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Saturday, April 16th, 2011 at 11:30 pm

How-To Understand Web Hosting Package Features

The options available with a web hosting package is extensive, and can be a bit difficult understand - especially since the options are presented in a number of ways, and condenses in various forms, while the purchase of a package online. I look forward to a down into 10 categories, and discuss the categories one by one to give you a solid understanding of options and make an informed buying decision.

10 categories of Web Hosting Package Features

Operating System
Web Server
Band width
Disk Space
Domains
E-mail
FTP
Database
Control Panel
Applications / Programming

1. Operating System

The base operating system is the software that runs on the host. Administered physical server hardware and attempts to optimize the use of RAM, disk space, network and CPU for applications for entry into the machine. The underlying operating system need not be the same as the desktop or operating system you use to develop your website. In fact, because most of the functions of management-driven through a web interface, you may never know or care what operating system the server is.

Operating systems are predominant, while purchasing a web hosting service are Windows and UNIX. With Windows, you will see the versions available, such as Server 2003 or Server 2008, and will see many brands UNIX Linux usually CentOS, Debian, or Red Hat. The choice between UNIX and Windows is an important decision, and involves many variables, but in the end simply means deciding whether to build your website with open source technology or technology from Microsoft. the application to use or run as your website and UNIX likely to be a better choice for you. UNIX runs open source scripting languages a little faster and slightly cheaper than Windows.

There are some specific subgroups of the operating system features that may be of importance to you.

Need a private server virtual? This gives you a dedicated virtual operating system all to yourself instead of sharing with others operating system. They still share a machine with others, but they are tightening the walls in place to ensure the bandwidth, CPU and memory, even if a web site on the same machine is badly beaten. Also gives great with all settings, since it is its own operating system. These packages package and monitoring the use of RAM over time and improvement in one package larger, as needed.

Need a dedicated SSL certificate? Most sites offer a shared SSL certificate, which is fine for some smaller sites, but if you're running an ecommerce site medium or large requires a special certificate. Some buyers reason not send your personal and credit card information without a guarantee of private SSL certificate validity. Also, some applications of the shopping cart that The certificate also involved. Be careful when shopping for this - some of the hosting services say they are giving an SSL certificate with all hosting plans, but are not remotely manage directly to your site, you may need any shell on UNIX or Windows Remote Desktop. UNIX option is sometimes referred to as SSH Shell Secure Shell or telnet. These options are only useful if you intend to make low-level maintenance and adjustment, especially in VPS packages. With a good package hosting control panel with a high power, you will not have any of these.

You can see mention of the ability to schedule cron jobs - this is the UNIX version of scheduled tasks. This capability is only required if you want to run scheduled tasks at set times, such as a backup every night. Most panels provide good control of an interface for cron job entry, but also provide interfaces to perform maintenance tasks such as copies security. You may never need this feature.

less, and only make a difference to you if the website is in development or application that is running requires one or the other. Apache, being open source it has hooks a little better to run many of the systems open source content management engines and blogs based on PHP, Perl and Python, so go with Apache if that's all you need. The Windows IIS also has very good open source systems content management and blog engines based on ASP and ASP.Net, but I would not recommend going with a PHP / PERL / Python on Windows IIS web - see the discussion previous operating system as to why.

The SSL certificate is installed web server and web server needs to do additional processing of applications HTTPS SSL - You have to encrypt / decrypt and verify the data passing between client and server. For this reason, one might say that you should be afraid of packages offer free web hosting shared SSL certificate for all. You could end up sharing a server with 100s of other sites that overload the server. A website your server are well managed.

3. Bandwidth

This is a measure of the amount of transmitted data input / output of your Web site, usually on a monthly basis. Note that a typical web site carries only a very small amount of content to each user, although a package offers only a few gigs of transfer a month, most likely not exceed its allocation. If it does, then your website is very popular among the thousands visitors, and should generate a nice income stream. Most web hosting companies will explain what is the penalty for exceeding their allocation - usually is a dollar or two per show, making it cheaper to upgrade the package nearest course. If your site is heavy on images or multimedia, is may have a larger allocation of bandwidth per month immediately. Fortunately, they all offer a meter every month for the use of your bandwidth so you can plan accordingly as your site grows in popularity.

Some hosting companies offer a package of unlimited bandwidth - to take care of this. There is no such thing as the unlimited bandwidth, so what they're selling the bandwidth is measured. Many of them with flat-rate offers will tell you after purchasing an account what is your acceptable use policy is about the bandwidth and disk space, not to allow the completion of nightly backups of your personal computer 500gig and activities. In fact, many of these policies also stipulate that you must upgrade to larger packages if your website starts to violate the bandwidth of other in a shared hosting machine. Again, this is not a bad policy if you receive notice of infringement by the activity of your website, then so popular that its revenue stream covers the additional expense of a larger package.

