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Features to Look For in a Web Hosting Package
August 15, 2011 | 
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What To Look For When Researching A Web Host & Web Hosting Package
In order for people to view (download) your website content on the internet you need a Web Hosting Provider, also known as a Hosting Company, to host (store and display or store and run) each website file that makes up your website content. A website file can typically be a HTML file, CSS file, PHP file, JavaScript file, Image file, Audio/Video file and so on.
Even though one HTML file for example is known as a web page, as can be one PHP file, collectively a group of website files (i.e. one HTML file, one CSS file and one Image file) are also known as a web page…..usually by the general public.
What Is A Website?
Behind the scenes a website is just a folder, on the web hosting provider’s computer (server), that is named after your domain name (i.e. websitecreationhelp.com). Within that domain name folder (also known as your Web Space root folder) will be a sub-folder called public_html. It is the content of that public_html sub-folder that the general public will view via their web browser (i.e. Internet Explorer), with your permission of course.
This is because even though your domain name points to (connects to) your Web Space root folder, the folder that was named after your domain name (i.e. websitecreationhelp.com), a web browser and more specifically a website address can only point to (view the content of) the public_html sub-folder…..in normal circumstances. In other words, typing your domain name into internet explorer will point you to the content (i.e. main web page) that is inside the public_html sub-folder. You will not see the content of the Web Space root folder.
Which Web Hosting Provider?
You will know which web hosting provider to use when you have looked at the prices of their Web Hosting Packages and the features that come with it (i.e. PHP Scripting and MySQL Database). A web hosting provider has two main jobs to do.
The first job is to maintain your Web Space (main folder), which has specific web hosting system files inside it as well as your public_html sub-folder, so that your public_html website content is viewable for everyone to see on the internet 24/7…..with your permission of course. This job also involves them looking after their own computers (servers) and making sure your website content is safe and secure.
The second job is to maintain your Control Panel (set of Tools) that comes with the web hosting package, so that you can create MySQL Databases, E-Mail Accounts and so on (depending on the features of the web hosting package).
Shop Around – Avoid FREE & Cheap ‘N’ Nasty
When looking for a Web Hosting Provider to host (display) your website on the internet, and more importantly when looking at the features inside their Web Hosting Packages, it pays to shop around. The old saying “If it’s too good to be true it probably is” should be in the front of your mind.
Dismiss the sales talk about features such as “Unlimited Bandwidth”, “Unlimited Web Space”, “100?s of FREE Templates” and “Website Builder” because these tend to be gimmicks – A company does not give for free unless they are taking from somewhere else and/or someone else. For example. “FREE Templates” that everyone else is using (so your website is not unique/bespoke to you). “A Website Builder” that supposedly does everything for you (so you get a useless/limited Control Panel).
Many “FREE Website Hosting” packages do not allow you to create a MySQL Database or use PHP Scripting for example. Other packages host (display) your website content for “FREE” with the condition that your web pages contain their selected advertisements. Some limit the features of the Control Panel, Bandwidth and so on. These tend to be hosting companies that advertise “FREE Website Builder” and “FREE Templates”.
In other words. They give you software that builds and publishes your website, catered for the Absolute Beginner, without you realising you should be getting a better control panel for example. There are plenty of free, and very affordable, templates and tools on the internet that can also build you a website in minutes. So do not pay for something like a Website Builder for the sake of a limited control panel.
Affordable – With Basic Features
A good Web Hosting Package should be affordable but definitely not “FREE”, and definitely not “Cheap ‘N’ Nasty”. Above all else it should contain YOUR basic requirements. So consider spending £5 to £10 a month on a standard web hosting package. This should get you the Basics. Ask yourself the following questions:
Do I need 10, 20, 40 or 80+ Email Addresses?.
Am I going to need a Forum (Questions & Answers Board), Blog (Diary Articles), Guest Book and/or Media (Audio/Video) Gallery?…..that may need a MySQL Database and/or PHP Script. One thing to remember here is that these features can take time to create and may need ongoing management time too.
How much Website Space do I need?…..for my Web Pages (HTML Files – Text, Pictures, Audio and Video), Forum, Blog, Guest Book and so on.
How many Website Visitors am I expecting each month? The more visitors you get the more Bandwidth (Download Units) you will need.
Below I have explained the major features inside a standard Web Hosting Package, in order for you to answer the above questions and to give you a better idea of what features you should be looking to use. At the bottom of each description I have noted the standard you should be looking for when paying £5 to £10 a month. These are based on Quality web hosting providers (see Quality below).
The Control Panel
Although all web hosting packages have a web based Control Panel of some sort it is the control panel that is overlooked. A good control panel is the key to a good web hosting package and more importantly to an easier life in terms of managing your website. The more tools in a control panel the better.
A part from the features entitled Bandwidth, Web Space and Quality (below) all the other features mentioned below should be accessable through a control panel. The control panel itself is installed, and updated, by your web hosting provider. Many use the popular CPanel (cpanel.net) control panel.
