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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:48:00 -0600</pubDate>
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	<title>cPanel or Plesk?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:48:00 -0600</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[When purchasing a web hosting account you are forced to make several decisions, one of which is what control panel will be the easiest and most productive for you. There are numerous control panels available, but the majority of hosting services offer either cPanel or Plesk. Here is a comparison of the two that should be helpful when making your decision.


    
        
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In basic features, both cPanel and Plesk offer about the same. You can create, edit and manage email accounts, as well as maintain your domains or sub-domains from them. You can also upload and manage the files on your account from either. For many users, these basic capabilities are all that will be required in a control panel.
Both cPanel and Plesk provide a graphical user interface to work from, though it is generally agreed upon that cPanel has the more user friendly layout. The Plesk interface can appear a bit overwhelming to a novice user, and be slightly harder to navigate; where cPanel seems to have focused their graphic design specifically for the novice. For this very reason, cPanel is often claimed to be the easier of the two to work with. It ultimately boils down to a question of personal taste on which interface you prefer, and doesn't have much to do with the real functions and capabilities that the programs provide, only how you will access them.
It is really in the more advanced features, and their ease-of-use offered by the two control panels that sets them apart.
cPanel is typically provided by most hosting services with the Fantastico script installer included. What this offers to users is the ability to install a wide range of scripts and applications on their web site; including forum boards, blogs, eCommerce shopping cart solutions, content management systems and much more--all with a simple click-and-go approach. No programming or database knowledge is required, and any of these applications can be up and running on your web site in just a minute or two with a couple clicks of the mouse.
Plesk has an application pack, and works on a modules basis that allows for additional third party add-ons as well. However, none that seem as widely used and demanded as Fantastico is with cPanel right now, and generally there is some basic technical knowledge required to install and utilize the more advanced features with Plesk--or a hosting provider willing to do it for you.
One major difference is that cPanel only operates on Unix based web servers at the moment, though they are working on support for the Windows Operating System. Plesk however, is currently compatible with both Unix and Windows based servers.
While the majority of users don't depend on a specific Operating System for their server and will generally utilize Unix based hosting because it often comes with a lower price tag, if you do plan to run specific applications from your web site which will require a Windows based server then cPanel is not an option for you at this time.
If your web site does not have any Operating System requirements when deciding which control panel will be best for you, an understanding of what you want to do and achieve will be necessary. If you are a developer, or just the type who wants to get hands-on with the technical aspects and details of your hosting and web site software, you will probably appreciate Plesk more.
If you are just looking for a reliable control panel that makes the use of features as easy and fast as possible for you, the odds are that cPanel will be your best option.]]></description>
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	<title>Reseller Hosting: How to Earn good Money</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:46:50 -0600</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[What is reseller hosting? The main idea of reseller hosting is to be a web host who sells reseller web hosting to other (usually smaller) web hosting businesses. Reseller hosting accounts are also used by webmasters who operate more than one website. Lately reseller business prospers, because more people want to be online with their own website and their own domain. For many a hobby turns into a (part-time) business. So, there is a steady stream of people needing more than just a single domain web hosting account. 


    
        
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There are two types of reseller hosting. 
1)&nbsp;Traditional reseller hosting 2)&nbsp;Private label hosting 
Traditional (bulk) reseller hosting is like a wholesale business. The reseller host buys in bulk aka an entire web server and splits it into small, but medium sized chunks. A smaller web host buys one of these chunks (reseller accounts) and populates it with single domain accounts of normal consumers. The benefit for the reseller host is that he has only to support one customer while the smaller web host deals with each singe domain customer. The smaller web host who buys the reseller account has the advantage not to worry about the technical side of the business as the reseller web host is responsible for the server health and maintenance. 
Private label reselling is a step on top of traditional reseller hosting. With traditional reseller hosting the reseller host?s identity is not hidden. Everyone can easily identify the real web host. With private label the identity of the reseller host is hidden and the reseller (smaller web host) appears to be owner of the server. This tactic is often used/needed/required to make a different impression marketing-wise. Many consumers do not want to deal with small web hosting businesses. Web hosting businesses know this and disguise the fact that they are using a reseller account.
So, where is the money in reseller hosting? Is it on the side of the reseller host/server owner or is it on the side of the smaller web host? It depends on the business model and overall pricing scheme on both sides. For the actual reseller host the bigger profits come in when the cost for system administration and co-location are spread out across more servers. For the smaller web host the big profits (on a smaller scale though) come in if he can add as many single domain accounts onto a single reseller account. Hereby is to consider that if the smaller web host aims at the bottom end of the market in regards to price, it is much more difficult to become profitable. I have been able to use a $35/month reseller account and load it up with 8 single domain customer accounts paying me a combined $320.00 per month. And I am sure that this is by far not a record.]]></description>
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	<title>Be Wary of Misinformation When Choosing a Host</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:45:53 -0600</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Any smart Web hosting customer is going to do a fair bit of shopping around before they make their decision; it's just too easy to do with most of that shopping taking place online. But when researching your purchase, it can be difficult for a hosting customer to distinguish the real, valuable information from the biased, unreliable or even outright incorrect.


    
        
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Most shoppers would understandably start with a Google search, but a simple unspecific search for &quot;Web hosting&quot; turns up all kind of sources for information: paid Google listings, regular search rankings (the high ones all generated by concentrated SEO campaigns), links to hosting &quot;review&quot; sites and links to commentary in other venues such as hosting-related forums.
While once upon a time paid search listings were a questionable resource, they have evolved into a very reliable means for searchers to find what they need. Particularly in a category with high PPC rates, such as Web hosting, high paid positioning has become almost a badge of legitimacy. At the very least, it's an indication that a company is willing to spend dozens of dollars per click just to attract prospective customers.&nbsp; At the very least, it's a definite indication that your business is valuable to them, and that they have a budget to spend on ads. Paid Google ads are actually a great place to start.
Further research into a company you've taken an interest in may turn up long negative message board threads or &quot;Ihatecompany.com&quot; or &quot;companysucks.com&quot; type sites. Those can be valuable indicators of the kind of troubles with service or reliability a company might have had and, in the case of message board threads, they can be a good indicator of how a company goes about dealing with those problems. But bear in mind that the upset customers are always going to be more vocal online than the satisfied ones. A company may have many satisfied customers and only a few unsatisfied, but the satisfied customers rarely take the time to seek out a venue to express that satisfaction.
The other side of that particular coin is the positive &quot;reviews&quot; to be found on many sites around the Internet. It's possible that there are altruistic people out there posting honest and objective reviews of Web hosting companies out there, but the business model for many of those sites is pay-for-placement, like Google's paid listings, but without the up-front integrity. And the widespread use of that business model makes it pretty impossible to distinguish which sites might be posting &quot;real&quot; reviews.
A good rule of thumb, when reading outside feedback on a Web hosting company, might be to assume that negative reviews are the vocal minority, while the positive reviews are more often than not paid for.
Rather than throw our hat into the biased/unbiased review arena, theWHIR offers an unranked and paid-for listing of hosting providers. Sort of the fundamentally unbiased &quot;yellow pages&quot; model hosting directory.
And our news, similarly unbiased, makes for a valuable resource in researching a hosting company.
Ultimately, you're going to have to do some of your own research. If you're interested, call a company's support line. Check out their response times for yourself. Talk to some of their other customers, and see if they're happy with the service.
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	<title>ADULT WEB HOSTS FOR NON-ADULT WEB SITES</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:45:07 -0600</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Selecting an adult host for your non-adult business is always an advantage, never a liability. This is because premium adult hosting firms specialize in providing the most secure, accessible and manageable hosting solutions available on the market today. This makes an adult host a good choice not only for porn developers, but also for the entire community of Internet professionals at large. 
Regular webmasters and system integrators demand the most reliable and robust network connectivity. Adult hosting services can provide because their infrastructure can accommodate the most demanding traffic and bandwidth consumption. Adult hosting firms are especially designed to support Web sites that constitute the fastest growing segment of the Internet today. Porn sites require the fastest servers and network connections because they are the most frequented area of the Internet. 
Maintaining such sites is demanding work, because of the technical expertise and large capital investments that are required. Most adult hosting firms are up to the job, since most invest their ever expanding resources in high-speed, redundant optical carrier links to the Internet, state-of-the-art Internet servers, and network equipment such as routers, hubs and switches. 
Most adult firms have more than five to 10 years of network engineering experience and are a good pick for regular business Web sites because of the awesome amount of features and functionality they provide. Focusing on the bleeding edge of Internet technology, most adult hosts provide the best in server and site uptime and availability; server access; custom application installation and support and security. 
