Why You Should Not Use Free Web Hosting

By Dhruv Patel

If you want to start online business or want to take your local business online, you need a web site. Just making web site won't take you online. You need one reliable and good web hosting company to host your web site on the Internet. Many web masters and entrepreneurs make mistake at the beginning. They think of hosting their web site at free web hosting company. There are many problems attached with free web hosting. In this article, I am going to discuss some of them.

Advertising

The most common problem with free hosting is ads. Free hosting providers are not taking money from you but they need money to maintain their hosting service. So they will give ads on your web site and they will make money from your site. If these ads are content ads from Google AdSense or Yahoo! Publisher Network than we can understand that those ads are related to your content and it will add some value to your contents. However, in many cases these ads are not related to your contents. So your site will not make your visitors happy. You don't have any control over the ads given by your hosting company. You are forced to show their ads on your web site at the time of sign up service agreement. So there is nothing you can do about these ads.

URL and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Issue

Another big issue with free web hosting is with URL. They don't allow you to host your own domain to their hosting company. So you will have to use their sub domain to name your web site. Now you definitely don't want to name your web site using their sub domains. There is solution for this issue.

Use Redirect URL

Using redirect URL feature allows you to redirect users from your domains to the hosted sub domains. This makes sense from user point of view but redirecting creates another problem. When you redirect user from your site to another site, you are just forwarding all requests to another site. So in reality, your site doesn't have any data. When search engines like Google, Yahoo! or MSN live requests for your site, you will forward them also to another site. So search engines will think that your site doesn't have any data and they will not index your site. So there is no chance that you will get organic traffic from search engines.

Limited Control & Limited Band Width

Free hosting service providers don't give full control to you. So you cannot implement some advance operations like databases and .htaccess file. You are just given an ftp account to upload your files. No other access!

There is also a limitation on the bandwidth you use. So when you run out of your limit, your site access will be blocked. When any visitor visits your site, they will get message something like "This user has exceeded the data transfer limit. Please visit back again after a month". So nobody will get an access of your site until the end of that month.

Account Cancellation

All above problems are still fine but what if they cancel your free hosting account? Yes! It may happen. Your months of efforts to promote your site will be wasted. So there won't be any online business for you. If you are really serious about online business then don't go for free hosting service. There are many cheap and reliable hosting services available. You can use any one of them.

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What is Linux Web Hosting?

By Dhruv Patel

When you search for a web hosting company, you often find the word "Linux Web Hosting". If you are a little technical person then you might know what is linux web hosting. In this article, I am going to give you details about Linux web hosting.

What Is Linux?

To understand about Linux web hosting, you need to understand what is Linux? In simple words, Linux is an operating system just like Windows 98, Windows XP or Windows Vista. You can do your daily computer task by installing Linux on your system.

History

Linux is a Unix like operating system. Linux was developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991. Torvald wanted to make a non-commercial replacement of Minix. Eventually, he came up with Linux kernel. A kernel is a core part of Linux operating system.

Free Source Code

Linux source code is freely available to everyone. Those who have slight idea about Linux always misunderstand things. Linux itself may not be free. The source code is free if you purchase any Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu. Linux might cost you but you will get a source code free with Linux distribution. You are free to edit that source code as long as you follow the guidelines under GNU's General Public License.

What You Will Get With Linux Web Hosting?

Now you know what Linux is. You need to understand what you will get with Linux hosting and how Linux hosting works.

LAMP software bundle is used in any company providing Linux web hosting. LAMP stands for Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP/Perl/Python

Linux, you know, is an operating system. Apache is a web server. Like Linux, Apache is also an open source project. Apache is widely used web server. It's not that Apache only runs on Linux. For Windows also, Apache is available. For serving HTML pages, web server is needed. Most Linux shared hosting uses Apache to server pages.

MySQL is a database. MySQL provides multi users access to many databases. For implementing an advance application, you need database access.

PHP/Perl/Python are programming language used for making very advance web application. Most of Linux web hosting supports PHP. Perl and Python are not supported by all web hosting providers. Only few web hosting providers support Perl and Python language.