Bandwidth (Monthly Data Transfer)
Bandwidth (also known as Monthly Data Transfer) is the amount of Data that can be downloaded from your public_html sub-folder, onto a customer’s computer via internet explorer for example, each month. It is measured in GigaBytes – A standard Web Hosting Package should allow you at least 2 GigaBytes of bandwidth per month. Bandwidth can also be contributed to uploading your files to your public_html sub-folder, which means Bandwidth is really your upload and download usage.
What does all this mean? It means if one customer downloads a 4MB Music File, for example, from your public_html sub-folder it will cost you 4MB in bandwidth. So if ten customers download the 4MB Music File, or one customer downloads the 4MB Music File ten times, either way it will cost you 40MB of bandwidth in total. However. It is not that simple because each web page viewed also costs bandwidth.
If you have a Music Product Web Page that consists of 1MB of Introduction Text and 1MB of Music Pictures for example it will cost you 2MB of bandwidth each time that Music Product Web Page is viewed (downloaded into one customer’s web browser, from your web space to their computer). Therefore, each time a customer views (downloads) the 2MB Music Product Web Page and then downloads the 4MB Music File it will cost you 6MB of bandwidth in total. Times that by ten customers and it would cost you 60MB of bandwidth in total.
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5,000MB (5GB) of web space divided by 6MB (1 Music Product Web Page and 1 Music File) equals 833 possible customers. It is not that simple though. Why? Because not all 833 possible customers will download 1 Music Product Web Page and 1 Music File, especially if they have to buy the Music File.
Some might view (download) the Music Product Web Page more than once (i.e. read it more another day) while others might download the Music File more than once (download it for their family and friends), especially if it is free to download. So you might end up with customers who view the Music Product Web Page only but do not download the (Buy Now!) Music File and vice versa. Hence why selling something on the internet is not guaranteed – It costs bandwidth and money.
5 – 20 GigaBytes. 30 GigaBytes maximum…..before the package price changes to something even better.
Add-On Domains
An Add-On Domain is a normal domain name (i.e. software.com) that points to (connects to) a sub-folder within your main domain name’s public_html (website) folder. That sub-folder is normally named after your add-on domain name (i.e. software.com). So if your main domain name is computers.com and your add-on domain name is software.com your web hosting provider will create a new sub-folder called software.com inside the public_html folder of computers.com and then point/link (redirect) software.com to that new sub-folder called software.com.
This means that anyone typing software.com into their web browser will be taken to a sub-folder called software.com within the public_html folder of computers.com.
The advantages of an add-on domain name are that 1) It has its own folder which means it can be classed as a website within its own right and 2) It saves on buying two web spaces (two pure websites). However. The overall disadvantage of hosting two domain names (a main domain name and an add-on domain name) is that they share the same web space and bandwidth.
This has serious side-effects if you want to have video on one or both websites (domain names) because the web space and bandwidth might be shared unevenly, which means a customer might miss out on a download. For example. A free video download on software.com might take up the bandwidth for a buying customer on computers.com.
An Add-On Domain should only cost you the normal price of an extra domain name (i.e. £5 a year).
1 – 3 Add-On Domains
Parked Domains
A Parked Domain is a normal domain name (i.e. software.com) that points/links (redirects) to your main domain name (i.e. computers.com) only – It has no web space folder or bandwidth of its own because it shares the same web space and bandwidth allocated to your main domain name.
A parked domain name is typically set up when you want a.co.uk and a.com for example to go to the same web space. So if you have computers.com as your main domain name and computers.co.uk as your parked domain name, visitors who type computers.co.uk into their web browser will be sent to the same web space that computers.com is using and therefore see the same website content (the same web pages, video and so on).
A Parked Domain should only cost you the normal price of an extra domain name (i.e. £5 a year).
1 – 3 Parked Domains
FTP Accounts
Having a FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Account means you can use a web browser (i.e. Internet Explorer) or a FTP Program (i.e. FileZilla or AceFTP) to transfer your web pages, and so on, from your computer to your public_html sub-folder (website).
Depending on your web hosting package and its Control Panel you might be able to create additional Anonymous Log-In FTP Accounts or FTP Accounts with UserName & Password so that you can set up a FTP Account for your members for example – This is good if you intend to allow your members to upload content to your FTP Server (the File Transfer part of your web space). Most good web hosting packages offer at least one FTP Account for your own file transfers and those that do not usually offer a File Manager or Website Builder program that emulates a FTP Account.
4 FTP Accounts and upwards is adequate these days.
MySQL Databases
MySQL Databases are databases in their own right. You can set one up via your Control Panel or by using phpMyAdmin (if your Control Panel supports it). For example. You could have a database for your customers, business contacts, blog, forum and so on (if you know what you are doing). MySQL has many levels – Easy-ish Management via phpMyAdmin to Nightmare-ish Complex Programming.
