You hear about them all the time — Shared Hosting, VPS and Dedicated Hosting. But what are they, really? How do they affect our web pages and our Internet/website experience?  What are the best and worst about them?  These are questions that this article aims to shed light to; so read on and find out all you want to know about web hosting.

It’s undeniable that the Internet has become a way of life. Everybody’s into it – be it kids, adults, corporations, individuals and anybody who knows how to use a computer for fun, for work and for research purposes. In the business world, using the Internet can be exceedingly profitable. Making investments and running your business through the Internet can even be handier and cheaper in the long haul, compared to marketing a business in person to person or using the old fashioned way. Limitless possibilities pop up when using the internet.

Before you begin looking at business opportunities and possibilities that the Internet presents, you first need to have adequate and appropriate knowledge of how it works. And foremost on the list is web hosting.

SHARED WEB HOSTING

The name itself is almost self-explanatory. You are basically sharing features and functions with other users. In a nutshell, you run on an operating system, either Windows or Linux, and resources such as bandwidth and disk space are shared with a number of other users in a single server. In short, Shared Hosting is a congregation of website owners, which are provided by the web hosting company with specific space or storage and other resources, including a unique domain name to differentiate from other websites.

A shared web hosting plan can be beneficial especially for small business owners or newly started businesses that are looking to run their own websites. Here are some appealing advantages when you opt for Shared Hosting:

• The appeal of cheap web hosting. Shared hosting is considerably cheaper compared to other methods of web hosting; since the amount of space utilized is just a small portion of the server, the price is much lower.  For as little as $5 to $10 per month shared web hosting can provide you with the essential requirements to run a business online; although it doesn’t really offer much in comparison to VPS or Dedicated Hosting. Continue reading “Shared Hosting, VPS or Dedicated Hosting? What You Need to Know To Make a Well-Informed Choice” »

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Web Hosting News – DALLAS — SoftLayer Technologies®, the innovative on-demand data center services provider, today announced solid financial and operational growth through the first half of 2010. SoftLayer provides highly automated, on-demand data center and IT services that allow businesses to more efficiently utilize their resources and decrease their capital expenditures. The company earned $60 million in revenue for January 1 through June 30, leading to 21 months of GAAP profitability and sequential growth.

“Not only have we had record performance already this year, at the same time we’ve made significant preparations for years to come,” said Lance Crosby, Chief Executive Officer for SoftLayer. “We’ll experience the return on some of this year’s developments, like the launch of our seven additional network POPs, well into tomorrow. And we are securing our future through a new capital structure including a significant equity and debt investment.”
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Web Hosting News - Herndon, VA - Network Solutions® is inviting business professionals who want to learn more about registering a domain name for branding purposes to attend a free webinar taking place on July 27, 2010, at 2 pm EDT.  The hour-long webinar will show attendees how they can choose a domain that makes their business website easy for customers to find.

“Registering a domain name is the first step towards getting online, and it’s an important one,” said Randy Windsor, Network Solutions online marketing coach. “In this webinar, we’ll discuss several steps a business owner can take to choose a web address that brings customers to their website.”

Those steps include registering alternate domain extensions and common misspellings of your domain name. Attendees will also learn more about the new .CO domain name extension, which offers more opportunity in branding with a recognizable and credible domain name.
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Web Hosting News – New York - IBM mainframe governance and management benefits extended to select POWER7, System x environments(1)

-New technology boosts complex analytics performance up to 10X,(2) delivering insight from business data in minutes versus hours
-zEnterprise is the most powerful, scalable mainframe server ever – up to 60% faster than System z10(3) for new workloads
-Most energy efficient mainframe–more than 100,000 virtualized servers can be managed as a single system;  60% more capacity than z10 while using same amount of energy Continue reading “IBM Unveils zEnterprise System, Ushers in Era of Smarter Data Centers” »

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Web Hosting News – WALTHAM, Mass. - Mimecast®, a leading supplier of cloud-based email security, continuity, policy control and archiving, today announced the results of the second annual Mimecast Cloud Adoption Survey, an annual research report examining attitudes to cloud computing services amongst IT decision-makers in UK and US businesses. The survey, conducted by independent research firm Loudhouse, reveals that a majority of organizations (51 percent) are now using some form of cloud computing service—and the levels of satisfaction amongst those companies is high across the board. Conversely, companies not yet using cloud services cite concerns around cost and security.