Windows Hosting Vs Linux Hosting

When you want to host your web site, you might be confused about whether to choose Windows hosting or Linux hosting. There is not a major difference between Windows hosting and Linux hosting.

Windows is a property of Microsoft. If you are going to use any Microsoft applications like ASP.Net, Visual C++ or Frontpage, then it's advisable that you use Windows hosting.

From performance point of view there is not much difference between Windows and Linux hosting. Linux systems are more stable and less vulnerable to security breach. So with Linux hosting, you can expect more up time. Linux system runs for long time without rebooting. Windows need frequent rebooting after upgrade.

Major difference comes in price. Linux hosting is cheaper than Windows hosting. So if you are looking for cheap and reliable web hosting with no special usage of any Microsoft application then you should choose Linux web hosting.

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Dedicated Servers - What it is and How it Functions?

By Alpana A

A dedicated server is basically a single server on which a number of computers can work which is totally dedicated to one customer and his/her business. We often hear about dedicated servers, but why and when does our website require this type of server is needed to be understood first. When any website gains popularity and as a reason more and more people keep visiting the site, you will require a faster downloading server because there would be thousands of users logging in at one time to check out your website for products and info. To keep a check that your website is functional and your business does not suffer in any given ways, dedicated servers handle all the jobs of your web site which in turns benefits your business.

A good web hosting company will provide their clients with a well dedicated team to handle all the issues pertaining to technical as well as customer based issues, so that the client does not get affected in any way. In large businesses, dedicated servers have a lot of advantages. Firstly, the client has the free will to customize both the setups - hardware as well as software. Data can be taken out faster and more users can access the site easily. Secondly, the client has the liberty to connect all his chains or branches by making several domains within this server. It also saves a lot of money because different outlets do not have to host their website on different servers at the same time the web sites are also very efficient and operates faster.

Dedicated servers provide a high bandwidth and web space for the business. It is more flexible than any other shared web hosting as there is no sharing of web space or bandwidth with any other company and there is total control over the web server. Ecommerce web sites, Mail servers are good examples of dedicated servers. Plus it is much safer; it provides security against data and identity theft.

The author is associated with IDS Logic offering Managed Hosting India and Web Hosting Delhi solutions.

The Advantages Resellers Have by Switching to Windows

By Tom E Silver

Many resellers might find advantages of switching to a service that sells Windows server hosting over Linux. While Linux is a very popular hosting solution, Windows offers multiple advantages that would benefit a number of people. For this reason, it can be a very good product for sellers to resell.

Windows reseller hosting is really an all in one solution to hosting. You dont have to hold multiple accounts in order to keep up with all the clients that you might have, those that are normally spread out over the various control panels that you have in Linux. This might make keeping track of clients so much easier and save you a lot of time. You can still host applications written in any of the languages out there. This means you can run a PHP and MySQL based site right next to your ASP.Net SQL site as well. It is all on the same server and in the same control panel so you do not need to keep switching back and forth.

You can also use ASP.Net and ASP, a more powerful tool in the developing applications for the web. That is certainly not the case when you use UNIX. With the Windows hosting platform that lets you use ASP.Net and ASP, you can use those more popular content management systems and they will run well. The ASP scripting works so much better with a Windows hosting platform.

When you use Windows Reseller Hosting, you will always have the latest technology available that you can add to your portfolio of services. You will be able to offer Exchange 2007, and there is also Windows Mobile and the ActiveSync that goes with that. There is also the Push Technology and the SharePoint that is also available. All of these additional services you can offer with your hosting platform and it makes for additional income and a more powerful way to market your professional services.

The SQL Server provided by Microsoft is a data management and analysis software that has worked so well and has been rather reliable for a great many complex business applications. It is one of the fasted growing database solutions that is being used, and it can give a competitive advantage when you offer this with your Windows hosting as a reseller.

Compared to the UNIX control panel, the control panel of a Windows based hosting program has a clustered solution that makes use of the Active Directory technology also provided by Microsoft. This means it already has Enterprise level solutions right from the start. You show that you can meet growing demands, as you need them right away.

