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People say that the best things in life are free and this could be quite true for many aspects of life. The basic necessities such as air, sunlight, among many other things are still accessible to people without bills or tag prices.

But there are many great things in life that you really need to pay for in order to acquire. This is true mostly with new

stuff like gadgets, cars, and whatnot.

To get the best, you have to shell out some money. When it comes to webhosting this may be true because free webhosting services are great for a small site starting out.

However once a site gets busy and is growing, the free option is not really recommended, particularly for ecommerce websites. The reason why is because free webhosting companies usually cannot provide three important things: a good up-time guarantee, good support turnaround time, and quality customer service. You get what you pay for.

Good and Realistic Up-time Guarantee

A good webhosting service should be able to provide a realistic up-time guarantee. While most free webhosting services may indeed promise to keep your website throughout the year, they usually do not have enough resources to guarantee this.

Free webhosting services are a bargain for a small hobby site, but are bound to be subject to glitches and technical problems and you cannot really complain as much since your not paying for their service anyway. The service is free and ranting does not make much of a difference unlike for paid companies who see you as a customer that should be king (or queen) rather than just a free member.

Of course paid webhosting services may also be subject to some technical glitches – they do get downtime sometimes, but since they have more resources to deal with problems, they can guarantee a better downtime than free services. Plus since you are paying you can demand customer service. Realistically, paid webhosting services may not be able to guarantee 100% downtime, but they can guarantee up to 99.9% downtime, which is pretty good compared to how much free services can promise. Because of this, free webhosting services are not really recommended especially for business websites that require their sites to be up and running at all times, or at least 99% of the time.

Good Support Turnaround Time

Another important thing that a webhosting service should make available for their clients is a good support turnaround time. Webhosting services should be able to respond to your inquiries as fast as possible. If you encounter problems like downtime and send an inquiry or request to your web host, you need them to respond immediately, or else your website and your business might be compromised.

You might not be able to expect this from free services. You didn’t pay so why should they jump when you say so? At the most you can expect them to have only web-based or email inquiry aside from a preset troubleshooting FAQ page. While these could suffice for minor problems, they may not work for dire situations where you need immediate action.

Only paid companies could guarantee good support turnaround time because they are the only ones who can usually afford to hire support staff to work around the clock. Most paid webhosting companies have 24-hour support teams that could help you practically anytime unlike free services who probably only have voluntary teams that work from time-to-time.

Quality Customer Service

The above is very much connected to the quality of support service. You should be able to obtain a high quality of customer service from your web host. Not only should they be able to respond to you fast when you have problems, they should also be able to provide you with useful answers that can actually fix your dilemmas.

Free services usually do not have customer service personnel who are specifically trained to troubleshoot problems. Again, they might just have volunteers who provide services when they can, but they most likely do not work in an established customer service system that paid services implement. But hey, the free price is right.

Paid services actually hire and train people to work on customer service specifically. They are bound to be ready to help you when you have problems, and they are highly skilled to give practical and effective solutions to most, if not all of the glitches you might encounter.

Free stuff are always welcome because money is indeed useful to hang onto, however there are important things that you cannot really just cut corners about. If you own a business website, it is not recommended for you to get free webhosting services.

You might get something good for something free but you cannot always be sure that you would get what you need for your business. Free webshosting is great for a hobby or family site or something simple. But when you get busy and professional you need to switch to some professional webhosting too.

December 29, 2009 - 7:42 am No Comments
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Shared webhosting is housing and serving files for a web site. For individuals or small to medium scale businesses that cannot afford to gain an extreme robust connection to the internet for their web site on their own. This is where the virtual or shared webhosting businesses come in. They provide the customers a way to outsource their Internet requirements in a more affordable way.

The shared webhosting service allows individuals and companies to share the cost of a fast Internet connection for serving files. This is the basic, entry-level fee-based hosting service available to the customer. Shared webhosting allows clients to host their website on a powerful server at a minimal monthly cost. Shared webhosting provides individual sites with connectivity and guaranteed uptime. Shared webhosting is designed to host small-scale e-commerce sites web pages. Shared webhosting is used by first-time webmasters because you can have a reliable Web presence without having advanced technical know-how. Shared webhosting is good for small-scale consumer because they are assured of transparent services, domain name for its website and set of email addresses.

Shared webhosting’s low cost makes it very attractive to the consumers. A minimal monthly fee for a shared webhosting service is preferable than a dial-up service. Most small-scale business and individuals choose shared webhosting because of its low price and it provides basic services. Another reason for shared webhosting popularity is its convenience. Site activation and set-up time in shared webhosting usually takes a few minutes after purchasing the services.

Shared webhosting services are usually bundled. With a minimal monthly fee, it offers multi-platform website solutions. Bundled services include: minimum amount of disk storage space for web pages, minimum amount of data transfer, email forwarding services with physical email boxes that allows you email aliases at your domain name, unlimited file transfer protocol (FTP) services. Shared webhosting alos provide access to Web statistics for you to gage the number of internet clients visiting your web site. This service usually includes raw statistical logs. Also, shared webhosting will include free 24X7 technical supports.

Other services in a shared webhosting are daily tape backup of web site, anonymous FTP server for you to provide public access via file transfer protocol format and CGI-BIN access to upload scripts that will add features to your website.

Shared webhosting is truly a great way to avail of fast internet connection for your website at a very minimal monthly cost.

December 26, 2009 - 10:33 pm No Comments

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Determining the Appropriateness of Shared Hosting or Dedicated Hosting to Your Needs

April 15, 2009 - 3:19 pm No Comments
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A wide variety of webhosting services are available as choices but not each of them has the same capacities or facilities. Thus, it is very crucial to specify the needs or requiements to the kind of webhosting service that is applicable for use. It is mandatory that your hosting service is apportion to the needs of your client. Otherwise, you may end up in having a high traffic in your web site and such cannot be maintained by your server. Once you’ve attenuated your specifications, the next course of action is to find the web service and type of plan that is best suited for you.

Shared Hosting is a service wherein a number of websites are hosted on a single web server. As the definition connotes, this Shared Hosting service involves sharing space with other clients. Shared Hosting is cost effective and procurable in a lot of ways. This service is one with the cheapest option, so typically the service does not come with extra applications. One of the main problems with hosting on a shared server is the fact that the number of features and technologies available to you will be limited. So if your site is running on a low traffic, shared hosting can do the job for you, but if the site eventually accumulates viewers of numerous quantity, then a great problem lies ahead of you. And when this comes, you should consider taking in a dedicated web hosting.

For dedicated web hosting service, the client will have to use only one server (an opposite of Shared Hosting), which is owned by the hosting company and will be leased on a monthly fee and includes a bandwidth. Here you are on the house to use all available resources since you solely manage and run the server. Thus, installation of software is all at your discretion. Modification of the configuration of the server is also admissible in order to comply with the needs of your company. Creation of different web sites can also be done here and this would alleviate the cost of this kind of web hosting. Generally, your plan of actions here are infinite.

In managed hosting service, the user has his own server, but they are not allowed to have full control over it. The only access that they have is through FTP where they can manage their own data or by the use of other tools that allow remote management. The reason for the allowance of full control is so that the provider can guarantee quality service by not allowing the modification of the server and consequently produce configuration problems.

Ultimately, the kind of service or application that you are planning to put up will to a great extent contingent on the kind of web hosting service that you will put up. With the information given, try to accumulate all the resources that you have, eliminate unnecessary details, collate all options possible and finally choose the best application appropriate to your use. Lay all the cards, analyze it and decide.

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