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Web Hosting is a process of providing customers with servers that are connected to the Internet, enabling them to display their websites pertaining to their private or professional businesses. With the growing age of the Internet, it has become vitally important for individuals, to expand their network online. But choosing a Web Host is certainly not an easy task; mainly because of the availability of the many and the varied services offered by each web hosting provider. Thus it becomes imperative to match your essential requirements with the amenities provided by your Web-Host.

The foremost factors that one must keep in mind pertain to the web-host's reliability and technical efficiency. Differently put, services such as security, disk storage capacity and maintenance facilities should be ensured. Whether your Web Hosting provider is laced with an online SSL security certification and a powerful Spam Filter or not, must be made certain of. It is essential in order to safeguard your data from viruses and hackers. A satisfactory level of bandwidth (a tool that manages the internet traffic rate) must also be obtained to guarantee the fast speed of the website. You should also make sure that your service provider also offers sufficient data storage capacity, as per your pre-requisite; along with a 24/7 live email service with technical maintenance. Other services that one must look for include, scripting support (ability to run scripts on the server), uptime and backup services in case of accidental deletion.

Any Web Hosting service can broadly be characterized into two categories, namely Shared Hosting and Dedicated Hosting. The former refers to the involvement of one server with many other websites. Its basic advantage is its low cost, but at the cost of speed and efficiency. As many websites share a single server, it tends to slow down. However, shared hosting is advisable for the sites with expected low traffic. The latter, on the other hand, refers to an exclusive server for the website, which is best suited for the sites that expect high traffic.

Further, when it comes to web hosting, Australia, Europe, Canada, US and such developed countries distinctly enjoy a niche technological advantage over their third world counterparts for obvious reasons. However, much technological advancements have already taken place in this area across the globe, rendering the entire gamut of web hosting services significantly affordable in any part of the world. In fact, the extensive popularity gained by Internet in the recent few years bears enough testimony to the fact.

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You had many choices to make when you made the decision to start your own website. Most likely you were offered many design choices, email addresses, blogging interfaces, and e-commerce choices. Once your decision is made on everything above, it is necessary to decide about hosting and the different kinds you would like for your website. Most of the people start the computer business in a small manner and hence they would not need too much on the hosting server. A lot of people decide to go with basic or deluxe shared hosting.

The meaning of shared hosting is that many websites are being hosted on a single served. Often, this is all that is needed by a small business owner. What if your level of business increases, or if your clients assume that their information and business will be handled confidentially? Are you nervous about someone hacking into your server and causing damage on your website? Can one ensure that one's database and server are secure from unauthorized visitors? Definitely, there is. A dedicated server is how you can be sure of this guarantee.

In contrast to other types of servers, a dedicated server is distinct. Not like a shared server that is not secure. When hosting companies get customers ready to host, the selection of shared servers is used often, hard drive space and monthly bandwidth is shared by each customer on the server. If you use this method, you can have a lot of security issues with people on that server. The complete opposite of this is a dedicated server.

The only thing on that server will be you and your website. Only you can access and use a "dedicated" server. A dedicated server would be a good idea if you are running a highly confidential website such as a banking institution, doctor's website, high traffic ecommerce site, and anything with content-sensitive material.

Numerous banks and hospitals employ dedicated servers for hosting their sites. A dedicated server can easily be obtained by asking for one from your hosting company. Be aware, unlike shared hosting, that there can be hefty fees associated with the monthly use of a dedicated server, since you have a server for you alone. There is no other way to share your costs. In order to view the dedicated server plans that are available to meet your website hosting needs, check with your present hosting company.

There are tons of pluses regarding using designated servers. One primary advantage is its security. Now it will be impossible for someone to hack into your website. You have the rights to the server and everything that is included in that. You have maximum storage space, more bandwidth, data transfer, and above all you have your own control panel.