The survey shows that of those businesses using cloud services, 74 percent say that the cloud has alleviated internal resource pressures, 72 percent report an improved end-user experience, 73 percent have managed to reduce their infrastructure costs and 57 percent of say that the cloud has resulted in improved security. However, not everyone is convinced: 74 percent of IT departments still believe that there is always a trade-off between cost and IT security and 62 percent say that storing data on servers outside of the business is always a risk. Continue reading “Cloud Computing Delivering on its Promise, but Doubts Still Hold Back Adoption” »

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Web Hosting News – Wilmington, MA - Astaro Corporation, a leading Unified Threat Management vendor, today announced the release of Astaro Web Application Security (http://www.astaro.com/solutions/web-application-security), which protects Outlook Web Access and other applications as well as servers against sophisticated attacks like SQL Injections and Cross Site Scripting. Unlike other solutions, Astaro Web Application Security does not require in-depth knowledge of hackers’ methods.

“Many people who can benefit from web application security are unaware of it. They are convinced that having measures like web security or intrusion protection are enough,” said Gert Hansen, Vice President Product Management at Astaro. “They think even if their website gets tampered with, they’ll just revert to a backup. But what if their website starts giving out viruses or malware to their customers? Not every bad guy is after credit card numbers. By the time you notice it, it can be too late and your reputation has suffered.”
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Web Hosting News – NOVI, Mich. – Future Hosting, an Internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises internationally and developer of Future Engineer™, today introduced Hybrid Servers in Chicago and Washington, D.C., further expanding the company’s global footprint. Hybrid Servers are also available in London and Dallas, allowing clients to now choose from four international cities.

Hybrid Servers from Future Hosting are unique, high-end Virtual Private Servers that deliver full management, high-availability, premium bandwidth, and access to either the cPanel or Plesk hosting control panel. Unlike standard Virtual Private Servers, Hybrid Servers offer an average of 1 CPU core per Hybrid Server and high-performance RAM, disk storage, and network connectivity.
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Web Host News – Bellevue, WA - Hosting Metro, Inc. announced that it had selected PEER 1 Hosting’s Seattle data center as its new U.S. based colocation facility for the Pacific Northwest. Hosting Metro is an independent Web hosting company focused on delivering business-class Web hosting solutions (Shared Hosting, VPS Hosting and Dedicated Servers) at cost effective prices. In combination with this new data center, Hosting Metro will also be expanding its enhanced business solutions by offering new feature rich hosting packages that include one-click installation of many popular open source applications like Drupal, Joomla and WordPress, as well as free traffic building tools like Attracta and Social Media brand building.

“With this new facility and services, we will continue to provide our customers with the exceptional service that they have come to expect, and also give our customers access to features and tools that were previously unavailable at our price point. Our customers will now have the flexibility and reliability they need to build their businesses, all while delivering cost savings on both the front- and back-end services they need to be online,” said Matt McKinney, Hosting Metro’s Director of Marketing. Continue reading “Hosting Metro, Inc. Selects New Pacific Northwest Colocation Facility for Web Hosting Services” »

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Web Host News – Southampton, UK - ServerBeach, the leading dedicated hosting provider, today announces that it has partnered with ElasticHosts, the international cloud provider, to offer customers the power to scale their server capacity up or down on a pay-as-you-go model.

Cloud servers allow customers to take control – creating new servers instantly and resizing existing capacity immediately via a user-friendly web control panel. Customers save money by buying exactly the capacity they need today, knowing that they can immediately scale up when required. Continue reading “ServerBeach Launches Pay-as-you-go Cloud with ElasticHosts” »

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Web Host News – SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Go Daddy wants you to produce a summer blockbuster showing the world how you would advertise the iconic Go Daddy brand. Putting the public in charge of advertising worked so well the first time earlier this year, Go Daddy is launching the “Go Daddy Commercial Contest: Summer Edition” with a Grand Prize worth a quarter of a million dollars. The twist this time around? You get to create content for TV … and an accompanying Internet-Only version.

The world’s largest Web hosting provider and top domain name registrar worldwide is challenging the public to create broadcast commercials that drive viewers online to see an Internet-Only version. It’s a technique Go Daddy mastered over the last six years with its GoDaddy-esque Super Bowl campaigns. The online commercials, where the broadcast storyline plays out, are edgier and intended to entertain and leverage Web traffic. Continue reading “Go Daddy Opens New Commercial Contest” »

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