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Web Services and Url Registration
Web Services and Url Registration Choosing an appropriate domain name is very important. First and foremost, when it comes to domain names, try to stay away from the silly, stupid, ridiculous or clever. Keep your domain name simple and make it something your customers can remember if they lose the link to your business website. Take note that, while your domain name on Geocities or AOL may seem like the least expensive way to go, it may also get you dropped from certain search engines. Some search engines ignore domain addresses that reside on these free servers or on the cheap servers. Even if your site is recognized and considered by search engines, a professional domain name that uses your primary company name or associated words is likely to get more attention and be considered as a stable business by your prospective customers. Purchasing domain names are not that expensive which cost about $100 and there are many companies that can register the name for you, provided it is available and has not already been used by another company. Using one of your keywords in your domain name can increase your score on some search engines. For example, solderingirons.com could be more effective as Electric-soldering-irons.com, if that domain name was available. You might also choose to establish more than one domain name using keywords and then link your doorway domain sites to your primary site. But you will have to pay for each of the domain name and also the monthly hosting fees. It all depends on the type and size of your business and your competition. Keep in mind that some search engines disregard doorway sites. So put at least a page of content on the doorway site with some useful information and then link it to your primary site. But don t design it as an empty page. The other reason being, you can have one, three, five, or even more email addresses that all contain your business name, and give your business a professional feel. When customers get emails from dominicstone@solderingirons.com they feel as if they are dealing with a stable, professional business operation. No need for customers to understand how you manage all your email boxes on your domain. They just need to feel your business is dependable and reputable. Written by http://www.diyconservatories-and-windows.co.uk/
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How to Switch Web Hosting Companies Without Downtime
How to Switch Web Hosting Companies Without Downtime Let’s face it - quite often many people tolerate less than great service from their hosting provider simply because it can be a real pain to move your site, your domain name and your email accounts without creating major downtime for you and your site visitors. Here’s a general checklist to follow to ensure that you have the smoothest move possible, and hopefully with no down time. Note: although this procedure will work fine on most all sites, there are some template generated sites that this procedure may not apply. For example, if you have a CitySearch site then you are going to need to just rebuild a new site. Step 1: Get all of your files local. Using a basic FTP program or whatever development tool you may be using, such as FrontPage, download all current files used in your web site including graphics, html files, and anything else that may be used in your site. Most likely you already know this - but when you are copying down your files you want to keep the directory structure exactly as it is on your web server. If you built the site then most likely you already have all of this. Step 2: Analyze your hosting needs and select a new host. Is your site just basic html or will you need a Cold Fusion host or one that supports active server pages? Depending on your site needs, select a host that can provide what you need. HostChart.com features some of the most advanced and reliable hosts out there, so finding a good one should not be hard. Most hosts these days allow you to either handle the domain name change yourself, or they can handle it for you. Just so your domain name does not get switched faster than you can get your new files posted, you may want to handle the domain name change yourself. Be sure they know to still add a record the their DNS, but that you will handling the NIC record change. Step 3: Get everything loaded to your new server. Before making the domain name change, go ahead and load up all of your site files to your new host using just the IP address. If your new account does not have a dedicated IP address, then request that they create a subdomain for temporary use from their domain - something like newcustomer.hostingcompany.com for you to work with before transferring your name. Most should gladly do this for you. Although they won’t really work yet, go ahead and set up all of the email accounts that are used on your domain as well. Be sure to create a “catchall” or “wild-card” address just in case you forgot to someone - at least their email will not bounce. Step 4: Initiate the domain name record change. Either through Network Solutions or whatever registrar you used to register your domain, initiate the name change. Technically speaking the only thing that really need to be changed in your record is the name server information. If you host has not already provided you with this information, just email their support and ask what their Name Server information is. It is also a