24 Jul 10 3 Things to Look for Before Buying a Web Hosting Account
You have a great idea, an appropriate solution for your customers’ problems, and you got it converted in an award-winning product that any newbie can put to use. But, you will still fail, if you have not selected a safe, secure, stable, and reliable web hosting company to deploy your solution and website for your customers to access without any delay.
A web host provides you with a foundation for your web-based business to stand on. The quality of foundation will determine how long your business will stand in the situation when you will witness the torrent of traffic to your website.
Choosing a web host company is one of the most important decisions (if the not the most important) you will take in the process of launching any web-based business – be it even a simple blog. In this article, I will talk about 3 things you should look after when buying a web hosting plan.
Disk space and bandwidth
Disk space refers to the storage space you will get on a web hosting server when you buy a plan, and bandwidth refers to the data transmission rate (amount of data transferred in a month from your server to your visitors’ computer when they access your website).
Find a web hosting company that offers maximum disk space and bandwidth at the competitive price. Ideally, you should go with the web hosting company that offers unlimited disk space and bandwidth, for you would not like to be charged when a certain number of people have visited your website, nor you will like your website to remain offline because it has reached certain limit.
Data center
Among other things, the speed at which your website will be delivered to your customer depends upon the proximity of your server to the end user. You should, therefore, pay attention to the fact that where the server is located. Is it located near your customers?
How can you ascertain that?
Well, you can ascertain that by choosing a web hosting company that has globally located data centers. If your web host has a globally located data centers then chances are they may put your website on its server located in India, if bulk of your customers are coming from there.
Support and uptime
No matter how great a web hosting service is, it will at times fail – even Titanic sank. But the beauty and strength of a web hosting company lies in the fact that how it recovers its service like. That is to say how well it fixes the error when you have one.
Go for the web hosting company that has a huge knowlegebase full of articles and tutorials to help you solve your problem on your own, and a knowledgeable support team that responds as soon as they get your question. You need this to ascertain that your website does not remain down for more than couple of minutes.
Talking of the downtime, I must tell you that do not choose a web hosting company that does not guarantee 99.99% uptime.
You should not go for any web hosting company, no matter how hyped it is, if the company fails to meet above criteria.
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26 Sep 09 Here’s a Quick Way to Find a Perfect Web Host
You got a cool website name, a trendy design, and the best in the class content, and even lots of traffic, but still you will not be successful if you do not have a good web host to host your website. How good is your design if your server is down most of the time? And how good is your content if your website takes years to load? Nothing matters, if your hosting is not right. It is like, having everything fancy in place, but what is missing is the infrastructure.
Your webhost provides you the infrastructure to erect your online empire; therefore, it is very necessary to find the right web hosting company to host your domain. Here I am going to share some tips that will help you in finding a good webhosting company.
Web hosting quality checklist
These are steps I followed when I chose a web hosting company for my blogs. Follow these ten steps and see if the host you are considering meets all of these criteria or not.
- Bandwidth: The more bandwidth you will get the more users you can entertain.
- Storage space: If you want to host a lot of website, or host heavy files then you will need a lot of space.
- Speedy technical support: You will not like to wait for days before you get your answer like the grand daddies of web hosting make you do.
- Easy to use control panel: managing domain should be easy.
- Seamless upgrading and downgrading: your web host should help you seamlessly upgrade or downgrade your account without any downtime.
- Free e-mail hosting: you will like to have yourname@yourdomain.com; hence make sure your hosting plan allow you to have many e-mail accounts.
- Unlimited domain hosting: see if your web hosting company gives you the opportunity to host more than one website or not.
- Good infrastructure: See if your web hosting company has up-to-date servers or not. And what about their backup servers?
- Uptime: the web hosting that you choose should guarantee at least 99.99% uptime.
- One-click software installation: your web host should have one-click installation for WordPRess, Drupal, Joomla, osCommerce, ZenCart, and other common softwares.
Recommendation
At this point, I will say this: if you are looking for a reliable web hosting company that offers Unlimited disk space, bandwidth and e-mail account at an affordable price then you should check Gossimer Unlimited webhosting plan. It is worth a look.
