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Creating your own website can be an enjoyable, enlightening, and potentially lucrative endeavor. Your site will give you a platform where you can share your knowledge and opinions with others, provide information about any topic under the sun, create communities and connect with others, market a product or service, and the list goes on. And through the process of creating and promoting a website you will learn valuable information about HTML, search engines, and the Internet in general that will aid you in your other online interactions.
After you have decided what kind of website you want to create and are ready to take your project online, you will need to select a web hosting provider. Web hosting companies provide the server space, storage, and Internet connectivity you will need to have a website on the Internet. While it is possible for you to host a website on your own computer, for most people this isn’t practical, desirable, or worth saving the less than $10 a month most web hosting companies charge.
When you purchase a web hosting package, you are essentially renting a space on the web host’s network. The amount of space you get depends on what type of service you purchase ranging on a portion of a single server (a server is just a computer designed for providing information to other computers), to a server all to yourself (something you probably won’t need unless you are creating a company website), to a cluster of servers (something you definitely won’t need until you have many thousands of people visiting your website). Along with space, you also get a connection to the Internet so people can view your website online (referred to as bandwidth), as well as different tools to help you create and manage your website depending on the web host.
When choosing a web host, people will often times look at price and secondarily consider storage space and bandwidth. For this reason, it is little surprise that web hosting companies highlight these parts of their service. Especially for a first time website owner, however, storage and …
There are various factors that you need to consider while selecting a web hosting company. Among these, the very first thing is that you should not blindly choose the first one that comes in your way. Before choosing the web hosting company you need to clarify something and then go for it. Speed is the most important factor of consideration while selecting a web hosting company. Your website should not take much time to load because then you might lose the business. No visitor would wait for long for your site to open. Thus the uptime of your web hosting company should be extremely good so that your website is available immediately when the link is clicked. Thus before you choose the web hosting company go through the reviews to find whether the web hosting service provider is reliable regarding speed.
Another important factor for consideration is the availability of support. You might need technical help at any time of the day or night. Especially if you have a site with lots of high end applications then you would need to update the site from time to time. If you do not do so due to the technical problems then the site might become outdated and you might lose many business opportunities. Thus before you choose the correct web hosting company for you, you need to check whether the technical support is available for 24 hours for 7 days. The technical support staff must respond to your call immediately and should be able to solve the technical problem quickly.
Space provided to you is another criterion. The space that you are allocated should meet the requirements of your site. This requirement should be fulfilled keeping in mind the future need of space by the websites. Sometimes there is need for more space on the web server than the amount of space the website needs on your PC because dynamically data is added in the form of website comments, emails and traffic logs which take up a lot of space.
Last but not the least, always ensure that the bandwidth …
LiteSpeed web hosting is a technology that uses LiteSpeed web servers to host all client websites. Living up to their name, standard LiteSpeed servers are known to be twice as fast as Apache for static content. The enterprise version, the company claims, is six times as fast. PHP scripting is about 1.5 times faster than Apache’s mod_php. The main reason for the high speed is a network architecture that is clean and optimal. The architecture has been created with the dual objective of low latency and scalability in mind.
Most of the LiteSpeed web hosting plans offer features that are extremely attractive. These include CGI, fast CGI, LSAPI and PHP, Ruby on Rails support, Apache compatible URL rewrite engine, MS FrontPage server extension and more. The security is ensured by the strictest HTTP validation, system overloading prevention, Chroot web server process and virtual host chroot and anti-DDOS capabilities. The monitoring done for LiteSpeed is constant and recovery from any kind of failure is immediate.
Web hosting plans that use LiteSpeed technologies can promise faster loading times for client websites. These servers are compatible with most third party control panels like cPanel, DirectAdmin, ISPConfig and others. It has the best support for Ruby on Rails and great anti-DDoS capabilities.
LiteSpeed Web Hosting is typically used by sites that have large databases and high traffic to manage. Therefore ISP providers and large corporate companies are the ones that need to opt for web hosting solutions that use LiteSpeed servers instead of the slower server options. Today, many web hosting companies are replacing their erstwhile Apache servers with LiteSpeed servers so that they can offer much better launching times. Some of the sites that you may have heard of that use LiteSpeed hosting are WordPress (a very popular blog), Zoznam (Slovakia’s largest portal), Download3000 (a site with download options for windows programs and games), Lyrics (the largest lyric archive site) and FanFiction.
The decreasing patience of consumers to wait for websites that take ages to load and the need to seamless Internet surfing has made this change almost mandatory. So even though LiteSpeed …
If you are starting a new web site or already have an existing web site, picking the right web hosting is crucial to the success of your web site. If you choose the wrong hosting type for your web site you could lose valuable web traffic/orders due to downtimes, suspensions for resource abuse, etc. In this article I will go over the different types of web hosting out there and which is best for you.
Free Web Hosting
Free Web Hosting is great for the obvious reason. If you are just getting started and need practice building web sites then you will want to find a good free web hosting provider. Theres no sense in wasting money on a paid service if all you want to do is practice your skills. After you have learned how to manage a web site then you might want to think about going to a paid host. If your web site is a small site and don’t mind the adverts the host will place on your site than by all means go with the free web hosting providers. For the most part a free web host won’t provide support for their services(some do), might not be as reliable, and won’t have as many bells and whistles added to the service as a paid hosting provider will
Paid hosting: Shared, virtual, multi user plans
Shared/virtual web hosting is great for most of the web sites out there. If you have a small to medium size web site and traffic you will want to go with a paid shared web hosting provider. Paid providers will usually be able to host multiple domain names on a single account and will provide more than enough resources for most sites out there. With a paid host your will receive better support and a more reliable service. You will want to go with a paid host if you plan to make money on your web site. Remember that downtime costs you money – lost sales, lost ad revenue. So make sure you find a host with an uptime guarantee.
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