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Does Web Hosting Make a Great Article Subject?

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:04:41 +0000

Too Much Information

Upon further investigation it could be said that as far as there being enough information about Web Hosting, there is not. The subject covering Web Hosting is both extensive and interesting and of great enjoyment to many people. This is easily realized with a quick search of Google or Yahoo on the exact topic of Web Hosting or any of its’ other keywords surrounding the subject of Web Hosting. Whatever subject you are interested in, even if it is about Web Hosting or any other off shoot topics relating to Web Hosting, you will be sure to find an enthusiastic readership if you are just prepared to get writing and share your knowledge on your preferred topic even if it has nothing at all to do with Web Hosting.

Finally, in order to answer my initial question. “Does Web Hosting make a great article subject?” Then the answer would be an affirmatory ‘YES.’ Of course it does as does any other subject on any other topic imaginable.

The fact is there is almost endless ways someone might discuss Web Hosting withought sounding boring or loosing the readers interest. Seriously the government continually tell us all how to live and seem to make it sound like a great idea when they do, anyway thousands and sometimes millions believe them and follow what they say, right or wrong. Telling your readers about Web Hosting, Travel or even Websites if it is at all original and well presented and at the very least, with care and genuine interest of your own will continually make the subjects about Travel,.

Travel and even Web Hosting not only popular but much followed by a world that is in love with information about many things even on Web Hosting

Introduction to Web Hosting

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:04:59 +0000

It seems as if almost everyone has incorporated the internet as a part of their daily activities. People are frequently using the net to communicate, socialize, listen to music, download videos and a lot of stuff we would rather not discuss. As a modern-day freelance writer, the internet is something I just can’t be without. The popularity of this worldwide network has led to the emergence of several online markets and the web hosting business is thriving like no other. With more people looking to benefit from all the resources of the internet and World Wide Web be it for personal or business reasons, web hosting firms have been able to make out rather nicely.

What is Web Hosting?

Website or web hosting, is a service that allows you to have your very own website. How does it work? Well, you sign up with a web hosting provider and they allocate disk space among other resources, for you on a high-capacity computer, more commonly known as a web server. Hence the name, the web host’s server serves your website pages on the web, making them accessible to internet users throughout the world. Nearly every site on the web is being powered by one web hosting company or another.

Types of Web Hosting

There are many different types of web hosting available, each of which are geared towards businesses, webmasters and developers at varying levels. Some of the most popular types of web hosting including the following:

Shared Hosting

The most common type of web hosting, shared hosting describes a situation where you are literally sharing server space and various resources with other website owners. Simplicity and cost-efficiency has made this arrangement quite popular among individuals and small businesses.

Dedicated Hosting

More commonly termed as a dedicated server, dedicated web hosting refers to a situation where you have an entire server dedicated to your website or business. Server space and all resources are made exclusive to you, providing the utmost in control and flexibility.

Managed Hosting

Managed hosting generally refers to the full managing and servicing of a dedicated server. This may include server administration and database management among other services.

Reseller Hosting

Reseller hosting is a situation where you purchase server space and associated resources from a web hosting provider and then sell it to your own customers. A reseller essentially acts a middleman between the customer and the web hosting company.

As you can see, web hosting comes in a variety flavors and these are just a few of many. Narrowing them down and finding one that suits your needs isn’t always easy but one thing is for certain – with all the providers currently on the market, there is sure to be a host capable of meeting your needs.

Hostnexus : Complete Hosting Package Options

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:33:35 +0000

Nowadays, there are so many web hosting providers compete each other in provide web hosting service around the world. As we already know before, finding the best hosting package that suits your needs is not as easy as we think. We have to compare each plan provided by hosting providers, and deciding the most powerful one, the best service quality, the most complete specifications, and also the cheapest price.

Each web hosting provider has its own characteristics, which mean they can be the best at one point, but less in other point. Some might be good in Shared Hosting plan, while other leading in Reseller hosting plan or else. Sometimes, we only need a common shared hosting. It could be Linux, or perhaps Windows web hosting. Mostly the user for this kind of hosting plan is personal client. If you want to try our hand in the web hosting business, you can try some Reseller Hosting packages provide by well-known web hosting providers.

