How To Shop and Save On Website HostingWritten by Jim Edwards
"What's your web address?">From small "mom and pop" home-based businesses to mega- stores, people ask this question in business every single day. Even if you only operate a small, local business, if you don't have a website (or at least email) people honestly look at you funny. A few years ago, website hosting was one of largest expenses connected with setting up a website. Now, with dramatic drops in pricing, website hosting can actually present least costly component of operating a website. However, before you run out and sign up for $2-a-month website hosting and wake up tomorrow filled with regret, take 5 minutes right now and learn main points to consider when evaluating any website host. Total Storage How much space do you get to store your website files? If you operate a small website with a handful of pages and only a couple of pictures per page, you can get by with 5-10 MB (megabytes) of disk space or less. However, if your site contains dozens of pages and hundreds of pictures, you may need a hosting plan with 10- 25 MB of space. Data Transfer / Bandwidth Here's where many people fall down and get run over by Internet bus! Bandwidth represents total amount of traffic website host allows you to receive. Successful sites that get a lot of traffic eat up more bandwidth than sites without many visitors. Honestly, bargain website hosting companies don't want you to get much traffic because your bandwidth costs them money.
| | To Share or Not to Share?Written by Breal Web Design
This article may be published electronically or in print, free of charge, without alteration to any content and resource box at end of article is included in it's entirity without alteration. A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciated.To Share or Not to Share a Web Host? *********************************************************** When looking for a hosting solution for your web site you'll discover you have choice of shared or dedicated hosting. This article will breifly explain difference between them. Shared hosting is what it says it is. Your web site shares a server with other web sites. You don't have access to other web sites files, they don't have access to yours and you don't share a domain name. What you do share is machine and scripts that are pre-installed on it. Why would you do this? Because it's cheaper. As you can understand, cost of setting up a server machine is not inexpensive. Even relatively large web sites are only a few hundred megabytes, so today's computers with multiple hard drives are easily able to handle space. There can be as many as one or two hundred web sites on a shared server. You'll find there are different platforms available in shared hosting too. You will find you can have Unix/Linux or Windows NT/2000 as your platform. You don't have to choose platform your PC is running. This has nothing to do with what server needs to operate on. Unix platforms are very stable and are perfect if you have a site using mostly HTML pages, PHP or CGI. If you are using scripting such as Active Server Pages, have designed your web site using FrontPage, or need access to a Microsoft Access or SQL Server database, you need a Windows platform.
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