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Contracts not read by users, server systems where infrastructure planning cannot be done, arguments about “but it was supposed to be unlimited” and disappointments. In this blog post written for informational purposes about unlimited hosting services, we will share with you the important notes you need to know.

If you are undecided in choosing web hosting, please read this blog post all the way to the end without a break so that your business continuity is not interrupted.

Our company Netinternet removed its Unlimited or Unlimited Hosting services from service in 2017 after providing them for a long time, and has now begun providing hosting services with packages that have defined limits. In this article, we will share with you what has happened to us with “Unlimited” or “Boundless” or “Unlimited” (absolutely the same meaning…) Hosting service and why we no longer provide this service. You may find this blog post unethical given that we currently do not provide web hosting service without limits and because we provided this service in the past. First of all, let us emphasize that our aim is not to defame/slander companies offering such services, and that this service was also offered by our company at one time!

The purpose of these types of hosting services is to ensure that users receive service without quota concerns. Thus, the user quickly chooses between services and purchases a service. Unlimited hosting is misunderstood by many users. Because it is unlimited, they think they can put terabyte-sized files and consume terabyte-sized traffic in a hosting service with an average price between 50 and 100 USD. However, this is not the case. In services without limit positioning, the limit is limited according to the fair use quota known as AKK, which is very well known by today’s home internet users. While this is clearly stated in the usage agreements of companies that do their job professionally, the AKK here is implied and stated in a gray area.

Since there is no organization that measures the quality of the service given by hosting companies and audits them, this topic is incredibly open to abuse. Generally, there are contract clauses about the files in your FTP account consisting of files necessary for a website to work. According to these clauses, using your FTP account as a file repository is prohibited. The most clear measure regarding fair use begins with a limit called Inode. Inode can be described as a database that stores information about each file in the file system, storing the modification dates of files, user ownership, access permissions. It can also roughly be described as the number of files. This limit is valid and fixed for each hard disk. Without this limit, the server administrator could never back up the system quickly. Even incremental backups of servers with high Inode limits can reach durations exceeding a week. In this state, since the backup process affects the read/write performance of the hard disk until it is complete, it can cause web sites running on the server to work at an unbearable slowness. At the same time, as I mentioned, since Inode has a fixed size valid for each hard disk, when the Inode limit is reached, no new file can be written even though there is free disk space on the hard disk. This is the worst case scenario; database service, folders where temporary files are created, session records, everything closes at once and becomes non-functional. Since nobody would want this, in services where disk quota is given as unlimited, Inode is given as limited. When we look at it, we generally see that these kinds of limits are only in the contract. Since this limit is generally not mentioned in the service package features, those who hit the Inode limit experience great surprise by saying “but my service was supposed to be unlimited.”

First of all, we thought it would not be necessary to state anywhere in the blog post that there is no technology in the world with unlimited internet bandwidth and similarly unlimited size hard disks, so we did not write it.

Continuing with what we have to say, the dangers in unlimited hosting service are not limited to these. (Danger; are the errors that may arise as a result of giving some resources as unlimited in the unlimited service.) Servers will never work within a standard for the given service. While disk quota is 60% empty and internet bandwidth is at 80% in some servers, disk quota may be 95% and bandwidth may not even be 10% in some servers. In this case, making future-oriented resource planning becomes extremely impossible. As these plans are made only approximately, when the business providing the service starts losing money from OverSelling (we will discuss this in detail shortly) in some servers, it starts moving hosting accounts with high resource usage on servers from one server to another. This is a situation that disrupts business continuity and can even cause data loss due to the timeout experienced during the transition between two servers when DNS records change and TTL periods. In situations that will affect general user services, the inter-server transfer process is started and completed immediately, at that moment, without the knowledge of the web hosting owner. Since no notification is given, you may notice a problem very late. Perhaps the damage may have already been done.

So why are all these headaches tolerated? The answer is: for high levels of OverSelling revenue. What is OverSelling? In the service sector, it is the continuation of sales to a certain extent after reaching the sales limit of intangible goods without ending the sale. You can take your mobile phone tariff as an example. A service for which 10 units are paid and which sells 1000 minutes in every direction only allows 1000 minutes of use for the current month, and when you make 200 minutes of use at the end of the month, your unused 800 minutes will not be carried over to the next month. This is an example of OverSelling. It is a method of generating revenue from unused resources frequently used in IT, telecommunications, and internet fields.

