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Reseller or VPS Hosting

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:21:26 +0000

With reseller hosting, one can sell web space on someone else’s shared server. To explain it in a simple words, reseller hosting is like shared hosting but the only difference Is that, with reseller hosting you can setup lots of accounts for your own or you can also make money by selling the web space to others on shared server.

With virtual private server, a separate space is created on a physical server and it is the best solution for the people who want to have a dedicated server but cant afford it because of the cost. A single physical server is divided into some partitions which are having the same advantages like dedicated server.

So which hosting type you should prefer? Reseller or VPS Hosting? This is the question which makes everyone think about the number of reasons that needs to be taken care of. So lets have a look at some features that are provided with reseller and VPS hosting which will help you to go with the hosting services that suits your requirements.

Reseller Hosting

Reseller hosting is the best solution for people who like the things which are already organized. All the required things are already setup by the web hosting provider. You get the web host manager who customize the hosting account you will sell in terms of assigning web space, bandwidth and other things. The account you will resell works like shared hosting account. You can decide the prices for reselling the accounts and there are some hosting companies who allows you to give your own name for reseller hosting business. The other thing with reseller hosting is that you need to stick with the same software and applications that are allowed by hosting provider but they are usually basic and commonly used applications so you don’t need to worry much about this.

VPS Hosting

Virtual private servers are similar to dedicated servers but its like shared service on a dedicated server where it is not shared with n number of clients as it is done with shared hosting. VPS hosting is provider set some limitations on the number of clients who are sharing the same server so that they effectively provide the minimum resources allocated to each client sharing the same server. Root access is one of the most important feature in VPS Hosting where client have the access to install any of the software and application as per requirements. Hosting provider provides definite amount of CPU, RAM and bandwidth with every hosting package so even if they receive higher amount of traffic it will not let the website go down. One more thing that is important while going with VPS hosting is that you need to have some basic knowledge about server maintenance and software configuration.

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Thinking For Windows Dedicated Server?

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:44:07 +0000

Are you thinking to have a windows dedicated server for your online business or your website? If yes, then you should also think on why windows dedicated servers are so much popular. Here I will ask you to think on which OS do you have on your system? It is just because the home user finds it very user friendly, but it also crashes without a reason. However, windows is important for server owners because of some other reasons and the reasons are as follows.

Microsoft has not only developed windows but there are lots of other software and programs that has made lots of things easy in computing and cybernetic world. For e.g. .Net technology. The websites that are built with this technology, needs windows dedicated servers to support them.

If the databases of your website are built by using MS Access, MS Visual Basic, MS SQL then your server will need windows operating system. Linux based server cannot support such databases. If you have already used Microsoft web development tools like Visual Interdev or FrontPage, only windows server can support your website and also if you want to use MS Office programs, windows server is the only option you have.

The only problem with windows dedicated servers is their cost and if you want the features, you will need to spend some good amounts of money.

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What is Green VPS Hosting?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:34:41 +0000

Having a shared resource is something that many people do not like, so they go for a committed machines. A Green VPS Hosting server is one of the best way of achieving this. This type of dedicated machines allow many clients to use it, rather than one client using the piece of hardware. The machine is virtually portioned as the name denotes and it works as with ease as a standard dedicates machine ever could.

Hardware that has been separated into different parts by a manager is known as a eco-friendly VPS hosting server and works as a individual machine. If someone on a shared server writes a program that accidentally takes the machine offline, your website will go down as well, another dilemma green VPS hosting fixes.

eco-friendly VPS hosting in some ways is pretty much similar to shared web hosting account. When one website on a shared server uses up transfer, it can cause your page to run at a crawl. It will not go offline if a programmer writes code that affect it and you can actually host different webpages on one segment if it is required.

Battery backups and generators protect against loss of consciousness. The companies that provide green VPS hosting are taking the steps in lowering their carbon footprint on the ecosystem, and for future generations.

You would be amazed to know that, an IT Corporation would make a huge carbon footprint, you’d be surprised to learn how much of one they do. Did you know that one considerable sized machine gives out an equal amount of carbon emissions as an Sport Utility Vehicle that does 15 MPG? Green VPS Hosting servers are more affordable to operate and are just as dependable as there ordinary counter parts. Think over switching to a eco-friendly VPS hosting provider that is pretty much healthier for the environment.

