Web Hosting Reviews

Shared Windows Hosting: What Is Plex and Why is it a Popular Alternative?

Many providers still offer Windows Hosting to many companies running websites, primarily because of its vast cross compatibility features. This type of hosting is based on Windows servers (whose 2012 version is set to be released soon) that are usually incorporated with full-featured control panel software, Plesk. This combination is usually operated in a shared hosting environment where resources are shared among users of a Web server. This includes the server’s hardware, the database storage, the operating system and the various applications necessary for running a website. In general, these are partitioned and allocated to each user of that server, giving them access to what technically appears to be their separate database and email storage space. They can also host their own web content, and with Plesk, users are given the capability of managing their own domains, maintain their email accounts, manage their databases and FTP (File Transfer Protocol) services, as well as create directories to protect passwords.
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Reseller Linux Hosting: The Features You Should Know About

Website owners and developers make the most of their own hosting service by becoming a reseller host themselves. They divide their resources to resell them to customers who wish to have their websites hosted. These resources include but are not limited to the bandwidth and the disk space they are leasing from a primary hosting provider. Aside from this option, resellers are most often given the freedom to structure their plans and pricing as well as build their own brand.

One of the most viable hosting types that can be sold by resellers would be a Linux hosting plan that comes with the WHM (Webhost Manager) control panel. Since this type is provided with the ability to host multiple websites, this is usually the first choice that starters in the Web hosting industry and Web developers consider. These resellers are saved from having their own websites hosted separately by different providers of the service. In addition, they would have much less concerns of having their server maintained regularly and spend on hosting infrastructure. Lastly, this hosting type can oftentimes provide a creation of a limitless number of accounts with various pricing and plan features for the reseller. Most importantly, this type comes with a WHM control panel, which the reseller will use to control his or her sub accounts, and in turn will also give his or her customers their own CPanel platform.
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How to Limit Bandwidth and Add Websites Using WHM

As a reseller of a web hosting plan incorporated with WHM or Web Host Manager, there are lots of times you need to modify the bandwidth allocation of your customer’s hosted accounts. Reasons for this may vary, including specific requests from your customers, you have to initiate this yourself to avoid abuse and current business needs dictate that you need to do so. With WHM, you can easily do this under the “Account Functions” tools heading from the main page.
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How to Backup Your Website and MySQL Database in CPanel

The files of your website, whether you are an individual operating an online business or a Web developer for a large company, are considered the lifeblood of the site. Without these files, your website may not be as popular as it is now. Because of this fact, most website owners like you, if not all, put great value on the back up features of the hosting plan that they get from a provider. With CPanel hosted services, you don’t have to rely most of the time on your Web hosting provider to help you back up your data. You can do this on your own by following the steps below:

After logging in using the correct username and password for your CPanel account, you need to scroll down on the main window and look for the “Files” category. You will see the icon labeled “Backup”. Click this icon. This takes you to the backup main screen which will primarily give you the option of restoring or backing up the files in a hosted account. A server can automatically be configured to backup files on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, and you can check this on the same window under the header “System Backups”. You can click the buttons labeled “daily”, “weekly” and “monthly”, depending on your preference. Once you click on any of these buttons, you can choose to download a copy of that backup to your home or office computer. For example:
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How To Choose an Email Hosting Provider

Choosing an Email hosting provider could be the easiest among the many hosting concerns of a small or a large corporation. You can just think about Web hosting companies that also provide email services in their Web hosting plans.

However: What are the characteristics of an email hosting service that can give you a lot of convenience, data security or privacy and reliability? There are many email hosting providers that offer the same email hosting services, and it’s mostly up to you to decide on which provider would give your company the right balance of all these things you need for your email hosting needs.
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What is Java Hosting and Why Use it?

It is not easy to miss the blue cup with a red steam logo just above the word Java and the download bar when you have once visited a gaming site, and played one of the trial versions of the site’s featured games. Its easy though to dismiss the fact that you enjoyed the game because of a programming language that is Java and that a Java hosting provider made it possible for the site to bring that free trial for you. In effect, as you’ve probably noticed from recent years, a lot of people ventured into the same route as these gaming sites did because of guaranteed revenues. These businesses easily found animators, Web programmers and a Java hosting provider that carry a number of service and features to come up with highly profitable gaming sites.
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How to Start Your Own Reseller Hosting Business With cPanel

Homebased Web designers or website owners with relevant experience in handling CPanel can easily earn additional income by becoming a reseller of CPanel Web hosting for a Web hosting provider. What exactly is a CPanel reseller account?

Generally, a reseller is someone who acts as a middle man for a Web hosting provider, and with a reseller hosting program, one can easily find affordable packages and invest a little amount of money in it to jumpstart their business right ahead.

A convenient reseller hosting program is a CPanel reseller account. This is because of the control you have in maintaining the disk usage and the bandwidth of your customers with the help of CPanel’s administrative control panel, also called WHM (Web Host Manager).
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Choosing Colocation Website Hosting: The Advantages and Disadvantages

As most people would expect, a lot of upscale corporations have a top-of-the-line Internet infrastructure and are able to purchase their own servers and hire experts to operate a separate IT department. Small scale or even middle range businesses do not have that much of a resource to support a costly but important undertaking. What these companies do instead is turn to web hosts that offer them reasonable prices for their service. This is one of the advantages that these companies have over large corporations who most of the time, must keep their high profile intact by having their own IT department. Another advantage for smaller companies is that there are many types of Web hosting available to them, and one of these is Colocation web hosting.
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VPS Hosting: The Benefits and How to Migrate Across

Shared hosting may instantly be the type of hosting you would go for when a decision on how to manage your website needs to be done as soon as possible. This is not entirely a wrong decision. However, there is one type of web hosting that you may not want to overlook – VPS hosting.

VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting uses virtual private servers. This is where hosted websites share a single server, but functions as if each site has its own machine, and each one is not affected by any issue encountered by one VPS account in the same Web server.
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Using Your ISP as a Web Host for Small Business Websites

A number of Internet users today are people who are self-employed, operating their businesses at the comfort of their homes. While these entrepreneurs would want to put all their marketing and advertising in their websites so as not to be forced to go out in the field, there still remains a question of how hosting their website could be managed efficiently with just a midrange computing system. A Web server would definitely be an answer to the question, but this would entail a considerable amount of expenses. Here are some disadvantages of setting up and managing a home server or a self-hosted website:

• 1. You need a top-quality hardware server that can store any type of data.
• 2. You will be required to permanently upgrade to a reliable, 24-hour High Speed Internet (HSI) connection.
• 3. You will have to shell out more money for buying server software licenses that put a cap on the number of users.
• 4. You have to install the server hardware and software yourself, supervise, maintain, monitor, change or upgrade your system as needed.

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