Hosting companies aim to generate revenue with the maximum OverSelling ratio in unlimited hosting service. In this case, hosting the maximum number of accounts on servers is the commercial priority of companies, and so they strive to push users with high traffic and disk usage out of their system as soon as possible. Returning to the beginning of our article, since there is no organization that audits or measures hosting companies, with the gray areas in contracts, your service can be terminated when you least expect it. In this case, you will have disrupted your established order and business continuity once again and will be forced to look for a new hosting and transfer your data. A complete waste of time!

As a result, at the end of this article about unlimited hosting targeting users to receive service without quota concerns, you may have developed different concerns about your business continuity beyond quota concerns. In order not to use a service full of surprises and to maintain your business continuity at the highest level, we recommend choosing hosting packages with defined limits where you definitely know what you are buying and that do not have gray contracts or hidden and secret rules.

One of the main reasons for removing the unlimited hosting service in 2017, in addition to the topics mentioned above, was that it was a service inconsistent with our company’s vision/mission which values business continuity and transparency, and we removed it thinking it was a service that damaged our company’s commercial reputation since it could not be correctly resource-planned and was misunderstood by dissatisfied users.

Dear Customers,

Throughout our 11 years of commercial activity, the largest customers of our company have always been businesses providing hosting services for commercial purposes. We have initiated a process to separate all our customers receiving services at the wholesale level from Netinternet and have them receive services through our other company, Veri Merkezi Teknolojileri, which is a 100% Netinternet subsidiary, in order to provide more specialized service to these businesses, coordinate our teams accordingly, and have more favorable price tariffs at the wholesale level.

This change has been made/planned entirely in accordance with the requests, complaints and needs of our customers receiving services at the wholesale level, with the aim of meeting all technical and administrative needs fully and flawlessly through a control panel written for web hosting companies, and maintaining business continuity at the highest level with a dedicated technical team to manage this process.

As a result of all these efforts, Veri Merkezi Teknolojileri, which will also begin serving with multiple locations, will again ensure that the gap between us and our competitors in terms of price/performance opens up boundlessly in recent years.

Information about Veri Merkezi Teknolojileri;

Website: www.verimerkezi.com.tr

Facebook: facebook.com/verimerkezi

Twitter: twitter.com/verimerkezi

You can get detailed information about this entire process through your customer representative.

We present this for your information and wish you profitable days.

Netinternet Bilisim Teknolojileri AS

General Manager - Osman MAKAL

1-) From our WordPress admin panel, we click Plugins -> Add New;

2-) We searched for and found the wp-mail-smtp plugin. We click Install Now;

3-) WP Mail SMTP plugin was successfully installed. We click Activate Plugin;

4-) We click Settings for SMTP settings;

• From Email: The email account you created under your hosting
• From Name: The name from which emails will be sent
• Mailer: Send all wordpress emails via SMTP must be selected.
• Smtp Host: Must be localhost.
• Smtp Port: Must be 587.
• Encryption: Type of encryption. No Encryption should be selected for email accounts created on hosting.
• Authentication: Yes: Use SMTP Authentication must be selected.
• Username: The email account you created under your hosting
• Password: The password of the email account you created under your hosting

5-) In the From Email section, we enter the email address that will appear in the recipient’s inbox.

6-) In the From Name section, you can write your site name or your own name.

7-) Mailer and Return Path options remain as shown in the image.

8-) After making the necessary adjustments, we click Save Changes;

After doing all of this, you can send yourself a test email from the Send a Test Email section at the very bottom.

To access the Opencart admin panel, we log in with our Username and Password through the admin panel at www.yourdomain.extension/admin.

1) After logging into the admin panel, we expand the menu by clicking the icon at the top left, then click the System button.

2) In the section that opens, we click on the edit settings step in the form of a pencil icon on the left side.

3) In this step, we click on the Mail section indicated by the red area at the top.

After making these settings, your Opencart mail settings will have been successfully completed.

Step 1: For email setup, first go to the Add Account section as shown in the screenshot above.

Step 2: From the options that appear, choose the option that says Other.

Step 3: On the next screen, choose the add mail account option.

Step 4: Enter the name that will appear for your mail address in the Name field. Enter your mail address and that mail’s password in the field just below. This is not a field where you can change the mail address password. This is the field where you will enter your mail address you want to set up and its password.