With all of these reasons to use the Windows hosting platform, it gives solutions to what you can offer to customers when you sell them this solution to their hosting needs. When you partner up with a reseller that offers this platform, you are offering many opportunities to grow and help your clients to expand their needs and utilize the latest technology. Once you try this reselling program, you will find a higher quality of customer and be able to offer long term, lasting professional hosting services.

ResellerChoice - A privately owned Windows Reseller Hosting service provider located in New Jersey, USA. A leader in Windows reseller hosting solutions including Windows dedicated servers and Windows VPS servers.

About Windows Hyper-V VPS Hosting and Its Effect on the VPS Hosting Market

By Tom E Silver

What is Windows VPS Hosting?

VPS or Virtual Private Server is a type of web hosting that virtually divides one physical server into different partitions. Subscribers to VPS hosting will still enjoy the security offered by a dedicated server but they would have to physically share a single server. VPS could be compared to a group of servers located inside a server. Each VPS can have their separate operating system and could work without influence from other server. A single VPS account could contain a system and booting a single private server will never affect other servers.

VPS hosting is made possible by the application that controls the different servers. With the introduction of Hyper-V and Windows 2008 VPS hosting providers will now have a much more secure and reliable platform over its predecessor Windows Virtual Server 2007. VS 2007 could not compete with the current offerings by providers such as VMWare but with Windows VPS servers hosted on Hyper-V and windows 2008 customers can expect a must better experience and performance boost from VMWare and the other VM managers on the market today when running the Windows OS.

Advantage of Windows VPS Hosting

Windows VPS hosting has a familiar features an administrator would expect from its creator. Using the familiar windows interface, setting up windows VPS hosting is a breeze. Because of the familiarity of the windows application to different types of hosting, administrators could easily adapt Windows VPS hosting and improve security.

Windows VPS Servers are also useful for companies and individuals that run higher-traffic Web sites, complex applications or require customized environments that cannot be provided in shared hosting but do not wish to have the overhead cost of dedicated hardware along with better control over the security.

Disadvantage of Windows VPS Hosting

Running the Windows OS on a VPS will make you think twice since it will require a considerable amount of resources from the server. But this could be addressed by using the latest version of Windows 2008 Secure Core, A scaled down version of the windows OS but some customers if running large number of applications may require a dedicated server due to the resource requirements of the Windows OS.

Windows VPS Hosting vs. Linux VPS Hosting

Windows VPS Hosting is often compared to Linux VPS Hosting. These two operating systems for VPS hosting has their advantage and disadvantages. Price wise, Linux is the clear winner since it is an open source which means the server host could obtain the software for free.

Windows on the other hand could be costly because of the payment for licenses. The disadvantage of Linux is largely based on the unfamiliar feel of this type of hosting. But when it comes to performance, both are almost the same since they base their performance mostly on their hardware instead of the operating system.

I think you will find Microsoft gaining a considerable lead in the Windows VPS market since they are already catching up in the Web Server usage counts due to the success of the .NET platform that is not available on Linux.

ResellerChoice - A privately owned Windows Reseller Hosting service provider located in New Jersey, USA. A leader in Windows reseller hosting solutions including windows dedicated servers and Windows VPS servers. Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) provides software products for computing devices worldwide located in Washington, USA. VMware, Inc. (VMW) provides software virtualization solutions.

How to Choose the Best Hosting Provider For Your Blog

By Tinh Tran

Nowadays, there are a lot of hosting providers that can offer you a lot of benefits if you use their services but you will never know whether their offers are what they have promised or not. Further, your requirements and your expected hosting providers' availability sometimes do not meet. That is why you need to know it before you make any purchase by any sources like reading web hosting articles for example or hosting reviews.

I myself have experienced with several hosting companies even free hosting providers. They offer a huge amount of space and unlimited bandwidth with 99,99% uptime and free domains for life. You can also host unlimited accounts on this package but they tell a lie. The server is down many times a week with no reason or over allocated bandwidth while it is supposed to be unlimited. It is so funny. Therefore, you should refer to different sources and read web hosting tutorials or ratings about all hosting providers and choose the best one.

Last week, I have read several useful web hosting articles about some hosting providers and I found out that no hosting companies are perfect to some extent. They all have limitations either capacity or space or even allowed scripts that users can upload to server. Fortunately, I got one from those services that can fit my purpose of my blog. It does not offer huge space or bandwidth but many bloggers rated it as the top one.