Adult hosts are also recognized for their specialization in open systems such as Linux and FreeBSD and for their ability to host extremely complex Web sites with excellent technical support. 
Most adult hosts are more helpful than normal hosts because they realize in order to become strong Internet technology companies, they must help their customers transform the way they do business. 
By definition, adult hosting companies are experienced at assisting their customers in making a profit. The number one driving force in the adult Internet industry is making and increasing revenue. Hosting companies that target the adult industry make that possible by providing the very best technical environment possible for e-commerce. Because adult sites are purely e-commerce driven, they need optimal, reliable services that are always available. 
This makes adult hosting providers the best choice for any type of business. Since adult hosts specialize in building custom solutions, they can provide non-adult sites with solid turnkey e-commerce or streaming video solutions. Further, most adult hosts are extremely sensitive to the need of non-adult businesses and make arrangements to shield a non-adult site from equipment or bandwidth that is specifically used by adult sites. For these reasons, adult hosts should always be seriously considered for non-adult Web sites. 
Click here to find adult web hosting. ]]></description>
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	<title>Migrating Cpanel Servers</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:42:15 -0600</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Moving all the accounts between two Servers that host the same control panel is usually not a very difficult process.&nbsp; 

But like G.B. Shaw said,
&quot;If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas&quot;
This article is a different but successful way of migrating entire servers between two cpanel servers.
Scenario:
You need to move all domains from the present server to the new server. At the same time, you need the whole move done perfectly and with zero downtime for all domains. In addition, you need to move even your nameservers between two different datacenters. Its pretty complicated. 
Migration implementation
1. The nameservers and the domains TTL (Time To Live) needs to be reduced to, say between 30 minutes to 1 hour. This change has to be effected at least one week before the IP changes, as it needs time to propogate to the various ISP's all around the world. This ensures that the fresh zone files are loaded all around the world faster and that they access the old server for a shorter duration.
2. Accounts need to be moved to the new server. All information just prior to the IP changes of the client should not be lost and hence &quot;rsync&quot; is the needed just prior to the move.
3. The change over should have minimum impact in terms of site accesses becoming slow or mails being lost.
4. The new server needs to be setup and properly configured prior to the move and all necessary softwares need to be installed.
5. A study of the top 10 domains that use maximum softwares/resources on the server needs to be done. This way, once the move is done, they are checked to first ensure everything is working like ins the old server.
Nameserver TTL
Login to the cpanel WHM, 
&nbsp;http://oldserver.com:2086&nbsp;Username : root&nbsp;Password : &quot;your password&quot;
Then Go to the following link
&nbsp;Main --&gt; Server Configuration --&gt; Basic cPanel/WHM Setup
Set Domain Time to Live &amp; Nameserver Time to Live to 3600 seconds and save changes. 
Moving Accounts
Login to the WHM of the new server and go to
&nbsp;Main --&gt; Transfers --&gt; Copy multiple accounts from another server
Enter the old server's IP address, enter the password and click on &quot;grab account list&quot; 
This will give you a list of all the accounts on the old server. Select the accounts you need copied over and once completed, initiate the transfer. 
Once this transfer is completed, (it may take anywhere between 2-12 hours depending on connection speeds, server utilization, size of accounts being moved) only then should you close the window. Any connection breakup would mean you would need to terminate the copy on the new server and reinitiate the transfer again from the one where the connection broke. 
You will get a status report on all account moves that were successful. Accounts that have a &quot;-&quot; in their username is not accepted in the new cPanel taxonomy, so you would need to manually make changes and copy those accounts over on to the new server. 
Rsync
Once the account moves are done, the next thing would be that till the ip changes, nameserver changes are done for the accesses to be directed to the accounts on the new server, we would need to ensure that they are synchronized and no data is lost.
To rsync, follow these steps:
a) Setup ssh-key
b) rsync the folders /home , /var/cpanel , /var/lib/mysql , /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman, /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend , /etc/valiases , /etc/vdomainaliases , /etc/vfilters using the commands
&nbsp;for user in `cat /home/tomove`; do rsync -avuz -e ssh root@OLDSERVERIP:/home/$user/ /home/$user; done&nbsp;rsync -avuz -e ssh root@OLDserverIP:/var/cpanel&nbsp; /var/cpanel&nbsp;rsync -avuz -e ssh root@OLDserverIP:/var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql&nbsp;rsync -avuz -e ssh root@OLDserverIP:/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman&nbsp;rsync -avuz -e ssh root@OLDserverIP:/usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend&nbsp;rsync -avuz -e ssh root@OLDserverIP:/etc/valiases /etc/valiases&nbsp;rsync -avuz -e ssh root@OLDserverIP:/etc/vdomainaliases /etc/vdomainaliases&nbsp;rsync -avuz -e ssh root@OLDserverIP:/etc/vfilters /etc/vfilters
Fixing Databases
Once rsync is completed, you need to repair the mysql databases since they get corrupted.
By running /scripts/fixmysql on the new server and verifying if the databases are showing to be ok, you can ensure that there is no corruption in databases. Just run the following commands after going to /var/lib/mysql on the new server
&nbsp;/scripts/fixmysql;/usr/bin/mysql_fix_privilege_tables;/usr/bin/mysqlcheck -A --auto-repair;myisamchk -r -e ./*
Setting up Cron
You can setup Cron scheduler to repeat the rsync every couple of hours till the IP's on the old server are changed to that of new servers. This ensures minimum loss of data.
Changing IP on the OLD Server
Initially when you move accounts to the new server, you need to ensure they all use the same shared IP and we need to keep a list of the accounts that need unique IP. Once the account moves are completed, do the following steps on the old server:
Change the IP the zone files of the DNS on old server to new server. 
&nbsp;cd /var/named&nbsp;perl -pi.bak -e &quot;s/[oldip]/[newip]/g&quot; *.db
Next, do these steps: 
&nbsp;mv /etc/secondarymx /etc/secondarymx.orig&nbsp;mv /etc/localdomains /etc/secondarymx&nbsp;mv /etc/secondarymx.orig /etc/localdomains
This ensures that mails sent locally within the server as well as using forms, also go to the new server instead of being sent to the local mailboxes.
In 24 hours time, if everything is working fine and the accesses are moving to the new server, set the TTL and nameserver TTL on the new server to 14400 and you can shutdown the old server. Also you can change the IP's of dedicated IP clients to unique IP's and everything should work fine.
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	<title>Advantages to Hosted Email</title>
	<link>http://www.CyberStorageSolutions.com/info/Web-Hosting-Articles/Advantages-to-Hosted-Email.html</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:39:24 -0600</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[In an increasingly virtual world, both online and offline businesses are relying more and more on using email as their primary source of communication within the company as well as externally.

Service providers claim that when small and medium-size businesses move from POP3 and Web-based email to enhanced solutions that provide rich email services, mobile support and collaboration technologies, they gain new revenue opportunities while reducing the cost of operations. Experts say SMBs shouldn't have to deal with deploying complex in-house messaging systems and worry about the cost of spam management, virus prevention, storage and archiving and business compliance requirements.
One of the main advantages to a solution like hosted Microsoft Exchange, the hosted email service most often offered by service providers, is its mobile syncing capabilities, making Outlook email messages and attachments accessible from anywhere. The messaging solution also offers personal and shared calendars making it easy to locate co-workers, more efficiently plan meetings and create calendars for resources like conference rooms and audio-visual equipment.
Hosted email solutions also usually provide personal and shared address books to create global contact lists the entire organization can refer to and public folders to help with collaborative projects, standardization of formats or styles across the organization and save system storage capacity as well as reduce duplication of work.
According to experts, the main advantages of hosted email versus an in-house email solution is that it offers a huge mailbox capacity, the cost per user gets more and more attractive when applied to economies of scale, it offers a much faster rate of innovation and change, which means staying up-to-date with recent security measures and constantly evolving anti-spam technology and it guarantees higher-levels of uptime, all going towards making your business run more efficiently and cost-effectively overall.
While many hosting providers offer Hosted Exchange, there are alternatives such as the Open-Xchange Hosting Edition (open-xchange.com), which is Linux-based and provides an open source groupware solution offering email, calendar, contacts, tasks, bookmarks, knowledge base articles and shared documents via an AJAX user interface]]></description>
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	<title>Buying Ethical Web Hosting</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:37:06 -0600</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[There are a few obvious considerations when choosing a Web hosting provider&nbsp;- features and function, as well as price. But not every Web hosting product makes it possible for businesses to exercise their own standards of ethical conduct in making a purchasing decision. An ethical Web hosting solution is a prominent consideration for many businesses, though there is little official consensus on what exactly constitutes an ethical Web host or an ethical Web hosting solution.

