Web Hosting Review

HostGator

WHRO — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:34:28 +0000

A no-frills web host with excellent developer support – their servers are configured with PHP, Perl, ImageMagick, GD, Chilisoft ASP, Ruby on Rails and SSH access. If you need a custom module for your website, they’ll install it for you. HostGator’s control panel includes auto-installers for many popular forum, blogging, and ecommerce scripts.

HostICan

WHRO — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:54:57 +0000

Hosting ready for your demanding dynamic websites. HostICan provides access to PHP, ASP, Ruby on Rails, custom cron jobs and .htaccess support.

Lunarpages

WHRO — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:55:53 +0000

Lunarpages is one of the largest web hosting companies around, providing 24/7 support and more than adequate features for both shared hosting and dedicated servers. Their environments are fully developer-friendly with JSP/ASP available, Ruby on Rails, and PostgresSQL databases in addition to PHP and MySQL.

FatCow

WHRO — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:03:37 +0000

FatCow first started in 1998 and has been offering web hosting services for more than 10 years. Today, the hosting company is a well-recognized brand name in shared hosting solutions for small to medium-sized businesses and individuals looking for an affordable web hosting option.

HostMonster

WHRO — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:07:20 +0000

HostMonster is ready to take care of even the most demanding websites with support for PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, custom php.ini settings, custom .htaccess settings, and PostgreSQL databases.

IX Web Hosting

WHRO — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:56:39 +0000

One of the lowest cost web hosts out there, with plans starting at $3.95/month, plus free domain registration. Their budget plan doesn’t come with features more complex site builders expect, such as database access or SSL installation, but is more than enough for a small personal site.

InMotion Hosting

WHRO — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:53:59 +0000

InMotion promises to “grow with you”, offering plans that scale up as your business does — from a budget single-site plan, to multi-site plans, to VPS and dedicated servers.

Picking of First Web Hosting Company

WHRO — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:02:04 +0000

For a successful web site having a great host is very important. Now supposing one has just made a big new web site and has a remarkable domain name, attractive design and a large amount of content. Now what is the next step is the question that comes in his/her mind. If the site is great but the host is worthless the site will go down and thus will suffer as a result. Before choosing ones first web host some important elements should be considered as many people these days are discontented with their web hosting service. One that fits one’s needs can be the best service. Several elements that any webmaster ought to consider before choosing a web host are:-

• Disc space is the first thing to be considered. Disc space depends on the size of the web site, and also on the amount of money one is willing to spend. To see how much disc space the site takes up on computer one should look in ones web site folder. Always get space more then what is taken up by ones computer (to be on the safer side). For e.g., if the web folder is 300MB, one should probably get 250-300MB of disc space. Sites with flash animation, or complex designs and sites with a variety of videos and pictures will in general take a higher amount of disc space than other sites.

• Try to estimate the amount of bandwidth ones web site will be using. Bandwidth is the amount of data transfer ones web site can use. One should have a high bandwidth if one is planning to have an extraordinarily popular site with a large amount of files. Bandwidth is not as big a factor for casual web sites. Considering the cost aim to have more bandwidth than required, but never less.

• Speed of Web site is rarely taken into consideration. The fact is that there are numerous Internet users still on 56k dial-up connections. If speed of ones web host is very slow for all of its web sites, then one may not want to go with that host. People won’t sit around at a page forever. Having a fast speed is very helpful if one wants many people to visit ones site. Just asking the web host for list of their sites is a very good technique for checking how fast a web host’s hosted sites are. A genuine web host, who wants to have business, will conform in no time at all.

This might take some time and effort but nonetheless these elements are required to be taken into consideration while hosting a web site. Searching through web hosts even if it takes time in finding out everything one can about the host would be worthwhile. It is not necessary that the best web host is the most expensive, or cheapest so one should have a clear-cut view of what one wants to accomplish with ones web site. The host that fits ones needs is the best web host. Cheaper web hosts may be the way to go for the casual webmaster. Conversely if one has planned his site to win users, and inform all their friends about the site, than one might want to consider getting a higher end web host. No the site can not be seen by the users without web hosting. To make the gateway between ones site and the rest of the Internet as successful as possible is very important

Webhosting can take a lot of your attention unless your webhost gives you good uptime and prompt support. Hostgator is one of the best web hosts in the hosting coupons lists where you can host your website and blogs and also get upto 20% discount

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WHRO — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:52:26 +0000

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Difference Between Free Web Hosting & Paid Hosting

WHRO — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:48:37 +0000

There are advantages and disadvantages for both paid and free web hosting. But it actually depends on what ones requirements are and what one is trying to achieve.

Advantages of Free Web Hosting

- As it is free it is the one of the most obvious advantage.

- Free web space can be used to practice programming. Some free web hosting plans support a programming language such as PHP, ASP, CGI/Perl, Cold fusion or JSP but several do not support all the languages.

- For creating a small personal website free web hosting plan is great.

Disadvantages of Free Web Hosting

- The majority of free web hosts cannot afford to offer 24/7 or any support as they are offering free hosting.

- Many free web hosts do not allow FTP access, which is an obstacle if one has many files to upload this one of the major flaws with free web hosts.

- Many free web hosts place their banner and text ads on the website.

- Very few free web hosts with their plans offer control panel.

- Ones website is placed in a sub-domain or a folder with a large number of free hosts, which results in poor search engine rankings most of the time.

- Much disk space or data transfer is not offered by free web hosting plans. This can be a problem if one have a lot of large files or if ones website generates a lot of traffic.

Advantages of Paid Web Hosting

- Most paid web hosts offer 24/7 supports.

- One will not have any unwanted text or banner ads placed on ones website with paid hosting.

- Control panel such as cPanel, Vdeck, Plesk or Ensim which offer features like web stats, the ability to password protect directories, and the ability to create web based email accounts are being offered by a lot of paid web hosting plans.

- One will have ones own domain name (consumerswebsite.com) which will not only result in better search engine rankings, but will also look more professional. Thus ones website will not be placed in a sub-domain or folder.

- As with paid web hosting one gets more disk space and data transfer, one can add more files to ones website and it can also handle more traffic.

- Most paid web hosts are offering FTP access.

- Couple programming languages such as PHP, ASP, CGI/Perl, the majority of paid web hosting plans is supporting Cold fusion and JSP.

Disadvantage of Paid Web Hosting

- It’s not free this is the only major disadvantage of paid web hosting.