Just a bit experiences on how to choose the best hosting provider for my blog and I think you should think of what you need and what the hosting companies can offer. Good luck to you all and do not hesitate to recommend any hosting providers that I can think of. Further, when you recommend me any hosting providers, please kindly send me the sources of the web hosting ratings related to that provider so I can take it into account for future reference.

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The World of Web Hosting Business Can Be Bad If You Do Not Know the Basics!

By Smit Mathur

Avoiding Scams while choosing a Web hosting service:

In today's competitive business world, web hosting companies are offering services at an extremely lower price. Due to competitive prices, scams keep popping their heads every now and then. While searching for a webhosting service, one can find numerous such websites offering free services. Most "Free" Web hosting sites usually trap individuals by acquiring their e-mail address and selling them to spammers or keep on popping their head in the form of "free offers" or force Google Adsense and other advertisements on web pages to draw people away from the site. It is advisable to stay away from any kind of free hosting services and sub domains with advertisements that are forced to be placed anywhere on the website.

What one needs is a webhosting service that is honest about a Bandwidth service. A good webhost should support scripting languages such as a MySQL and PHP and ensures no unnecessary banners or advertisements.

Choosing Reseller hosting as an excellent web hosting business:

Reseller hosting allows individuals to sell their hosting space to customers. Some webhosting companies offer a percentage of their income through a reseller hosting program. Individuals who sign up for reseller hosting are given a chance to set up their own prices for different webhosting packages and plans. Resellers either buy web hosting packages at a discount or pay at a flat rate which is lower than the price paid by the customers.

The best part of reseller hosting business is the hassle-free approach. There is no need to give technical support to customers and there is zero involvement in the billing process. Resellers are free to set their own prices for different web hosting packages and plans. This ensures full control over the profits generated from this business. They have access to their own personal account which displays the packages that are sold, details and statistics of customers and their accounts.

Resellers aiming for a particular sector of the market may either sell smaller packages to individuals and professional packages to organizations who want to attract more traffic. Some web hosting companies give the option to earn extra money from affiliate sales. This involves recruiting more individuals by promoting and advertising, making a profitable business opportunity.

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Hostgator Web Hosting Review - Is it a Good Hosting Company?

By Segun Ling

A web host is a type of hosting service that allows individuals and companies to use space on their server to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. Hostgator is very popular web hosting service which provides hosting to individuals and companies, a lot of things has been said about it but here is a review of what to expect from it.

They offer 3 main web hosting solutions which are shared, reseller and dedicated hosting. The kind of web hosting solution you choose would depend on what you need the hosting for. But shared hosting is usually good for those who have a lot of websites as it allows you to host unlimited domains on that one account.

The reseller package is good for those who want to sell web hosting or those who have websites that they would like to sell in the future, while the dedicated package is good for those who want to host their website but want to have the ability to go beyond what is found in a normal shared hosting package.

The good thing about this web host is that they offer support by email, phone and live chat and they also have a forum where you are free to discuss and ask questions on any issue you might be facing. The thing I did not really like was that it is not a one time fee, you have to keep paying as long as you continue to use them but you are free to cancel at anytime.

All in all, hostgator does look like a good web host and if you are some who is looking for a good web hosting company for your website, it might be worth giving them a try.

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Finding the Web Hosting Service That's Right For You

By Paul Mcindoe

With so many webhosting companies all vying for your business, how can you be sure the one you choose is the best one for you?

When looking into webhosting services for your website the first thing to do is to assess your own personal needs as they pertain to those hosting services you'll want to consider. Small homepages will have vastly different web hosting criteria from the website of a large company for instance. It is also important to take into consideration anything you are planning on hosting in the near future as well and to take any potential growth into account so that you are not caught off guard by unexpected costs.

The next step in finding web hosting services for your needs is to compare the rates of different hosting companies. While many companies will offer temptingly low rates it's crucial to know how much the prices will grow if your services and customer base expand.

