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Linux Hosting helps you to convert your site from a tiny high-risk business. It also gives you many advantages over its competitors and colleagues. Once you have decided your budget and requirements you need to decide on the Linux hosting package, which will take their business opportunities as well. Scripting language built into your site with interactive facilities implemented, also plays an important role. There are various advantages, you can get Linux hosting services. Some of them are discussed below:

Linux is open source software, so ultimately it does not need a huge licensing fee, which usually pays with others. Other operating systems require a licensing fee titanic than Linux and it's a good feature - reducing costs, so the Linux hosting is an attractive rental. You can download it for free.

One big advantage is that you may at any time to convert the site based on the Linux box website without any harassment. You can also easily change back to your site to its original shape when needed. Changes can be made according to user needs.

Linux reseller hosting is the most cost-effective web hosting and the user can save an enormous amount of money from the general budget. If you do not need much space you can buy space for a Linux reseller hosting through a reseller who buys a large area from a large service provider and then resells its small portions of different customers.

Linux is also clear from the most cost-effective option for your site, the scripting languages like PHP and MySQL should be done. If the script is not very heavily loaded, do not worry about the whole process.

Linux operating system allows the user to run multiple databases simultaneously. The most widely used databases include as Postgre SQL, My SQL databases. These databases can look like another character, and also allows for a well-optimized communications. This is done quickly recover all the data.

If you want to become a Reseller Hosting, Linux is one of the hottest, most popular and lucrative markets now. This is partly because of the Linux operating system low cost of ownership and control, is that it is free, open source platform.

It's easy to become a Reseller Hosting now a days. Are you looking to add an existing reseller hosting business or want to go into business and earning money all the time as Reseller Hosting, the good news is that it does not take much to start and requires very low overhead to maintain.

Linux Hosting offers the highest security. The user is not concerned about the security of applications and can do anything on the server. Programmers and designers for this compared to other forms.

Benefits of Linux web hosting is too good to be ignored and, therefore, formed a massive fan support for the Linux web hosting in countries such as India. Linux hosting is never a surprise undersized and always deals with people.

Windows Hosting is more attention from Internet users especially among a new generation of artists. Windows hosting services, has quickly gained popularity and monopolizing more than 50% of the web hosting industry today, thanks to many of his famous benefit, which was delivered to Internet users.

Add a few key benefits that consumers can get from signing up to Windows hosting services, we would like to share with you all;

- Windows platform for businesses that require high performance database storage and use.

- Windows platform usually works well with most applications and systems, or applications, which makes it very convenient and helps reduce the potential hassle of many who would otherwise need to identify and take care, if other services platform is used, for example. Linux or Mac. Example: Microsoft Front Page Design program works well with the Windows platform, where one does not have to worry about the support options on this server.

- Windows can be integrated with an Access database, and perfectly smooth. In fact, one of the strongest for Windows and ability to integrate with a number of databases and applications on the market today.

- Windows are equipped with all the necessary Microsoft tools. Name a better illustration of an example: Microsoft Share Point tools, which allows you to share your documents and related information on the intranet along with others.

- Only the Windows Hosting platform can support any website created by using ASP application. This is because the Linux server will not support ASP. However, Windows Hosting, there is no open source tools such as MySQL or PHP, it is better to support Linux hosting in place.

- It is easier to switch from Windows Hosting Linux hosting, but not vice versa. Therefore, if the goal is to expand its online business tremendously in the near future, then settling himself with the Windows platform, from the beginning to a good start after all.

- Support for server-side servers, such as ASP (Active Server Pages), NET, PHP, Perl, ASP.NET Ajax extensions, FrontPage extension, which today is a popular public demand.

- One of the main advantages of Windows hosting is its ability to provide stable, affordable and reliable environment, web site hosting. Powered Windows Server 2008, which is the latest Windows platform hosting platform in the market from Microsoft, it provides millions of their customers security-enhanced, user-friendly platform design, build and develop web applications and hosting services.

Slightly more advantageous placement of the Windows Server

First NET technologies such as ASP is available for the Windows platform. If you have a website created by Microsoft. NET technology, you will have to choose Windows Server hosting.

The second ASP.NET technology is very interesting how language is stored. He has a lot of additions and can build any php or perl. Windows hosting, as well as to support NET Framework, MSSQL.

Another advantage is that the "Unix" you never are able to work with ASP and ASP.NET, but the "Windows" in working with almost all the popular PHP / MySQL scripts and extensions.

The third If you need a large data base company, the Windows platform will be the best choice.

