Posts from ‘April, 2006’

Now that you are aware of the advantages and disadvantages of budget web hosting, let’s put all of this information together to form some important points to consider. These points will help you make a well educated decision on your hosting company.
Will I have enough features? Budget hosting typically does not include free shopping carts, [...]

Often, when you select a hosting package, the type of control panel the hosting company offers can be a major part of your decision. Since there are so many different kinds of panels on the market today, we’ve rounded up some of the most popular and easy to use panels that hosting companies typically offer. [...]

If you’ve got your own server, chances are you’re going to need your own FTP program. Since uploading through Internet Explorer isn’t the safest thing to do, and online file managers aren’t always the best for uploading multiple files, we’ll round up the best free FTP applications for you.
FileZilla – FileZilla is an open source [...]

A domain is your identity online. It separates you from everyone else – once yours, as long as you keep renewing it, no one else may have it.
There are two parts to a domain – the domain name itself, and the TLD (top level domain) extension.
The most popular TLD is the .com extension – it [...]

Do the various terms hosting providers use confuse you?
You are not alone!
Many people find themselves confused and frustrated when trying to figure out what a host is actually offering them and whether or not they really need it. If HostA is offering 1,000 MB of bandwidth, HostB is offering 1 GB of bandwidth, and you [...]

Host 1 — Offers a 99.5% uptime guarantee. They automatically apply any earned credits to your account if the server is not up 99.5% for any given month. The host calculates the downtime by the minute and reports every minute of downtime publicly to all of it’s users and the net at large. Regardless whether [...]

I figured it would be a good day to get these ISP-related posts that have been waiting to be published out. In reading all the great questions and responses about web hosting here and recently in Apart, I decided to interject some of my limited knowledge on the subject. I have concentrated my efforts as [...]

Whenever purchasing anything of value, whether it is a new car, a new home, and yes even something as simple as web space, you need to be aware of what is commonly known as the small print, say fineprint. This is where the bottom line, the real deal, and the facts are often stored. All [...]

When you access a web site, you are downloading a file or some files. This file can be an HTML web page, a GIF image, a MIDI sound file, or a coMBination of these. These files are downloaded to your computer and displayed in your web browser.
Each time you download a file, data is being [...]

The term hosting is generically used to describe a variety of services necessary to support a web site. Confusion often arises from use of this generic term since hosting is an often complex and multi-faceted issue.
In the most general sense, a web site requires (1) hardware, (2)software, (3) a connection to the Internet and (4) [...]