For some, that distinction might best describe a Web host's attention to environmental issues. The ecological issue has become a major ethical concern, and a major marketing tactic, in Web hosting in recent months. Perhaps the best measure of an ethical Web host, the assurance of an environmentally friendly hosting service can refer to any of a variety of operational tactics. Hosts can use solar- or wind-generated energy to power their facilities; use newer-model, more energy-efficient server equipment; installing a &quot;green roof&quot; - a layer of dirt and vegetation that can reduce cooling and heating requirements; or even by buying credits to offset the carbon production caused by regular energy consumption.
Ethically speaking, the environmental consciousness of a host can be a point of contention. Some feel that terms like &quot;carbon neutral&quot; ought not be used to describe a hosting provider that buys carbon credits, or supports tree-planting efforts, to offset its carbon production. While tree planting is certainly a positive step, a true &quot;green host,&quot; according to some, is a provider that takes care to power its facilities entirely from renewable sources.
Through the prism of environmental issues, that debate raises the matter of truth in advertising, an important point in any discussion of ethical Web hosting. Some hosts claim to operate facilities they do not, or offer more resources than they are technically capable of providing. This is a gray area in hosting, a business that involves a great deal of private-label distribution of services. But there are certain obvious ethical lines that some Web hosts choose to cross.
Another measure of a Web host's ethics is its attention to the content on its servers. Some Web hosts are active in policing the content published to their servers, making sure nothing illegal is being distributed. Some even avoid hosting legal content they find objectionable (such as adult content). Others do a less-than-adequate job of making sure their machines are clean. And some hosts are known for turning a blind eye to illegal or objectionable content.
Finding an ethical Web host can be a difficult undertaking, but ultimately, a hosting company cannot escape its reputation. And a little bit of digging on your part should provide a good sense of that reputation.
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	<title>PowWeb</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 09:01:05 -0600</pubDate>
<category>Web Hosting Providers</category>
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	<title>EPOWHost.com</title>
	<link>http://www.CyberStorageSolutions.com/info/Web-Hosting-Providers/EPOWHost-com.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 08:44:51 -0600</pubDate>
<category>Web Hosting Providers</category>
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	<title>Web Hosting Provider Easy CGI Unveils Support For AJAX 1.0</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:32:25 -0700</pubDate>
<category>Web Hosting Articles</category>
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	<description><![CDATA[Easy CGI, a leading ASP.Net web hosting provider, has unveiled support for AJAX 1.0 on its shared hosting servers. This free framework is being added to Easy CGI 's already successful hosting plans, designed specifically for the developer community. ASP.Net AJAX gives customers the ability to create a new generation of more efficient and interactive web applications that are highly-personalized and work across the most popular browser platforms. This AJAX feature set offers additional ASP.NET controls for dynamic web based applications empowering customers and helping them leap to the next level of usability.&quot;With the addition of AJAX 1.0 to our list of supported technologies, we now give our clients the ability to take full advantage of all facets of ASP.net,&quot; says Dan Richfield of Easy CGI. &quot;This is another example of Easy CGI proactively providing the tools necessary to develop cutting-edge applications on the World Wide Web.&quot;Developers can now quickly create pages with rich, responsive UI and more efficient client-server communication by simply adding a few server controls to their pages. This new Web development technology from Microsoft integrates cross-browser client script libraries with the ASP.NET 2.0 development framework. ASP.NET AJAX provides developers building client-based web experiences with a familiar development process and programming model that they already know from using server-side ASP.NET development. Because ASP.NET AJAX is integrated with ASP.NET, developers have full access to the built-in ASP.NET 2.0 application services and the entire .NET Framework. Technical support for AJAX 1.0 is provided by Microsoft. To learn more about AJAX 1.0, visit http://ajax.asp.net.Easy CGI has been on the leading edge of the web hosting industry since 1994. Offering superior technology, cost effective, efficient solutions and exceptional customer service, Easy CGI's vision has made it the clear choice for over a decade. Additional news and information about the company is available at www.easycgi.com.]]></description>
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	<title>Finding a Home for Your Internet Enterprise - A Point by Point List</title>
	<link>http://www.CyberStorageSolutions.com/info/Web-Hosting-Articles/Finding-a-Home-for-Your-Internet-Enterprise---A-Point-by-Point-List.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:30:56 -0700</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[After much Net surfing and looking at all the offers you'vedecided to take the plunge! You've investigated a good namefor your idea. You've decided it's time to start searching for a home for your Internet vision. By golly, it's time to startyour own enterprise! You're tired of all the reading andresearch! You're ready to go mano-a-mano!
But,there are a million and one providers available! How do you choose? What should a first time entrepreneurget? Thankfully, there is a way to come upon a good choice!Read on and I'll explain what you should examine when makingyour selection.
The main thing to consider is what kind and how manydifferent services are you going to need. What do you think are the most basic things you want your website to do?Those are practical considerations since you don't want toleave out some essential service; all the same, you don'twant to buy more than what you really have to.
The general trend appears to be in favor of providers thatoffer many integrated services (built-in); it makes perfectsense getting all the services you'll need from onelocation. As an added bonus, it does make administration easier sinceyou don't have separate accounts to deal with. You'll alsosave money because the packages are less expensive thanbuying extra services piecemeal.
You do have to be careful when choosing packages because youcould pay a high price for things your startup can't use orwon't need!The trick is to get all that you need and provide a littleroom for future expansion. When it comes to this buyingdecision, pricing - though always important - should be yourlast consideration.
Services, room for growth and price are the basic elementsof your purchase decision. Let's take a look at each one:
Services:
You don't want to skimp on this one! Think about all thatyou'll need and get it. Mainly, you'll need a way to billyour customers, track their interests and stay in touch withthem.
You have to make sure your provider offers all theservices you're going to need to process Credit Cards andemail. In particular, services related to initial customercontact and follow up with sequential emails. Another itemto consider is the ability to track your visitors and learnwhat their interests are!
You should look to get as many integrated services as you can.That's so important because it's VERY expensive to order themafter the fact.
Room for Growth:
If you think you'll ever branch out, this is something toconsider: Will you be able to create additional Internetaddresses linked to your main account, at no extra cost?Some providers allow you to take advantage of that feature;a point well worth considering for future expansion.
Pricing:
When considering how much to spend, you have to take intoaccount all of the above plus your financial situation. Only you know how much you can afford to pay.
Extra Considerations
Since only you know what kind of enterprise is going toanchor your initial Internet adventure, you should considerall aspects related to it. As an example, if you're going tooffer sound and streaming video to your customers, yourneeds should be met by a provider that has all the specificrequirements needed for those services.
Hosting AND a source of Income
There are some providers that will offer you discounts orfinancial incentives to bring in subscribers. A point toconsider because you get two birds with one stone: A homefor your enterprise and a way to make a steady monthlyincome from your referrals. I've heard some folks are makinga very good living doing that!
Hunting for a place to host your Internet venture is a bigdecision that will affect your entire Web operation. You should take your time and consider all the angles.It's something so basic! Making the right choices will makeyour first Internet presence a streamlined and productiveaffair.]]></description>
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	<title>Web Hosting and Development</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:29:52 -0700</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[If you've ever browsed the World Wide Web and wondered how you could stake your claim on the Internet, like the millions of others that have done so already, then web hosting can provide you with the services to do just that. The Internet is a great way of sharing information and it is possible for you to take a portion of the web and make it your own. This article introduces the term &quot;web hosting&quot; and provides some useful tips for web development once you've obtained some web space.
What is the World Wide Web?The &quot;World Wide Web&quot; is the network of computers from all over the world that communicate with each other using the HTTP protocol, a language that allows the transmission of web documents. Be careful as this term is not synonymous with the &quot;Internet&quot; because it is defined as a network of networks, where the computers communicate with protocols other than HTTP. The web is what you see on your Internet browser, the web pages complete with graphics, sound and other information. All this has got to come from somewhere, and this is where web hosting comes in.
Web HostingThe information that you see from your web browser is contained in web pages. These web pages are kept on computers called web servers. Web hosting is about the storage of the web pages so that people can access them. It is possible to host your own websites yourself but the reasons stopping most people doing this is that there are issues to consider with having the right hardware and software to successfully host your web pages. Your web pages will take a certain amount of space, users will need to download each page to view them and your Internet connection needs to be fast to offer good performance to your viewers. Using specialised companies that offer web hosting capabilities on their web servers will take most of these worries away from you but you will need to choose wisely and weigh up the costs and your needs. In addition to having access to a web server, you will also need to register a domain name (for a cost) that uniquely identifies your website.