MySQL is also closely associated with the PHP scripting (programming) language. Many Forums, Blogs, Guest Books and Mailing Lists for example use a PHP Script and at least one MySQL Database. Therefore, when choosing a web hosting package you need to consider that a Blog, Forum and Mailing List will require three MySQL Databases. If you are short on databases you can get around this problem by using one MySQL Database to create three separate Tables (Databases technically).
MySQL and PHP are a good team. PHP Scripts normally set up and/or initialize MySQL Databases for you. So do not be put off by MySQL.
10 MySQL Databases and upwards is adequate these days.
Web Space
Web Space is the actual storage space allocated for your entire website – Storage space for your Emails, FTP Storage Space, Forum, Blog, Mailing List, MySQL Databases, Guest Book, Media Gallery, Internal (Web Host) Files, Web Pages (HTML files – Graphics, Text, Music and Video) and so on.
If your website is going to sell an Offline Product, such as Shoes, you should be looking at web space in the region of 50-100 MegaBytes. This should be enough space to store a reasonably sized photo based catalogue on. And for a website selling an Online Product, such as Music, you should be looking at 100-500 MegaBytes of web space depending on the number of music files and their file size combined of course.
50 – 500MB Web Space
POP3 E-Mail Accounts
POP3 is the protocol (format) used to describe Incoming/Receiving E-Mail Accounts that can be incorporated into an E-Mail Client (program) such as Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Mozilla Thunderbird. In other words. You can read your website e-mails from within those programs using the POP3 protocol.
The number listed next to a POP3 Accounts description will be the maximum number of E-Mail Addresses (E-Mail Accounts) you can set up for your website. IMAP is another protocol.
The minimum number of POP3 E-Mail Accounts needed in todays climate should be at least four – sales@…, info@…, contact@… and support@… Not to mention any e-mail addresses you need for employees, family members and so on.
20 POP3 E-Mail Accounts and upwards is adequate these days.
Mailing Lists
A Mailing List allows you to create a list of e-mail addresses for your members, clients and so on. Once created you can then compose an e-mail and send it out to all those in the mailing list, in one go if your web hosting provider and ISP (Internet Service Provider) allows it. So if you needed to send out a “Special Offers” e-mail to 40 e-mail addresses for example it would be wise to create a mailing list for those 40 e-mail addresses first.
So why not just use an e-mail client such as Windows Live Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird to do the job for example? Well you could in theory but mailing list software is much more dedicated to your mailing list needs.
Due to people/companies spamming/junk mailing people these days some web hosting providers and/or ISPs do not allow a certain amount of e-mails to be sent in one go. So check with them first what their e-mail limits are because both might have different limits. Sending 40 e-mails should not be a problem though, especially if you use Authentication with your e-mail address. In other words, they should allow 40 e-mails to be sent because they know it is you.
1 – 4 Mailing Lists should be adequate for a standard business/website.
Shopping Cart
Having a proper Shopping Cart on your website allows you to accept/receive Debit/Credit Card information via email/website notification. By proper I mean it may have been installed/built using your Control Panel but has later had its PHP Script(s) programmed/tweaked by a programmer to blend in more with your website and/or your language. In other words. With a proper shopping cart (such as Agora) you are in control of the coding and credit card side of things but they require programming knowledge.
The opposite of a proper shopping cart is to build your own shopping cart web pages, in HTML/CSS code for example, and then attach a Payment Merchant’s buttons to them – BUY NOW, VIEW CART and so on. A Payment Merchant is a company, such as PayPal), that gives you the facility to carry out Online Bank Transactions (i.e. Withdrawals and Deposits) and create HTML buttons that, once clicked on, take care of the purchase/payment for you. So in some respects the proper shopping cart is not always the best approach.
A good Control Panel will have a Library Of Scripts inside it that allows you to install PHP Scripts/Programs such as a Guest Book, Forum, Blog, Shopping Cart and so on. Alternatively. You may be able to find a particular, updated, PHP Script/Program on the internet and install it yourself.
1 – 3 Shopping Carts
Standard Features
These features should be standard and a part of your Control Panel. If they are not listed in the web hosting package ask the web hosting provider if they are supported/included. If they are not, look for another web hosting provider.
Folder Password Protection - Allows you to create separate Folders in your web space, with a Title, UserName & Password which is good if you want to have a private area of your website for members or family only for example.
Perl / CGI Support - Besides PHP and MySQL Databases other programs are written in the Perl programming language which goes hand-in-hand with CGI. Basically, Shopping Carts and so on use Perl and CGI.
SSL Support - SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is basically the Security PadLock you see on a web browser’s Address Bar edit box. When you are paying for something online the URL (website address) of the payment page changes from http: //whatever to https: //whatever and then a Security PadLock appears at the end of the Address Bar edit box (after the URL). So if you want a secure payments web page for your Shopping Cart for example you need to ask the web hosting provider to host your website on a SSL Server (Secure Computer), as it is standard practise to put newcomers on a non-SSL hosted server.
