Posts Tagged ‘webhost’

By: Vittorio Bosio

If you are looking for your first web host or you are unsatisfied of your current one, this article will help you avoid common mistakes that people make when choosing their web host.

The first mistake is not knowing the technologies supported. Let me give you an example to make things easier. Let’s say that your website is developed in .php, such as the widely used Wordpress blog. If you choose a web host that doesn’t support php and MySql, you won’t be able to make your site work!

So, what are the main technologies available? Your site can be designed to run in LAMP (Linux Apache MySql and Php) or in Windows. To find it out, you can either ask your webmaster or look at the files extension. If the files end with .php, then your website needs LAMP and a Unix/Linux web host. If the files end with .asp or .aspx, you are looking for a Windows Web Host.

Do your files end all with .htm or .html? Then you have nothing to worry about. Every web host will do just fine. Read the rest of this entry »

By: Tristan Andrews

Databases that are commonly used are SQL and MYSQL. SQL is a Windows based database for web servers and MYSQL is available on Windows, Linux, and Unix. SQL has its own administration client that lets you look at your databases, edit them, backup your data and perform other administrative tasks. Other database systems are Oracle and MS Access.

You need a web hosting database if your site requires you to update huge amounts of data. The language for accessing databases is SQL. SQL means structured language query. It is a language that lets people ask complicated questions of a database. Plus, it is a method for creating databases. SQL can be applied to SQL Server, Oracle, MS Acess, and Ingres databases. There are others it can be applied to as well. This database technology is high speed and has many security features. With this database every record can have a login applied to it to access the record. Making a more secure database was the first priority of creating SQL.

Your web server should grant entrance to a database system using SQL language so you can store and retrieve information. Microsoft and Oracle are SQL database systems that are very popular and are used for database steered websites that have high amounts of traffic.

MySQL is also commonly used and it isn’t as expensive as Oracle or Microsoft database software’s. A website that can use a simple database can utilize Microsoft Access; it doesn’t work well for high traffic and isn’t as strong as Oracle, MYSQL or SQL. Read the rest of this entry »

By Tellman Knudson

Getting your first web hosting account is quick and easy if you know the steps. Checklists are awesome internet marketing tools, so I’m sharing with you my 17 step checklist to buying your first web hosting account.

In this checklist I refer to the web hosting company Host Gator, but the steps are pretty much the same if you use a different hosting service.

1. Go to Host Gator

By Steve Quatrani

As a small online business owner, you are undecided if you want shared web hosting or if you’d prefer a dedicated web hosting server. The major downside to sharing web hosting means that you could be sharing resources and server space with literally hundreds of other websites, and if one site has a traffic spike, it could result in slower response time on your website.

That is where the benefit of a dedicated webhosting server comes in. As a client, you lease the entire server that your website is hosted on, and share it with no one, which means more control for you and reliability for your website. The unfortunate downside to dedicated web hosting is the price, but with the hosting industry booming and competition being stiff, the prices are changing, and for the better.

Having dedicated web hosting means that you choose when the software is upgraded, and what is added. It also means that you can add new features and programs with full control, something that you don’t have with shared hosting. Read the rest of this entry »