Hosting types in a nutshell!
Hosting types in a nutshell!
This article will end confusion about different hosting types. Below are described all hosting types you need to know about.
Free hosting - is a type of hosting where you don’t have to pay for your space with money, but the service is often compensated with advertisements. Free hosting offers poor or no support at all and has many other disadvantages. Free hosting is more a thing of past, since hosting has become very cheap.
Shared hosting - is the most popular and widely used type of web hosting. Shared means that multiple sites are hosted on the same hard drive and the same server. Each user is limited to a specific space allotment and data transfer.
Reseller hosting - means reselling hosting accounts for a web host under your own brand, pricing structure and everything else. Reseller is provided with all the things he needs, and does not need any hardware. His job is marketing and selling accounts.
Virtual Private Server - is a low cost solution for your own server. Virtual means that you do not rent a real server, but rather split hardware with other virtual servers on the same machine. However Virtual Private Server (often called VPS) provides everything that a real server does: root access, installing your own programs, hosting unlimited domains and more.
Dedicated Server - is an advanced type of hosting which includes rental and exclusive use of a computer, software and internet connection. Dedicated server provides far more control than any other type of hosting, but also means a greater responsibility, since the client has to manage the server himself. Dedicated server is the best solution for big web sites with lots of daily users.
Managed hosting - is an expanded dedicated server hosting. With dedicated server the client takes care of the server, but with managed hosting it is the responsibility of the hosting provider. It includes all the benefits of dedicated server plus server management, maintenance and monitoring 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Colocation - is a type of hosting where you bring your own server to your hosts data center. Hosting company provides you rack space, internet connection, controlled environment (air temperature, security, redundancy) and IT staff available for help.
Clustered hosting - is a hosting type used by the greatest and most important web sites. Clustered means that the same content is served on multiple servers (often referred as mirrors). This enables better resource managing and redundancy.
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Finding The Right Professional web hosting services
For your website to be part of the Internet, it needs a name and address. The name is the domain name you register which is the address to your website. You get your address by buying web hosting from a website hosting service. It then installs your website on its server which is connected to the Internet. Now you’re part of the World Wide Web and surfers can find you. In this article, we’ll look at how to find the right professional website hosting service for your needs.
First, let’s look at the types of website hosting plans available. The most basic plan is known as shared website hosting. This means that a number of websites are hosted on the same server. However, if your site is extremely resourceful and intensive, you might choose a dedicated website hosting service. This is an expanded form of dedicated hosting in which your website hosting company manages your dedicated server for you.
So how do you go about choosing the ideal website hosting service for yourself where there are thousands of website design companies that offer professional web hosting services? First you have to determine the specific requirements of your website hosting. The first requirement is technical. It covers the server platform and hardware.
The server platform is the operating system the server runs and is either Windows or a Unix OS such as Linux. Each OS has its own set of features. Your choice depends on the type of website you’re planning. If you’re just going to use static web pages, then either is fine. But if you’re looking to incorporate dynamic content such as databases or shopping carts, you need to consider what type of server the scripts run on. For example, if you’re planning on using Microsoft applications such as MS Access, or SQL server, then you’ll need a server running Windows, all these technical issues can be discussed with professional web hosting services, most of these services are also offered by professional web hosting companies in the UK.
Then there are hardware requirements such as disk space and bandwidth. These determine the amount of data you can store on your website and the volume of data you can send and receive. These specifications can vary between different professional web hosting companies in the UK. Similarly, your bandwidth requirement will depend on your anticipated site traffic. It’s wise to err on the side of caution as a data volume higher than that stipulated in your agreement can attract high surplus charges. An important related consideration is scalability. You should look for website hosting services that allow future seamless upgrading should your requirements grow in the future.
Next, there’s the matter of your actual operating needs. This concerns such matters as how many email accounts and sub domains you require. As a minimum you should go for hosting that offers 20 email addresses and 20 sub-domains. But these numbers can be much higher depending on your requirements. For example, some hosting plans allow unlimited domains. You should also make sure your website hosting services offers a control panel which gives a graphical interface to access configuration and statistics.
