Q. What operating systems choices do you offer on Dedicated Servers and which control panels are supported ?

:- Following is the list of Operating System choices available on our Dedicated Servers and control panels supported on those.

Q. Are all scripts in Fantastico maintained by eUKhost regularly? Could you confirm that eUKhost.com maintains an up-to-date and secure list of mods and scripts?

:- Fantastico is a cPanel control panel addon and available on all our Linux cPanel Hosting plans at no additional cost. It is an external library of scripts provided by Netenberg which is integrated with cPanel for customer convenience. As and when Fantastico releases updates, we also run fantastico upgrades. Having said that, there have been past instances where script version upgradations on Fantastico have caused a few issues with cPanel compatibility owing to difference in versions of complementary modules. This has been a reason for one set of updates to be actually rolled back. eUKhost.com will always keep fantastico upto date till the time it does not hinder cPanel modules functionality.

Q. What is included in a VPS hosting plan ?

:- The only programs that come pre-installed and set up on each of our VPS hosting plans are:

* The Operating System
* Anything included with a basic install of that Operating System
* The webserver for that Operating System (e.g. Apache on Linux, IIS on Windows)

If you opt for cPanel/Plesk control panel with your VPS, then the installation will include PHP and MySQL but any non-control panel VPS will not include any extra applications such as PHP and MySQL. All of these can be installed by you and configured as they need them. They are both available free of charge from their vendors.

http://www.php.net/downloads.php
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/

What can I install on my VPS?

A VPS is similar to a dedicated server in terms of features and access level it offers. This means you can install pretty much any applications or add-ons that you need, and set them up exactly as per your requirements. You will have full administrative/root SSH access to the VPS which would allow you the flexibility to do so. The only restrictions which You would need to bear in mind are the physical limitations such as disk space, RAM, CPU allocated to your VPS.

Drupal Website Hosting

Do you offer Drupal Hosting?

- Yes, Drupal is supported on all our web hosting packages. PHP and MySQL are the important requirements for  Drupal Hosting and they are available on all our web hosting plans. We would suggest a linux web hosting package for hosting a Drupal Website as PHP MySQL is the perfect combination on linux servers along with cPanel.

Drupal can be installed at a one click through Fantastico which makes it much easier. cPanel is the most easy to use control panel and allows you to manage database and other tasks of Drupal application.

All our servers are Drupal-optimized and performance oriented. Our support team have expertise in managing Drupal websites and they are available 24×7 to provide technical assistance.

Drupal is one of the leading content management systems (CMS) around. Drupal is free and open source CMS written in PHP programming language. Power features and easy management tools of Drupal supports variety of websites. Small websites, blogs or major community websites can be published via Drupal. Drupal meets the website requirements of all small and big organisations. Drupal includes Community web portals,Social Networking sites,E-commerce applications ,Personal web sites or blogs and many such portals.

Drupal is easy to install and use where you won’t need to be expert in programming language. Search engine friendly URL’s, categories and search functions are some of the features on Drupal. Additonal  modules with Drupal adds more functionality to a website. Drupal installation can easily be converted to a forum, blog, wiki or any other website as per requirements.

All you need to do is open a Drupal web hosting account where you can easily have the Drupal application installed.

phpBB Forum Hosting

Do you offer phpBB website hosting?
Yes, phpBB is supported on all our web hosting packages.phpBB is supported on our linux Web hosting as well as Windows Web hosting.  phpBB is PHP MySQL based so no problems on our servers as all our servers include PHP and MySQl.

phpBB website hosting include lots features such as easy to use control panel, multiple tools, secure servers and the best thing is 24×7 support via email, phone and live chat.Our Website Hosting packages includes full support for phpBB along with free installation, free resources at affordable prices. All our web hosting plans support multiple domains which makes easy to manage websites. All you need is signup for a hosting package as per your requirements for phpBB Web Hosting.

PHPBB Hosting Features

*Free phpBB installation
*Instant phpBB Account Setup
*Easy phpBB Account Upgrade
*phpBB Optimized Servers
*Multiple Domains and databases
*Unlimited email accounts
*CPanel and Fantastico
*PHP 5.x and MySQL 5.x
*99.95% Uptime Guarantee
*30 Day Money Back Guarantee.
*24×7 UK Customer Support

phpBB is the most powerful and commonly used forum software used these days. It is suitable for newbies as well as more technically sound users. You can create mid sized forum or a forum for large communities using phpBB. The best thing is phpBB is open source project and it is available for free.

phpBB is powerful software along with easy to use administrator panel. You can create unlimited forums and categories. Features such as Polls, smilies , emailing , permissions and other such can be added easily as well.Forum can be controlled as such that you can bam specific IP’s , email adresses or users.PhpBB forum can be installed and activated within 15 minutes. With our Linux web hosting account, phpBB can be installed at a one click through fantastico.

phpBB is highly secured in terms of authorization system and high encryption that helps to save all passwords save.You can slect the theme for phpBB as per your requirements.You can select which are available for free on web. You can even use CSS to change colors and fonts. phpBB supports cookies section as well.

Unlimited number of users can be created using phpBB. A user can create avatars, send private messages to other users of the forum, etc on phpBB forum. Posts can edited and managed easily as the interface of phpBB is uer friendly.

