Domain Hosting News and Questions

Jerry Chua asked:




Choosing a web host may be a difficult task for most people. This article will look at some of the factors you may want to take into account when looking for a web hosting provider. A good place to look for local web hosting providers is to go to the forums as they offer reviews on various providers and their offers.

Factors to select a web hosting provider

* Price

Although this is often regarded with the highest priority, we think otherwise. A majority of people will go for a company that providers cheap service without even researching online about its quality. Just think about this: If a company provide you with high performance server and superb customer service, why will it charge you cheaply for its service. It is important to note that although many providers seem to have amazing offers, it is rare for a provider to offer high quality service and a large amount of disk space and bandwidth, all at a low price. Therefore, when you are looking for a web hosting provider, remember there is a trade-off for features and high quality service. Disk space and bandwidth cost money, especially when bandwidth is very costly in countries like Singapore. 1 mbps corporate bandwidth can cost $150 to $250 per month, $0.50 to $1.00 per GB per month. We will all like to get a Porsche for a Hyundai or Kia price but unfortunately it is not possible.

If you offer a lot of disk space and bandwidth, it will be expensive for the provider unless they oversell.

* Server Performance

When you create a website, you need it to load fast for the visitors. Just think about this: will your visitor think if your website take more than 10 seconds to load another page. If you want to avoid the situation, ask the web hosting provider about the specifications of their servers when signing up. A web hosting provider ‘s website should never be slow to load. In addition, do ensure that they have backup hardware in case of any hardware failure.

* Customer Support

Check if the company provide 24 hours support. Just send a simple query to the company support team and wait for their response. If the company take too long to respond to your query, you will get to wait the same amount of time when you need the assistance urgently.

PS. Be aware that a number of “review” sites (and “top host” lists) are websites which are paid for advertising by web hosts – meaning that sometimes the “recommended” web hosts are ones who have paid to get the advertising and exposure.

Webmaster Articles

Sveinung Skoglund asked:




Reseller web hosting is big business, make no mistake about that and it is quite possible that once you have been introduced to all its various aspects regarding its high potential for growth and financial success, you may start to seriously consider it your best option in terms of a primary means to earn an income for yourself.

The numerous benefits that you can enjoy by going into business as a reseller provider is of course its overriding attraction and the main reason why so many people have chosen this particular method as the best way to start a hosting business. Consider for example the chance of being able to offer premium services (accompanied by a wide range of feature sets!) to your clients without having to undergo the financial challenge of raising enough capital to adequately outfit your planned company. Impossible you say? Well we are quite happy to inform you that it is indeed possible and as the rest of this article will hopefully illustrate to you, reseller hosting is the best way to go about this task.

Now you as you may well know, hosting is essentially a server-based operation. This means that all of the content that you encounter in the course of your daily Internet browsing activities-whether that article for the school assignment, the internet forum that you while away countless hours chatting on, even that special recipe for lasagna that is so much like the one that your mother used to make-all of this is housed in a computer server’s hard drive somewhere in the world. Fair enough you say, but where are we going with this? Well consider that that particular server is only one cog-albeit a very important one-in the bigger wheel that is your typical primary web hosting service provider. In all likelihood, that would not be the only web server there–depending on the size of the operations of that particular primary hosting company, there may be 2 to 3 or even a dozen computer servers on the premises. Further take into consideration all of the necessary networking equipment and the high-speed (hopefully reliable) Internet connection. We can’t forget that now, can we? Now if you are at all thinking like the rest of us, all of this equipment will start to produce a nagging thought in your mind: how much does this all cost and perhaps more importantly how will I pay for this?

Well, the answer to that is you don’t! The primary web host will be appropriately enough, primarily responsible for shouldering all of those pesky costs! So how then will you make your money? You will make your income by functioning as a sort of middleman between the primary hosting company and your end users. This is the very essence of reseller hosting and neatly addresses the issue of how to offer web-hosting services without incurring the large financial costs.

Web Hosting and Domain Registration

Joshua Martindale asked:




Budget web hosting is something that everyone is looking for these days. With the prices of website hosting ranging from very low to very high, how can you tell which is the right hosting plan for you?

Web hosting services are as different as night and day. Selecting the one that will give you all that you need to accomplish your online plans is important. It is a complex operation to move multiple websites. If you can avoid it, of course you want to. Finding out after you sign on the dotted line and plunk down the cash that your web hosting plan won’t support your expansion or your future goals isn’t much fun.

How do you select the right plan for web hosting? How do you make sure that budget website hosting is going to serve you well? Budget web hosting plans are available for nearly every kind of website. Even if you have more than one domain you can sometimes get add on domain rights and use a budget plan in order to get good web hosting. The budget web hosts of today aren’t the hit and miss, too much down time plans that they used to be. Most are reliable good hosting. Many however offer you a few restrictions that you should be aware of.

Like anything else, comparison shopping is the key to getting good budget web hosting. Find several web hosts who have the kind of pricing that you’re interested in paying and then compare notes. Generally there are not a great many real differences but some will be just a little better than others.

Don’t let the price be your final guide. In the long haul, service and support is going to be as important to you as the price. Great support is worth spending a dollar or two more each month for your web hosting. Ask questions. Some of the comparisons you will definitely want to make and questions you will want to ask of your prospective host are:

What is your down time percentage?

How much web space do you offer?

Am I permitted multiple domains on the same server?

How many emails do I get?

What kind of support turnaround time do you offer?

Is your support for pay or free service?

What are the bandwidth restrictions?

May I speak with your other customers?(Ask for references. NOT testimonials, actual references of people that you may speak to, or at the very least, find out if there are actual people under those testimonials that you might email. A testimonial is an easy thing to write or have written)

At the end of the day, service is an important part of your web hosting package, even for budget web hosting. Find out what you can depend on and then choose the budget web host that will give you the best range of services as well as the broadest range of support.

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