The fact is, as powerful as dedicated server plans they are a lot like giving a nuclear weapon to a tank commander and then expecting it to be a sensible and useful weapon for that tank in a war situation – it is just plain overkill. That, and the fact that dedicated servers are so expensive, steer most people to VPS, but how does one find the right hosting plan?

The first thing to consider is the needs of the project as it is planned. Remember, when it comes to web sites they generally start out tiny and take a while to grow. Even if you end up needing dedicated hosting, you do not really need to start with it unless you just like spending money for the sake of. Be realistic about your needs and you often see that VPS hosting is a far more desirable solution which offers plenty of advantages aside from just cost. Also, be realistic about your own skills.

If you run a company that has a tech crew then make sure that they know how to do the server work that a non-VPS system would require of them. In most cases, a VPS solution is even what a very skilled person recommends despite how big their boss might foresee the web site being in the future. Be realistic about goals and also, remember that if your site grows so big that VPS hosting cannot meet all of its needs, upgrading is extremely simple. Now, once you have determined the actual reality of the project’s needs, it’s time to go into additional details.

Check the price. This seems obvious, but you need to know what happens beyond the monthly fee you pay if you end up going over your bandwidth and server usage allotments. Do you get billed at a super high rate? Figure this out up front and ask lots of questions. A company that is okay to answer your questions normally won’t balk later either when you have even bigger questions. Ask about tech support and what you do if you experience a problem. Find out the company’s reputation, if you can, from some of their other clients – you can ask them to put you in touch with those clients. Mostly, make sure they make you feel comfortable doing business with you because the right host is a business partnership that can last well over a decade.

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This does not mean that unmanaged users are adrift with no tech support if they ever run into problems; it is more of a question of how much freedom they would like in order to be able to do things by themselves without having to wait around.

Most people will have a preference, but it should be noted that unless one is very skilled not just with computers and the web, but the actual hosting side of things, it may be better to go with managed hosting solutions at first. The reason is that when you are running a web site, the last thing you want to do is encounter the fact that you are out of your league trying to keep your site afloat due to tech oriented details that you should have been able to get quick help for.

This is why managed VPS can cost a little bit more, too. It is a situation in which the user not only needs, but expects fast and efficient help when they need it with the admins or tech support crew taking care of everything for them. This is exactly why a great number of new web site masters will choose managed – they need the help to get their site off the ground and really see it succeed. They will do better with the level of help that gives them a little less control over every tiny detail because they are focused more on the content angle of their site rather than the myriad of tech details.

Those who are debating the question really need to ask themselves where their skills lie and if not their own skills, then what are the skills of those in their team? Be careful of the confident tech that says they believe in unmanaged VPS hosting as the best solution unless they can prove that they have handled these types of situations in the past in a profitable way. Many times, teams find out too late that their tech crew did not have the needed skills to get the job done in a sticky situation and the site, or worse yet multiple sites, end up suffering for it.

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There were always 2 things that made hosting multiple websites on a server a pain. One was leaving vast amounts of idle resources to guard against a single tenant from over-utilizing the shared resources. You always have to prepare for the worst – and leave idle resources sitting and waiting for something that may or may not happen. Very inefficient.

The other pain was keeping one website from causing problems and eating up server resources causing it to slow or worse, shutting down the server. This is common for shared hosting servers and happens for many reasons like:

• Traffic spikes – a mention on Reddit, Digg or Slashdot or another popular forum can send thousands of visitors to a website in minutes and overwhelm the server causing downtime.
• Inefficient coding – a single bug in one website’s code can use all CPU resources, no matter how powerful the server, and cause downtime.
• Denial Of Service attacks – hackers invade an insecure website and hog the server resources.

Those days are over. Now all CirtexHosting packages come with CloudLinux installed and Dedicated Server Hosting customers can also  request to have CloudLinux installed through our HostV brand.

CloudLinux uses Lightweight Virtual Environment (LVE) technology to isolate resources on the server. It prevents individual websites from using too many resources and slowing down other sites, provides better security, and protects servers from issues that drain resources.