The fourth Access databases only works with Windows Server hosting. Access may be initiated only on a Microsoft Windows platform, and therefore can not work with Linux Hosting. If your site takes this option, you will have to adapt Windows hosting server.

5.If you are using Microsoft's Sharepoint tool for Windows platform will be the only reliable choice for you. Only for Windows hosting provides a valuable Microsoft business solutions like SharePoint Services, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Exchange.

The sixth You can manage a remote desktop, the program is now available with all versions of Windows XP. So, you do not send any additional utilities, such as Radmin, VNC etc.

Windows hosting, as a rule, are more expensive, because Microsoft's licensing costs, but still, it implies a good support and administration.

Classic Editions

Essential Edition

In addition to the book-like design, the My Book Essential Edition drives have an Intelligent Power Management feature that stops the drive platters after ten minutes of inactivity, rather than the usual expedient of slowing them down. The unit also turns on and off with the computer it is attached to.

Essential Edition My Book drives are almost entirely black, with the exception of a single blue light, used to indicate power and activity, that is located on the front of the drive.

Premium Edition

Premium Edition drives are similar to the Essential Edition model but also include Firewire 400 ports, an integrated visual capacity gauge and Western Digital backup software.

Premium Edition My Book drives have the same black case as Essential Edition drives, however, the light surrounding the power button is blue. Also, inside the standard blue light is another blue ring light that contains 8 individual segments which indicate the remaining space on the drive.

Premium ES Edition

My Book Premium ES Edition drives are nearly identical to their Premium Edition counterparts, the only difference being that the ES line features a single eSATA connection instead of the dual Firewire 400 ports present on the Premium Edition, allowing computers with available eSATA ports to transfer data at speeds of up to 3 Gbit/s.

Pro Edition

The Pro Edition My Books contain all of the features of the Premium Edition ones, but with added Firewire 800 connectivity for fast data transfer. In addition, the Pro Edition My Books replace the Western Digital backup software found on the Premium Editions with EMC Retrospect Express backup and recovery software.

Pro Edition My Book drives have the same basic case design as Premium Edition drives; however, the case is silver rather than black. In addition, it includes a circular blue capacity gauge LED divided into six segments (representing 17% of usage per segment) and an outer ring that represents drive activity.

The "Pro Edition MyBook" is marketed as a RAID solution that can be used a backup device.

Studio Edition

The 'MyBook Studio Edition' comes with quad interface: USB 2.0 / Firewire 400 / Firewire 800 and eSATA. It is marketed for use with Macintosh.

The 'MyBook Studio Edition II' contains two drives and is designed to be used as a RAID system for increased performance.

The two drives can be replaced by the user, but the documentation states that "Only WD Caviar GP hard drive assemblies can be inserted into the My Book Studio Edition II or Mirror Edition enclosure."

The LED gauge has a design issue on these disks. Several[weaselwords] users reported that some of the LEDs were burning out after 3 to 4 months of normal usage.

World Edition

The World Edition My Books function as Network-attached storage (NAS), by way of an Ethernet interface. They also feature an extra USB host port to allow an additional USB drive to be daisychained. They are accessed as CIFS/SMB shared folders, via NFS or FTP and also feature UPnP, iTunes server functionality and a Twonky media server.

In addition, the World Edition uses WD Anywhere Access to gain remote access to the drive via the internet - although this limits the file types that can be accessed.

It has the same basic case design as the Premium Edition drives, including the capacity gauge, except the color of the World Edition is white. It also has the same Morse code ventilation as the other editions.

Network speed

Although MyBook Ethernet-capable disks come with a Gigabit Ethernet interface, the network speed is significantly slower, especially in older models, where it varies between 36MByte/s, with an average of 4.5MByte/s because of the limited 200MHz clock frequency speed of the ARM processor within. The CPU capacity to handle data is low, as WD Support seems to have answered a customer.. Newer Models compare to USB drive speed at between 10 and 25 MByte/s.

Internals

Controller board for My Book World Edition

This drive runs BusyBox on Linux on an Oxford Semiconductor 0XE800 ARM chip which has the ARM926EJ-S core. In addition it uses a VIA Cicada Simpliphy vt6122 Gigabit Ethernet chipset, and a Hynix 32 Mbit DDR Synchronous DRAM chip. The webserver is the mini_httpd server, although thought to be Lighttpd. The drives of the World Edition are xfs formatted, which means that the drive can be mounted as a standard drive from within Linux if removed from the casing and installed in a normal PC.

