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According to many of our clients, they classify our web hosting as low cost web site hosting however that doesn’t make our web hosting rated as cheap web hosting. Considering our reputation for being one of the best web hosting companies in the web hosting market with our high level of support & affordable ecommerce hosting site web

There are a lot of factors when it comes to picking a web hosting company, the requirements of every person and company are different. In the web hosting industry, you have people who are looking for cheap multiple domain web hosting, those who look for low cost web site hosting & affordable ecommerce hosting site web. The list can go and on however we can offer almost every combination for our clients.

Our servers are located in our tier-1 private data center space located in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Our location is one of the most strategic locations weather you’re looking for international web hosting or North American web hosting. Our datacenter has state of the art UPS which assures that your web site is never down for a single second and also can have interrupted backup power for a week without having to refill any of our generators. The cooling in our datacenter is designed in a way to run at 133%, so if any failure occurs, our datacenter can run at full capacity using only 70% of our cooling power. Fire alarm systems, man traps and magnetic cards that monitor every entrance/exit of any data center room are standar.

Our servers also utilize the latest in technology standards all using Intel server equipment only. Most of our servers come with redundant power supplies which makes the chance of having a full catastrophic power failure impossible. We use RAID to avoid any data loss at all and we implement IPMI systems in most of our servers to monitor each server and control them. We only use server-grade hardware such as ECC registered RAM to avoid memory failures, Xeon processors in any of our servers weather it’s shared, reseller, virtual private servers or dedicated servers as well as Intel motherboards that are made to last and run for months and years.

We also operate our own private internet powered by BGP4. BGP4 is the protocol that the internet uses to have its full redundancy and routing. Operating from our own AS numbered 33028 with Cisco hardware only. Our hardware is carefully picked to perform at top speed with no bottleneck and we always give a huge overhead in our network. We are also running 4 of the top internet providers on our network and having all 4 failing at the same time is close-to-impossible.

We test out the latest technologies and make sure our clients have them by the time they are stable enough for usage. Being one of the first web hosting companies to introduce Ruby on Rails, Roundcube and right now the only web hosting company that operates with R1Soft at 3 hour backups. We also have Fantastico for all of our clients so they can install over 52+ known scripts with a couple of clicks without having to go through the fuss of setting up databases, etc.

We pride ourselves in our R1Soft backup system, we have backups that run daily aswell as daily backups every 3 hours, no other web hosting company has yet to offer that and no other web hosting company at our price range can offer that. This means that if for some rare reason we had any hardware failure, the maximum loss of data would be 3 hours only, compared to other web hosting companies where a whole day of work could be lost.

We have highly trained staff that have been in the web hosting industry for years and know every in-and-out of it. Network engineers and server administrators that are available 24×7x365 to help you with any of your problems no matter what. Our network engineers and server administrators are highly trained and can resolve most issues within minutes of identifying this issues.

Our products range is a very wide range as we have products starting from professional powerful shared hosting for the daily user or the small business, going up to reseller accounts for those who’d like cheap multiple domain web hosting and would like to isolate their domains instead of having them all under one account. Virtual private server for those who would like the redundancy that cannot be found anywhere else other than with us and dedicated server which are with the quality of our other services. As well as services such as domain registration and SSL certificates.

Our long time experience in the web hosting industry and our high quality infrastructure is what makes our price affordable while keeping the reputation for one of the companies with the best services makes us perfect for your affordable ecommerce hosting site web. We treat your business like it’s our business and we will help you in every step we can when you have your hosting account with us.

To conclude as you can read from what we mentioned in this article that price doesn’t matter and has no link with the quality of the services. We have the best pricing in our web hosting class as well as having higher quality web hosting than any of our competitors and bringing offers to our customers before any other company that charges much more brings them to theirs.

Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody. Joomla! is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications. Joomla! can be used to easily manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and images to updating a product catalog or taking online reservations.

Joomla web hosting
All of vexxhost’s web hosting plans are equipped with Fantastico which allows you to use vexxhost for Joomla hosting, the advantage of our web hosting plans versus other web hosting plans is that you can install Joomla by simply locating the Fantastico button in your web hosting control panel and selecting “Joomla” on the left side of the page, the instructions are very easy and simple to follow on that page and you should be up and running within minutes.