The diagram shows a shared hosting server on the left running a standard OS. If one site or tenant were to experience an unpredictable demand, it will impact the other tenants of the same server. On the right, each tenant is wrapped in a lightweight virtual environment. If one tenant experiences a resource issue, no other site on the server will be impacted.

The technology provides better management of server populations and improves stability and can allow you to host twice as many accounts on one server. Not only that, CloudLinux is easy to deploy and manage since it is:

• Based on RedHat EL 5.x and interchangeable with CentOS 5.x which means no learning curve
• Works with all major control panels including cPanel and Plesk
• Compatible with major hosting technologies like Ksplice and R1Soft Backup
• Transparent to both the administrator and end user and requires virtually no overhead

If you want to deliver more stability and better uptime to your customers, take a look at CloudLinux today.

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A lot of people new to the hosting concept believe that they are going to need dedicated hosting right off the bat – they have huge dreams and they think that unless they opt for the biggest and the best they are not going to be able to get the most for their web site, but this is not at all the case. Even huge online web sites need time to grow so you really do have options in this respect and you want to be careful about making the decision since purchasing too much that you have to pay for month after month is just as bad as not getting enough power in your hosting plan and falling short of what you intend to do.

Let’s take a look at why people choose VPS hosting in the first place. VPS actually stands for Virtual Private Server and what it means is that the web hosting company has taken a massive server and divided it up into many smaller chunks so that they could then rent those out to people who do not need an entire server to accomplish the goals that they have set for their web site or fleet of web sites. Many people are shocked to learn that VPS hosting can handle a huge number of sites easily even though it cost far less than dedicated hosting.

VPS is also a lot more freeing than having to use shared hosting, though shared hosting is almost always cheaper because of its limitations. Still, those who have a lot of sites or who need a good bit of freedom to pull in traffic will almost always choose VPS. It offers a very close approximation of the power of a dedicated server, but with some very key differences that any web site owner should be aware of.

The main difference between VPS and dedicated hosting is going to be cost. It is far more expensive to have an entire server to yourself and if you can conceptualize exactly how much raw power a dedicated server can dole out, including the amount of traffic it can take, you will quickly see that very few businesses need this unless they are well into the millions of visitors each and every day with frequent spikes in there, as well. This is what dedicated hosting is for: total control over the server for those who have the skills to run such an operation. If this is you and you have a very serious web project you need hosting for then dedicated hosting is the only way to go.

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While there are plenty of other similar packages out there, what sets VideoWatch apart from the rest of the pack is its ability to implement far more than just a few social networking and video sharing gimmicks. High quality HD (Hi Def) video content is a possibility that you might want to explore if you want to give your visitors more than the standard video fare and the fact that you can choose exactly how and to whom this content is delivered gives you an additional level of control that ensures you won’t be giving away the very best of your content to users who don’t participate by adding back to the site. Plenty of advertising features from text to image ads help you earn a return on the investment you have put into creating and running your site so that you can give your users even more of what they are asking for. How will you know what they want? Well, that is simple, too, thanks to the AJAX commenting and response system that allows your visitors to let you know exactly what they like and do not like so you can respond accordingly and keep everyone happy to they keep on coming back. The extra modules and extensions you can add include everything from a phpBB3 full featured forum to support for the ever growing number of users who want to view your site on the go from the convenience of their iPhone or similar mobile device. In short, VideoWatch lets you build a video sharing social network web site that is going to keep your users fascinated for endless hours.

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Those who are looking for ways to promote a site, especially one geared towards reigning supreme in a given niche understand that it is going to take a special amount of flare with their marketing in order to get to this to happen. While videos and images can be excellent for SEO, with PHPMelody, you can actually offer articles that are quite excellent in terms of their SEO (Search Engine Optimization) power and will help you to continuously pull in traffic from all of the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo or Bing. This is going to make a huge difference for you because in order to reach a truly significant level of success you absolutely have to have traffic coming your way and that means that you really must be able to have the draw factor working in your favor to get people to come into the site and then stick around once they have arrived. Those who want to make a music site are going to be especially thrilled with what is being offered by PHPMelody because it was created by those who understand the needs of the music video fanbase. The videos run crisply and the fact that you can form an entire community around whatever type of content you want to offer makes it especially potent as a choice for setting up a niche site that is going to be remembered by those who visit it. For those who are serious about building a site that can rise above the rest, PHPMelody comes highly recommended.