What Web Hosting Can Do For YouThe most basic service that web hosting offers is that it exposes your web pages for others to see. The other services are: email capabilities that allow for email to be received and sent from your server; database capabilities that allow for large amounts of information to be updated and accessed on the web; and dynamic content which allows for users to interact with the web pages you've made.
Website DevelopmentPoorly designed websites will most likely turn away users and harm the credibility of the information it contains. Thought should be put in on the way it looks and the way you intend your users to interact with the content. It is also recommended for more complex websites, a structured development process should be followed. Here is a guide to the logical steps of web development:&middot; Requirements Analysis: What is the purpose of the website? What content should it contain?&middot; Design: How should the pages be linked? What structure should they take? How should the pages interact with the user?&middot; Implementation: This step is the actual coding of the websites in accordance to the previous websites.&middot; Testing: Does the website do what it should?&middot; Maintenance: Is the information on the website up-to-date?
Some useful hints for web development below are taken from software quality aspects but they apply to the development of websites as well. They are described in terms of web development:
Reliability: Is the website reliable? Do faults allow for the system to continue running?Robustness: How does the website respond to incorrect input?Performance: How fast does the web page respond to user's actions? Is it efficient in processing requests and inputs?Usability: Is the website easy to navigate and understand?Maintainability: Is the website easy to change? Can new functionality be added?Portability: What software requirements does the website require? Will this limit the amount of potential users?Understandability: How well do you understand the website you've developed?
When designing your website, keep these quality aspects in mind as they will help you develop pages worth visiting. How to choose the way to host your website is half of the problem, the other half is to create a website that people would want to visit and come back to. Knowledge of producing a good design can help you get the most out of your creations.]]></description>
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	<title>Effectiveness of Web Hosting Directories (WHDs)</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:53:02 -0700</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[John is very happy today, for the first time in his life he has created his very own website. Now he is looking for a web host so that he can put his identity on the net. Casually he asks his friend Mac about it. Mac tells him that web-hosting directories are the best place to look for a web host. Getting curious John then asks Mac what exactly a Web Hosting Directory is. Mac responds that web hosting directories are a web hosting marketplace where prospective hosts list their products, plans, prices and other important information so that according to their requirements, customers can choose a suitable plan. Along with the details, it also contains web hosts' rankings. John is now extremely happy as his dream is finally going to come to fruition. Like John, there are many beginners who are in search of a reliable web host and come across web hosting directories. Here a new question arises: Are these web hosting directories really trustworthy sources for novices like John? To find an answer it's very important to understand the working of WHDs.
Basically web-hosting directories are of two types: paid WHDs and free WHDs. For paid directories, either web hosts pay a set amount for placing their banners on the site, or they pay commission if they get customers via that medium. On the other hand, free WHDs like www.askwebhosting.com and www.hostbyte.com etc. web hosts list their services without paying any fees.
Some people believe that paid WHDs are very easy to manipulate as the ranking of web hosts can be changed in unfair ways. Others have the view that WHDs that are actually free reflect the true ranking of web hosts companies. Whatever the case may be, paid or free, people should believe the web hosts rankings only if they are based completely on votes of customers who have actually given their remarks and have left their website address as well.
It is not possible for any web hosting company to have 100% positive reviews. It is also observed that at times customers who are satisfied with their web host forget to express their opinion about that host. However, a biased customer who is not satisfied with their web host does not forget to mention their opinion of that web host. This implies that a negative review doesn't always reflect the true picture of a web host company.
No doubt web hosting directories are very useful if the newbie like John wants to compare prices and features of different companies. But, when it comes to choosing a web host he/she should make an intelligent choice by referring to other resource sites (forums etc.) as well.]]></description>
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	<title>Web Hosting: Which Is The Host With The Most?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:52:06 -0700</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[So you want to publish a web site do you? Welcome to the club. These days it seems that almost everyone has a web site of some kind, and thousands more continue to be launched every day. It's challenging enough to design a site and fill it with interesting content, but when all is said and done another challenge still remains - where to host it?
A popular choice for newbie webmasters, and even experienced ones, is to secure a free hosting plan with a company such as Yahoo! Geocities, Tripod or Angelfire. While these are easy to setup and free of charge, they do have limitations. Most free hosts don't offer all the nice features that paid hosts do such as FTP access, CGI-BIN, or your own personal domain name. Instead you're stuck with minimal features and a generic URL such as www.freewebhost.com/marcswebsite. This somewhat limits your web site's potential. Most free hosts also require you to run banners or pop-up ads on your web site to make it worth their while - these banners and pop-ups can obstruct the view of your web page and ultimately annoy visitors and drive them away. Lastly, most free hosts have a daily bandwidth limit that is very small, so if you do get a lot of traffic you'll most likely exceed the allotted bandwidth and your site will be temporarily disabled. Overall I would recommend free web hosts for people that are new to web hosting and want to get a feel for how it works. I'd also recommend them for web sites that are personal in nature (such as an online journal) as well as web sites that don't plan to generate any revenue. Free web hosts are a great stepping stone to paid web hosts - I myself starting building web sites 4 years ago using free hosts, and today I run several high traffic web sites that are hosted on paid web hosting plans.
Now it's time to get into the good stuff - paid web hosting. Web hosting companies that charge money for their services are plentiful on the Internet, and feature a wide array of hosting packages at various price points. First we begin with so called &quot;budget&quot; web hosts, who claim to offer you the world for only $1 per month. Having used numerous such companies I feel I must tell you to proceed with caution here, as these companies aren't all that they are cracked up to be. Many claim to offer 24/7 e-mail support, which in my experience turned out to be 0/0 e-mail support. My e-mails were either never answered or answered a week after I sent them. Even when I got a response it was generic in nature and completely unhelpful. Also, expect frequent outages with these budget web hosts as they rarely even have their own web servers - often they are reselling space on someone else's web servers over which they have no control. One budget web host I used went down unexpectedly for 6 days, and they didn't even bother to notify their customers. As a result, my web site was down for 6 days and I lost most of my visitors as well as my hard-earned search engine rankings. Lesson learned: if the reliability and success of your web site is important to you, budget web hosting might not be the answer. However, this is not to say that all budget web hosts are bad - 1dollarhosting.com is one of the leaders in the budget web hosting arena and has quite a good reputation.
The next type of paid web host is what I refer to as a &quot;mid-range&quot; web host, meaning that they offer prices and service that will satisfy the majority of web sites out there. Mid-range web hosts like PowWeb, Your-Site.com and iPowerWeb offer packages ranging from $5 to $8 per month and provide the tools that most webmasters will need to run a web site, such as: CGI-BIN, tons of e-mail addresses, FTP support, visitor statistics and more. These hosts do have monthly bandwidth limits, but the limits are quite high, and most web sites will never reach them. However, if your web site features hundreds of file downloads and gets decent traffic you may be shocked at how soon you'll reach those bandwidth limits. When you do, your site may be temporarily shut down or you'll have to pay bandwidth overage charges, which can get pricey. Overall though, mid-range web hosts will be satisfactory for 90% of the web sites out there, and generally offer excellent uptime/reliability. In fact, many web-based businesses are successfully run using a mid-range web host. However, as mentioned previously, web sites that offer large files for download or sites that get a huge amount of traffic may find that a mid-range host doesn't quite suit their needs. These types of web sites may require &quot;high-end&quot; web hosting solutions, the next topic in our discussion.
High-end web hosts typically service web sites that are extremely popular, have a high amount of traffic, and/or require pretty much 100% uptime. Most businesses rely on high-end web hosts to host their web sites. Rackspace.com is an example of a well known high-end web hosting company. Pricing for high-end hosts varies, but typically runs from about $50 per month to several hundred dollars per month. Many high-end hosts give you your own dedicated server (which they support) that is reserved just for you and your web site. The mid-range hosts I discussed earlier typically host many different web sites on the same server - this is known as &quot;shared&quot; hosting. High-end web hosts offer stellar reliability, bandwidth, and just about every tool you'll ever need to run a successful web site. Another feature that some high-end web hosts provide is &quot;co-location&quot; hosting. In this scenario, YOU configure and provide the web server, but you get to plug it into their data center/network. This can be very nice because their data center usually has a fiber-optic connection directly to the Internet, offering blazing bandwidth and stellar reliability. People who run web-based businesses or extremely popular, high traffic web sites are good candidates for high-end web hosting.
Hopefully this brief overview gives you a good picture of the various types of web hosts that exist, and which one might be right for you. When you begin your search for a web host, always keep in mind the old adage &quot;You get what you pay for&quot; because it really does hold true in this case. Before you make the commitment to host a web site be sure to take some time and analyze what you want out of the web site, and decide which factors are most important to its success. Answering these questions will get you many steps closer to choosing the web host that's right for you.]]></description>
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	<title>A Simple Guide to Web Hosting</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:51:08 -0700</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Personal Computers, Servers Or ISP?