If you asked my opinion, I recommend you to try the service from hostnexus. They provide so many hosting options, and their overall service can be categorically almost perfect. Not just the common shared hosting or the simple blog hosting plan, but they also provide a wide range hosting service package, including Reseller (Linux and/or Windows Reseller Hosting), VPS Hosting, Coldfusion Hosting, Ruby on Rails Hosting, and Dedicated Hosting.

Web Hosting, Defined

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:04:23 +0000

Web hosting may be defined as renting space on a web server in its simplest form. One should keep in mind that a website is a collection of files linked together by HTML code to display text and graphics on a computer. However website is not complete here until and unless it is displayed on the net. To make it visible for the world it has to be housed on a computer somewhere that has access to the Internet. This is not possible by just a computer rather special device is required termed as web server. A web server may be defined as a computer set up with special software that allows it to receive requests from the internet for the website files it has stored on it and to send those files out over the internet so that the requesting computer can display them.

Web server in addition to making site visible performs several other functions as well like it provides the ability to create email addresses based on one’s domain name and even helps in sending and receiving emails with them. There are several types of software installed on the web server that allows one’s website to run programs, create and manage databases, display video, etc. One must note that almost any type of computer can function as a web server, but it’s the software that’s on it that makes it a server.

When one goes buying a web hosting, the monthly fees to be paid includes cost for maintenance and upgrading of the server’s hardware and software, the cost of keeping it online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in a secure data center with a fast and powerful internet connection, and cost of professional proving these services. It is surprising to know that it is possible to turn one’s home or office computer into a web server if one really desires, but it is just not economical. Therefore it is better to outsource it. There are several kinds of web hosting available which are discussed below:

Kinds of web hosting:

Shared Hosting – Through a shared server one can save a high amount. If one talks about the drawbacks then Spamming and blacklisting from different search engines are the key problems. Such problems arise due to the reason that several sites are assign to one particular IP address. One should demand for a separate IP address for his/her website (on additional monthly charges) to secure the user from such problems.

Dedicated Hosting –Dedicated servers are best for big, highly trafficked websites, which will require large amounts of server resources to run. One of the downsides to shared hosting is that the server’s resources are divided across all the sites it’s hosting and answering page requests for. If you are in a dedicated environment you can better monitor your server resources. The downside is that dedicated servers will run you generally $50 per month or more. Shared hosting can be purchased for as little as 5$ a month. Most small or medium sized businesses will have neither the website size or bandwidth requirements to make dedicated servers cost effective.

Server Co-Location – If one wants to have full control over every aspect of his/her web server, he/she might very well choose to buy one and maintain it himself/herself if he/she is having sufficient knowledge. Still there are possibilities that one is not having enough resources to keep his/her server completely safe from power outages, roof leaks, thieves, unwary employees and other problems and in addition it is not possible for him/her to keep it on the internet on a fast, high-bandwidth connection through out. Thus he/she needs a data center to provide those services for him/her.

Co-location is the center providing facilities like physical security on rental, continuous electrical power and a fast, reliable Internet connection for a server that one owns. However, the data center is not responsible for any of the hardware or software maintenance of a co-located server, rather user his/her self. Thus it is a cheaper alternative to dedicated hosting if one is having the necessary expertise and time to run a web server by own.

There are several web hosts offering UNIX hosting and Windows hosting.

UNIX Hosting

There are several web servers in the world running mostly on UNIX. UNIX is an operating system originally developed for servers and networking. Till now many different versions of UNIX have been written by programmers around the world under the open-source protocol, which means that the code for the operating system is openly available so as to enable programmers to customize and make improvements when and where necessary. The two most popular forms of UNIX are Linux and BSD that comes in several varieties, like Red Hat Linux, Debian, SuSE, and FreeBSD. The best part of UNIX is most of above mentioned versions can be obtained free of cost, making UNIX hosting cheaper for a web host in comparison to other operating systems. Other plus points of UNIX are that UNIX hosting platforms are generally considered to be stable, secure, powerful and fast. That is the reason why most web programming applications can be performed by software that is available for a UNIX platform.