MIME Type support - To display Pictures, and play Audio/Video, from your website you need to make sure you have the MIME Types (File Formats) tool in your control panel. Although most of the common MIME Types will have been set up for you this tool will allow you to delete old MIME Types and add new MIME Types as you see fit.
Website Statistics - Your control panel should come with some sort of Website Statistics tool that allows you to analyse visitor data (Number of Visits, Web Browser used, Who is linking to your website, Keywords used to find your website and so on). AWStats is one of the better statistics tools.
Hot Link Protection - Allows you to stop people from linking to your files (i.e. images) and stealing your bandwidth. For example. If someone links to your image (i.e. computer.jpg) in order to display it on their website this is known has bandwidth theft. Why? Because people visit their website and see your image (computer.jpg), that had to be downloaded from your website using your bandwidth and not theirs. So they are stealing your bandwidth and your image really.
Quality
A Quality web hosting provider should have the following.
24/7 Support - A good web hosting provider will give Telephone and/or Email support 24 Hours A Day, Seven Days A Week. A sign of quality here is the response time. An answer within 20 – 40 Minutes is excellent.
Daily Backup - This means your web hosting provider will backup your website once a day, as opposed to weekly for example. This in turn means if their server crashes/freezes they can restore your previous day’s website. Saying this, you should always have a copy of your website files on your own computer, on a cd, on a flash drive and so on. If a programmer did your website ask them for the original codes (templates, web pages, images, etc).
Operate Own Servers - If a web hosting provider operates their own servers they will be in a better position to fix any, networking, problems (crashes/freezes).
99% Uptime - This means your website should be live on the internet 99% of the time, with only 1% risk of it not being live on the internet. Or put another way, your web hosting provider’s server should only crash/freeze 1% of the time. This ideally means your website should never be unavailable. And if it is, it should only be unavailable for a total of 3-4 days of the year and only unavailable for 1-3 hours in each of those days.
Established – Look for a web hosting provider that has good knowledge, experience and expertise of Networking and Programming. It is not good if they have a beautifully set up network but with no in-depth knowledge, experience and/or expertise of CGI, MySQL or PHP programming for example. In other words, you do not need a “Call Center” type of web hosting provider whereby you contact them and they go through the Standard-Procedures book before telling you “We cannot help you…..We cannot emulate/fix your problem”.
They should have an engineer around, or at least a book to hand, for example that can emulate general problems and/or fix general problems, within a reasonable length of time in order to back up their claims of 99% uptime. Or put another way. They should not flog you off with excuses when things go wrong and when they cannot fix your, general, problem. As an inexperienced website owner you might delete a folder/file one day that breaks some part of your blog for example. Having a good web hosting provider that can guide you towards fixing that blog is a sign of quality.
General Notes
Some control panel tools can be substituted by downloading/installing, updated, versions of them or by downloading/installing similar tools to them. For example. If your control panel comes with the Blog called WordPress 2.0.5 (old version) you could delete it from your website (making the control panel side redundant) and then download/install WordPress 2.9.2 (latest version at present time). The same applies to other tools.
You could replace your mailing list with phpList 2.10.10 for example. Although your web hosting provider may seem to give you a lot of control panel tools, a lot of them might be out-of-date by as much as a couple of years. It depends how good the web hosting provider is at updating control panel tools.
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Exploring features of Magneto web hosting
If you happen to preparing to get started in ecommerce business, the platform whereby you can be your goods and services will have to be built in such a technique to make certain that it have no loopholes. For the reason that ecommerce business centered on your online website, this really is ones own
E-commerce internet site. You actually put a bunch of efforts for making your internet business flourishing, so your web based platform is owed to become the ideal one. There are plenty of free offerings found in internet to set up and organize ecommerce websites. Though, becoming a triumphant entrepreneur, you should give attention to quality for the reason that ecommerce business is focused quality from your internet store. One of the greatest offerings which can get your internet business to advanced stage is Magento web hosting. The majority of successful web based business entrepreneurs are having this platform since it offers them numerous benefits
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There are numerous features for you to select Magento Ecommerce hosting platform and few of them are outlined below:
Getting the traffic
Certainly, for everybody who is maintaining ecommerce enterprise, getting the traffic could well be a primary objective since further website traffic would mean a lot more odds of conversion level. Using Magneto web hosting, being a vital component to ecommerce internet hosting, can allow you a lead of fantastic rank in search engines. Your web based platform will force search engines to watch more to your internet-site. For that reason, it may help in enhancing the website traffic into your internet site.
