John is a professional photographer. He also likes to write articles about how photographers could showcase their collections to the world. He personally uses online website builder to create attractive photo galleries.

Below are some of the features that you should think about before investing money in a webhost.

The Bandwidth Packages

It is the desire of every website owner to handle unlimited amounts of online traffic. In an ideal setup, this is possible. The limit of online traffic that can be accommodated at any given time is dependent on the amount of bandwidth that the website owner has purchased. The more the bandwidth purchased, the more the capacity to handle streams of online visitors.

Webhosting companies have been very unreliable in terms of the bandwidth package options that they offer.  Some will even go to the extent of assuring you that they offer unlimited bandwidth when the idea of “unlimited” is questionable. While choosing a web hosting firm, be careful to scrutinize their bandwidth options in addition to sampling customer reviews and feedback on several different trustworthy websites. This can serve as an eye opener.

The Estimated Uptime

In the era of Penguin updates and search engine rankings, every website owner is worried about how the search engines could possibly rank them. Lower rankings can potentially damage the reputation of a website and the business that owns it. Unfortunately, one of the major factors contributing to lower rankings on the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) happens to be downtime. When online traffic comes to a site only to find that it takes long to load, they will probably go back to the search engine top explore other search options. This action increases your bounce rates. The more visitors bounce from a specific site, the more the search engine lowers the ranking of that site.

Before getting into any contract with a webhosting company, it is good to inquire about their uptime percentage and confirm from existing and past clients whether what they say is true. With advancement in technology, many companies have improved the level of their uptime. All the same do your own research to avoid disappointments down the road. The least you should expect is 99% uptime.

The Suitability of the Control Panel

A control panel enables you to make fundamental changes to some features such as email accounts and passwords. Although this may seem obvious, some control panels are structured in such a way that they do not give you the benefit customizing your site. It is critical to choose a control panel that addresses your unique needs. Remember that a complicated, technical and restrictive control panel may force you to incur additional costs when you are forced to hire technical support services. This is expensive, unnecessary and totally uncalled for. All these pitfalls can be avoided if during your shopping for a webhosting company, this feature is analyzed and considered before the purchase.

The Disk Space Limit

A big disk space is one of the basic requirements of quality webhosting services. Ensure that you confirm with your service provider and again look at a few customer reviews so you will get the gist of the quality of services that they offer. If they have trial products, you may consider giving them a test to reduce the chance of an unhappy purchase.

The Pricing Regime

Depending on the kind of business that you want to start, there are a variety of webhosting plans, and each has their own price tag. There is an idea that the higher the quality, the higher the price. Although this may be true in many cases, it is beneficial to assess your needs before you engage a webhosting plan. This will avoid cases of paying for dedicated webhosting services and only using the most basic of the features you paid for.

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Success of a website depends on the better hosting service. Leo Preston writer of this article tries to describe the qualities that everybody should check before taking hosting services. She wants to express her thanks to iPage training for giving her some tips about this topic.

Blade server is easily customized

Besides the imperative need to save on costs, enterprises also need solutions that can be flexible and therefore easy to customize and adapt to the changing requirements. In this case, opting for a blade server is the best, because it was made to adapt to changes within the various Organizations, especially the document-centered ones. To save storage rooms, in blade servers certain components were taken out, with the functionality remaining intact. Those parts being removed, there is less energy consumption. The 1U and 2U servers have additional components which ask for a lot more processing power. Also, since many individuals access the server at the same time, the cooling needs are met in order to permit the ongoing functions.

You can enjoy speed using blade servers

Another essential request for companies is operating speed, which is also met by the blade servers. When at work, one has to carry out any task immediately. With a blade server it is now possible to improve memory rate and thus optimize the system for accessing huge files and for virtualization without slowing down the machine. Work that is completed quickly means more time to focus on coming tasks and a better financial scheme. Even the fact of acquiring one such server won’t be a blow to the budget, since these models are affordable and therefore will let the company deal well with its other investments.

It gives you the value of your money

Businesses are now enabled to get the desired work quality for the price they want. Cooling and power costs are reduced with 15% to 25%, which is excellent for the energy-conscious customer. Low-power communications are supported by the dual-core processor capabilities, and embedded applications also benefit of this. Even models without a low-power processor can still reduce energy consumption though. While other types of server like the 1U are working on 10,500W supplies, the blade can only ask for two 2000W supplies. In terms of space, there is another great benefit. The chassis is shared and the support gear removed. The chassis provides the power and the cooling, which means efficient use of physical space, and can be used to host multiple individual blade servers. As the business progresses, new blades may be added. Additionally, the shared chassis includes built-in network connectivity, reducing the cabling. Compared to rack servers, blades make 85% of cabling become unnecessary.

