Choosing a Web Hosting Provider from 40 Million Other Web Hosts - Pt1

Discover how to go about choosing a web hosting provider in ways that 99.5% of the advice on the Internet never mention.

If you struggle with finding good web hosting then using the process I describe could be the answer to one of the biggest problems you can face as a webmaster.

But first I'd like to give you an idea on the scale of the problem in choosing a good web hosting provider. A search on Google for the exact phrase " web hosting " returns over 32 Million results and " web hosting provider " or " web hosting company " produces around 800,000 results.

An IP survey by http://www.netcraft.com in 2003 found over 40 million web hosts.

Whether you want to believe Google's 32 Million web hosts or Netcraft's 40 Million, it gives some indication of just how many web hosting provider 's there are to choose from.

Google has over 7,800 sites offering advice on " How to choose a web host. "

But to be frank a lot of advice on the Internet is from sites promoting web hosting provider 's and resellers, which means it's not without bias.

If you think " web hosting review sites " are a good source of advice, try choosing one from over 6,000 listed by Google. Consider also that many are affiliated to the web hosts they recommend. This can mean not only do they get a sign-up commission, but a regular monthly fee for as long as a customer remains with the web host.

Much of the advice about choosing a web hosting provider talks about how much disk space or bandwidth you need, what type of server to use, or the features you should look for.

It's important stuff but it doesn't help in choosing a good web hosting provider.

I say this because disk space and bandwidth are today largely a non-issue, since most web hosting provider's are competing to offer so much of it, you'd need to have a website the size of CNN's to use it all.

As for the features offered by web hosts, there's often little to choose between them, they all generally offer enough of the basics for most websites. If you're looking for enhanced features like a website builder, adding a shopping cart, taking secure payments or promoting your website then these additional features might influence your choice.

But as a web hosting provider, you still don't know if they're any good.

At this point some of you may be thinking you'd read the other customers testimonials, or go to some of the website forums to see what other people have experienced with this host, or post a question to ask for advice.

Well again a word of caution, many forums are also the hangouts for people selling web hosting, so they frequently post replies or offer advice acting like the ordinary Joe. This means the advice can be biased toward or against a particular web hosting provider. One forum you could try that's dedicated to issues with web hosting is Web Hosting Talk

Oh! Let's not forget " Testimonials. " When was the last time you saw a customer testimonial on the sellers web site that said anything bad about the service or product they provide ?

I have only ever seen it once in the past 5 years and then not for a web hosting provider.

I've had web sites hosted with dozens of web hosting provider 's and made 100's of inquiries to other web hosting companies that I never even got close to the point of signing up with. I've moved some websites two or three times in less than two weeks because a web hosting provider is unable or unwilling to solve problems, or whose server configuration is unable to support the scripts my site needed.

It was after many years of suffering bad web hosts, I finally decided to work out a process that gave me a better chance of finding a good web hosting provider.

It's a bit like taking out insurance, you don't know what the insurance company is like until you need to make a claim. As a matter of interest I did an exact search for insurance against bad web hosting and there were no results.

Obviously no one is providing insurance against bad web hosting, which must mean it's too much of a risk.

I don't even consider my sites to require anything special or more than any other typical business website. Yet despite all my experience, finding a good web hosting provider is still one of the most difficult website challenges.

You'll find the exact step by step process in the 2nd part of this article at : http://www.webpageaddons.com

Choosing a Web Hosting Provider from 40 Million Other Web Hosts - Pt2

Of course no process is full-proof and it does not mean that the web hosting you find through the search engine filtering and techniques I suggest are the only web hosts capable of providing the services you're looking for.

You should also not assume because your Google Advanced Search was for web hosting provider 's with selected features that the sites you are reviewing are guaranteed to have those features.

Check every site on your short list, since search engine's are far from perfect.

What it does mean is that by using my suggested techniques you are selecting those web hosts who considered things like support, sufficiently important to want to be found for them on Google. Other web hosts may have good support, but the difference is that in your search you did not find them listed for this term.

It could mean support's not that important to them, even though they provide it.

It's also worth mentioning that the price of web hosting is not an indicator of the quality of the service. Some lower cost web hosting provider 's can give a far better service than some medium cost ones.

Conclusions

Using a six stage process I was able to choose from 40 million web hosting provider 's, a short list of 15 web hosts that met my selection criteria. With a further six stage process I was able to reduce the number of possible web hosting provider 's down to a choice of 2.

In the final stage the web hosting provider 's were both asked a number of general and technical questions that resulted in the final choice. Whilst the process is not full-proof I am yet to find a better devised way of choosing a good web hosting provider.