The disk filesystems are also known to exist in a format created by linux multiple devices driver (Mdadm) which ultimately wraps an ext3 partition with some metadata that allows the inquiry of the position of the drive in a RAID set. Unfortunately, this makes mounting the drives outside of the enclosure a bit more complicated, it also requires a machine with a flavor of the Linux operating system. For example, the best way to mount the drives on a Linux flavored operating system after they have been removed from the enclosure is to use the following set of commands for mirrored RAID 1 disks.

$ sudo modprobe md

$ sudo mknod /dev/md4 b 9 4

$ sudo apt-get install mdadm

$ sudo mdadm --assemble /dev/md4 /dev/sdb4

$ sudo mkdir /media/xyz

$ sudo mount /dev/md4 /media/xyz

$ sudo chmod -R 777 /media/xyz

Note that the above set of commands assume that your drives appear as /dev/sdb to linux. You can use a utility like gparted to determine which paths are relevant for your setup.

And alternately you can use this command set for mounting a multidisk spanning RAID 0 set in linux:

$ sudo modprobe md

$ sudo mknod /dev/md4 b 9 4

$ sudo apt-get install mdadm

$ mdadm -Cv /dev/md4 -l0 -n2 -c64 /dev/sdb4 /dev/sdc4

$ sudo mkdir /media/xyz

$ sudo mount /dev/md4 /media/xyz

$ sudo chmod -R 777 /media/xyz

Note that the above set of commands assume that your drives appear as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb to linux. Again, you can use a utility like gparted to determine which paths are relevant for your setup.

Further details and support are available at the following My Worldbook wiki.

Extending capabilities

The device can be 'unlocked' and accessed via SSH terminal (newer versions of WDH1NC10000 do not need to be "unlocked": MBWE SSH Access), meaning that the WD MioNet java-based software can be disabled so the device can be run with an unrestricted Linux OS, at the cost of voiding the warranty. The unlocking makes it possible to install other software on MyBook (i.e. run a different webserver or an ftp server (such as vsftpd) on it, use NFS for mounting shared directories natively from Unix, or even install a bitTorrent client such as rTorrent, etc.) Further information on unlocking the device and downloads you are going to need can be found here.

Edition II My Books

In addition to the regular My Book drives, Western Digital has also released special high-capacity "Edition II" versions of the Premium, Pro, and World Edition My Books. In addition to the features present in the respective My Book edition, these drives feature two 500 GB RAID configured hard disks which can be selected by the end user as RAID 0 (Data striping), or RAID 1 (Data mirroring), depending on personal preference. If selected as RAID 0, the end user has 1Tb of available storage. Either way, if one of the internal drives of the Edition II My Books fails, it can be easily removed and replaced by the user without voiding the warranty. Western Digital uses this feature to their advantage, claiming that their drives needn't be returned for costly service in the case of a drive failure.

New Editions

In Late 2007, Western Digital introduced a new line of My Book drives. These included the Essential Edition 2.0, Home Edition, Office Edition, and Studio Editions, and ranged in capacity from 320GB to 2TB. As some dealers offer the new edition My Book encased HD for a lower price than that of the plain HD it contains, customers have been known to purchase My Book drives, dismantle them, and use them in an internal bay in a PC or media device. The Home Edition features an Oxford 934 chipset.

WD MyBook World Edition shipping at the beginning of 2010 ("white light", e.g. Model WD10000H1NC with 1TB) come with single 3.5" hard disk from the Western Digital Green Power Series (claiming 30% more energy efficiency for the box), ox810 chipset (ARM926EJ-S cpu) and 128 MBytes of RAM. SSH root access can be enabled through the regular Web configuration UI. The hard disk contains a 2 GB System partition of which only 100 MBytes are used by the OS, and a separate 256MB swap partition. Data transfer speed (WinXP client with CIFS) is roughly 10 MByte/s writing and 16 MByte/s reading on a Gigabit Ethernet link.

Morse code

Morse code on a My Book Pro Edition drive case

The Morse code message written into the drive case is made up of a selection of the words "personal", "reliable", "innovative", "simple", and "design". The first occurrence of "innovative" on the My Book Pro and My Book World Edition features a misspelling and reads "innovateve".

References

^ wdc.com: My Book Studio Edition II 1 TB Hard Drives

^ wdc.custhelp.com: How to dismantle a My Book Studio Edition II or Mirror Edition to replace a hard drive.

