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22 Jan

Announcement – TetraHost has received BASIS membership

Dear valued clients and industry partners,

We are thrilled to announce that TetraHost has been accepted as a General Member of BASIS, a leading trade organization for the IT industry in Bangladesh.

BASIS which stands for Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services. This organization is a trade body of the software and IT enabled services industry in Bangladesh. BASIS works to promote and develop the software and IT industry in Bangladesh, and also provide services and support to member companies.

BASIS Profile link of TetraHost:
https://basis.org.bd/company-profile/23-01-034

This membership is a testament to our dedication to providing the highest quality of Web Hosting Services and staying at the forefront of technological advancements in the IT field. As a member of BASIS, we will have access to a wealth of resources, including industry standards, training, and networking opportunities.

We are honored to be a part of this esteemed organization and look forward to collaborating with our peers to promote the growth and development of the IT industry.

Thank you for your continued trust and support.

Best regards,

Ashraful Insan
CEO, TetraHost

22 Jul

Massive cPanel Price Increase and Its Effects to End User

On Thursday 27 Jun 2019 cPanel announced new pricing and licensing structure. Previously the pricing model was set per server which they have now changed to per-account model. In a nutshell, previously a server with cPanel license can create any numbers of account but now, We will have to pay for each account created on a cPanel server.

cPanel is increasing their software price after two decades. The server hardware technology has evolved and they have also made better optimization on their software which allow a server to run multiple website. Because of this they are enforcing the price increase to us.

cPanel was acquired by Oakley Capital at the beginning of this year which own another web hosting control panel, Plesk. A price increase was expected but not the way cPanel announced last month. We have already contacted our account manager at cPanel and informed them about our displeasure regarding the new pricing. We hope cPanel will re-evaluate their new pricing structure which seems to have a very narrow chance!

As per cPanel’s new account based pricing structure, We the Hosting company have to pay them 17tk/month or 200tk/year for every cPanel account that is created on a server. If everything stays as per the recent cPanel announcement, We will have to adjust pricing. We do not expect a price adjustment for our shared or semi dedicated hosting packages meaning they will remain same. But for Reseller customer, We will have to adjust the pricing due to the fact cPanel will now charge us for each cPanel account a reseller creates or already have.

We can assure you that, from TetraHost, We will only charge the extra amount which is being charge with the cPanel’s new account based pricing structure. For example, if a reseller has 20 cPanel account under his/her reseller/WHM account, then We will have to charge the customer 20 x 200tk = 4000tk per year for this purpose. It can be charged monthly or yearly as per customers comfort.

We will have to adjust VPS and Dedicated server license prices as well. VPS and Dedicated Server customers are requested to contact us to find out about their new license price.

We are still reviewing the price increases and we will update our clients if there is something new from cPanel regarding their new pricing structure.

This new structure affects all existing customers and comes into effect from 1st September 2019.

We’re happy to advise you on what are the best next steps in dealing with this cPanel price increase. Our goal is to be your IT expert and helping you find the best option, specifically for you and your business. If you have any suggestions regarding this matter, you are Welcome to share them with us as well.

To get in touch with us, simply use the Contact Us form, email us at sales@tetrahostbd.com, call us at +8801913377417, or use the live chat at the bottom right corner of our Website.

31 Dec

TetraHost Wishes You a Happy New Year to You & Your Loved Ones!

It means a great deal to me to be able to wish all of our customers here at TetraHost a Happy New Year. I hope all of you find time to spend with your family and friends so that you can celebrate and enjoy the good company and cheer that comes along with New Year Eve.

We had an awesome 2016 and hoping to have even better 2017. I want to pause and thank all of those who have been a part of our success. I feel lucky to have clients like you as part of this company. TetraHost turned 9 this year, We might not be able to travel this far without your support. Thank you again 🙂

You can definitely expect better service from us and We promise to meet your expectation.

May your dreams continue to grow and prosper in 2017.

Happy New Year.

Ashraful Insan Siddiquee
Founder, CEO TetraHost

13 Apr

Global Brute Force Floor Attack on WordPress Sites

As I write this article, there is an on going and highly distributed, global attack on WordPress installations across virtually every web host in existence! This attack is well organized and again very, very distributed. The attack can be called as “brute-force” attack as well. Due to the nature of the attack, memory consumption on targeted servers has increased. In certain cases, this has resulted in degradation of performance!

At this moment, we highly recommend you log into any WordPress installation you have and change the password to something that meets the security requirements specified on the WordPress website.  These requirements are fairly typical of a secure password: upper and lowercase letters, at least eight characters long, and including “special” characters (^%$#&@*).

The main force of this attack began last week, then slightly died off, before picking back up again yesterday morning.  No one knows when it will end. TetraHost started a thread on a popular forum where web host owner’s is sharing their experience with the attack and solutions. Here is the thread.

We are taking several steps to mitigate this attack throughout our server farm, but in the same breath it is true that in cases like this there is only so much that can actually be done. Again, this is a global issue affecting all web hosts. Our hope is that this attack ends soon, but it is a reminder that we must all take account security very seriously.

To ensure that your customers’ websites are secure and safeguarded from this attack, we recommend the following blog article and apply the security protection ASAP:

http://blog.tetrahostbd.com/2012/01/31/wordpress-protection

Other ways of Hardening a WordPress installation are shared here at:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

The TetraHost support team has been hard at work with fighting the situation! We’ve taken proactive steps to reduce the impact of this event. We thank you for your patience.

Having trouble? You can always file a ticket at 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.

 

07 Sep

Gmail-Call Phones Features

Until now, Gmail voice and video chat makes it is easy to connect with people using your computer’s microphone device  however this required both people are connected through their computers at same time,  signed through Gmail.  It’s generally not possible to spend all the day in front of our  computers,  Google find out the way  “you could call people directly on their phones” without any hurdle.

