Web Hosting Features Explanation

September 25, 2008 · Filed Under Web Hosting Criteria · Comment 

These are the features that are defined so that you can know how exactly they are good at helping in hosting your site.

1. Disk Space or Web Space: This space is in context with the volume of disk storage provided by the web site hosting service to store a website on the web hosting company’s server. It can range anywhere from one GB to 10GB; this means that if each web page is about thirty KB and it is possible to store approximately three thousand static web pages on 1GB disk space.

2. Bandwidth or Data Transfer: This is the total volume of data allowed to be transferred from a website every month, or is better defined by using the term ‘monthly traffic.’ This means that the more users visiting a website, the more the bandwidth required.

3.Secured directories: This is an critical feature for web sites, using a PIN webmasters can avoid access to directories or web pages of a web site. Only visitor that have a login ID can visitor the restricted areas. For the purpose to enable the PIN protection web masters should create and modify the “.htaccess” and “.htpasswd” files, though majority of the web hosting services such as Yahoo Hosting have a Control Panel to do this.

4.Email functions: When purchase a webhosting account, the services providers also give email address. {It could be anything betwen 20 to ‘n’ in number}. The privilege of such accounts is that they have it in sync with the website address as the forward address,

5. FTP: File Transfer Protocol, these accounts are used to upload the websites that have been created on the computer. Web host providers support multiple FTP accounts, incase multiple users are needed to upload web pages on the server. Most of the times, one FTP login is not enough, this is why you are given with more than one accounts. Certainly FTP is also a way of transfering files to the web server, software like FrontPage Extension help in transfering directly.

Web Hosting Essentials What Do You Need

August 3, 2008 · Filed Under Web Hosting Criteria · Comment 
by Jon Ferraro

I know it’s common knowledge that you need solid web hosting if you want to do build anything online. With a reliable web hosting company you are going to struggle to make any money online. In this article i will just go over the some thing to consider when you make your decision of which web host to use.

The most important thing is they have a good history of uptime. There is nothing worse than working really hard to build a website and when visitors go to it, they get an error page.

The site also has to be quick to load. People don’t have the patience to sit and wait for a site to load. If they are waiting for more than 7 seconds, even if it’s on a dial up connection, they’re going to close the window. That’s potential sale that was wiped away because of poor hosting.

You also have to be able to contact them any hour of the and any day of the week. Your website is open 24 hours a day, so should your web hosting company. If you’re not getting 24 hour support from your current provider, it’s time to call it quits.

It’s also nice if they offer cPanel. cPanel offers a ton of great tools to help build email accounts off of your website?s domain names. They also have great tracking software to tell you how many visitors you have gotten.

Fantastico is another thing you should see if you host provides. Fantastico offer the user a multitude of scripts that they can freely upload to their domains. The have great scripts like Wordpress, which could be argued as having the best blogging sfotware in the business.

You shouldn’t have to sign contract when you sign up with a web hosting companies. If they are confident in the service they provide, they should be able to hold you as a customer on a month by month basis. If that isn’t the case, then you might want to look someplace else.

These are just some of the many factors that go into deciding what kind of web hosting you want.

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