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A Change in Paradigm: Dedicated Server

I found it hard to believe, but suddenly I was faced with a real
problem. Well, I suppose most people would not consider it a huge
problem, quite the opposite, in fact. However, it was stressing
me out complete, interfering with my writing. I even had trouble
sleeping.

What was this horrendous problem? My web site was becoming very
popular. So popular, in fact, that I was getting very worried
about bandwidth charges.

You see, this was happening after September 11th, 2001, and I had
been reading about some people who had created very special and
beautiful sites. These sites were so incredible that they
attracted lots and lots of visitors. So many visitors that they
received hundreds of gigabytes worth of traffic. The webmasters
suddenly found themselves charged hundreds or even thousands of
dollars for using bandwidth over their allocations.

I had purchased a contract with a shared hosting service which
allowed 27gb/month of traffic. This seemed like more than enough
at the time. However, I was noticing the bandwidth increasing at
an alarming rate - about 2gb/day. At that rate, I would exceed
the allotment by quite a bit. I had some time, but not much.

Okay, what to do? I looked around at the various shared hosting
options and didn't see much that was all that attractive. There
were some that offered "unlimited" bandwidth - I didn't trust
these at all. Most of the terms and conditions actually did
place a "reasonable" limit of some kind. I preferred a limit that
was know verses a limit that was unknown.

Actually, truth be known, I was getting a little tired of the
paid host option. I mean, it's far improved from free hosts, but
there is still much room for improvement. Some of the things that
were bothering me were:

Downtime - All of the shared hosting servers that I'd checked
out so far seemed to be down more often than desired. I've been
in the computer industry for over 23 years, and to me a few hours
of downtime in an entire year is about all that's acceptable.
It's not that hard to achieve these kinds of statistics - I've
been doing it myself for years.

Support - The level of support from virtually all hosting
companies I've used to date has been pathetic to mediocre. My
expectation is simple. My site is down, I want someone to work
on it quickly. I want to call someone, get an answer right away,
and get the problem resolved. Especially during normal business
hours. I have never received that level of support from any
hosting company yet.

Strange errors - I've noticed that my web sites will run fine
for a few days or weeks, then start having strange delays. I know
this because I monitor my sites with an automated service. These
delays are probably caused by things that other customers are
doing on the same server.

Lack of communication - Web host support people seem to forget
that we webmasters and businessmen depend upon our web sites. I
don't know about you, but if my site goes down for any length of
time I completely freak out. I want to know why it's down and
what's being done about it. And virtually always I get no
answers. This is most annoying when the downtime has been planned
- these hosts have my email address, why is it so hard to send an
email and let me know what's going on?

Log file issues - Log files are very important to any true
webmaster. They are useful for finding errors, gauging traffic
and determining the success of promotions and articles. Yet so
far all of the shared hosts gave me incredible grief about log
files. They seemed to want to initialize them at odd intervals
(unpredictable), didn't allow easy access, allowed too easy
(unsecured) access and generally made it difficult.

Okay, given all of that, it was time to make a change. Not just a
change to another host, but a change in paradigm.

I had tried free hosts (three of them) before deciding they were
not at all suitable for anything except a small hobby web site. I
moved up to paid shared hosts and for a while was happy. I moved,
then moved again, then again. The hosts were all fine for a
while, then starting having trouble.

Shared hosting was not doing what I needed. The straw that broke
the camels back was a question of bandwidth. Internet Tips and
Secrets was exceeding 50gb a month (almost four million hits and
three quarters of a million page views). Wow.

I could not find a shared host that offered a package of a full
gigabyte of disk and upwards of 50gb a month. Not a single one
after looking at over a hundred different packages.

I had a real problem. You see, go over the monthly bandwidth
charge and you get smacked with huge overcharges. For the web
host I had at the time, the charges were $6 per gigabyte. This
would make my hosting bill very large indeed.

Thus I began looking for a dedicated hosting service. I quickly
found a company and purchased a single month.

Here's what I got. A web server all to myself. I could define as
many as 250 different web sites on the server, and I had complete
control of the DNS. I had root access to the server (meaning I
was more or less god on the box) and could literally do anything
I wanted. I could install anything, do anything and control or
not control everything.

I had 9gb of disk space. Best of all, the service provided a
whooping 400gb of bandwidth usage per month. The server was
extremely fast for my needs. All for around $200/month plus a
setup fee.

