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09 Sep

WHMSonic – Radio Hosting Panel Updated

Wow! The new WHMSonic Panel, it looks awesome and comes with lot more feature! Yes, the script is updated and all our client radio panel is updated to latest version. You can check the new version by login to your cPanel >> WHMSonic
ShoutCast Admin Pro. Currently the script is running WHMSonic v2.1.1

Message from WHMSonic:

Many new features direct from your requests with hundreds of tweaks and improvements. It was somehow hard to write every new feature and changes to software, the following list is only highlighted changes and fixes. There are several other new and sub features under the following new features and fixes.

We are very proud to present WHMSonic v2.1; Almost everything you know about WHMSonic software has changed. We have re-coded and re-designed the software completely and we have spent time approximately 2 years on the development, we worked hard together and at the end we brought you amazing and unique new features which are not done ever before, of couse with our “professional but easy to use” policy.

To do list for the radio clients:

1.) If you have an AutoDJ setup from the old version, login to your cPanel WHMSonic and click “Update Required” button on your “AutoDJ Management” page. This will automatically update your AutoDJ without changing your mp3 base and it will create a playlist for your current mp3 base. This will be done within a few seconds or minutes depending on number of mp3 files under the current mp3 base. You can then manage your playlist under the playlist manager with a powerful playlist manager.

2.) WHMSonic requires a playlist before AutoDJ creation now. You can create a playlist under the “Playlist Manager” of your cPanel WHMSonic. You can easily upload music files to your playlist mp3 base which is shown on the playlist page by using “upload music files” button under the playlist manager. Internal radio clients can also use FTP to upload.

3) IMPORTANT: If you are an external radio client, be aware that this version has terminated/removed the FTP features. You have now better upload feature under the “Playlist Manager” >> “Upload Music Files” button. It is a multiple upload feature, you can select multiple songs by holding CTRL key. It will upload your mp3 files and will add them on your playlist, then you can manage your playlist.

For all radio clients, you may watch this tutorial video on how to create an autodj and playlist + ftp and reload playlist function + external radio clients upload new music and autodj creation, Click Here to watch the tutorial video

If you face any issue with your panel, please contact our support desk via email or give us a call.

Enjoy the new version!

08 Sep

WordPress Update 3.4.2

I was just checking our company blog today and found that WordPress released update and the new version is 3.4.2, details information is available on the following two link:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.4.2

http://wordpress.org/news/2012/09/wordpress-3-4-2

All TetraHost user is requested to update their WordPress installation to latest version.  Update can be done easily by login to the WP Admin panel.

Please contact the support desk if you are having any issue with updating.

03 Sep

TetraHost Welcome Attracta! The Free SEO Tools Available on every cPanel!

Today, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is imperative to give your business the exposure it needs to be successful and allows potential customers to find you easily online. Having Search Engine Optimization will bring more direct hits to your website. More exposure means increased customers, increased sales and increased business success for you.

TetraHost Hosting knows how important it is to have your business website online with easy accessibility for potential customers. That is why TetraHost Hosting has now included Attracta, the Search Engine Optimization plug-in that allows you to apply SEO related techniques to your website directly and quickly. You will find this plug-in in your cPanel, in the section called Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools, The World’s Largest SEO Service.. It is absolutely free and their is no need to have great knowledge to maintaining it.

Feature :

  • Guaranteed Inclusion in Google, Yahoo! and Bing
  • Get Listed in the Powerful Attracta Directory
  • Easily Scan for Malware and Google Blacklisting
  • Improve Your Search Ranking with In-Depth SEO Tips and Videos
  • Used by more websites than any other SEO Tools

The Attracta SEO plug-in will optimize and send your website to the top of the Google, Yahoo and Bing. Attracta comes with many features and tools to ensure your website is visible and reachable online.

  • We crawl your website finding all of its pages, including pages that can’t be found by search engines’ crawlers, to create an XML Sitemap and SEO dashboard report.
  • We submit your XML Sitemap directly to the XML interface of major search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask— plus help you find and fix SEO errors.
  • The search engines use your XML Sitemap to drive more qualified traffic to your site by indexing more pages in search results.

Question: How can i use it?

  • Login to the cPanel
  • Go to “Update Contact Info”
  • Here please check the email address and set the correct one that you want to use with your Attracta Account
  • Once you set the email properly, Go to SEO and Marketing Tools
  • Click on any icon and Agree the Attracta Terms & Conditions
  • As soon as you accept their TOS, your account will be created and details will be emailed to you
  • That is it! You are ON with your Attracta SEO Account!

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82% of consumers search online for local products and services
Over 60% of local searches result in a sale!

TetraHost Hosting, the only web hosting service you need for today… to secure success and prosperity with your business tomorrow. Almost 2.5 Million website is using the Attracta SEO Plugin tool! Get your SEO enabled web hosting NOW!

13 Jul

PHP Upgrade to Version 5.3.x

We upgraded PHP in the Grid from 5.3.13 to the latest release, 5.3.14. This new release patches several security vulnerabilities existing in 5.3.13. Please note, the PHP development team already declared End of live for version 5.3.13. Here’s what the PHP development team says about this update:

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.4 and PHP 5.3.14. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.4 or PHP 5.3.14.

The release fixes multiple security issues: A weakness in the DES implementation of crypt and a heap overflow issue in the phar extension

PHP 5.4.4 and PHP 5.3.14 fixes over 30 bugs. Please note that the use of php://fd streams is now restricted to the CLI SAPI

For source downloads of PHP 5.4.4 and PHP 5.3.14 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found onwindows.php.net/download/. The list of changes are recorded in the ChangeLog.

