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Why Dedicated Server is Better than Best Web Hosting?

November 27th, 2011

If you can afford expensive hosting plan then, you should consider the dedicated server as compared to best web hosting service. There are numerous reasons that dedicated server hosting is far better than best shared hosting service.

With dedicated server hosting only you are the host who using a single server. Thus, you will be able to use all of the server features for your website. No need to share your disk space, bandwidth or other hosting features with other website users.

With dedicated server hosting you can run a large website. The disk space is often limited in best shared hosting plans. While, you do not need to worry about having small amount of disk space with a dedicate server. Therefore, you can manage huge content and many pages with your website.

Dedicated server will provide you with access to more bandwidth. You can create large websites. Dedicated hosting is particularly for the business owner who is running a business websites which include a catalog of product for sale.

At the same time, the dedicated server provides a higher level of security to your website. Dedicated server users have no need to worry that someone can hack into personal files since they are sharing a server. With the dedicated server only your data will be stored on the server. It also provides the security for your clients who will be placing orders and entering sensitive data on your website.

When you are using the shared web hosting plan you cannot customize your hosting experience. Best hosting provides you only software which is used to operate a website. But you can use a wide range of software and features when you have dedicated server hosting. Dedicated server provides you several software and programs that are important to make your website most effective.

Dedicated server hosting will provide you plenty of space for all your websites files and data. You can run a dynamic website and also customize your web hosting experience when using dedicated hosting.

While, Shared hosting only provides the limited features such as: disk space, bandwidth etc. You can manage only small website with limited content on them with shared hosting. So, dedicated server hosting is worthwhile to use if you are in ecommerce business or having a video websites or dealing a website with large amount of traffic.

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How to estimate your website hosting needs

September 26th, 2011

I write this article especially for people who are new to web hosting. This is why I will only talk about the basic needs (in a shared hosting environment): space, bandwidth. Most of the people looking for advanced features (scripting, databases) already know what they want/need anyway.

So let’s start with the space. Web space (disk space) is the amount of data you can store on the hard disk of the web server. Each web hosting accound comes with a certain amount of space, usually over 50 MB and less than 1000 MB.

Obviously, the amount of needed space depends on the size of the website. Most websites are composed of html (text) pages with a few images (gifs or jpegs) or even a little bit of Flash animation. Text is very economical; it occupies very little space. Images and flash are more expensive; they require a lot of space. If you’re new to the web you might think it’s great to have a lot of colorful images to make your website really beautiful. Don’t make this common mistake!

Your aim should be to say as much as you can on a page while maintaining it’s size under 50-60 KB including images. The reason? There are still lots of people using slow dial-up connections of under 56 Kbps. For them a 150 KB will take more that 21 seconds to load. A 60 KB page will take more than 8 seconds to load. That’s still a lot of time! A good page size is under 30 KB. A maximum page size is 50-60 KB.

Considering an average page size of 30 KB, you can put approximately 33 pages on 1Mb of space. If you have 10 MB of space available, you could host 330 pages. I only wish I had so many pages to put online. Don’t worry, I’m working on it!

The idea is this: unless you run a busy forum your needs for space are likely to be rather modest. Just keep in mind to achieve an average of 30KB/page and you should be more than fine even with 10 MB of web space.

Bandwidth is the amount of data that you’re allowed to transfer per month. It includes all uploads and downloads regardless of the protocol used (HTTP, FTP, POP etc.). Bandwidth depends very much on the average page size, but it also depends on the number of visitors your website will have and the average number of pages they visit. For an average page size of 30 KB, 20,000 visitors per month and 3 pages per visitor your website will need about 1800 MB (1.8 GB) of bandwidth per month. Most low cost hosting packages include that amount of bandwidth. Not to mention that 20,000 visitors per month is only a dream for most websites. Most don’t even have 2,000 visitors per month.

