Choosing a Windows dedicated server will provide you with your own environment that can be used for the installation of applications and components on the Windows platform that may not otherwise be available with Windows shared web hosting. Windows provides a platform on which you can use a number of different proprietary applications and services that are only available on this OS and this is the main driving force behind the demand for Windows hosting products; example of this include websites developed using ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server databases. A dedicated server can provide you with a number of opportunities to customise your web hosting experience to meet your individual needs because you can adapt the resources and hardware that forms your dedicated server to form something that no other business is going to be using; you may wish to choose a more powerful CPU so that your server is able to perform more calculations per minute or on the other hand additional hard drives in RAID configuration could be a necessity for you. In any case the one way in which you are going to be accessing your Windows dedicated server is through Remote Desktop so that you are able to perform these operations and more from the comfort of the Windows GUI.

Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012 is the latest release of the Windows operating system for the server environment; with this release there have been many new features introduced that have put the emphasis on managing multiple servers and simplifying a number of tasks related to these processes. A number of changes and updates have been introduced to the Hyper-V platform, a feature that is used widely by web hosting companies and corporations for the hosting of virtual machines on a Windows-based infrastructure; you can expect to see limitations on VM resources being removed whilst network virtualization and cloud backup are two of the new features to be added. IIS 8.0 has also been introduced for the hosting of websites on a Windows dedicated server; Microsoft has taken into account the high loads that busy websites can place on a dedicated server and so one of the new core features of IIS 8.0 is CPU usage caps for individual websites.

Purpose of Remote Desktop

In the same way that Linux servers have SSH access for administration and maintenance purposes, a Windows dedicated server can be access using Remote Desktop; however, the difference between SSH and Remote Desktop is that SSH is a command line-based interface whilst Remote Desktop is a GUI-based interface so that with one you will have to rely on a set of commands to interact with your server, whilst with Remote Desktop you can interact directly with the desktop of your Windows dedicated server. Some may argue that managing a Windows server through RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) is a simpler task for beginners to pick up because they will be using a simpler and more familiar interface, but the command-based nature of the Linux server is often seen as being most effective because it allows you to get the task in hand completed in a much more targeted manner.

Connecting from a Client Computer

The Remote Desktop client is a default feature of the Windows desktop operating system for a number of generations now and has always been accessible from the ‘Accessories’ menu that is often located under Programs/All Programs on the Start menu. The Remote Desktop client is necessary to facilitate a connection between your desktop and Windows dedicated server using the RDP. Using the Remote Desktop Client you can access your server’s GUI and share certain features of your desktop computer with your server; for example, you may have files on your local hard drive that you wish to copy over to your dedicated server and using the client application you can mount your local hard drives on the remote server so that you can copy the necessary files over. Unfortunately if you are a Linux desktop user then you won’t be able to access a Windows dedicated server because there is no RDP client available, but Mac OSX users can take advantage of the free client that is available for download from the Microsoft website.

All of our dedicated servers come with a minimum of 5000GB monthly bandwidth. However, if you require more bandwidth on a month-to-month basis, you can allocate more to your servger prior to placing your order, or by contacting our sales department if you already have a server with us. Depending on what server you choose, you can configure your server with up to 15,000GB of monthly bandwidth.

If you require an unmetered connection, we can offer up to a 1Gbps unmetered connection. What does this mean? This means that you can receive and send up to 125MB per second over your server. 1000Mb (or 1Gb) is in gigabits. In bytes, it is equivalent to 125 megabytes per second. Let’s see a comparison:

• 1000Mb: 125MB/s (£3999 per month)
• 100Mb: 12.5MB/s (£299 per month)
• 10Mb: 1.25MB/s (£20 per month)

What should I choose?
For a 10Mbps unmetered connection, you are limited to 1.25 megabytes per second. This may seem small but can reasonably support a website with thousands of visitors a day – but of course, this depends on factors like the size of your website files, your website images, and so forth. But for higher traffic-intensive websites, you’ll need more than a 10Mb unmetered connection. And all of our servers come with a dedicated 100Mbit port speed (and you’re able to upgrade to a 1Gbit port speed for an additional £49 per month).

As well as unmetered connections, you can (as by default) choose a metered bandwidth capacity. All of our servers come with a minimum of 5000GB of monthly data transfer. You can purchase additional monthly transfer from £50 per month for 2000GB of additional monthly transfer.

If you have any queries regarding bandwidth on your dedicated server, please contact our sales department over the phone on 0800 862 0380 or by e-mailing us on sales@eukhost.com.