The downside (there is always a downside, isn't there)? The price
was a little steep, but a predictable $200 a month is far
superior to a surprise $500 or even $100 hosting charge. They
also didn't provide any real autoresponders (but I solved that by
purchasing a package) or web based email. Their support is also
very basic - they have a 24 hour help desk which is friendly and
competent, but they do not appear to be technical heavyweights.

Thus I have now, after a week of hard work, begun a new
adventure - a dedicated web server for the 16 sites that my wife
and I own. So far, the experience is far superior to the shared
hosting nightmares that I've been facing.
problem. Well, I suppose most people would not consider it a huge
problem, quite the opposite, in fact. However, it was stressing
me out complete, interfering with my writing. I even had trouble
sleeping.

What was this horrendous problem? My web site was becoming very
popular. So popular, in fact, that I was getting very worried
about bandwidth charges.

You see, this was happening after September 11th, 2001, and I had
been reading about some people who had created very special and
beautiful sites. These sites were so incredible that they
attracted lots and lots of visitors. So many visitors that they
received hundreds of gigabytes worth of traffic. The webmasters
suddenly found themselves charged hundreds or even thousands of
dollars for using bandwidth over their allocations.

I had purchased a contract with a shared hosting service which
allowed 27gb/month of traffic. This seemed like more than enough
at the time. However, I was noticing the bandwidth increasing at
an alarming rate - about 2gb/day. At that rate, I would exceed
the allotment by quite a bit. I had some time, but not much.

Okay, what to do? I looked around at the various shared hosting
options and didn't see much that was all that attractive. There
were some that offered "unlimited" bandwidth - I didn't trust
these at all. Most of the terms and conditions actually did
place a "reasonable" limit of some kind. I preferred a limit that
was know verses a limit that was unknown.

Actually, truth be known, I was getting a little tired of the
paid host option. I mean, it's far improved from free hosts, but
there is still much room for improvement. Some of the things that
were bothering me were:

Downtime - All of the shared hosting servers that I'd checked
out so far seemed to be down more often than desired. I've been
in the computer industry for over 23 years, and to me a few hours
of downtime in an entire year is about all that's acceptable.
It's not that hard to achieve these kinds of statistics - I've
been doing it myself for years.

Support - The level of support from virtually all hosting
companies I've used to date has been pathetic to mediocre. My
expectation is simple. My site is down, I want someone to work
on it quickly. I want to call someone, get an answer right away,
and get the problem resolved. Especially during normal business
hours. I have never received that level of support from any
hosting company yet.

Strange errors - I've noticed that my web sites will run fine
for a few days or weeks, then start having strange delays. I know
this because I monitor my sites with an automated service. These
delays are probably caused by things that other customers are
doing on the same server.

Lack of communication - Web host support people seem to forget
that we webmasters and businessmen depend upon our web sites. I
don't know about you, but if my site goes down for any length of
time I completely freak out. I want to know why it's down and
what's being done about it. And virtually always I get no
answers. This is most annoying when the downtime has been planned
- these hosts have my email address, why is it so hard to send an
email and let me know what's going on?

Log file issues - Log files are very important to any true
webmaster. They are useful for finding errors, gauging traffic
and determining the success of promotions and articles. Yet so
far all of the shared hosts gave me incredible grief about log
files. They seemed to want to initialize them at odd intervals
(unpredictable), didn't allow easy access, allowed too easy
(unsecured) access and generally made it difficult.

Okay, given all of that, it was time to make a change. Not just a
change to another host, but a change in paradigm.

I had tried free hosts (three of them) before deciding they were
not at all suitable for anything except a small hobby web site. I
moved up to paid shared hosts and for a while was happy. I moved,
then moved again, then again. The hosts were all fine for a
while, then starting having trouble.

Shared hosting was not doing what I needed. The straw that broke
the camels back was a question of bandwidth. Internet Tips and
Secrets was exceeding 50gb a month (almost four million hits and
three quarters of a million page views). Wow.

I could not find a shared host that offered a package of a full
gigabyte of disk and upwards of 50gb a month. Not a single one
after looking at over a hundred different packages.

I had a real problem. You see, go over the monthly bandwidth
charge and you get smacked with huge overcharges. For the web
host I had at the time, the charges were $6 per gigabyte. This
would make my hosting bill very large indeed.

Thus I began looking for a dedicated hosting service. I quickly
found a company and purchased a single month.