Eco-friendly VPS hosting machines are more affordable, and are as dependable as regular plans. You should go with a web hosting company that is easier on the ecosystem rather than just regular plans.

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Green Web Hosting

Some Easy Steps To Becoming A Web Hosting Reseller

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:09:23 +0000

There are many things you must take care of before you start with web hosting reseller business and expect to survive and prosper. In this article, we will touch on some basic steps that are required for reselling accounts that are provided by a web hosting firm. Although success for any business is based on the quality of products services, and the perseverance and diligence of owners and employees, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. And just because it is easy to list or understand these steps doesn’t mean they will be easy to do well or easy to keep going. While you are attending to these five steps, there are plenty of other things that need to be done, too. You should have a business plan, of course, and know where your operating funds are coming from until such time as your business is self-supporting. This means you will have to guess at some things until you have enough real-world experience to “fill in the blanks.” Follow those who have gone before you, and make use of their experience, especially in regards to what you should not do and what are must.

1. Your name – The first step in a successful host reseller venture is getting a domain name that is catchy, out of the ordinary and at least somewhat descriptive. A domain name is, in fact, your business’s personal ID. Your customers will need to have access to your products and services, and a good company name will help them remember where to find you on the Internet.

2. The equipment – Next you need to locate and set up a hosting reseller account. You could conceivably establish your own domain registration procedures, arrange for connectivity from one or more “major bandwidth” providers and fill a warehouse or two with powerful computers and racks of servers. Or you could get a reseller account from a firm that has all of those things going on already, an established supplier.

3. The software tools – Any good reseller hosting account will offer customers the tools, often combined in a web-accessed “control panel,” to manage website hosting, domains and customer accounts from a central location. That way, you can log in check billing, uptime figures, account status and everything else, all at once.

4. Look, feel and functions – You must look professional to make customers feel safe in signing up with you as their website host. That means your own website must be designed and implemented by a professional. Try not to save money by using cookie-cutter website templates, as they tend to say, “We’re cheap.” One of the major benefits of using a professional designer is that you end up with a unique website, one that looks the way you want it to look and doesn’t look like a copy of someone else’s. One way to save money is to hire a designer simply to tweak and personalize the look of a good, flexible template, an option you should investigate if your funds are limited.

5. Easy sign up – However you decide to design and implement the site, make sure that you make the sign up process easy and straightforward. Keep your order form as simple, uncluttered and easy to complete as you can. One way to do this, as well as steer the customer a bit, is to have some choices pre-selected (default). It is important to supply customers with a summary page of their orders so they can review all of the details before making the purchase.

6. Differentiate yourself – Try to present yourself as being different in some essential way from every other web hosting offer. You can create a special offer, run a contest or promotion featuring a prize, bundle services and tools that other companies don’t offer – it matters less what is different about your hosting offer than that it “seems” and “acts” different.

7. Be a good driver – And that doesn’t mean in a car, either. You have to learn how to drive a lot of qualified traffic to your website, as that is the only way to get customers. There are entire textbooks – make that shelves full of textbooks – on how to market a website, build traffic, qualify leads and convert visitors into paying customers.

If you take just one lesson from this article on possible traffic-driving solutions, one that has a proven track record for thousands of small, online businesses, it would be Google’s AdWords program. Check it out, as well as the other million things you can do to get traffic to your site and get customers to sign up.

You never know what several or dozen different things might combine to create success for you and your web host reseller service. But one thing is certain. If you do not provide a high level of customer service, your newfound customers won’t stay around for long. It is true of customers in any kind of store, online or offline, high-tech or not. If you are not taking care of them, and treating them like their business (and they, personally) are important to you, they will move to another web hosting firm as soon as they can. You will need good luck to succeed in reseller web hosting, like in any other endeavor.

If you follow seven steps outlined above, and tend to the other million or so things that are required of a successful business, you could be well on your way. Stay focused, stay busy, stay attentive and stay positive, and you just might stay in business too.

