How To Add Custom Validation for ASP.NET MVC 4 CIDR Subnet

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Mar 052013
 

Jeff Graves from OrcsWeb wrote a great blog post outlining the steps for customizing ASP.NET MVC4 validation for CIDR Subnet. While working on a rWhois project, he realized it required writing an ASP.NET MVC 4 based admin portal. Later in the project, he also tackled adding validation to inputs. Adding validation to an MVC model is super-simple with Data Annotations. By adding these annotations to your model, both client and server-side validation comes to life. If you’re working with MVC4, you’ll find this link very helpful! http://jeffgraves.me/2013/02/26/asp-net-mvc-4-custom-validation-for-cidr-subnet/

If you’re looking for an affordable and dependable host with ASP.NET, check out www.Cytanium.com.

MVC4 Configuration

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Feb 282013
 

Cytanium hosting now supports MVC4 as part of the shared hosting features. Microsoft recommends using bin deploy for MVC4, which pushes the required dependency files up to the bin folder under the website.  Here’s a link to walk you through a step by step configuration to bin deploy MVC4 http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449320317/ch_Deployment.html.

If you’re in the market for ASP.NET hosting that supports MVC, check out Cytanium today!

How To Set Up A Professional Email Address On Outlook.com

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Jan 222013
 
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Google Apps has closed its offering of free email services to new customers, but don’t panic! There’s another option. Windows Live Custom Domains is a free service where you can create professional email addresses to match your domain name. At Cytanium, we’ve been referring clients to both Google Apps and Windows Live for a couple of years because they are reliable, and easy to configure for the professional look your business deserves. Let’s take a look at how easy it is to do.

Configure Website To receive Email

Email settings within your website aren’t established by default. If you’re using WordPress, follow this tutorial for setting up email services through your WordPress website, or look for resources that help you configure your email settings if you’re using a different CMS.

Create An Account

If you don’t already have a Windows Live account for the domain you want to assign email to, you’ll need to first create an account. Navigate to the Windows Live Admin page and enter the domain name for the account. Select Set Up Outlook.com For My Domain and press continue.

Next, select Create A New Microsoft Account In Your Domain and press continue.

You’ll now fill in all your personal account information for the domain name. In the Microsoft Account Name section, enter an email address you currently have; you’ll need to access it to confirm creating the account. Once the account is confirmed, go back to your Windows Live Admin page to begin the configuration.

Configuring The Email Account

Not all hosts allow you to create your own DNS records, so you may need to ask what the protocol is with your host. At Cytanium, we allow you to create your own records. Just log into your control panel and click on the Domains tab.

Click on the domain name you want to configure email to. Next, select Edit DNS Zone Records. You’ll see a list of your current DNS settings that look like the image below.

Leave that window open and go back to your Windows Live account. Under the Domain Settings tab, you’ll see a page with different options to configure the mail accounts on the hosting server.You need to use one of these methods to prove your ownership of the domain before email service is enabled to it.

It will depend on what host you’re using, but for Cytanium, you can use the same values as the example shown.

This is what it should look like when you create the MX record

Save your record and you’ll now see it propagated in the DNS settings. Go back to your Windows Live screen and click the refresh button in the shaded section of the email configuration. Depending on your host, it can be instant or take up to several days to process the change.

When the domain ownership has been verified, you’ll see a page to review your settings and agree to the terms of use.

Once you accept the terms, your account will be ready for use. Click on the Mail tab in the menu to open your inbox. You’ll notice that it’s configured as Hotmail; look to the bottom left and click on the blue tab to instantly Upgrade To Outlook.com. It’s a good idea to send a test email from your website to make sure everything is configured correctly.

Update Your WordPress Database Connection String

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Dec 202012
 

Let us save you the trouble of figuring this out for yourself! Here’s a great tutorial for finding the new database and connecting to it after moving a WordPress site.

Update Your WordPress Database Connection String

If you’re in need of great web hosting at a great price, check out the shared hosting plans or VPS hosting at Cytanium. Create new websites or move your existing sites with ease.