Most control panels use Plesk Cpanel. And with the Cpanel come the many choices in software, for instance: Wordpress, PHPBB, Joomla (CMS), Drupal, Siteframe, phplinks, MySQL databases, phpAdmin, apache, and the list goes on! However, dedicated servers tend to be costly as it was previously discussed. Rather than renting shared space, often it is more cost efficient to obtain a dedicated server.

Consider all these things before you choose and then ponder over them for a while. Before making your choice to switch to a dedicated server or to stay with a shared server, decide whether or not you can risk any compromises in your website's security. If security is not an issue as much as lots of bandwidth, then maybe you could upgrade your shared server. But if you deal with credit cards and other personal information on your site, you should really consider switching to a dedicated server hosting plan. It's better to be safe than sorry.

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The fact that you are reading this article indicates that you have been looking for a web host, and will therefore have noticed by now that most web hosting companies off you either Unix (or Linux) Hosting, Windows Hosting or both - to some this is an unexpected decision to have to make, many unless they own a Mac will be largely unaware of the capabilities of any other platform than Windows. So what are the differences between the two systems and what are the advantages of each?

The first point to note is that you do not need Windows Hosting just because you have a Windows based PC, nor do you need Unix if you own a Mac, the HTML code or Java Script you upload onto the server is universal as is the server's output of that code, so your website will look the same on either. The difference lies in the software which is used to output that website.

Unix Hosting uses a Unix based operating system which was developed primarily for use on severs, Unix Hosting is generally cheaper than Windows because most web hosts use Linux - a Free Open Source version of Unix (which is used in some supercomputers) and consequently do not have to shell out thousands of pounds in licensing and support to Microsoft, a saving which is passed on to you the user. Another advantage of using free open source software is that anyone can make changes and improvements to the source code, and in doing so add functionality and updates without contravening any license, this factor has lead to Unix based systems naturally evolving over the years to become relatively bug-free. As a result Unix based operating systems are renowned for their inherent stability and their ability to run for years before a reboot is required, thus requiring less attention from technicians and reducing costs - an attractive feature for a server.

Windows Web Hosting as the name suggests uses MS Windows as an operating system and although more expensive and slightly less stable does have some benefits over it's Unix based conterpart. Primarily this has to do with what you want to host; if you want to use an MS Access database or upload MediaPlayer files such as music or Videos you will require Windows Hosting, (N.B. MP3, Quicktime, Shockwave, Flash and Real can be handled by either system).

Making the decision as to which is best thus comes down to what you want to do with your web space. Both Systems can host Multimedia both can host dynamic content and with PHP, MySQL and CGI, but the question becomes you need to run Windows based applications on your server? If so then you have no choice but to use a Windows Hosting solution, if the answer is no then can make your decision based on other factors such as choice of host, cost and reliability.

James Betchley, Administrator of web host review and information site Which Domain Host.

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Two Steps to Crash-Readiness

1) Choose your website host very carefully

There are many low cost hosts out there. Don't choose a website host based on the low price, the fancy website, the claim of unlimited bandwidth or the slick advertising campaign. Choose your host based on the quality of their equipment and service. Three important things to look for are:

DAILY BACKUPS: You want a host who makes daily backups. Find out if those backups are stored on the same server or off-site. Off-site backups are safer because even in the event that the whole datacenter burns down (which is extremely unlikely) there will be a safely stored copy of your entire website on another server in a second datacenter.

Another good reason to look for a host with daily backups is that if you accidentally delete your entire website yourself, they can restore it within minutes. Don't laugh. You'd be surprised how often this happens!

SERVERS WITH RAID: RAID stands for "redundant array of independent disks." In a RAID 10 configuration, all files on the server are mirrored. This means there's a real-time second copy of everything. So if one drive crashes, no data is lost and it takes only minutes to get back online.