Here's what I got. A web server all to myself. I could define as
many as 250 different web sites on the server, and I had complete
control of the DNS. I had root access to the server (meaning I
was more or less god on the box) and could literally do anything
I wanted. I could install anything, do anything and control or
not control everything.

I had 9gb of disk space. Best of all, the service provided a
whooping 400gb of bandwidth usage per month. The server was
extremely fast for my needs. All for around $200/month plus a
setup fee.

The downside (there is always a downside, isn't there)? The price
was a little steep, but a predictable $200 a month is far
superior to a surprise $500 or even $100 hosting charge. They
also didn't provide any real autoresponders (but I solved that by
purchasing a package) or web based email. Their support is also
very basic - they have a 24 hour help desk which is friendly and
competent, but they do not appear to be technical heavyweights.

Thus I have now, after a week of hard work, begun a new
adventure - a dedicated web server for the 16 sites that my wife
and I own. So far, the experience is far superior to the shared
hosting nightmares that I've been facing.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Richard Lowe Jr. is the webmaster of Internet Tips And Secrets
at http://www.internet-tips.net - Visit our website any time to
read over 1,000 complete FREE articles about how to improve your
internet profits, enjoyment and knowledge.

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Web Site Hosting An Easy Guide

What is web hosting anyway? What do I get when I buy a web hosting solution?

To make thing clear from start lets just say how it all works.

What is web hosting anyway? What do I get when I buy a web hosting solution?

To make thing clear from start lets just say how it all works.

Web Hosting Made Simple

Web pages basically consist of text and images. Generically, the information contained by these files is called content. The look of the web page is called design.

In order to be accessible to online users, all these files must be stored on a web server. You can think of web servers as computers storing the files of tens or hundreds of web sites. These computers are all connected to the Internet through high-speed connection. When you access a web page, your browser connects to the web server that stores that page and downloads it to your computer.

So a web server is a must when you plan to share your web site content with online users via the Internet. There are thousands of web servers in the world, and there are companies that own them. Such a company is called web-hosting provider.

A web-hosting provider can have dozens of web servers hosting thousands of web sites. The web server computers are found usually in large numbers and are all housed in special buildings or sections of buildings called data center. Apart from the high-speed Internet connection, these locations are set up to ensure the optimum operational conditions and security for the web servers. HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, & Air Conditioning) control, fire protection, virus protection, data backup facility, power backup, even autonomy in case of disaster. Another term for the web servers in the data center is a web farm.

To be able to run your site properly you need a space on the web server to store your data and an Internet connection to it. The amount of data available to you on a web server is simply referred as space and is usually quantified in MB. The Internet connection needed so that your web site can be accessed online is referred as bandwidth and is also measured in MB or even GB.

Having the glimpse of the basics, it must be said that different web-hosting providers offer different space and bandwidth. Space and bandwidth are usually the main characteristics of a web-hosting plan.

The terminology associated with web hosting can be quite dazzling: virtual web hosting, dedicated hosting; co-locating hosting, shared hosting reseller hosting.

Shared Web Hosting

Shared web hosting or virtual web hosting are two terms for the same thing. Shared web hosting means that on a web server are hosted many web sites that all have a defined quota of HDD space and bandwidth. They all run simultaneously and there can be from hundreds to thousands of web sites on the same web server. Given the high number of web sites should you worry about exceeding the performance of the web server, issue better known as slow server response, meaning that your visitors will have to wait too long for your web pages to load.

That is usually not a real problem when dealing with serious web hosting providers, because the operational parameters of the web servers are monitored and appropriate actions will be taken in order to maintain the level of service contracted.

The greater number of web sites sharing the resources of a web server (HDD space, bandwidth, memory, CPU time), the web hosting provider can afford to offer its services at a lower cost. A minus would be that, even with high level of service, you will have to accept a slower server response time when choosing shared web hosting.

Reseller Web Hosting

When web-hosting providers offer their services, typically with a discount, to a third-party (a reseller that will thus become a web-hosting provider itself) and the latter subsequently offers web-hosting services under his branding. Indeed technically the reseller web hosting is very similar to shared web hosting, as many web sites end up sharing space and bandwidth on the same web server. The resellers usually are web designers or web developers who offer web hosting services as part of their integrated services. As the web-hosting provider offers resellers important discounts, the price they can offer is among the smallest in the industry.