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Criteria to choose of an ideal web hosting company

Before we talk about what it takes to be a cheap and good quality web host, let’s get to the fundamental first.

What is a Web Host?

A web host is a service provider that places your web site on a computer which is connected to the internet. The term for this ‘computer’ is called a server.

A web hosting provider will typically have a fast connection to the Internet and they may host thousands of web sites on many servers. The web host essentially rents out space to you so that you can get your website up on the world wide web.

With a well-managed web host, you can free yourself from worrying the up-keep of complicated server technology and proper technical maintenance. That’s the whole purpose of the web hosting companies. You should leave the technical work to web hosting professional while you focus on your own internet business.

Let’s begin...

Feature Offered

The features that web hosting companies are offering are getting quite standard nowadays.

The followings are some of the common features you'll see in most web hosting plans:

Control Panel
Control Panel is an interface where you can access your site on the web server, allowing you to set-up and subsequently update and customize your web site. Though cPanel is by far the most popular control panel, some hosting providers customize their own so that they can up-grade and expand it at will. Diskspace
A vast majority of sites that don't have tons of graphics, sound and video clips or downloadable files easily fit in 50 MB of disk space. You should always leave yourself some room for growth or check if the host has a bigger plan in case you need to upgrade. Bandwidth
Bandwidth is the amount of data transmitted or received through a unit of time. In web hosting, bandwidth is consumed when visitors make requests for files on your web site and download them to their personal computers. Email Account
With POP3 email accounts you can check email from Outlook, Netscape Mail, Eudora or any other Email software. Scripting language
As all our top 10 listings are using Unix and Linux platform, php, perl and CGI are the languages we are talking about here. It is best to choose a host that supports the latest version to maximize the latest web technologies for the fee that you pay. Database
If your web site is going to store a lot of data that should be dynamically accessible (like user accounts, stock prices, maps, Interactive news, message boards and forum etc.), you'll need to look for an account that offers a database. MySQL is a powerful and most popular database program that runs on the Linux operation system. It is able to handle million of entries all at once. Its flexibility and speed allow you to also store logs and pictures. MySQL is designed to scale well under heavy traffic conditions and is ideal for database-intensive or e-commerce-enabled Web sites.

Customer Service/Support

No matter if you are an expert or a novice in web hosting, you need a web host with good customer support system. What is the criteria of an excellent customer support? Let us explain.

How big is the knowledge base?
This is particularly important for those who want to search for quick answer without seeking direct assistance from customer support staff. Due to the huge database, normally it’s searchable. Some web hosting providers will even make your life easier by making a video tutorial guiding you step by step in setting up your new account. Very useful for beginner.

Responsive customer service staff.
If you are too lazy to find the answer out of a big pool of database, get the direct answer from someone who knows it. Direct customer support comes in a few forms.
a. Email support

b. Phone support: Normally, sales and technical support uses separate phone line. A good phone support staff knows what your problem is and answers with relevance.

c.Web Host like Lunarpages and Globat even have live chat support. However, it’s not how many support channels that are available but how responsive it is of the staff. You can find out the hosting reviews and ratings [http://www.top10cheapwebhosting.com/services/cheap-web-hosting-criteria.php] of each of our Top 10 Cheap Web Host.

Price to Disk Space / Price to Bandwidth Ratio

Are you paying too much for your Web Hosting Plan?

Having done the research on hundreds of web hosting companies, in general, we’ve come to this conclusion: the more disk space and bandwidth you are getting, the more expensive is the monthly price.

To help you understand which price is competitive enough for you to take up the offer, we have categorized 5 different price range. For each price range, a score of maximum of 10 is assigned. To understand the concept behind this, please refer to the details here. [http://www.top10cheapwebhosting.com/services/cheap-web-hosting.php]

Popularity

A web host might have the best feature offered, unbeatable customer support and reliability in place but without an effective marketing plan, it will go bust too. Let’s face it. If a web hosting provider does not have sufficient members and steady growth of new members, it’s very difficult to survive in this highly competitive industry.

We judge the popularity of a particular web hosting provider by looking at the number of awards won, the reviews of other websites and the Alexa traffic ranking.

All the hosting providers listed on our Top 10 Cheap Web Hosting Directory are among the top 40,000 most visited websites in the world.

Reliability, Speed and Uptime Guarantee

Nothing can hurt you more than this: your visitors come to your web site only to find that it’s not accessible. You lose credibility and possibly even a sale. If your web host does not guarantee at least a 99% uptime, leave the web host now!

To ensure maximum uptime, installation of redundant back-up systems is essential. Each web host has their own management systems to minimize downtime. "Redundant" means that if any of the Internet connections get interrupted, the alternate Internet connection will take over.