As per Google, the Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free at least the rest of the year and calls to other countries will be billed at very low rates. Google is trying to make these rates really cheap with calls to the U.K., France, Germany, China, Japan—and many more countries—for as little as $0.02 per minute.

gmail call
Dialing a phone number will work just like a normal phone. You need to just click “Call phone” at the top of your chat list and dial a number or enter a contact’s name.

Google is testing this feature internally and have found it to be useful in a different situations enabling  you to make cheap international calls right from Gmail.

For more information, check out this link gmail.com/call.

23 Aug

What is Link Juice?

Search Engine Optimization has opened up newer varieties of terms, which are applicable to different websites to help them become popular and therefore increase the number of hits. One of them is Link Juice. Greg Boser in his site Web Guerilla coined the term.

The trendy name attracted a lot of people. The scientific term is actually known as ‘pass through ratio’. But Link Juice sounds more stylish and therefore catching. It is the quality or weight that a site receives through links from other websites. This is usually carried out by newer websites to increase the traffic. This strategy for building up links, if it goes well, may result in your website being displayed in the first two pages of Google which is bound to boost the hits on the website.

Link Juice or the link building strategy can be performed in many ways. It can be bought from other sites but it is possible that the site will not get any hits if the links turn out useless. To make other sites link to your website, you can organize contests, games that can keep users glued to the site or give away something for free; like for example ‘answer a question correctly’. Blogging is a brilliant way of increasing the links as lots of users are attracted to blogs and you can promote your site through them. You can also send out links in social networking sites where information is passed on.

Link Juice, if planned and executed well can lead to a good amount of revenue from your site.

23 Aug

What is Google PageRank?

Google pageRank is essentially an algorithm that was developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the late 1990s at the Stanford University as a part of a research project. Though, presently Google owns the name pageRank, its patent rights still lie with the Stanford University. Despite the fact that there are various tools and techniques available to Google for its web searching procedure, the pageRank is still the most important foundation.

The system of algorithm, which is followed by the functioning of pageRank, is mainly analytical in nature. It basically allocates a sort of a statistical emphasis to each of the page that is connected to a network of other pages in the World Wide Web. The basic intention of carrying out this procedure is to determine or evaluate the relative significance of a particular page or a hyper linked document within the existing network. The procedure involved in assessing this weighing up takes in to account a unique form of voting system where each and every interconnected set of pages are considered both as a candidate as well as a caster. To be more detailed, every hyper linked page is scrutinized thoroughly to find out the other pages to and from which they are hooked up. In the process, every link from a particular page to another is regarded as a ballot for the later page by the former. Thus, pages with maximum links end up enjoying a high pageRank represented as PR(page) and so on.

22 Aug

What is Google Adsense?

Advertisers on the internet are asked to register with Google AdWords. The AdWords then research the ads and make them ready to be published on the sites. Google Adsense is a program run by Google. It serves those ads to websites. This program is available for enrollment where website users can sign up and enroll for the ads. Website owners get banner, texts and video ads through this program. Website owners earn money on a per-click basis.

Though Adsense website owners get ads suitable and relevant to the website and the ads are precise and therefore don’t look bulky. Javascript is used by Adsense to integrate advertisements. Website owners have the freedom to choose the ads to be displayed on the website after Google displays ads suitable by indexing and searching through its database on AdWords.

Google Adsense is an important revenue developer for small sites that lack resources. Though the content has to be rich for even small sites to get hold a good amount of advertisements and therefore the revenue.

Google acquired Applied Semantics in 2003. Wordnet was the original technology that was developed and its variation came to be used by Oingo, a small search engine founded in 1998. It later changed its name to Applied Semantics. Google Adsense is a popular program that helps many website developers.

18 Aug

How to Ping Your Sitemap to Google, Yahoo, and Bing

XML sitemaps inform search engines about the pages available to crawl on your website. Search engines find new pages by navigating links on websites. Sitemaps enhance search engine crawling by providing explicit information about the specific urls on your website. Sitemaps don’t ensure that your webpages will be indexed, but they typically increase both the chance and speed of indexing.

If you have fresh content on your blog or website, it is prudent to make sure the search engines know about this to get the content indexed as soon as possible. One way this is done is by pinging your xml sitemap. Although there are many search engines and services you can ping your sitemap to, make sure you concentrate on the big 3: Google, Bing, and Yahoo.

So, how do you automatically ping your updated sitemap each time your website updates?

If you’ve got an XML sitemap for your website, you can alert the search engines to updates by typing a specially formatted URL into your browser.

Ping Bing

Bing is Microsoft’s newly branded and revamped search engine that is gaining popularity and market share every day since its recent launch. It’s well known that Bing takes a long time to initially index a website, so ping their service when you launch a website and every time you update content.

Their ping service is http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=[your sitemap web address].

You can manually ping Bing by entering the above url in a web browser and pressing enter. I prefer to automate this process, by entering the url into a ping list in WordPress. WordPress will then automatically ping Bing each time I update or submit a new post.

WordPress Ping List

Ping Google

Google is the dominant search engine, and you will want to inform when something new or changes appears on your site.

The ping url is http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://www.example.com/sitemap-file.xml

Again, you can manually visit this url to ping Google, or add the url to an automated pinging service if this is supported by your website development platform.

Ping Yahoo

Yahoo’s ping service lets you notify them anytime your site changes so their index can be updated quicker. Their ping url is http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml

You can automatically submit your updated site map using a pinging service or manually entering the above url.

If you don’t have an xml sitemap yet, you can use a free xml sitemap generator to get you started.