good idea to update the technical contact on your domain name record to your new host, although that is not required. Step 5: Monitor for the domain name change. Depending on who you used to register your domain through, you should get one or more emails confirming the domain name change. Once the change has been initiated it will typically take 24 - 48 hours for the entire world to see the change. This period is called propagation and is simply the time it takes for all the DNS servers around the globe to “catch up” and take note of your domains new location. Once propagation has completed its course you are free to safely cancel service with your previous host. A note about the Propagation period: As mentioned before, it takes about 24 - 48 hours for the domain name change to propagate through everyone’s DNS server. This means that during this time some people will get the new site, and some will still get the old site. As far as web surfing, that’s really no big deal but can be tricky in regards to email. Depending on where an email is from, it may go to your new email server or your old server. To safeguard against losing messages, try creating 2 accounts for your email address, and use each mail server’s IP address instead of the domain name in your POP settings. For example, if you are using mail.yourdomain.com as your pop settings, try replacing that with the IP address of your web site or email server. Creating an account that checks both mail servers insures you don’t miss any messages during this 24 - 48 hour period. About HostChart.com HostChart, a Web Hosting Resource, is a leading web hosting directory website that has been in business for over 5 years. They provide numerous web hosting articles and tutorials as well as news, interviews, and reviews. You can use their extensive set of tools to research and evaluate your current or future web hosts.
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The Future of Dedicated Hosting Delivery
For all the hype, over the last few years an increasing number of businesses have started moving not just distribution but more important business processes online in earnest. The main reason this much anticipated migration has dragged its heels is that change takes time, and businesses going online are faced with hurdles of cost, complexity, resourcing, and marketing at every step of the process.
The workhorse in terms of infrastructure of this fundamental change is hosting.
As many businesses now know, hosting has a wide range of options in terms of cost and function, but it’s the growth of Dedicated Hosting that has continued to gather momentum over recent years. The most interesting aspect of this growth is that indicators show that most businesses are at the bottom of the adoption curve and that the most aggressive growth is yet to come.
What customers want
What customers have wanted, but more importantly needed, over the past years has changed considerably. As businesses become leaner and headcounts shrink, so priorities and their drivers have changed. So-called “Have-to-haves” or essential requirements are the issues ones getting any traction, relegating “Nice-to-haves” to the back-burner until they either become irrelevant or are escalated for other reasons.
This phenomenon has seen companies spend less time, resources and money on their online presence than they might have.
Priorities have changed.
Issues that have re-prioritised the importance and investment in online presence and tools now include better brand awareness through greater exposure, increased distribution driving higher sales and new markets, and better processes to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
As customers realise that their commitment to their online tools needs to increase, so too does their requirement for effective development.
Once the development has been defined and is nearing completion, the tool requires a means of delivery, being effective hosting.
Hosting is then divided into two categories: Shared hosting (otherwise known as virtual hosting, as opposed to virtualised hosting) and dedicated hosting.
Dedicated hosting is a requirement once the environment that the developer requires becomes either more complex. or more customised than a vanilla shared hosting environment.
In short, custom development requires the freedom that only a dedicated hosting environment can deliver.
How service providers are meeting customers needs
Dedicated hosting has traditionally been delivered by Carriers, Internet Service Providers or Hosting Providers. Of these, it has quickly become apparent that hosting, particularly dedicated hosting, is a specialisation requiring specific skills to deliver the required product offerings.
As dedicated hosting growth gathers momentum, so too does the need for fast, cost effective delivery. Until recently, delivering dedicated hosting has meant a long-winded and complex process for both service provider and customer alike, involving specifying and sourcing the right hardware, burn testing, server OS configuration, application configuration, IDC installation and connectivity configuration and finally a handover to the customer to, only then, start the process of final configuration for production rollout.
The process is long-winded, expensive and complex for all parties concerned.
Issues continue for dedicated hosting servers set up this way as, when the times to upgrade disk, RAM or even the whole server, the process begins again from the start.
