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Does size really matters (In Shared Hosting Environment)?

Searching a needle in a haystack!

You finally decide to put your company or your own life online. First go on purchasing or downloading web authoring software, than you go own forums or web design tutorials website or even read a book or two.

Ok now you have some knowledge, its time for you to search for inspiration. So you hit yahoo and search and go to your favorite website. You look at the design, layout and the color scheme. Saw something you fancy? Maybe the header catches your eyes and your mind now full of ideas! So next step, you install your web authoring software. Once install you start the program so eager to start working on your website.

After a week or two or even months later, after all that sleepless nights, after all that post on web design forums asking for help or ideas, now finally after all the work you are ready for you website debut. All that is left is to search for a web hosting provider.

Alright, you click on your browser and hit yahoo. You enter web hosting for your search criteria and hit search. Not to bad, the top 10 search result appears. Now you click on all 10 links and note each of them down by pricing, bandwidth, disk space, available support and the features that each host offers you.

Now you are done, you lie down on your bed along with your notes. Hmm, Host A seems not too bad you say. Hmm, Host B seems not bad either? So is Host C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J! After a few minutes, maybe hours you just push those notes aside and hit back to your browser!

Found my needle

You will never end your search by the abovementioned criteria! When searching for a web hosting package there is only two key criteria you want to consider Reliability and Support.

Host A may offer you terabytes of bandwidth but can you afford to have your site inaccessible once every week or even every single day? Ok maybe you can if its a non-critical, non-commercial website.

Would you want to wait for 24 hours before your email get answered for something as simple as a password reset or would you want your password email to you as soon as possible? A good and knowledgeable support is extremely important especially if you are new to hosting your own site. You need all the help you can get and get your answer in a timely manner.

Does size really matters; I mean does it really matter?

It depends on each individual needs. Your host may offer you lots of bandwidth and disk space, but you must ask yourself this Do you really need it? If you going for a static page or even a flashy flash website, most wont need no more than 5 GB of disk space.

Now than you ask How about bandwidth, than? Now again, if your hosting provider, state they will give you bandwidth in terabytes, you must first understand the nature of shared hosting. Let say you car lot allows you two salon cars to be park comfortably on your own land but one day you decide to get yourself a limousine and remember you still have that other two cars. Now your new limousine took up your car lot and you find yourself you ran out of space to park your other two cars. You decided to park you car on the roadside of an urban street. The next thing you know there would be cars honking and traffics build ups. Legally you are allow to park your car on the roadside but if it cause inconveniences to others, your car will be either be tow or ask to be park elsewhere.

This goes the same on shared hosting environment. If your site takes up to much CPU resource, you would be suspended temporarily or even get your site suspended for good and be force to upgrade to a VPS / Dedicated server or move to another hosting provider.

Conclusion

NO, size does not matter. It is a matter if you are able to use all the bandwidth or/and disk space without getting your account suspended. Reliability and a knowledgeable support is still the key to choosing your web hosting provider!

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One of the great benefits of a web hosting reseller is you can earn some extra money at the same time as having web hosting. You may even end up making a full time income with a web hosting reseller. Some web hosting resellers pay very well.

Choosing The Right Reseller Web Hosting

It is a good idea to know what is the best web hosting reseller for your situation. You will need a reliable web hosting reseller that can provide you with good customer support. A good web hosting reseller will provide you with the tools you need to be successful with their service both for yourself and for the reseller aspects of your business.

What Is Reseller Web Hosting?

Reseller web hosting provides a reseller hosting account to the reseller who resells space and bandwidth to their own clients. There is usually plenty of bandwidth and space for this type of service.

What Is A Web Hosting Reseller?

Web Hosting reseller is a person or a company that acts like an agent to resell the hosting companies products and services. The web hosting reseller can receive commissions and or discounts from the web hosting reseller company. They may even create their own custom web reseller accounts to re-sell to customers.

It is important to realize that when dealing with a reseller web hosting company, some of the control has been taken out of your hands. You will want to make sure the web hosting reseller service is not having problems with downtime. You can end up missing out on important emails and or sales from your valuable customers.

With the right web hosting reseller company, web site developers can be successful with a reseller web hosting service or business. They can provide their customers with web hosting and create web sites at the same time. This is why it is a good idea to find a web hosting company that offers multiple hosting accounts with their web hosting reseller services. A web developer can then host their clients web sites from their own reseller web hosting account.

One of the best things to do before choosing a web hosting reseller company is to get a list of reference sites you can check out to see if they have downtime. With web reseller hosting companies and services you can ask other web site developers about what web hosting resellers they have had good quality service with.

Another important aspect to consider is, does the web hosting reseller have a great list of services and features that you will be able to offer to your customers. This may be the reason you are considering a web hosting reseller in the first place. Take time to shop around for the best web hosting reseller and you will know you have made the right decision.

CY Fok is a webmaster with many years of experience. His latest site is "Information About Web Hosting": http://www.infoaboutwebhosting.com/

Many large web hosting services are now offering dedicated IP hosting. This is a new feature, and dedicated IP web host companies obviously see a market and a demand for this. But why would you want to use a dedicated IP web host?

You probably have your web sites hosted on a shared hosting system at the moment, as this is the most common setup. It allows a web host to put many sites on a single server. This server will have an IP address, and this address covers all the sites hosted there. In other words, in a shared hosting setup, your site is 'grouped' with the sites of many other customers under the same IP address. This is also known as name-based hosting.

Why might this be a problem? There were rumors some time ago that the search engines would take note of the IP address of spammers' sites, and ban that IP, or else downgrade the sites covered by that IP address. This is a process also known as blacklisting. It appears now that this is unfounded, and search engines are clever enough to take action against individual domain names, though the rumors still pop up from time to time when search engines change their rankings and webmasters lose their traffic, and they look around for reasons.

Again, you may not want your site or sites to be on the same IP address as gambling or pornography sites. Though the association is not apparent to a person looking at your site, some webmasters believe they may be 'tainted' by what other web site owners have on the IP address they are sharing with them, even if they are not spamming sites.

Some search engine optimization professionals now also recommend that webmasters get their own IP address from a dedicated IP web host for other reasons. If you have more than one site, and they are all on the same hosting service, they will all be on the same IP address. There are now reverse IP search tools, which will show all the domains which appear on the same IP address. If you run several e-commerce sites, your competitors will be able to get a list of them all. You can see why this might be bad for your business - most webmasters want the full list of sites they own or run to remain confidential.

Another reason SEO professionals give as a benefit of unique IP addresses is that if you have a network of sites, you can link between them without any risk of the search engines seeing the linking as suspicious, as it might if all sites are on the same IP address. As with most SEO-motivated attempts to understand search engine algorithms, this may or may not be true.

A dedicated IP web host is definitely worth considering, since in many cases, it costs the same as normal shared web hosting and is offered as a free feature. Anything which can benefit your web sites, especially if it has no extra cost, is worth looking at. To see which host I recommend, see my dedicated IP web host page.

Don Break writes about web hosting and how to make it work for you.