHouse – Highly Scalable and Robust Linux Cloud Servers

Pre-Hardened, with FREE Bandwidth and cPanel

Silicon House Cloud Servers are a new way of delivering IT infrastructure for enterprise hosting. Cloud Server lets you to deploy and scale computing instances on the fly. It is developed over Citrix Xen Server and are based on a minimum of 2.0 GHz processor. Computing clouds servers are widely used for running ERP, large portals, rich media websites etc. You will have root access to the cloud instance and each instance behaves like a dedicated server by itself.

The key advantage in a Computing Cloud Server is that features such as Memory, Disk Space, Computing Cycles can be scaled up or down whenever required on the fly. Moreover, the cloud environment is less prone to failures due to design level automatic failure recovery.

 Silicon House fully managed linux cloud serversSilicon House Linux Cloud Servers come with Centos Linux and cPanel pre-installed. You can run PHP/MYSQL/Postgres based applications with ease and also have the ability to install any third party component with full root access. All Linux Cloud Servers come with comprehensive security shield Arrow pre-installed.

Who should use Silicon House Linux Cloud Servers?

  1. If you are developing a web application in PHP / MYSQL and require a dedicated environment to test and deploy custom modules which are not a part of standard PHP/MYSQL shared hosting can use Linux Cloud Servers.
  2. If your web application requires instant scalability due to spike in number of users or total application usage, then cloud servers are best suited for you.
  3. If you require to integrate your web application with payment gateway modules, or require special third party components to be installed in the server.
  4. If you require a complete root access to tweak a server instance according to your requirements.

GENERAL FEATURES

Access Level & Privileges: All Linux Cloud Servers come with full root access. This means you will be able to install and tweak your server settings according to your requirements.

Instant Scalability: All cloud servers can be scaled to the next higher or lower cloud instance instantly within few min. This means if you expect a sudden spike in users or application usage, you can upgrade your cloud server resources immediately.

Pre-installed Software: PHP/MYSQL along with components such as Image Magick, Ruby on Rails, SOAP, Zip archive, ffmpeg, postgres, Atmail web interface etc.

Pre-hardened: All Linux Cloud Servers come with Arrow Shield, the state of the art intrusion detection and security shield. It optimizes vital services and sets your cloud instance in highest alert level.

Payment Gateway Environments: ICICI and HDFC payment gateway environment is preset in all cloud servers.

SH-Apps : You can integrate your cloud server to range of Silicon House Apps such as SMS Gateways, XMAIL Trac™ 2011, Arrow cloud mail server suite, Super Reseller Suite etc. instantly. Please check our Apps page for more details and pricing info.

Technology: Silicon House Cloud Servers are developed over Citrix Xen Server and are based on a minimum of 2.0 GHz processor. These clouds servers can be user for running ERP, large portals, rich media contents etc. Learn more about the technology behind our cloud servers.

1Aug/110

siliconhouse cloud web hosting servers salient features

GENERAL FEATURES OF SILICONHOUSE CLOUD SERVERS :


Instantly Scalable Cloud Servers with Free bandwidth and cpanel


Access Level & Privileges: All Linux Cloud Servers come with full root access. This means you will be able to install and tweak your server settings according to your requirements.

Instant Scalability: All cloud servers can be scaled to the next higher or lower cloud instance instantly within few min. This means if you expect a sudden spike in users or application usage, you can upgrade your cloud server resources immediately.

Pre-installed Software: PHP/MYSQL along with components such as Image Magick, Ruby on Rails, SOAP, Zip archive, ffmpeg, postgres, Atmail web interface etc.

Pre-hardened: All Linux Cloud Servers come with Arrow Shield, the state of the art intrusion detection and security shield. It optimizes vital services and sets your cloud instance in highest alert level.

Payment Gateway Environments: ICICI and HDFC payment gateway environment is preset in all cloud servers.

SH-Apps : You can integrate your cloud server to range of Silicon House Apps such as SMS Gateways, XMAIL Trac™ 2011, Arrow cloud mail server suite, Super Reseller Suite etc. instantly. Please check our Apps page for more details and pricing info.

Technology: Silicon House Cloud Servers are developed over Citrix Xen Server and are based on a minimum of 2.0 GHz processor. These clouds servers can be user for running ERP, large portals, rich media contents etc. Learn more about the technology behind our cloud servers.

1Aug/110

What is a Cloud Server ?

Cloud computing refers a cluster or large pool of multiple server-based computational resources which is available for access to the users. In cloud, user can access using various devices such as desktop, phone or other devices and use applications and store data in the remote cloud server. This avoids installing multiple applications in the local device. With such a large pool of computational resource, a cloud can run multiple OS using the same resources. Silicon House Cloud is developed over Citrix Xen Server and is based on a minimum of 2.0 GHz processor. This consists of three components;

  • Xen Hyper visor
  • Domain 0, the privileged domain ( Dom0 ) - Privileged guest running on the hyper visor with direct hardware access and guest management responsibilities
  • Multiple DomainU, Unprivileged Domain Guests ( DomU ) - Unprivileged guests running on the hyper visor; they have no direct access to hardware.