Windows Hosting

Another very popular operating system developed by Microsoft is Windows operating system, Windows Server 2003. Like every thing useful it is having price and can be obtained by purchasing a license, which in turn increases the cost of operation for the web host and usually results in higher hosting prices. This is considered a negative point as compared to UNIX. Plus points of Windows include it is mainly user friendly however it is generally considered to be less powerful and secure than UNIX for operating in a network environment. There are several scripting languages like ASP, ASP.NET, and Cold Fusion, which will only run on a Windows server, as will the Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access database programs. Thus the above are some of the most popular scripts for certain web programming applications, and if one is thinking of using them while building his/her site, he/she will first definitely need to find a Windows host.

Before searching for a web host, it is essential to know some important terms used in hosting. They are discussed as under:

Storage or Disk space –As one’s website is a collection of files being offered on the Internet for viewing, it is necessary for storing them somewhere for retrieval and take up space. For each and every web server there is a limited amount of hard disk memory, which is divided up and offered to hosting customers. Different package levels are there, so as to enable to pay more for more space and vice versa divide specifically that space up. If one’s website expands its space then the user needs to buy extra space from the web host.

Bandwidth or Data Transfer –One of the crucial parts to verify is bandwidth. There are several sites, which loose their host due to excessive downloads causing budget going beyond their expectations. Occasionally, host even charges in hundreds of dollars for the additional bandwidth. One should confirm about this before dealing with any of the host. Usually, ideal-hosting providers deliver initial bandwidth of 25 to 50 GB to the users.

Uptime –It is a universal truth that if one talks about perfect web servers then they are the one, which would be up, and running and offering web pages to the world round the clock, whole year. But, it is also true that web servers are mere computers, and like any other computer, they may fail or needs repairing or updating. Often web hosts gives 99% uptime guarantee, and if they fail they refund a certain portion of user’s money depending on the amount of excess downtime they experienced.

Traffic Statistics – By traffic statistics we mean those programs that track visitors to one’s website. These programs are capable of telling how many times a user visited one site, how many visitors were unique and how many came back more than once, which pages were most popular, from where the visitors came to one’s site, what search terms they used in the search engines etc. In addition they offer several types of information which are useful for marketing one’s website to a target audience. There are several web hosts offering some sort of traffic statistics software with their hosting packages.

CGI Scripts – There are several web hosts offering a variety of free CGI scripts with their packages. CGI Scripts are the things like hit counters, guest books, form mail programs, message boards, and other programs that enable one website to perform commonly desired functions. Most CGI scripts are written in common programming languages like Perl, PHP or ASP.

Thus one should take care and keep all the above points in mind while selecting a web host.

Points to Consider While Selecting a Web Host Server

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:04:47 +0000

Managing a web server is in reality not a child’s play as it is a full time job, where one must constantly monitor its performance and security and it sounds, it is really exhausting task, especially if one is already having other responsibilities. There are several advantages like one no longer have to wait for technical support or approval to install a script onto the server. In addition, one can have as many websites and databases he/she requires but condition is, as long as his/her hardware can handle it. One no longer has to go into the discussion forums and search for the best web host. Over all one can even begin hosting family & friends personal websites. Thus after looking at these advantages it really sounds interesting. Isn’t? But wait just read more.

One should ask him/her self, how technically advanced he/she is? Quite often one needs not to be fully learned, but it’s necessary that he/she is possessing resources. One must know how to resolve issues and how to handle problems and that too quite quickly and efficiently. Thus it means it needs to be in real meaning Internet savvy. In this case just surfing wont help as one who surfs aimlessly wont be of any use, rather one who can always find what he/she is looking for is the right person. This is a main requirement, as with any server environment, one is going to run into problems and finding the answers are most consummate online, using multiple resources, search techniques, and engines. Now if one is sure that he/she can hire someone to fix one’s problems then too it’s not at all considered a best option to get done from anyone else. In next paragraph is the test to see if one is ready to find solutions. Requirement is of a solution to a Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Event Error – “Event ID: 1056” it’s a DHCP Server Error. Now how one would search for this?