Repairing cost is low

Repair costs are also lowered, since technicians can easily locate the problem within a blade server and restore functionality quicker. Besides, as we deal with fewer components, the chances of failure are naturally diminished. Considering especially the reduced expenses in all areas (acquisition, deployment etc.) and the economical infrastructure, blade servers are the best investment for a business.

This is a guest post written by Alexandria Gaskarth. She is a regular writer and she writes freely on any topic. She has done a thorough research on Blade Server while writing this post.

Dedicated Server Hosting and VPS offer users a number of options which make the decision a bit harder. Careful consideration must be given to which server is the best option for the business. Here is a match-up of the benefits offered by both servers.

Benefits of a Virtual Private Server (VPS) vs Dedicated Server Hosting

1. Dedicated server – User gains complete control of the physical server, as well as total access to all its resources.

VPS – User gains control of a virtualized machine that is on a server that may possibly host several other virtual environments.

2. Dedicated Server – User is usually able to access more computing power as they do not share resources with other customers.

VPS – User shares CPU with other virtual machines, and will have access to the RAM and storage resources assigned to him/her by the hosting company.

3. Dedicated Server – Carries more power than most websites will need. This means the user will have to pay for server resources that they will not be using.

VPS – Offer users the flexibility to optimize their resources so that it grows with their needs. The user is then able to keep the size of their server and online requirements aligned without having to pay for server resources they will not use.

4. Dedicated Server – Not as flexible and transferable as VPS.

VPS – User will find it easier to move on to a new server whenever they want to do so. This allows for even more flexibility, as the virtual server can moved to host servers that are bigger and better, and that will yield the desired performance.

5. Dedicated Server – The monthly cost associated with using dedicated server hosting can be exceptionally higher than that for VPS.

VPS – The cost can be as much as 10 times less than that of using dedicated server hosting.

In addition to those benefits, the level of control and customization offered by both servers does not differ much unless they are operating on different hardware – physical hardware or virtual hardware. Even then there is not much to point out, as the user may find that both work the same seeing they have administrative access to the OS on both units of hardware.

The major difference in the benefits lays in the cost associated with both servers, as dedicated servers cost significantly more. Aside from that, the ability to easily scale your web site as it grows is an added bonus of VPS.

This is a guest post written by Erik Gaandt. He is a freelance tech writer and SEO enthusiast. He enjoys sharing his insights on various blogs. More than 90% of webmasters read reviews when deciding on webhost. WhoIsHostingThis.com is home to hundreds of reviews on the most popular webhosts such as Lunar Pages, BlueHost and iPage.com.

Here is good news for our readers, just after the launch of Windows Server 2012 standard Edition which supports IIS 8 & MS SQL 2012, many of popular VPS Hosting Providers has started offering VPS with Windows Server 2012 Operating System R2 edition. Read more about this amazing server operating system on Microsoft widows Server official page.

In our today’s post we’re mentioning the name of few VPS providers who are offering Virtual private server services with Windows server 2012 OS edition.

MY Hosting

MY Hosting is among the first few Virtual Server providers who are offering Virtual Server hosting with windows server 2012. My Hosting offers VPS Hosting on Hyper-V Cloud Servers powered with NetApp SAN Storage. You’ll be getting IIS 8 with MS SQL Server 2012 with every Windows 2012 Virtual private server.

What’s Included in MY Hosting VPS plan

Although you can fully customized your VPS on MY Hosting website but when you select the default customization you get the following at $55.95 per month.

• Full Root Access
• 1 Virtual Processor (vCPU)
• 1 GB Guaranteed RAM
• 40 GB Guaranteed Disk Space
• 300 GB Bandwidth
• 1 FREE IP Address
• Disaster Recovery Backups

Softsys Hosting

Softsys Hosting is not a very popular name in Hosting Industry but they’ve took this initiative to offer Windows 2012 VPS Hosting. Softsys Hosting is offering 4 different plans to choose from for Widows Server 2012 VPS. All of their VPS plans are really cheap. The basic plan which includes the following will cost you only $14.95 per Month. Softsys Windows 2012 VPS are created with using Hyper V technology

• Full Root Access
• 1 Virtual Processor (vCPU)
• 1 GB RAM
• 25 GB storage on RAID 10
• 400 GB Bandwidth
• 1 FREE IP Address

VirtuIP

VirtuIP is one of the few cloud services based companies in Australia providing IaaS with a focus on Microsoft Technology. It’s one of the few companies in Australia offers Windows server 2012 Virtual Dedicated Server on Hyper-V enterprise platform. You can get a custom VPS with 512MB RAM all the way through to 64GB RAM. The basic plan with the below mentioned configuration will cost you $90.

