Web hosting guide for dummies

Web hosting guide for dummies

Reference | in Budget Web Hosting Guides,Web Hosting Guides | by Kay TonyChoosing the right Web Host matters: Whether you putting up a personal website or a commercial one, you should choose your web hosting provider wisely. The reason is that you will most definitely want your website to be seen by the largest number of people. Each one of them have their own unique advantages and weaknesses. So how would one decide which one to choose?nEven after you zone in on a particular provider, you still need to choose the hosting package that will suit you. Every web hosting site offer many different types of packages to choose from. up and running at any given time. Or go for the larger more established hosting companies who have built a trusted reputation. Most good hosting companies have multiple server data and power backups. They should provide customers with 24/7 phone and internet support. They should have a good collection of tutorials and FAQs readily on their site in case you might need help. Pricing included featuresnThe range of pricing and features included in web hosting packages are pretty wide. You will want a fair balance of features and quality that will suit your needs. As with any other product, cheap usually gets less quality. These includes data storage and bandwidth limits, number of allowed addon domains and subdomains, number of email and ftp accounts hosted, shared or virtual or dedicated server plans, programming languages and databases, site tools, shopping cart etc, and the list goes on. One can be easily confused with these numerous choices more so if you are not familiar with them. Data Storage and Bandwidth limitsnIf you are new to putting up websites, you might have very little idea about how much data storage space and bandwidth your site will need. First off, don worry too much about this. Even the most professional people will tell you that themselves. Normal websites rarely occupy beyond 40-50 MB (megabytes of storage space). basic web pages, pictures or video clips etc. Here too, not that much to worry about for normal websites. Do not be fooled by Unlimited Bandwidth Shared Hosting packages. It is good for personal and small websites. They are the most economical of hosting packages. In shared hosting, a number of hosting accounts usually 10-100 are hosted on a single physical server. Virtual Private Servers are hosted on unique ip addresses (eg. 192.170.1.8) and are virtually like a dedicated physical stand-alone server, but with less cost than a physical dedicated server. They are hosted on separate physical servers. In other words they have a server rented out to them. For big websites there is big benefits. websites eg. If you intend to host more than one website, you need to choose the package that allows it. or The number of Sub Domains allowed may be different on different packages. Do not confuse this with folders eg. Email and FTP accountsnEmail Accounts: These are unique email accounts for your website/s eg. You can set these up and give it to anyone, your friends, visitors, customers. They are of tremendous help to web masters in that they allow you to update, delete or create new files and folders in your host directly from web design software and ftp softwares. No worries here too as most packages will give you more than 10 accounts. nThese are programming softwares and databases used by your hosting server. They are used for the more advanced web features like automated content management, user management, running scripts and programs etc. If you don understand them, you don need to. Web hosting tips for good SEOnOne of the things that improves Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and should be considered when choosing a web host is the location of the server. Experience shows that search engines favor locally hosted websites when search is made. Big search engines like Google are known to give preference to locally hosted sites. This means that to rank higher in, for eg., UK, it helps to have a web hosting server that is located within the UK. Another thing that also is known to help SEO in local search rankings is regional tLDs or domain names. Experts believe that if you have a site which shares the same server and ip address as a Google penalized site, your site also suffers as a result. The obvious way to avoid this is to host your site or sites on a separate ip address which will mean a dedicated server of a Virtual Private Server.
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