cPanel web hosting or other web hosting

1. Make sure that your web hosting company supports Joomla
   Frequently, people go through all the other steps to be stopped at a step eventually because they forgot to make sure that their web hosting company supports the requirements of Joomla. It would be best to verify with your web hosting company if they support the following requirements:
   http://help.joomla.org/content/view/1938/310/
2. Download the Joomla software package
   You should download the Joomla script by visiting the following link: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=3587 — Joomla is available for no charge weather you are using it for personal or business usage. You should pick the latest version and preferably the zip file.
3. Extract the downloaded file and upload it to your web hosting account
   Once you have downloaded the ZIP file, you should extract it on your computer using a utility, if you have Windows XP or newer, you should be able to open the ZIP file directly, if not, you can simply download a utility such as WinZIP, WinRAR and extract the archive with it
4. Create a database for Joomla usage
   One of Joomla’s new features is a support for a wide range of database software; the most common database software used on shared web hosting services is MySQL. If you are not using cPanel for your web hosting, you should check with your control panel manual. You should login to your control panel and click on “MySQL databases”, when the page is loaded, enter the name of your new Joomla database in the “new database” text box and click on the “create database” button. You should see a message that says that your database has been created. Take a note of that database name.
5. Create a database user for Joomla
   The following steps are for cPanel only, if you have a different control panel, you should instruct your control panel manual. While still in your control panel main page, click on “MySQL databases”. Scroll down to the “New user” section and enter a username & a password in their respective fields, take note of that username and password as you’ll need them later and press the “Create user” button, you should get a message that confirms it by says the username was created successfully.
6. Give permissions to the created user to the database
   The following steps are for cPanel only, if you have a different control panel, you should instruct your control panel manual. While still in your control panel main page, click on “MySQL databases”. Go to the “Add user to database” section and select the user that you have created in step 5 and select the database that you have created in step 4 and press the “submit” button, you should get a page with all the MySQL privilages, you should select the “ALL PRIVILEGES” which should automatically select all of the other checkboxes, after doing that, click on “Make Changes” to commit the database assignment and you should get a confirmation that the user has been assigned to the database.
7. Complete the Joomla installation
   To complete the installation, you should visit your website to the directory where you uploaded your Joomla files at and the installation wizard provided by Joomla should be there, the rest of the installation process should be seamless from there when you will be asked to enter database information, you should enter the username/password/database name that you noted earlier, you might also need to change the CHMOD some directories so that should be done using FTP.
8. Delete the install directory
   Once you’re done installing everything and your forum is done and ready, you should delete the “install” directory as it is a big potential security risk that isn’t worth taking.

phpBB3 (codenamed “Olympus”) is an open source online discussion (forum) software which is available free of charge for both personal & enterprise use with the GPL license. phpBB 3 includes a new set of features, updates to old features and security measures from the previous version of phpBB. There is a page demonstrating the changes between both on the phpBB 3 website

phpBB 3 web hosting
All of vexxhost’s web hosting plans are equipped with Fantastico which allows you to use vexxhost for phpBB hosting, the advantage of our web hosting plans versus other web hosting plans is that you can install phpBB by simply locating the Fantastico button in your web hosting control panel and selecting “phpBB” on the left side of the page, the instructions are very easy and simple to follow on that page and you should be up and running within minutes.

cPanel web hosting or other web hosting

1. Make sure that your web hosting company supports phpBB
   Frequently, people go through all the other steps to be stopped at a step eventually because they forgot to make sure that their web hosting company supports the requirements of phpBB 3. It would be best to verify with your web hosting company if they support the following requirements.
2. Download the phpBB 3 software package
   You should download the phpBB 3 script by visiting the following link — phpBB 3 is available for no charge weather you are using it for personal or business usage. You should pick the “Full package” as we will be installing phpBB 3 from scratch.
3. Extract the downloaded file and upload it to your web hosting account
   Once you have downloaded the ZIP file, you should extract it on your computer using a utility, if you have Windows XP or newer, you should be able to open the ZIP file directly, if not, you can simply download a utility such as WinZIP, WinRAR and extract the archive with it. Once you have extracted the files from the ZIP file, you should upload the content of your phpBB3 directory into your website (to the directory where you’d like).
4. Create a database for phpBB 3 usage
   One of phpBB 3’s new features is a support for a wide range of database software; the most common database software used on shared web hosting services is MySQL. If you are not using cPanel for your web hosting, you should check with your control panel manual. You should login to your control panel and click on “MySQL databases”, when the page is loaded, enter the name of your new phpBB 3 database in the “new database” text box and click on the “create database” button. You should see a message that says that your database has been created. Take a note of that database name.
5. Create a database user for phpBB 3
   The following steps are for cPanel only, if you have a different control panel, you should instruct your control panel manual. While still in your control panel main page, click on “MySQL databases”. Scroll down to the “New user” section and enter a username & a password in their respective fields, take note of that username and password as you’ll need them later and press the “Create user” button, you should get a message that confirms it by says the username was created successfully.
6. Give permissions to the created user to the database
   The following steps are for cPanel only, if you have a different control panel, you should instruct your control panel manual. While still in your control panel main page, click on “MySQL databases”. Go to the “Add user to database” section and select the user that you have created in step 5 and select the database that you have created in step 4 and press the “submit” button, you should get a page with all the MySQL privilages, you should select the “ALL PRIVILEGES” which should automatically select all of the other checkboxes, after doing that, click on “Make Changes” to commit the database assignment and you should get a confirmation that the user has been assigned to the database.
7. Complete the phpBB 3 installation
   To complete the installation, you should visit your website to the directory where you uploaded your phpBB 3 files at and the installation wizard provided by phpBB 3 should be there, the rest of the installation process should be seamless from there when you will be asked to enter database information, you should select “MySQL” and enter the username/password/database name that you noted earlier, you might also need to change the CHMOD some directories so that should be done using FTP.
8. Delete the install directory
   Once you’re done installing everything and your forum is done and ready, you should delete the “install” directory as it is a big potential security risk that isn’t worth taking.

