Archive for the 'web hosting' Category

How To Pick The Best Blog Web Hosting Provider

So you want to start a blog. Like many people, you probably think that the cheapest web hosting company is the best. Am I right? Well, before you go on a search for the cheapest blog web hosting provider you can find, there are a few things you’re going to want to know. You see, [...]

Friday, July 9th, 2010

What Do You Look For In A Web Hosting Company?

Before you start running around the web, looking for advice on which web hosting company to use for your web site, you need to ask your self a few questions. From a technology standpoint, there’s not a lot of difference between the different hosts. They pretty much all offer the same software, databases, email address and cPanel for their services. If your not sure what companies to look at you just need to look around a bit. Like some hosting found here for example. There’s really quite a few to choose from. If your site is just new, or currently gets small amounts of traffic, then just about any web company should work.

What you do want however, is a host that is reliable. There’s nothing that bugs me more, then having a website down for unscheduled problems. Really, considering the maturity and low cost of most hardware and software solutions for web hosting, there’s no reason to accept much down time from a web host. They only time most hosts run into trouble, is when they oversell their servers. Meaning, they try to host too many websites on the same machine. One of the most important things you can do for your websites, is to keep current backups of all your work. I use WordPress for a lot of my sites, and there are a number of plugins that take frequent backups of both my database and my html files. The backups are emailed to me every day. With current backups, it’s pretty simple for me to move my site to a new hosting company in a matter of minutes.

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Top Features of Webhosting Companies

Most webhosting companies are so competitive that they offer similar services.  The big distinctions will come in price, how much is included in that price, and the quality of customer support.  Some of the other factors you may consider are the length of time a webhost has been in business, whether they use renewable energy, [...]

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

How Internet Bandwidth Usage Works

In computer networking as well as computing machine science, digital bandwidth, network bandwidth or just bandwidth is a measure of usable or taken data communicating resources expressed in bit/s or multiples of it (kbit/s, Mbit/s etc). bandwidth may refer to bandwidth capacity or usable bandwidth in bit/s, which usually means the net bit rate, channel [...]

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

The Realities of A Web Hosting Based Business

It never ceases to amaze me at how quickly technology marches on.  I’ve worked with computers for my entire professional career spanning some twenty five years.  I’ve been around computers even longer, if you start counting from the first day my father brought home a TRS-80 by Radio Shack, and I proceeded to teach my [...]

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

How Much Should You Be Paying For Web Hosting?

First of all, what you should be paying for web hosting, probably has very little to do with what you actually end up paying for web hosting.  I’ve been at this game for a while now, and have paid anywhere from zero dollars a month for web hosting, up to around $150 per month for [...]

Friday, January 22nd, 2010