Virtualisation: Not as good as, better
New virtualization technology is now set to deliver dedicated hosting in a way that not only eliminates most of the complexity for both service provider and customer alike, but introduces many additional virtualised hosting benefits that have not previously existed.
For service providers, it allows scalable, profitable and fast delivery of premium dedicated hosting.
For customers, it eliminates hardware, hardware drivers and hardware upgrades. In addition, due to the features included in some server virtualisation technology, it delivers far higher levels of availability and allows clones of production environments to be created for seamless development and rollout.
Virtualisation and virtualisation
As either a service provider or a customer, it s important to understand that many different flavours of server virtualisation exist, bringing different price points, levels of resource control and base-OS independence.
Apart from resource control and allocation, stability of, and independence from, the underlying OS is essential to realising all the available benefits of server virtualisation technology and quality virtualised hosting.
Of all the current crop of server virtualisation technology, VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 seems to lead the market against all of the above criteria, combining the highest available resource control with elimination of hardware drivers. Infrastructure 3 also allows intelligent high-availability redistribution of VMs from failed physical servers to the remaining healthy servers in the farm.
Server virtualisation technology is set to expand its market share as it has in the wider server market ” it just depends on whether virtualised hosting service providers and customers alike realise the possibilities available for premium virtualised hosting.
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Domain Names and Hosting - The Basics
This article is the continuation of an earlier series… which can also be found at http://www.mydomainname101.com
Official assignment -[[ICANN]] (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has overall responsibility for managing the DNS. It controls the root domain, delegating control over each top-level domain to a [[domain name registry]]. For [[Country code top-level domain|ccTLDs]], the domain registry is typically controlled by the government of that country. ICANN has a consultation role in these domain registries but is in no position to regulate the terms and conditions of how a domain name is allocated or who allocates it in each of these country level domain registries. On the other hand, [[generic top-level domain]]s (gTLDs) are governed directly under ICANN which means all terms and conditions are defined by ICANN with the cooperation of the gTLD registries.
Domain names which are theoretically leased can be considered in the same way as real estate, due to a significant impact on online brand building, advertising, search engine optimization, etc.
A few companies have offered cheap domain names, low-cost domain names, below-cost domain names or even free domain registrations, with a variety of models adopted to recoup the costs to the provider. These usually require that domains are hosted on their site in a framework or portal, with advertising wrapped around the user’s content, revenue from which allows the provider to recoup the costs.
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What is domain name? Domain name is important for the web hosting services.
Domain name is the unique name that you choose for your web site. Web sites in the World Wide Web have their names and are identified by the domain names that correspond with numeric IP address. By the following example we will illustrate the difference between URL and domain name: URL: http://www.something.com/index.html Domain name: www.something.com Registered domain name: something.com A complete domain name consisting of a host, the second-level domain, and the top-level domain is called FQDN (fully qualified domain name). For example, www.something is a FQDN, where www is the host; something is the second-level domain; and .com is the top-level domain. A top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of an Internet domain name; that is, the letters that follow the final dot of any domain name. For example, in the domain name www.website.com, the top-level domain is .com (or COM, as domain names are not case-sensitive). There are several types of domain names: gTLD (generic top level domains) such as .com, .net, .org, .name and others ccTLD (country code top-level domains) also called as regional domain names, for example: .fr, .it, .de, .eu, .nl, .be, .ru and others. The company that is registering the domain names is called registrar, the person who registers domain name is called registrant. When you register domain name it is recommended that you pay attention on the actual registrant of your domain name as some companies register domains on their names. Domain name is always registered for a definite period; it is called domain name registration period For most of domain names the minimal registration period is one year Though for some domains (for example .uk, .mobi, .us) the minimal registration period is 2 years. The date when domain name was registered is called registration date Depending on the registration period, the domain name will have expiration date Example: domain name was registered on 1st of April 2006 It was registered for 1 year Thus domain name expiration date will be 1st of April 2007 It is always recommended that customers keep in mind their domain name expiration date and renew domain before domain expires in order to exclude any sort of downtime The information about the registrant of the domain name and its registration period are normally displayed in Whois database. Using Whois database you can determine whether domain name is available for a new registration or is already registered/taken, can determine the registrant (owner) of the domain name, domain name registration and expiration dates, IP address assigned to the particular domain name.
