It is important for any business to have a website. A well designed website allows business owners to reach a global audience with little cost outlay. 

Depending on the Hosting Company, owning and maintaining a website is an easy task; to have a magnificent website and content, the Business needs a fast and reliable web hosting provider. 

As a Web hosting service provider we provide bandwidth and server space to the Website owners, available to your clients and Internet users 100% of the time. There are various types of web hosting services available in the market. As a site owner you need to select a hosting provider which is going to serve you the best. 

There are a number of factors which need to be considered when opting for selecting a web host. A web hosting provider should be able to allocate more bandwidth and server space to a client as per the need. Technical support and backups are critical to your success. The expertise and means to ensure 24x7 services to our clients puts us in Top Web Hosts. 

If you are looking for a one-stop solution for your entire web hosting needs? 

Look no further as XKO Web Hosting offer a comprehensive variety of Web Hosting solutions. Our Australian based company, which is a leading web solution provider have more than 5000 clients throughout Australia. XKO Hosting offer a wide range of power packed ecommerce and web hosting solutions. XKO IBM servers are in Brisbane, located in a Multi Million Dollar Datacntre. The servers are maintained in impeccable and proper condition around the clock. The Area, building and Servers are highly secured and monitored by 24x7x365 CCTV surveillance and security Guards.

In the case of a power failure, XKO power backup systems are provided from a number of sources, onsite and offsite to keep your Website always running.

XKO as a premier web-hosting provider provide powerful and easy to manage packages. Our Domain Prices are very competitive.

If you are planning to launch your site you can be assured that you have found the best web hosting company in Australia which shall answer all your needs.

XKO Blog: Choosing Web Hosting

When looking to have your Business Website or personal Website hosted on a provider, there are a number of things to consider. Most people look at the Data Allowance, whilst this is a big thing, rarely does that bandwidth get used, especially when starting out, it make take twelve months to get your website busy. In regards to pricing, sometimes the cheapest is not the best option, speed and stabilty is the key for any Website.

There are some important things to consider before choosing you web hosting:

XKO are working hard in testing to roll out for the Windows Server 2008 in the New Year. ASP and SQL Hosting packages, hosted on Windows Server 2008 and SQL2008 Technologies.

Currently in testing we have found these Hosting packages to be extemely fast, secure and stable.

Some of the Features we find invaluable for Hosting on Windows.

Windows Server 2008 - Built-in Web & virtualization technologies

Web resources & security enhancements which helps our customers save time, costs & provide a platform for a dynamic & optimized datacenter. 

Advanced security & reliability enhancements, Network Access Protection & the Read-Only Domain Controller. These enhancements harden the operating system & protect our customers server environment. This ensures a solid foundation on which to build an Online business. 

We do currently provide Server 2008 and SQL Hosting on our Dedicated Servers.

Gmail service enabled voice and video today, thanks to a new plugin released by Google.

You can download the Google Video Plugin Here, run the installation program and then restart your browser.

Go to your Gmail account,  enable the new features from the Options menu in Chat windows. YOu should now see your friends.

The new feature work on all major browsers and is working on both Windows or Mac.

A Webcam is also needed, Google has teamed with Logitech to offer discounts on webcams. 

The latest Gadgets google have released:

Google Labs - Gmail with emoticons, canned responses, contacts improvements, advanced IMAP controls, Mail Goggles and integrated Google Calendar.

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XKO Blog: Benefits of 64-bit Hosting and Computing.

We recieve many questions on this subject and I thought i would post some information on the architecture to help clear up the basics of 64bit Computing and Hosting.

In a nutshell 64 bit Systems process data in larger chunks than 32 bit computers. 

a) Programs written to support 64-bit processors will generally perform faster than a 32-bit processor of the same speed. This is mainly due to the fact 32-bit computers must handle 64-bit numbers in two steps, whereas 64-bit computers only need to use one step.

b) 64-bit processors address more memory (RAM) than 32-bit processors. This means the server can have more RAM, and also store more data in memory, making memory-intensive programs like databases faster.

Another major benefit to 64-bit computing is security in the form of better cryptography. The architecture's capability to address larger integers means encryption algorithms can use keys with larger numbers, improving the overall security of the scheme. 

XKO provide 64 bit Web Hosting.

64-bit Web Hosting

XKO BLOG: Joomla 1.5 custom 404 error pages

Removing "dead" links from your website, i.e your redirect your 404 pages, helps search engines and also your visitors. If your website visitor visits an old or dead link, they will recieve a standard 404 page not found, and usually leave.

This tip below allows you to create a custom Joomla 1.5 - 404 page to show your visitors a custom Message and also redirect them to your frontpage. Your visitors are then re-directed to that page and it is easy to manage your 404 page through Joomla. When you remove content from your website you dont have to worry about dead links anymore!

Login to Joomla

Create a new article page that you want to display for your users when they bump into 404 error. i.e 404

Add your html which you would like your visitors to see, add a html refesh tag to redirect them to your homepage after 10 seconds.

Now, in your Websites theme “template” directory create a file called “error.php” and add the following code.

<?php

defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted index access' );

if (($this->error->code) == '404') {

header('Location: ' . $this->baseurl . 'http://www.yourdomain.com.au/404.html');

exit;

}

Example link: “http://www.yourdomain.com.au/404.html” is the url of your 404 article page. 

Ensure the 404 page is published and works when you direct navigate to it.

Now is testing time: Navigate to your website, type www.yourdomain.com.au/testbadlink.html

You will now see your new Custom Joomla 404 Error Page.

HTTP status code
When a request is made for a page on your site, the server returns an HTTP status code in response to the request. Joomla! returns a '200 - the server successfully returned the page' for error pages. This is problematic for those working with Google Webmaster Services and trying to get a sitemap resolved.
If you want Joomla! to return a status code for the error, you can do so by adding logic before the DOCTYPE line, as follows:

<?php
if ($this->error->code = '404') {
 header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
} ?>

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