Compared with the shared web hosting, this system has technical support problem. It takes time and communication problems may occur on the course of your problem from the reseller to the web-hosting provider. Unless your site is a personal web site or non-commercial one, this poor support issue is enough to not consider this your primary option.

Continuing this line of thought, how can you distinguish a reseller from a real web-hosting provider? Its not the professional design of the web site, not even the support contact facilities offered as may resellers might have contracts with the provider on the technical support and the person taking your calls might be working for the provider and identify himself to you as an employee of the reseller. Solid company information is made available usually only by serious providers. The price, that can get as low as under 5$/month is another hint, but you should consider it carefully with prices dropping through the industry.

Dedicated Web Hosting

In dedicated web hosting one single web server is rented to a single customer.

Although this is the common belief, web-hosting providers usually divide a single web server computer between up to three customers. On the other hand there are web-hosting providers that actually give an entire web server to a customer. Even with three customers sharing the web server, the dedicated web hosting option offers the customers the option to host more than one web site, configure the software to best meet the needs of his site or scale the available bandwidth.

The high prices combined with the availability of resources recommend this type of web hosting for highly important web sites such as e-commerce sites.

Co-location Web Hosting

Co-locating web hosting is similar with dedicated web hosting.

The main difference is that while in dedicated web hosting the web server computer belongs to the web-hosting provider and is only rented by the customer, in co-locating web hosting the customer owns the web server computer. The web-hosting provider only houses the web server computer and sells bandwidth to the customer. This gives the customer using co-locating web hosting full control of the web server combined with the security of the data center.

Now you should be equipped with the necessary information to decide on you web hosting. You shouldnt try and find the lowest price possible, but give some extra thought to the quality of service you are buying and to the support offered by a web host provider.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Calin Indre is editor at HostPinPin ( http://www.hostpinpin.com), a Cheap Web Hosting Directory Resource.

HostPinPin.com is a resource for webmasters and consumers looking to find a web hosting company. Providing web hosting reviews, compare hosting plans, web hosting articles, tips and more.

This article may be reprinted or published without the authors consent as long as the About and weblinks are kept intact.

BurstNET Adds Plesk & Fantastico to Product Offerings

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Dedicated Server vs. Co-location Web Hosting by www.vipwh.com

So - you know shared hosting no longer cuts it, and your single office connection is not enough to host a web server - so which is best, leasing a dedicated server or buying your own server and co-locating it someone's data center?

So - you know shared hosting no longer cuts it, and your single office connection is not enough to host a web server - so which is best, leasing a dedicated server or buying your own server and co-locating it someone's data center?

So - you know shared hosting no longer cuts it, and your single office connection is not enough to host a web server - so which is best, leasing a dedicated server or buying your own server and co-locating it someone's data center?

Difference

For those that are unsure of the difference, here it is in a nutshell. When you co-locate, you are simply renting space within someone else's facility to store your own server or servers. It's like a high tech gym locker that you are renting all or part of to house your servers. You either ship or deliver your server to your provider. Additional services provided with co-location vary from host to host but it certainly won't include the actual server. With a dedicated server you are getting all the features of co-location, plus the actual web server itself.

Which is better?

While it certainly depends on your particular needs, and there are excellent situations for both the dedicated server option is quickly becoming a better choice in more and more cases. If you already own a web server, or cluster that you prefer to use, then obviously co-location may be your best choice. If you are considering buying new equipment and shipping it off for co-location - please reconsider. The prices and equipment available in dedicated hosting these days are outstanding plus relieve you of the burden of hardware. Most hosts keep identical spare parts on hand for the types of servers used and are quick to react if something fails. Depending on your arrangement with a colocation deal hardware failure could mean paying to have a server shipped back (or you drive to get it), having it fixed yourself then sending it back to the data center.

Please refer following web sites for useful resources related to web site hosting:

http://www.vipwh.com
http://www.thehostingguide.com

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paras Shah

Chief Technology Officer

VIP PowerNet, Inc.

Phone: (713)787-6501

Email: paras@vippowernet.com

http://www.vippowernet.com

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Ten Steps To A Well Optimized Website - Step 5: Internal Linking

Welcome to part five in this search engine positioning series. Last week we
discussed the importance of content optimization. In part five we will cover
your website's internal linking structure and the role that it plays in ranking
highly, and in ranking for multiple phrases.

While this aspect is not necessarily the single most important of the ten steps
it can be the difference between first page and second page rankings, and can
make all the difference in the world when you are trying to rank your website
for multiple phrases.

