What is web hosting? Whenever you visit a website, what you see on your browser is essentially just a page that is downloaded from the web server onto your browser. In general, a web site is made up of many web pages (html). And a web page is basically composed of texts and images. All these web pages need to be stored on the web servers (A physical Location) so that online users can visit your website, But before the hosting you should have your own domain with you, do you have?

Let me simplify more for you “Suppose you plan to start your own company, so what you’ll do first of all? Yes, you will register your company from the “Company Registrar” of your city, state and after that you’ll seek a space where you can hang up your office board, put some chairs, tables, furniture’s, computers and else whatever you want. So your company name registration will called your domain name registration on web, and your office space will called your hosting space on web for your web furniture (Web pages and images).

Company that provides the web servers to host your website is called web hosting providers. A well-established web hosting provider sometimes hosts up to thousands of websites. For that reason, a web hosting company need many web servers (essentially, these are computers) to ‘store’ the website & all these web servers are connected to the Internet through high speed Internet connection and housed in a physical building called ‘data center’. In order to guarantee all the web servers are safe, secure and fully operational all time, a data center is a physically secure 24/7 environment with fire protection, HVAC temperature control, virus detections, computer data backup, redundant power backup and complete disaster recovery capabilities.

What are the different types of web hosting? There are different kinds of web hosting companies out there with different characteristics. The main types of web hosts can be organized into the following categories

Shared Hosting

Dedicated Hosting

Co-location hosting

VPS Hosting

Reseller hosting

There are so many platforms to host your web site, the most used are Windows, Linux & Unix. We’ll discuss about the hosting types and platforms in next blog sometime, right now I just want to brief you about the very basic tips that how you can seek a best place for your online business “Beginners Tips for Web Hosting” and here are the tips that how you’ll get this…

What You Should Know About Your Web Host

I am sure that you all have received some email in your inbox sometimes, it was like 5 to 6 lines max, at the end was a link which It was asked to click on, sounds interesting and you want to read ASAP before starts your new work, I am right? If yes then certainly you did exactly that wait for about 1 minute but no page downloaded. Just thought might Internet connection gets down so you checked it but it was perfect.

You refresh the page often but results were same. After trying many times you jumped into you another priority tasks and read all other mails and did your routine work. In evening suddenly you again remember that mail since it was so interesting, you again read it and click on the link but this time also same results appears you finally give up and delete that mail.

This whole episode left a question in your mind that why people don’t choose their web host wisely. In fact it’s the most vital part of Internet business. Why they compromise with the quality of the server and services for only saving some money, which is not going to make any difference anywhere.

A web host is the first important step towards building our Internet business. You can get cheap or even free hosting services but don’t prefer free hosting for commercial sites. Your users are going to get blasted with annoying pop-ups every time they surf to your page, it’s going to be impossible to get a decent position in a search engine, and you don’t even get a real business URL. No one’s going to remember your web address if they have to type www.freehostingforyourdomain.com/yourdomain.

So the question is what points we should consider before select our web host.

1. Space

It’s the first point to consider that how much space your host is providing to you. If you have one or two page website with no downloads, it’s not an important point but if you are planning to go for resale right product, you need at least 100 MB space. Most good web host provide minimum 1 GB space to their clients.

2. Bandwidth

It’s the most important part to check. Did you know that sites with high downloads causes many people to go over budget on bandwidth and lose their host? Sometimes they have to pay fees up to hundreds of dollars. It’s essential to check before buying any hosting services. Most good host provides 25 to 50 GB Bandwidth.

3. Support System

It’s also key point. If you get stuck at any point, how long does it take to get support? Do they provide 24/7 phone support.

Some Additional features you must check:

How many POP email account they are providing?

How many database they are providing?

Do they have Web based e-mail?

Do they have Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus filters?

Can you Password Protected your directories?

Do they take regular backup in case of server get crashed?

Do they have money-back Guarantee, if you don’t like their services?

Do they support Perl, PHP, Crontab and Secure Server Layer?

(You don’t require these facilities in beginning but after some time you need it.)

I personally trust “Reliable Web Hosting Services” for my hosting needs. They have all features that a professional host must have. The must to tell feature of this hosting service is that it gives one hour response guarantee but usually I get response in 5-10 minutes. I’ll prefer best hosting service just because of its speedy response and its tons of superb qualities.

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As I already shared, Space, Bandwidth, & Support System plays very important role in any web hosting, in my previous articles;

1. http://akashdwivedi.com/blog/index.php/2009/reseller-web-hosting
2. http://akashdwivedi.com/blog/index.php/2009/virtual-private-servers-vps

In all mentioned points above the quality of the bandwidth is as important then the hardware your site runs on. And this is because even your web site is in best ever web server, your site will upload slow in web if it’s connected to poor quality bandwidth. And the solution is for that to think about dedicated or VPS servers.

If you’re reading this article, you might be interested in getting a dedicated or VPS server, or simply learning more about dedicated or VPS hosting services.