You need a server to host your site so that it can be viewed over the internet. This server can either be an Internet Service Provider or of your own. Most websites are hosted by an Internet Service Provider because they can provide powerful server hardware, high speed connections and reliable server support.
Most providers have very fast connections to the Internet such as a full T3 fiber-optic (45 Megabytes per second) connections which is about 1000 high speed (56 Kilobytes per second) modems combined.
For those who are looking to set up their own servers and host their own websites, a personal computer is often not powerful enough to do the job. As the name suggests, a personal computer can hardly handle multiple visitors to your website- servers are needed to handle these visitors simultaneously.
Getting Your Web Hosting
There are thousands of companies that offer web hosting for your website. Which to choose and what to look out for? With the multitude of features and terms in each hosting plan, it can be puzzling for those who are just starting out. The golden rule in choosing your website: Nothing beats reliable web hosting. Many web hosting plans offer more space, more benefits than others. The decision to your web hosting should be based on reliability. We have seen too many disappointed website owners who chose benefits and space over reliability.]]></description>
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	<title>HOSTMEFORLESS</title>
	<link>http://www.CyberStorageSolutions.com/info/Web-Hosting-Providers/HOSTMEFORLESS.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:49:26 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Dinohost</title>
	<link>http://www.CyberStorageSolutions.com/info/Web-Hosting-Providers/Dinohost.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:47:04 -0700</pubDate>
<category>Web Hosting Providers</category>
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	<title>LowerCostWebHosting.com</title>
	<link>http://www.CyberStorageSolutions.com/info/Web-Hosting-Providers/LowerCostWebHosting-com.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:45:50 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>IMHosted</title>
	<link>http://www.CyberStorageSolutions.com/info/Web-Hosting-Providers/IMHosted.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:43:33 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>FINEWEBHOST</title>
	<link>http://www.CyberStorageSolutions.com/info/Web-Hosting-Providers/FINEWEBHOST.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:41:59 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Site Phase</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:40:25 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>WestHost.com</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:36:06 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Net-Trend.com</title>
	<link>http://www.CyberStorageSolutions.com/info/Web-Hosting-Providers/Net-Trend-com.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:33:40 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>FastNext Servers</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:30:01 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>OXADO</title>
	<link>http://www.CyberStorageSolutions.com/info/Web-Hosting-Articles/OXADO.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 06:52:55 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Criteria of Choosing an Ideal Web Hosting Company</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:30:55 -0700</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Before we talk about what it takes to be a cheap and good quality web host, let's  get to the fundamental first.
What is a Web Host?   A web host is a service provider that places your web site on a computer which    is connected to the internet. The term for this 'computer' is called a server.  
A web hosting provider will typically have a fast connection to the Internet    and they may host thousands of web sites on many servers. The web host essentially    rents out space to you so that you can get your website up on the world wide    web. 
With a well-managed web host, you can free yourself from worrying the up-keep    of complicated server technology and proper technical maintenance. That's the    whole purpose of the web hosting companies. You should leave the technical work    to web hosting professional while you focus on your own internet business. 
Let's begin... 
Feature Offered   The features that web hosting companies are offering are getting quite standard    nowadays. 
The followings are some of the common features you'll see in most web hosting    plans: 

    Control Panel     Control Panel is an interface where you can access your site on the web server,      allowing you to set-up and subsequently update and customize your web site.      Though cPanel is by far the most popular control panel, some hosting providers      customize their own so that they can up-grade and expand it at will.
     Diskspace     A vast majority of sites that don't have tons of graphics, sound and video      clips or downloadable files easily fit in 50 MB of disk space. You should      always leave yourself some room for growth or check if the host has a bigger      plan in case you need to upgrade.
     Bandwidth     Bandwidth is the amount of data transmitted or received through a unit of      time. In web hosting, bandwidth is consumed when visitors make requests for      files on your web site and download them to their personal computers.
    Email Account     With POP3 email accounts you can check email from Outlook, Netscape Mail,      Eudora or any other Email software.
     Scripting language     As all our top 10 listings are using Unix and Linux platform, php, perl and      CGI are the languages we are talking about here. It is best to choose a host      that supports the latest version to maximize the latest web technologies for      the fee that you pay. 
    Database     If your web site is going to store a lot of data that should be dynamically      accessible (like user accounts, stock prices, maps, Interactive news, message      boards and forum etc.), you'll need to look for an account that offers a database.      MySQL is a powerful and most popular database program that runs on the Linux      operation system. It is able to handle million of entries all at once. Its      flexibility and speed allow you to also store logs and pictures. MySQL is      designed to scale well under heavy traffic conditions and is ideal for database-intensive      or e-commerce-enabled Web sites. 

Customer Service/Support No matter if you are an expert or a novice in web hosting, you need a web host  with good customer support system. What is the criteria of an excellent customer  support? Let us explain.

     How big is the knowledge base?      This is particularly important for those who want to search for quick answer      without seeking direct assistance from customer support staff. Due to the      huge database, normally it's searchable. Some web hosting providers will even      make your life easier by making a video tutorial guiding you step by step      in setting up your new account. Very useful for beginner.


    Responsive customer service staff.     If you are too lazy to find the answer out of a big pool of database, get      the direct answer from someone who knows it. Direct customer support comes      in a few forms.      a. Email support          b. Phone support: Normally, sales and technical support uses separate phone      line. A good phone support staff knows what your problem is and answers with      relevance.           c.Web Host like Lunarpages and Globat even have live chat support. However,      it's not how many support channels that are available but how responsive it      is of the staff. You can find out the hosting      reviews and ratings of each of our Top 10 Cheap Web Host. 

Price to Disk Space / Price to Bandwidth Ratio   Are you paying too much for your Web Hosting Plan?   Having done the research on hundreds of web hosting companies, in general, we've    come to this conclusion: the more disk space and bandwidth you are getting,    the more expensive is the monthly price. 
To help you understand which price is competitive enough for you to take up    the offer, we have categorized 5 different price range. For each price range,    a score of maximum of 10 is assigned. To understand the concept behind this,    please refer to the details here.
Popularity   A web host might have the best feature offered, unbeatable customer support    and reliability in place but without an effective marketing plan, it will go    bust too. Let's face it. If a web hosting provider does not have sufficient    members and steady growth of new members, it's very difficult to survive in    this highly competitive industry. 
We judge the popularity of a particular web hosting provider by looking at    the number of awards won, the reviews of other websites and the Alexa traffic    ranking.
All the hosting providers listed on our Top 10 Cheap Web Hosting Directory    are among the top 40,000 most visited websites in the world. 
Reliability, Speed and Uptime Guarantee    Nothing can hurt you more than this: your visitors come to your web site only    to find that it's not accessible. You lose credibility and possibly even a sale.    If your web host does not guarantee at least a 99% uptime, leave the web host    now! 
To ensure maximum uptime, installation of redundant back-up systems is essential.    Each web host has their own management systems to minimize downtime. &quot;Redundant&quot;    means that if any of the Internet connections get interrupted, the alternate    Internet connection will take over. 
We use Alertra software to monitor the uptime of each of our top 10 web hosts.
 As for speed, even though routing, web server set up and local area networks    play a part in determining the speed of a site, the main concern of how fast    your site is depends very much on the types of network connections.
 Many hosting providers still connect to the Internet through T1, or T3 connections.    This is not the case for our top 10 hosts- they are using OC (Optical Carrier)    lines.
 A T1 line will offer data transfer rate of 1.5 Mbps (megabits per second),    while a T3 line can supply data transfer rates of 43Mbps. OC-1 refers to a circuit    that transmits 51.85Mbps. Higher levels are multiples of that speed. Ultra-High    Speed OC3 and OC12 lines offers 155Mbps and 622Mbps respectively. Some hosting    providers have connections to major internet backbones at the speed of OC48    (2488Mbps) and OC96 (4976Mbps). ]]></description>
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	<title>Web Hosting Data Transfer: How Much Is Too Much?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:26:50 -0700</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Bandwidth in its simplest terms refers to the amount of data that flows across a network wire in a given time period. For most web hosting providers, that time period is measured in a month. Web hosting providers are charged a certain amount per month or per year for an allocated amount of bandwidth from backbone providers and wholesale data centers. That cost is then passed on to the consumer in the form of web hosting plans.
How much bandwidth will my website use?