Over this series we will cover the ten key aspects to a solid search engine
positioning campaign.

The Ten Steps We Will Go Through Are:

1. Keyword
   Selection


2. 
   Content Creation


3. 
   Site Structure


4. 
   Optimization


5. Internal Linking


6. Human Testing


7. Submissions


8. Link Building


9. Monitoring


10. The Extras

Step Five - Internal Linking

With all the talk out there about linking, one might be under the impression
that the only links that count are those from other websites. While these links
certainly play an important role (as will be discussed in part eight of this
series) these are certainly not the only important links.

When you're about to launch into your link work why not stop and consider
the ones that are easiest to attain and maximize first. That would be, the ones
right there on your own site and those which you have total and complete control
of. Properly used internal links can be a useful weapon in your SEO arsenal.

The internal linking structure can:

1. Insure that your website gets properly spidered and that all pages are found
   by the search engines


2. Build the relevancy of a page to a keyword phrase


3. Increase the PageRank of an internal page

Here is how the internal linking structure can affect these areas and how to
maximize the effectiveness of the internal linking on your own website.

Getting Your Website Spidered

Insuring that every page of your website gets found by the search engine spiders
is probably the simplest thing you can do for your rankings. Not only will this
increase the number of pages that a search engine credits your site with, but
it also increases the number of phrases that your website has the potential
to rank for.

I have seen websites that, once the search engines find all of their pages,
find that they are ranking on the first page and seeing traffic from phrases
they never thought to even research or target.

This may not necessarily be the case for you however having a larger site with
more pages related to your content will boost the value of your site overall.
You are offering this content to your visitors, so why hide it from the search
engines.

Pages can be hidden from search engines if the linking is done in a way that
they cannot read. This is the case in many navigation scripts. If your site
uses a script-based navigation system then you will want to consider the implementation
of one of the internal linking structures noted further in the article.

Additionally, image-based navigation is spiderable however the search engines
can't see what an image is and thus, cannot assign any relevancy from
an image to the page it links to other than assigning it a place in your website
hierarchy.

Building The Relevancy Of A Page To A Keyword Phrase

Anyone who wants to get their website into the top positions on the search
engines for multiple phrases must start out with a clearly defined objective,
including which pages should rank for which phrases. Generally speaking it will
be your homepage that you will use to target your most competitive phrase and
move on to targeting less competitive phrases on your internal pages.

To help build the relevancy of a page to a keyword phrase you will want to
use the keyword phrase in the anchor text of the links to that page. Let's
assume that you have a website hosting company. Rather than linking to your
homepage with the anchor text "home" link to it with the text "web
hosting main". This will attach the words "web" and "hosting"
and "main" to your homepage. You can obviously leave the word "main"
out if desirable however in many cases it does work for the visitor (you know,
those people you're actually building the site for).

This doesn't stop at the homepage. If you are linking to internal pages
either through your navigation, footers, or inline text links - try to use the
phrases that you would want to target on those pages as the linking text. For
example, if that hosting company offered and wanted to target "dedicated
hosting", rather than leaving the link at solely the beautiful graphic
in the middle of the homepage they would want to include a text link with the
anchor text "dedicated hosting" and link to this internal page.
This will tie the keywords "dedicated hosting" to the page.

In a field as competitive as hosting this alone won't launch the site
to the top ten however it'll give it a boost and in SEO, especially for
competitive phrases, every advantage you can give your site counts.

Increasing The PageRank Of Internal Pages

While we will be discussing PageRank (a Google-based term) here the same rules
generally apply for the other engines. The closer a page is in clicks from your
homepage, the higher the value (or PageRank) the page is assigned. Basically,
if I have a page linked to from my homepage it will be given more weight that
a page that is four or five levels deep in my site.

This does not mean that you should link to all of
your pages from your homepage. Not only does this diffuse the weight of each
individual link but it will look incredibly unattractive if your site is significantly
large.

Figure out what you main phrases are and which pages will be used to rank for
them and be sure to include text links to these internal pages on your homepage.
It's important to pick solid pages to target keyword phrases on as you
don't want human visitors going to your "terms and conditions"
page before they've even seen the products.

If that hosting company noted above has a PageRank 6 homepage, the pages linked
from its homepage will generally be a PageRank 5 (sometimes 4, sometimes 6 depending
on the weight of the 6 for the homepage). Regardless, it will be significantly
higher that if that page was linked to from a PageRank 3 internal page.