• 20 GB Disk Space
• 1 GB Dedicated RAM
• 1 Virtual CPU
• 99.95% Uptime SLA
• Shared Backup Space
• Server & Bandwidth Monitoring

AJKServers

AJKServers is now providing high quality windows 2012 vps servers with IIS 8 in both usa and uk datacenters on unbeatable prices. The Windows Virtual Private Server are build on quad core processors and raid10 storage arrays for performance and redundancy. They offer Windows 2012™ Server w/ MSSQL Express 2008 and you get full administrative control over the server. The basic plan with following features cost you £12.96.

• 1 GHz vCpu
• 512 MB Dedicated RAM
• 1000 GB Premium bandwidth
• 30 GB RAID10 Storage
• 1 Free IP Address

MicroLite Software

Microlite Software is another UK based hosting provider offers Windows 2012 VPS Powered by proven Xen virtualisation technology in combination with SolusVM. All server comes with full admin control. Microlite offers full UK-based telephone and e-mail technical support on all VPS packages. They offers 6 different packages to choose from. Their basic pack cost £5.95 & offer a Windows server 2012 virtual server with following specs.

• 1 GHz vCPU
• 512 MB Dedicated RAM
• 20 GB Disk RAID Storage
• 1000 GB Monthly badwidth
• 2 free IP Addresses

Above are the many of few VPS hosting providers in the world started offering 64 bit Windows 2012 VPS with IIS 8 & MS SQL 2012 edition.  If you got some other provider offering the same or want to list some provider you’re satisfied with  then comment below and we’ll list it.

Recently Bigrock entered into Indian VPS Hosting market with a launch of it’s Virtual Private Server, earlier to this Bigrock was only selling shared Hosting & reseller hosting.

Bigrock is using Parallels Virtuozzo Containers (PVC) as a Virtualization software to create virtual servers. The VPS comes with full root level access which enables you to install any customer software you want. That’s not enough Bigrock also provide an optional control panel (cPanel) on their VPS. They’ve an automated installation process configured to help make your control panel setup easy.

Bigrock VPS Plans

Bigrock is offering an amazing range of VPS hosting plans, As of now they’re offering total 10 plans to choose from. But if you ask me personally i didn’t like all of their VPS hosting plans, the first 4 plans doesn’t impressed me much as the CPU clock speed & RAM size is too small in those plans.

The best part about Bigrock VPS plans is, all of them comes with plenty of data transfer limit, even their 1st plan comes with 500 GB of bandwidth although they haven’t mentioned anywhere about their Bandwidth speed but it should be good enough to cater your requirement after all they’re giving you 30 days money back guarantee with every plan you buy.

Bigrock VPS Features

Following are the main features of Bigrock VPS Hosting

Advanced Storage

Bigrock’s VPS comes equipped with NetApp FAS3240 Enterprise Level Shared Storage which gives us the ability to provide a storage uptime of 99.999%. That means Guaranteed downtime of less than 5.26 minutes in a year.

Robust Infrastructure

Bigrock’s VPS is backed with roust infrastructure. It has been built using Parallels Virtuozzo 4.7, Dual Hex-Core Intel Xeon Processors, 72 GB RAM & 250 GB Mirrored HardDrives, Enterprise Class Linux – CentOS 6, Dual power supplies that guarantee redundancy & 64bit Architecture.

Technical Support

Bigrock offers technical support via Live Chat, Phone, or Email around the clock 24x7x365. In addition to 24×7 monitoring, they also provide fully managed VPS Support.

Bigrock VPS Coupon Code

As of now Bigrock VPS coupon code is not available but we’re expecting some high discount coupon codes from them. As soon Bigrock coupon codes for VPS Hosting will be available we’ll post them here.

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Lunarpages Colocation

Looking for a Colocation facility in Southern California? Lunarpages Internet Solutions provides you with cost-effective and hassle-free solutions. Lunarpages offers a guaranteed network uptime of 100%.

