May 13, 2010
Making Yourself Into A Better Host With Cpanel
Check into an affordable web hosting service that offers cPanel if your web hosting needs are greater than normal. The cPanel application allows you to have complete control over all parts of your website, email addresses, and domains. In fact, the cPanel web hosting tool is easy to use and is full of features required for high level of hosting.
As of now, thousands of hosting companies have cPanel, so it is can be more difficult to determine which service is going to be dependable. Check out what important features that the hosting service is offering in their package, once you find a hosting company that is offering cPanel.
Each and every thing that you will require to handle your databases, email, and files using cPanel’s help will be offered through a dependable web hosting service. This tool is necessary for the organization of a website, which then develops sub domains with particular keywords. Customer error messages are generated with the aid of cPanel powered web hosting. The security of the web page is increased by the password protection that cPanel offers.
By making different special features available to you along with their web hosting packages, hosting companies are hoping to create stronger customer bases. The web hosting services that provide you with domain names along with the host accounts are the cheapest kind of web hosting services. Referrals are provided as special bonuses by some hosting services. High quality web hosting service should be offered with cPanel in addition to great additional offers, but you should not focus entirely on these extras.
More and more companies are beginning think of ways to offer cPanel as well as affordable and flexible hosting services in hopes of getting more customers than the competing companies. Companies that have complex web hosting needs will benefit greatly from the use of cPanel with an affordable web hosting service.
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Filed under Web Hosting by Logan Oulman
May 5, 2010
A Complete Review Of Bluehost Web Hosting
By reviewing and looking at BlueHost.com’s website, it’s easy to see that this company will be around. They put together a serious, professional web-hosting service with all the right stuff. The site’s design works well, as the features are laid-out & easy on the eyes. I even found their contact-information easily, which was a plus for user-related questions or problems. BlueHost has tons of awards from the online industry validating their hosting services. There’s a demo of their control panel, for beginners to learn how cPanel works. They built their control panel to be easily used. The demos on how cPanel works are geared for beginners & advanced users. (nicely done)
BlueHost’s Featured Components and Pricing
The featured components are pretty straight-forward (& nothing’s missing). All the important and expected features are there and very easy to find and work-with:
* cPanel / including DEMOS * multiple database support * FTP * Email I found something unique and it was the BlueHost’s package featuring unlimited disk-space, and unlimited band-width.
There is a limited number of databases (50 each for MySQL and Postgre) and they’re providing more FTP and email accounts than anyone could ever use (1,000 and 2500, respectively). They’re giving unlimited numbers of addon domains, parked domains, and sub-domains as well. Pricing varies & depends on how long you sign up for:
* 3 Months: $9.95/month + a $30.00 Setup fee. *The Domain isn’t included. ($10.00 if purchased from BlueHost)
* 6 Months: $8.95/month + a $30.00 Setup fee. *The Domain isn’t included. ($10.00 if purchased from BlueHost)
* 12 Months: $7.95/month **Good Deal (no setup fee, free domain included) * 24 Months: $6.95/month ***Best Deal (no setup fee, free domain included)
I don’t like and usually don’t get the most minimum three month contract offers and it is not easy to find this option on their site. You have to click around to find it (it’s actually in the second step in their order process) It takes a little effort to find the prices and they are very competitive for long-term usage.
BlueHost’s Terms of Service
This web hosting company has a very straight-forward Terms of Service agreement, with little legal jargon. It’s a bullet point page with the major points listed in an easily-read formation. The one shady-point that I saw stated that “All activities may be monitored, recorded, and examined by any authorized person, including law enforcement.” The lesser semi-shady point I found states “Any violation found or fraudulent activity that system personnel deem inappropriate may have your account immediately terminated without notice and any recorded evidence reported to authorized persons.” To be fair to BlueHost, the points are actually quite clear, and not hidden inside of a 10 page agreement. *easy to find*
cPanel / Control Panel
It takes two clicks to get into the control panel & if you know about cPanel, it is standard. You have the SQL, your sub-domains, & your email-accounts, featured in the cPanel. There are also a few nice additions that include a domain manager, a site-builder, and the option to manage your account right within. Basically, you can log into their billing-dept. It’s a convenient feature.