I took you through all those numbers just to give you an idea how to estimate your needs. If you’re just launching your website you will not need neither a huge amount of space, neither a huge amount of bandwidth. For 99% of people a hosting account with 10MB of space and 1Gb is more than enough.

Conclusion: Unless you have reasons to believe that your website will definitely have lots of visitors and unless you’ll offer movies or music for download (legally of course ), I see little reason for you to worry about space and bandwidth.

Just make your own calculations and also try to make sure that the host you choose allows account upgrades. That is to make sure you will be able to get more space and/or bandwidth if/when you need it without going through all the trouble of changing hosts.

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Green web hosting.

March 24th, 2011

There is a recent rise in the popularity of Green Web Hosting because of the concern for the nature. Many industries have taken action and play their part in helping by reducing energy consumption and recycling. The same goes for the web hosting industry.

Recently even industries in highly commercialized countries have held meetings regarding the impact of Global Warming. The harmful gases produced from industries in clouds of dark black gases and ashes have caused a lot of ecological disasters. Therefore, industries have been asked to take measures in order to reduce the destruction caused by heavy industrialization worldwide. Similarly some web hosting companies have decided to play their part in preserving the ecosystem. When they join this cause – they are called “Green Web Hosts”. Firstly, let get a better idea about green web hosting. This type of hosting is a kind that uses nature-friendly power source for their daily activities. As we all know, servers are like appliances that requires electricity.

Not all companies have the resources to generate their own renewable energy. Therefore, those companies can turn to supplied energy by choosing to buy Renewable Energy Certificates. By doing this, they can get energy generated by wind, solar or even biogas. Companies that generate their own energy also use energy generated by either solar power, wind turbines or other methods. This gives them ability to power their machines with this renewable energy.
So, what does this entire means? It means that web hosting companies are saving the planet by reducing carbon emission. It also allows companies to purchase offsets enabling them to mitigate their own greenhouse emissions. So, this can ease the hosting company from starting their own wind farm or solar power generator.

Another added value that the green web hosting has is their special offers on packages to non-profit organizations. It is their act to not only encourages organizations to use web hosting but also encouraging the use of renewable energy and paperless working environment. Some web host with green hosting also provides web host services to companies that have telecommuting being used by their staff and workers.

However, does green hosting cost more? Well, this is a question that we all need to think deep about. Green we hosting companies may run at a higher daily operation cost compared to other web host provider companies but the idea of having a paperless company using renewable energy is something that is encouraging. With a single company operating in this way, it can reduce a whole lot of waste and reduce a lot on energy consumption which will directly help in preserving the nature. So, saving the earth does come with a price and it is not a big one to pay if you’re supporting a green web hosting company. Not only do you play your part in saving nature, you also get you web hosting needs.

There are several misconceptions on green hosting among the consumers. One of the mistaken beliefs that are prevalent among people today is that green hosting does not offer stable solutions. This however is far from the truth. You can confidently choose these services without having to worry about the stability or about the reliability of the services. Today the hosting services offered by green hosting companies are in par with companies that use conventional energy.

So go green put your hands together to preserve plant earth.

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4 stuffs Your Web Host Doesn’t Want You to Know

February 4th, 2011

Looking for a web host for your website? Ever feel like some of the things being promised are far fetch Check this list to see if your host has done this to you! And if they have: run, don’t walk… Get far-far away! There are plenty of web hosts in the market to not waste your time and money with the bad ones.

1. WE OFFER TERABYTES OF SPACE… ALL FOR $1 … WE GUARANTEED!!

You’ve seen all the offers. Tens of thousands of gigabytes.  Thousands of terabytes.  All for just a few dollars. Think it’s too good to be true? Well, it is. How do you think the hosts afford all that space? It’s a simple trick that is known as “overselling” in the web hosting world. Hosts sell 100x-1000x more space then they actually have hoping you don’t use it. And what happens if you start using it? Well if you read their terms of service, most of these hosts control your account based on cup usage. At the same time, “file storage” isn’t allowed. So as soon as you upload more than 1 GB, or get more then a few thousand visitors on your site, you will find your site gone. Of course none of the hosts want you to know this, so they hide it in confusing fine print and terms of service agreements. I hate to say it, but mom & pop might have been right… if it’s too good to be true, it probably is a scam.