Change the WordPress Domain Name After Moving a Site

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Dec 142012
 

If you’ve recently changed domain names, or moved your site from one server to another, then you need to update the domain setting in WordPress. If you don’t, then all links will point back to the old/original domain name and take you away from the new site. You may also (very likely) run into issues trying to sign in to the admin pages of the new site because of domain name mismatching from what WordPress expects.

Here’s a quick tutorial to change the domain name after moving a site and if you’re looking for great WordPress hosting, check out the great rates at Cytanium!

How To Make Peer Accounts In Websitepanel

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Nov 262012
 
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Website Developers and Website Administrators who have multiple people logging into a single hosting plan should opt for setting up Peer accounts, keeping the main log in secret. This allows multiple users to access a single account, all with their own individual credentials. If a problem arises with a client, the main Website Administrator can delete the peer from the account, keeping them in control.

To begin setting up a Peer for an account, log into your control panel and select the Peers tab from the menu.

Next, click on Create Peer Account and assign a username and password to be associated with their name and email address.

To add their contact information for easy access later, simply click on the bold Contact Information tab to expand the section. Fill in the required fields, then click Add.

Now, when you click on the Peers tab from your menu, you’ll see all of your peer accounts listed.

If you click on the user name in orange, the Edit Peer Account tab will open allowing you to make changes to the password, user information, or delete the peer if it’s no longer needed.

Although this is a great convenience for collaboration, use caution to whom you give peer privileges to as they have the same admin access. From what I’ve read in the forums for Websitepanel, they are working on security features to address that in future releases.

FREE Site Cloud Hosting Platform Updated

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Nov 052012
 

We’re excited to announce a new release featuring an all-new control panel and various back-end improvements. As the existing platform is intended for testing purposes only, we ask that you take a backup of any content and sign up for a new account on the new platform:

https://panel.sitecloud.cytanium.com

The new Free Cytanium Site Cloud Preview includes:

- New Control Panel
- Up to 3 instances of a site
- Up to 10 sites
- Up to 1GB of website storage space
- Up to 60 mins of CPU time per day
- Up to 800MB of RAM per day
- Unlimited inbound transfers
- Up to 165MB of outbound transfers per day
- SNI SSL Support with custom domain name
- 3 SQL 2008 R2 databases
- 3 MySQL 5.5 databases

We’re excited to be able to extend this Free Preview for testing purposes and appreciate any feedback on the platform: betafeedback@cytanium.com.

Please note the older platform (https://panel.beta.cytanium.com) will be decommissioned on 11/17/2012.

Windows VPS Hosting

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Oct 232012
 

Windows VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting is an increasingly popular choice for small business hosting. VPS hosting gives users the flexibility of a fully-customizable high-powered hosting environment, paired with the low-entry-cost previously only available with shared hosting.

When we say a Fully-Customizable hosting environment, we mean that literally. Clients using Cytanium’s Windows VPS hosting solutions get full administrator access to the VPS using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) – meaning you can log on to the server remotely and use it just like you would your local machine’s desktop. It’s easy to navigate and you can install anything you want/need and configure it however you want.

Not only do you get complete control, but you get dedicated resources. Shared hosting accounts share resources (CPU, RAM, etc.) with other clients running on the same server. With VPS hosting each client gets fully dedicated pre-allocated resources. When you sign up for a system with 1GB of RAM – you get the full use of that 1GB. When you sign up for 40GB of disk space – it’s just as-if you had a 40GB hard drive in your system and you get full use of that space for whatever needed (OS, applications, storage, etc.)

You also get the above benefits at an extremely aggressive rate. Not every host charges the same, so shop around. You’ll find that the rates at Cytanium are the best deals available for all of the options provided.

Oh, and what about “the cloud”? Included with every Windows VPS solution we sell are “cloudy” features. All of our VPS’s run on a redundant and resilient Microsoft Hyper-V architecture. If there were to be some sort of server fault, any VPS potentially impacted would automatically restart on another hosting node in the cloud cluster!