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THE GREAT DOMAIN RUSH!
Did you realize that it is forecast that within 10 years every PC will have its own domain and website? Did you also realize that all those websites will need hosting? When you are in business - any business - customers need to be able to find you. On the Internet, your address is your domain name and your website is your home. Originally there were only a few domain name extensions - mainly dot com, dot net and dot org. Today there are hundreds of extensions BUT dot com domain names continue to sell like hotcakes and are always going to be the most popular with most browsers defaulting to dot com addresses. Currently, there are more than 20 million dot com domains out of over 34 million total domains registered worldwide. Industry experts forecast that more than 500 million domains will be registered in the next ten years and all will need hosting! There are many FREE hosting packages available but these tend to be extremely limited in their use and come and go often disappearing with all your content. The trend is to hosting packages that offer greater flexibility and features even though they are not FREE. Advances in software programs and the fact that more and more people are wanting to do more with their websites is creating an ever increasing demand for more advanced hosting. This trend has been noticed by our hosting provider who states, ” We offer a variety of packages ranging from FREE (with a domain purchase) to thousands of dollars a year, but trends are away from the FREE package which now only accounts for about half a percent of new business. 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What do I look for in a hosting company ?
Web Hosting FAQ
Part 1
This is the one of the singular most common yet important question.
The main reason is that web masters are comparing all the WRONG Specifications with different hosting companies as nearly two thirds of what is usually offered is totally not useful to webmaster.
The most common things to look for when you are hosting a small business or personal site are :
1. Email accounts
Try to give every employees you currently have within your office, including future personal explanation plans.
2. Easy & Quick Setup
Should be less than 5 hours, as some company take up to 48 hours to set up a new account.
3. Sufficient Data Transfer
This is the most misunderstood specifications of web hosting, technically speaking most sites just only need about 1 GB. Yes, I know what you are thinking, that’s right !
4. Uptime Guarantee
This is very important. If they aren’t offering it, they can’t guarantee it which is a bad sign.
A 98% Uptime Guarantee or above is deem to be average.
5. Sufficient Disk Storage Space
Most sites only need up to 50 MB, so don’t be greedy or are enticed by the seller providing over the top storage as you won’t need it & are just paying for nothing !)
6. 24/7 Live Support
Good to have, but not necessary if you are just beginning to built your website empire as you will have to pay more for this, but it comes in real handy if you site is down !
Live chat usually works just as good as phone support.
Can I switch hosting companies if I don’t like their services ?
YES, off course. Who is there to stop you from do so ?
Unfortunately, there are many people whom do not realize how easy it is to switch hosting companies.
All you have to do is re-publish your site to the new address for the new hosting company. Most hosting companies will give you your new IP address where you can publish your site in as little as 10-20 minutes !
Just publish your site, and don’t forget to update your name servers. This just means that you will have to go to the company where you purchased your domain name, and put in the name servers that the new hosting company have.
Your domain name will point to your new hosting account in about 24 - 48 hours. Also, you will need to create your new email addresses at the new hosting company. That’s it !
So, don’t feel like you are stuck with a bad hosting company.
Because you’re not.
Do I have to buy my domain name with my hosting account ?
No & Yes.
No, you can buy your domain name anytime. So, don’t loose the domain name you want just because you are researching hosting companies. Buy that now.
But, don’t pay more than $20/year since that is the average price these days.
Yes, if you have not initially purchase it already. If you purchase domain name & hosting account together, some company whom offered both these services may at their own discretion provide a better deals or discount.
So it really depends on what you want to do.
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