2. WE HAVE BEEN IN BUSINESS FOR DECADES.

I find it funny how several well known hosts claim to have been around for “decades”. Another one boldly states “In Business since 1988″. I hate to break it to you guys, but there wasn’t really such a thing as web hosting back then. I’ve been involved in the hosting industry almost since the beginning, and I know for a fact there weren’t any $5/mon. hosts around in the 1980′s. Before believing a hosts claim, check the who is on the domain and see when they registered it. The funny part is that most hosts that claim to be more than 10 years old haven’t been around more than a 1 year! Obviously they don’t want you to know this, so do your due diligence and make sure you don’t get scammed by a fly-by-night host.

3.  WE HAVE OUR OWN DATACENTER – THOUSANDS OF SQ FEET

Face it, no matter what web host you go to, their site has pictures of huge datacenters, thousands of servers! Unfortunately, most web hosts are just “re-sellers”. Just people with some spare time that rent some space on someone’s server for $20/mon. and try to re-sell the space to a 100+ people. Best way to check? Ask for the address and other information on their datacenter. The trick here is that many hosts will give you the information of their providers datacenter (who they are renting from!), but if you are persistent enough and dig around you should be able to dig up the truth.

4. OUR HOSTING IS ONLY $5/MO – BUT YOU HAVE TO SIGN UP UNTIL 2050.

I don’t know what it is these days, but web hosting used to follow the logic of “what you see is what you get”. Now you have everyone advertising plans for $5/mon, but when you get to their website you find out its $20/month! What’s the deal?? Well it turns out that you need to sign up for 2 years, 3 years or even 5 years to get the “$5/mon”. Is it just me, or is that not $5/mon.? That would be $300/5years, not $5/mo! The worst part is that you usually don’t realize a host is doing this until you get to the final part in the check out. Do your research! Make sure when they say $5/mon. they mean $5/mon.! Not $300 for 5 years divided by 60!

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Be a successful web hosting reseller.

January 31st, 2011

Web hosting is an exhilarating first business scheme for many people, and while it might sound difficult to begin with; becoming a successful hosting reseller is actually a fairly simple process. In many cases, you don’t even have to do anything apart from sell the services of an established web host through your own website.

It is especially appealing to web designers and developers as an addition to your existing services.

The first step to becoming a web host reseller is to find a web host who offers several website hosting accounts. By taking out a several domain account, you can use one domain for the development of your own site and then set up other domains to clients’ websites. This enables you to pay a regular fee to the web host while charging clients any price you wish.

After setting up your domains to clients, it is preferable to have full administrative control over your clients’ websites. Ensure that your web host provides not only yourself with a control panel that features full administrative facilities to manage your account, but also provides your clients with their own control panel too. Perhaps the most important feature your web host should offer is the facility to hide your web host’s identity, preventing clients from knowing that you are offering a third party service.

It is also essential that your clients have a copy of your terms and conditions, which are vital in any business. While the writing of terms and conditions can be time consuming, many web hosts may let you copy theirs or supply you with terms and conditions specifically written for this purpose. It is also important to provide your clients with fast and reliable support, solving any problems that arise with their websites as soon as possible. Failure to do so will result in unhappy clients and it will also reflect badly on your other services. Tools such as white label guides offered by web hosts can help with this.

One of the best aspects of the business of reseller hosting is that you can start out on this business venture even if you do not have a great deal of expertise. It is also the case that there are times when a reseller can be more scalable than a typical hosting firm, due to true web hosts being limited in its hardware. If a client suddenly requires an upgrade that the host was not prepared for, it will have to go through the time consuming and costly process of upgrading its hardware. A reseller host, however, can simply choose a different web host that will better suit the needs of their customers.

