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How To Select A Reliable Web Hosting Company
o conduct a successful Name'" 'Hosting Reviews',
marketing campaign on the etc.....You will find a lot of
Internet, your website must stuff regarding your potential
be hosted by a reliable web host. Search for 'web hosting
hosting company. Selecting the forums'; there are numerous such
'wrong' provider can prove very forums on the web that contain
costly along the line. all kinds of information.
Below I detail a few important If you consistently find too many
aspects of the selection process complaints about your potential
based purely on my own web hosting company.... beware!
experiences over the last six
years. A company that offers too many
features for too little is also
Since there are thousands of suspect. If they are offering
hosting companies in the web huge amounts of bandwidth and
hosting market, naturally during disk space for a very low price,
your research you will encounter be careful. Here is why: The
hundreds of web hosting resource company will most likely be
sites loaded with numerous and forced to host numerous websites
sometimes bogus reviews and per server, resulting in
recommendations, consequently congestion and server overload.
your research process must be The result: Your site may be too
very thorough. slow and may experience lots of
downtime.
First and foremost do searches in
the major search engines such as Where is your web host's
Google, Yahoo and MSN. Simply datacenter located?
enter terms like "Complaints
about 'Your Potential Host's A datacenter located in a natural
disaster prone and/or a If you are marketing worldwide,
politically unstable region is your choice becomes a little bit
undesirable. I wouldn't host my more complicated....unless of
website in a Kabul, Afghanistan course you are Google, Yahoo or
or Kinsasha, Congo based MSN, big companies who host their
datacenter - these two and many websites almost everywhere
others around the world are worldwide. Generally, I prefer
politically unstable regions. On web hosting companies located in
the other hand a datacenter based The United States.
in the state of California, a
major earthquake zone may be How is your web host connected to
undesirable, but the fact that the internet?
California is more than well
equipped to handle such disasters Your potential host's data
and is the world's nerve center infrastructure - regional and
for all that is computer, far local is of utmost importance.
outweighs any existing
dis-advantages. - How is your potential host
connected to the Internet...Do
A foreign based hosting company they have multiple connections to
may be too far away from your the internet backbone, and enough
customers. It won't serve you bandwidth to accommodate surges
well if your host is based in in web traffic?
Australia and your targeted - What kind of computer equipment
customers are based in The United is deployed within the
States. On the contrary, if your datacenter?
are marketing to customers - Is the latest network security
exclusively in Australia from The technologies incorporated?
United States, a web hosting - Are the hosting servers
company in Australia would be OK. protected behind firewalls and
intrusion monitoring software latency. All times are given in
- Is the datacenter monitored via milliseconds. A ping output
CCTV and supervised 24/7 indicating large values and/or
lost packets consistently over a
How fast is your web host? period of time ....is a red flag!
Please note that if you have a
Find a couple of sites that are bad or restrictive connection
hosted by your potential web (Your ISP), the results may be
hosting company and test how fast skewed. Firewalls and proxy
their pages load on your servers installed in your system
computer. You also may execute or network can sometimes
the PING and TRACEROUTE commands interfere with the ping
on these websites to determine operation. Also, some web hosting
their suitability. Executing the companies do not allow pinging of
ping command is called pinging a their servers, in which case you
website and it determines how will get a 'Request Timed Out
quickly a server can receive and message'.
send back a piece of data through
your connection. When you run The Traceroute utility displays
ping it sends a small packet of the connection [path] through the
data and calculates the time it Internet between your computer
takes to get a response from the and the potential web hosting
server. It is executed four times company's server(s). The path
by default and a small report of between these two locations has
average, minimum, and maximum many routers, computers and other
response times will be displayed. devices along it which help move
A ping output typically consists Internet information. Each
of the packet size used, the host movement from one device to the
queried, the ICMP sequence other is called a hop. Too many
number, the time to live, and the hops is cause for concern ....do
several Traceroutes for I moved my other website,
comparison! ClubAfrika.com from Globat to
iPowerWeb beginning April 25,
Based on my experiences with 2005. With Ipowerweb I have
different hosting companies over experienced much less frequent
the years, I regard the following downtimes, few email delays and
Web Hosting companies as the most failures. The customer service is
reliable. I am sure there are superb and well coordinated as
many other good hosting companies expected. The only problem we had
out there, but it would be unfair at the beginning was their
to comment about a company that I inability to transfer our
have never dealt with. database from Globat. Club Afrika
is targeted at users in Africa,
One my websites, most of who are still on dial-up.
