Bluehost hosting is announcing a new hosting feature. Bluehost hosting had added ’simplescripts’ into their cpanel control panel. Its a quick installer for easy scripts installation. And its claim to have wider scripts options and more quicker script updates, than fantastico. Lets check out the email from bluehost support.
“SimpleScripts is an automated script installer just like Fantastico (Also available in bluehost control panel). You simply click on the link to SimpleScripts and the rest is up to you. You can add and remove different web based applications with the click of a button and try out all the new FREE software that is now available for you. Another important benefit of SimpleScripts is we have included many popular scripts that aren’t currently available in Fantastico such as Roundcube webmail client, Drupal, Dada mail (Mailing list software),
PHPBB 3, and more. Thousands of different scripts work on Bluehost, but many users can’t take advantage of that because it requires a difficult manual install. We hope to alleviate that with SimpleScripts. In addition to new scripts that SimpleScripts offers we encourage all our current users to install with SimpleScripts before Fantastico if the script is available in both places. We ask you to do this because SimpleScripts offers far newer versions of software than Fantastico and is updated MUCH faster with new versions. This is EXTREMELY important to mitigate security risks over time. This lowers our support incidents, and gives you a better and more secure software to environment to work in!
SimpleScripts doesn’t just install software. It will allow you to remove software packages that were installed with it, as well as maintain your installs with the newest versions of the software. Once you install with SimpleScripts you can rest assured that maintaining those packages will be easy and secure in the future.”
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When looking at bluehost hosting features, bet you already see that, bluehost hosting is using cpanel control panel and with fantastico for easy scripts installation. If you got no idea what fantastico is, then you should finish reading this article about ‘bluehost fantastico’
In bluehost cpanel account, you will get these after you sign up a bluehost hosting account. At the control panel, you will find the fantastico. Inside is lots of scripts that you can setup. The fantastico simplify the scripts installation, and maintain the scripts at the latest version at all time. Thats the general purpose of using fantastico tool.
So, what is included in bluehost fantastico? Its a lot of free scripts that you can use. And there are part of the list:
- b2evolution blog
- Nucleus blog
- WordPress blog
- Drupal
- Geeklog
- Joomla
- Mambo Open Source
- PHP-Nuke
- phpWCMS
- phpWebSite
- Post-Nuke
- Siteframe
- Xoops
- Crafty Syntax Live Help
- Help Center Live
- osTicket
- PHP Support Tickets
- Support Services Manager
- phpBB forum
- SMF forum
- CubeCart
- OS Commerce
- Zen Cart
- FAQMasterFlex
- AccountLab Plus
- phpCOIN
- 4Images Gallery
- Coppermine Photo Gallery
- Gallery
- Advanced Poll
- phpESP
- PHProjekt
- Templates Express
- TikiWiki
- PhpWiki
- Moodle
- Open-Realty
- phpAdsNew
- PHPauction
- phpFormGenerator
- WebCalendar
- Language
- Side menu appearance
- Email notifications
- Installations overview
If you want to use any of these scripts, use the bluehost fantastico to install it. And it will be completed in just few simple steps.
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Want to know how to renew your bluehost hosting account? If its going to expired soon, please make sure that you check on the bluehost subscription either its set to auto renewal or not. If it is not auto renewal, do manually renew your bluehost hosting account before it goes expired.
To do bluehost renewal, login to your bluehost cpanel, go to preference row and select the “Renew your account”. You can choose to renew now or renew it 15 days before account expire. Select your renewal term; 3 months, 6 months, 12 months or 24 months. And then you will go to payment page. Complete the checkout process, and your bluehost account will set to renewal. Its done!
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In previous posting about fastcgi, i been reviewing about the features and how it can help to improve your website speed by using the server cache. Bluehost is going one more step advance.. and now with dynamic cache features. Once you get the fastcgi enabled, you can select to use this dynamic cache feature. Dynamic cache is advance fastcgi setting that cache the output of all FastCGI applications to avoid having to process the page for every hit. This is recommended for sites that get frequent hits.
There is few other advance fastcgi option that you need take a look as well:
- Enable Super Cache
Super Cache will immediately show expired content to the browser while regenerating the request in the background. This is recommended if you just want to show your pages lightning-fast to the browser and you don’t mind showing content older than the TTL (specified below).
- Enable browser refresh overwrite
Allow the browser to hit CTRL-REFRESH to force the server to regenerate the page even if the cache is fresher than TTL seconds old. Please DO NOT enable this if you receive a high volume of resource-intensive PHP hits because it makes it possible for many people to cause high loads for your account which may result in getting your account suspended.
