The PHP configuration feature, exclusive to vexxhost web hosting clients that use our shared web hosting or reseller web hosting services, allows you to modify any PHP settings, enable or disable modules such as Zend, IonCube, FFMPEG-PHP or phpShield. This allowed our clients to configure their websites instantly without having to go through the mess of going through php.ini files.

After hours and hours of designing and implementation, we are pleased to finally announce our new PHP configuration utility. Most of our clients found our previous PHP configuration utility to be very helpful and useful. However, the user interface was not very user friendly and it was hard to understand.

We have listened to all of our customer’s suggestions and now we have implemented the new system in all of our servers, as you may see, it’s a two-step process that happens all on one page. First of all, you select the directory to be configured from the left of the page, after you have selected the directory; all you do is click “Configure”. The system will contact our servers and verify your settings, and then it will display it for you, you may make any modifications you want and after you’re done, you click “Rebuild configuration” at the end of the page.

The new system is now very easy to use comparing to the previous one specially in pointing to directory because a drop down menu was not very user intuitive and not easy to understand, the new structured directory listing will help clear this up even more and not having to refresh the page every time you select a directory which will save bandwidth as well as make everything load faster.

This new system uses the latest AJAX technologies to get your configuration instantly from the server using JSON. This new system is just part of the upcoming new features that we’re giving a complete update to.

We are pleased to announce those new features and make sure our clients enjoy our high quality web hosting, yet very affordable web hosting for the low price at the same time. We have always introduced more features on our services without ever raising the prices. By upgrading all of our hardware to latest Xeon CPUs, upgrading RAM and ensuring most of ours servers have plenty of it at all times, implementation of RAID systems to ensure redundancy and speed, being one of the first in the industry to add R1soft CDP backup features, the recent introduction of our SiteBuilder, and another vexxhost web hosting client exclusive, InstantVideo Installer.

Alright, you have just put the last minutes touches on the look of your new website, it’s been uploaded on to your favorite web host (vexxhost, obviously!). Now, you want some people to look at your web pages but don’t want to spend much. Introducing the world’s most efficient free, guaranteed, traffic: Search engines (such as Google, Bing – previously named Live – previously named MSN, Yahoo!).

If you get your website listed on any of those search engines, that’s an accomplishment, however, that’s just half the task because you won’t get any traffic on the 685th page. In order to get plenty real visitors that are looking specifically for your web page, you have got to get in the first pages on the search engine.

First of all, you have to do a research on what keywords you need to focus on optimizing your site on; this is very important, make sure the keyword you’re working with is not something that’s very vague. For example, if you try to be the #1 on Google on “blog”, well, good luck. The end result will be that you won’t get to #1 on keyword “blog” and you’ll have no traffic, if you focus on the keyword “car blog” instead, you have a much bigger chance into making it to the first page, while at the same time having very good traffic on your website.

Page 685 of “blog” with almost no traffic or Page 1-2 of “car blog” with decent traffic, your call.

Once you’ve picked your specific keywords that you want to focus on, what to do with them is very simple. The best way to gain placement and traffic on search engines is that to optimize each page of your website on a specific keyword.

Take for example that you are a web hosting company (coincidentally called vexxhost, too), then you would try to optimize one of your pages for the keyword affordable web hosting and another page for quality web hosting and so on. You’d also make sure that all the pages that have your plans/services are also optimized for the product itself, for example, Shared Web Hosting, Reseller Web Hosting, VPS Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, etc.

This will make it much easier to get a higher placement on search engines on those specific keywords, instead of those vague keywords that are very difficult to make it on the first page of, like web hosting.

There have been a lot of technical advancements in virtualization technologies in the past years. However, the two most common virtualization technologies used by VPS hosting companies are Xen & OpenVZ (open-source version of Virtuozzo). There are a lot of differenes between the two technologies. In this article, we’ll demonstrate the main differences and the faster/better technology.

Xen
Xen is one of the most advanced virtualization technologies at the moment, Xen VPS hosting companies use this virtualization technology, most of the time alongside HyperVM to provide Xen based virtual private servers.

The advantage of Xen is it’s full isolation, compared to other technologies such as OpenVZ, where they simply “lock” the user. The advantages of those is the ability to compile your own kernels or load your own modules. Xen VPS hosting service level tends to be much higher than any other ones because of their inability to cram servers into a node, because when Xen runs, it allocates the RAM to itself so it cannot be shared. It also gives you your own swap, therefore, Xen VPS hosting gives you the same exact environment as a web hosting company.

OpenVZ/Virtuozzo
This virtualization method is much less performing but it also provides a good return on investment for web hosting companies. OpenVZ allows hosts to put as much servers as they want without allocations.

There are no advantages with this technology except burstable RAM, which is rarely accessible because of how companies that provide OpenVZ VPS servers tend to cram them with as much servers as they can because they are not limited by allocations that are done by the hypervisor. It is also not a true virtualization environment, could even go to call it a jailshell, you cannot compile your own kernel neither any kernel modules. Also, cPanel tends to have problems with quotas and running under OpenVZ.

Our new unique PHP configuration feature is completely unique and only available to vexxhost’s clients. It has been developed by our own developers and tested for hours till it was deployed. It consists of multiple features that make modifying PHP settings very user friendly and easier than with any other web hosting company, therefore, using less time from you.

We have kept our previous feature where you could change your PHP version; you can either stay with the system default PHP version that depends on the main server settings that can be either PHP4 or PHP5, or you can force using a specific PHP version such as PHP4 or PHP5 for your account. This is a feature that all other web hosts have right now but we developed it and changed it to be better than any other web host.

We have created a new feature to activate/deactivate any modules from your PHP install on the fly as well as change any settings, you can enable custom configurations on specific directories as well as the ability to set it so that the configuration is recursively enabled to all directories below it. Multiple modules could be activated from FFMPEG-PHP to security modules such as IonCube, PHPshield & Zend Optimizer.

Any PHP setting can be modified from that same page by each directory specifically, popular variables such as register_globals that are very script dependent and upload_max_filesize that usually needs to be raised for special FFMPEG web hosting sites. This makes modifying PHP configurations a breeze compared to any other web hosting company.

With regular web hosting companies, you need to either make some modifications (or create) a php.ini file in a specific directory or make modifications to the .htaccess directory, while that sounds very easy to do, it is very time consuming for clients who need to have their web site up as soon as possible, which is why our service is perfect for you as changing variables is as easy as changing a text field and pressing a button instead of having to fiddle with files and configuration lines.

This solution is unique and has been created by our own staff, at the moment, no other web hosting company has a PHP configuration manager as advanced as ours and that permits you to make the most advanced configuration changes while at the same time being very simple and usable by anyone that does not want to get involved with plenty of
configuration files.

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.