With so much variation among web hosting companies, it can sometimes be difficult to know how much bandwidth your website will need. So, how much is a gigabyte of bandwidth anyway? Let's put it in perspective. If an average web page, images and all is 50 kilobytes in size, your website could be viewed 20,000 times! For the average hobby website, that is more than enough. Let's further put that 20,000 in perspective. If each visitor to your website viewed an average of 4 pages per month, it would still represent over 5,000 unique visitors to your website every month.
Beware of bandwidth usage when offering file downloads
While offering simple web pages doesn't use up much bandwidth, the same can't be said about downloading files. If you plan on allowing people to download music files, pdf files, flash files, or video files, you can eat up bandwidth in a hurry even with a relatively small number of people visiting your website. If your website offers an adobe .pdf file that is 1 megabyte in size, with one gigabyte of bandwidth, you will only be able to serve up one thousand downloads. This does not including the html needed to get people to download the pdf in the first place.
Video files eat up even more space. A one megabyte video file represents only seconds of video. For a half hour presentation, your video file could easily be over two hundred megabytes in size! At that size, one gigabyte would only allow you to offer five downloads to your visitors. What you plan to do with your website most definitely will affect how much monthly bandwidth you anticipate needing.
Overselling bandwidth is common in the web hosting industry
Because more people use only a fraction of their allotted bandwidth per month, most web hosting providers price their plans knowing that most people will only use a fraction of the resources available to them. In fact, with most companies, if you did use the maximum bandwidth available to you each month, you would most likely be shut down. If you go with a shared hosting account, your website can be hosted with hundreds or thousands of other websites. If your website starts to use a significant portion of the server's resources, you may find them pulling the plug on your website. If you know your website is going to need significant resources, you should probably consider getting yourself a dedicated server.
Knowing what you plan to do will allow you to know how much you need
By knowing what you plan to do with your hosting account, you can have a pretty good idea of how much bandwidth you're going to need. If you anticipate that you will be needing to serve lots of multimedia including video, music and large amounts of flash powered pages, you may need to consider going with a dedicated server. If your website is just starting out and you have little money and no real idea of how much bandwidth you're going to need, pick a company that gives you more than you think you'll need at a reasonable price. Make sure you also find out how much they will charge you for any bandwidth you use above and beyond what comes in your hosting package. If it is one dollar per megabyte and you've already exceeded a twenty gigabyte bandwidth limit, changes are, you'll get one hefty bill at the end of the month. When shopping around and looking at bandwidth, keep the overage cost in mind as well and you'll do fine.]]></description>
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	<title>Why Dedicated Hosting?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:25:32 -0700</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[If you're reading this article, you might be interested in getting a dedicated server, or simply learning more about dedicated hosting services.
First of all, please note, that a dedicated server is rather expensive service, and you shouldn't waste your money if you don't plan to use it in full measure.
But if you really have a serious website, and want to run a successful business - you cannot do it without a dedicated server.
Of course it's just mere words, so let's enumerate the facts!
Freedom and security
Dedicated server will give you a freedom. You will not need to share it with other websites. It will also give you additional 3rd party security for your site and emails. A dedicated server will allow you deep access to your server to configure and optimize your server anyway you need.You're able to choose the software to install.
Power and functionality
With a dedicated server you get on average 50-100 Gb of hard drive, plus about 1,000 Gb of data transfer. You may customize the configuration and choose any CPU, RAM, or whatever you need. A dedicated server reduces your dependency on the web host; and bypasses time delays and possible expenses incurred from these.
Respectability
You simply CAN NOT run a popular website on a shared hosting. It's not serious.
Summary
If your website turned into a popular and reliable resource; if you have tons of daily visitors; if you work B2B; if you need additional security and functionality, power and freedom - go ahead and buy a dedicated server. Don't be sorry about the money you spent! Think about the future!]]></description>
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	<title>How to Choose a Right Web Hosting Service?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:14:21 -0700</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Indeed, choosing a right web hosting service for your website is not an easy task especially when there are thousands of web hosting providers all offering almost identical web hosting packages. Therefore, it is important to know few major considerations even before you start your web hosting search. Below are three major criteria for web host seeker:
Web hosting features requirement
This is probably the most important consideration to start finding a host for your site. You need to decide the technical requirements for your website, this including:
a) Server platform and hardware requirementsIf you plan to set up a website that uses programming environments such as Active Server Pages (ASP), Visual Basic scripts, Cold Fusion or Microsoft Access or Microsoft SQL database, in this case, you will need to find a web hosting service that supports Windows platform such as Windows NT or Windows 2000 servers.
Likewise, if you plan to use programming languages such as Perl, CGI, SSI, PHP or mySQL database, then any web hosting plans that support Unix/Linux platform should be sufficient to meet your hosting requirements. Once you have these server platform and hardware requirements in mind, you can decide the best web hosting plans for your need. For more information, you can read &quot;How to select a web server and server platform?&quot;
b) Disk space &amp; Bandwidth requirementHere is another technical requirement that you need to consider before selecting a web hosting plan, i.e. disk space and bandwidth. If you intend to publish a website that does not have a lot of contents (meaning, web pages), then the disk space requirement may not be a big concern to you. In general, a disk space with 200MB to 500MB should be enough to meet your hosting requirement. In contrast, if you plan to host a website with enormous amount of graphic pictures, mp3 or video files, then you should consider a web hosting plan that provide huge disk space, for example, 500 MB to 1,000 MB.
Similarly, the bandwidth requirement will depend on your site traffic estimation. Obviously, a website that expect to attract high traffic will consume the monthly bandwidth allowance very fast. If so, you will need to find one web hosting service that offer huge bandwidth with 40 GB to 100 GB per month. Depending upon your website requirement, choosing a web hosting service that provide sufficient amount of disk space and bandwidth is crucial consideration to prevent paying extra costs in the future should you overuse the monthly disk space and bandwidth allowance.
c) Other hosting featuresWhile the above requirements are utmost important, there are other hosting features that you have to consider too. Can web hosting provider support video clips on your website, if you have? Is the web hosting service compatible with Dreamweaver or FrontPage web authoring tool? Do you plan to set up a virtual store online? Can the host support the e-commerce features without adding extra cost to your monthly payments? On top of that, you may also want to find out the number of email accounts provided, number of FTP accounts, web statistic software (analyze your web traffic), type of control panel supported (manage your web hosting account), database and scripting languages supported and etc.
Reliability and scalability
A first-class web hosting provider offers reliable server uptime and fast Internet connection. You should only choose a web hosting service that guarantee at least 99% server uptime with high-speed Internet backbones using at least OC3 (Optical Carrier) lines (155 Megabits per second) or above instead of T1 or T3 lines. A reliable web hosting provider usually invests heavily on their data center infrastructure with high performance servers, high speed multiple backbones providers with fail-over redundancy, backup power generators and firewall software protection in place to ensure they meet the uptime guarantee specified in the terms of service.
Similarly, you should choose a web hosting service with hardware facilities that designed for scalability, so that they can grow with your business. For example, if you need to increase more disk space, bandwidth or number of mySQL databases, you should be able to upgrade as needed without any problems.
Customer service and support
The last major consideration in choosing a web hosting service is to find a web hosting providers that offers excellent customer service and support. You should always search for a web hosting provider that offers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week technical support that fielded with highly experience technicians, so that any web hosting problems will be resolved within a reasonable amount of time. You may also want to consider to test how responsive is their customer support by sending few inquiry emails to the web hosting provider. In general, any response in less than 24 hours is considered acceptable. It is a sign of poor customer support if they take more than one day to response.
In addition, a web hosting provider with excellent support should also provide multiple support channels, such as toll-free phone support, 24/7 email support, live chat, online knowledgebase, Interactive flash tutorials and FAQ.
Above are few major considerations before you choose your web hosting service. In addition, how long has the web hosting provider in business and the number of customers that they currently have are also a good indication of the quality of their hosting products as well as the stability of the company. Even though cost of the web hosting service is also important but it should not be your major consideration. Because the price of a web hosting service has been declining over the years due to competition, as a result, the price of most of the web hosting services offering quality hosting features has been converging to less than US$10 per month. If you can't afford less than $10 per month, you probably isn't in the online business for the long haul. Therefore, price should not be a major deciding factor.
