If you wish to redirect all the urls from one site to another site’s url, then go through the following rewrite rules in .htaccess files.

For Example …

You want to redirect your old blog site http://www.abc.com/blog to new domain http://www.xyz.com/blog. So you have to include the following rules into old blog site’s .htaccess file; means when some one access the url http://www.abc.com/blog/anything  it will be redirected to http://www.xyz.com/anything.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^abc\com\blog
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.abc.com/blog$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule    ^$   http://www.xyz.com/   [L]
RewriteRule    (.*) http://www.xyz.com/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Note: Replace “www.abc.com/blog” equal to your old blog url  and also replace “www.xyz.com” equal to your new blog url …

The control panel provides a complete interface for the website management, various administrative works, including the management of database administration, domain and sub domain, e-mail management and file distribution and more.

Benefits of Kloxo

Kloxo is known to be a control panel, requires very few system resources. LxLabs, its developers says it’s the lightest control panel and generally needs 15 MB of memory. Apart from the extremely light weight and very functional, Kloxo offering a security model level 5 and many advanced features and yet easy to use.

Kloxo main features.

The main features of Kloxo panel can be divided into five categories: general account management, server tools, email management, security and system services.

General Account Management

• Control domain and sub domain
• DNS Management Model
• File Manager on the Web
• Management and installation of SSL Certificate
• Resource Management Plan
• Backup and Recovery
• Host Access via Secure Shell (SSH)
• Configuring device driver
• Resource control
• Reboot and power control

Server Tools

• Administration of MySQL and Postgres SQL
• Add and remove dedicated IP addresses
• FTP session management
• Configuring PHP and SuPHP, modPHP
• PhpMyAdmin Access
• DNS and Web server applications

E-mail management

• Ability to create and delete email accounts
• Web-based interface
• Access to queue mail
• Several applications of spam filter

Security

• SSH configuration
• Ability to block and remove hosts
• Enforcement watchdog over FTP, e-mail and Web-server
• Control brute force attacks through LxGuard

System services

• Menu status for the server process
• Server Status Menu
• Menu in the status of server components
• HTTP, mail, and MySQL
• Cron-job and task scheduler
• InstallApp

One of the most popular features of Kloxo is InstallApp, which is known as an integrated unit. This tool is very similar to the application that comes with cPanel Fantastico. The big difference is that InstallApp offers over 130 add on programs. Some of the software in the menu are blogs, forums, ports, applications, and more. InstallApp, these programs can be created with ease, because it automatically creates a database and the configuration of the selected application.

Here is the list of more features:

* Distributed Architecture
* Ability to move applications from one server to another on the fly
* IDS (Intrusion Detection System)
* Backup and Restore
* Mail server
* Webmail, answering machine …
* Statistics (web, bandwidth …)
* Installer applications (125 applications possible)
* Management of domain names
* Management of databases
* Incident Management System (ticketing)

What is windows VPS hosting :
VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. In case of VPS users share their server maintenance cost and also resources but they get the good performance like dedicated server. There are mainly two operating systems in the web hosting market: Linux (open source) and windows (developed by Microsoft ). If any user chooses windows operating system for his VPS then that is consider as a windows VPS hosting. Windows VPS supports Windows applications like ASP, ASP.NET and Sharepoint web pages as well as Microsoft SQL and Access databases.

Advantages of Windows VPS hosting:
1. In case of Windows VPS hosting, Windows is developed by Microsoft that’s why it is more secure.
2. In case of Windows VPS hosting, hosting providers provide dedicated IP address for their customers.
3. Users can access their servers with their control panel.
4. Users can reboot their servers as they wish.
5. Linux VPS hosting can’t support any Microsoft’s products like, ASP, ASP.NET, Sharepoint etc. but Windows VPS can support ASP, ASP.NET, Sharepoint, Microsoft SQL, Access databases etc.
6. If users have high traffic websites then windows VPS would be suitable for them.(shared hosting is a cheap option but shared hosting can’t support high traffic.)

Check before you select Windows VPS hosting :
Assurance about backup:
There are many windows VPS hosting providers in the hosting market. Many hosting providers get server backup on a weekly basis or many hosting providers get that in monthly basis. You have to decide what kind of backup you want.

Server management :
Your hosting provider would be responsible for any kind of technical issue. You don’t have to spend your time to manage your server. You can manage your core business with full concentration. So, you have to make sure that your server is fully managed.

Support :
You have to choose a hosting provider who provides 24/7 support by phone, live chat or email with experienced technical staff. If the support quality of your hosting provider is good then you don’t have to suffer too much hassle.