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Our senior administrators, alongside our Level I and Level II technician support work on alternate shifts to ensure technical support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We have senior administrators working 24×7.

Is technical support inclusive? Do I have to pay for technical support?
Not at all. All of our services include free technical support. All of our VPS, Cloud Hosting and Dedicated Servers are fully managed hosting solutions. Whether you would like us to configure your server for PCI compliance or configure security software, we’ll be happy to help you. For more information, you can read our Service Level Agreement.

To ensure all of our Reseller Hosting customers have a fast and reliable hosting service, we do not allow overselling on our Reseller Hosting packages. If you require overselling or if your requirements are outstretching what a shared hosting environment can offer, please consider our eUK VPS Hosting or eUK Cloud Hosting services. Our VPS Hosting and Cloud Hosting services come with full root access with no allocation restrictions on the amount of accounts you may host. However, we recommend you do not excessively oversell hosting services because it can affect the reliability and performance of your virtual or dedicated server.

Yes. Our eUK Dedicated Servers are fully managed, which means you can contact us at any time of the day or night for our senior administrators to install any necessary software and services for your Dedicated Server.

Our senior technical department operates 24 hours a day, as does our other technical support departments to ensure customers receive a timely response regardless of the time of day.
Our other products, including Cloud Hosting and VPS Hosting are also fully managed services.

eUKhost Cloud Hosting products have back-end redundancy with the use of additional hardware and important functions spread out across many servers. eNlight Cloud is one of our products that uses this redundancy approach which means if components inside one server fails in a cloud hosting set up, it does not equate to complete disaster and downtime.

Cloud hosting is not the solution to every person’s or business requirements, which is why we also offer eUK dedicated server hosting. Dedicated server hosting provides you with a leased server that is completely yours to use. eUK’s Virtual private server hosting essentially shares resources, however our eNlight Cloud Hosting platform does this in a very effective way because it auto-scales resources and certain functions are spread across many servers, as does our other cloud hosting services without autoscaling.

Unlike VPS Hosting, our cloud hosting platform, eNlight, does not require to be concerned about resource usages or the speed of your virtual server as a result, as eNlight takes care of this for you. You can change the maximum values for resource allocation of RAM and CPU via the eNlight Control Panel, which takes effect immediately.

As the user of a dedicated hosting service, whether this is a VPS server, dedicated server or even a virtual machine in the cloud then you are going to have your own dedicated IP addresses that you can use with your web applications.

With your dedicated hosting service you can use your dedicated IP addresses as you wish: a dedicated IP will be required when wanting to use an eUK SSL certificate with your website; you can host individual services such as websites and your mail server on separate IP address; you can use two separate IPs to setup two separate name server records that point to individual IPs, but use only a single server – it should be noted that all domains require the use of at least two name servers.

Dedicated Hosting IP SEO

When carrying out an SEO campaign, as a webmaster it is important for you to take into consideration all of the individual factors that could supplement your efforts to aid you with reaching a satisfactory result. A dedicated IP address is one of these additional elements that could improve how a search engine views your website; there are several ways in which the use of an IP address can affect the ranking of your website:

With a virtual IP address that is shared with other users (this is the common configuration with shared hosting) you are open to an array of issues that could affect the ranking of your website – for example, if a website hosted on the same shared server is sending out spam emails using the shared IP address then this could lead to the IP address being blacklisted, something that will impact every other website sharing that IP; by using a dedicated IP address you will be able to maintain a good ranking by ensuring that the IP stays ‘clean’ and isn’t used for illicit purpose

You can use a dedicated IP address to demonstrate an additional level of professionalism by setting up a reverse DNS record for your dedicated IP so that if anyone happens to do a reverse search on the dedicated IP address for your website, the reverse record will come up as being your domain name – if you are going to be running a website that is sending emails on your dedicated IP address then it is of the highest importance that you have this configured so that emails from your web application aren’t rejected by email servers – this is an additional factor that will be looked upon favorably by search engines indexing your website

A dedicated IP address will be required if you wish to setup an SSL certificate for your website and this is going to be a necessity if you are running a website that is collecting sensitive information, such as an online shop – an SSL certificate can be seen as aiding your SEO efforts because it will be demonstrating to search engines as well as your users that you take the security of your web applications seriously.

eUKhost offers dedicated IP addresses with all of our shared hosting, eNlight cloud hosting and eUK VPS Hosting/dedicated server hosting plans. Alongside this we also offer a range of SEO servers.

