Archive for December, 2011

Coupon for Xmas

December 23rd, 2011  in Uncategorized 1 Comment »

Hey, all dear friends, Merry Christmas, for celebrating this holiday, we specifically prepare the promotion code “28off” for you as a Christmas gift.

This coupon code “28off” is valid for the Blog, Basic and Business package; you will enjoy a 28% discount when you purchase anyone of these three packages annually or biennially with the coupon. These three kinds of packages are widely known among HostEase users and they are also the star products of HostEase. The business package is $143.4/year, with the discount only $103.2/year.Further more; you can get a free domain and SSL certificate! What a big saving! We believe this is a real gift for the users who intend to build a business website.

We also have coupon code “hostease”, it can save you 20%.It is valid for any billing cycle. If you just want to have a try for a month,”hostease” is also a good option. We consider every aspect of you.

The New Year is coming, let’s celebrate together, and let step forward together.

The Remote Server Didn’t Report a Correct MD5SUM of the Archive

December 22nd, 2011  in Server 2 Comments »

Some of us may have experience of using WHM to transfer account from one server to another via its account transfer feature. Both “Copy an account from another server” and “Copy an account from another server with account password” are helpful when we try to copy a single account from one cPanel server to another one. We can also use “Copy multiple accounts/packages from another server” feature to move multiple accounts on one server to another one. Usually, the server administrator really enjoys this.

However, sometimes we may encounter such error notice: The remote server didn’t report a correct md5sum of the archive. Now I’ll share with you the way to deal with such issue.

First, login to the source server that you want to copy account from using ssh tools such as putty. Then use “cd /home” changing the directory to /home and run the command “/scripts/pkgacct cpusername”.The cpusername means cPanel username of this account on the server. After it finished, you may see a compressed file named cpmove-username.tar.gz under /home directory.

Then, login to the destination server which you want to transfer the account to. Then run the command “rsync -avuz -e ssh root@source server’s IP:/home/cpmove-username.tar.gz /home”.

Finally, run the command “/scripts/restorepkg cpusername” to restore the new account on this server.

By the way, you’d better change the permission and ownership of the new account on this server. The default owner and group may be the cpusername and the default permission is 644 for files、755 for folders if you use suphp manner to handle php on the server.

How to Set Up 301 Redirects in HostEase

December 19th, 2011  in Web Hosting 1 Comment »

Redirects allow you to make a specific web page redirect to another page and display the contents of that page, which is benefit for both search engine and website management. Therefore, as a website designer, we should be familiar with this function. In fact, some website owners may know how to use 301 redirects while some do not know how to use it. Today I will share with you about this feature.

i.Achieve this function in cPanel
Firstly, log in your cPanel. Go to “Redirects” under “Domains” column. Click it and then you can set 301 redirects here. Please note that there are two types of redirects, permanent redirects (301) and temporary redirects (302). The difference between them is: the permanent redirect will notify the visitor’s browser to update any bookmarks that are linked to the page that is being redirected, while temporary redirects will not update the visitor’s bookmarks. People may choose permanent one at most cases. Now, let’s come to the point. You need to fill in with the domain which you want to make 301 redirects, and also the domain you want it redirects to. Then choose one condition of the three listed as following—only redirect with www, redirect with or without www. and do not redirect www. After this, click “Add” button, and now a 301 redirects would be set up successfully.

ii. Set up the redirects via .htaccess file
Go to the root directory of your website contents hosted, and type such code to .htaccess file under this directory:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
Then save it. In this way, a 301 redirects can also be achieved.

In a word, 301 redirects is a effective way for your website when you plan to move your website or change the domain of your website. Hope this can be helpful to you.

HostEase Begins to Provide San Jose Servers

December 13th, 2011  in Uncategorized 1 Comment »

As a hosting provider and domain registrar, HostEase.com has cooperated with SoftLayer Technologies® for many years. We provide shared web hosting and servers for our customers. These servers are located in Seattle, Dallas, Houston and Washington D.C. Now a good news comes here before this Christmas——HostEase begins to provide San Jose shared web hosting and servers.

San Jose is SoftLayer’s first California data center facility. The San Jose facility is fully connected to SoftLayer’s other data centers located in Seattle, Dallas, Houston and Washington D.C. What’s more, SoftLayer has optimized the route between San Jose and Asia. That’s really good news to website owners in Asia, especially in China Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo. It means the accessing speed to SoftLayer San Jose Data Center in these area will be hugely improved and faster compared to SoftLayer’s other Data Centers.

These years, we have cooperated with many Asia site owners and hosting providers and they are using HostEase shared web hosing or dedicated servers all the time. They also submit a lot of precious suggestions to us, for saying optimizing the route between Asia and HostEase servers. We are focusing on this piece of advice and try to find out a solution. Now we bring San Jose servers to you as the Christmas present. And we do believe that Asia friends will like this data center. HostEase will try and go on providing our best service to you.

If you want to choose SofLayer San Jose servers, you can contact HostEase Sales Department via Live Chat through http://support.hostease.com or send a ticket to sales@hostease.com. We’re available to you 24/7/365.

Manage Domain Forwarding in Domain Control Panel

December 7th, 2011  in Domain Name 2 Comments »

Customers who purchase domain in HostEase may want to know how they can make domain forwarding. Now I will share this function with you all.

First, let’s log into your domain control panel via http://dcp.hostease.com. Choose the domain you want to manage if you have multiple domains here . If this is the first time for you to login to this panel, you should click “Forget password”. Then the system will send a temporary password to you. But make sure you modify this password to a new one in dcp later because this is a temporary password and it will expire in 3days.

Then choose the domain that needs to be forwarded and click the button named “Manage Domain Forwarding” under “Domain Forwarding”. You can make domain forwarding here. Destination means the website that you wish to forward requests for your domain. Let’s take domain “hostease.com” for example. If we want to forward this domain to blog.hostease.com in its domain control panel, we choose http and fill in blog.hostease.com on the right blank below “Destination” and click “Save” button. The url http://hostease.com will be redirected to http://blog.hostease.com when someone try to access hostease.com after this. Please note that two A record for your domain with and without www will be generated at this time. These two domains will be pointed to 173.193.106.10——the default forwarding DNS server’s address.

You will also see several options below: URL Masking / Stealth Redirection / URL Hiding、Sub Domain Forwarding and Path Forwarding. Enabling URL masking will ensure that your visitors see the source URL and not the destination URL. Enabling Sub Domain Forwarding will forward a request made to http://subdomain.hostease.com to http://yourdestinationurl/subdomain/Enabling Path Forwarding will forward requests made to http://hostease.com/some/path to http://yourdestinationurl/some/path.

To sum up, I think now you will know how to manage domain forwarding clearly. When you want to achieve this function, please take this passage as a reference.