Friday, April 2, 2010
iPage Web Hosting
Wow, I have been signed up with ipage for about 3 weeks now. They are great. I like their free site creator with drag and drop features. My site :healthy-supplements.net looks very professional thanks to ipage. They also offer a 50$ adwords credit which I am using and also give great tools to change anything in your ftp files. The control panel is very easy to navigate and userfriendly. To sign up with ipage, click here
Monday, March 29, 2010
Compare Web Hosting
Well I have run across a great site that compares many web hosting companies. MoltenHost.com offers great hosting companies and domain registration.
Monday, February 8, 2010
What is Web Hosting
Well If you want a web page or web site to get onto the internet, then you need a web host in order to do so.
A web host is a company that has computers that are hooked up to the internet 24/7. These computers are called servers and they are assigned IP numbers in order that they may be found by other computers hooked up to the internet. It is on these servers that all your web files are stored, be they HTML files (web pages), graphic files, CSS files, Javascripts or whatever.
Basically what happens is when you type a web address into the address bar of your browser and then hit Go, your browser sends out a request to 'get' that web page. The request travels across the internet to the appropriate web server and attempts to locate the web page on that server. If the request is successful (web page exists) then that web page will load (or download) into your web browser.
These web hosting servers that store and serve up web pages to the internet cost money to set up, configure and maintain and thus web hosting providers that own these servers typically charge you a monthly or yearly fee to, at the very least:
1. Allow you to save your web files to their web server (called uploading)
2. Perpetually be ready to serve them up to the internet (make available for downloading)
Web hosting has become a very competitive business and, in order to entice more customers to sign up with them, web hosts now offer all kinds of bells and whistles to the deals or web hosting packages they make available.
One good site that provides great hosting is Allwebnow. This site offers regular hosting, reseller hosting, or dedicated hosting.
A web host is a company that has computers that are hooked up to the internet 24/7. These computers are called servers and they are assigned IP numbers in order that they may be found by other computers hooked up to the internet. It is on these servers that all your web files are stored, be they HTML files (web pages), graphic files, CSS files, Javascripts or whatever.
Basically what happens is when you type a web address into the address bar of your browser and then hit Go, your browser sends out a request to 'get' that web page. The request travels across the internet to the appropriate web server and attempts to locate the web page on that server. If the request is successful (web page exists) then that web page will load (or download) into your web browser.
These web hosting servers that store and serve up web pages to the internet cost money to set up, configure and maintain and thus web hosting providers that own these servers typically charge you a monthly or yearly fee to, at the very least:
1. Allow you to save your web files to their web server (called uploading)
2. Perpetually be ready to serve them up to the internet (make available for downloading)
Web hosting has become a very competitive business and, in order to entice more customers to sign up with them, web hosts now offer all kinds of bells and whistles to the deals or web hosting packages they make available.
One good site that provides great hosting is Allwebnow. This site offers regular hosting, reseller hosting, or dedicated hosting.
Monday, February 1, 2010
What is reseller hosting?
OK, first feel free to comment with relevant content to this post.
I would like to start this off with the basics about reseller hosting.
A reseller is a middle-man who sells web space on somebody else's server. Reselling schemes vary widely. They fall into the following categories:
(a) The reseller acts as an agent for the web hosting company. The service is advertised by the reseller as being with the actual web hosting company. People buy direct from the web hosting company but the reseller gets a cut if customers mention the reseller's name.
(b) The reseller acts as a marketer for the web hosting company. The service is advertised by the reseller as being with the actual web hosting company. People buy the service from the reseller but all further contact they have is direct wih the web hosting company.
(c) The reseller appears to be a web hosting company in his own right, handling sales and support but 'rebadges' somebody else's service. A customer buys web space from the reseller who buys web space (at a lower price) from the actual web hosting company. Customers contact the reseller for support.
A variant on this scheme is that customers are invoiced by the web hosting company in the reseller's name and the reseller gets a cut. Support will usually be via the reseller in order to keep up the pretence that the reseller is a web hosting company in his own right. Find reseller hosting at AllWebNow
(d) The reseller purchases a large chunk of web space and bandwidth from the web hosting company and can then carve that into individual chunks of space/bandwidth for sale to customers. Customers contact the reseller for support.
(information obtained from www.webhostgear.com)
I would like to start this off with the basics about reseller hosting.
A reseller is a middle-man who sells web space on somebody else's server. Reselling schemes vary widely. They fall into the following categories:
(a) The reseller acts as an agent for the web hosting company. The service is advertised by the reseller as being with the actual web hosting company. People buy direct from the web hosting company but the reseller gets a cut if customers mention the reseller's name.
(b) The reseller acts as a marketer for the web hosting company. The service is advertised by the reseller as being with the actual web hosting company. People buy the service from the reseller but all further contact they have is direct wih the web hosting company.
(c) The reseller appears to be a web hosting company in his own right, handling sales and support but 'rebadges' somebody else's service. A customer buys web space from the reseller who buys web space (at a lower price) from the actual web hosting company. Customers contact the reseller for support.
A variant on this scheme is that customers are invoiced by the web hosting company in the reseller's name and the reseller gets a cut. Support will usually be via the reseller in order to keep up the pretence that the reseller is a web hosting company in his own right. Find reseller hosting at AllWebNow
(d) The reseller purchases a large chunk of web space and bandwidth from the web hosting company and can then carve that into individual chunks of space/bandwidth for sale to customers. Customers contact the reseller for support.