In order to find the solution the first that one would take is to go to Google which can be seen as a good and a common effort also it is a good place to start, but usually it is best to start at the developers’ website. Thus in this case “microsoft.com” would have been the first option because Google would more than likely provide with the solution from Microsoft and other sources, but if one is not interested in getting inaccurate information from other sources, then surely he/she should choose going to Microsoft directly. It is a common practice to get information from Microsoft that not only helps resolving one’s problem, but also helps saving time. Now again one should search the error and should go to the Microsoft site and find the solution.

After going this one will find this link-http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx? Scid=KB; en-us; 282001 (Event ID 1056 is Logged after installing DHCP)

Now after seeing the above what search phrase should one use? The answer is Event ID: 1056, because the Event ID is the correct and most exact error; it helps in providing the exact solution for one’s problem without broadening the search. Sometimes it may happen that the error description is also appropriate to search, just the error description by itself or in combination with the Event ID. It all depends on one’s error, his/her search feedback, his/her ability, and last but not least technique. For the above discussed example error description is not included.

Now after Microsoft, the second option one should take is Google or Yahoo, which are considered as two largest search engines. Thereafter one should search other smaller and niche search engines and then the next one should search within forums and discussion groups. If one is well known of Internet and have a plentiful or few forums and discussion groups, which he/she uses quite frequently, then he/she should visit those places before visiting Google or Yahoo. One can also visit those before visiting the developer site since it is a trusted source, but its not very recommendable as going first to developers’ site would be considered as a best option. So now after knowing little about search engines and internet one can think of purchasing a server.

Choosing a good webhosting

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:14:15 +0000

In most cases, when you are looking for web hosting services, price comes first. It is however equally important that your web hosting plans suit your needs. With many organizations, firms and web users clamoring for web spaces, it is not difficult at all to find a web host that offers you services that you want. After all, competition has forced them to slash prices dramatically and at the same time offer services targeted at offering solutions to target clients. Depending on your web hosting plans, there are many things you will take into consideration when looking for a web host.

One of these is email accounts. In most organizations, there is a need to have many mailing facilities so that mail accounts are properly managed. Advanced web hosting services will usually offer unlimited email accounts. However, the limit on this is imposed by the amount of space available on the server. If you are going to have many departments each with its own or several email accounts, ensure that your web hosting services offer not only unlimited email accounts but also have some bit of extra space on the hosting server.

You may not have realized this but your web hosting plans should also take into consideration connectivity options to the internet and bandwidth usage. Well, what does this mean? Bandwidth is the amount of data that users transfer from your site. Every time people connect to your website, they are offered some bandwidth usage. This means that the more people connect and possibly download or upload content, the more strain it will put on your website. In fact, bandwidth usage is as important as the amount of disk space allocated for your web files in your web hosting plans.

Consider also customer support services offered. Sooner or later you may experience what most web owners get to experience once in a while, a website crash. This happens when your users cannot be able access your website, download or upload content or send you an email. In your web hosting plans, ensure that customer support services are included so that you do not have to experience long downturns while you try to resolve the problem yourself. There are many things to consider before web hosting and the above are just a tip of the iceberg. However, when you know what you want in your website, then you will find it much easier while shopping for a web host.

Can Web Hosting Reviews Be Trusted?

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:11:17 +0000

Some web hosting reviews do not even cover web hosting deals while there are others that do, but in the end the situation can still leave you confused and unsure of which host to choose regardless of what is actually in the reviews that are put forward.

Many people wonder whether there is a solution to this problem and the simple answer is that there is. You can figure out which companies are good and which are bad by focusing on the reviews themselves and determining which ones are genuine and which ones are simply sales pitches. This is easier said than done in the savvy world of cyberspace, but there are some tips below to help guide you through this process.

When considering web hosting reviews in detail (regardless of whether they are referring to web hosting deals specifically or just generally reviewing a particular host), the first thing that you should look at is the language. You should remember from school the difference between a report you gave that was well researched and thought out beforehand and a report you gave that was hurried and thrown together at the last minute. The former had a lot of specific information in it and really did a lot to cover the width and breadth of the situation while the latter generalized a number of things in the hope of glossing over details with smooth language.