Finally there’s the matter of reliability, customer service and support. Your website hosting Service Company should be able to guarantee 99% server up time. And 24-7 technical support is essential.
So how do you go about looking for a website hosting services? First, you have to determine the technical requirements outlined above. Then look for established companies and make a shortlist. Next, check on forums and review sites for reviews and feedback on your short listed professional web hosting services companies. The length of time the firm has been in business is a good indicator of their level of professionalism and stability. Cost is important but it shouldn’t be your main criterion.
There are many professional web hosting companies in the UK for you to choose from. Often website design companies or web design and development companies will offer this service. It’s generally best to entrust website design companies which can provide all your web development needs. This results in efficiency and clear communication as you only have to deal with one website Design Company.
Andy Lomax owns and runs <a href="http://www.kudoswebdesign.co.uk/" title="Kudos Web Design">Kudos Web Design</a> one of the Leading Web Design companies in Manchester.
ResellersPanel Launches Version 2.0 of Its Control Panel and a New Web Hosting Plan
ResellersPanel, the free web hosting reseller program, announces that the new version of its Resellers Control Panel, simply named Resellers Panel v2, has been built, tested and launched. Some of the upgrades include better client management tools, a new Invoice Manager section, an improved statistics section with more details and an easier to work with main navigation menu with modified titles and descriptions of the different sections. Resellers Panel v2 now offers technical support through a new trouble ticket system, where the resellers can request help by opening a ticket or themselves provide direct support to their existing hosting customers.
New updates to the clients’ hosting control panel, which is now available also in Dutch, have been made as well. They include multi-year bulk domain registration and multi-domain registration/transfer options, PHP5 support, new Registrar-Lock Status/Obtain EPP Key/Invite a Friend options, an RSS news generator, which allows the hosting clients to add free news content onto their websites, and an SPF protection section where they can specify which computers are authorized to send email from a specific domain and thus ensure their internet privacy. Easy-to-understand help tooltips have been added as well so that if a given hosting client is not sure what a certain section of the control panel does, they can simply point the mouse over the respective icon and learn more.
ResellersPanel has also launched a new web hosting plan - the Enterprise plan, which is suitable for medium and large enterprises, as well as for web designers, webmasters and advanced internet users, and which offers 40 GB of Disk Space, 500 GB of Bandwidth, the ability to host unlimited domains, sub-domains, e-mails, databases and more. The Business and the Corporate plans have been improved as well so that the resellers and their clients can now host several domain names in a single account.
Nick Blaskov, CFO of ResellersPanel, said that the new version of the control panel offers a large selection of new options, which will help the reseller hosting entrepreneurs to more easily and successfully run their online businesses, that from now on their clients will be able to register up to 50 domain names at once and modify their MX records, and that ResellersPanel will continue the development of its hosting platform by introducing a server load balancing cluster technology for all hosting accounts, multi-currency pricing and payments support, and a new kind of parked domains management.
Contact ResellersPanel at:
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My name is Ross Todoroff. I am the PR officer of ResellersPanel - a UK-based reseller hosting provider established in 1999, which boasts some 50 000 resellers, and which makes it possible for everyone to resell web hosting and domain names without any investments.
