Shared or Dedicated Which One is Better For You?
By anand maheshwari
Before you proceed to make your decision for your web hosting account it will be good for you to first decide that which hosting account is best for you shared or a dedicated one.
A shared hosting account is a small piece of bread in the sense that shared hosting account are small hosting account having particular quota assigned to your web hosting requirements from a giant vps or dedicated hosting account. Shared hosting accounts are mostly preferred by new comers in web area or websites having low system requirements which can be run on same web server along with other website hosted on same platform.
Only bad thing in shared hosting account is this that shared hosting account will not give you a wide room of full dedicated server’’s system resources to be used specially for your website only as a shared hosting account is been offered on a dedicated server simultaneously hosted with other websites thus shared hosting account holder get more restriction of system resources and forceful terms of services due to nature of the hosting account to use low system resources as your web hosting service provider can”t down other people’’s websites on the server just because your website needs more system resources to make it running.
Shared hosting accounts are best fit for you if you are tight to your budget / spending powers as shared hosting accounts normally been offered in range of a cigarette package a month which can be easily affordable by anyone in the world after all you need to pay for sure no matters small amount of big bucks as you are going to take someone’’s professional services as a web hosting provider.
A dedicated server is been called as own server for own website. Mean to say if you have a dedicated server then you can use the full room of the system resources of your machine just for your website and without any forceful restrictions or terms of service to use the system resources as dedicated server mean you are in lease with your web hosting provider not for a small hosting account but for a big full machine itself thus it no matters then for your web hosting service provider that how much system resources your website is going to take as you own the full machine thus you are the direct/in-direct owner to the machine itself to be used for anything you want.
Dedicated servers cost are 100 times higher to shared hosting account thus normally dedicated server is been preferred by professionals having websites with huge amount of traffic or requirement of better system with big storage or system resources. So, next time you going to host a new website you can read the above few lines to make sure that you host your website on better platform.
About The Author
Anand is a webmaster for Unlimited Reseller Hosting & Web Hosting India visit: http://hosting.b4uindia.com
Web Hosting in the Philippines
By Jeffrey Fang
Web hosting in the Philippines is a lucrative yet competitive internet business. We can never hide the fact that the internet is full of web hosting scammers posing as a legitimate company and I have been a victim of one. When I started to put up my very first web hosting, I was scammed with my money and never heard from the owner ever again. But I was still determined to put up my website and find a web hosting, to my delight, I found a non-scammer seller of web hosting, but it was fairly new. The problems I had with my 2nd hosting was that, it wasn”t reliable.
Reliability is one. A web hosting company or server is reliable when there are 0% down time. Which means, your site won”t go offline. What I experienced is that, the web hosting is not that reliable and my clients who started to visit the site thought of me as unprofessional.
And so I went from one web hosting to another. Because of this, I gained a lot of experience about different web hosting company’’s strong and weak points. I decided to put up this blog so that people from the Philippines and all over the world may know first hand how a specific web hosting company does its business, their strong points, their weak points and how to deal with them.
Let’’s answer some questions first, what is web hosting? A web hosting company, either in the Philippines or anywhere in the world, is a company that will let you host your web files for all the rest of the world to see your site. More like an office space on the internet. It is different from a domain name, in which by our analogy, would be the name of the office. 
You have to buy the domain and hosting separately but there are some web hosting companies that offer both at an affordable price or either one of them is free.
Why do you need a web hosting? Businesses needs web hosting mainly because to gain exposure. Because of the nature of the internet, anything that can be published on the web, can be seen by everybody across the globe. So, businesses that caters to a large international audience may benefit from it. Also, those businesses that wants to push their business to the next level may want to put up a site so they can reach a larger customer base.
Also, people buy web hosting for personal use. There are house wives and moms that wants to share their experiences and write it in their website. There are people who uses web hosting to earn money online as well.
So what should we look for when signing up for a web hosting? First of all, look for reliability, customer reviews, excellent customer support and lastly the price. I will pay a large amount of money for a web hosting that would not go down on me and leave my site behind. We will write more articles about that in the following days, as for now please bare with us.
Having a knowledge about web hosting will become handy for a business owner, so that, if you”re on the edge of signing up, you know that you can sleep at night and have a peace of mind, knowing that you”re not being scammed nor your site going down while you were asleep.
About The Author
The author’’s web site Web Hosting Philippines provides information about web hosting in the Philippines.