How To Improve Your Internal Linking Structure

There are many methods you can use to improve your internal linking structure.
The three main ones are:

1. Text link navigation


2. Footers


3. Inline text links

Text Link Navigation

Most websites include some form of navigation on the left hand side. This makes
it one of the first things read by a search engine spider. If it is one
of the first things the search engine spiders sees when it goes through your
site it will have a strong weight added to it so it must be optimized with care.

If you are using text link navigation be sure to include the targeted keywords
in the links. Thankfully this cannot be taken as meaning "cram your keywords
into each and every link" because this is your navigation and that would
look ridiculous. I've seen sites that try to get the main phrase in virtually
every link. Not only does this look horrible but it may get your site penalized
for spam (especially if the links are one after another).

You don't have to get your keywords in every link but if workable, every
second or third link works well. Also consider what you are targeting on internal
pages. If you homepage target is "web hosting" and you've
linked to you homepage in the navigation with "web hosting main"
which is followed by your contact page so you've used "contact us",
it would be a good idea to use the anchor text "dedicated hosting"
for the third link. It reinforces the "hosting" relevancy and also
attaches relevancy to the dedicated hosting page of the site to the phrase "dedicated
hosting" in the anchor text.

Footers

Footers are the often overused and abused area of websites. While they are
useful for getting spiders through your site and the other points noted above,
they should not be used as spam tools. I've seen in my travels, footers
that are longer than the content areas of pages from websites linking to every
single page in their site from them. Not only does this look bad but it reduces
that value of each individual link (which then become 1 out of 200 links rather
than 1 out of 10 or 20).

Keep your footers clean, use the anchor text well, and link to the key internal
pages of your website and you will have a well optimized footer. You will also
want to include in your footer a link to a sitemap. On this sitemap, link to
every page in your site. Here is where you can simply insure that every page
gets found. Well worded anchor text is a good rule on your sitemap as well.
You may also want to consider a limited description of the page on your sitemap.
This will give you added verbiage to solidify the relevancy of the sitemap page
to the page you are linking to.

Internal Text Links

Internal text links are links placed within the content of your work.

While debatable, inline text links do appear to be given extra weight as their
very nature implies that the link is entirely relevant to the content of the
site.

You can read more on this in last week's article.

Final Notes

As noted above, simply changing your internal navigation will not launch your
site to the top of the rankings however it's important to use each and
every advantage available to create a solid top ten ranking for your site that
will hold it's position.

They will get your pages doing better, they will help get your entire site
spidered, they will help increase the value of internal pages and they will
build the relevancy of internal pages to specific keyword phrases.

Even if that's all they do, aren't they worth taking the time to
do right?

Next Week

Next week in part six of our "Ten Steps To an Optimized Website"
series we will be covering the importance of human testing. Having a well-ranked
website will mean nothing if people can't find their way through it or
if it is visually unappealing.

Backing Up Your Website Data: An Overlooked & Underused Necessity.

UOver the last decade many businesses, long established and newly formed alike, have made the World Wide Web a key revenue-generating channel. Billions of dollars are transacted each year over the Web. For many, going online to make a purchase or to find information that will lead to a purchase is now second nature.

Over the last decade many businesses, long established and newly formed alike, have made the World Wide Web a key revenue-generating channel. Billions of dollars are transacted each year over the Web. For many, going online to make a purchase or to find information that will lead to a purchase is now second nature.

A natural consequence of this situation is that enormous amounts of very valuable data are stored on computers. And as we all well know, computers tend to die from time to time. For every business that is using the Web as a revenue-generating channel, their data is an important company asset. The loss of a customer order database could be devastating to a business, leading to unfulfilled orders, dissatisfied customers and loss of touch with thousands of clients. Depending on one computer alone, death-prone machines that they are, is a formula for disaster.

Since it is pretty self-evident that preventing the loss of all of a business orders and customer information is an important task, why is it that backup solutions are among the lowest priorities of most businesses shopping for Web hosting?

Backups could be compared to life insurance policies for your Web operation, but they are really something more. Quality backups are like a life insurance plan that would resurrect you if you passed away, rather than simply grant your loved ones some monetary assistance.

Like a Web hosting plan, backup solution should be chosen appropriately with what the company is doing on the Web. Businesses running small brochure Web sites will need the most modest sort of backups; however businesses collecting data from customers and prospects through the Web need very reliable backup solutions. The acid test for a backup plan is whether it provides the means to restore your site to a fully operational condition within one hour after a server crash.