On the other hand, it is more important to ensure the web hosting service that you choose is able to meet your website hosting requirements, guarantee your website is always accessible with satisfying speed, provide scalability to grow and expand your website as well as offer excellent customer supports. Depending on your web hosting requirement, you can take advantage of our site, Cheap Web Hosting Review to find the recommended web hosting services that can match the three major criteria above. Good luck to your search.]]></description>
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	<title>How to Transfer Your Web Site to a New Web Hosting Service?</title>
	<link>http://www.CyberStorageSolutions.com/info/Web-Hosting-Articles/How-to-Transfer-Your-Web-Site-to-a-New-Web-Hosting-Service.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:09:23 -0700</pubDate>
<category>Web Hosting Articles</category>
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	<description><![CDATA[There are various reasons why an online business owner like you has decided to switch to a new web hosting providers. Your old web hosting provider probably has very poor technical support, or their web server is always down, or may be your old web hosting provider cannot meet your hosting requirements anymore or you could have discovered a cheaper web hosting service?and etc. Regardless of the reasons, now you have found a new web hosting service and you need to transfer your website from your current web host to the new web host. Below is the step-by-step guide that you can follow in order to achieve a painless and error free of moving to a new web hosting provider.
Transfer ScheduleIdeally, you should plan the transfer one month before you terminate your old web hosting plan in order to have sufficient time to perform a smooth transfer. Doing the transfer in less than one month time frame will put your website in risk of inaccessible.
New web hosting service registrationNow, sign-up your new web hosting service once you have decided the termination date mentioned above. Depending on your new web hosting provider, your new web hosting account usually will be set up within 24 hours.
Files BackupWhile waiting for your new web hosting account to be created, it is time to backup all your web files on the old web hosting provider. In most cases, you already have all the files of your website on your local computer. However, it is still a good idea to backup all your files from the old web server. In addition to the normal HTML files, you may need to backup any script files, databases files, and even server logs files if it is necessary. You should create a directory structure that is similar to the directory structure on your web server and download the files into the respective directory.
Files uploadingOnce you are notified that your new web hosting account has been created, you will receive a notification email from your new web hosting provider. In that email, it contains all the information required to set up website, this including the FTP server information. With that FTP information, you can now FTP to your new web hosting server and upload all your files. You should start by first creating the directory structures on the web server, and then upload all the files to the respective directory.
It is the time to install any script files or databases if there are used in your website. Likewise, it is a good time to set up all the email accounts through the administration panel.
Once you have finished uploading all the files and installed the script files or databases, you can now use the temporary URL to test your site. The temporary URL can be found in the notification email from your new web hosting provider. The temporary URL could be in the following format:http://viola.lunarpages.com/~your-webaccountname
TestingUsing the temporary URL directory, you can now test your web site online. Due to the fact that different web hosting server may require different server environment to execute. Therefore, you need to verify all the scripts (such as CGI, Perl) are working accordingly. In addition, you should test all the hyperlinks in the normal web pages if possible to ensure no broken links. While you are testing through the temporary URL directory, your website hosted on the old web hosting provider is continue operating.
Transfer domain nameOnce you have finished testing your new website on the temporary URL and verified it is working perfectly. The next step is to contact your current domain name registrar (i.e. the company where you register your domain name) to change the old DNS (Domain Name Server) to point to the new DNS of your new web hosting provider. Usually, the DNS information is sent to you through email after you register successful with the new web hosting provider. Alternatively, you will be able to find the DNS information from the website of your new hosting provider.
Domain name servers control how a domain name is resolved. Typically, the domain name servers are in following format:
NS1.YOUR-NEW-WEB-HOSTING.COM
NS2.YOUR-NEW-WEB-HOSTING.COM
Some domain name registrar requires the IP addresses of the DNS. In this case you have to provide the IP addresses of your new DNS. For example:
NS1: 216.193.194.212
NS2: 216.193.207.106
Typically, it will take about 24-72 hours to get the DNS record to change and propagate through all the WHOIS servers. You can use Whois tools on the Internet such as whois.com to monitor the status of the DNS transfer. Once the transfer is completed, you will notice the change to your new DNS. Alternatively, you can make a minor modification to your home page (for example, adding a new image or symbol) and upload to the new web hosting server. When you access your home page through the normal domain name (www.your-website.com) and you notice the new home page, then you are sure that the DNS has been transferred successfully.
Final TestingNow, your website on the new web hosting provider is officially transferred and online. You should repeat all the tests to ensure it is fully functional. Once you are confirmed the new website is working correctly, you can go ahead to terminate your old web hosting account.]]></description>
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	<title>A Beginners Guide to Web Hosting</title>
	<link>http://www.CyberStorageSolutions.com/info/Web-Hosting-Articles/A-Beginners-Guide-to-Web-Hosting.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:06:54 -0700</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[What is web hosting? Whenever you visit a website, what you see on your web browser is essentially just a web page that is downloaded from the web server onto your web browser. In general, a web site is made up of many web pages. And a web page is basically composed of texts and graphic images. All these web pages need to be stored on the web servers so that online users can visit your website.
Therefore, if you plan to own a new website, you will need to host your website on a web server. When your website goes live on the web server, online users can then browse your website on the Internet. Company that provides the web servers to host your website is called web hosting providers.
A well-established web hosting provider sometimes hosts up to thousands of websites. For example, iPowerWeb is a popular web hosting company that hosts more than 300,000 websites. For that reason, a web hosting company need many web servers (essentially, these are computers) to 'store' the website. And all these web servers are connected to the Internet through high speed Internet connection and housed in a physical building called 'data center'. In order to guarantee all the web servers are safe, secure and fully operational all time, a data center is a physically secure 24/7 environment with fire protection, HVAC temperature control, virus detections, computer data backup, redundant power backup and complete disaster recovery capabilities.
What are the different types of web hosting?There are different kinds of web hosting companies out there with different characteristics. The main types of web hosts can be organized into the following categories:
Shared Hosting
In shared hosting (also known as virtual web hosting), many websites are sharing the space on the same physical web servers. Depending on the web host, a physical web server can hosts a few hundred to even thousand of different websites at one time. You may wonder if a physical web server is shared by so many websites, will the performance of the web server deteriorate? In fact, web servers are usually equipped with high-end powerful computer, therefore it can support up to a certain number of websites without any problem. But when the web server is overloaded and exceeded the reasonable number of websites that it can support, then you will begin to experience a slower response from the web server.
However, a reputable and experience web hosting provider will constantly monitor the performance of the web server and will add new web servers when deem necessary without sacrificing the benefits of the website owners. Since a physical web server is shared (diskspace, computer processing power, bandwidth, memory) by many websites, the web hosting provider can therefore afford to offer a lower hosting price. For the same reason, websites on the shared hosting would have to accept slower server response time. Typically, shared hosting plans start at $5 - $20 per month.
Dedicated Hosting
In contrast to shared hosting, dedicated hosting assigned a specific web server to be used only by one customer. Since a dedicated web server is allocated to only a single customer, the customer has the option to host single/multiple web sites, modify the software configuration, handle greater site traffic and scale the bandwidth as necessary. Therefore, dedicated hosting commands a higher premium and typically starts at $50 per month and can range up to $200 - $500 per month. As a result, dedicated hosting is regularly used by high traffic and extremely important website.
Co-location hosting
In dedicated hosting, the web server belongs to the web hosting providers and customers only rent the web server during the hosting period. While in co-location hosting, the customer owns the web server hardware and only housed their web server within the web hosting provider's secure data center. In this way, the customer has full control over their web server and simultaneously benefit from the 24/7 server monitoring and maintenance provided by the secure data center. Depending on the monthly bandwidth and rack space required, typically co-location hosting range from $500 - $1000 per month.
Reseller hosting
In reseller hosting, a web hosting provider offers web server storage to third-party (i.e. reseller) at a discount price, who then resell the web server storage to their customers. Typically, resellers are web consultants including web designers, web developers, or system integration company who resell the web hosting as a add-on service to complement their other range of services. Commonly, resellers can receive up to 50 percent discount on the price of a hosting account from the web hosting provider. And resellers are allowed to decide its own pricing structure and even establish its own branding (in other words, reseller setup its web hosting company on the Internet and start selling web hosting plans under its brand).
To the reseller's customers, the reseller is the web host provider. In cases when technical problems such as server down and access problem arise, the resellers will have to correspond directly with the actual web host provider. Due to the communication process taken place between customer to reseller and from reseller to actual web host provider and back and forth, undoubtedly problems will take longer time to resolve. Unless you are running your own personal website or non-profit website and willing to take the risks of poor support from the reseller, reseller hosting is generally not a good option.
However, the web hosting market today is filled with resellers that sell lowest price web hosting plans. So, how do you tell between a genuine web hosting provider from a reseller? You don't judge by the availability of toll-free number alone because some web hosting providers even offer their resellers with their own toll-free number for co-branded technical support. When the reseller's customer calls the number for technical support, the web host uses the reseller's name so the customer thinks that the support is coming from the reseller directly. Likewise, don't be fooled by the professional designed website alone because it is extremely easy to create a professional looked business website nowadays.