4. Disk Space

This is the assignment byte hard disk given to you to their website. A large website with 100s of pages can easily fit in a gigabyte of space, so do not really need that much of a typical website. If your site has a catalog of thousands of items for sale, stored in a database with several images each, then you will need a major upgrade in disk space. Generally, as your site grows in popularity and content, which will update width band in the first place, and more disk space along with the updated package.

Some many web hosting providers offer unlimited space and no such thing as unlimited space. What they are selling is unmetered disk space, with an acceptable use policy. It's hard not meet their acceptable use policies This is the number of web addresses that can point in your hosting account. Almost all vendors offer sub-domains, where his main site is YourSite.com and has sub-domains of www.YourSite.com and files.YourSite.com. Many point will allow externally hosted DNS entries noted in the folder of your account s, but not others. This can be referred as Add-on domains, and most are offered in one of their packages of multiple add-on domains. This allows you to purchase additional domains and point them in separate folders within your account housed. This way you can run several web sites that seem completely unrelated, which is physically located and managed together.

Many providers web hosting free domain offer one or more of their accounts. Some even offer free domains for life, saving you $ 10 a year for the domain. Be sure and shop for this option if you want to save a few dollars a year.

6. E-mail

Almost all hosting providers offer web email accounts, which gives an email address YourName@YourSite.com. Most of them also offer email Web-based POP and IMAP, and spam filtering. Where they differ is the number of email accounts they offer, the total disk space or mailboxes of free email providers on the Internet so this has never been a major feature set for me.

Many of the suppliers web hosting offering unlimited emails, but again there is no such thing. As email accounts grow, the space of disk bandwidth and also used grow, and none of them is unlimited. So finally break their acceptable use policies and are forced to upgrade in a larger package - again, not bad if this is your site that is growing and creating income for you.

7. FTP

FTP is the File Transfer Protocol to send and receive files to and from your website. This feature may or may not be important to you, depending on whether you want to file server anonymous people through this protocol. Most of today's web sites deliver the files via HTTP through its website, which allows you to manage user access to through its website instead of through FTP accounts.

8. Database

A database is a suite of server which data structures into an easy way to store and retrieve. The database is one of the elements used to create dynamic Web sites, such as management available in most Windows hosting packages, but is usually slightly more expensive due to their commercial license restrictions, and usually has fewer cases and space available on disk. However, some web applications are designed to take advantage of its feature set, so you can take this as your base data. You could take advantage of MySQL as many applications as you can, there is no reason a single website that they could use several different databases.

MSAccess database is freely available for Windows that is more than one database file-level and did not provide a server running. It provides storage suitable for the use of lightweight database, but not sufficient for any need for greater data storage.

Investigate the needs of applications these needs database.

9. Control panel

The control panel is the location that will handle all you can avoid calling them for help.

The web hosting providers may differ in the type of control panel they offer, however. The two main panels cPanel and Plesk control, found in about 80% of providers. The remaining 20% will give a measure of the integrated control panel. cPanel and Plesk are so popular because Both work on UNIX and Windows hosted accounts and allow for complete management of the underlying operating system configuration, server configuration, website configuration, email, FTP, DNS, etc

If you're new to web hosting, then it really does not matter to the control panel you choose, but If you are familiar with cPanel or Plesk you may prefer to go with a hosting provider that provides the control panel that is comfortable.

If you are web so you can brand and give your sub-hosted clients (and not call the configuration needs).

Many Internet recommends removal cPanel and Plesk virtual private server its because both can be more bandwidth, CPU, and disk space hogs. One of the great advantages of a virtual private server is being able to log in as root or administrator and manage or you could pay a few dollars more a month and get a managed VPS package.

10. Applications / Programming

No matter what type of website will be built, most likely use a few pre-built packages as the basis of your site. The pre-built packages are built with any programming or scripting language. They may be using PHP, Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, ASP, ASP.Net or Coldfusion. Most of these languages will run on any operating system, except for ASP and ASP.Net, which are the Microsoft technologies that require windows (and probably requires the application of database IIS and MSSQL as well). PHP, Perl, Python, and Java are multiplatform, but UNIX that runs a little more faster than Windows and usually a package a bit cheaper. Ruby is a UNIX only, and may be known as Ruby on Rails. Not all web hosting

Applications who choose to take will tell you what their needs are. In fact, the web host will give you the tools you need to install the applications of the control panel, which makes it easy to launch the installation base of any application you choose. These days all web hosting providers allow you to get up and run with the base installation of the most common blogging engines and content management systems in minutes after purchase.

If you are interested in a blog, read about WordPress and BlogEngine.Net. If you are interested in a content management system, read about Joomla, Drupal, DotNetNuke, and mojoPortal. In a message board, read about PHPBB and YetAnotherForum applications. There are many applications created to help more before you get started as shopping carts, management mailing lists, tools for creating Web pages and catalog databases.

Conclusion

I hope this article provides you with enough knowledge to make a wise decision when choosing a web hosting package. Happy shopping!

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Matthew Thomas, Administrator, HostGraphs.com

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