We use Alertra software to monitor the uptime of each of our top 10 web hosts.

As for speed, even though routing, web server set up and local area networks play a part in determining the speed of a site, the main concern of how fast your site is depends very much on the types of network connections.

Many hosting providers still connect to the Internet through T1, or T3 connections. This is not the case for our top 10 hosts- they are using OC (Optical Carrier) lines.

A T1 line will offer data transfer rate of 1.5 Mbps (megabits per second), while a T3 line can supply data transfer rates of 43Mbps. OC-1 refers to a circuit that transmits 51.85Mbps. Higher levels are multiples of that speed. Ultra-High Speed OC3 and OC12 lines offers 155Mbps and 622Mbps respectively. Some hosting providers have connections to major internet backbones at the speed of OC48 (2488Mbps) and OC96 (4976Mbps).

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Choosing a Web Hosting Provider from 40 Million Other Web Hosts - Pt1

Discover how to go about choosing a web hosting provider in ways that 99.5% of the advice on the Internet never mention.

If you struggle with finding good web hosting then using the process I describe could be the answer to one of the biggest problems you can face as a webmaster.

But first I'd like to give you an idea on the scale of the problem in choosing a good web hosting provider. A search on Google for the exact phrase " web hosting " returns over 32 Million results and " web hosting provider " or " web hosting company " produces around 800,000 results.

An IP survey by http://www.netcraft.com in 2003 found over 40 million web hosts.

Whether you want to believe Google's 32 Million web hosts or Netcraft's 40 Million, it gives some indication of just how many web hosting provider 's there are to choose from.

Google has over 7,800 sites offering advice on " How to choose a web host. "

But to be frank a lot of advice on the Internet is from sites promoting web hosting provider 's and resellers, which means it's not without bias.

If you think " web hosting review sites " are a good source of advice, try choosing one from over 6,000 listed by Google. Consider also that many are affiliated to the web hosts they recommend. This can mean not only do they get a sign-up commission, but a regular monthly fee for as long as a customer remains with the web host.

Much of the advice about choosing a web hosting provider talks about how much disk space or bandwidth you need, what type of server to use, or the features you should look for.

It's important stuff but it doesn't help in choosing a good web hosting provider.

I say this because disk space and bandwidth are today largely a non-issue, since most web hosting provider's are competing to offer so much of it, you'd need to have a website the size of CNN's to use it all.

As for the features offered by web hosts, there's often little to choose between them, they all generally offer enough of the basics for most websites. If you're looking for enhanced features like a website builder, adding a shopping cart, taking secure payments or promoting your website then these additional features might influence your choice.

But as a web hosting provider, you still don't know if they're any good.

At this point some of you may be thinking you'd read the other customers testimonials, or go to some of the website forums to see what other people have experienced with this host, or post a question to ask for advice.

Well again a word of caution, many forums are also the hangouts for people selling web hosting, so they frequently post replies or offer advice acting like the ordinary Joe. This means the advice can be biased toward or against a particular web hosting provider. One forum you could try that's dedicated to issues with web hosting is Web Hosting Talk

Oh! Let's not forget " Testimonials. " When was the last time you saw a customer testimonial on the sellers web site that said anything bad about the service or product they provide ?

I have only ever seen it once in the past 5 years and then not for a web hosting provider.

I've had web sites hosted with dozens of web hosting provider 's and made 100's of inquiries to other web hosting companies that I never even got close to the point of signing up with. I've moved some websites two or three times in less than two weeks because a web hosting provider is unable or unwilling to solve problems, or whose server configuration is unable to support the scripts my site needed.

It was after many years of suffering bad web hosts, I finally decided to work out a process that gave me a better chance of finding a good web hosting provider.

It's a bit like taking out insurance, you don't know what the insurance company is like until you need to make a claim. As a matter of interest I did an exact search for insurance against bad web hosting and there were no results.

Obviously no one is providing insurance against bad web hosting, which must mean it's too much of a risk.

I don't even consider my sites to require anything special or more than any other typical business website. Yet despite all my experience, finding a good web hosting provider is still one of the most difficult website challenges.

You'll find the exact step by step process in the 2nd part of this article at : http://www.webpageaddons.com

Choosing a Web Hosting Provider from 40 Million Other Web Hosts - Pt2

Of course no process is full-proof and it does not mean that the web hosting you find through the search engine filtering and techniques I suggest are the only web hosts capable of providing the services you're looking for.

You should also not assume because your Google Advanced Search was for web hosting provider 's with selected features that the sites you are reviewing are guaranteed to have those features.

