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1 This is a free e-book provided to you by AnclaSol. You are welcome to copy it, print it out and share it with friends, but please don t sell it or alter it. Please feel free to post this on your blog or it to whomever you believe would benefit from reading it. Disclaimer The materials in this ebook are provided for general information purposes only and do not constitute any legal or other professional advice on any subject. If professional assistance is required, the services of the appropriate professional should be sought. Though every effort has been made to make this ebook as complete and accurate as possible, no guarantee is given for the information contained herein and it should be used only as a general guide. Therefore, if you wish to apply ideas contained in this ebook, you are taking full responsibility for your actions. Angel Barros and AnclaSol shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information covered in this ebook by Angel Barros of AnclaSol This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit Creative Commons by Angel Barros of AnclaSol. 1/10

2 Free or paid web hosting services? If external adds cluttering in your web page doesn't bother you, then there are free web hosting services for this kinds of setup. For best effect, choose the one whose external ads are closely related to the content of your website. In this way, the unexpected banners may look like as if part of your webpage's content. This can surprisingly improve your website's hit counts. There are compromises with free web hosting services though. It is slower than the paid ones. There is also lesser storage space. Nevertheless, some free web hosting services can also have some surprising goodies like a free account and others. If you want more control, then you have to go for the paid web hosting services. You can increase your storage space allocation as well as your bandwidth based on how much you pay. You can avail other useful services like many accounts. There is a variety of operating system platforms in businesses today. Your company may prefer an Apple, Windows, or a Linux. Make sure that your web hosting provider has the type of platform that you need. Web hosting is basically about two basic elements: storage space and speed bandwidth. You simply cannot get the best of these features without paying for it. But don't pay much on features that you do not use. Find the right balance and get the offering that closely matches your requirements. Affordable webhosting The type of web site is an important factor that should be considered when you choose affordable web hosting to be used. There is several numbers of free webs hosting on the internet. But individuals and typically businesses do not opt for free web hosting instead they prefer the affordable ones for several reasons. One of the reasons is posting all sort of advertisement onto free hosting domain. This huge number of ads, by Angel Barros of AnclaSol. 2/10

3 does not promote your own business, instead it decreases traffic to your own website. There are other disadvantages of free web hosting such as lack of service to your customer, enormous problem on the lack of technical knowledge of web hosting. Limited disk storage, very little bandwidth, limited accounts, limited space for your own ads, and less features being offered by the free host and non guaranteed uptime are yet another few reasons why affordable web hosting is preferable than the free ones. And business is of no good if downtime is much longer and frequent. Fortunately, affordable hosting services can be availed instead of free web hosting services. Its monthly costs are $10 - $50. The features that you would want would be the basis for the price. No matter how much the cost might be, verify the guarantee and refund policies stating money back without question of the hosting service acquired. "Unlimited bandwidth" is sometimes offered by affordable hosting services. However, unlimited "bandwidth" is never true. This is because web hosts change more when a specific limit is reached. So this is the term you need to be aware of. The support services to the customer are the important things to consider in choosing affordable web hosting. Conduct a thorough research on the website of the web hosting company. Know their length of time in this operation and if they offer the services that will suit your need. Affordable web hosting is often based on Linux because it is cheaper than Windows and open source development tools are offered such as PHP, MySQL and Telnet service. These languages and databases which are Linux based can be installed for free that's why.often usable in affordable web hosting companies. Software such as ASP, SQL Server, Cold Fusion, and Access which are Windows proprietary can add additional expense. Since Windows based software is proprietary, it is difficult to find an affordable web hosting using those since purchasing those components by the hosting company is expensive. So it is best to choose a Linux based web hosting services. Before choosing and making a commitment to an affordable web hosting company, make sure to verify their background and conduct a thorough research on their whereabouts by Angel Barros of AnclaSol. 3/10

4 How to Pick a Hosting Provider Choosing a web hosting provider requires research on your part. There are reviews of each web hosting company, and based on your budget you can find a match that will publish you website for the world to see. There are more choices of services that are offered by web hosting companies than there are types of burgers out there. Depending on what your business needs, take into consideration the what website complexity you need. Discuss this with your software developer. You may also want to delegate the task of graphics design to an artist. Furthermore, you may have a separate database administrator as well. Discuss together the technical issues involved as a team to come up with a design that both looks good and is functional. In this way, you will understand the technical requirements to best guide you in your choice of a web hosting company. With thousands of web hosting services from companies available today, the choice of a web hosting service to signed contract with can be a difficult experience. It is not as easy as going to a store and buying something. For many of us, it is like a grope in the dark. You need to observe the following tips to guide you in your decisions. 1) Server uptime Will your website be available 24/7 and 365 days in a year? This is called server uptime and a successful website should have an uptime of 98% to 99%. Any value below this is just unacceptable. Visitors are not going to visit your website again if it is inaccessible most of the time. 2) Storage capacity If your website's storage capacity is very small, then your visitors cannot interact much with it by Angel Barros of AnclaSol. 4/10

