When choosing website hosting, you have 2 choices of server platforms. These are Windows servers and Linux servers. The most popular type is Linux but there are also advantages of Windows website hosting that need to be considered. Windows servers run on either the Windows Server 2003 or the 2008 versions. What makes them useful is when the need for a dynamic website is required. Typically, dynamic websites are required to be coded in ASP. This allows for dynamic querying of databases, so are ideal for large websites with many products. But if your website is built in static HTML [...]

With more and more people wanting to get online these days, the choices of website hosting have become more and more confusing. At one stage there were only a few different website hosting plans to choose from but now they seem to be never-ending. There are thousands of web hosts who each have their own plans, so how on earth do you know which is best for you? Well the answer to this question is obviously to do your research. First you need to know if there is anything specific about the type of website you have or want to [...]

You have no doubt heard many people talking about unlimited website hosting and why it is important that you get it. What it basically means is that when you sign up, the company tells you that you can have unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth. Now this might sound all good and well but what many of them fail to tell you is that if your site starts using a lot of CPU on the server, they could just close down your site completely. They normally add this in small print on their terms of service. So this basically means [...]

With the popularity of the internet increasing all the time, more and more people are wanting to build their own website. Most often they don’t want to pay someone to do it as that can be expensive, so they use a program like FrontPage. What FrontPage does is allow someone to build a website without any knowledge of HTML at all. They use a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) type of interface which means it is just like using Microsoft Word. Website Hosting With FrontPage FrontPage has a built in FTP feature. What this means is that [...]

Are you looking to buy hosting for your business website? Or maybe you just want to have your own personal website so people can see it? Whatever you’re reason for wanting website hosting, there are certainly many choices out there for you. The majority of them work on a monthly website hosting basis, which means you pay them a monthly fee for them to host your website. This is very beneficial because if something does go wrong and you decide to change hosts, you are not tied to any contract. Nor do you have to try and reclaim any money, [...]

A lot of money can be made online by selling website hosting reseller packages. This is basically when you charge someone to have their websites hosted on your reseller account. This is normally a low monthly fee and they have access to traffic stats and other features. The great thing about website hosting reseller accounts is that they can be really low priced and used to host practically hundreds of small websites. So you can get a reseller account for $20 a month, then charge dozens of people $5 a month to host their website. As you can probably see, [...]

Many people are put off having their own website because they think it is just too complicated. Not only that but web hosting is very costly and they won’t be able to afford it. This might have been true 10 years ago but these days it has never been easier to get your own online presence. All you need is a static website and HTML website hosting. Actually you don’t even need to have a website already created as most web hosts allow you to install content managements systems like WordPress in the click of a button. This means you [...]

Finding the best website hosting service can certainly not be easy. There are literally thousands of different companies offering all different kinds of hosting packages to choose from. One of the first things you need to decide is whether you will be willing to pay for hosting or whether you want it for free. This is even before you consider and compare website hosting. Now, under normal circumstances you might want everything in life for free. After all, why pay if you don’t have to right? Well this doesn’t really work out if you want a professional look to your [...]

If you have never had a website or web hosting before, then it can seem like a daunting task to find website hosting to match your needs. This is because you probably don’t know what your needs actually are. So when you start looking around and seeing terms like bandwidth, cPanel and unique IP addresses things just get so much more confusing! The main thing to realise is that all your web host does is host your files. So if you have a simple website made from just static HTML pages, then you aren’t going to need any complicated website [...]

If you’re website is a simple design with a few pages and some graphics, then there is possibly no need to go for expensive website hosting. Simple website hosting should be very affordable and maybe even free depending on which route you wish to go. Is Free Website Hosting Any Good? Many companies offer free website hosting but what they generally do is place their own ads somewhere on the site. This means that they will possibly be earning money from people visiting your website. And sometimes the adverts can be a real distraction to your visitors. So although it [...]