Internet Hosting
Website hosting is a very competitive market which is good if you understand exactly what your hosting needs are and what a web host is really offering by reading between the lines on the sales page. On the other hand its mind blowing for someone new to web hosting. The list of features seems endless so you start looking at the services/features you understand disk space, bandwidth and so on. Then you notice the server can be Linux or a Windows server, on top of all this is the hosting plans, web hosting, reseller hosting, dedicated servers.
In the back of your mind you are thinking this is going to take some time to read and longer to understand it all.
One thing is for sure in the real world nothing is unlimited, almost all web hosts offer unlimited Storage Space, Bandwidth, Domains, in one of their hosting packages.
Facts are almost all websites never use all the resources allocated to them so the hosting company can share the unused resources across the entire server.
Knowing a webmaster that has a very busy resource hungry site would never host his domain on an unlimited plan.
So what do you really need to know about web hosting is not a great deal really to start a web site or network of sites
But do make sure you have a cPanel, Fantastico, Backup/Restore, File Manager, Awstats, Server Side Includes, in fact I will stop this list now, and be bold to suggest you host with Hostnine .
Why
1. You can start cheap and upgrade as you need to
2. Reliable as any other host
3. Servers in the USA about 8 locations, UK 1 location, Asia 2 locations,
4. Site Backups Daily
5. 24×7 Support
I could go on but that would just bore you.
Item 4 in the list, I said “Site Backups Daily”
If you value your site you should also make your own backups maybe not daily but at least after a big update or weekly.
Ok I would go for a Linux server and their “web hosting” plan for a single domain setup costing just $6.95 per month.
Or for a small network of domains the “Reseller Hosting” plan again at just $19.95 and again on a Linux server
This will give you the option to upgrade when you need to, also you are not locked into the accounts for more then 30 days
Now the SEO server myths
You have probably read many SEO guru’s saying you need a dedicated IP address. Well let’s look at the facts; there are technically a limited number of IP addresses available worldwide therefore it would be impossible for every domain to have a dedicated IP address. With most hosting companies unless you have a dedicated server you will be sharing the IP address with many of the other websites.
It is important that your server hosting location is in the same place as your target markets, all this ties in with buying your domain name.
Your domain registration information location is all taken into consideration when the search engines graphically target your domain in the SERP.
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