For a full list of changes between 5.3.13 and 5.3.14, visit php.net.

While this small upgrade should not present problems for most websites, this will cause some minor compatibility issues mainly with those client who have not kept your software updated in the past.

We highly recommend that you update any PHP scripts you are running such as WordPress, vBulletin, Joomla, etc. We always recommend you stay up to date most importantly for security reasons.

As always, let us know if you have any issues resulting from this upgrade by contacting our support desk. You can reach the support desk by sending email to support@tetrahostbd.com

12 Feb

Website Protection Issue

Today while surfing on internet i came to know that a Bangladeshi Hacker group called “Bangladesh Black Hat Hackers” is hacking Indian Websites and they already hacked around 5000+ website in last few days.

You can read more about the hacker group from the following link:
http://www.banglanews24.com/detailsnews.php?nssl=58bf703fc3de07019c04902398cd94c1&nttl=1202201288166

Some Indian Hackers group has already declared a Cyber War against us and they will also try to hack Bangladeshi Websites. On this post i will also wanted to inform our clients that We always try to secure our server in every possible way. Our NOC is closely monitoring all our servers to protect any hacking attempt.

It is also recommended that all our clients have sufficient protection setup on their website as well. We required you to follow the below steps:

1. Update your anti virus software and scan your machine completely.
2. Change your cPanel Password and set a strong one.
3. Take backup of your files on your machine.

NOW, this is a very important part, those who are using WordPress and Joomla, please update your installation to latest version. We have already written two article on how to protect WordPress and Joomla installation from getting hacked and we want all user to read those two article carefully and apply the protection ASAP.

Here is the article link:

WordPress: http://blog.tetrahostbd.com/2012/01/31/wordpress-protection/
Joomla: http://blog.tetrahostbd.com/2012/02/02/joomla-protection/

If you have any query or facing any problem please contact us via email at support@tetrahostbd.com or sales@tetrahostbd.com (Please send email from your registered email address that you have with TetraHost).

Regards,
NOC, TetraHost.

 

02 Feb

Joomla! Protection

Joomla! is a great CMS that is used worldwide. Now-a-days many user prefer to design their site with Joomla. It is designed simply but still has lots of feature in it. Being one of the most popular CMS can attract bad people to do bad things as well. Actually the issue is not related with the Joomla script but with the extra module/plugin that is available on market for Joomla. At the end it is the site owner responsibility to protect his/her site by hardening the security. I will try to give some security tips on this article and by following these steps you will be able to enhance the security of your Joomla site significantly.

Don’t Forget to Update: Never forget to update your Joomla to latest version. Older version are more valnureable then the newer version.

Rename the default htaccess.txt file: Joomla does come with a default htaccess.txt which has some rules in it. The rules in it will block the majority of well-known attacks against your website.In order to rename the file, Login to your cPanel >> Go to File Manager >> find the htaccess.txt file on your home directory and rename it to .htaccess

File Permission of Configuration File: Make sure to have 600 permission which means read and write permission for the user only on your configuration.php file. You should be able to change the permission from cPanel File Manager.

Install Security Plugins: On the following two links you will find some extension which will help you to secure your Joomla site many way, please try them.

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security/site-security/site-protection
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security/site-security/login-protection

Change Default Database Table Prefix: 

Most SQL injections that are written to hack a Joomla! website, try to retrieve data from the jos_users table. This way, they can retrieve the username and password from the super administrator of the website. Changing the default prefix into something random, will prevent (most / all) SQL injections. You can use the EasySQL for Joomla, if you without phpMyAdmin component in order to do this. Download the component to your PC and install it by going to your Admin panel. Now follow the below steps:

i. Go to Components >> Easy SQL
ii. Now, pull down the Command Menu and select REPLACE PREFIX.
iii. Here you will see something following: REPLACE PREFIX `jos_` TO `newprefix_`
iv. You now have to remove the word “newprefix” and set to something else per your choice.
v. Once you set the new prefix, click on EXEC SQL and you are done!

Please make sure you are following the steps properly.

Change Admin Username: By default your administrative username is admin. The majority of the attackers would expect the username to be admin. Changing it will protect you against many attacks. Here is how you can change the username:

i. Login to your Joomla Admin Panel
ii. Go to User Manager from the Home Page
iii. Now, select the Admin User and Click on EDIT
iv. Here you should see the Username field and it will show you the current username, change it to something else and Click on SAVE

From now, you will have to use the new Admin Username to login.

Password Protect Administrator Directory: You can protect your Joomla Administrator folder with Directory Protection feature of cPanel which will add extra layer of security. You can enable the protection by going cPanel >> Password Protect Directories.

Limit Admin Access: As Joomla administrator folder is one of the most important folder, so we suggest to limit the admin access with IP. Only the allowed IPs will be able to access the admin folder. Here is how to do this:

i. Create a .htaccess file under the Joomla administrator folder
ii. Put the following code in it

order deny,allow
allow from 0.0.0.0
deny from all

Please change the allow IP with your IP. You can find your IP by accessing the following site: http://www.whatismyip.com

Backup Regularly: TetraHost do take weekly backup of your content but it is always better to take regular backup of your working database and Joomla contents. Unfortunately if it got hacked then, you can easily restore your site from the latest backup you’ll have for it.

Uninstall Unused Extension: It is recommended that you uninstall any unused extensions complete from the account. It will reduce the chance for getting attacked.

That’s it! You are protected now. If anyone have any more tips please share with us by commenting on this article.