Step 5: In the next step, after choosing POP from the options in the menu that appears, you can make your settings.
Enter the First and Last Name information for your email account.
Email: Enter the mail account you want to set up and have activated from your management panel.

Incoming & Outgoing Mail Server

Server Name: You must write mail.yoursite.com in this field, but you must replace yoursite.com with your own website address.

Username: You need to write the mail address you want to set up.
Password: You need to enter the password of the mail address you want to set up.

After these settings, when you press the save button, a screen related to server verification failure will appear.

On this screen that appears, continue by pressing the continue button.

On the screen containing your mail account settings, go to the Advanced link at the bottom.

Turn off the Use SSL setting and set the Server Port to 110. You have made these settings for Incoming Mail Settings, now let us also look at the necessary adjustments for Outgoing Mail settings.

For the outgoing mail server, you must write mail.yoursite.com for the server name. But instead of yoursite.com, you must write your own website address.

Enter the mail address you set up in the username field.
Turn off the Use SSL feature.
The Server Port should be 587.

After these settings, you can complete the process by pressing the save button.

Inode Limit

An inode (index node) contains metadata information (file structure, file size, etc.).
The inode limit contains data structure information found in the Linux operating system. The inode count refers to the number of files in your account. That is, each file (email, image, etc.) in your hosting account means one inode. The total of all files in your account makes up the inode count.

How Can I Reduce the Inode Count?

To reduce the inode count, it will be sufficient to remove unnecessary files from your account.

Inode Information on cPanel

It is located in the Statistics section of the cPanel main menu.

Step 1: In the email setup section, enter your “Email” address and “password”, then click the next button.

Step 2: In the add email account section, click the “POP 3 account” button.

Step 3: In the incoming server settings section,

• Username: your email address


• Password: your email address password


• Security Type: None


• Port: 110


• Click the next button.

Step 4: In the outgoing email server settings section;
SMTP server: mail.sitename.com (e.g.; mail.netinternet.com.tr)
Security Type: None
Click the next button.

Step 5: You can set the email check frequency from the account options section.

Step 6: You can give a name to the email account you set up.

General Information

Joomla, one of the most widely used content management systems (CMS), released version 3.8.2 to address vulnerabilities found in the software.

Impact

On systems affected by existing security vulnerabilities, it is possible for cyber attackers to access sensitive information.

Solution

Netinternet recommends reviewing the relevant security advisories published for Joomla! Content Management System (CMS) and applying the necessary updates.

Source

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2017/11/07/Joomla-Releases-Security-Update
https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5716-joomla-3-8-2-release.html

Introduction

Whether you use web hosting or a server, there is always a traffic limit on the services you use when publishing your websites or projects on the internet. Although many companies today provide unlimited traffic services, technically nothing in nature is truly unlimited. It is presented as unlimited traffic only because the extra usage you consume is not charged. However, if you are not using unlimited traffic services, it will be useful for you to monitor the traffic you use. This way, you can avoid high-cost overage invoices.

Traffic Usage Monitoring at Netinternet

For the physical dedicated server and colocation services you receive, we allow you to monitor how much traffic your server uses through your customer panel. This way, you can compare the traffic limit you purchased with the traffic you use and switch to a higher traffic package based on your needs. This prevents extra invoices that may be generated as traffic overage charges. Now let us look at how you can monitor traffic usage on the physical server service you have received from our company.

NOTE: In order to monitor traffic usage on your physical server, traffic reports must be active. If you cannot see traffic reports, please contact technical support.

First, log in to your customer panel from the Customer Login section on our website. After logging into the panel, click on the Services section in the top menu to navigate to the section where all your services are listed.

When you enter the Services section, you will see all active and passive services you have purchased from our company as a list. If you have too many services, you can search for your service from the Search section or select the relevant service from the Filter section to display only the service whose traffic reports you want to monitor. After reaching your service in the list, click the View button on the right to navigate to the features section of your service.

When you enter the features section, on the page that appears, you will see the following sections in the left menu,

• Information


• Traffic Reports


• Service Cancellation

When you click on the Traffic Reports section, you will have accessed the traffic reports of your relevant server. You can examine all your traffic consumption in detail, both daily and monthly, from the day your server was activated. Please note that the data here does not come in real-time; daily reports are delivered.

Thanks to this reporting process we provide to you, you can easily monitor how much traffic you use. This way, you can purchase traffic packages according to your needs.