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How To Know Your Web Host Uptime

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:42:34 +0000

Uptime is a very important factor to determine the reliability of a web site. In order to win the trust of their potential customers, right now more and more web hosting companies add the uptime guarantee into their product features. And in the shared web hosting market sector, the industry average uptime is 99.9%.

The uptime in above is network uptime actually, which means they haven’t guarantee the accessible rate for your web site, and which is what we want actually. The network uptime is very hard to monitor, and actually, we are not too care about this. So, in below, we will talk about how to monitor the true uptime of your web site, which is used to determine the possibility of your site can be accessed by the internet users without any problem.

There are usually 2 ways you can know the true uptime of your web hosting.

Some web hosting companies will provide this service as free to you. And in order to make it be more trusted, they will leverage some 3rd party uptime monitoring companies and monitor the status of your server. Once your server is down, you will get a report. This kinds of free service from vendors is very few, and only can be seen in some dedicated or co-location hosting case.

So, the most realistic way is you to reach out to some professional uptime monitor companies, and ask them to monitor your status. There are many this kinds of companies in the world, and many of them will give you the free service, such as siteuptime.com, if you only want to monitor 1-2 domains, and the interval is not too small.

So, in above, you will see that you have to wait till you sign up the service with the vendor then you can really know their uptime. Considering in most cases, you can get certain period of free trial days, you can use it to verify the uptime to put your business in safe.

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Which Comes First, Web Hosting Or Web Design?

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:44:18 +0000

What is the relationship between Web Hosting and a Website which performs well?

It is important to choose the best web hosting services to make your online business successful. Technical knowledge of some level is important and for most people, it is a important decision to be made with their own. You should search for a web designer first and establish a friendly relationship with that person. They will then guide you further to find the best web hosting service as per your requirements.

Performance of your website strongly depends upon your web hosting plan. The hosting plan you choose directly effects the experience your prospective customers will have on your site. When shopping for business web hosting, people often make the mistake of looking for the cheapest plan they can find. The problem with this approach is that you are not just paying for hosting, you are paying for bandwidth, which directly effects how fast your web page will load. If your page loads too slowly your prospective customer will never see your site, but bandwidth is not the only factor that effects page load time.

Factors include:

The number of people connecting to your site at the same time.
The type of content you have on your site (the number of images, flash, video, audio, CMS).
How well your website is coded.
Back up and restore capabilities
Pre-loaded open source software
Security features

Of the six factors listed above, #3 is the primary offender for page load delays. Poorly coded websites are most often the result of machine-generated code, from do-it-yourself website builder applications.

Choosing a Web Designer first Knowledge and Relationship

There are many choices for web hosting companies and many different types of web hosting services. Knowing what web hosting you will need for your website before it even exists is difficult, if not impossible. That is why you will need to begin with an experienced web designer. That person will be able to build a custom website for you and will know what type of hosting will be necessary to accommodate your site. When you hire a web designer, he or she will begin with gathering requirements from you in which you will discuss all the features and content you would like to have on your site. Your designer will then choose a web hosting service that can handle all the requirements of the site that they are going to build for you.

Another reason to begin with choosing a website designer or developer first, is that they will design your site based on the idea that they will provide the hosting and that there will be an ongoing relationship. Business web hosting often includes the hosting as well as some type of website support contract so that you will have someone you can go back to on a consistent basis. You will get personal one-on-one attention and ongoing support from someone you have a history with, and who thoroughly knows your website and your business model.

Choosing Web Hosting First A Space in Need of a Site

If you begin with choosing your hosting plan first, then look for a designer, you set yourself up for several problems. First of all most web designers will not take a job building a website that could potentially be more than the hosting plan can handle. Secondly, many hosting services have different shareware applications that come with the hosting. You could have trouble finding a developer who is familiar with the shareware that comes with your hosting plan.

Another problem with choosing the hosting plan first is that a hosting company is concerned only with selling the hosting and nothing more. If you encounter any problems outside of hosting, the hosting company will not be able to help you. You will be essentially orphaning yourself before the project has even begun. Most web designers and developers offer their clients web hosting as well as maintenance contracts, but if you choose the hosting company first, then the person who builds the site for you does not have an ongoing relationship with you. Since there is no contract tying you to them, they have no vested interest is making your website successful.

