Q. Do You offer load balanced apache servers and mysql dedicated servers?

Ans : Yes. We offer load balanced apache servers (Web Servers) as well as MySQL servers. We are hosting a couple of the biggest forums in the world which use multiple apache servers and high configurations quad core xeons for MySQL. Clustering of multiple MySQL servers is costly but clustering of apache servers is quite simple and the only cost involved in it is for the dedicated servers. Basic dedicated server configurations are available at http://www.eukhost.com/dedicated-server-hosting.php but high configuration quad xeon servers can be setup as per requirement.

Please contact our sales department for custom quote.

Q. Can anybody give me some advice on what is my best option as the bandwidth and disc space under both VPS Hosting and Semi Dedicated Hosting is plenty. One of my websites is a small html site with no extras and has a small amount of visitors while the other site is much larger with around 6000 hits a week

Ans. We setup only 6 Semi Dedicated Hosting accounts on one server which maximizes each client’s access to server resources, and since you have only a percentage of the server, you will only pay a fraction of the cost over a dedicated server. All Semi Dedicated hosting accounts are hosted on Dual Quad Core Intel Xeon E5420 processor servers which are much more powerful than a Single Core or Dual Core Xeon processor server. The servers come with 12 GB RAM which ensures that each account hosted on the server gets at least 2 GB of Guaranteed RAM.

Semi Dedicated servers are an ideal solution for hosting data such as resource intensive websites or business application software. They provide a secure environment for client data and clients can also enjoy the full power of the processor and hardware. The clients retain complete control and remote access to the server at all times.

Our Semi Dedicated Hosting servers fill the gap between VPS Hosting and Dedicated Server Hosting. So if you need more resources than a Virtual Private Server but aren’t quite ready to upgrade to a dedicated server yet, eUKhost’s Semi Dedicated Server is the answer for you.

Q. Do you offer Private LAN between Dedicated Servers ?

Ans. Yes. We do offer Private LAN or VLAN between Dedicated Servers. Private VLAN is configured using routing rules on the router that connects your servers to Internet while Private LAN is configured using a Dedicated Switch for multiple servers LAN or using a patch cable incase of only 2 Servers.

Private LAN configuration is considered by those who need highly secure environment. You can disable public access for your Database servers or any other server with mission critical data and allow public access on the front web servers only. We have similar setup for some of our customers who have heavy traffic websites or forums. We disable remote access for database servers completely and only web servers are allowed to communicate with the database servers on private LAN. This way no one can ever access your database servers and nothing can go wrong on the webservers as well as those will allow only http traffic. less open ports on server makes it more secure.

Q. Do you support ASP.NET 3.5 on Windows Hosting? What is new in ASP.NET 3.5?

Ans. ASP.NET 3.5 is supported on all our Windows Hosting Servers. New features in ASP.NET 3.5 are as follows:-

* ASP.NET AJAX support - ASP.NET 3.5 has built-in support for ASP.NET AJAX. In addition to all the features in ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, ASP.NET 3.5 now also includes support for UpdatePanels integrating with WebParts, ASP.NET AJAX integration with controls like and .

* New ListView and DataPager Controls - The new ListView control offers flexibility in how you display your data, by allowing you to have complete control over the HTML markup generated. ListView‘s template approach to representing data is designed to easily work with CSS styles, which comes in handy with the new Visual Studio 2008 designer view.

* WCF support for JSON - Using the WCF you can now build Web services that can be exposed using any number of the Internet standard protocols, such as SOAP, RSS, JSON, POX and more.

Does this affect my ASP.NET 2.0 or 1.1 site?

* No, the ASP.NET 3.5 framework builds on the 2.0 library by adding additional functionality, there are no breaking changes and it should not effect your 2.0 code at all. There is no affect on ASP.NET 1.1 either.

How do I switch my site to using the 3.5 Framework?

* The ASP.NET 3.5 framework builds on or adds to the functionality of ASP.NET 2.0. If you site is set to use ASP.NET 2.0 and the 3.5 framework is installed, you should have access to the features within ASP.NET 3.5.

How do I install ASP.NET 3.5?

* If you are a shared hosting customer it is installed on all of our servers by default. If you are on a VPS or a Dedicated Server customer you can download the ASP.NET 3.5 framework at this URL, http://www.asp.net/downloads/essential/. If you would want our admins to install it for you, we would be happy to do so, all you need to do is raise a ticket via our helpdesk and we will get ASP.NET 3.5 installed for you.

Q. Which can be used as good game server, is it VPS or a Dedicated Server?

Ans :- We do not recommend using a VPS as a game server since memory and CPU allocations for a VPS are far lesser as compared to a physical dedicated server. You can try out one of VPS Hosting plans for 1 month to see if it supports games.

We provide assistance with game installations at no additional cost for our dedicated server customers. CPU resources are shared in case of VPS Hosting and we do not offer any support for games hosting on a VPS. Our network backbone is of 15gbps and each dedicated server gets minimum 1gbps uplink as well as downlink speed which ensures best performance for online gaming.

Q. What software do you use to provide VPS functionality?

Ans. eUKhost uses Virtuozzo to provide VPS functionality. Virtuozzo has recently been released by Parallels to the Linux community. Plans are underway to add it to the core Linux kernel as well. Virtuozzo is the base of Parallels popular commercial VPS platform. There are few differences between Virtuozzo and it’s commercial counterpart from the end user perspective. Using Virtuozzo
allows us to provide a rock-solid low cost VPS alternative to everyone!

We at eUKhost are providing CentOS 5.x, Fedora Core 7 and Debian Operating System for VPS’s.