Does a Dedicated Server package have a WAP feature/server?

Just about any dedicated hosting setup will allow WAP. You’ll just need to setup Mime types and DirctoryIndex settings in web server configuration. The following guide mentions settings for both Windows and Linux servers to be setup for WAP:

http://www.developershome.com/wap/wapServerSetup/tutorial.asp?page=setupIntro

This is perfect (WAP that is) for small testing purposes.

This is how you would setup a remote access key in Web Host Manager (WHM).

The first thing you would need to do is login to WHM. From the front page, click on "Cluster/Remote Access". Next, click on "Setup Remote Access Key".

If you are incorporating an external script that automates account creation and management, it will ask you for a remote access key. WHM automatically creates the encrypted code for you. Simply generate the key, copy and paste into your script. To generate the new key, hit the button marked "Generate New Key" button.

After doing so, you will be able to setup a remote access key in WHM.

Need a good monitoring tool for your server?  There are several services online out there today that will give you the best in performance monitoring, availability monitoring, and traffic monitoring. 

• SiteUptime
• Host Tracker
• mon.itor.us
• FreeSiteStatus
• Site24?7

My personal favorite out of these selections would have to be mon.itor.us.  It has the most tools, and it is totally free to use. 

Need help on doing a trace route to your dedicated hosting setup?

Windows Info:

1. Go to Start > Run…
2. Enter cmd and click OK.
3. At the prompt, type tracert yourdomainname and hit enter.
4. Copy and paste the results into your text file.

Note: Some people are often confused by how to copy and paste from the cmd prompt (that black window your looking at). The best way to go about this is to right click on the window (anywhere in the black part) and select “Select All”. Then to copy, hit the Ctrl + C keys on your keyboard. Then you can right click with your mouse, and select paste to paste it into your text file you are saving this information to.

Mac Info:

1. Double-click the Hard Drive icon > Applications folder > Utilities folder > Network Utility program.
2. Select the trace route tab and enter the hostname, where hostname can be a domain name, a machine name or an IP address.
3. Press Enter then copy and paste the results into your text file.

Now you should have no issues troubleshooting the connection between yourself and the server in question.

Want to backup your account from cPanel? 

The first step in the process would be to login to your cPanel account. Once you are on the front page, then find and click the icon marked “Backup”. This will take you to the cPanel Backup screen.

Full Backups

The full backups are backups of your entire web site and everything in it except for MySQL databases. To generate a full back, click on the link at the top of the page that reads, “Generate/Download a Full Backup”.

To do a normal backup generation, just select from the Backup Destination drop down menu, “Home Directory”. Next, put in your e-mail address in the second box and skip over the remote settings. Click on the button that reads, “Generate Backup” and you should be e-mailed once the backup is ready to download. When it is, you can come back and get it. To download your backup, login to cPanel and click on “Backup”. From there, under full backups click on the text link the reads, “Download a home directory backup”.

Backup Your MySQL Databases

To backup your MySQL databases, login to cPanel. Once you are on the front page, then find and click the icon marked “Backup”. This will take you to the cPanel Backup screen.  Near the bottom of this page, you should see a section titled, “Download a MySQL Database Backup” with your databases listed under it.

Click on your database name, and then save the backup to your own computer.

We have all done it.  We went out to see what reviews we could find on or about the dedicated web hosting we have now or the dedicated web hosting we are interested in picking up?  Then you see it.  A big, bad and nasty negative review.  As your palms get sweaty, you think to yourself, “Should I read it?”.  Well, I am here to tell you that you should, but take it with a grain of salt.  A healthy dose of skepticism never did any harm.

After reading a bad review, the first thing I want you to remember is that every coin has two sides.  Your only hearing from the ticked off customer in many of these cases, and you don’t know what they did to to the web host in question.  Something else I have learned over the years of working in the hosting world is that happy people usually don’t post reviews.  If you are happy, and you know it you usually don’t do squat.  Is it beyond belief?  Well, when was the last time you wrote Oscar Mayer to tell them you love their baloney?  I promise you though that the guy who found a human finger in his baloney wrote them a nasty letter.

Not to say there is anything wrong or bad with leaving good reviews.  Heck some of those are the ones that really make people excited, due to their lack of actually happening.  It is kind of like finding a duck dressed up like Abraham Lincoln.  You don’t know how he got there, he probably won’t come back again, but he did put a smile on your face.  So remember, not all bad reviews are as bad as they seem.  Sure, they may be rooted in some truth, however you should get a wide variety of opinions to see if this was just one guy out of the blue having problem, or if you can spot a trend.

Lets say you have a new dedicated hosting account, and now you want to setup your own blog network.  Where should you start?  I would highly suggest looking into WordPress MU.  The MU stands for “multiple users”. 

Running MU is not “simple”, and it’s not intended to be a get rich quick set-up of wordpress.com out of the box. You need certain skills to be able to successfully run, maintain, and support an MU installation.  This script package is designed to run hundreds of thousands of blogs with a single WordPress install.  It is most famously used for WordPress.com where it serves tens of millions of hits on hundreds of thousands of blogs each day.

Give WordPress MU a shot, if you want to become the next big blogging juggernaut.

This is how you would setup a remote access key in Web Host Manager (WHM).

The first thing you would need to do is login to WHM. From the front page, click on “Cluster/Remote Access”. Next, click on “Setup Remote Access Key”.

If you are incorporating an external script that automates account creation and management, it will ask you for a remote access key. WHM automatically creates the encrypted code for you. Simply generate the key, copy and paste into your script. To generate the new key, hit the button marked “Generate New Key” button.

After doing so, you will be able to setup a remote access key in WHM.