Promotion
With the help of magneto web hosting you can get the customer’s fed back for your products and this really works well in case of online portals. Imagine an online store where you are trying to buy a thing, will you not read feedbacks of previous buyers of the products? Well you’ll surely do. Such promotion is done free of cost and in returns you will get lots of customers willing to buy your products right away.
Easy user interface
The success of any online shopping portal or eCommerce website depends on how the website is navigated and how user friendly it is. In case of Magneto web hosting platform you will get safe and secure shopping cart transactions, short and simple checkouts and payment modes. All this is very valuable if you want your clients to keep coming back to your site and make a purchase.
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HostSearch.com Features Top Rated Web Hosting Providers
HostSearch.com Features Top Rated Web Hosting Providers
(PRWEB) November 6, 2005
Leading Internet web hosting directory HostSearch.com (http://www.hostsearch.com) has made significant enhancements to the way it features reviews of hosting providers. Until recently the site provided lists of reviews for a number of different types of host. A more detailed presentation now makes the sorting and viewing of reviews of shared, dedicated, and reseller hosting providers simpler, and much easier to achieve.
HostSearch.com is the most established and trusted web hosting directory on the Internet, and allowing hosting end users to provide reviews has been the cornerstone of its success. Registered HostSearch.com users can rate hosts using a scale of ‘0’ to ‘4’ against a range of criteria including ‘Reliability/Uptime’, ‘Technical Support’, ‘Customer Service and Billing’, ‘Server and Network Speed’, and ‘Price and Value for Money’. The site tabulates an average of all scores provided to give an overall assessment of a host’s services. It also tabulates results of the top rated hosts over a period of the previous 30 days and the ‘Top Rated Hosts of All Time’. Users may also leave written comments about any host they have experience of as part of their reviews. Providing easier access to reviews for visitors is seen as a significant improvement in end user experience.
HostSearch.com was the first web site to offer web hosting user reviews, introducing the functionality in 1999. It is believed to be the world’s largest source of reviews of web hosts and contains information about providers from all corners of the world. As a result, it has become a vital resource to members of the global web hosting community, and allowing visitors to provide reviews and comments has been central to the development of this role.
“The fact that people can share their experience of web hosts with others makes HostSearch.com invaluable to those looking for information on potential providers,” said HostSearch.com CEO Mr. Charnchon Lavitrangsima. “Every care is taken to ensure that reviews are genuine and that comments fair. When reviews are disputed, we follow them up and although it’s a time consuming process, we try our utmost to ensure all reviews are based in fact. With more results of reviews for visitors to consider, HostSearch.com now adds even greater value to the web hosting community,” he added.
For further details about HostSearch.com visit the site on http://www.hostsearch.com.
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Top 5 Must Have Web Hosting Plan Features
There are hundreds of Web Hosting companies providing thousands of web hosting plans making it difficult to choose the plan with the right features. Have you ever thought of what features that you want in a hosting plan or are you the one who choose their plans based on price. Well even if you choose your hosting plan based on money terms, look out for the following top five features.
These are the must have features in any web hosting plan, without them you might hit a dead end, ah sometimes. So if you are serious about your online business or even your blog, then you wouldn’t compromise on not having these web hosting features.
Now lets dig deep and find the “Top 5 Must Have Web Hosting Plan Features” that you should have in your next hosting plan :
Unlimited Disk Space: When possible, always choose the Web Hosting plan with unlimited disk storage or space. This will be useful when you need to add more content to your website or want to add social features such as photo gallery or videos online.
Unlimited Transfers: choosing unlimited monthly transfers or bandwidth in your Web Hosting plan will ensure that you have enough capacity to attract large volumes of users and very useful when you target larger audience.
Server Uptime: it is imperative that your visitors must be able to see your website at all time. So having a Web Hosting plan with guaranteed uptime is the lifeline of your website. Hosting plan with anything below 99.9% (0.1% is act of god) should never be chosen.
24 Hrs Support: service and quick support at all times gives your business peace of mind. When choosing a Web Hosting plan choose one with 24 hrs support be it phone, email or even live chat support. This will help you fix things when it doesn’t go your way.
Avoid Long Term Contract: web hosting plan should be flexible and affordable. The plan should not commit your business to long periods. You should be able to upgrade or change your hosting company when it suits you. Contracts less than 1 or 2 years are appropriate lengths. One should be aware that monthly plans are bit expensive.
You should also consider your own business needs and financial circumstances when considering the above features. Always choose a hosting plan that suits your need.
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What features to look while Choosing adult site hosting provider
Adult means those people are under the legal age of 18 and above stipulated by different governments to enable them to either vote, smoke, drink, marry, see some movies, to enter into some kind of examinations, to watch adult sites or dating sites, etc.
There are a lot of hosting companies who allow adult contents in their sites and many companies don’t. Many countries in the world would not allow adults web sites from running in their country such as Arab countries where those site are blocked from accessing them. Even though they are blocked by many countries, adult contents are the most watched item in the internet.