Dedicated Hosting IPv6

IPv6 is the sixth version of the IP protocol and has been designed to take over from IPv4 as the number of freely available IPv4 addresses is soon to run out and so a new system is required to meet the demands of the ever-growing number of devices that are connecting to the internet, including desktop computers and mobile devices.

Current IPv4 addresses follow a dotted-decimal notation in the following format: 192.168.0.1; this limits the number of devices that can receive a public IPv4 address to just over 4 billion. IPv6 on the other hand follows a hexadecimal notation in the following format: 2001:0DB8:AC10:FE01::; this will allow for a few billion more devices to connect to the internet using a public IP address and the allocation of IPv6 addresses is unlikely to run out for many years to come.

IPv6 has faced a slow introduction, but with many large corporations such as Facebook and Microsoft making the move over to IPv6, it is expected that other companies will eventually follow suit.

eUKhost is taking measures to allow us to implement IPv6 addresses with eUK dedicated hosting packages very shortly. You will be able to take advantage of an IPv6 address in the same way that you can an IPv4 address.

In order to setup a different time zone for a particular domain, you need to specify the time zone in the file called “php.ini”. If you are hosting a website on server with “suphp” as PHP handler, you can specify the time zone in php.ini file on the server. Follow the below steps to set time zone for a particular domain on server.

Step 1: Login to your server using your root login credentials.

Step 2: Enter the following command to find php.ini file on the server.

php -i | grep php.ini

Step 3: Once you get the file, edit it using the vi editor “vi command” and set the following parameters.

date.timezone=”Europe/London”

Step 4: Now save the file.

That’s it!

The answer to the above question is you need to first compile freetds and then compile PHP with freetds support.

But what is FreeTDS?
FreeTDS is a free implementation of the TDS (Tabular Data Stream) protocol that is used by Sybase and Microsoft for their database products. It implements different version os TDS which includes TDS 4.2, 5.0, 7.0 and 8.0, and can communicate with any Sybase or Microsoft SQL Server. FreeTDS generally comes with a low level library (the TDS layer) along with a number of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). The APIs are DB-Lib, CT-Lib, and ODBC.
You can install freetds by using yum.

yum install freetds

After that you need to recompile the php with mssql support

check the php version on the server and then download the same php version file

for example php 5.3.2.
You can downlad php version by using this URL http://us3.php.net/downloads.php

cd /usr/local/src

wget http://us3.php.net/get/php-5.3.2.tar.bz2/from/in.php.net/mirror

tar -xzvf php-5.3.2.tar.bz2

cd php-5.3.2/ext/mssql

phpize

./configure –with-mssql

make
make install

Next look for the mssql.so file and make sure it is in the module directory specified in your php.ini. Copy it to the specified location if needed.

php -i | grep php.ini

vi /usr/local/lib/php.ini

Add this line to your php.ini:

extension=mssql.so

Save the php.ini and restart Apache:

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

To install Enable mssql support on Linux server you need a good tech support people from web host and eUKhost has number of customer reviews about quality support and services.

Before a decade in the early days of streaming media, to view the video and listen to online music was not always fun. If you have a low configuration computer or a dial-up Internet connection, you can spend more time at the “buffering” for watching videos or listening to songs. Millions of people listen to Internet radio every week and from last few years thousands of people watched more than a million streaming videos on the Internet. In streaming video and audio, the information travels in a form of stream of data from a server. The decoder is a stand-alone player or a plug which works as a web browser.

If you work in an environment that shares files and folders over a computer network, you might think of a server as a computer that holds lots of data and resources. But when it comes to streaming video and audio, a server is more than just a physical hard drive. It’s also the software that delivers data to your computer. Some streaming servers can handle multiple file types and formats, but others work only with specific formats.
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Streaming servers typically deliver files to you with help of web server. First, you go to a Web page, which is stored on the Web server. When you click the file you want to use, the Web server sends a handshaking message to the streaming server, telling it which file is required. The streaming server sends the file directly to you via the Web server.

There are number of protocols like TCP and FTP which normally break data into small packets where as  Streaming video and audio protocols allows the transfer of data in real time. They break files into very small chunks and send them to the required location in a specific order. These protocols include:

Real-time transfer protocol (RTP)
Real-time streaming protocol (RTSP)
Real-time transport control protocol (RTCP)

eUKhost web hosting dedicated servers are designed in such a way that it can handle any number of load generated at website without any downtime.