An Irish Domain Name Overview
By Barry Fenning
The country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Ireland is .ie. This ccTLD is managed by a not for profit organization in Dublin, Ireland know as the Irish Domain Registry or IEDR. The IEDR is not a regulatory body and provides the service to the public and internet community. The registry is responsible for the provision of IE names and the rules relating to their registration. The IEDR implements a dispute resolution policy for domains through the WIPO and unlike other registries operates Monday to Friday during business hours.
Requirements to register
The IE domain itself is a restricted domain in that only applicants who meet certain criteria may register this name. The two main requirements are: Being based in Ireland or having a strong link to Ireland (both northern and southern Ireland). Where the applicant is not based in Ireland information showing this connection must be provided. Secondly the entity registering the domain must have a connection to the name and where this connection is not obvious, must provide evidence of this connection.
Resellers and registration process
Domains are registered through approved domain resellers and are passed to the domain registry directly for approval. The approval process is carried out by a team of people known as IEDR Hostmasters. It is their responsibility to ensure the registration requirements are adhered to. Communication is passed to the approved reseller in the case where more information is required. This thorough process of vetting has led to both positive and negative effects on the domain names reputation.
Positive and negative aspects to the domain
On the positive side the domain was recently voted the second safest domain in the world after the Finnish ccTLD. Generally speaking IE domains are held in high regard by Irish based internet surfers. It is seen as a mark of quality or authenticity when doing business online and as a result .ie based websites are trusted over their .com cousins. Very rarely are large spam attacks initiated through an IE domain and the rate of hacks and other internet attacks from IE hostnames is quite low.
The price of .ie domain names are higher than the average TLD or ccTLD, but this price has been significantly reduced over the past 2 years, from an average of around 65 to as low as 19 today. This is due to the traditionally large human input required to approve and manage a domain portfolio. Recently the domain registry themselves have implemented an API mechanism to fast track registration, billing and modifications of domain names. This was carried out by liaising with the reseller community to assess their needs on a day to day basis. Because of the successful implementation of this API amongst the community the price of registering IE domains has fallen with some suppliers leading the way in the price reduction.
Future of the domain
The future of the .ie is bright. New technical advancements in the API as well as the continued reduction in the Irish domain price mean the number of registrations is increasing constantly. Increased promotion of the domain brand by the domain registry and reseller community alike has also led to increased registrations.
About The Author
Letshost is Ireland’’s cheapest IE domain reseller and has lead the way to cheaper registration prices across the board. More information on LetsHost can be found on the LetsHost Blog Their server status can also be found at LetsHost Status
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What Is An Info Domain Name?
By Barry Fenning
The main use and intention of .info domain names is not restricted. Yet, there is a common procedure noticed everywhere in internet, where .info domain names are being used by websites providing information from various areas to users.
The use of this domain name for informative websites was done as a part of an announcement made in late 2000, when a public release regarding the top domain names was made. In this announcement, .info came as the leading domain name with around 5.2 million users in its registry as of April 2008. Apart from this, there was another 1.6 million websites with .info domain name, which are active and dedicated for informative purposes in internet.
Since .info domain name is a generic and unrestricted domain name, this could be used by any user, for any purpose. In fact, this is the only top level domain name which was created and used for general purposes without much restrictions and limitations. .info stands for information and hence the name of the websites, using .info domain name clearly reveals that, they are used for such purposes.
Ever after its release and creation, .info domain name was under the maintenance and control of Affilias. This was considered to be the first domain name that supported the IETF standards-based domain name.
The launch of .info domain name was a sunrise period for the trademark owners. This was a rush when this was opened to all. In fact, .info was the first domain name of this kind to be opened in this manner. In the initial stages, a large number of false registrations were made under this domain name. Later this could be identified and this weeded several of those registrations.
Some of the online domain registration services provide free .info registrations. Users will be asked to follow the simple and easy to understand domain registration processes. They could check for the availability of the domain names they require and later get their websites popularized under this name.
If the purpose of the website or the information being conveyed could be used as the first part of the domain name, an extension with .info will clearly reveal the main idea of the website. This will directly help in marketing and popularization of the website. .info is more generic in use, yet users generally take it for granted that all domain names with extension .info carry informative content. This has in a way helped when such websites try for marketing their site.
About The Author
Jack Dempsey is an avid follower of the domain industry. He has been writing on the articles at all levels for those wishing to better understand this rapidly expanding industry. Please visit info domains for more information on info domains.
7 Tips For Choosing An Economy Web Host
By Bill Miller
When most people think of cheap web hosting, the envision unreliable customer service, websites that are down more than they are up and web hosting companies that are here today and gone tomorrow. The good news is that technology now allows many web hosting providers to offer economy web hosting that is reliable with nearly 100 percent uptime.
