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If you were running a jewelery store in London, you'd be certain to take certain precautions in the event of a disaster. For instance, you'd be foolish not take out insurance on the property and the items held within, you'd most definitely want to install an alarm system and maybe you'd even invest in some CCTV.

When your business is online you need to take precautions as well, but of a different nature. One of the advantages of taking out a plan with Krystal is that automated backups are included in the price of any hosting plan so that you'll always have that added safeguard.

"Last October, a datacentre in Chicago owned by Web hosting and collocation vendor C I Host was robbed by two masked men, who pistol-whipped a lone IT staffer working the graveyard shift and then held him hostage for two hours while stealing computer equipment."

In this post I want to go over in high level the benefits of taking out a managed dedicated server with Krystal to demonstrate the level of service we offer and why we brand it as a premium service.

Cpanel is one of the most popular web interfaces for hosting accounts. It allows webmasters to control their hosting account without requiring a knowledge of the Operating System that runs behind the account (in our case, Linux). It makes the administration of hosting accounts as easy as entering a few details and clicking a few buttons.

What facilities does cPanel offer?

Full list of cPanel features

The most commonly used cPanel features are described here:

Fantastico is an extension to cPanel that saves webmasters a lot of time and hassle when installing new applications. Popular third party software such as Fantastico, Drupal, Joomla and CubeCart can be installed through Fantastico without any server configuration or database knowledge. The user simply follows the installation path, clicks "Finish Installation" and everything is automated.

The quickest way to install software

Drupal is an open source Content Management System that is growing rapidly at the moment. It is extremly flexible and allows webmasters to create interactive sites easily by installing modules developed by the Drupal open source community.

Drupal comes as standard on all Krystal Hosting plans and can be installed with the click of a few buttons through fantastico in your hosting control panel.

This is the first part in my Drupal video series...Be sure to check back soon for more videos.

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The quickest and easiest way of installing a Wordpress blog is through cpanel and fantastico. It is possible to get a blog up and running in less than 2 minutes. This video uses functionality that comes as standard on all Krystal Hosting plans.

I found this video from Matt Cutts (Google's voice) about IP localisation very interesting. I've thought for quite some time now that Google would start to head down this path; localisation can be really useful when used correctly. Determining between a query that should take the Geo IP of the user into account and one that shouldn't is key to making this a success.

Programming sites from scratch is rarely the most efficient way to build new web sites.; it is not necessary to reinvent the wheel. By harnessing the power of open source applications webmasters can save time, effort and often produce something better than would ever be possible through coding effort. In fact, this very blog has been built on the Drupal framework

Affiliate marketing is becoming increasingly competitive as the "work from home" catchphrase is entising more and more people to take the plunge into the world of promoting other people's products for commission. Despite what many people suggest, you don't actually need to be technically minded to be a successful affiliate marketer. In this article, I'm going to talk about what you need to look for in a web host so that you can spend as little time as possible worrying about the technical aspects of running a web site and more time concentrated on selling.