The popularity of Web Hosting companies has increased tremendously in recent times. More and more people have realized that the benefits of owning and operating a website are numerous. Without the aid of a hosting company, one cannot host a website. Nowadays, there are several such hosting companies. While the services of some are free, others have to be bought. Shared hosting, reseller hosting and dedicated hosting are some of the most popular types of hosting services available today.
Shared hosting is a type of web hosting in which a single server is used to support multiple websites. The number of supported websites will depend on the provider. Some service providers have been known to host thousands of websites at a time. The sever computers are very powerful and ensure that the supported websites run smoothly. A major drawback of shared hosting is that the server can slow down, if the support limit is exceeded. This can cause the websites to crash. Features such as memory, disc space and bandwidth will be limited. However, the benefit is that most shared hosting services are quite cheap.
In reseller hosting, the server will be bought by a party at a reduced rate and resold to others at an even cheaper rate. Web designers, web developers and other such web consultants are the usual users of this type of hosting. Dedicated hosting is an expensive form of Web Hosting. In this type, the customer has exclusive use of the hosting service. Most affluent companies use this form of hosting, since they can customize features and enable businesses to scale up.
Several factors have to be considered before choosing a hosting service provider. Latency is an important aspect of web hosting. One should check the ping times of providers before making a selection. Uptime is yet another important aspect. If the uptime percentage is bad, then the website will lose out on customers due to slow service. According to various studies, the average customer will wait for approximately 8 seconds for a website to load, before going to a new site. The quality of the software offered by the provider should also be considered. Forums, blog softwares and content management systems are usually offered by the Web Hosting service. The server and PHP application versions of a good provider will be recent.
In order to provide quality content, most professional websites require quality SQL databases. This aspect should also be considered. A good cPanel can increase the maintenance and development of multiple websites. Processes such as creating email accounts and viewing visitor statistics can also be accelerated. Nowadays, a lot of people are budget conscious due to the fickle nature of the economy. Hosting service providers have realized this and offer services to suit a variety of budgets. It is always best to choose a reputed hosting service. This ensures that quality of service offered is superlative. The internet is the best place to find various such providers. A selection should be done based on the specific needs of the user.
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Bullet Proof Web Hosting Space is useful so you can send your customers to a website, from an email marketing campaign, and don’t have to worry about it being shut down because of email spam complaints. However, your ISP (webhosting provider) will normally shut down your web site within a week or sooner if they find out that you are sending bulk email and directing people to your site on their server.
Most hosting services have a reseller acct option. They way that they work varies. The reseller acct Tina post about is one way of doing it, but there are others. I prefer to buy X number of megs of storage, and add the clients domains to the acct. For me it is a value added service deal for my clients (I do not resell space to people that I do not design for). My particular hosting service works on a cafeteria style basis by which I mean that I can buy, bandwidth, storage, and set-up new URLs and needed and pay for what I use.
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I see so many sites offering “domain name registration, web site hosting, secure server, leased lines” (etc etc etc *yawn*) and it just makes me think there is no way that one company offers all the services they list to any degree of professionalism (unless they are a BIG company!) So, if you want to do web site design, then concentrate on that, nothing more, nothing less. This means that you find yourself a web hosting provider that you are comfortable with, you like their services/speed and pricing and you know they will still be around 2 years down the line. Then get the client to sign-up with them directly. The same with purchasing a domain name. That way the business agreements and contracts are between your client and the hosting company/domain name registra and NOT you! Believe me this is a good thing! Your client cannot sue you if the site goes offline for a week for example.
It makes much more sense to be honest with your client, “we will design your site and we strongly recommend this host, here is how much it costs, their network connections are as follows and we have had superb experience with them in the X years we’ve used them” etc etc. Trust me, your client will appreciate this. There is a fine-line between being a good reseller and lying. Most cross it without thinking twice about the legal trouble it could land them in. Next draw-up some sort of contract with regard to the site design. I.e. you tell Client X that they will get the site, all inclusive for X hundred pounds and then that’s it – the site is theres. Give them a copy of the site on a zip disk or CD-Rom, give them a contract saying “this site is now your responsibility” – but of course always tell them you will update it as often as they like for extra money. But providing them the site like this means they can move it elsewhere, change content as they feel, etc.