Q. What control panel choices do you offer on Dedicated Servers and what are the prices?

Ans. We offer the latest versions of cPanel and Plesk control panels with our Dedicated Servers.

*cPanel version 11.17.0
*WHM version 11.15.0
*Plesk Version 9.x

a) Control panel prices on Dedicated Servers are as follows :-

:- cPanel/WHM with Fantastico - £20.00/Month.
:- Plesk 10 Domains License - £5.00/Month.
:- Plesk 30 Domains License - £10.00/Month.
:- Plesk 100 Domains License - £15.00/Month.
:- Plesk Unlimited Domains License - £20.00/Month.

Plesk Addons:-
:- Plesk Power Pack - £15.00/Month.
:- Dr. Web Anti Virus - £25.00/Month.

Q. What control panel choices do you offer on Linux/Windows VPS Hosting and what are the prices?

Ans: We offer the latest versions of cPanel and Plesk control panels with our VPS Hosting plans

*cPanel version 11.17.0
*WHM version 11.15.0
*Plesk Version 8.6.0

b) Control panel prices on VPS Hosting are as follows :-

:- cPanel/WHM with Fantastico - £5.00/Month.
:- Plesk 30 Domains License - £2.00/Month.
:- Plesk 100 Domains License - £4.00/Month.
:- Plesk Unlimited Domains License - £6.00/Month.

Plesk Addons:-
:- Plesk Power Pack - £3.00/Month.
:- Dr. Web Anti Virus - £4.00/Month.

Addon domain Vs Parked domain

Addon domain:

Addon domains can be added to your hosting account as an upgrade. They allow you to have more than one independent website sharing the resources of your hosting account. Addon domains hosting is similar to virtualization. You can host multiple domains or multiple websites on a single account which are basically setup as sub domains on the main domain but the domains you add as a addon domain gets parked on top of the subdomain. You can see website of the sub domain when you type your addon domain in browser by the URL never changes as it continues with addon domain in the browser.

Parked domain:

You can have multiple domain names pointing to your site. This is a great way to increase your online visibility. Parked domain on main domain shows website of the main domain. Similarly parked domain on the subdomain would show website of subdomain. Domain which is parked on subdomain is called addon domain.

Apache configuration needs to know what directory to call when someone opens a particular website in the browser and in case of addon domains, it will load the subdomain. Your addon domain is added as an alias for that subdomain.

From a user perspective, an addon domain functions just like any other domain. You can register and set up an addon domain under your existing web hosting account. So when your visitors type “http://www.yourdomain.com” in their browser, they will be transported to the new site. The difference between a parked domain and an addon domain from a web user’s perspective is that with a parked domain the URL in the address bar will change to the physical location of the page as the page loads. For example, if you type http://www.abc.com, that domain won’t remain in the browser address bar, but will change to “http://www.domain.com/abc/index.html” as soon as the page is displayed.

Q. Linux Semi-Dedicated hosting or Windows Semi-Dedicated Hosting? I have no idea can anybody help or explain in simple terms, what the advantages and disadvantages of each are?

Ans. If you don’t know which platform you need, then most likely you do not require Windows hosting and you should select one of our Linux web hosting plans. Your choice of web server platforms should be influenced by the use to which you intend to put it. The majority of web features including PHP, MySQL, POP3 etc run fine on both Windows server as well as Linux server platforms.

If you intend to develop your site using ASP, FrontPage, ASP.NET environment, Windows Streaming Media, Access, MS SQL Server, or any of the other Microsoft’s owned technologies then you should opt for Windows Semi-Dedicated hosting.

You would need to use Windows hosting is when you are using the specific NT applications. Microsoft FrontPage may be used on both the Linux and Windows platforms as since most hosting companies support the Microsoft FrontPage server extensions on both.

If you don’t need ASP.NET and MS SQL Server database support then Linux Semi-Dedicated Hosting would be perfect for you as it comes with the cPanel control panel which is the best control panel in web hosting industry.

Q. How do I set-up hosting accounts once my reseller hosting account is created ?

Ans. After your Reseller Hosting account is created, your main account will have it’s own Control Panel CPanel/WHM, just like all the other web hosting accounts you’ll create for your customers. However, the difference between your main account and all the other accounts, is that your main account will be given Reseller Privileges. You will have your own reseller interface called Web Host Manager (WHM) which is what you’ll use to manage your web hosting business: create hosting accounts, set storage space and bandwidth limits, suspend/unsuspend accounts, and much more.

Set-up Web Hosting Packages

While creating packages, you’ll want to decide exactly what you want to provide in the web hosting plans you want to sell. You’ll have to decide things like:

* How much storage space and bandwidth to allocate to each account.
* How many email accounts to allocate to each account.
* How many FTP accounts, Parked domains, Subdomains, Addon domains, and MySQL DBs to allocate to each account.
* How much are you going to sell your web hosting plans for.

Once you’ve decided all these factors, you may login to your WebHost Manager and setup packages. Packages make creating new web hosting accounts much quicker and convenient, because you’re essentially pre-defining all the above variables, so that you only have to choose a package name when creating an account.