In general, resellers can be distinguished from their hosting price and company information. In most cases, a genuine web hosting provider has solid company information such as iPowerWeb.com where they publish its financial background, offices and data centers. In contrast, resellers usually do not have solid company background (here is just an example out of thousands out there). Moreover, the hosting price by resellers is generally below $5 per month. So, why settle for resellers when you can find genuine web hosting providers offering superb quality web hosting at the hosting price ranging between $7 - $10.
Therefore, you should not strive to find the cheap web hosting companies without first considering the quality of the service and support provided. Don't expect to find any top-level support if you choose to pay only $2 or $3 per months for your web hosting plan. On the other hand, by paying just slightly more for your hosting plan, you can now discover a list of low cost yet high quality web hosting plans to host your important website. Look at our high quality and cheap web hosting review and recommendation at http://www.lowest-price-web-hosting.com/top5.shtml]]></description>
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	<title>Unlimited Wealth Creation Through Reseller Hosting</title>
	<link>http://www.CyberStorageSolutions.com/info/Web-Hosting-Articles/Unlimited-Wealth-Creation-Through-Reseller-Hosting.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:04:26 -0700</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Web hosting can be an exciting business start up for aspiring entrepreneurs. All you have to do to set up your business is become a hosting reseller, i.e., provide hosting facilities to website owners. Here as a business owner, you are buying space from a big hosting company, and redistributing the hosting space to other website owners.
Resellers are nothing but entrepreneurs acting as middlemen, offering you hosting services by leasing time and space from another Web host's server rather than owning their own. Most of the times, the quality of services offered by resellers are so good that consumers do not even have the idea that they are dealing with resellers who do not have servers of their own. Resellers, since they can pick and choose their servers, are basically in a position to provide the customers with the best of services.
Reseller hosting business can be quite a profit making venture once you understand the figures and profit margins involved. Let us go through them. One can buy around 1000 MB space from a major web host at a cost of $25 per month. This 1000 MB space that you now own can in turn be redistributed to site owners who need space for uploading their site. Here you can give about 25 MB space for around $5 per month. Which means your monthly income comes to around $200 when you sell 40 hosting packages. Want more. some hosts allow you to oversell the space and do not charge you extra unless the actual usage of your account exceeds 1000MB. It is seen that a typical user uses less than half of the allotted web space. which means you can double or even triple sell your quota and make unlimited wealth.
And mind well, this income is residual income. It will keep coming to you month after month, year after year. You do the work once. and get paid for it over and over. All you are doing is buying space from a major web hosting company and becoming a reseller host. Your efforts are focused towards selling hosting space and the rest is handled by your web host. Some of them even handle customer service to your customers for a nominal fee. which makes it even easier for you.
If this is not enough. you can earn additional residual incomes by adding recruiting more resellers through you. By doing this you will earn regular commissions on their monthly sales. isn't this smart business. The profit margins in the business of reseller hosting is quite good and you can start on this exciting business venture even if you do not have the required expertise and access to funds for setting up the required infrastructure. Strange as it might sound, there are also times where a reseller can also be more scalable than a typical hosting firm. A true Web host is limited by its hardware; if a client suddenly requires an upgrade the host is not prepared for, the only way the host will be able to satisfy the customer is by upgrading its hardware - expensive and time consuming for both sides. The reseller host, however, can simply choose to locate with a different Web host that will better suit the customer's needs.
Happy Wealth Creation!!!]]></description>
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	<title>Budget Web Hosting - Are They All Created Equal?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:03:27 -0700</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Choosing a budget web hosting company can be overwhelming. In fact, choosing any web hosting company can be a challenge due, in large part, to the fact that there are so many of them. Do a search for &quot;web hosting&quot; with the quotes around the keywords on Google, and it'll return over 5 million documents! That doesn't mean there are 5 million web hosting providers but there very well could be at least 1 million! That's a lot of web hosts. How can you choose one that meets your need?
What is Budget web hosting anyway?
Budget web hosting is generally defined as any hosting service that is below $10 per month. The budget comes from the low price. Now, most companies in the budget web hosting category only offer one year plans. Most budget web hosting companies however, will quote you the monthly fee you would pay if you divided the annual fee by 12 months. Keep that in mind when you are comparing one company with another. The other thing to look out for is the setup fee. Do they charge you a setup fee to get started?
Evaluate your general impression of the company.
The first place to start evaluating budget web hosting companies is their front page. Does their website give you a sense that they are professional? Is it easy to find all of the information you need? Take a look at their contact information. Do they list a physical address, an email address and a phone number to contact them? If they don't provide any contact details, that has to throw up a red flag. If you run into problems setting up your website, and you have no proper contact information, how are you going to get service from that company?
Do they have a toll free support number?
Does the budget web hosting company provide a toll free number for you to contact them? If they are based in Atlanta, Georgia and you are in Seattle, Washington, you don't want to be paying long distance to them if you need to get them on the phone about a concern you have. A toll free number also speaks to their willingness to deal openly and honestly with their customers.
What kind of guarantee do they offer?
Choose a budget web hosting company that offers a good guarantee. Most budget web hosting companies don't openly publish their satisfaction guarantees. If you have to look in their terms and services agreement to find out where they stand with regard to giving you back your money if you are not satisfied, you should look elsewhere.
What is the uptime guarantee of the site in question?
Uptime guarantee refers to the amount of time the server is live and serving your web pages. An uptime guarantee of 99% means that the host guarantees that their servers will be up and operational 99% of the time. Over the course of one year, 99% uptime would represent a downtime (the one percent) of around 87 hours in a year or an average of 7 hours per month. An uptime of 99.9% would involve only 8 hours of downtime for the entire year.
What kind of after sale support can you expect?
While there are many other factors you could consider, the final one I will deal with is after sale support. What kind of resources do they make available for you. Find out if the budget web hosting company offers free scripts. Do they have any marketing tools they can make available to you? What kind of support for setting up your account can you expect from the budget web hosting company? All of these factors must be taken into consideration.
Just because a company offers a budget web hosting service, doesn't mean you necessarily have to compromise on features, quality or service. All three will only be found, however, if you make sure to do your homework to find a budget web hosting company that is a good fit for you.]]></description>
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	<title>Choosing a Quality Web Host</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:49:51 -0700</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[If you are anything like me, you'd probably like to have a website on the Internet but you just have no idea how to go about it. All this talk of web hosting, bandwidth, disc space, and other jargon can cause one to say, &quot;This is too complicated and technical, I just wanted to have a place to put all of my favorite skateboarding photos, cool information on ramp designs, and the best places to skate!&quot; To get a website on the Web you have to go through a web host. The question is how do you find the web host for you?&nbsp;If you type 'web host' into your search engine like Google you will get thousands of sites. Hit on one of these and like any product on the market you will see all sorts of persuasive propaganda to incite you to use their company; that is if you can decipher any of the technical jargon that only computer-heads can comprehend. Some web hosts offer free business cards with an account; some probably offer free watches?like all consumer industries you the buyer must beware. &nbsp;I'm a writer so I'll use the analogy of a writer's journal. The journal I like must not be too big or small in book size. It also must have a good amount of space allocated to each day, again not a whole page but not just a few lines. Of course I also want it to be cheap but of a good quality that won't fall apart while I'm using it, and I hope it would last for posterity. I just want the diary, some nice pictures in it are O.K. but unnecessary especially if it adds to the price.&nbsp;It's the same with a web host and web site scenario. You want to get the right deal for you, enough space and enough access to the public that you wish to associate with. As a novice who doesn't understand all the jargon this can pose a problem. Are you an individual, small business, blog, or a big time corporation? What do you need and how do you get it?&nbsp;As far as I can tell the web hosting business is a lot like the fast food business. The big corporations have strict guidelines, will offer you special deals, and have monthly 'cheeseburger specials'. But, I've always been more interested in the 'Mom and Pop' small time diners who have that real caring human approach. You know you are a customer and a person, not just a number on a sales receipt. I believe the hosting companies are the same. &nbsp;A smaller hosting company will probably treat its users with more honest integrity as well as having more flexibility in dealing with your individual situation. They can often tailor web site packages to accommodate exactly what you are looking for as well as the ability to update them quickly when your needs change.&nbsp;My advice is to contact a few of the smaller companies. Look for ones with good reputations or just arbitrarily email them and compare results from different places. Which one do you feel most comfortable with? Go for it; ask as many questions as you can, see how the different hosts differ in their answers. Try one; if it doesn't work out try another, it's really easy to move around. Don't be afraid, you've got nothing to lose except the fear itself!]]></description>
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