First of all, please note, that a dedicated server is rather expensive service, and you shouldn’t waste your money if you don’t plan to use it in full measure.

But if you really have any sensitive website, and want to run a successful business – you cannot do it without a dedicated or VPS server.

Of course explorer the word before making any decision, so let’s enumerate the facts for Dedicated or VPS servers.

Power and functionality:

With a dedicated server you get on average 50-100 Gb of hard drive, plus about 1,000 Gb of data transfer. You may customize the configuration and choose any CPU, RAM, or whatever you need. A dedicated server reduces your dependency on the web host; and bypasses time delays and possible expenses incurred from these.

Freedom and security:

Dedicated or VPS server will give you a freedom. You will not need to share it with other websites. It will also give you additional 3rd party security for your site and emails. A dedicated server will allow you deep access to your server to configure and optimize your server anyway you need. You’re able to choose the software to install.

Respectability:

You simply CAN NOT run a popular website on a shared hosting. It’s not serious.

Summary:

If your website turned into a popular and reliable resource; if you have tons of daily visitors; if you work B2B; if you need additional security and functionality, power and freedom – go ahead and buy a dedicated server. Don’t be sorry about the money you spent! Think about the future!

So what does this all mean if you are looking for a company to host your website?

You need to have your website hosted by a company that follows these checklist and technologies. These all are very necessary for the effective and efficient functioning of your website. It will bring certainty to the process of communicating on the Internet — a peace of mind that your website has the redundancy and bandwidth needed to stay online 24/7.

Additionally, dedicated or VPS servers will allow your customers to experience, reliable and fast services that maximize the performance of your business.

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I have written more often for the hosting services and about the providers. If you will follow these bits of advice I am dam sure you will find a reliable, affordable hosting company that is best for your online business. If nothing else, you could give my hosting company www.webvantech.com a look and compare it to other companies about the plans, rates, quality and reliability. Whatever company you decide to go with, I wish you the all the best. Before taking any decision just read the checklist carefully.

A good web hosting company, that contributes a huge role to make your online business successful, isn’t easy to find in these days. Literally there are n numbers of web hosting companies and plans are available to choose, they all offering different mixture of space, bandwidth, free add on (such as databases, asp, php, cgi, free scripts), and technical customer support. Some companies attract their customers with extremely low prices for the web space and bandwidth. In return, mostly customers get frustrated with the down time of the sites and mails and also by the unavailability of the technical customer support, of these extremely low-priced companies. The hosting business is like, you usually get what you pay for.

So how do you find out the web hosting company that’s right for your website? Having been in the hosting business for several years, I’ve often had friends and known persons ask me, in so many words, this very question. I incessantly suggest that they’ll have to simply write out what they think their website (whether for a company or personal) will need first of all. Will site will be static (html pages) or the dynamic (database driven)? If yes, what kind of database do they want, MSSQL, MySQL or something else? Likewise, do they need support for .NET 1.1 or 2.0, PHP, CGI, ASP, or some other programming language? How many POP/SMTP accounts they want? Also think about exactly how much space your website is going to need. The same thing goes for bandwidth, or transfer. You want to secure enough space and bandwidth now so that you do not have to switch hosting provider, or pay any premium for extra usage services, in the future. These questions can be very important. On the topic of bandwidth and storage space, this is where planning really comes into play; know how much space and bandwidth you will need before you want to book a space for your website.

Mostly hosting companies, big and small, are offering 24/7 technical and customer support these days. Be very weary of these claims, most companies that claim 24/7 support doesn’t really live up to expectations. In addition, a toll free number does not guarantee that someone will actually answer to your phone call, or even it will be helpful. Look for a company that has a good, honest support structure and history set up with a variety of support options: support tickets, live support chat, e-mail support, and perhaps phone support as well. My own web hosting company, for instance, has everything but tickets support, and personally for local customers I prefer a phone support is the one of the fastest want to help your customers in nice manner. We are still capable of answering inquiries within minutes. If you are considering a particular web host, the best thing you can do to evaluate their support is simply send them an e-mail or open a support ticket and see how long it takes them to respond to your inquiry. If it takes more than 24 hours, that’s probably a bad sign.

In order to corroborate the credibility of your potential web hosting company, I’ll prefer to look for some type of customer testimonials on their websites. If they list the customer’s website or e-mail address, go the extra step and contact at least one of the customers, even you can directly call to the hosting company and can ask any of the customers phone no. for feedback. They will be able to confirm that they are real customers and let you know about their experiences with the given company. If they have no testimonials, or the testimonial listings do not contain a means of contacting the customers, do a search on the company using a big search engine like Google and Yahoo!. Look for forums and other webpages that may contain customer feedback about your company. Many times, customers that have either had a very bad or very good experience with a hosting company will go onto at least one webmaster forum and tell others about their experience. Looking up these comments is a good way to get a third-party assessment of a particular hosting company. Ask me anything if you want to know something else.

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