28 Feb

Uptime Report, January’2011

Here we are attaching the uptime report of “hera.ihostman.com” server for the month of January’2011. As you can see there was 17 minute downtime recorded which caused while we were rebooting the server after successfully upgrading the kernel of this server.

Server Name: Hera (hera.ihostman.com)
Month: January
Monitor Period: 1min interval
Downtime Reason: Kernel Upgrade
Uptime Monitor Site: http://www.pingdom.com/reports/o8tg5oi83rib/

Uptime Report - January, 2011

28 Feb

TetraHost’s Facebook Page!

TetraHost has finally setup a Facebook account! We really like when people follow us and “like” us. It’s just another venue for us to really stay in touch and communicate with our users. Please Follow us and like us! We can be found at http://www.facebook.com/TetraHost

We will be posting some great specials/promotions for current clients and new clients. Also we will try to keep you updated weekly about the new and exciting things happening at TetraHost.

02 Jan

Uptime Report, December’2010

Here we are attaching the uptime report for the month of December’2010. As you can see there was 17 minute downtime recorded which caused while we were rebooting the server after successfully upgrading the kernel of this server.

Server Name: Hera (hera.ihostman.com)
Month: November
Monitor Period: 1min interval
Downtime Reason: Kernel Upgrade
Uptime Monitor Site: http://www.pingdom.com/reports/o8tg5oi83rib/

Uptime Report: December 2010

31 Dec

Happy New Year 2011!

First of all, we would like to express our gratitude to those individuals/companies who have their trust on TetraHost Bangladesh and hosted their important websites with us. We worked hard throughout the year and tried to deliver the expected service to our customer.

It was a very good year for us. We made 170% sales growth in the year of 2010 from previous year. Currently TetraHost is holding the 12th place in Bangladesh based on WebHosting.Info – The Internet Research Authority.

We would like to inform/assure you that, we are working hard to imporove our service quality. We will be introducing new innovative hosting product in coming years to attract our existing/future client and expand our business. Our hosting servers are more secured now with latest server side software and we will keep working to provide problem/hassle free service to our clients.

Year 2010 is past now and New Year 2011 knocking at our doors.. We hope the New Year will bring more happiness to your life and best of luck for the New Year from TetraHost Bangladesh.

Happy New Year 2011!

TetraHost Bangladesh | Biased for true hosting experience.

02 Dec

Uptime Report, November’2010

Here we are attaching the uptime report for the month of November’2010. As you can see there was 11 minute downtime recorded which cause while we were rebooting the server after updating Kernel.

Server Name: Hera (hera.ihostman.com)
Month: November
Monitor Period: 1min interval
Uptime Monitor Site: http://www.pingdom.com/reports/o8tg5oi83rib/

Uptime Report: November 2010

02 Dec

Datacenter Scheduled Maintenance – Short Notice – Hostname: hera.ihostman.com – 12/05/2010

Datacenter Scheduled Maintenance – Short Notice – Hostname: hera.ihostman.com – 12/05/2010

Date: Sunday, December 5, 2010 (12/05/2010)
Start time : 12:00 PM
End time : 02:00 PM
Services affected: All Hosted website at server hera.ihostman.com.
Location: Washington DC Duration: 1 hour (Expected to complete the maintenance within 15-20min)

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Our Datacenter which is SoftLayer, Their Engineers will be performing a short notice IOS upgrade on FCR01.WDC01(Code name of our Washington Datacenter, where our server is located) to correct intermittent issues resulting in packetloss and latency for customers behind this router. This maintenance will take place on 12/05/2010, between 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM (GMT +6) .

During this maintenance, customers on hera.ihostman.com will notice a complete loss of connectivity to their website on the frontend network (public network). While the upgrade duration is scheduled for 1 hour, we only expect between 15-20 minutes of downtime as the router reloads and fully converges.

This maintenance will impact any website hosted on Hera Server(hera.ihostman.com)/ or having nameservers as ns5.ihostman.com & ns6.ihostman.com. Services of Devils Server(devils.ihostman.com) will not be impacted by this.
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If you have any problems after this time frame with regard to connectivity to your website, or if you have any questions regarding the maintenance at any point, please open a email/ticket in the customer manage portal or contact our support via phone.

Support Email: sales@tetrahostbd.com / support@tetrahostbd.com
Support Phone: +88 019 13377417

We appreciate your patience during this work and welcome any feedback.