Not a client yet? Check out our Windows VPS hosting solutions for the best value in dedicated resource hosting; or check out our Windows Shared Hosting if you want more of a fully configured platform-as-a-service solution.

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How To Upload Your Files Using FTP

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Oct 182012
 

There are many ways to upload your files to your Cytanium hosting plan but a preferred method is often FTP.  If your not familiar with how to do an FTP upload to the server, this tutorial will walk you through the steps. It’s actually very easy and only takes a couple of minutes to do so let’s get started.

Create An FTP Account

The first thing you need to do is create an FTP account in your Cytanium control panel. Click on the FTP Accounts button.

Then click on Create FTP Account which will open a properties window. Give the account a username and password leaving all of the other settings alone.

Now it’s listed under your FTP Accounts in your Cytanium control panel and you can move on to setting up FileZilla.

Set Up FileZilla (or the FTP service you prefer)

You’ll need to have an FTP service in place like FileZilla to import your files from one server to another. If you haven’t already, download the FileZilla Client that is for your OS.

Now run the software and select the users who will have permission to use FileZilla and agree to the terms to complete the install.

The FileZilla dashboard will open displaying all of the files and folders located on your hard drive. Now you’ll need to connect to the server you want to upload your files to by entering the required information at the top of the screen. If you’re using a Cytanium account, enter vserver01.cytanium.com  as the host and then enter the username and password you setup for your FTP account in the Cytanium control panel.

You should now see the FTP account your created listed on the right along with all of the files associated with it below.

To move any files to that account, simply double click on the file and it will automatically be uploaded to that FTP account.

Now you can see the files in your Cytanium control panel match the ones you uploaded by looking in the File Manager.

That’s all there is to uploading your files via FTP to your Cytanium hosting plan.

4 Easy Steps To Move Your WordPress Site From One Server To Another

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Oct 152012
 

Have you considered moving your WordPress site form one server (or host) to another but think it’s too hard and don’t want your site down while you move it? You’re not alone in that thought. Many people settle for something less than stellar for fear of the unknown or they think it’s just too complicated to move it on their own. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the steps of moving your WordPress site from shared Windows hosting to a Windows Virtual Private Server.

1. Backup Your Site

The first thing you’ll need to do is a backup (or export) of your current site posts and pages. It’s super easy and takes only a few seconds with the Export feature in the WordPress dashboard or even a plugin.

2. Install WordPress

Next, you’ll need to have WordPress installed wherever you’re moving your site to. For my instance, I setup WordPress on a VPS using WebPI but you can do the same thing if you’re moving a site from one shared hosting service to another.

3. Install A New Theme

You can either install the theme you’re currently running or install a new theme for the site you just setup. You can also take this time to customize your dashboard  and configure things the way you want them before adding your content.

3.Import (Restore) Your Content

Now you’re ready to import your pages and posts from your old site to the new site. In the Tools menu, click Import.

In the menu, choose the web app your moving your pages and posts from.

If you haven’t installed the Importer, you’ll be prompted to do so now.

Browse your files for the WordPress Extended file you saved when you did the export and click Upload File and Import. If you’re using the same method as I am (shared to VPS) you’ll need to send the export file by email to your VPS and download it to that server to be imported.

Now, you’ll want to decide if you want to assign an admin for all imported entries or if you want to keep the author the same as It was in the old site.

You’ll see a list of all your pages and posts that were imported from your other site. Click View Site to see your pages and posts in your new theme and site. You may need to make some adjustments to the theme layout for your content if you chose to go with a new theme so look over everything carefully to make sure it displays perfectly.

4. Point Your Site To The New Server

Notice all of your comments, pages, and posts are all in their place, just as you had it in your old site. Once you confirm everything was imported properly and things look the way you want them to, the last step is to make it live to the new IP address. Go into your DNS settings of your old site and change the A Record to the IP address of your VPS and now your site points from your old server to the new server!

It really is easy and can be done at your leisure without disturbing your live website. Don’t delay making the change to a web host that can provide you the best of quality, service, and price for your website out of fear any longer! If you need reliable, yet affordable web hosting for your site, check out the options at Cytanium!

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