A modest backup suitable for a brochure-style site can consist of simply keeping a spare copy of all of the files on a separate computer. If the site is such that visitors do not submit to any databases or add any content, then this type of backup is perfect. Certainly, a basic brochure site could be restored very quickly with this type of backup.

Sites that are dynamically interacting with visitors and constantly writing new information to databases cannot rely on simply keeping spare copies of their files. Those copied files are quickly outdated. Databases that are accepting information online need to be backed up frequently. How frequently depends on how important the data is to the company, and how unacceptable some data loss is in a disaster. For a relatively low traffic site where the data being collect isnt all that critical, weekly backups may suffice. For sites collecting large amounts of orders and client information every day, daily backups are a minimum requirement. The very largest e-commerce sites have been known to take backups on an hourly basis, or even have their data constantly written to backup computers in a process known as replication.

Technologies used for backup solutions will vary depending on the operating system platform and the type of data that is being backed up. In a Windows environment, Veritas (www.veritas.com) softwares BackupExec is a premier solution for those who cannot afford any data loss. Veritas produces special agents to work with many leading software applications to ensure data from those applications is backed up perfectly. In a Unix environment, open source backup software such as Bacula (www.bacula.org) makes for a high-quality, low-cost solution.

In addition to the software products that actually run backups, businesses must consider what type of media they want their backup stored on. Choices include secondary hard drives in the same computer that is running the site, tape drives, separate network storage devices and CDs or DVDs. CDs and DVDs make for great portable backups, but are limited to relatively small file sizes (roughly 700MB and 4.8GB respectively). Network storage devices can be very expensive, but can backup enormous amounts of data. Tape drives offer perhaps the best balance of cost, storage capacity, portability, security and quality. Backups done to a second hard drive are the easiest on the budget and the fastest in terms of restore time, but are vulnerable to corruption in a situation where the disaster is caused by a hacker.

Choosing the right backup plan for your business should be done in consultation with an experienced professional who can help you design a solution that will allow you to restore your site to full functionality as quickly as needed. While often overlooked in the price-conscious shopping process, backups are critical to the long-term success of any Web operation. Computers being what they are, after a certain amount of time it is a given that your backup solution will be tested. It is just a matter of when. It is best to be prepared for this day with an appropriate backup solution.

Four Things To Do When Administering Backups (potential sidebar to this article)

Have written policy and procedures in place on how a restore from backup should be handled. In a time of crisis, this will cut down on confusion and allow the process to move along more smoothly.
Test restores from backup. This is very critical. Some complex applications might require special software agents or configurations to backup and restore properly. Make sure the test restore is successfully accomplished in a time frame that would be acceptable for a real restore. If the process takes too long, you may have to reconsider your backup strategy.
Physically protect backup data from hackers and thieves. Someone getting a hold of an unencrypted backup is just as bad as someone breaking in.
Keep copies of software that may need to be re-installed along with your backups. This includes operating systems, software applications and security patches for either of those.

How to Find the Right Host for Your Web Site

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Developing a professional web presence requires a comprehensive strategy to ensure success. The most important element to the overall success of your website is your hosting service. Your hosting service cannot guarantee your site will succeed, but it can surely devastate it. No matter what applications you use (streaming video, audio, discussion forums, etc.) or plug-ins (Flash and Shockwave), if your visitors cannot load your site within a few seconds your finished. Recent studies have shown that you only have 20 seconds to grab your visitor's attention. The longer it takes your site to go from download-to-live, the less time you have to retain your visitors. Remember, your competition is only one click away.

The best way to choose a web hosting company is to follow these six suggestions. Remember, selecting the right web hosting company is vital to your success on the Internet.

Determine how much disk storage space and how much monthly data transfer your site requires? Disk storage space refers to the amount of server space allocated to your account. The files that make up your website are stored in your storage space. These files include your html files, audio/video, graphics, etc. The data transfer is how much data your site transmits each month. Generally, data transfer includes any outbound traffic from your site, with the exception of e-mails. In general an average HIT is about 10K. This would mean that a monthly data transfer account of 2.0 Gigabyte would allow approximately 200,000 hits. Remember, if your data transfer rate is higher than the amount allocated by your hosting company you will have to pay for any extra data transfer.