Due to its popularity, there are some criteria to host adult sites and one of them is legal requirements, the necessary permission to host them. The adult hosting required more space than the normal web sites because of the images that may require to load. Some sites allow even adult videos and more space and continuous streaming required for them. Bandwidth issues are another feature where the speed of the site opening or image opening is important. Some hosts will not allow you to upload any kind of file extensions such as .avi (video) because of space constraints. Normally allowed file extensions are .html, .zip, .cgi, .php, etc. Many hosts offering unlimited space because of the traffic expected from such sites. Like other hosting, uptime is important here also. A hosting with 100% uptime always is difficult, but a downtime will cost many clients turning off the site and huge loss of client base.
It is very important to read the Terms of Service stipulated by some hosting companies. There will be lot of hidden charges associated with many of them. Some of them will suspend your site without giving you any notice because of your lower payment terms may not be viable for them or some other issues. Since adult sites required to be with lot space and bandwidth because of the traffic, images and movies many hosts will face server issues since most of them might be overcrowded.
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My Web Hosting Features
Explanations to all web hosting cpanel account features that comes with every purchase.
99% Uptime Guarantee – A promise that your website will not be disconnected to the internet. 99% means your website will be connected to internet only next to daily server maintainance such as daily reboots.
Domains and FTP
Addon Domains/Parked Domains – The number of additional domain names allowed to be hosted under the current plan.
Sub Domains – The number of new domains your allowed to create from your current domain name under the current plan.
FTP Accounts – FTP stands for file transfer protocol. A FTP account allows you to create directories under your website for others to access files. Transfering files to your website is done by a FTP program.
Anonymous FTP – Allows others to transfer or views files without a required login.
Supported features
MySQL Databases – Allows installations or creations of popular scripts and programs such as forums.
CGI – Allows installations or creations of popular scripts and programs such as forums.
PHP4 & 5 – Allows installations or creations of popular scripts and programs such as forums.
Ruby on Rails – An open source web framework optimized for writting codes or coding
SSH – Allows the integration of developing and debugging files with text editors such as vim or nano.
Perl – Allows installations or creations of popular scripts and programs such as forums.
Chilisoft ASP – Creates dynamic web based applications by combining scripts, html, customer server components and robust database publishing.
Python – Allows installations or creations of popular scripts and programs such as forums.
SSI- Perl based HTML commands that optimizes the directing of a server to a web page.
Cron – Allows scheduled timings of commands.
Frontpage – A Microsoft application that allows you to create and upload websites.
Curl – A command line tool for transferring files with url syntax.
GD – Creates images such as PNG and JPEG.
Image Magick – A collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many formats.
Streaming Audio/Video – Allows video and audio files to shown and viewed on your website.
Free Module Installation -
POP 3 Accounts – POP accounts are used to send and receive emails through programs such as Outlook Express or Eudora.
Web Mail – Send and receive emails by online
Email Alias – Allows you to setup multiple email addresses to go to a single mail box.
Auto Responders – Create instant automatic replies for recieved incoming email messages.
Mailing Lists – Create a email group to send out messages instantaneously.
Catch Alls – Allows to relocate and catch all emails sent out to wrong email addresses.
Spam Assassin – Blocks spam getting sent to your email.
Mail Forwarding – Forward emails to desired email addresses.
IMAP Support – “IMAP permits a “client” email program to access remote message stores as if they were local.”
SMTP – Enables outgoing email messages.
Conrol panel features
Fantastico – Automatically installs scripts to your website.
Soho Lauch – A creation website application.
Hotlink Protection – Protects your website from links being stolen to be used on other websites.
IP Deny Manager – Allows you to block, control and manage all users accessing your website.
Custom Error Pages – Customize errors and non existant pages for redirection.
Instant Blogs – Automatically creates blogs
Instant Portals – Automatically installs protals.
Instant PHPNuke – Automatically creates and installs PHP Nukes
Instant Forums – Automatically creates and installs forums.
Instant Guest Books – Automatically creates and installs guest books.
Instant Counter – Allows you to track the number of visitors of your websites.
Instant FormMail – Automatically create email forms for your website.
Redirect URL – Redirect your website addresses to another.
Web Based File Manager – An application tool that allows you to upload files through the web by control panel.
PW Protected Directories – Protect your website with passwords.
phpMyAdmin – Allows easy management of your databases.
Web FTP Statistics
AWStats – Real time updates and stats
Webalizer – Displays website traffic statistics.
Raw Log Manager – Allows you to download your website raw logs.
Referrer Logs – Track your websites traffic and visitors.
Error Logs – Notifies you of any visitors recieving web errors.
E-commerce Features
Shared SSL – SSL encrypts confidential data such as credit card numbers and passwords.
Private SSL – Encrypts confidential data such as credit card numbers and passwords on a private server.
