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PayPal Alternatives

PayPal is an online commerce business that intermediates payments and money transfers with the help of the Internet. This online transfer method serves as a replacement for the old paper way, such as checks and others, allowing the payments to be made faster and more comfortable, the payer only requiring access to Internet, either through a computer or through a mobile phone.

As of October 2002, PayPal was purchased by eBay for the amount of $1.5 billion. Due to its efficiency, the service is the preferred payment method for more than half of the eBay users.PayPal is currently enabling transactions between 25 currencies worldwide.

Even though PayPal used to be the best choice in online commerce, the service has developed flaws, slowly forcing people to choose other alternatives. Some of these alternatives became very popular and are briefly described below.

Merchantinc.com – This service is intended only to those people who are US residents and own compatible US credit cards. It has been operating successfully for over 10 years, so it enjoys certain credibility, at least in the US, being considered a well-known and reliable online payment service. Even the fees are better for eBay compared to PayPal fees. Just like PayPal, it offers its users access to an account and security regarding their payments. An additional key aspect would be that, unlike PayPal, this service deposits the money directly in bank accounts.

Allpay.net - This is a complex service that covers mostly Europe and UK, but also other countries worldwide. It is based in the United Kingdom, therefore it should be the top choice priority among the United Kingdom residents and citizens. Unfortunately, this service does not work for clients in the United States or Canada.

CertaPay - This service is a great alternative to PayPal, especially as far as eBay is concerned, but, unfortunately, it is only available for clients in Canada, as it only works with Canada banks. The service is based on a different system compared to the others. It is used mostly to transfer money from a bank account to an email account. It is worth mentioning that CertaPay is a financially stable and highly reputed company.

Paymate – The Paymate service is intended for users in Sydney, Australia and New Zeeland, mostly because of the fact that its base is in Sydney, Australia. It is eBay-approved and can be used for other online commerce sites as well. The money is transferred to the users’ Australian bank account, and, in addition, the service provides a payment button, in order for the user to faster initiate transactions. The best thing about this service is that it serves more than 37 countries around the world, making it easy for internet users everywhere to buy and pay for the things they need or to receive money from their clients fast and safe. The payment system is really simple, transactions being made from one email account to another one, fast and easy.

Of course, there are other services out there, but less known and based on more complicated systems.

 December 10, 2012 Tips

Characteristics of a Dedicated Server Hosting!

 

Several types of Web Hosting services are being widely provided to the perspective customers at different sources. Internet, a reservoir of numerable websites enables an individual to opt for a web-hosting server best for him. By bringing every type under limelight, one has to be selected which can contribute to the business by maintaining their online presence. One of these types is Dedicated Server Hosting which performs really well in monitoring the performances of the business around the clock and many other duties and responsibilities of the server is to be filled by this server user.

 
The best thing about Dedicated Service Hosting is that it is really easy to manage and provides a great degree of management services. What makes it more preferable is the affordability observed in getting these cheap dedicated servers, and if a good host is selected at a lower price, then it can give a share into the profits of the business. This web hosting server itself provide facilities like Server Back-up and Disaster Recovery Hosting services, which prevents any loss at the time of hardware’s failure. Such amazing services provided by this web hosting packages enable high security that is not provided as such by other servers. Such a type of Web Hosting works according to the customer’s convenience and in order to prevent any future complications in the server, it is monitored all day, all year, so that in case if there are any issues in the working of the server, it can be fixed as soon as possible in the best available way. This dedicated server hosting tends to show an excellent performance due to its ability to hide and prevent any sharing with any other server, unlike other web hosting types. This is why, getting a dedicated server hosting is a sensible decision!

 December 9, 2012 Web Development

An Overview on the Parallels Plesk Panel 11.0 Web Presence Builder

The Plesk Panel from Parallels, also known as Plesk Server Adiministrator or simply Plesk, is a commercial web hosting automation program or a web presence builder. Created for Windows and Linux, its latest version has been released in June 2012, respectively Plesk 11.

The Plesk Panel permits a server administrator to establish new websites, e-mail accounts, DNS entries and reseller accounts via a web-based interface. Client and site templates can be created by the administrator, which means that resource allocation parameters will be predetermined for the domains and clients.

Plesk 11 for Windows has several new features and previous-version bugs resolved. For starters, it provides smooth cloning in virtual environments. Administrators are allowed to copy the same virtual machine for as many times as their virtual environments request them to. Such an action used to pose some problems in previous versions of Plesk, as the copies and the original would have had the same configuration – for, instance the IP address pool would have remained the same. Using such a copy on a machine having a different IP address would have made the Panel not to function. Safe cloning is however possible now.

Another new aspect of the Parallels Plesk Panel 11 is its modern look and feel. Although the look is updated, the interface functions in the same way as the previous version, therefore adapting to Plesk 11 will not be difficult for web hosters and end-users.

Better security is also ensured by Plesk 11 for Windows. Administrators will have the option to activate an enhanced security mode. This means that data will be better protected from unauthorized access. Also, backups can be password protected and Panel users can be determined to employ only passwords that observe certain strength requirements.

A Software Development Kit allows for new functionalities to be added to the Panel in a clear manner, and the configuration of WebMatrix has been made easy (Windows-only specific feature), just like the removal of panel components has, to name some of the other improvements that come with Plesk 11.

Where Plesk 11 for Linux is concerned, some of the new features for the Windows version have also been added to it. For example, cloning has also been made smoother for Linux, the interface has been updated, and security is now stronger. A feature that is specific to the Linux Plesk Panel is that web server performance has been improved with nginx 1.3.

Nginx, which is an additional web server that offers high performance, has been designed so that large amounts of static content can be delivered. Administrators now have the option to install nginx to heighten the performance of the web server where customer websites are hosted.

Another Linux-only feature is the possibility of installing Plesk 11 on these operating systems: RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.8 and 6.2 (i386 and X64), CentOS 5.8 and 6.2 (i386 and X64), CloudLinux 6.2 (i386 and X64), SuSE 12.1 and Ubuntu 12.04. Furthermore, DNS zones can now be modified in bulk, which implies adding, changing or removing DNS records from several or all websites and subdomains.

Plesk Panel users have been waiting enthusiastically for these new features, and remember that you will discover many other great additions while testing and working with Plesk 11, as only a few have been currently selected for presentation. 

 

 December 7, 2012 News