Even those of us who are on really tight budgets can learn to seek out reliable economy web hosting with these simple tips. Simply rushing out and judging a web host by price alone will not get it.
For any business to succeed, you must have a reliable web presence. Below are steps to help you figure out what hosting is right for you and find tips for getting the cheapest hosting available and still reserve some room for quality.
1. If you”re planning on having more than one website, make sure the host you plan on using offers hosting features that will allow the hosting of multiple domains and websites. Having multipe websites on the same hosting plan can really break down the cost of web hosting.
2. The longer the committment, the better deal you will get. If you know that you plan to have a website for any given amount of time, purchasing longer hosting terms. This will help you save money and you won”t have to worry about it auto-deducting every month. Think long-term!
3. There are hundreds and hundreds of web hosting companies available, choose the one that fits your specific needs first. Whether its server space or bells or whistles, every hosting company offers a little something different. Figure out your needs first then go forth.
4. Do you plan on buying many domains for websites? Then take a look at what web hosting companies call Reseller packages. Reseller packages allow you to host many domains, sometimes unlimited domains, on one account. But beware, if you exceed your server space limitations imposed by your plan, you could get hit with a high penalty.
5. Read hosting reviews and testimonials - These are great indicators of how good a hosting company really is and how much pride they take in their services. Find out what others are saying about a particular affordable hosting company.
6. Have questions? Ask first! A hosting company’’s ability to respond to your needs in a timely manner is quite possibly one of the best indicators to how responsive and reliable your cheap hosting company really is. When times are tough, will they be there to support you? Don”t be afraid to call them or shoot them an email and ask questions.
7. Check their return policy. Look for little loopholes that will allow them to keep all your money should you not be happy. Some return policies state that the web host will keep all your money should you want a refund. Most will give you a pro rated amount back. Some will refund all your money. It pays to find out what happens should you ask for a refund!
You can start your search for reliable and affordable web hosting providers by visiting the links below. They are to websites that have real reviews written by real users of many economy web hosting providers. Take your time in researching each provider and you”ll go a long ways in making sure you choose one that will give you many years of quality service.
About The Author
Finding a good and reliable cheap web hosting provider is easier than it sounds. These sites have real reviews written by actual customers so you can compare cheap web hosting. Many also provide reviews and ratings on basic web hosting for your small business website.
Web Design In Liverpool - Web Development
By James Johnson
You can find a company that will provide web design in Liverpool to make your website stand out as a professional reflection of you or your business. When you are looking for web design in Liverpool, you can find companies that will help you get your internet website off to a grand start.
Many people who start their own websites make the mistake of thinking that they can do this themselves. They may purchase software for web design or even try to download free web design software from the internet that offers templates that they can use to make it easier to design their own website. This is usually a mistake, especially if you want to have a business that others will take seriously online.
No one is going to think that a website designed by do it yourself software looks professional. In fact, it can be detrimental to your business and reputation. People are inclined to think that if you have an unprofessional website, you may be unprofessional yourself. If you are close to the Liverpool area, it behooves you to check out web design in Liverpool so that you can get a website that not only looks professional, but performs in the same manner.
Do you know how much bandwidth you need for your website? Do you need a database? Many people will put shopping carts on their websites when they are only selling one product, a colossal waste of money and space online. By choosing web design in Liverpool, you can eliminate costly mistakes that can end up causing you to pay for products that you do not need and skip some products that can be beneficial to your business.
Whether you have a business or simply want to put your best foot forward on the internet, it pays to get web design in Liverpool so that you can show the world an impressive website. When you think about it, a website is a reflection of who you are and is very instrumental in how others will view you. You only get one chance to make a first impression, so you do not want to make a poor one by using a template oriented website off of some free software that you downloaded online. If you want your website to reflect your professionalism and integrity, choose a web design in Liverpool company to help you pave the way for success on the internet.
About The Author
James Johnson, answers some of the questions about web design in Liverpool.
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3 SEO Considerations Before Changing Your Website
By seomul Evans
SEO experts and internet marketing professionals understand that changing and/or moving your website can result in positive outcomes regarding your search engine ranking. The most common changes that business owners make are changes to domain names, changes in web design, changes in content management systems, and changes in web hosts.
All such changes can be beneficial, but they do not come without risks. So before you make a move, consider how such a move might affect your business in particular.