TheCertificationHub.com has been It therefore makes no sense that
hosted by Ipowerweb since 2000. these users have to wait for 5+
There were problems at first, minutes for pages to load up. In
typical when a web hosting this respect Ipowerweb has
company is experiencing a spurt delivered. My site is no longer
in growth. In the year 2000, they 'snail slow' and in spite of a
had a customer base of 15,000. few incompetent TIER 1 Techs here
Six years later this number has and there, overally I am
grown to almost 300,000 and their satisfied with their service.
service level has improved Globat may improve in future....I
tremendously over these six suspect that they are having
years. Ipowerweb is one of the 'growth problems' just like
best web hosting companies on the Ipowerweb had when I first
Internet. A first class hosting started hosting with them. If
company which I highly recommend. they do, then they might be worth
considering for they offer the
most 'humongous' features in the Globat.
web-hosting business. But be
cautious, 'Greed' almost always StartLogic is a relatively new
translates into poor website web hosting company, a reseller
performance....some of their of IPowerweb Web Hosting
offerings are just too good to be Services. Naturally, you will
true, for lack of appropriate expect them to follow in the
words. great footsteps of Ipowerweb.
Being the #1 reseller of
I have been hosting another Ipowerweb, StartLogic's hosting
website, ApondoSystems.com on infrastructure is most probably
Lunar Pages servers since 2000. maintained by Ipowerweb, a large
Lunar Pages web hosting plans and reputable web hosting
start at 5000MB of storage and company. They offer both Windows
400GB of transfer for only $7.95. and Unix Hosting. Due to the
It is my opinion that Lunar Pages 'newness' of the company and the
is a great web hosting company. fact that I have not used their
Great website uptime and customer services, I cannot judge them
service! Very few websites authoritatively, but based on the
require more than 1000MB of disk comments I have seen so far, all
space (Apondo Systems has over over the Internet and by virtue
300 pages and I haven't even used of their relationship with
one half of the allocated space), Ipowerweb, I think this is a good
so if what you are looking for is low cost web hosting company.
quality first, Lunar pages is a
good bet. If you are looking for GoDaddy currently offers one of
extra databases, humongous disk the cheapest prices for Domain
space and bandwidth, then take a Names and Hosting Services. The
look at iPowerWeb which is a pricing on packages is very
topnotch company too, or even competitive. With Godaddy website
templates you can get a hosted at Hostgator. We were
nice-looking Web site with ample initially attracted by two
storage. Reports indicate that things: Unlimited Databases and
their performance is above the option of paying monthly and
average. One thing you may not not the usual year long contract.
like is that they do not have an This means that if we are to
800 number for Technical Support. disapprove of their services
They prefer local numbers. I during our self imposed trial
think their pricing especially period, we will be able to opt
for Domain Names is very out with ease. Well, we haven't
reasonable and is worth giving a because we love the friendly and
shot. Also, if you are looking professional customer service
for just a handful of features, support offered by hostgator and
Godaddy offers very flexible our website has been running
packages....they even allow you exceptionally well. We have yet
to pay for your hosting services to experience any unscheduled
on a monthly basis! The control downtimes. If you are looking to
panel is kind of 'tight', re-sell hosting, then consider
scripting Gurus may not like some Hostgator. Although the pricing
of the restrictions but I think is slightly above the average in
Godaddy hosting is worth a try. comparison to other top hosting
We hosted AfroArticles.com companies, we feel that the
briefly at GoDaddy but quickly reliability of their services,
moved it to Hostgator for one and the bandwidth, storage, unlimited
only one reason: Godaddy does not databases and numerous other
support CRON JOBS, a server features included with their
feature vital to packages are well worth it.
AfroArticles.com. Hostgator is a topnotch hosting
company, at the same level as
Our website, AfroArticles.com is iPowerweb and Lunar Pages.
About the Author:
James Opiko is a Co-owner/Administrator of Afro Articles - Article Marketing Directory. Detailed info regarding the above captioned Web Hosting companies can be found here: http://www.clubafrika.com/web-hosting/.
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