Check every site on your short list, since search engine's are far from perfect.

What it does mean is that by using my suggested techniques you are selecting those web hosts who considered things like support, sufficiently important to want to be found for them on Google. Other web hosts may have good support, but the difference is that in your search you did not find them listed for this term.

It could mean support's not that important to them, even though they provide it.

It's also worth mentioning that the price of web hosting is not an indicator of the quality of the service. Some lower cost web hosting provider 's can give a far better service than some medium cost ones.

Conclusions

Using a six stage process I was able to choose from 40 million web hosting provider 's, a short list of 15 web hosts that met my selection criteria. With a further six stage process I was able to reduce the number of possible web hosting provider 's down to a choice of 2.

In the final stage the web hosting provider 's were both asked a number of general and technical questions that resulted in the final choice. Whilst the process is not full-proof I am yet to find a better devised way of choosing a good web hosting provider.

Tony Simpson, Advises on Website Design, Promotion and Optimization. The selection process in this article is covered in detail in: Choosing a Web Hosting Provider from 40 Million Other Web Hosts - Pt2

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5 Tips When Choosing Multiple Domain Hosting

If you have or are planning to have several domains running on the web, then you should consider getting a multiple domain hosting. Multiple domain hosting allows you to host several domains under a single hosting plan. Most web hosting companies call it shared hosting.

The main advantage of multiple domain hosting is it helps to consolidate all your domains under one hosting plan. It makes domain management a breeze. It also makes it easier to modify any settings since you are doing it from the same control panel.

Here are a few tips you might want to bear in mind when looking a shared hosting service.

Hard Disk Space

Nowadays most shared web hosting plans provide more than enough disk space to satisfy your needs. It is important you know before hand how much disk space your web site will be using not just currently but projected 6 months, 1 year and 2 years down the road.

Some web applications requires more disk space than others. One example are file hosting sites. Also remember to check the cost of upgrading your disk space in case you need one. Most web hosting providers charge on a per GB basis.

Bandwidth

Most web hosting providers cap a limit on each hosting plan's bandwidth. Check to make sure it provides sufficient bandwidth for your current websites and also room for growth. Most web hosting providers will charge you on a per GB basis for exceeded bandwidth.

The speed is also important for websites. No one wants to visit a website that loads slowly. File hosting and video sites for example requires an acceptable speed in order to deliver file download or streaming video.

Number of Domains Allowed

Some web hosting limit the number of domains for each hosting plan. It is best to get one with unlimited domains so you have to worry about the limit.

Emails/FTP accounts

You probably will need separate email accounts for each domain you have. Most web hosting services provide webbased or as well outlook based email accounts. Preferably try to get one that has unlimited email/ftp accounts.

Ease of control panel

With many domains, emails, ftp accounts etc to manage, it is important that the control panel is easy to use and all information can be accessed easily. Most web hosting services provide cpanel. Some web hosting services do use their own customised control panel. A good example is godaddy.

Whichever control panel you are using, familiarize yourself with the interface and get used to it as fast as possible.

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The choice of a domain name for your domain hosting service

Your domain name hosting is not something to easily be selected. Your domain to hosting is the front line in your branding campaign for your online business (or your offline business online presence). Selection must careful inspection only host the right domain name for your company. The following are some important points to note:

The correct extension for the correct website

Each type of site you want, domain hosting for may serve a different market. The extension that you use .com, - ensure .NET .org, .biz, etc. - is the correct extension for your market. If you a business and there is no reason, you can not get domain hosting for a. com. If you are a non-profit organization, take into account. org. If you create a personal website and are on a budget, consider .us or some of the other lesser-known extensions. When in doubt, however, go for. com. The part of the URL people in most cases is first forget the extension. And if they are in doubt, what they give you in the .com: .biz and .net should only take into account, when you are fully connected host names with a given domain and the .com variant is not available. But our best proposal for this scenario is, vary host name and .com domain extension.

The shorter the better

When picking consider domain name hosting for your website, that to remember to visit it, people. Not everyone will get to your site, by you to a list or a display or a reciprocal linking. Word of mouth results increase if your domain name of the site is short and sweet host. And the people make less spelling errors and typos in the attempt, directly type in your URL.

You stay away from, what you heard

Enterprise organizations with trademarked names look like tempting targets for domain host name, to generate loads of free (if even unintentionally) movement. Heck you can even the domain back to sell hosting name to them for a hefty sum. More than likely, but you will be sued only. And chances are, if you read this article, they have better lawyers than you.