1. A Change in Domain Name. Many business owners feel that a change of domain name is appropriate since a domain name relevant to website content can have a positive effect on search engine rankings. Some businesses change domain names because they have been acquired by other companies, and some businesses change domain name because the name of the company itself changed. So what should you do if you plan to change your domain name, for whatever reason? If you are only changing your domain name, 301 redirects are a good start. Once those are place, contact the owners of all your top referring websites and ask them to update their links to reflect the change in your domain name.
Your primary concern in changing your domain name should be to communicate to other search engines that your change is permanent in order to retain as much link equity as you can.
2. A Change in Web Design and Content Management Systems. These are the two factors that can most dramatically effect your visibility. Before you undertake such a change, be sure you understand exactly how search engines will treat your website in the aftermath. When companies make a change to a website, their primary concern is making the transition smooth for potential customers who visit the site. What they often neglect to take into consideration is the effect that a change in URL syntax will have on search engines.
Create a map of old URLs to new URLs, and use 301 redirects as mentioned above. And just as you did when changing domain names, contact the owners of your top referring sites and request that they change the URLs to which they are linking.
If you have pages that can not be mapped, use user-friendly and search engine-friendly 404 error pages. Once you have finished the CMS and design changeover, beware of the need to constantly monitor broken links.
3. A Change in Web Host. The only real issue with changing web hosts is timing. If this is your plan, you should start by putting your site at its new location. Then make your DNS changes so that your domain names points to the new location. Make sure your new location has been crawled by the search engines before closing down your previous location.
If you are considering a website change, your primary concern should be making a smooth transition both for your customers and visitors, and for search engines. Many companies are so concerned about making a seamless transition for users that they forget the impact a change can have on search engine rankings. Make it easy for search engines to understand what is going on.
If you are uncomfortable with making a website change, or if you are not sure how to make it easy for search engines to translate your move, consider hiring an SEO expert or internet marketing professional to help. These individuals have years of experience in helping companies transition from one web location to another. They can help you communicate a domain name change to search engines.
They can help you create maps and implement 301 redirects if you change your design and/or your content management system. And they can help you correctly time your transition if you change your web host.
About The Author
Seomul Evans is a SEO expert with a leading SEO company specializing in search enginesfriendly design and a contributor of web development articles.
You Can Find The Perfect Web Hosting Solution
By Scott Lindsay
You Google the term ”web hosting” and come up with page after page of possibilities and each hosting solution has a comprehensive set of solutions to common hosting questions.
If you are to believe every web hosting solution you come across you would have conclude that every option is the best available. However, that just can”t be true, can it? I mean surely there are web solutions that are better than others, right? How can you tell the difference when all web hosting options sound so perfect?
Probably the first key to unraveling this mystery is to come to terms with the fact that you may be comparing apples to oranges, metaphorically speaking. Not every web hosting solution is designed to fit all customers. There are no cost or low cost options that are well suited to manage a sizeable number of personal or startup ecommerce websites. On the other end of the spectrum are high-end web hosting solutions that may be overkill for the majority of entrepreneurs.
As a website owner you should also take careful stock of your actual need. You may find a solution that has many things going for it, but lacks a significant component you need in your web host.
Beyond assessing your current needs you should also evaluate where you want to be a year from now. Will your hosting solution grow with you or is there room within the current structure to manage the growth? Do you have enough bandwidth or can more be made available quickly in the event of a quick burst of activity? Do you plan on making an ezine available? If so, does the web hosting solution have the ability to manage your subscriptions?
If you were to compare this scenario to a real world counterpart it might look a bit like renting an office. Do you need two offices or twelve? Do you need phone service alone or do you need high speed Internet? Do the desks need to be solid oak or will a veneer be sufficient? You see, just as offices come in a variety of configurations so too does web hosting solutions. In the end the more you understand your actual and potential needs the better you will be at finding the right hosting solution.
Find a solution that meets and exceeds you need and then make sure the fee is affordable and a significant amount of uptime is guaranteed. This scenario provides the best possibility of hassle-free growth.
About The Author
Now you can Make A Website or Make Your Own Website incredibly fast at HighPowerSites.com. Start a HOME BUSINESS and Resell Ebooks at BooksWealth.com.
The Three Primary Web Hosting Solutions
By Scott Lindsay
The web hosting solution for a home-based business will likely be radically different from the needs of a large ecommerce site. The use of a web host is essentially the cyber-office lease for your Internet business. The web hosting solution houses the files you will need to upload and can store you online company data.
There are three primary web-hosting solutions and each one is designed to accommodate a specific need. This article will take a look at these three solutions and what type of business may require each solution.