Thank you,
Network Engineering

11 Nov

Clamav, a nice anti-virus for cPanel Server!

I was searching for a good anti virus which can be used easily with cPanel server and detect threats confidently. After a lot of search, discussing with techy people i finally decided to use Clamav Anti Virus for my server. I was surprise to see its effectiveness.

Clamav can detect viruses, trojans, malwares from your server. More importantly, it can detect if there any hacking activity is running on your server with any shell script.

Clamav, can be installed very easily into a cPanel server. Here are the steps:

>> Login to your root WHM
>> Manage Plugins
>> Here you will see a list of free manageable plugin offered by cPanel
>> Find “clamavconnector” and check the box which says “Install and keep updated”
>> Scroll down and click on “Save”
>> Now, system will automatically download all required file to your server and install it for you.
>> Once the installation is completed, you are ready to use it immediately!

Now to scan the server you need to follow the following steps:

You’ll need to login as root to SSH to do this,

Create a file named “clamscan.log”

>> cd /var/log
>> touch clamscan.log

To scan all the cPanel accounts, i mean users home directory, please run the following command:

clamscan -ir /home/*/public_html > /var/log/clamscan.log &

This command will scan all public_html and log all infected files to /var/log/clamscan.log. Now, you can see all the effected files and remove them from their location.

Your cPanel server is secure now!

26 Oct

CSF Firewall, version updated!(csf v5.11)

CSF firewall commonly known as Configserver Security and Firewall has become one of the popular firewall not just because of its easy of use it also provides a cpanel interface and can be easily installed and tuned by any users.

Yesterday, we upgraded CSF to latest version which is 5.11 to offer more protection to our client.

Here are some major changes in the new version:

Added a new 7th argument to BLOCK_REPORT that includes the log lines that triggered the block (excludes LF_NETBLOCK and LF_PERMBLOCK)

Added new CLI option csf –tempallow (csf -ta) which works in exactly the same way as csf –tempdeny (csf -td) except it provides a method of temporary IP allows for a given duration. csf -t, csf -tf and csf -tr now apply to both deny and allow entries

Allow the use of a duration suffix in csf -ta and csf -td for m, h and d (minutes, hours and days). Only one suffix allowed and only integers

Updated UI entry for adding and removing temporary allows and blocks

Display temporary block TTL in days hours minutes and seconds

Added new CLI option csf –watch [ip] (csf -w [ip]) and configuration option WATCH_MODE. This new option logs SYN packets from a specified source as they traverse the iptables chains. This can be extremely useful in tracking where that IP is being DROPed or ACCEPTed by iptables. See readme.txt for more information

Modified csf and lfd init scripts to be LSB-compliant

Modified BOGON/DSHIELD/SPAMHAUS block list retrieval to only download the list if it has not already been retrieved within the configured interval. This is to help prevent blacklisting by the list provider for repeated downloads after frequent lfd restarts

Fixed problem with csf -q and csf -sf not restarting the firewall if there was a previous startup error.

10 Oct

How to choose a Good Domain Name

The domains are registered regularly at a record level, new domain expansion and innovative thinking still offer thousands of brilliant choices. However while looking for a desired name it is important to consider the purpose of a domain name first and it should be shorter and memorable that enable your visitor’s to reach your website easily.

Consider following points before registering a domain name;

Short & memorable: – People don’t remember longer domain name easily, the shorter your domain, name, it would be easy to remember and also it minimize the chances of typographical mistake while your users typing it to reach your website. Also consider a domain name which has marketability so that you can brand them easily.

Momentous – A short domain is not worth without connotation, like if you go for 4xf0l.com it would be not easy to type or remember. Select a domain that narrates and reflects your website in their domain name so that people can understand and remember them easily such as flickr.com, twitter.com in this case.

Apparent & Concise –Clear & precision are vital factors when choosing a domain name, it should sounds well and should be effectively communicated over the phone.

Exposure: In order to take full advantage of your sites exposure, consider to include matching keywords in your domain unless you’re going to consider a very short, clear and meaningful domain name. Even two words that which can best describe your web site are good to go with, however avoid using dashes, underscores and numbers into them. It would be best if you perceive both the human and search engine while deciding a domain name to buy.

Best Domain Extension: Select best domain extension like .com is still the best choice and similarly .net could be the best second desired choice although you may also consider country specific tld like .com.bd, co.uk, .us, .asia or .us In case if you have planned to target a country or region like for example if you’re developing a site to target BD country specific you should go for .com.bd

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.