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24 Sep 09 SEO SIMPLIFIED: Why Not to Use Hotlinking on Your Website
Do you remember the hotlinking issues we talked about in the article titled, Do Not Allow Hotlinking, I discussed the way some webmasters uses to steal the bandwidth from another webmaster. This, of course, is immoral and unethical, but there is much more on stake than mere ethics and morality. In this article, I will tell you why not to use hotlinking on your webpage; what are the risks involved, etc.
Perils of Hotlinking
Hotlinking is used to steal bandwidth by not only the unscrupulous webmasters, but it is often used by innocuous newbies as well. The newcomers do not realize the perils of their action and take hotlinking as a device that can save their bandwidth and time else invested in downloading the same image and uploading on their server.
By direct linking to the resources hosted on another website, you are relinquishing your control not only on the resource but also on the block where you have used it. This gives the victim webmaster from whom you have stolen the resource has a full control of that block, which he can exercise at his will. At the least, he can replace the original funny picture or anything like that.
Some webmasters even will go as far as putting a warning sign in that block saying, you have stolen the resource, and the image or flash or whatever you displayed was not yours. How do you think your visitors going to react? And what if the webmaster writes an inactive link in the warning image urging the visitors to see how the original place looks like?
Add on these perils, the risk of lawsuit because of the infringement of copyright. I know, this has a very remote possibility, but you never know. What if the webmaster files a complaint with your webhosting, and the hosting decides to shut your site?
There can be many implications, therefore I strongly suggest against using hotlinking, if you mean business.
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- Gossimer Puts Indian Domain Extensions Up for Sale February 21, 2010Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name registration and web hosting company has announced a sale on Indian domain extensions. During the promotion period, domains ending with .in will be offered at discounted price. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Unveils a New & Improved Payment System February 14, 2010The Melbourne-based (Florida) web hosting and domain name registration company Gossimer has announced the inclusion of three more payment options in its system. From today the customers and the web hosting resellers can use AlertPay, WebMoney, and Liberty Reserve to pay for the domain registration as well as web hosting services. Gossimer already offered Pay […]
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- Gossimer Became Reseller of the Month for October October 17, 2009October brings another piece of good news for Gossimer. The fastest growing web hosting and domain name registration company has been chosen as the Reseller of the month for October by ResellerClub. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Offers One Year Free Extension on Domain Transfer October 3, 2009Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name registration company, is offering one year free extension with every domain name transferred to its system. This service when coupled with other services puts Gossimer in the position of price leadership. The company offers the most economic rate for domain name registration and webhosting services. [PR.com] […]
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Gossimer Promotions and Announcements
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- PHP4 Discontinuation - 18th September September 7, 2009As announced earlier, PHP4 will not be supported on our Linux Hosting Servers from the 18th of September, 2009. Please pass on this information to your Customers and Resellers to ensure that they can update their websites to work with PHP5. […]
- .CN Launch - Coming Soon August 16, 2009We are glad to announce the launch of .CN - the most popular and fastest growing ccTLD worldwide. The .CN domain extension has seen an exemplary growth since its launch throughout the world. Earlier this year, .CN crossed over 13 million registrations to become the second most registered domain extension after .COM. Moreover, with China now representing the […]
- Live Chat Product Discontinuation - Moved to 18th August August 16, 2009Based on feedback that we received from several Resellers, we have decided to postpone the Live Chat discontinuation to the August of 18th, 2009 at 12:30 UTC. From the 18th of August, it will not be possible to purchase new Live Chat packages but exisiting packages will continue to function normally. […]
Support Notifications
- Scheduled maintenance on one of our Mail Hosting Server July 26, 2010We are performing maintenance on on one of our Email Hosting Server. In order to complete this maintenance, the server will undergo a brief outage, as detailed below. Maintenance Window: Date: 27-07-2010 Start Time: 20:30 Hrs GMT Estimated Duration: 20 mins Packages hosted on the below mentioned IP Addresses shall be affected: 67.15.253.246 67.15.253.9 67.15 […]
- Services effected July 26, 2010We have been facing issues adding hosting orders for a few customer accounts from the supersite. Also, there have been a few problems reported for managing hosting orders from within the control panel. Please note that everything via the API has been working seamlessly. We are already working on these issues and will keep you updated via […]
- Merging of Web & Email Hosting Services July 23, 2010Update: The maintenance is now complete, Web and Email Services have now been merged successfully and can be managed from the Control Panel. Please make note of the following : We have migrated the prices of these orders for one year and hence you would need to set the prices for the duration you would like to […]