In our endeavor to improve shared hosting quality and service transparency, Hexahost implemented online web hosting monitor service. We offer 99.9% guaranteed server up time as part of our service level agreement. monitor.hexahost.com Online monitoring utility will monitor all our server’s up time, connectivity, Service status, current memory utilization, current and cpu load. Monitor utility is not just for customers but also for monitoring team and disaster recovery team. Monitoring team will monitor the service, load and up time on 24×7 basis. Monitoring utility constantly monitors our web hosting network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages.
 

Why Monitor.hexahost?

Monitoring is essential to ensure that a website is available to users and downtime is minimized. We understand the criticality of your websites. WWW is the core medium of information sharing place. Users that rely on a website or an application for work or pleasure will get frustrated or even stop using the application if it is not reliably available. Monitoring can cover many things that an application needs to function, like network connectivity, Domain Name System records, database connectivity, bandwidth, and computer resources like free RAM, CPU load, disk space, events, etc. Commonly measured metrics are response time and availability (or uptime), but consistency and reliability metrics are used by internal teams.

How monitor.hexahost works ?

To determine the status of hexahost webserver, monitoring software will periodically send an HTTP request to fetch a page. For email servers, a test message will be sent through SMTP and retrieved by IMAP or POP3. Physical connectivity to the system, latency to the server, server response time are computed using ICMP ping request and response methods. Server CPU usage, memory usage, disk usages are monitored on system level checks using scripts.

We also monitor our servers from third party system for second level monitoring. We also advise our customer to use 3rd party utilities like host-tracker, hostmonitor, host peek.

With this we are a step ahead of reaching our aim “SIMPLIFIED HOSTING”

HAPPY HOSTING!

There are many ways to backup your website content and move to new host. Since Cpanel has become a ubiquitous utility, Taking your whole Cpanel backup and moving to your new host is easy to follow idea. Hexahost provides Cpanel access to all hosting plans. This article talks about “how to move your WordPress weblog alone from one web host to another web hosting provider”. Moving only one website alone from one hosting provider to another hosting provider has lot of advantages. This helps you to understand the options/features provided by your new hosting provider. One among widely used strategies is to move any one of your small in size website to the new host.

Follow the simple steps described below to move your WordPress

• Backup the database from the old host and import it to the new host. Pay attention to database names, user names, and DB password.

• Change your wp-config.php in the old host in order to point to the database on the new host. “i.e local host to newhost.com” Your web site will run using database based on the new hosting provider. Every change in your website will get reflected in new hosting provider’s Database. (You may want to check with your new hosting if they allow outside database access first. If not, you can skip this step and transfer the whole site content and DB to the new host, Test them by using ip. For example http://newhostip/~username/ will take it your content in the new host)

• Backup your entire WordPress installation from the old site (this will include all your uploads, themes, plugins)

• Unpack your WordPress installation to the new site

• Change wp-config.php DB source to local host. Even without changing them site will work.

• Change the nameservers to point to the new site

• That’s all now you only need to wait for DNS propagation

Your website will be active through old content and new DB till it gets full propagation, after complete propagation your website will be active from new hosting provider. Since nameserver propagation can take up to one day, step 2 allows you to have up to date database at the moment it happens. Downside to this is slower site response in the meantime because site still runs from the old server and the database is on the new. But if you do this over the night or periods of low traffic it won’t be that noticeable and you will not lose any comments or other activity on your site.

Above stated steps can be use for any website, provided you should know which file controls your DB name and place. For WordPress it is wp-config.php.

HAPPY HOSTING!