Security :
In case of web hosting security is a very important point. You have to ensure that your server is fully secure.

Here is a small howto that will show you how to unpublish a node after a given time can be in days, in seconds  … Drupal  using the module Rules

First, what does the module Rules?

Rules can be viewed as an evolution of the core module and trigger is the enhanced version of drupal 6 work flowing to Drupal 5.

Rules allow to discover events, perform actions (post a comment, send an email …) automatically with the possibility of moving conditions.

Here is a small howto to un-publish content after a certain time, it could be 15 days, 30 seconds, Wednesday, Nov 09 …

First, you must install the Rules.

1. Creating Rule Sets: Go to / admin / rules / rule_sets

• Click on “Add a new rule set”.
• Add a title, eg “Unpublish content {} rule set” with the name and machine-readable “unpublish_content.”
• In the Arguments, select “Content” as data type, enter “Content {argument}” as a title and “unpublish_content_content” as the machine readable name.
• Then save your form.
• You will be redirected to the overview of the rules sets and you can see the rule set that you just created.
• Then click on it and add a new rule by clicking the “Add new rule”
• Add a title such as “Unpublish {action} rule” and click Save.
• You will then be on a page for editing the rule click on “Add an action.”
• You will have a selection list, you should choose “Node | Remove the contents of the publication” (NOT “Rule Set | Publish content”!) And confirm by clicking Next.
• You have nothing to do normally in the form on which you have been directed, except change the title to “Unpublish content {action}” to more easily track and then save.
• Go to the page admin / rules / rule_sets and click on your rule (rule Unpublish content {set})
• Then click on the action (action {rule} Unpublish) to edit
• Add Action and select “Schedule Unpublish content»
• Choose the identifier [unpublish_content_content: nest] if you follow the terms I used, otherwise fit machine readable name given in the above arguments.
• Set the date of execution, for example 2011-12-12 10:33:55 or “one day”, you can refer to the PHP formats strtotime ()

2. Creation of or triggers (trigger): Go to / admin / rules / trigger

• Click on “Add a New Rule”
• Choose to label “Unpublish content triggered rule {}”
• Select “Node | After saving new content” and save
• Add Action
• Select “Rule Scheduler | Schedule rule Unpublish content {set}”
• Add Condition “Node | Content is published ‘
• You can also add a requirement for a given content type, why add a new condition
• And select “Node | Content Type as” and choose your or your content types.

Well, your rule is created and will be executed each time when the cron run. I hope this tutorial has helped you a little.

If you are a new comer in hosting market then you must be confused while choosing your suitable hosting provider, hosting plan and also operating system.

Maximum hosting providers offer some similar types of hosting plans like: Shared hosting, VPS hosting, Reseller hosting, Dedicated hosting, Cloud hosting, Colocation hosting Etc. Shared hosting is the cheapest option but if users can afford little more budget then VPS hosting would be suitable for them. You can follow the following parameters to choose a suitable hosting plan.

A. If you have 0 to 300 visitors per day then shared hosting would be suitable for you.
B. If you have 300 to 5000 visitors per day then VPS hosting would be suitable for you.
C. If you have more than 5000 visitors per day then dedicated hosting would be suitable for you.

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. In case of VPS hosting, the website owners can share the costs of server maintenance and server uses but it gives the website owners a total control over their server. They can reboot their server individually as they wish.

In case of the operating system, there are mainly two types of operating systems. First is Linux operating system and second is Windows operating system. Linux is cheaper than windows, because Linux is an open source operating system. But before choosing any operating system you have to know which scripts are used to create your website.

Before selecting a VPS hosting plan you have to know some characteristics about that plan. Like:
A. Number of CPU
B. RAM
C. Total disk space
D. Disk Space Allotted
E. Amount of Bandwidth
F. IP Address
G. Administrative Panel Management
H. Backup servers

10 GB Hard Disk Space, 400 GB Bandwidth ( Per Month ), 256MB RAM Guaranteed RAM, presence of Equal Share Of CPU, Control Panel(s) availability, 2 Dedicated Ips, presence Unique IP Addresses – are suitable for any beginner.

You have to choose a reasonable hosting provider but keep in mind that cost is not the only matter. In case of web hosting security, reliability, uptime and support are very important.

Users can customize their Virtual private server as much as a dedicated server is since it runs on its own distribution. Utilizing root access you can do just about anything you want with your Linux VPS hosting which is a biggest advantage.

Last but very important step before selecting hosting plan is “go through customers’ reviews”. Before signing-up with any hosting provider, you have to go through your chosen hosting provider’s customers reviews.