| Multiple Server Hosting impacts your Website's uptime |
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Selecting a host from the thousands of providers and resellers can be a very daunting task, which may result in a hit and mess approach. But although hosting may have become a commodity, one distinguishing feature that you must always look out for is reliability. At the heart of any hosting company's reliability is redundancy. This ensures that if a problem exists at one point, there will be an alternative which ensures continuity as seamlessly and transparently as possible. |
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Therefore, for site's that need to have true 99.99995% uptime, without huge outlays of money, the technology is readily available and certain proprietary failure monitoring systems are now relatively cheap to apply. |
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Opportunities and Challenges
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| Dedicated servers are faster and more secure than shared servers. "If you are sharing a server and another company's site gets a lot of traffic, your site will slow down" |
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However, one challenge is that dedicated servers are more complex to manage. Other capabilities of the program include being able to grant permission for those who can upload parts of Web pages, control the size of logs that list server activity and set other server parameters. It operates via a Web browser so anybody with Web access and access rights can use it. |
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Determining your Requirements
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The amount of needed space depends on the size of the website. Most websites are composed of html (text) pages with a few images (gifs or jpegs) or even a little bit of Flash animation. Text is very economical; it occupies very little space. Images and flash are more expensive; they require a lot of space. |
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Usually when a host talks about bandwidth, they are referring to your transfer. So you need to figure out what is sufficient for your site to function. You'll need to gather some information; fairly easy if you already have a site. |
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Selecting the Best Web Hosting Company |
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| In the final stages of your search for a good web hosting company |
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| By sending a test email web several things can be verified (and compared)
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The amount of time it takes to receive a response |
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The quality of the response |
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The personal level of the conversation |
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