Category: Domain

When faced with the decision of selecting hosting for your business website, you may find it challenging to choose the right option. Hosting options are diverse, making it crucial to determine which suits your specific needs. Let’s delve into how hosting functions and explore the various hosting choices available with Sun Server.

Hosting: The Fundamentals

All websites necessitate an online “home.” Sun Server, a hosting provider, offers space on a server, which is essentially a computer with large, state-of-the-art hard drives that store all the data, images, text, and other content your website contains. This space is made accessible to anyone seeking to access it via the internet.

You might wonder, “Can’t I just host my website on my own computer?” While some individuals manage their own web servers, remote hosting through a company like Sun Server provides numerous advantages that the average person can’t match. Reliable hosting companies offer valuable services, including:

– Ongoing and redundant backups to safeguard against hardware failures.
– Tools like cPanel for efficient website and file management.
– Customer support to aid in account setup and management.
– Climate-controlled environments and expert staff ensuring optimal server performance.
– A technical team available 24/7 to protect servers from failure, imbalanced loads, excessive bandwidth usage, and unauthorized access.

For a typical website, replicating the hosting environment Sun Server offers would be prohibitively expensive, especially considering their affordable monthly rates.

Types of Hosting

Sun Server provides a range of hosting services, including:

1. Shared Hosting
2. Reseller Hosting
3. VPS (Virtual Private Servers)
4. Dedicated Servers
5. Managed WordPress Hosting

Let’s examine these hosting options in detail.

1. Shared Hosting

Shared hosting is an excellent choice for individuals new to website ownership. It is the most budget-friendly option and offers easy setup and maintenance. Shared hosting is suitable for blogs, personal websites, and small business sites with moderate traffic and bandwidth requirements, excluding resource-intensive content like video. Users have access to cPanel, enabling them to install databases, manage email, transfer files via FTP, and monitor bandwidth usage.

As the name implies, shared hosting involves multiple hosting accounts residing on a single server. With Sun Server, you receive a user-friendly web-based Control Panel (cPanel) for straightforward site deployment, email creation, and database management. Server maintenance is handled by others, and after your website is up and running, direct access to cPanel is rarely needed.

However, shared hosting may have limitations in terms of traffic and bandwidth, as you share server resources with other users. Traffic spikes from your site or others can impact site performance, and certain restrictions apply to what you can install or modify. Sun Server offers three shared hosting tiers:

– Stellar: Ideal for beginners, accommodating up to three domains/websites.
– Stellar Plus: Suitable for those needing additional resources or multiple domains.
– Stellar Business: Ideal for e-commerce and businesses that require more resources and reduced limitations.

2. Reseller Hosting

Reseller hosting, another form of shared hosting, is an excellent choice for web designers and developers who maintain their clients’ websites over the long term. Reseller hosting packages are essentially shared hosting accounts with additional tools for reselling hosting space to clients.

You gain greater control, including a Web Host Manager (WHM) control panel for creating multiple cPanel accounts with individual login details. Reseller hosting is cost-effective and well-suited for web developers working with small business clients.

3. VPS Hosting

Virtual Private Servers (VPS) provide greater flexibility than shared hosting. While it still operates in a shared environment, a VPS allocates server resources differently. VPS is suitable for developers, webmasters, resellers, and resource-intensive websites.

A VPS is a single physical server partitioned into multiple virtual machines, ensuring that one website’s activity does not affect others. This level of hosting allows for more extensive modifications without impacting others’ environments.

4. Dedicated Server Hosting

Dedicated server hosting is the most powerful option, ideal for demanding websites. However, with VPS or a dedicated server, you assume greater responsibility for setup and maintenance compared to shared hosting.

A dedicated server provides exclusive server access for your website, allowing for extensive changes and custom software installations. Technical expertise or a server management administrator may be necessary to manage a dedicated server effectively.

5. EasyWP: Managed WordPress Hosting

EasyWP, a form of shared hosting, offers a simplified entry into hosting, especially for WordPress users. With EasyWP, Sun Server simplifies the setup process, eliminating the need to install WordPress or navigate complex cPanel settings.

It’s a convenient choice for business owners seeking a quick website launch. Note that EasyWP lacks FTP or cPanel access, limiting certain modifications to the WordPress open source code and databases.

Utilizing Sun Server for Hosting and Domains

If you already have a domain registered with Sun Server, you might wonder whether to opt for their hosting services as well. In the early days of the internet, it was common advice to avoid having a single company manage both domains and hosting. However, that advice is no longer relevant.

Sun Server offers numerous advantages for hosting your website where you register your domains. Dealing with one company for support and account management simplifies your operations. Managing DNS and site administration becomes more straightforward, eliminating the need to switch between different company websites.

Considering these advantages, choosing Sun Server for both your domain registration and hosting can be a sensible decision.