^ Anywhere Access FAQ

^ WD Support answer about Network Speed slowness

^

^ MyBook World Edition Community of Wikidot

^ Hacking Western Digital MyBook World Edition

^ How to install rtorrent on a mybookworld

^ My Book Premium Edition II

^ My Book Pro Edition II

^ My Book World Edition II

^ .Western Digital Service and Support - How to dismantle a My Book Pro Edition II, My Book Premium Edition II, or My Book World Edition II to replace a hard drive.

^ How to open the case and remove the hard drive from a Western Digital My Book external enclosure CarltonBale.com

^ Morse Code explanation on official Western Digital My Book Webpage.

^ vnunet.com Review - Western Digital My Book Essential Edition

External links

Western Digital My Book

Western Digital My Book Editions

Community driven wiki on how to hack the My Book World Edition

Website on how to hack the My Book World Edition

Wiki on how to hack the My Book World Edition for Linux newbies, plus automated installations (FTP server, emule client, torrent client)

Guide How to integrate the external USB-Harddrive into Standard Mediaserver on My Book World Edition (German)

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As a business owner, you have to have your own website that you can get customers through the Internet and earn revenue. When you are all set to publish your website, you should find an appropriate hosting service provider who can provide affordable services at a reasonable price. There are several web hosting service provider types, so you will need to be a little careful. Before you buy a service, some web hosting service provider to ask what operating system they use for hosting. In today's world, where every now and then is a new technology, it is important to have the best service provider in order to meet future requirements. It is better to choose Linux Hosting or Linux Hosting Reseller Web servers such as Microsoft's Windows operating system does a lot of the latest software and programs.

Most people know about Microsoft Windows, as it is mainly used at home, at work or school. It is very easy to use Windows for beginners, and as you do not have any knowledge of the various teams. You simply need to open a file or folder, or application, just place the cursor on it and then click it. Linux is open source code, which means that it is free and the source code is properly documented and simply extended the system.

Linux can handle normal x86 computer, and can be done on a high-performance Linux hosting servers. Linux is a great variety of objects, while most hosting companies prefer Mandrake Linux Red Hat Linux, which is able to keep hundreds of millions of hits a day site.

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If your site applies to the Active Server Pages, will be more reliable Windows server. Of course, it also works on a Linux server, but it may be a few minor breakdowns, which is not initially obvious. If you are using a Microsoft SQL database, it will be supported as part of Windows hosting packages.

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When war was raging between Linux and Windows Operation System does not seem to reach a climax stage in the near future. But it took a new turn, when it expanded its domain in the area marked (hosting). Does the web hosting plans to provide low-cost web space or undertake reseller hosting plans, including Linux Hosting and Windows Web Hosting Choice is a question of what me and your web host must decide.

Let us avoid the disadvantages reasoning for the choice between Linux and Windows hosting. Many people came to believe that if they work on Windows PCs, they can choose a Linux hosting services. This assumption is completely unfounded, because your choice of web hosts have little to do with your desktop operating system. However, you must have extensive knowledge FTP or web publishing software, which can be used in one of the operating system.

It is past the stage at which the Linux operating system and web hosting solution is the most reliable, stable and efficient system that works best with Internet and e-mail server environments. If you really want to continue this argument, then you are good to know that the key points from the "Linux" has been traditionally used to win points through Windows stability, low cost of ownership, comfort, practicality and easily through the necessary reforms. Between hosts, a wide use and scalability. But today, the Windows 2000 hosting provides a good competition with Linux, so when it comes to deciding, you need to prioritize their requirements.

It is important to note, before you jump on both sides, so that when choosing between such close competitors, there are no particular disadvantages, but all it all depends on your individual and unique site requirements. For example, if there are any special language to find more consistency with one of the two hosting plans, it is better to choose a more compatible.

Consider the tools and scripting languages you plan to use on your website to choose between two options. If the increased use of PHP, Perl or MySQL, Linux is the best way to move forward. If you plan to use Microsoft specific application, its best to use Windows. If your site is part of the general category of brochures, Linux can help you in a quiet well, but if your site includes an online searchable database or interactive chat facilities then Windows 2000 will be smooth for you. It will cost a bit more, but you'll get back to save you time and simply better functionality.

When you start with reseller hosting, you probably want to find the best or most reputable reseller hosting around. But as you know, what is the best Reseller Hosting? Many offer similar packages with similar technology, at comparable prices. Many states that offer the best service, but can sometimes fail to deliver. One good way to solve the research a web hosting company that won the largest amount of reseller web hosting awards.

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