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Web Hosting Guides and Tutorials

What Is Web Hosting?

Posted Thu, 03/19/2009 - 06:59

If you're completely new to creating websites, then the many facets of choosing a host for your website can be intimidating to say the least. There's all of these features you don't quite understand from OS's to bandwidth to databases. There's a variety of plans with each hosting service, but which one do you need? It seems that each company presents their potential customers with a wall of technical information that's difficult to trudge through without intense research.

How to Choose Appropriate Hosting Service

Posted Tue, 04/14/2009 - 08:42

The first step in creating your website is to choose an appropriate web hosting service. You could spend countless hours and a lot of money developing the perfect website offline or on a private server, but if you haven't selected an appropriate host for that website beforehand, you'll encounter a situation where you may have to choose between downgrading your website, starting over completely, or being forced into an expensive contract with a sub-par hosting service.

Painless Move to a New Web Hosting Service

Posted Tue, 04/14/2009 - 10:29

Sometimes, you need to move your website to another web host. The reasons vary from escaping poor customer service, to the provider's inability to meet your technical needs, to finding a better financial arrangement. Depending upon the complexity of your website, the process can be simple enough for an amateur to do or it can be difficult and time consuming enough that you need to bring in professional help.

Should I Choose a Dedicated or Shared Hosting Plan?

Posted Thu, 04/16/2009 - 06:30

One very important thing you should be aware of when selecting your hosting plan is whether or not it is a dedicated server or a shared server. For a hobbyist website, it's not likely that you will need a dedicated server unless you expect an immense amount of traffic. Conversely, for a professionally designed business website, it's not always necessary to run out and rent a dedicated server. Let's examine the differences between dedicated and shared hosting.

What's so Great About Unix/Linux Servers? I'm a Windows User!

Posted Thu, 04/16/2009 - 08:53

If you've been shopping for a web hosting server, chances are you've seen a choice between Windows and Linux. If you use Windows on your PC, it may seem natural to use Windows for your web hosting as well, but that's not necessarily the case.

Should You Choose Free Hosting Service?

Posted Thu, 04/16/2009 - 09:11

As you go about the process of building and developing your Internet website one of your primary considerations must be what type of web hosting service you will engage. In this regard, there are two general types of web hosting available to you today (whether you are seeking a web host for a business or for a personal website.) First, there are web hosts that charge a fee for their services.

How Much Space and Bandwidth Do You Need for Your Site?

Posted Thu, 04/16/2009 - 09:42

There are plenty of hosting services out there which want you to believe that you need five gigabytes of space and terabytes of bandwidth for a static, text-based website that you have just started. In reality, most personal websites, and even business websites, need nowhere near this capacity. Even so, bandwidth and space are becoming cheaper every year from web hosts and even e-mail services. It's a feature which seems to take precedence over some of the more important aspects of finding a good web hosting service.

The Truth Behind Hosting Reviews

Posted Thu, 04/16/2009 - 09:53

Like the review of any service or product, you should only trust web hosting reviews as far as you can throw them. However, you should definitely read them and factor them into your decision when choosing a web hosting provider.

What You Should Know About Web Host Overselling

Posted Fri, 04/17/2009 - 04:55

In the web hosting industry, overselling is one of the primary reasons for poor server performance. What is most dangerous about it is that overselling is difficult to detect until after you've been signed up with a web host for a while, and there isn't anything you can do to fix it aside from moving to another host.

Should You Host at Reseller?

Posted Fri, 04/17/2009 - 05:06

Reseller web hosting may sound like a scam, but it actually has some practical uses. Certain situations make it easier to use this type of service for reasons of expediency and cost reduction. Reseller web hosting is when a person rents a server or has a shared hosting account with a large amount of bandwidth, space, and processing power available.

Green Web Hosting

Posted Fri, 07/24/2009 - 04:40

Everything is going “Green” from real estate, to industry, to home life. It looks good for a company to express an interest in preserving the environment, and consumers will respond to that as a marketing scheme. The problem, however, is when a company is “green washing”, which means that while they are offering a Green service, their practices have not changed very much.

Do You Receive Quality Tech Support?

Posted Fri, 04/17/2009 - 05:21

For any hosting company, the technical support team is the backbone which keeps the company in operation. In terms of your own website, the technical support team keeps you in operation. It is always a good decision to spend a little more money on a hosting provider with an excellent technical support staff than it is to go cheap with a hosting provider who has a lot of down-time.

Is It Important to Monitor Website Uptime?

Posted Thu, 06/04/2009 - 11:25

Website monitoring services are essential to large websites that are profit-motivated. As the name suggests, they monitor the website for downtime, broken links, faulty code, incompatibility, and a variety of other maladies that affect website operation. Depending upon the level of services provided by the monitoring service, they could just send a report to you detailing the downtime and problems with the site. Some will test the website thoroughly, send you a report, and have someone fix the problem for you immediately. It all depends on what you're willing to pay for.

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