This is exactly true for web hosting reviews online. The specific ones that give you information about the different areas of the host (i.e. web hosting deals, web hosting support, web hosting services etc.) are reviews that actually know what they are talking about while the ones that just give you generalized information that you could easily get by looking at the index page of the host website are nothing but sales hype. It can sometimes be difficult to distinguish between the two, but with enough practice and experience you will soon learn exactly how to tell them apart.

Another way to recognize the sincerity of web hosting reviews is to actually evaluate the accuracy of web hosting deals. The internet is a fast beast and change comes to its ways all the time. The various web hosting companies are consistently evaluating and changing their web hosting deals whenever those deals are found to be wanting in one way or another. The websites that are truly on the ball when it comes to web hosting reviews will recognize this and change their website frequently whereas the ones that just want to make a few affiliate commissions will not. Evaluating the accuracy and up-to-date nature of websites is a powerful method for evaluating their sincerity and therefore their trustworthiness.

Remember, even an affiliate site with earnest web hosting reviews can tell you which ones are good, while an informational site with a long list of web hosting deals and no updates is one that is clearly just trying to make a few sales.

Website architecture tutorial: 5 steps do design a website

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:16:57 +0000

What usually happens when someone starts to design a website is that you gather together some people from different areas (programmers, designers, salespeople, marketing, etc) and create a team in charge to come up with a website (an Intranet, a CRM or any other web based application). The meeting begins and everybody starts saying things they’d love the website to do:

SALES: “It’d be cool if the website sent an automated e-mail every time I need to visit a new customer”

FINANCE: ”It’d be great if I could have real time financial statements”

etc, etc.

With processes like that, companies usually end up losing focus on what’s really important for them. One single feature might end up consuming more programming resources than all the rest together, and if at the end it wasn’t so important… you just invested your limited resources inefficiently. Another possible outcome of website architecture like the one described above is that you might end up with a very complex and expensive application of which you just use 30-40% of its features…Well, You get the picture no? This way of coming up with a website is clearly inefficient.

The 5 step process proposed here is a simple, but organized procedure to be focused through the whole process and end up with a website or web application that addresses your needs. In some way or another we all do part of what’s described here, the only and most important thing to remember is just to be disciplined enough to stick to the process, step by step. You’ll feel the temptation to propose solutions or features from the beginning jump or skip one step, but if you don’t do it and stick to the whole tutorial, you’ll end up with a solution that answers you needs without overspending resources.

1. List the PROBLEMS that you want to solve and which GOALS you want to achieve with your website

Usually everybody jumps straight to layout decisions, functionalities without having clearly defined what are your goals, what problems are you trying to solve with your website. Having clearly defined problems and visible and measureable objectives is the key to stay focused through the whole design process. It’s very important that in this stage you:

Don’t propose solutions. Focus completely on defining the problems.

If you think of a cool feature or functionality, write it down in a piece of paper and set it aside until later in the process. This is not the time to think of solutions

Examples of PROBLEMS

I don’t know who my customers are

(for an Intranet) I can’t get company information in real time

Examples of OBJECTIVES

Decrease 10% in average marketing costs per sold item through online selling (vs traditional channels like retail and catalogue sales)

I want to increase awareness of my company in my potential market

Increase the satisfaction level of my Top 10% customers through better customer service

2. Define “WHAT” you need to do

Here the objective is to define in a bit more detail What does your website need to do in order to solve the problems listed in step 1. What is important here is Not to focus on HOW are you gonna do it, but to focus on detailing WHAT needs to be done.

Example

Step 1, Objective: Increase the daily average number of visits of my salesforce

Step 2, “What”: We need to create a web based calendar in our sales Intranet.

How you’ll do the calendar, which functionalities will it have and how the layout and colors will be DO NOT belong here at this point of the process. Remember: Just list what needs to be done, not how.

It’s also important NOT to list things to do that are not directly related to solve the problems (or the objectives) you defined in Step 1. This is how you identify and filter which functionalities you really need to do… and which others just “sound cool” or “would be nice to have” but aren’t really solving your central problems. After you finish the list, check one by one and think if what you’re proposing is really contributing to solve the problems/objectives mentioned in Step 1. If it’s not, erase it from the list.