Reseller hosting can be a great profit making venture once you’re up and running and understand the figures and profit margins involved. Buying web space from a major web host is relatively inexpensive and can be redistributed to site owners who need space for uploading their website at a suitable cost. What’s more, some hosts allow customers to oversell the space they buy and do not charge extra unless your account usage go above a certain level, while others offer unlimited web space and bandwidth at no additional cost.

It is said the average user uses less than half of their allotted web space, which means you could double or even triple sell your quota, earning considerably more money in the long run.

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Beware of the FAKE web hosting reviews.

January 13th, 2011

Customer reviews are hugely important in the world of ecommerce – they are often the crucial factor in convincing a potential customer to convert and click that ‘Buy Now’ button. For that reason, fake reviews are a massive problem online, and the hosting industry is one of the worst affected areas. Some hosts and a large majority of affiliate marketers will do whatever it takes to make you click on the host they want you to.

As a customer, how can you protect yourself against fake, shill or sock puppet reviews? How can you research potential hosts without being influenced by falsified information? Below, we’ve put together a checklist for spotting fake reviews as well as some top tips for helping you to search and find genuine reviews.

It’s very important to identify these fake reviews. The reviews that are sound too good to be true are likely to be self composed. To identify fake web hosting reviews, we highly recommend following checklist: Look for detail – fake reviews will lack detail because whoever’s writing them will likely have very little real experience of using the host. A proper review will include details such as uptime and customer service anecdotes.

Too good to be genuine ? – No host is the perfect match for everyone all the time, so if a host comes across as too good to be true, you’re probably dealing with a shill reviewer. This is particularly obvious if there’s a whole list of 5-star reviews all saying identically positive things.

Established reviews – the higher quality review sites will grade reviews according to whether they are ‘verified’. There are different ways to do this, but the most common is when the reviewer has to use an email address that comes from a domain hosted by the host they are reviewing.

The ‘look’ – fortunately, most sock puppet reviews are pretty obvious – they just won’t look genuine and you’ll be able to spot them a mile off.

Marketing Speak – a genuine reviewer probably won’t use ‘marketing’ speak (for example, words and phrases like ‘guaranteed’ or ‘100% satisfaction’) when they describe a host, so look out for anything that looks as if it’s been written by the sale department.

Discount code or link – make sure to check where the reviewer links to in their write-up. If a link is broken or looks suspiciously like an affiliate link, you can probably disregard the review.

Timing – if a host has a long list of reviews on a certain site, check the timestamp; you might well find that all the reviews were posted within minutes of each other. Highly suspicious!

Duplicate reviews – a neat little trick to check the validity of a host review is to copy and paste a section of it into Google; if lots of direct matches come up, chances are this is either an automated review, or someone is being paid not very much to litter the web with positive feedback.

Extreme Stars – reviews of either 1 or 5 stars deserve more suspicion than anything in between.

NB. Remember to look out for fake negative reviews as well. Some hosts and their affiliates aren’t above trying to make their competitors look bad to boost themselves up the rankings.

1) Beware of reviews that are sound to good to be true. 2) The customer report should show proof of website hosted with the web hosting company. 3) The customer report should show proof of service uptime, with monthly uptime statistic. 4) Too many positive reviews compare to negative reviews. Via survey, we learn that unsatisfied customer tend to write testimonial online. Happy customers are unlikely to post testimonial voluntary. 5) A professional web hosting review site will have Intel and insider information, and even offering special coupon discount.

How To Search For and Find Genuine Reviews

Running through the above checklist every time you read a review can be a time-consuming business; the best way to avoid shills is to find a source of reviews that are trustworthy in the first place. But that’s easier said than done!