5 Web users nowadays expect a lot from websites. They want animation. They want high-quality graphics and sound. The list goes on and on and this means you have to have a huge storage space to cater to this user s fancy. You can continue to upload more and more beautiful images and sounds for the whole world to see and this will invite more and more visitors. 3) Bandwidth If your website has low bandwidth and takes even a minute to load, this wait time will pissed off the visitor and is an invitation to click the 'x' close or cancel button. A high bandwidth means faster access time and a more enjoyable interaction with your website. 4) Extended software services A web hosting service that offers the software services like audio, video streaming, ColdFusion and Flash animations as part of the package instead of as an additional component to pay for, is an enticing offer that you should not let passed by. The features of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) can make ecommerce secure as it will encrypt communication. If this service is available, you can purchase a certificate from the web hosting company. And by displaying this security banner in your website will makes it professional and secure. Acquiring a catchy domain name is a good technique to get the attention of your website and your business. But it is difficult nowadays to come up with an original domain name of our choosing since most nice-sounding domain names are already registered in the records in domain registrars. But with a bit of creativity, you can still come up with a really nice domain name. Cpanel webhosting Cpanel is an advanced web hosting that allows clients to manage their own hosting account in a web-based graphical interface control. It is by Angel Barros of AnclaSol. 5/10

6 designed for customers to have full control in everything on their site. It features various controls, such as adding and removing accounts, administering databases, creating FTP accounts, monitoring site statistics and even backup of site files. These controls can be done in a fast and convenient by an easy-to-use control panel. Cpanel provides management controls such as manage accounts, webmail, default address, auto responders, blockers, forwarders, mailing lists, and mail phishing monitoring. It can also manage several site statistic features such as visitor statistics summary, FTP site statistics summary, AWStats, Analog Stats, recent visitors, bandwidth, and managing site log files. Cpanel also features FTP Management controls such as managing accounts, anonymous set up, login message, and FTP Session Control. This revolutionized web hosting allows download of daily backup file, protect directories, change account's password, create customize error pages, redirects traffic, edit and handle MIME type, configure Apache Handlers, submit site details to search engine, hot linking, control directory display, Index and IP Deny Manager. Cpanel has features on managing domains such as domain name set up, create separate account, manage parked and add-on domains and view sub domains' statistics. It also has advanced management features like secure shell access (SSH), automate repetitive tasks or cron jobs, and uses GnuPGP for public-key cryptography. It also has pre-installed executable Common gateway Interface (CGI) scripts like bulletin board, PHP-Nuke, oscommerce, shopping cart, HTML generator, Form Mail and CGI , quick search engine and entropy banner, Java clock maker, simple and advanced guestbook, Java counter and countdown. Cpanel web hosting also provides tools for network like Traceroute and domain look up by Angel Barros of AnclaSol. 6/10

7 From several languages, Cpanel's interfaces were made available and all these software are used in webhosting. Cpanel with Web Host Management (WHM) provides an enhanced and convenient way of site management for web hosting provider and clients / resellers. This new revolution has only produced a multi-feature websites but an ability to host multiple sites that provides an extensive array of functionalities that deal with websites efficiently. Linux webhosting The free Linux, apache, MySQL and php popularly known as the LAMP setup makes this combination the popular choice as the web hosting platform among many hobbyist and enthusiasts. The Linux operating system which is a special kind of UNIX, inherits many of UNIX's desirable properties as a web server platform. You spend zero costs in terms of the needed software to setup a web server in contrast to the more expensive price of the Windows operating system for example. Open source software is freely downloadable over the web and is protected by the GNU license. The GNU license ensures that this freedom is protected and prevents other software from abusing it. Contrast this to a Windows based offering which is clearly a more expensive proposition even from the bare operating system alone. The proprietary solution's cost is even more compounded by the additional costs of the other required software components needed to setup a web server setup. To whet your appetite on some of the goodies that naturally comes with the Linux solution, think of the following: Linux operating system costs $0.0; the PHP and MySQL tutorials are everywhere and the technology is awesomely easy to learn; a telnet of ssh account is naturally present in the system already. The readily downloadable MySQL for the database and the php language makes this choice of web development the favorite of many wannabes eager to start up their very own web hosting service. Web hosting companies that use Linux in their solutions offer services at a very low price. Being a Unix foster child, the Linux operating system by Angel Barros of AnclaSol. 7/10

8 always have the powerful tools that many people are already familiar with like Perl and Sendmail. The Linux choice is not only popular, it is also secure. Due to its openness, there is no limit to its configurability and you can customize it to your heart's content. The engine of all Linux solutions is the Linux kernel. Developed and constantly enhanced by thousands of eager Linux programmers, the Linux kernel is one of the most stable systems for a web server. There is a very high uptime of websites that are hosted by a Linux system. The process of software development in a Linux environment is very transparent and direct to the nuts and bolts. Contrasts this to the closed development in a Windows operating system wherein there are just so many hidden settings and hidden door knobs. Moving a Linux web hosting to a different host is also easy. The apache, MySQL and php combination runs in a Windows based web server. However, there no known Windows web solution that can be easily made to run inside a Linux server. Linux web hosting solution is also more scalable and does not require drastic code changes within the code or design. The Linux operating system is extraordinarily scalable in that the Linux that runs inside a handheld device is the same Linux that runs inside of some of IBM's mainframe. Its only drawback is its incompatibility with Microsoft applications but these has been remedied through wine and the several virtualizations. If you want a proprietary solution, there is the Windows based server. This is a more expensive solution. You will only go this path if you have no other choice because your hosted web server uses ASP/ASP.NET, Microsoft Access or the Microsoft SQL Server. If you think that proprietary solution is a better choice then get ready to pay the cost. You should feel fortunate for having these choices in your web hosting solution. Newcomers to web site development and theses with little or no knowledge on web hosting options, the choice of Linux is often recommended. It costs less, and there are lots of talent pools out there ready to answer your questions. But if your solution uses the Windowsspecific subsystems such as Microsoft Access, Visual Basic.NET, COM/ActiveX then a Windows based web hosting service is the one that will work for you by Angel Barros of AnclaSol. 8/10

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