It Solutions and Web Development in the Internet Industry

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:16:20 +0000

IT Solutions Primer

In the developing industry of the internet, people have learned and got accustomed to being reliant to the information that can usually be found in the internet today. Some of the most wanted information don’t come for free and so in order to be able to understand some of them, there will be times that a cash obligation comes around. This is true most of the time but with what the internet can offer for people who knows how to look for the perfect and free information, everything else is easy as pie. IT solutions speaking, there are a very wide variety of information and data sheets that sometime in order for you to arrive at will require the skill to look for them. They are important and they must be found so here are a few free shortcuts and features that you might be interested to have but only in terms of importance.

Computer Hardware and Software Tips

There is very big difference between a computer hardware and software tip. While software goes as the unseen and cannot-be-held physical component in the computing industry, the other is that which can be virtually hand held and determined in terms of specifics and standards that are set by their manufacturers. The use of software is an essential and integral part of a computer and therefore is always a must in order to run data or display one in the right platform.

Usually, software has tutorials and information like Linux Tutorials, MS DHCP servers, CSS, Microsoft, Windows and they mostly come with one as a guide for the users and they mostly coincide to be a requirement before you can use any hardware, otherwise, malfunction in the same hardware can take over anytime. Aside from this fact, hardware on the other hand is actually a helping aid for the computer so that things don’t get messed up forcing the virtual parts, especially the motherboard of the computer to function over an abused condition. In simple words, hardware helps the computer to lighten, ease out or even out the load and well distributes it into its own physical components like the mother board, video card, LAN card, sound card, memory and so on. When troubles occur by misuse of either component, the need for computer repair tips or the repair person gets in.

Web Development and Web Site Design

Web development is that part of the internet industry which is responsible for all the revolutionary changes that have happened in the past 10 years that contributed to the technology development at the same time. One aspect of the web development is the coming of the web design era which greatly helped a lot in improving the online business in a globally accepted standard that comply with the WWW or the world wide web standards or the W3C or the World Wide Web Consortium.

Web Site Designing and Development

Web design since then became a clear manifestation of the advancement and fast improvement of online business arising from the need to make quality businesses appear as professional as they can be with prospect clients as well as visitors who come using the internet. Today, there are so many standards that accompanied the improvement of web site design standards and I must admit that they aggressively helped a lot of webmasters develop their own set of visions by combining aesthetics with standards to form the best looking websites of today.

Computer Software and Hardware Repair Tips

Upon the development of the web and its corresponding major role players which are the software and hardware, the development and the need for the right knowledge that will handle all the right actions arise. What I am referring to is the need to cope up with the need to cut costs in case of problems with the use of a technology that enables qualified service men to make repair for certain problems that require software and hardware knowledge. Hence, the computer hardware and software repair came to the rescue and just in time for the pouring problems brought about by the aging technology which in the computing industry is fast as the lightning bolt.

Best Web Hosting

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:09:25 +0000

Web hosting is a business of the hosting service which allows all of us to host our own websites which can be accessed via the internet. The web hosting companies which provide space on a server which they themselves own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity in locations known as datacenters.

The servers on which these websites are hosted are high ended computers that have large spaced hard drives, or an array of hard drives. The speed is maintained by huge speed RAM and the space on the hard disk is shared among many different website owners, on the same server.

Each and every server running on the Internet has a unique numerical IP (Internet Protocol) address which resolve to the server at any time. For easiness to understand what web is hosting you can think of servers as different apartments on the same building with unique addresses for each of them. Each apartment within building is similar to the space given out for the rented space for the websites. The entire buildings also have a unique name just like the server name.

So when you order a space from the server, it is like you are renting out an apartment on the building. There would be neighbors who host their own websites on the same server, and each website is unique and has their own independent space on the same server.

The most common type of web hosting is the hosting of the web pages. The files are uploaded to the server via FTP or via the internet. Such websites can be personal websites or business websites. These websites provide database support and software support like PHP, Java or ASP. net. The website hosting can be that for forums or blogs or content management websites.

Usually, the web hosts provide an interface using which the users can manage the websites. The users can add emails to their domains, they can upload contents and manage the scripts on the domain. The users can also add databases and added domains as well. There are not just web servers, there are email hosting, ftp hosting and database hosting servers, as the name indicates they perform the function of emails, FTP and database hosting.