Agora Cart – A shopping cart
osCommerce – A shopping cart
ZenCart- A shopping cart
CubeCart- A shopping cart
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Internet search engine key terms also referred to as search engine optimization or SEO is a procedure where you can tactically place keywords and phrases in your web site to achieve the edge of all look ups for that distinct key word. Accomplishing this prudently will enable you to get lots of targeted visitors to your site that happen to be all fascinated by ones product or company. This significantly grows the chance of creating a sale.
As an example, when you had a web site about dog training and you found a great key phrase (high month to month queries with low contest) you could use that key phrase in ones blog posts, articles or blog posts and perhaps in the pages of your website. Let’s consider the search term had been “dog training book” whenever anyone did a search for dog training book your web site is among the list of 1st to appear, needless to say that is if you’ve picked the correct search phrase and there isn’t a lot rivalry for that key phrase. All that targeted visitors would be free of charge because the key phrase is mostly about a specific goods, an electronic book, that most likely suggests that numerous of the people who visit your site are all set to make a buy.
When it comes to finding the perfect internet search engine keywords you’ve got plenty of choices. You will find numerous computer software instruments out that could help you speed up the method and find those key phrases that meet whatever parameters you indicate. Do not forget, that there are a few differences of opinion when considering what exact number comprises a ‘lot’ of researches or a ‘little’ rivalry.
The Google Search phrase Tool is one of the nearly all often employed plus it is cost-free. Working with it can assist you find a long list of search terms which may meet all your wants. In the event you are able to afford to invest in a search term tool you really ought to, while the Google key phrase tool is helpful, you have to don’t forget that it only has small features and that anyone else is working with it. That indicates you and also hundreds, maybe tons of tons, of online marketers are implementing it too. Having the ability to use a unique tool that should drill down somewhat way more and provide you with some more one of a kind search term selections can help you a lot.
A paid for keyword and key phrase tool will frequently provide you with even more details compared to basically the volume of lookups and the degree of contest. Many of them will also let you fully understand how robust the battle is (after all, if the rivals are fragile, it does not matter as much if you’ll find lots of them since you realize what you’re doing much more than they are doing and you’ll be way more competing). A different feature multiple keyword and key phrase devices have is the capacity to let you realize how most likely a person should be to make a purchase dependent on the search term they are trying to find.
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How to Choose a Web Host? List of Important Features
There are thousands of webhosting companies in the industry screening for business. To ensure one makes best of ones decision possible consider the points mentioned here.
1. Server Space
First think to consider is the amount of space ones site will acquire on a server. Files might require just 1 and 5 megabyte of disk space unless one is planning to run a software repository or an image gallery. Just to out perform their competitors many companies offer several hundreds of megabytes of webspace for a very rational price. Before taking that much space one should question oneself whether that much space will be required ever. Though one should allow extra space for site to grow in future but at the same time one should not opt for a great deal on an extraordinarily sized account if one will never use all of the space which is being offered. One can always find a better deal with amount of space which would be more suitable for ones site size.
2. Data Transfer Allowance
Decision for Data Transfer Allowance should be based upon the above principal. Many are under the impression that their sites would be equal to next Yahoo or Amazon and would be receiving enormous number of visitors daily but one does not require extremely high data transfer allowance unless and until as stated above one is running a software download site or a large image gallery. One should not exceed ones limit just because one is getting an awesome deal as even heavily trafficked normal HTML sites usually use s just a small amount of gigabytes every month in bandwidth allowance. Many companies are offering “unlimited” data transfer if one is planning to go for such an offer, be sure to read terms and conditions very carefully before opting for this type of account as there are generally some fine-print stipulations that make this claim not entirely true. For a small to medium sized business or personal site. A five or ten gigabyte bandwidth allowance is usually ample enough.
3. Technical Support
When choosing a web host types of technical support offered by the company and how easy they are to contact when needed is a very important point to consider. There are companies who do not even offer their contact number on their website though ideally a company has to offer 24/7 toll-free telephone support and email. Company that is very easily accessible in the time of need should be looked for. If one is in the mid of working on ones site and an important piece of information is required to conclude the job but is not able to contact the hosting company to get the information can be very frustrating.
4. CGI-Bin Access
Whether it is a contact form processor, mailing list management script or may be even a fancy credit card processing script one needs to install some type of CGI script eventually no matter what type of site one is planning on running. Hosting account will need to allow one to install and run them. One requires access to a special folder on ones server called “CGI-Bin”. Because of security measure only “pre-installed” scripts are allowed to use by few hosting accounts. As these scripts are already installed and configured by the owners of the company they are aware that these scripts will work properly and will not affect their server’s performance adversely. If one is acquainted with scripts, it’s always better to install ones own scripts that suit ones individual needs and configure them. One should make sure that the account one is using should support the languages like PHP, Perl, etc in which scripts are written
5. Up-Time Guarantee
How often and for how long servers “go down” for the webhosting company one is going to choose is a very important factor to be valued. Remember site cannot receive visitors or produce revenue if the machine on which it is hosted is not up and running no matter one has got a good deal on server space, bandwidth allowance, or tech support service is good. So select a company which can guarantee the highest up-time percentage possible. Its true that none of the company can offer 100% uptime as servers are taken down temporarily from time to time for maintenance or upgrading purposes but one always wants ones site to be hosted on dependable, well managed machines that do not have problems frequently and are down for long periods of time.