Generally speaking, the more detailed the better (but beware of unnecessary repetitions of product names); once you find a good source of well thought and detailed reviews, consider trying to add your own and see how many hoops you have to jump through to do so – the more the better!

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web Hosting Overseas – Is it Worth it?

October 30th, 2010

If you have your web hosting overseas, the question arises, does this affect your search engine rankings, and how? There are many reasons why you might want or need to host your sites in a country other than the one where you reside or do the majority of your business. Let’s look at some of these and the possible outcomes for your sites.

Location, Location: Much like real estate, location matters. The closer your server is to your clients, the faster those clients will be able to access your website. Even in a virtual existence, the physical distance between servers and end users can make a difference. Most internet marketers target United States and European citizens, so by hosting halfway around the globe, website response time for target demographics may be adversely affected.

Businesses will often choose to have a country specific domain (.uk .ca etc.) if they have a subsidiary outlet in that country doing business, particularly if it has a physical address. The benefits are very good for any local search that finds your company within the search for any particular geographical area.

Companies opting for an international reach without using any approach other than a virtual one, still may find it useful to employ a country specific domain, and the associated web hosting, to try and capture some of the market share to be found there.

Other savvy webmasters, in their attempts to try and set up a network of sites with varying IP addresses, will use web hosting overseas to accomplish their ends. Usually these network sites are of little value, except for their short term use in gaming the search engines in search of higher rankings.

The effects of hosting your sites in a country other than the one in which you do business are difficult to quantify, but there is some anecdotal evidence that suggests that sites with a country specific domain, say a .uk domain extension for example, will be favored more than a .com, .net or other extension in that particular market. Geo-location plays a part in how the search engines (particularly Google) view who a site is intended to serve.

The consensus seems to be that if you are aiming to target a specific audience, you should use a country specific domain extension, use web hosting in that area, and focus on building links that come mainly from sites in that geo-location. This and a few tweaks to your meta data and it will be abundantly clear to any robot that happens by who you’re targeting.

The search engines can read not only the domain extension, but incoming links, IP addresses, physical addresses in your content and more for use in determining where you intend your market to be. If you want to rank for terms in a specific region or country, doing your best to line up all the factors that affect how your pages are viewed only makes sense.

This can make a great difference in your rankings for certain countries. While a .com might have a hard time ranking for your terms in a global or US market, that same site may do a great deal better in a more limited market, especially by virtue of a highly targeted site, domain extension, IP address and more that it would have working for it. Definitely worth thinking about, if you are chasing global business.

As you can see, there is some thought that needs to go into your decision about where and how to host your sites if you are thinking of using overseas web hosting. Hopefully these thoughts will help get you on the right track!

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The Role of Web Hosting in Education.

October 26th, 2010

Education means schools, and schools means teachers and notebooks ? Think again.

The answer is, NO. we have the Internet and web hosting services, which has transcended all borders. Now education has been made simple through web pages. This method definitely did not arrive with the advent of web hosting.

Today, the web hosting industry has helped several educational organizations grow. A few years back, we would have never thought that we could sit in India and earn a degree from America. But today, this is possible, thanks to web hosting and the Internet. To start with, many universities across the world have helped themselves by opening educational services through the Internet.

As web hosting is extremely cheap today, it is possible for anyone to advertise their universities, as well as gather students for their communities. Several thousands of people were in anguish, as either the cost factor would stop them, or immigration issues would stop them from attending foreign universities. Today with the help of web hosting, all students have to do, is enroll online.

The use of online legal education is a rapidly growing phenomenon in the World. The Independent Study Option (ISO) provides the opportunity and flexibility for both school-age and adult learners to study a wide range of compulsory optional print based distance education courses from Grades 7 to 12. This form of distance education also provides students with support by email or phone. The Independent Study Option also offers several courses in French. In the event that a student leaves the province on a temporary or permanent basis, the ISO also provides the opportunity for continuing the study en route to receiving a Senior Years graduation.

