Archive for August, 2007

Web site hosting services

August 31st, 2007

Picking out a reliable web hosting services provider for your web site could be the main task. Web hosting market niche is overcrowded with all those one-day web-hosting companies, throwing a shadow on web hosting industry in general. It is very difficult to pick out and indeed to discover effective web hosting service provider and for this, you should consider a range of specifications such as functional peculiarities of web hosting provider, its stability, reliability, and secure work of its equipment.

What is the essence of your web site allocation in the Internet? Web site hosting constitutes the final step of your web site working out, at this you choose the place where your website will “exist”. Undoubtedly the best way will be to choose paid web hosting services. It is essential to make right choice if your web site is significant for you and it is even more important if your web site is made for commercial or business project. You may get Linux web hosting services or web hosting on any other server platform, for example Windows. You get competent technical service, rapid loading of your website, you will not be liable to place any advertising stuff of web hosting company on it. Furthermore, if you chose paid web hosting services, the clients of your web-business will trust you more than if you chose free hosting service.

So there could be two possible cases:

1) You already have your personal web site and domain name registered and your website was hosted with another web hosting company previously. You made a decision to transfer your web site to any other web-hosting provider. How to start to transfer your site? And how to diminish downtime of your website (the time when your website will not be accessible in the WWW?) When you have already picked out your future web-hosting provider you should

a) Choose if you will transfer domain name registration service to your new web-hosting provider or will leave domain name management at your registrar;

b) If you want to run web hosting and domain name registration service from one place make sure that the chosen web hosting provider accepts domain name registration transfer;

c) Ask web-hosting provider about its name servers. Now after you buy web-hosting account you may start to allocate of your web site.

We recommend changing name servers for your domain name right away since name servers change will require DNS update and this may take from 24 to 72 hours. During this time your web site will not be open to everybody’s view using its name. But, with web hosting account we will provide you with dedicated IP address and can start to run your website and upload your web site content (via FTP client software for instance) via IP address assigned to your domain name.

2) The second case takes place when you have just taken a decision about on-line site running. With web hosting account we will provide you with multifunctional web site builder that will allow you to build your web site in about half an hour. To allocate your web site in the web you should register a domain name and upload your website to the web server (if you have made it in FrontPage or if you have your web site files on your hard disk) or publish web site of you made it with help of site builder.

Please note that domain name registration propagation will take about 24 hours and when they expire you can access your site using its name. In the meantime your website should be effective and accessible through IP address assigned to your domain name.

By: hanber

What Does a Colocation Service Provide?

August 31st, 2007

Knowledge is power, but information is both a boon and a bother; that is, access to information is a powerful business tool; collecting and protecting that information is another matter. Security, storage, backups… the services of a colocation company simplify the whole process on many different levels, freeing you to focus on running your business.

To truly understand the benefits of a colocation service, it’s important to have a solid idea of what a colocation service is. Essentially, it’s a collective for computers where data can be stored and access to technicians can be shared; the network, servers and backup gear needed to power and protect your business are all there. Economies of scale allow these services to provide benefits to their clients that would be unattainable on their own, and we list some of these things below.

Cost Savings. Housing servers and hiring technical expertise is expensive. Priced out individually, the services of the technicians and the extra space needed to store data equipment are typically higher for an individual company than they are if the services are obtained through a colocation service. Because the colocation services have already agreed to terms and either purchased or leased a building, and hired their own technicians, the charges are spread out amongst individual companies and thus are much lower than any individual company would pay.

Improved access. Colocation services contract with high-end providers for Internet access at the fastest speeds available, and back up their systems with 24-hour monitoring to provide nearly 100% uptime. When it comes to accessing your websites or your databases, whether by your staff or your customers, the services of a colocation provider will give you reliable data access.

Security. In addition to in essence the pooling of resources across a wide spectrum of companies, colocation services also allow small businesses some peace of mind by providing security services for their critical data. Human security is one aspect, but clients of these facilities can also rest assured that their data is also safely stored and routinely backed up.

Colocation services are a good option for any business with mission critical data, including a website, as theses services allow customers to take advantage of aspects of data management that would simply not be feasible on a small scale.

Keeping track of data and other info from suppliers and customers is a challenge. Many companies like to back up their systems using a data centre Canada.

By: Rob Parker

PHP Website Core Features: CMS and Beyond

August 30th, 2007

In recent times, the PHP websites seem to draw lots of attention and why not? Where can you get such a complete content site management solution that is simple, yet fast; robust yet flexible and cross platform yet secure? Using PHP programming language, the PHP website makes it easier to maintain an interactive, community driven website.

When Rasmus Lerdorf wrote the first PHP scripts, little did he realize that PHP will become the most dominant scripting language even before the first decade of new millennium comes to an end! The language he developed as a series of Perl scripts to spy on the viewers of his resume is today recognized by such formidable names as Google.com, Mitsubishi, Redhat, MP3, Lycos, Ericsson and NASA.

Ever since 1994, the PHP as a server side scripting language is evolving and growing as an open source code. According to an estimate, numbers of PHP supported web sites are growing at a rate of 20% per month.

The PHP web site provides a complete web site content management system solution. The client output supports XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative requirements.

You will not require much technical knowledge to maintain PHP website contents.

• The interactive content feature allows your visitors to post comments or submit links.

• The flexible layout control feature allows you to change site pages at any time.

• Different PHP website Themes makes customized user experience possible

• The calendar feature allows the posting to appear under categories and sub categories in a flexible cross-referenced calendar.

• Automatic history rollover feature allows the site to organize announcements by topics and categories

If you are buying web hosting service from a service provider, you have to make sure that you have PHP website support set up in your web hosting account. Beware of those commercial web hosts who would not allow you to install PHP scripts without their approval. Before you hire a web host, make sure the provider has already installed PHP, along with MySQl in your server.

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