The more the

Granted, these catchy slogan is a bit misleading. Examination register a domain group that cover necessarily host name to the interested visitors in the wrong URL type is an excellent idea. Try, if possible, the .com and .net version of your domain name or a variant with hyphens as also one without get (always going for without dashes first). But don't buy, more than you can afford, or more than you need. Once you have the domain host name, what they are and regardless of number, have you still people, them to visit.

U r a *, but your domain name may not be

Symbols, you can not use spaces in your domain hosting (our apologies to "the artist formerly known as Prince"). And URLs are not case sensitive. So, don't waste your time not.

Do it now

You have the concept that if you have an idea then at least a others have someone somewhere else in the world ever have or has the same idea? Well, that is the case with domain name hosting certainly, so you all need to catch due haste hosting name in your ideal domain. Otherwise, you can wind far inferior compromises with an alternative.

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The right company is domain hosting - your success in the election

Certainly, no matter which industry you are involved in requires your own website. In today's Internet age, not a business as a brick and mortar can make alone. An important concept for you would be so domain-hosting to learn and understand. Many hosting providers offer domain-hosting today at very reasonable and affordable prices. What you need to do is, find the best with unlimited domain hosting plans, as well as safety and maintenance. However not be lured by the unlimited multiple domain hosting, unlimited keep the single domain hosting so many multiple domain hosting providers oversell their servers. As if the airline oversells, the seats on the plane, then have them to special voluntarily on a regional airline with people offering to take the next flight. Well with hosting, there is no next flight and that oversold not keep server up with the demand, so that your website will be unavailable.

Many hosting companies offer a free package that shows at the beginning of very attractive, but that most of the time with a negative result comes out. Before you make your domain name registration, you must make sure that no other company or individual uses your name. Registration is online offered by hosting companies. So you must be very careful about choosing the right domain hosts for you, it is not only cost, most of the time that it should only have the quality. Choose the Web hosting company, which offers the highest quality of service, as well as the free services available. Some offer privacy protection, an email account, DNS services, and chat services free of charge with each domain name registered.

Picking the best hosting is a very big problem among so many. Many things need to be considered in particular the companies offer you and what services are best for you. If you have thoughts on multiple Web sites, you will need for a more domain-hosting search. All of your sites are preserved under a Panel. Make sure that the hosting company but not least you sufficient space, sufficient bandwidth, high security, regular maintenance and last one very spontaneously offers customer service. Their domain registration should be seamless and secure Web server certificates provide many hosting companies. You need to look at everything and to make sure that you are dependent on the right hosting company. And remember, look for domain hosts that try, offer unlimited hosting with multiple domains, never more should be domain-hosting unlimited hosting.

Sine qua non for any kind of business is domain-hosting. It doesn't matter if you invest a hot dog stand or a company millions. Your domain hosting provider offer that a domain name such as.com,.net etc., if possible a.com get as it is the best known. But many Web hosting companies give you the option of hosting many websites with a single account. This is certainly a risky function.

What is multiple domain hosting? It is actually in high demand the costs, if you reduce multiple Web sites and you remarkably. You are your multiple Web sites that run under one control panel. Only a hosting account is required, you if the company offers unlimited hosting "do". Let me make sure that this is clear. Are domain-hosting in several select a primary domain, and then define the other sites as a subdomain and this will reduce your overall maintenance costs. It offers the optimal use of your space and data transfer rate (bandwidth).

Are sure that you are the owner of the domain before registering with domain hosting company. You read carefully the terms and conditions, all Web hosting companies are not equal; hang a quality companies such as Gossimer instead. Many Web hosting companies offer unlimited bandwidth and disk space. But most of the space and the bandwidth is used by the customer. The load on the server is low because the basic site requires very few resources and this feature allows the hosting company to spread the load amongst a larger customer base.

Many cheap domain companies can offer you unlimited bandwidth, unlimited space, and much more eyes attractive offers. Is it probably true? The answer is no. They must understand that they do not for a civil service. Most of them offer a shared server. Security is a big question. In addition, if you carefully examine the website-hosting terms and condition you can make sure you understand the whole thing and will not lose your domain, because the host decides to assert this. Their offerings give most commonly some limits the traffic or something. So, after which do not run the free offers.

If you have to decide for a domain hosting company, last, are that what to examine the safety devices. Make sure your authorization to retention of title, register your unique domain, the validity of your domain registration and checking whether the condition for the domain-hosting provider for you are beneficial or not. Look for the more domain hosting plans. It is worth the additional costs separately for each domain name hosting.

The primary step of your website in the global arena is domain-hosting to bring. Their business success is so immensely to choose of the right domain hosting company. Remember the words of. Stay focused.

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