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One of the new business models that are working extremely well for entertainment sites is the subscription model. While you can offer quite a bit for free to give your visitors a taste of what lies in store for them once they decide to join, the subscription model helps you keep your site going and builds an intense core user base that can take your site to the next level. A lot of sites are choosing this particular method and if they do not charge a direct subscription to everyone, then they sometimes offer free memberships to those users who contribute a significant amount of content that helps to improve the site and its draw for its target audience. Of course, advertising is still an effective way to raise funds for your web site and ClipCenter lets you do this in grand style, providing you with the ability to run everything from banner adds to preroll and postroll ads. There are so many different ways to run ads on a ClipCenter site that you would have to have a pretty tiny user base not to be able to generate some revenue from this particular method of raising money.

In the end, though, ClipCenter is a social networking platform on par with the best of the web today. Its features give you the ability to offer your users everything they might expect from a common brand site and offer them excellent value every single time they visit.

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Being a superstar of the adult community means staying on top of things and what we find out today is that users have a whole fleet of different expectations that must be met long before they decide to reach to down and pull out their wallet. The big sites like RedTube, YouPorn and plenty of others know that they have to have the kind of content that converts and that is exactly why they use a script to deliver their videos. They know that if you use a script like AVS you can have your users spend a lot less time fingering their mouse buttons and trying to decide if they want to subscribe to a site based on text. Video gets instant and impulsive results and that is what you need in this industry. You do not want the surfer wasting any time weighing options, you need to lure them in and covert the sale before they lose interest and go somewhere else. In adult, surfers have a whole lot of competition to choose from so those who are not up to snuff on the tech end of things are going to lose a very large percentage of their audience if they do not offer the kind of content that is going to keep them coming back for more. AVS gives you every single tool you need to be able to bring in those surfers, convert them and make yourself a very fine living while delivering the kind of content that you believe is best for your own business.

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While other web site owners are busy worrying over how they are going to keep up or even attempt to compete with what the big boys like Facebook and YouTube are offering the world, you could be installing PHPMotion and seeing how breezily simple it is to get it up and running. While the site’s interface is incredibly straight forward, you are going to be able to offer a good deal more than just videos. You can actually allow the videos your users or yourself upload to be set to public or private. This way you do not have to give away all the good stuff to those who are not contributing to your site’s growth. You can save that as a lure for those who take the time to upload what they have. This, combined with the fact that you can have gallery upon gallery of high quality photographs is the visual half of the equation. The other half is the ability to host and stream your own MP3’s. Those in the music loving niches will definitely enjoy being able to offer something like this, but there are plenty of other reasons why you might want the ability to offer audio. Anything instructional or how to oriented can do well with audio, but you can also provide ways for your users to speak their opinions when they might not be comfortable being recorded on video.

PHPMotion gives you unparalleled power to create a site that has a very powerful draw to your visitors. You can charge for memberships or keep the whole thing free and simply reward those who contribute the most. The choice really is yours and as a webmaster, that is the most important factor.

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The first feature that cannot be emphasized enough is that the developers of Vidiscript have taken the time to make the whole software package very highly SEO friendly. Search engine optimization is the core of web site promotion today and if you are using a software package which does not do this for you then hopefully you are quite the expert in this field because without a continuous flow of organic traffic from search engines such as Google or Bing, your site is not going to grow and may end up languishing as you lose enthusiasm. This is not a spot that any site owner can afford to be in. By choosing Vidiscript you give yourself a very strong chance of success because not only can your users find the site in the first place, the built in search features in the script’s coding allow them to locate the videos you offer extremely quickly so you do not have to worry about losing their interest when they can’t find what they want. When they do locate precisely what they have been looking for then it is going to be much easier to convince them to stick around because they know your site already has what they want and will most likely have more of that in the future. Your videos can have your own watermark just to make sure that your brand gets established in the minds of those in your audience.

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