Co-Located Server Hosting
We will start with the most comprehensive solution first. This type of web hosting is in-house and will typically cost the most. You will need to purchase one or more server specifically for your company use. This server will need to be monitored and will likely require an in-house Internet Technician (IT).
This solution works for larger companies with either lots of data to store or who want to be able to work on any solution regarding their web hosting immediately.
Dedicated Hosting
This plays a similar role to the co-located server hosting option in that you have your own server taking care of your online data. In this case, however, the server is located off-site and is maintained by a third party. Middle to large sized firms would likely use this option to maintain the highest possibility of uptime without the need for an in-house IT.
Shared Hosting
This is the most cost effective method of hosting and takes care of the majority of personal and small businesses sites. Most Shared Hosting options are less than $100 per month (often much less). Many of these same services are adaptable to allow for ecommerce solutions.
There are other options in web hosting solutions, but they typically fall into these three categories. Obviously the Co-Located Server Hosting option will be the most costly and labor-intensive solution, but it will be the best solution for the large business managing hundreds and thousands of transactions online.
The Dedicated Hosting option may be a good fit when a growing company needs a high ceiling for data as well as the comfort of knowing their fate isn”t tied to a server with multiple accounts.
The Shared Hosting solution is perfect for a business startup because it provides a cost effective way to get online without breaking the bank. Some Shared Hosting solutions provide the tools to allow their customers to develop their own ecommerce sites through template rich designs. Remember, just because the server is shared with others doesn”t make it a bad solution. To say otherwise would be to say an office building is bad because it contains more than one office.
About The Author
Make A Website in minutes with the Website Builder at HighPowerSites.com. Start a HOME BUSINESS and Sell Ebooks at BooksWealth.com.
The Fragile Reputation for Web Hosting Companies
By Jonathan Baldwin
In a world where just one grumbling ex-customer can create havoc for any web hosting service with an unfair, biased “this web host sucks” type of page, it can be an amazing business-killer to just have one angry customer. What’’s a web host to do?
Clearly web hosting companies have a thin line to walk when it comes to customer relations. Even one lazy or disrespectful customer service rep can mean 100 negative comments and dozens of angry websites down the road. So, while low prices stuffed with good features can attract many customers, the key to retention and long-term reputation growth, is all in the customer service.
Especially in a time of crisis, the management of any web hosting company must keep their cool and just take some time out of their day to plan a good strategy to deal with it. It’’s shockingly amazing how much little though is sometimes put into a response to a fiasco in this web hosting industry that is so utterly dependent on a good reputation.
A good example is the January 15, 2008 DreamHost billing issue which had millions of dollars worth of erroneous charges were made to nearly EVERY one of it’’s customers due to a typo. DreamHost did take care of the billing issue and refund the money, and did it quickly; good move DreamHost. However, their blog post explaining the issue may have done irreparable harm. DreamHost employee Josh Jones decided to use Homer Simpson and “whoops” to preface it. Of course if you were one of the hundreds of people living paycheck to paycheck amongst their users who happened to be overcharged on an account low with money (as many were), so that even with the refund you are going to be paying overdraft fees: it’’s not so funny.
Or even worse, for many users it was charged to a credit card and will cause them to pay extra interest every month, due to the deceitful practice of credit card companies meaning the DreamHost refund would pay off the older, zero or low interest debt first, then the new, high interest debt just suffered due to DreamHost’’s error could conceivably cause many DreamHosting users to pay dozens of dollars extra a month until their balance is completely paid off.
In not writing out and thinking over what possible negative effects the customers suffered, and then understanding that humor would be unacceptable for a response, DreamHost made a critical error. It would of been especially important to avoid the type of blatant Homer Simpson “whoops” style of humor used during the DreamHost billing crisis that effected every single one of their users in a negative way. In so doing, DreamHost management caused a loss of many important and longtime customers that could of otherwise been avoided by simply strategizing their response.
A good response could have even used some humor deep within the post, but it would be inappropriate to have a laugh about the overall situation. While many customers who didn”t suffer overdraft fees or other hardships may be able to laugh it off after they get their refund, those who suffered the fees or increased interest payments would feel insulted by the humorous language in the post.
As one commenter, Adam, stated “I think the biggest insult in all of this is the ”we are really sorry, but we”ll act cute about it” reaction we are getting. Its not a time for you to be acting cute about your mistake.” Indeed, it was not, and even a casual observer such as Adam could see that. Why couldn”t DreamHost management?
About The Author
Jonathan Baldwin runs a Web Hosting Comparison website, where you can find this article, Fragile Reputation for Web Hosting Companies, and reviews of Cheap Web Hosting Services.