The Xen hypervisor runs directly on the hardware and becomes the interface for all hardware requests such as CPU, I/O, and disk for the guest operating systems.

The Domain 0 Guest referred to as Dom0 is launched by the Xen hypervisor during initial system start-up and can run any operating system. The Dom0 has unique privileges to access the Xen hypervisor that is not allocated to any other Domain Guests.

The Domain Guests referred to as DomUs are launched and controlled by the Dom0 and independently operate on the system. These guests are either run with a special modified operating system referred to as paravirtualizion or un-modified operating systems leveraging special virtualization hardware (Intel VT and AMD-V) referred to as hardware virtual machine (HVM)

30Jul/110

silicon house : Windows cloud web hosting with plesk control panel

 

 Silicon House fully managed windows cloud servers

Silicon House Windows Cloud Servers come with Windows 2008 and IIS 7.0. You can run asp, asp.net and other web applications developed for windows platform. You will have remote access with remote desktop and can install any third party software such as crystal report or register any DLL.

Who should use Silicon House Windows Cloud Servers?

  1. If your application requires third party applications such as crystal reports, office ocx to be installed.
  2. If you require Administrator level access to install new software exe, create user groups etc.
  3. If you require to increase or decrease the server resources such as memory, cpu, disk space during spikes in application users or usage.
  4. If you wish to run web services or SOAP API for others to connect to you in a particular port.
  5. If you are running ERP or CRM applications where client data need to be kept isolated from other users.

    View available Windows cloud configurations
29Jul/110

Silicon House Introduces Arrow shield multi layered depth-in-defense proactive monitoring for cloud servers

Arrow Shield - State of the art security and intrusion prevention tool

Arrow Shield
Multi Layered, Depth-in-Defense Proactive Monitoring Shield

Arrow Shield is a comprehensive security suite which is designed and enhanced based on recommendations of The National Institute of Standards and Technology. When it comes to security, there is no single silver bullet. Depth-in-Defense is the formidable strategy. It involves defense in multiple layers.

OS Level Hardening

Arrow Shield detects the OS and apply latest patches and upgrades. It also removes or disables unnecessary services, applications and network protocols. It also installs and configures additional security controls which enhance the default security control present in the OS.

Once the OS installation and hardening is complete, it runs a complete security check to determine the level of hardening is attained.

Server Application Level Hardening

Typically a server runs web, ftp, dns, database, mail and other services. Arrow Shield detects these important services and apply patches or upgrades. It also removes unnecessary services and hardens the default settings. Based on the type of application that is required to run in the server, the services are fine tuned. This helps in smooth running of the applications with the most optimal settings.

Arrow Shield also sets the process priority so that vital server resources such as memory, cpu and utilized for processes that are high in priority.

Network Level Hardening

This involves enabling additional protection in standard ports and protocols and disabling unnecessary ports and protocols. It also involves effective tools such as firewall, anti-virus, root kit detectors, host based DOS shields in monitoring and protecting the incoming and outgoing traffic.

Encryption and Higher Strength Authentication

Arrow Shield configures services and authentication daemons to use high strength level or encryption while communicating with client and server. This helps in preventing attacks originating from infected clients.

DDOS mitigation

In line with Depth-in-Defense strategy, Arrow Shield now comes bundled with DDOS mitigation module. This module detects and prevents further flooding of attacks to a particular service. Apart from that, it also helps in identifying which service or website is under such attack to enhance better mitigation and prevention from future attacks.

Arrow Patrol Engine

Arrow Shield now includes a Patrol Engine which scans the websites hosted in the server and alerts the system admin or concerned user immediately. It also suspends and isolates the infected files or malware. The Arrow Patrol Engine can detect

1. Malicious Files Upload: Malicious scripts, codes, exes, files uploaded in a website which could be used for defacing your website, websites in your reseller and other sites in the server

2. Gumblar Attack: Iframe injections in html,php,asp,asp.net,.css files, javascript files which are injected with a malware code

Maintain and Monitor Security

Arrow Shield comes with state of the art Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software [ IDPS ]. This analyses the incoming traffic, logs, processes frequently. This also check key system files and processes and detects any variations.

The server is continuously monitored and more than 300 samples are collected on key parameters in a day. The entire environment is pre-built and tested in real time environment for 170 man hours. Such a rigorous hardware and software testing helps in identifying and rectifying 70 % of the issues that occur in a enterprise level dedicated server environment.

   

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