Not only can they study from the comfort of their homes, they can also learn in the universities of their dreams, and of course the flexible time counts too. For the universities, it has helped increase their strength, and also showcase their capabilities with the educational standards. The web sites also allow students from all over the world to interact.

Another advantage we can look at is the online educational material that is available. As mentioned, web hosting is cheap today, and thus there is plenty of information being posted every day through the Internet. Students may turn to this, as there is information which is not available in certain libraries too. The language is simple, and makes it easier for students to gather what they need.

Whether it is for projects or thesis, the Internet is available, and the web pages offer all the information they would be wanting. All this can be done from the comfort of their homes, and just a click of the mouse. There will be no long lines waiting for certain reference books at the library. The web sites have all the information of all the libraries in the world put together.

Another very interesting thing about web hosting, and what it has made possible, is the high speed communication through instant messaging, and also being able to speak through head phones at almost no cost. And what has this made easy? Those children, who are unable to find good extra coaching, are now learning online, in their free time.

Tutors are being found from all over the world, and they teach children through the Internet. The cheap resources through the web pages, has once again played an important role. And this time for a very important industry, the educational field. Thanks to the World Wide Web and web hosting, students can live their dreams across the world.

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Web Hosting Instructions.

October 26th, 2010

Web domains-Hosting-Content. These are the three top priorities for any webmaster, regardless of how experienced they are. Unfortunately, these three essentials often leave people in the dark, as there are dozens of companies offering the “same” packages for different prices. With an overflow of routes you could take, it can get mind boggling to figure out the appropriate steps. For this reason, instructions are essential if you are looking for a smooth path.

The first thing you should do is make a list of what your current goals are. If you are making a professional site, you’ll need a secure and reliable host. For instance, if you know that your website will reach thousands of people within a few months, perhaps you should find a web hosting package that includes extra bandwidth. You need additional space, especially if visitors are constantly going to be accessing your website. On the other hand, if you are just experimenting, you should stick to the free hosting packages. Version Next Technologies certainly provides a basic package, which will leave you satisfied. After all, you do not need bells and whistles if you aren’t serious about the website in the long run. If you do end up changing your mind, you can always switch services and transfer your website.

Once you have made your decision, you need to find a reputable service. While searching for hosting companies on Google may seem appropriate, it often stems bad results. It is important to remember that just because it is listed on a search engine, doesn’t mean it is 100% safe and legit. Therefore, if you do find a potential company, you should get a second opinion. It is usually smart to join a webmaster related forum such as www.laibhaari.com/forum to discuss such matters. This way you can hear about other people’s experiences and what companies to avoid. Additional references from friends or family would also be ideal.

After picking a host, you will need to provide your credit card information. Surprisingly, there are discount coupon codes you can acquire through the internet, to also help you with your initial fee. Due to the fact that you have to include your private information, it is absolutely crucial to make sure you find a legit business. The last thing you want is to lose any money. Therefore, you should google their name and check out the reviews from fellow users. This will most definitely make all of the difference, especially if you find out that they are a fraud.

For website beginners, web hosting doesn’t have to be difficult or even too time consuming. As long as you find reputable sources, second opinions, and a great easy to use package, you are well on your way to website success. With these instructions in mind, there should be no frustrations or year long debates on what company to use. It is quite simple, once you get in the webmaster’s frame of mind.


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Does your web host provide good statistics?

October 22nd, 2010

Visitor statistics

To know how well your website is doing you need to have access to detailed statistics about your visitors. Does your web host provide you with good, detailed statistics?

With good visitor statistics you will learn how your visitors find your website and what they do once they get there. With this knowledge it will be easier to see strengths and weaknesses in your website and marketing efforts.

A list of things to look for in a statistics package :

  • Number of visitors/page views
  • Views per page
  • Entry/exit pages
  • Visitor paths
  • Referring urls
  • Spider visits
  • Search engine phrases
  • Error pages

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