Archive for January, 2010
There are several web hosts which try anxiously to get contract of hosting from the user to root themselves in the beginning era into a stable hosting provider, for that they hide several things from the user. Coming next are the things which the user should never hope to be get informed from there host. For an instance, web hosts which are new in the market, many times do not have the facility to provide service to the users. Low cost or budget web hosting services are generally comes in such sort of category. In this there are two categories of hosts, one, who neglects to provide details of services to the users and another who show the mirage of outstanding (24/7) service which, is a mere misconception.
There are several hosts in the market which are cheap, however, not experienced in this field. One straightforward and ideal way to inquire about the level of service is to get the customer care number and apply it before dealing with the host. This will prove whether the service is up to the expectation or not.
Another hidden fact is that several web-hosting enterprises are inexperienced. The user should verify that the host he/she is dealing with is experienced or not, even to some extent. The user has the right to know about the work experience of the host because no one wishes to become a puppet for conducting experiments.
Another crucial factor is that while dealing with a low cost or budget web hosts, the host may be involved in several other businesses including web hosting. The user should remain aware of their other sorts of businesses or projects before signing up with them. In hosting a user requires specialized person instead of generalized person bearing various tasks together, applying both resources and time for providing faithful services to the customer.
It is also a misconception that few cheap web hosts will definitely provide the promised bandwidth, which is not true in real sense. It is important that they should not advertise one thing and end up providing something else as it can be treated as a fraud.
Preferring short term contracts at beginning is one of the ideal ways to prevent oneself from any of the undesirable surprises. Doing payment as per monthly charges can be effective. This will not only display one as a responsible and smart user but also assists to easily change the host in the condition of dissatisfaction.
Realizing the potentiality and reach of internet, everyone in this modern world has got a common taste in being recognized by a website of one’s own. Finding individuals and business alike with strategies in place, the next thing that embarks the visual plot (and after a ‘search’ function also), is a rich population of hosting service provider – offering incredible options within amazing price, with theirweb hosting services.
Are you the one amongst many wannabe website owners? Why not to get in detail about the plans then?
Let’s start with a small discourse on two types of web hosting services that a majority web hosts come to offer with.
Windows Web hosting and Linux Web hosting – the two types of hosting services
The two hosting services can match to the demands of million individuals and business alike. In Windows web hosting service the hosting platform comprises Active Server Page (ASP) as the base scripting language. While MSSQL is considered for database Windows Server is the Operating System and makes it a major Microsoft technology compliant process.
Linux Web hosting services, on the other hand, is a sum of OpenSource architecture-based options that come complete with technologies specifically designed and dedicated towards non-profit programming and web architecture platform. Linux Web hosting works on a LAMP.
Wondering what’s in a name? Here we go.
L = Linux. The UNIX-like OS.
A = Apache. The HTTP web server.
M = MySQL. The multi-threaded, multi-user, SQL DataBase Management System.
P = PHP/Perl/Python. The three varieties of scripting languages.
Leaving the technology aside (expect to have a detailed discussion in the coming issues) what makes more meaning is in the specialties of the both services.
While Windows Web hosting services guarantee flexibility and robustness (obviously by virtue of its popular language, database and server framework), Linux web hosting services on the contrary, comes with a secure and effective web hosting solution for millions SEMs world-wide.
Now, Windows or Linux, the choice is for you to make. It is you who knows your business best. However, for more information on the subject matter wait for our next issue on the same topic.
When one looks for web hosting services, he can find lots of these companies populating the Internet. These companies always stand ready to offer their services to those that need them. All of them claim to offer the most reliable quality web hosting packages for the businessmen and website owners.
However, with all the prices soaring, it is imperative for web hosting seekers to look for low cost web hosting. Because it is important for business, businessmen are always on the lookout for web hosts that are reliable. Can low cost services really be relied upon for your business web site needs? How can one judge the reliability of a service? Here are few most important features that you should look at in order to major the reliability of a host.
Up Time
First, the host should be able to guarantee a 99.8-99.9% percentage of up time. Why should we strictly choose only those that offer this percentage? This is because these figures translate to an availability of 24 hours, 7 days a week. This is very important for any website, which can be personal, business or build for non profit purpose. On the other hand, an hour of downtime means a loss of potential traffic to the website. In an online business, the more people that visit your website, there are more chances that some of them will convert into becoming customers. Hence, if you plan to leverage the Internet for a business or a work-at-home job opportunity, be sure to pick only those budget web hosting companies that are able to guarantee 99.9% of availability.
Is it Over Sold
This is pretty much explanatory. Access speed is the rate in which the page is accessed by users in any time of the day. It is important that a user can quickly access the content of a website at any point of time in a day and at a fast rate as well. Aside from the rate of availability, the access speed of a web hosting service is an important requirement to look for in a low cost web hosting service.
You can simply do this by trying to access the websites that these services host. You can usually find their portfolio in the service’s website. Keep track of their access speeds, or how fast you can download the pages of their hosted sites. If the page download is good enough then all you have to worry about is the price, if it is up to par with your business budget. When in doubt, you can always check Alexa.com for a list of the Top 4 web hosting services in terms of access speeds.
That’s just about it. To sum it up, the marks of a good low cost web hosting consists of being available 99.9% of the time and being able to provide speedy access to the actual websites. If the budget web hosting service you are looking at has these features, then surely you get good value for your money.