6. Email Accounts
Some companies offers heaps more email accounts than required just like transfer allowance and server space. Few even offer hundreds or even unlimited email accounts as a selling point. If one is just one person or is a small company 10 or 15 is enough but this can be an important factor if one is having thousands of employees each requiring email box.
7. Reputation
Last but not the least this is one of the most important factor to be considered while one is choosing ones web host. Today there are numerous sites around the Web featuring discussion forums that permit people to discuss and critique various hosting companies. Be aware of any negative feedback one may hear or read about a particular hosting company. Try Putting up questions about any company one might be interested in using to check if someone had any negative experiences with that company. While beginning a business one of my friend contacted a company to host his site and he was promised good, dependable service at a very low price. But for no obvious reason his entire site was deleted without giving any warning or explanation. He then visited few forums and found that many had negative experiences with that hosting company. So my suggestion is to not make the same mistake which my friend did so search out from beginning and make sure that the hosting company one chooses will not let one down.
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Current Inimitable Features for Client From the Hands of Top Web Hosts
In the current event of time, some web hosts are offering additional features compare to others to the clients for the same price or even for a lower price. One cannot deny the fact that as due to cut – throat competition in the market several hosting providers are trying desperately to stay outstanding by adopting various methods. As a consequence, the web hosting service standards improved a lot and constantly is on verge of rising and evidently the clients are constantly enjoying the taste of amazing new features that were previously not there. Given below are the few things, which some web hosts frequently offer to their clients.
1.) Due to competitive market scenario website hosts are coming forward to assist the clients in the purpose of publishing and managing their own email newsletters or eZines. It is one of the most effective marketing weapons that promote sales. But some hosts go two-step forward by offering an infinite amount of auto responders. This assists a site owner automatically to pursue with prospects and therefore probability of making sale become significantly higher.
2.) In the contemporary era of time one can easily get the facility of hosting services that assists him/her to set up one’s own affiliate program which is verified to be the most successful route to grab traffic and profits for webmasters. There are several good sites like Amazon.com, which enables other website owners to promote their site and products on their site and in return can earn commissions from the sales that result from traffic that they have referred to one’s site as well.
3.) If one talks about the third most popular feature then it will probably be the service provided by the host to the users to protect their download page where the user is selling digital products for e.g. e-books, software etc. from his/her site. As in the current time period increasing number of hackers is a contentious issue and such sort of services definitely going to act as a pain killer for many webmasters.
4.) A few hosting services are also taking into account the hastily increasing threat of junk mail and offer quality filters to protect one’s email accounts. A few hosting providers even provide built-in anti-virus software in order that email that come to the inbox of the user along with the company of viruses, is automatically deleted.
Thus, above mentioned are the extra services, which hosts provide to the client. Thus, one can rightly say that,” The war between two, benefit the third party”.
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An unprotected web server is an open invitation to shady, ill intent web surfers. A good number of viruses and malware applications are spread throughout the internet due to compromised websites. Microsoft Internet Information Services or IIS is one of the most popular web servers in use on the internet. Its popularity has also made it a favorite target for hackers. The following tips and suggestions are industry standard best practices that can help shield and protect IIS based web servers from malicious internet activity.
IIS 6 and 7 are the most recent versions of the web server component included with Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 respectively. A firewall is a key element that should be implemented in any IIS protection strategy. Utilizing the built-in Windows Server firewall or implementing a hardware based dedicated firewall solution are both good options if configured properly. The firewall should allow only http traffic to be accessible from the internet. If a publicly accessible IIS installation is part of a corporate internal network then consider placing it in a demilitarized zone or DMZ. A DMZ often refers to the segment of a computer network that sits apart logically or physically from an internal core network. In this self contained network segment, inbound internet traffic can pass through to the web servers but not the internal core network.
Another important aspect of protecting IIS is to configure the host operating system in a way that minimizes its exposure to internet based attacks. This can be done by disabling services and features in the operating system that are not necessary for the IIS component to function. Make sure Windows is always fully updated with the latest critical and recommended Microsoft updates. A periodic or frequent external port scan of IIS and web servers in general by in house technical personnel or professional security consultants is a good way to audit and review potential security risks from a hacker point of view. Most internet hackers use port scanners to detect and exploit vulnerabilities.
Physical access to web servers should be monitored and protected from external and internal threats. Implement a strong password policy to prevent successful guessing and brute force dictionary attacks at the web server login screen.
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