Domain Vault by Sun Server is a premium domain protection service aimed at safeguarding your most valuable domain assets. We prioritize security in our domain offerings, with essential features such as Domain Privacy, Registrar Lock, and Auto-Renewal already included as standard. These free features are further reinforced by default security measures like two-factor authentication and security alerts.

Domain Vault takes security to the next level, specifically tailored for customers seeking maximum protection for their most critical domains. It functions as a secure repository for safeguarding one of your most valuable company assets.

At the core of Domain Vault is the robust Registry Lock feature, which combines human and machine security to virtually eliminate the possibility of unauthorized changes to your domain nameserver settings or transfers out of Sun Server without your consent.

In addition, we’ve implemented extra identity verification checks for any domain changes that are vital for your business. To enhance the product’s security and efficiency, we’ve assembled a dedicated team of specialists who ensure that all your requests are processed swiftly and securely.

 

Yes, there are many clients available on the internet. Some clients that may support Namecheap Dynamic DNS are provided below.

Please note that the clients supporting Namecheap DNS may or may not be available immediately. Please contact the respective provider for more information or request adding Namecheap support to their clients.

Windows: Direct Update
Mac: NC DNS Updater, IP Monitor
Unix: DDClient , IPCheck
Other: Java Dynamic DNS Client, IPCheck for OS/2

For Shared/Business packages on Sun Server, if you register a domain name along with your hosting account order, the DNS settings will be automatically adjusted to our hosting ones.

However, if you want to use PremiumDNS in conjunction with your hosting service, please consult the provided guide.

If you’ve purchased hosting for an existing domain currently using Sun Server BasicDNS or third-party DNS, you’ll need to make the following manual changes:

1. Log in to your Sun Server account (you can find the Sign In option in the header of the page).

2. Choose Domain List from the left sidebar and click on the Manage button next to your domain.

3. Locate the Nameservers section and select Sun Server Web Hosting DNS from the drop-down menu to point your domain to our shared hosting nameservers:

– dns1.sunserverhosting.com
– dns2.sunserverhosting.com

Please note that when you change the nameservers, any custom DNS records for your domain will be overwritten with our hosting ones. You can recreate them in your cPanel Zone Editor and Email Routing menu, where you can manage your domain’s email settings.

Ensure that you click the save icon to preserve these changes.

Note: Reseller, VPS, and Dedicated server Hosting customers should follow the DNS settings provided in their hosting welcome emails instead of using the above procedure.

It’s important to be aware that once you change the nameservers, these modifications won’t propagate instantaneously worldwide. It may take up to 24 hours (and sometimes more in rare cases) for local Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to update their DNS caches, allowing everyone to access your website.

To deactivate the Domain Privacy service for your domain, please follow the steps outlined below:

1. Log in to your Sun Server account.

2. Navigate to the Domain List in the left sidebar and click on the Manage button adjacent to your domain:

3. Switch off the Protection option located next to Domain Privacy to disable this service:

That’s all there is to it!

Even if you’ve opted not to utilize our Domain Privacy service, you might want to explore Domain Vault, which represents our most advanced domain security solution to date.

Domain Privacy, offered by Withheld for Privacy, is a service designed to safeguard your personal information in the Whois database. It shields your name, address, phone number, and email from being visible to individuals conducting Whois searches on your domain. Instead, it substitutes its own contact details in the public Whois record to shield you from possible spam and the risks of identity theft.

For heightened security measures for your domain, explore Domain Vault, which provides plans to enhance the protection of any domain.

Whois is a service that offers fundamental information about a registered domain, including details about the domain owner, the domain’s availability status, and the Registrar responsible for its registration. It also provides crucial information such as the domain’s registration and expiration dates, along with the nameservers it uses.

ICANN regulations mandate that all domain Registrants maintain accurate and up-to-date contact information to enhance security and mitigate the risk of fraud and identity theft. For more in-depth information about Whois, you can refer to this page.

We provide a Whois Lookup option that allows you to retrieve information associated with a domain. The information available through this lookup varies depending on the specific domain Registry to some extent.

For most generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and new gTLDs, you can expect to find details about the domain’s registrant, registration and expiration dates, and DNS hosting location. However, for most country code top-level domains (ccTLDs), you may need to visit the Registry’s website to access more comprehensive information.

The level of information accessible in a Whois record is contingent on the top-level domain type and the Registrar responsible for managing the domain.

Domain Registrars typically allow their customers to update their domain contact information directly from their accounts, eliminating the need to contact the Registrar’s customer support. Please note that updates to Whois information may take up to 24 hours to propagate.

Some domain Registries offer the option for domain owners to shield certain details in their public Whois records. This is achieved by substituting the Registrant’s data with that of the Registrar or hosting company.

This privacy feature is commonly known as Domain Privacy Protection or domain privacy. For instance, in a user’s public Whois record with domain protection enabled, their personal email address is replaced with an encrypted string like a7b594eb9f5d43c123123c82484363f81.protect@withheldforprivacy.com.

If someone wishes to contact the user, they can send an email to this address, which will be securely redirected to the user’s personal email address.