ABILITY TO MAKE YOUR OWN BACKUP: Don't rely blindly on the backups of your hosting company. Backup files occasionally get corrupted or aren't complete, so you need to have your own as well. Look for a host who gives you the ability to make your own complete backups. If you host on a cPanel server, this is easy to do with a few clicks within your cPanel and if you save the backup file to your computer you can easily restore your website not only with your current host but at most other cPanel hosts. Be sure you download and save the backup file to your computer and don't save it on your hosting account because if the server crashes and your backup file was stored on the server, your backup copy will be gone too.

2) Be sure to regularly back up your own website

I advise clients to backup their website monthly and anytime they make major changes. You may also want to backup your databases separately. And always save a copy of any files you upload. In a worst case scenario, if you have a database backup from your store or blog, you can recreate it using the database backup.

Keep in mind that if you use webmail, your mail is being stored on the server and if it crashes your mail will disappear with it.

What to do when your website is gone and you don't have a backup

Stay calm. You'll need to deal with it one step at a time.

First, find out if your host has a backup copy. They should. If they don't, they were not adequately prepared and you need to seriously consider a new website hosting company immediately. If they did have backups stored off site that failed restores, it might be worth giving them a second chance. But otherwise, look for a more prepared company.

If they don't have a backup copy, and you don't have a backup copy, then you'll need to begin reconstructing your website from scratch.

If you're facing a complete server crash and everything is gone your first steps should be to get your email addresses set back up and put up a temporary page to assure your clients that you will be back online soon. Deal with this before you do anything else. You want to be sure that your email is up and running and that clients are notified that you aren't out of business.

Next you need to start reconstructing your website. Here are methods for reconstructing your site from various site-building methods.

Created by You

Did you create your own site? If you coded it on your computer, the files should be there somewhere that you can upload back to your web space.

If you publish your site with a program like Dreamweaver or Front Page you may have a copy of your website on your computer that you can upload again from within the program and be all set.

Created by a Website Design Firm

If you had a website designer create your pages for you the chances are very good that your designer has saved a copy of the original files. There may be a fee for their time to get the files reinstalled, but it can save you from having to start from scratch.

HTML Website Recovery

If your site was plain HTML pages (no database) then you may be able to reconstruct it using Google's handy cache feature. Just put the full URL of the page you need into Google and you'll see a result come up like this:

The Small Business Muse

Are you a small business owner who wants tips and ideas on how to balance, manage and market your business with an inspirational twist? ...

www.thesmallbusinessmuse.com/ - 6k - Cached - Similar pages

See the little link that says "Cached"? Click it. You'll see the most recent version of your page that Google has saved. Do a "View Source" of the page's code, and you've got your page back! Images will likely be missing but you should be able to find them saved somewhere, and the image names will be in the code so you can search for them on your computer.

Go through one page at a time and if your pages were plain HTML and if Google visited and indexed your site recently, you'll be able to recover a good portion of your website this way.

Database Driven Site Recovery

If your site was database driven like an ecommerce shop or blog, it's tougher to reconstruct.

The first thing to do is reinstall whatever your website was powered by (Wordpress, osCommerce, Zen Cart, etc).

Next you need to get your template back. Again the original designer may be helpful so contact them and see if they have a copy of it saved. You may be able to find it in Google's cache as described above, but it will be a little trickier to get your template code so if you aren't very familiar with php, HTML, and the way your website worked, ask your virtual assistant or website designer/programmer to help you with this step.

Then you'll be ready to add your products back in. If you regularly submit to a shopping site like Google Base, see if you have a recent txt file export stored that you could use as a basis to reimport your products. If not, you'll need to just restock one item at a time.

And next time...

Sometimes lightening does strike the same place twice. So be sure that you are prepared! Not only will you save yourself frustration and work by having a back up copy of your website you can use to easily restore it, you'll also be able to sleep peacefully at night knowing that you are prepared for the worst case scenario.

Please go backup your website now. Really. Right now. *smiles* You'll be glad you did, even if you never need to use that backup.

Find Michelle Shaeffer online at The Small Business Muse where she shares weekly tips and strategies for small businesses in The Muses Brainstorm. Stop by The Muses Guide for inspirational guides to help your small business grow.

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