The Fantastico at BlueHost is the latest version with all of the scripts. The cPanel was very quick and it performed everything it was supposed to do.
Script Installation
You can add your domains through add-on domain feature in cPanel. I added a few domains and everything seemed to work well, and without any problems. This hosting company doesn’t allow SSH/Shell Access by default, but they said they will enable shell access for your account if you fax a copy of your driver’s license, passport, or other ID to them. I installed a few basic scripts (a blog, a CMS, a forum) & didn’t have any problems. Their Speed was about average, and it seems to be keeping-up with all of the latest software updates.
Support Services
When I called the support department’s toll-free number, I was talking to someone within 30 seconds after dialing. I asked some basic questions: Do you support mod_rewrite (Yes), do you support mod_security (didn’t know, but checked), and do you keep your Fantastico up-to-date with the latest versions (Yes) The customer-rep was nice, and seemed to know what he was talking about. He wasn’t reading from a teleprompter. (There wasn’t any delay in his answers)
I had some other questions about some complicated issued that usually anyone can face. It took only couple of minutes and I was able to speak to a different representative. (They have more than one tech on duty, & that’s a great plus to get answers quickly) When I asked if they support PHP5 (they said they have two servers that do, and can move accounts if needed (or) desired. I also asked if they support Ruby on Rails (No), and if I should use ‘localhost’ as my host name with the script I was trying to install (Yes). I reworded my questions to test the email-support system. It only took 22 minutes to receive their answer. It was impressive, because it was already late in the afternoon, approaching closing-time for most people.
After performing my review, I’ve found BlueHost to be a solid web host service. This company has their act together and deserves their listing as a top quality web host. Their impressive functionality and solid support-staff make this company an easy choice for beginners & advanced users alike. In all, very user-friendly & a solid experience.
The Good: Good control panel functions: (cPanel) has a few nice extras. There’s plenty of space and bandwidth, good customer-support, & fair pricing.
The Bad: a few Semi-shady points in the TOS (nothing too sinister, & clearly outlined) Their 3 month minimum contract price is kind of hard to find, but its there.
Jacqueline Gharibian is the author. . She has done an extensive research and review about BlueHost web hosting. To read more reviews about other web hosting companies and also other products, please visit her site at ReviewTheWeb.
Filed under Web Hosting by Jacqueline Gharibian
April 20, 2010
Internet Web Hosting For Beginners
Web hosting is normally done either from the site owner’s private computer, or by employing the services of a web hosting company. Web hosting companies have many options and service levels to choose from.
When hosting a web site from a computer in your home or office, there are many things you have to consider. This was a viable option in the early days of the net, but now it’s far too dangerous. Hackers are on the hunt and never tire of looking for vulnerable web servers to vandalize. If you’re not 100% up to date on all of the necessary security patches, you leave your whole network open to attack.
Also, think about the toll serving your own site will take on your bandwidth. Any kind of consumer level ISP connection will grind to a halt under any kind of moderate load from a website, especially if you plan to host any multimedia content.
When you go with a web host, you can enjoy total security, backups of your data, no strain on your network, and more. Most small sites start out with what’s called “Shared Hosting” and which can cost as little as $1 a month to about $9 a month. Shared hosting means your site is shared from a computer that serves up many of the hosts customer’s websites. You may experience slowdowns if another website on your shared machine experiences spikes in popularity, but generally you’re pretty safe.
Virtual Private hosting is similar as you use a shared machine, but it’s split into separate virtual machines, where each web site gets a guaranteed set of resources. This means another site on the same server generally cannot affect yours adversely.
With dedicated web hosting, there’s no sharing, your web site gets 100% of the resources of the server it’s on. Pricing will vary depending on the capabilities of the server, but this is usually what more popular sites use.
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Filed under Web Hosting by Nathan Oulman