Lunarpages Colocation Features

• Single Server, ¼ Rack, ½ Rack, or Full Rack
• Private cages available (build to suit)
• Multi 1000 Mbps GIG-E fiber connections to internet backbone
• Redundant fiber connections on diverse physical paths
• Gigabit Ethernet network backbone
• Redundant telecom and fiber providers
• Unrestricted dedicated 100/1000 Mbps ports on our switch

If you wish to get the pricing of their colo services you can visit their official colocation services page to get a sales person contact you.

Peer 1 Hosting

Peer 1 Hosting is another popular colocation service provider in United States having data centers in Los Angeles, Seattle, Montreal, Toronto, New York, 20 Pullman Court, San Jose, Vancouver, Miami, Portsmouth. In total Peer 1 has eight PEER 1 Hosting Colocation datacenters located in North America — and two more in the UK

Peer 1 offers various Colocation facilities, including:

• Network monitoring, resiliency, capacity and speed
• Cooling, power and redundancy
• Building and colocation cabinet security protocols
• Environment scaling and space planning
• A la carte managed services
• The experts to manage the infrastructure and whatever else you need

Following are the features which are always included in Peer 1 hosting colocation services

• 24x7x365 Network Operations Center (NOC) support
• 24x7x365 unescorted access
• 24x7x365 multi-layered security
• 100% Network Uptime SLA
• 100% Power SLA
• Personal Account Manager
• Personal Client Relations Manager
• MyPEER1 Customer Portal
• Online business resource center
• 24 hours or less provisioning
• 100Mbps full duplex Ethernet feed
• Burstable bandwidth
• Unlimited IP addresses*
• Air conditioning, climate control, anti-static floors
• UPS and advanced fire suppression

To know more about Peer 1 colocation services and pricing you may visit http://www.peer1.com/hosting/colocation

Equinix

Equinix is another and one of the largest colocation services provider in terms of number of data center locations. As per Equinix, no other provider can match the global reach of Equinix. With 105 data centers in 38 major business markets.

Equinix Colocation Advantages

• Industry-leading global uptime average of 99.999%
• Proven expertise in configuring and supporting high-power density deployments
• Largest worldwide footprint of over 7 million sq. ft. of data center space across 38 markets in 13 countries on 5 continents
• More than 900 networks available for interconnection and traffic exchange via direct cross connects, peering, and Ethernet services

To know more about Equinix colocation services & Equinix colocation pricing you may visit their official colocation page.

To build and maintain your own facility and support staff is a major investment. Fortunately, you can acquire a world class Data Center facility, network, and support services at a fraction of the cost. You may contact any of above mentioned colocation service provider for colocation services.

To decrease some burden on your pocket and to manage your monthly budget today we’re posting about some Free hosting control panel to manage your windows & linux server easily.

These Free Hosting control panels are not only free but comes with almost all the feature which paid control panels like cPanel, Plesk etc has.

All you need to do is to install any of these Free hosting control panel on your server & Once installed, they will save you too much time on creating new websites, databases, e-mails, etc.

Free Hosting Control Panel for Linux Server

Here we’re featuring few most popular Free Web Hosting Control Panel to manage your Linux server with an ease.

Kloxo 

Kloxo is a fully scriptable, distributed and a 100% object oriented hosting platform. Kloxo fully supports Linux CentOS 5 and can be fully Integrates with billing software such as AWBS, WHMCS and HostBill.

Kloxo also supports apache/lighttpd, djbdns/bind and pure-ftpd.

Watch Kloxo Free Hosting Control Panel Demo.

ISP Config

ISPconfig is another popular and easy to manage Free Hosting control panel available to manage Linux Server. Using ISPconfig you can do the following

• Manage multiple servers from one control panel.
• Web server management (Apache2 and nginx)
• Mail server management (with virtual mail users)
• DNS server management
• Virtualization (OpenVZ)
• Administrator, reseller and client login

ZPanel is a free and complete web hosting control panel for Microsoft® Windows™ and POSIX (Linux, UNIX and MacOSX) based servers. ZPanel is written in PHP and uses several open-source (or freely available) software packages to provide a secure, web hosting system.

From the easy to use control panel, users can create and manage MySQL databases, email mailboxes, forwarders and distribution lists as well as setup and host multiple domains on one server.