- TTL Setting
The Time-To-Live is the number of seconds to keep the cache before regenerating the page. Set low (around 10 seconds) if pages are very dynamic changing often and it is not acceptible to show content from an old page for very long. Set high (around 3600 seconds) if the pages take a long time or use excessive resources to generate or if there aren’t very many different pages to cache or if the pages are generally static and don’t change very often.
All these setting is here, to help you to run a better website with faster loading speed. Experience it to belief!
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This bluehost review blog has been hosted with bluehost.com since 4 months back. This four long monts, i had been reviewing bluehost hosting in most details, and explore deep into their hosting service and also cpanel control panel. I got myself sign up blue host, and trying to experience this hosting myself, and so i can write a true review about bluehost.
I had a great time with bluehost, and this bluehostreview.org is running fine and with great uptime. I am happy with it, and had recommended it to few of my IT friends. They like it as well. Especially the unlimited number of websites hosting with bluehost $6.95 plan. Ya, i having few websites running in this bluehost plan as well. And from the cpanel screenshot below, you can see that i am using 2 addon domains. Meaning i having other 2 websites setup here. Other than that, i also uses 3 mysql database, ftp account, and email account as well.
This is how the actual bluehost hosting cpanel will look like. And its extremely simple to use. On the top you can see the microsoft adcentre $50 free ppc credits, and also yahoo search marketing $50 free credits. You can sign up on them and claim the credits as well.
For a trial run on the bluehost cpanel, you can use this bluehost hosting’s cpanel trial site http://www.bluehost.com/dm/main_cp.html?domain=blewhost.com&ldomain=blewhost.com&lpass=demo123
Note that some features is not available in the demo run. You will need to sign up to get the full features.
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Bluehost hosting is started to implementing the fastcgi into their hosting server. Pass few days, i notice the bluehost server that i am using, is updated with the fastcgi as well. I am pretty new to fastcgi thing and have to do some homework here to find out more about it, and how to utilise it.
From bluehost cpanel , under web server config menu, you will find “fastcgi acceleration”. And this will bring you to the fastcgi activation or deactivation page as following:
“FastCGI for PHP makes all your PHP applications run through mod_fastcgi instead of mod_phpsusexec. This eliminates the overhead of loading the PHP interpretor on every hit. Since it is always in memory ready for the next hit, the responses will be generated faster. NO MODIFICATIONS to your existing PHP applications will be performed so you can easily enable and disable it at will.”
And what wiki said about fastcgi? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastCGI
“FastCGI is a protocol for interfacing interactive programs with a web server. FastCGI is a variation on the earlier Common Gateway Interface (CGI); FastCGI’s main aim is to reduce the overhead associated with interfacing the web server and CGI programs, allowing a server to handle more web page requests at once.”
Seem like the fastcgi is utilizing memory or cache in correct word. As the pages are buffered and ready for next hit. By this, the page loaded faster. This fastcgi feature will be useful for php application such as ruby on rails.
If you need it, activate it. If want to switch back, its simply uncheck the “enable bluehost fastCGI”.
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Bluehost hosting control panel is ‘Cpanel X’. Its a very easy and simple to use control panel. I took less than 5 minutes to get familiar with the controls, icons, and menu navigation. Everything is clean and well organised. And everything is in plain simple english.
Go to Bluehost.com homepage, and use the top right login box to login to your cpanel. Enter in your login name and password to your hosting plan. This will bring you to the control panel. On the left side is my bluehost account general informations:
| Hosting package |
Platinum Pak |
| Account Expiration |
323 days |
| Shared Ip Address |
69.89.27.234 |
| Subdomains |
5 / 999 |
| Parked Domains |
0 / 999 |
| Addon Domains |
5 / 999 |
| MySQL Databases |
6 / 50 |
| Postgre Databases |
0 / 50 |
On the bottom right corner is the system tools. Very useful tools that i will going to show you in short future, but now i only going to give you a preview of it only:
Frontpage Extensions
SSH/Shell Access
Backup
Process Manager
SSL Manager
Manage OpenPGP Keys
Disk usage
Cron jobs
Network Tools
Search Engine Submit
I found out that, at the control panel, the item/menu is grouped and well organised. I no need to go through one by one to look for what I want. A glance through the group title, and i know what its about. Looking the subitem is faster and easy to access. I think this is a good features that is not available at other cpanel host.
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