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- Important points in your choice of a web hosting provider
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When it comes to choosing a Web hosting provider, one of the most important factors to consider is the level of customer service provided. While you should obviously make sure you get the features you need, and of course a great price, you also need to be assured that the company you select will partner with you for the long haul and be there whenever you have questions or concerns—be it midday or midnight. Below are some recommendations and insights on how to assess a Web host’s level of customer service and choose the right provider for your short- and long-term business needs.
Read more... - Should you hire a professional web design company
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Creating an appealing, functional, and effective Web site is much harder than it looks. It's not simply a matter of taking a company brochure or catalog, converting the text to HTML, and throwing in a few pictures (although many sites seem to have been created using this technique!).
A Web site is a 24-hour a day advertisement for your company and should be treated as such. You wouldn’t turn over the design of your next direct mail piece, newspaper ad, or TV commercial to an amateur, and the same should hold true for your Web site. Actually, more care should be given to your Web site considering the potential number of online viewers is much greater than the audience for any other communication medium. Read more... - Website Hosting Technical Support
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Tech support is there to help, right? The reality is, it depends. Learn some common misconceptions about tech support's responsibilities.
You've just gotten a new website hosting account. You're excited to begin your journey onto the web. You're a novice to all this "web stuff", but you're confident and brimming with enthusiasm. Into it you plunge, opening the design program your friend suggested and trying to create some pages. There's a problem, though, and you can't make the program work, and you're not actually building any pages. Well, time to call technical support at your brand new hosting company, right?
Your hosting is providing you the space on its servers to put this information, so shouldn't they be responsible for making sure you can actually make a website? Read more... - Unlimited Web Hosting Offers
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If you have been looking around for a web host, you probably already have seen some of these offers: Unlimited Data Transfer, Unlimited Bandwidth or Unlimited Disk Space. The truth is, these deals are not possible.
Unlimited data transfer, or some web hosts might say unlimited bandwidth, is not possible, because if a web host has a server that is connected at 1.544 Mbps (Megabits per second) the maximum amount of data transfer that can be received is * 465.9 GB (Gigabytes) per month. This is a lot more data transfer than most websites will need. However, it is limited to the 465.9 Gigabytes per month and there will be other websites on the server sharing the data transfer if you have a shared web hosting plan. Read more...
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With consolidation and price cuffing making services more affordable, the Web hosting market has changed dramatically over the years. Unfortunately it has also reduced the number of choices available to business consumers. Existing host providers need to “raise the bar” to be more competitive. Many are trying to do this by bundling services to keep generating revenue from their remaining customer base. In addition to providing rack space and managing servers and storage, many host service providers are also managing applications that run on their customers' Web sites. Growing competitive pressures are driving some host providers to make unrealistic promises. The need to stay in business and keep their customer base intact has driven them to overextend themselves in what they say they can deliver. Take for example Electronic Data Systems. In February they offered a service level agreement that promised 100 percent availability for Web sites and applications that EDS is hosting. That raises the bar pretty high and adds pressure to deliver. Another example of raising the bar too high is that some service providers often promise 99.99 percent uptime, which gives a cushion of about 53 minutes of “down time” a year when servers are shut down briefly for regularly scheduled maintenance. By touting 99.999 percent availability, it narrows the margin for error considerably. Business consumers need to be wary of such claims. Taking it one step further, promising 100 percent uptime seems to be over-reaching and is virtually impossible. Common sense dictates that anyone offering 100% availability doesn't leave much room for mistakes and disasters, especially these days when there are so many other issues for Webmasters to worry about. It’s a fact that Internet connections go down, Web sites become temporarily unavailable or fall prey to denial of service attacks and an errant Java script will crash a Web application. EDS seems to be hedging the uninterrupted claim by backing the offer with a "time-to-repair commitment as short as 15 minutes for fully redundant systems" and providing service credits that accumulate from the first minute of downtime. It’s only comforting if you're worried that the actual uptime might fall a little short of the 100 percent mark. When you see the words "fully redundant", a red flag should go up. What does it really mean? Does it mean that you have an extra hard drive mirroring your hard drive? Or does it mean that there is a third drive just for laughs? Maybe it means that there is an extra server mirroring your server, or an uninterruptible power supply backing up the electricity for the servers. The point is, ask yourself what it really means. Better yet, make sure you find out. With today’s economic slowdown, the Web hosting market has grown more competitive. It’s dog-eat-dog trying to gain and maintain business in this climate. Fewer companies are launching Web sites and many more are scaling back plans for multimedia Web casts and brand-building/bandwidth-hogging activities. The need for Host providers to focus on niche industries and promote unique capabilities to differentiate themselves from the pack has never been stronger. The claim of perfect uptime is one such strategy even though it may never be achievable.
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