With the release of the new WordPress 2.5, there are a lot of new WordPress users however there are a big base of people who would like to use the capabilities and the new features of WordPress 2.5 however they are unable to because they fear breaking something however an upgrade can be done seamlessly without involving any risk at all, in case anything goes wrong, it can be fixed in a couple of minutes and everything would be back to normal on the old version. There are two methods of upgrading depending on the type of web host you have.

VEXXHOST WordPress hosting
All of our web hosting plans come with Fantastico which enables you to install/upgrade/uninstall over 52 scripts, instead of going through this document and following the instructions, Fantastico will simply tell you that you need to upgrade your script, all you need is to click on upgrade and Fantastico will backup your old version, upgrade your WordPress install and upgrade your account.

Other web hosting platforms

• Download the new version of WordPress from http://wordpress.org/download/.
• Backup your database, you should do this, most of the time people are lazy and do not do this however considering this is a major upgrade, it’s a big risk to take, I would strongly recommend backing up your database, that can be done by logging into your web hosting control panel and using a utility such as phpMyAdmin to take a dump of the MySQL database so that you can restore it incase anything goes wrong.
• Backup your files, now this will be important so just in case everything goes wrong, we’ll put back the old set of files and the old database so everything will be back just like the way it was on the first place and so that you can get the least downtime possible. This cannot be skipped else you’re taking a very big risk and the work it takes to back it up will be a lot less than having to eventually re-install everything from scratch. I suggest downloading it to a directory on your computer
• Update all your plug-ins and de-activate all of them so that you can make sure that when upgrading, the plug-in will not cause any unexpected problems by new modifications to the code rendering your website unusable, your best option would be to deactivate them so that you will face less problems when performing the upgrade on your WordPress blog, this is very key step when upgrading as it might just break your new install.
• You should go into the directory where you have extracted the new WordPress 2.5 install and go to your directory where you have your old backup, copy over the contents inside wp-content/themes however not including the “default”, copy over wp-content/uploads and the wp-content/plugins directory however make sure you do not copy the “akismet” or “hello.php” files from the old installation as these have been updated and are now obsolete.
• Once you’re done with that, upload everything back and over-write everything as you should have a backup of your old website if you properly followed the steps as there is no risk over-writing.
• Run the upgrade script by going to your site, it is located in the wp-admin/upgrade.php so you would have to go http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php depending on your website, follow the instructions that have been given to you by the script to upgrade your WordPress installation
• Reactive the plugins by logging into the control panel and your WordPress upgrade should be complete by now, make a new backup of the new database just in case!

Wordpress is one of the class leading blogs and the one of the most used from personal to enterprise size blogs, proved stability by hosting popular blogs for even automotive manufacturers, most of the people enjoy the facility of the administrator control panel however the installation process behind it is slighty complicated however it depends on what type of hosting do you have.

VEXXHOST WordPress hosting
All of our plans include Fantastico, so instead of going through this whole document in the pain of installing WordPress it, all you need to do is enter Fantastico from your control panel in cPanel, click on “WordPress”, insert the path you want it installed, the username and password for the administrator panel and you’re ready and good to go

Other web hosting platforms

• Head to the WordPress website page http://wordpress.org/download/ and click on “Download”, it should download a zip file that you will place somewhere on your hard disk and unzip it, you’ll have a bunch of folders and files starting with wp
• Upload the extracted folderto your account, you should usually check with your provider’s control panel as there are different ways to login via FTP, we cannot go in detail about every single control panel out there however asking your support staff should help you. A free and good FTP client is SmartFTP at http://smartftp.com
• Create a new clean MySQL database, again this is something that is control panel specific, the procedure is very different from control panel to control panel however in cPanel, it is the easiest to be done using a Wizard, more information and a video tutorial is included here, http://www.cpanel.net/media/tutorials/mysqlwizard.htm — Make sure you get a MySQL username, password and database name to continue our installation.
• Rename the wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php and replace the fields for it to appear something like the following
  define('DB_NAME', 'putyourdbnamehere'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'usernamehere'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'yourpasswordhere'); // ...and password
  Most of the time, you will not need to modify your DB_HOST unless your hosts tell you too, after uploading the renamed wp-config.php file into the main root directory of your hosting, simply go to http://yourdomain.com/dir/wp-admin/install.php where dir is the directory you uploaded WordPress to, if you uploaded it to the root directory of your account, then simply go to http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php and following the instructions.

That’s basically it for installing WordPress on your web hosting, as you can see the method is a lot easier when using Fantastico with our web hosting platform, happy blogging!