(information obtained from www.webhostgear.com)
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Dedicated Server
Well for anyone who wants information on dedicated servers or a company with great dedicated server service, here you are.
This is when a client leases an entire server which is not shared with anyone. This type of hosting is much more flexible compared to shared hosting. A dedicated server gives the organization full control of which operating system is used, what hardware they want, and everything else you could think of. In the long run a dedicated server can give you less overhead and a larger return on investment.
One good company that offers a solid dedicated server company is at Host Gator. They have a plan starting out with
Intel Xeon 3040 (Dual Core)
* 1 GB DDR Memory
* 250 GB Hard Drive
* 1,500 GB Bandwidth
* 5 Dedicated IPs
This will run about $174.00 per month.
This is when a client leases an entire server which is not shared with anyone. This type of hosting is much more flexible compared to shared hosting. A dedicated server gives the organization full control of which operating system is used, what hardware they want, and everything else you could think of. In the long run a dedicated server can give you less overhead and a larger return on investment.
One good company that offers a solid dedicated server company is at Host Gator. They have a plan starting out with
Intel Xeon 3040 (Dual Core)
* 1 GB DDR Memory
* 250 GB Hard Drive
* 1,500 GB Bandwidth
* 5 Dedicated IPs
This will run about $174.00 per month.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Pros and Cons of VPS hosting
Pros
1. Support. Virtual or VPS servers generally are provided extensive support. This provides an added security should you need help. This support is generally provided at no additional charge to the client of most hosting providers
2. Security. As you are 'leasing' your 'virtual' or VPS system directly from the hosting providers own infrastructure or backbone these servers tend to be set behind their own firewalls, and are shielded away from curious hackers
3. Flexibility. Virtualised platforms are ideally suited for trial and flexibility. You are able to try a variety of features without the need to sign up to long-term contracts and commitment, and are able to sometimes customize or vary your plan to make arrangements for bandwidth, memory, hard disk or even database access that matches your business needs
4. Instant Upgradeablitiy. You are able to vary the amount of resources such as memory or hardisk space with minimal disruption to your hosted sites assuming that it is using a software based virtualization platform
5. Cost. Virtual hosting is excellent value for medium, smaller companies or even start ups that are on tighter budgets, or that are just trying to minimise their capital commitments and refrain from having to make any significant equipment purchase.
Cons
1. Limitations. At the end of the day you are sharing the servers services with other people, and therefore your customers, in theory, could be competing for resources and your site may have slower server response times during peak periods resulting in your visitors receiving 'Website not responding' type messages as they browse your pages
2. Risks. Your hosting company may not issue you with your own IP address, and thus you may be sharing your IP address with other less scrupulous tenants. Since hosted sites on the same IP addresses are sometimes grouped together this may result in your site being banned from search engines that are actively seeking to remove such sites
3. Control. Under some VPS platforms users share software components. This sharing may result in an inability to configure individual settings independently of other clients that are hosting on the same virtual server.
Allwebnow also has great dedicated hosting solutions.
1. Support. Virtual or VPS servers generally are provided extensive support. This provides an added security should you need help. This support is generally provided at no additional charge to the client of most hosting providers
2. Security. As you are 'leasing' your 'virtual' or VPS system directly from the hosting providers own infrastructure or backbone these servers tend to be set behind their own firewalls, and are shielded away from curious hackers
3. Flexibility. Virtualised platforms are ideally suited for trial and flexibility. You are able to try a variety of features without the need to sign up to long-term contracts and commitment, and are able to sometimes customize or vary your plan to make arrangements for bandwidth, memory, hard disk or even database access that matches your business needs
4. Instant Upgradeablitiy. You are able to vary the amount of resources such as memory or hardisk space with minimal disruption to your hosted sites assuming that it is using a software based virtualization platform
5. Cost. Virtual hosting is excellent value for medium, smaller companies or even start ups that are on tighter budgets, or that are just trying to minimise their capital commitments and refrain from having to make any significant equipment purchase.
Cons
1. Limitations. At the end of the day you are sharing the servers services with other people, and therefore your customers, in theory, could be competing for resources and your site may have slower server response times during peak periods resulting in your visitors receiving 'Website not responding' type messages as they browse your pages
2. Risks. Your hosting company may not issue you with your own IP address, and thus you may be sharing your IP address with other less scrupulous tenants. Since hosted sites on the same IP addresses are sometimes grouped together this may result in your site being banned from search engines that are actively seeking to remove such sites
3. Control. Under some VPS platforms users share software components. This sharing may result in an inability to configure individual settings independently of other clients that are hosting on the same virtual server.
Allwebnow also has great dedicated hosting solutions.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
What is VPS hosting
VPS hosting is a method of splitting the server. Each section of the server is able to run a full fledged operating system. Each server can also be rebooted.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Youhost
I hope to help lots of people weed out the bad web hosts with this site. Each diverse hosting company listed at youhost.webs.com offers a unique way to provide web hosting. This ranges from a company that operates strictly on carbon neutral power to high - tech VPS hosting services. Tell me what you think of each company offered at youhost.webs.com
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