Web Hosting: Can your Web site or servers afford downtime?

Can your Web site or servers afford downtime?

Written by Domenic Macchione

Industry estimates indicate that Internet businesses can loose on average about $15,000 for every hour of downtime. This figure combines repparttar

cost of repairs with repparttar 134319

cost of lost opportunities and sales. For an Internet-enabled business, downtime can mean devastating losses in revenue and credibility. For what ever reason, organizations have accepted these losses, regardless of expense, as an unavoidable cost of doing business on repparttar 134320

Internet. Most web hosting provider don’t really care about uptime at all. They throw repparttar 134321

99.9% number but don’t do anything if they don’t meet that objective. Did you know that 99.9% means about 7 hours of downtime a month. Image having your website take a day off once a month. If they go beyond 8 hours does a hosting company offer you nothing in return?? Most do not!! Even more scary are companies that keep their Internet operations in-house, primarily due to a lack of knowledge about available options. They believe they can manage that infrastructure better by doing it themselves. They do not consider power redundancy, Internet feed capacity, server loads, security, and repparttar 134322

list goes on. The cost to operate your own web server and maintain it over 5 years can cost well over $25,000 a Year.

Changing Web Hosting Providers

Written by Geraldine Jensen

If you would like to cut costs or are no longer satisfied with their current web host provider maybe it is time to think about changing web host providers. Take time to plan your transfer so that you won't lose any files and data.

Web Hosting Change Checklist:

- Domain name:where is your domain registered? - How do you login and change nameservers? - Your current IP address________ and your new IP address____________ - Your login username and password for old web host__________ and new control panel or shell access via SSH username and password __________________ - Make a list of email addresses including usernames and passwords - Make a list of databases, usernames and passwords - make a list of installed software

Checkout your new web host control panel, get familiar with how things work at your new host and to try everything out, including sending test emails and uploading files.

Change Your Domain Record

Login to your domain registrar and change your name servers. This usually occurs within 72 hours, often much sooner. Dome domain registrars can transfer a domain within 2 hours, so check repparttar new IP address often and upload files as soon as possible to avoid website "downtime".

Transferring repparttar 134318 Site to repparttar 134319 New Web Hosting Provider:

Download files: Open your FTP program and enter repparttar 134320 FTP address at your old web host (e.g. ftp.yoursite.com). Once logged onto repparttar 134321 server, right click on your main folder (normally public_html or www) and choose download.

Choose a local folder on your own computer to store repparttar 134322 files, Click OK, and watch all your files being downloaded onto your computer. You will still have all your files on repparttar 134323 server too. Please downloads can take a quite abit of time depending on repparttar 134324 number and size of files.

Download databases: Login to your old web hosts Control Panel Go to databases ( usually My SQl), and use either phpmyadmin (usually located towards bottom of page) or a similar program . Choose repparttar 134325 databases you want to download and click on "export". You will then come to a screen information about repparttar 134326 database. towards repparttar 134327 bottom of repparttar 134328 page look for; "Normal or None", "GZip", or "Zip". chose one and press download or submit. Save this file to a folder on your computer. Repeat for each databases.

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