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- Overselling Web Hosting
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Overselling is a big trend in the web-hosting world at the moment. It’s an easy way to get more out of your servers than normally is possible. The basic idea of overselling is that the majority of your clients are only going to use a fraction of the resources allocated to them so there’s going to be a lot of wasted bandwidth and space. Overselling involves taking a gamble and selling more than you can handle assuming that the unused resources will cover it. Read more...
- Choosing a Good Web Hosting Service
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Web hosting service is not a subject to take lightly. Choose the wrong web host and you can find yourself stuck in A Webmasters Nightmare on Dot Com Street. Months and even years of hard work can go down the tubes when your web site is faced with the inability to grow. The trick is to find a web hosting plan that will expand with your web site.
When you search for a hosting plan, be sure the web hosting servers are able to support the most common programming languages and features such as PHP, ASP, Java and CGI Pearl scripts. Even if you won't use them right away, having these options now can save you a ton of headaches later. At some point you'll likely want more than a static web site. Read more... - Factors in Choosing a Web Hosting Company
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When choosing a web hosting company there are a whole lot of different factors that should go into your decision making process. One of the biggest factors should be:
1. Phone support. Email support is nice, but email occasionally falls in between the virtual cracks. Getting someone on the phone when your site goes down can take a lot of mystery out of the entire process. A lot of the bigger web hosting companies offer toll free support and weekend hours to boot. Phone support is a great benefit for any web hosting client. Read more... - Keep your web host from costing you money
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Now that you’ve probably just spent hundreds of hours and possibly even thousands of dollars to build your web presence, one of the most important decisions you’ll make next is where to host your website.
Choosing a Platform
It may be true that Unix tends to be more reliable than NT, but it is even more true that any server when overloaded with sometimes 250+ web sites, like most web hosting companies do, will not be as stable as you need it to be. Don’t expect your site to incur 100% availability if you are on a shared virtual server. Read more...
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The Web keeps getting bigger, and as it grows, so too does the demand for hosting. When the industry first took hold, businesses were undecided between shared and dedicated server - but recent studies have shown that dedicated hosting is now the preferred choice, especially for SMEs. It is predicted that by 2004 the Web hosting industry will boom to $20 billion, up from last year's figure of approximately $2.5 billion. Most of this expansion is expected to come from small and medium-sized businesses as they launch their presence on the Web. Not surprisingly, hundreds of companies now offer dedicated Web hosting, and as costs come down, service continues to improve. Services that cost $400 a month in 1997 now cost less than $100 a month. And with an increasing amount of business from small and medium-sized operations, hosts can afford to drive down their prices; SMEs' network and storage requirements are usually much more modest than those of larger organizations. However, the SME market is not known for its loyalty, and with price as a major selling point, competition between hosts is likely to become very intense. Dedicated hosting offers several key advantages, with the main one of these being that the user has sole access to the server. This amounts to control over the server's usage, content, and - importantly - its security. According to service providers, dedicated servers may also offer superior power backup and better access to other connections. Finally, dedicated hosting provides the user with site management, e-mail, and VPNs. Because of the sheer size of the market, new developments occur almost daily. In the last quarter of 2000, HostPro consolidated its position by adding six major Web service providers to its client list. Web hosting giant Interliant also started off 2001 with a bang by launching the Miva Commerce Server, which allows users to manage their online stores through a standard Internet browser.With the competition heating up, it's a buyer's market. Dedicated hosting companies offer distinct advantages to their clients, but haven't yet managed to edge out shared Web hosting companies on the price front. At least in the short term, it seems like the real winner will be the consumer.
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