Good technical support from your web hosting company is also critical to success. The ability to solve any problems quickly with the least disruption possible is key to the growth of your website. The best technical support you can hope for from a web hosting company is an in house 24 hours a day, seven days a week, phone & email, based in your home country service. It's also worth finding out if the technical support is free or comes with a charge. Also, make sure the hosting company clearly defines "consulting" versus "technical support" as technical support will most likely be free while consulting may have a price tag.

You also need to know how fast your internet hosting company can provide access to anyone visiting your website. This is easily researchable, with the most obvious way being to visit other websites hosted by your potential web host, perhaps varying the time of day you visit the website and focussing on the times when you think your target audience will visit your website. The best webhosting services will offer high levels of uptime which should be a guarantee to motivate the company to keep servers up all the time, while providing impetus to act quickly if anything goes wrong.

You should also ensure that any web hosting companies you are considering doing business with offers the services your website will need in order to run smoothly. You may require services such as visitor counting, e-mail forwarding options, real-time chat and shopping cart functions among others and it's a good idea to make a full list of your needs so as to not forget to ask important questions during your research of web hosts. You may also want to consider webhosts which offer unlimited bandwidth, in case you have a website with a lot of visitors daily. Also ensure that any potential web hosting company offers some sort of control panel to allow you to make changes to the way your website is hosted so you won't have to work through customer service every time you need to modify a password or change an e-mail address, which can be an inconvenient and time consuming pursuit.

In many cases, particularly in business, your website can be your only opportunity to make a first impression and, as such, your web hosting company should be reliable, both for you and your customers. Once you have a detailed list of web hosts that can take care of the basic needs of your website, contact each of them for a more detailed discussion.

After all, careful consideration can save you a lot of time and money in the long run.

Paul McIndoe writes for a digital marketing agency. This article has been commissioned by a client of said agency. This article is not designed to promote, but should be considered professional content.

Becoming a Successful Web Hosting Reseller

By Paul Mcindoe

Web hosting is an exciting first business venture for many people, and while it might sound difficult to begin with becoming a successful hosting reseller is actually a fairly simple process. In many cases, you don't even have to do anything apart from sell the services of an established web host through your own website.

It is especially appealing to web designers and developers as an addition to your existing services.

The first step to becoming a web host reseller is to find a web host who offers multiple website hosting accounts. By taking out a multiple domain account, you can use one domain for the development of your own site and then set up other domains to clients' websites. This enables you to pay a regular fee to the web host while charging clients any price you wish.

After setting up your domains to clients, it is preferable to have full administrative control over your clients' websites. Ensure that your web host provides not only yourself with a control panel that features full administrative facilities to manage your account, but also provides your clients with their own control panel too. Perhaps the most important feature your web host should offer is the facility to hide your web host's identity, preventing clients from knowing that you are offering a third party service.

It is also essential that your clients have a copy of your terms and conditions, which are paramount in any business. While the writing of terms and conditions can be time consuming, many web hosts may let you copy theirs or supply you with terms and conditions specifically written for this purpose. It is also important to provide your clients with fast and reliable support, solving any problems that arise with their websites as soon as possible. Failure to do so will result in unhappy clients and it will also reflect badly on your other services. Tools such as white label guides offered by web hosts can help with this.

One of the best aspects of the business of reseller hosting is that you can start out on this business venture even if you do not have a great deal of expertise. It is also the case that there are times when a reseller can be more scalable than a typical hosting firm, due to true web hosts being limited in its hardware. If a client suddenly requires an upgrade that the host was not prepared for, it will have to go through the time consuming and costly process of upgrading its hardware. A reseller host, however, can simply choose a different web host that will better suit the needs of their customers.

Reseller hosting can be a great profit making venture once you're up and running and understand the figures and profit margins involved. Buying web space from a major web host is relatively inexpensive and can be redistributed to site owners who need space for uploading their website at a suitable cost. What's more, some hosts allow customers to oversell the space they buy and do not charge extra unless your account usage exceeds a certain level, while others offer unlimited web space and bandwidth at no additional cost.

It is said the average user uses less than half of their allotted web space, which means you could double or even triple sell your quota, earning substantially more money in the long run.

Paul McIndoe writes for a digital marketing agency. This article has been commissioned by a client of said agency. This article is not designed to promote, but should be considered professional content.