Website Panel

WebsitePanel is a complete free hosting control panel for Cloud Computing Companies and IT Providers to automate the provisioning of a full suite of services on Windows servers. The powerful, flexible open source WebsitePanel platform gives users simple point-and-click control over Windows Server applications including IIS, SQL Server, Exchange 2010, Sharepoint 2010, OCS and Hyper-V Deployments. Using Website Panel

• Domain Names
• Web Sites
• Web Applications
• FTP accounts
• Databases
• Hosted Organizations
• Microsoft Exchange 2010 Mailboxes and Users
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Sites
• Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 users
• Microsoft Lync 2010 users
• Windows Hyper-V Virtual Servers

There are many other Free Hosting Control Panels are also available on internet to manage Virtual Private Server & Dedicated Server but above mentioned hosting panels are trusted & tested by most on internet. We’ve also given a link above to test the demo of these panels. If you’ve any query on this or want to suggest any other Free Hosting Control panel kindly comment below.

Big Rock has a strong customer base in India & abroad, Over 6 million customers trust Big Rock platform for Domain Registration, Web Hosting, Website Design and other service provided by Big Rock.

Get 15% OFF on .Com Domain Name Registration

This September Big Rock gives you an opportunity to register world’s most popular domain name i.e .Com at an amazing 15% discount.

Use Coupon Code “SEPTAFF”  during placing an order for .Com Domain with Big Rock to avail this amazing 15% Discount.

That’s not enough?

Don’t worry if you’re not satisfied with 15% discount Big Rock will also give you 2 Free Email account & Free Privacy Registration for one year for every domain you register with them.

Get unbelievable 22% Discount on web hosting services

So you’ve bought a .com domain name using Big Rock September Coupon Code, Now it’s time to buy a hosting space to make it live on internet.

Don’t worry the same Big Rock Coupon Code will also work here to get you amazing 22% discount. Use Big Rock Coupon Code at the time of placing an order to avail the discount.

The Big Rock September Coupon Code works on all Hosting plans offered by Big Rock i.e Starter, Advance, Business & Pro.

If you face any issue in using the Big Rock Promo Code kindly comment below.

Note: The following Big Rock Coupon Code is valid till end of September 2012. Enjoy The Discount

iPage Hosting

iPage offers an all-in-one hosting solution which give you the freedom you need to create an online presence that reflects your brand or personality. The web hosting plan comes with unlimited data transfer, unlimited storage space, unlimited databases & allows to host unlimited domains. All of these features makes iPage a good web hosting option. The hosting pack includes a free drag & drop site builder which allows you to create upto 6 page website for free and if you want to create an unlimited page website iPage web Hosting also comes with a template based website builder which allows users to create a website choosing a template of your choice.

Best part to buy a web hosting from iPage is that you get a free domain name worth $12.99. If you’re new to blogging & wants to create your first blog with a few mouse click, iPage web hosting allows you to create the one using a blog setup wizard.

in our iPage Hosting Review we’re mentioning few features comes with iPage essential hosting pack. The hosting pack supports almost all the hosting features which a webmaster or blogger requires.

iPage Customer Support

To run a successful web hosting business expert customer support is a key to success & iPage realize it & that’s why iPage offers customer support in all possible way. You can get answer of your queries by raising a Trouble Ticket, apart from this 24×7 Phone, Chat and Email Support is also available. Find below some key point about iPage customer support we’ve mentioned in our iPage Review.

iPage Data Centers

iPage utilizes two data centers in the Boston, MA area. Combined, they occupy over 2400 square feet of space, comprised of over 800 Servers and half a Petabyte of storage. Each center is equipped with:

• 24×7 security
• Both data centers run on N+1 power (both A/C and D/C)
• and have the same network architecture and equipment.

iPage’s front-end network consists of:

• dual redundant M7I routers
• 2 firewalls incorporating IDP technology cross-connected to the outside world with BGP border gateway protocol.

This is a brief about iPage data centers due to limitation of the article we can not provide full details about DC in our iPage Review, you can visit iPage Website for more details.

iPage web hosting plan comes with any time money back guarantee.

Go Green with iPage Web Hosting

iPage is a wind-energy leader. iPage offset the carbon emissions of their data centers and offices by purchasing renewable energy credits, which are then used to generate wind energy. iPage’s commitment prevents the release of 2,660 metric tons of carbon fuel each year and provides you with a green website.

We hope you like our iPage Review, if you’ve any question on this or wants to know more about the iPage web hosting please leave your comment & our expert will revert to you shortly. We generally post various other web hosting reviews, if you want us to review any other web hosting plan kindly let us know & we’ll try our level best to write a review about the same.