Choosing a web hosting service for your website can be a complicated but very important decision. You will have the greatest chance for success with your website, if you begin by choosing a web designer or developer first and then have a hosting and maintenance contract with that person. That will ensure that your hosting plan will be appropriate for your website and that you will always have a website professional available when you need them.

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Introduction to Windows Web Hosting

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:27:10 +0000

As we knows that we don’t get direct access to web server that’s why the web server which is hosting our website is a Linux sever or a windows server never matters for us as all the games we play is via web hosting control panels or via ftp while a novice webmaster take it as a confusion that if they are working on a windows machine then they shall not host their website on a Linux based server while this is just a myth which make no sense at all.

The only thing which make sense is that if your website is coded by programmer in ASP or dot net technology then for sure you need to think for your web hosting needs for an windows environment web server else while if your website is made-up with html and flash sort of normal html structure then you might think to host your website on Linux or windows any one of web server as that no matters for you in that case.

Windows based web server gives you environment to host your website over IIS server normally windows 2003 server gives you environment of IIS version 7 while on the other hand windows 2008 gives you higher version of IIS server environment. One of the greatest things with Microsoft windows server is this that it gives developers an environment with better development tools and opportunities.

For example, FrontPage extension is one of the great utility plugged in with windows server which makes your website updation work more easier and more faster as with using FrontPage extension you can update your website on the server in real-time. Another common utility of Microsoft windows server is ASP, a Microsoft’s patented scripting language. This programming language gives you a powerful environment to develop dynamic websites. Microsoft windows based server also gives you better choice for database backend such as MSSQL 2005, MySQL and MSACCESS databases.

One of the greatest benefits of windows based server is this that windows based servers are compatible for multi language interfaces such as windows server can work with PHP and MySQL environment easily which are features of Linux server at core level.

Windows servers are more expensive servers as if compare to Linux server while today market dot net development is in huge demands thus that make developers to think for windows based servers for hosting of their web projects thus next time if you develop any dynamic website you definitely can think for windows based server along with dot net technology as a backed for your web development needs.

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Dedicated Servers and SSL Certificates

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:33:47 +0000

Dedicated Server = Dedicated IP Address = SSL

You don’t need to have a Dedicated Server to have a Dedicated IP addressee, But you do need to have a Dedicated IP addressee to use an SSL Certificate.

Almost all the merchant accounts require this, Google Checkout is one of them that require you to have an SSL Certificate, Without it you can’t use Google Checkout.

Depending on your hosting plan it can be rather pricey on a regular shared hosting plan to add a Dedicated IP and a SSL Certificate. Depending on your type of Business, This will tell what type of SSL Certificate you will require. An Individual can usually get away with a Standard Class 1 Certificate.

But if you are a business seeking to satisfy your savvy customers, Then you will need a more secure Class 2 SSL Certificate. If you shop really smart, You can usually get a great deal on a Class 2 for your Business. Sometimes you will see these Class 2′s run in the thousands sometimes. Don’t panic, You can find them for as low as $27.00 a year. There all SSL Certificates with the same 128/256 Bit Encryption.

No need to spend a crazy amount of money to get the protection that you and your customers will need for protection. Normally you will hear what is referred to as a Turbo SSL, This is the same as the Class 2 from the expensive places. They almost always have insurance on them as well. This insurance can range from $2,000 up to $250,000. For the smaller Business you will only need the smaller of these, Unless your doing big time business.

With the cost of the Dedicated IP setup and SSL Certificate it should only run you between $80.00 to $100.00 depending on what you choose.

Shop smart and watch your pocketbook, Unless your made of money. As a small business myself I have to watch every penny.

If you are looking for cheap dedicated servers, you should be careful while choosing the right specification and package. Things to consider are operating system, data backup and monitoring service, hardware options, space, bandwidth and technical support. Ask the hosting providers to give you a few websites for references, read hosting reviews before you sign up and be sure that the price is affordable. We know that the dedicated servers on this site are the one that will give you the most reliability and flexibility for your money.

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