The business of being green
Does your business take green IT seriously? Well it should, because ignoring climate change could cost you money and harm your credibility. There are now over 1.1 billion computers in operation worldwide, collectively producing about one billion tonnes of CO2 through their electricity requirements. E-waste is serious headache too with computers, mobile phones and electronic gadgets now accounting for 5% of the world’s garbage (www.unep.org). But surely small IT companies don’t need to be worrying about that kind of thing? Actually, they do - there are solid reasons why all businesses should be going greener, and not just because of the do-gooder’s warm fuzzy feelings to be had! Over 70% of PCs will not be recycled when disposed of over the next five years, and globally we will dispose of 512 million. We are now legally obliged to dispose of PC equipment properly, and that normally incurs charges. Thankfully there is a free and simple, if underused, alternative; lots of people in the world are in dire need of our “outdated” computers, so donate them to the likes of www.computeraid.org. For safety, I would suggest you scrub your drives first (try dban.sourceforge.net). More regulation info at www.netregs.gov.uk. Perhaps more importantly, consumers and businesses are increasingly taking note of how the products and services they use impact the environment. Memset (www.memset.com) became the UK’s first “carbon neutral” Web host last Summer and that has definitely helped us win more business, which is also probably why so many other dedicated server hosts are following suit. Carbon offsetting Things like travel, electricity usage and product manufacture have a “carbon footprint”; the quantity of greenhouse gases directly or indirectly produced as a result of those activities. Most activities are impossible to make 100% green, but you can offset the effective carbon impact by investing in carbon sequestration projects (eg. planting trees) or in greener power generation facilities (eg. wind farms), thus becoming “carbon neutral”. Organisations like the CarbonNeutral Company (www.carbonneutral.com) and the Carbon Trust (www.carbontrust.co.uk) can guide you through offsetting, and it is neither expensive nor difficult. For example, an average small office with 10 staff might have equivalent emissions of 20 tonnes CO2/year, which would probably only cost around 200/year to offset. As well as giving you more credibility in today’s increasingly enviro-friendly world, taking a few hours to review your carbon footprint can lead to some worthwhile cost savings as well. A simple example is turning off (or hibernating if, like me, you hate rebooting and getting back to where you were each morning) your PC at night. A recent study by Fujitsu estimated that the UK alone wastes 123m on electricity powering PCs left on out-of-hours. See www.energysavingtrust.org.uk for general energy-efficiency tips. Virtually greener Carbon offsetting is all good stuff, but when it comes to IT power consumption, prevention is better than cure. Demand for high-availability, centralised server resource is growing relentlessly, and high-density computing uses a lot of energy. Even a base-spec 1U rackmount server will burn 100-200 Watts continuously, and once you fill a few racks and add in cooling requirements you are looking at a whopping electricity bill! With energy prices doubling every few years datacentres’ power consumption is fast becoming a major issue for IT business, and is now the main cost underlying server hosting. The oddity from our perspective is that the vast bulk of servers in our datacentres idle most of the time, with perhaps 90% never getting close to full capacity. While many applications are best hosted on their own dedicated server (better security, for example), few need the full resource of a modern multi-core, gigahertz machine. That is where virtualisation comes in; the latest generation of virtual machines, using the hardware-assisted virtualisation in new AMD and Intel’s chips (eg. www.vmware.com, www.miniserver.com), are operationally indistinguishable from a physical server but use 5-20% of the electricity. The reduced power and hardware costs give you significant savings while not costing anything you actually needed in the first place, and at the same time you are tackling climate change. It can be argued that all such measures are a dribble in the ocean, and some have serious doubts about the efficacy of our whole approach to climate change. However, being more climate-friendly is not difficult for most IT businesses and almost certainly helps, so can you really afford to ignore the risks, or miss out on the benefits of going greener? Article written by Kate Craig Wood
The oddity from our perspective is that the vast bulk of servers in our datacentres idle most of the time, with perhaps 90% never getting close to full capacity. While many applications are best hosted on their own dedicated server.
Alojamento Web ” Hosting de Sites
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How to find reliable host?
There are thousands of web hosting providers in the hosting market, which one should you go for? Is it the cheapest one? Or is it the most expensive one in order to get the extra assurance?
First, you compare several webhost gathered online. Be realistic, we can’t possibly compare ALL web hosting companies. And it is not worth your time.
Besides pricing, bandwidth and space, Support is the critical factor in your decision. This is especially true if you are a newie, or you do not want to waste time figuring out what is happening. Prompt reply and help is a must.
To determine the above, collecting opinions from former and current customers will be the best. This is how you can do it, try typing in search box, “host name” +”reviews”
and you should be able to see lists of websites, hopefully covering some reviews from the web host users.
Now the above sounds easy! Unfortunately it’s time consuming. It took me about 10 hours to come up with this list.
So, if you want to tap on my list go to:
http://www.buywebbiz.com/host/comparehosting.html
Wish you success and good luck!
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