How should you Host? There are three different ways to host your site. The three ways are shared hosting, dedicated hosting and colocated hosting. Shared hosting means that your site is positioned among other "websites" on a single machine. This type of hosting is usually adequate for the majority of "text-n-gif" sites. Dedicated hosting refers to your own dedicated machine. As you add more interactive elements to your site, you may want to consider a dedicated host. The final is a colocated server. You own the server, but it is located in your host's facility. You chose the bandwidth and your host provides the access.

How Much Technical Support do you Need? Do you need 24/7 live technical support or do you only work on your website during business hours? If you only work on your site during business hours, you probably don't need 24/7 technical support, so why pay for it. However, you need to determine how much on-demand support you need for your site.

What Features are Included? Does your hosting package support e-commerce, multi-media, database, etc? These type of features should be included in even the basic of packages. If these are not, look elsewhere.

Make sure the ownership of your domain remains in your name. Some hosting companies place their name in the Administration and Technical Support of the domain registration. Query the Whois.net database (whois.net) to ensure your name is recorded in these positions. If the hosting company is listed, contact them and have it changed. If they refuse, transfer your business to another hosting company.

What is the Attitude of the Employees? Is the telephone answered in a friendly and courteous manner? Is the technical support department helpful? These are the people you will be dealing with for many years to come. Make sure it is a pleasurable experience.

Make sure to answer the proceeding six questions before you select a company to host your website. Remember, the web is global, just because you live in a certain city, doesn't matter you should host your site with a local company. If a local hosting company doesn't provide quality customer service, high-quality hosting and competitive pricing, it is very simple to locate a company that does provide exactly what you need.

Andrew LaPointe is President of the website Your Online Business.com. He offers $9.95 hosting, $19.95 domain names and a FREE Internet Starter Kit. He is also the author of the Internet course - Your Online Business.com - A Complete Guide to Marketing Your Online Business. http://www.youronlinebusiness.com

HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT WEBHOSTMichael Bray

Choosing the right web host is the most important thing for the success of your website. Downtime leads to losing customers. Think about this for a second. Someone reads your advertisement in a newsletter or sees your banner on a website, do you think if they click on it and get no response they will try again in 20 minutes? They won't. Potential customer, down the drain.

Even something as simple as your current host not having the features you need to run a good quality shopping cart will make you lose customers. As you can see, choosing the right web host is very important.

But how do you choose the best web host? There are thousands of them out there. Which is best for you? There are a few easy steps you need to think about that make finding the perfect host much easier.

1) First, sit down and think about your needs before looking for a host. There is no point choosing a host, only to find out that they don't support any of the features you need, or that you are paying for things that you will never use. Ask your web designer what features are required for your site to work.

One of the features necessary for e-commerce (that is often not included) is SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), which is used so you can safely accept credit cards on your site. Other features that are required are things such as CGI (Common Gateway Interface) which allow you to run programs such as shopping carts on your site.

2) Email the companies you are interested in before signing up. Send their support department a few emails, at different times, just to check how quickly they respond. You should really choose a host that has 24/7 support. Call them as well and make sure that you can talk to a human if you need to. Sometimes that is the quickest way to resolve a problem.

Take this oppotunity to ask them about the features they offer. If there is a feature you want that they don't have listed, ask them if they can add it. Don't forget to measure the response time!

3) Decide wether you need a Virtual or Dedicated server. Basically, if your site is very busy - then you need a dedicated server. Head over to http://www.webhostarea.com/guides/virtual-dedicated/ for more infomation about choosing between Virtual & Dedicated servers.

Some companies offer semi-dedicated options, where you share the server with 4 or so other people. This generally isn't a good option, and if you need that sort of speed, look into getting a dedicated server.

4) Ask the company for some sites that are currently hosted on their servers - make sure the site loads fast, email the owners of the site & ask them if they are happy with the service they are getting. If the host refuses to give you any sites, move on.

5) Try to avoid NT, Mac and Cobalt servers. Web servers can come in many types, from Unix based, to NT, Cobalt, Sun Solaris and even Macintosh. For 95% of people, a Unix based server is the best option. Many people get scared when they read the word "Unix"; it sounds so hard to use! In actuality however, it is easier to use a Web sever than the other options. Feel free to contact us if you need some help deciding what type of server you need. http://www.web hostarea.com/contact.php?type=Advice

6) All beginners, and even some of the advanced web developers out there, will benefit from having an easy to use Control Panel to handle things on their site, such as email addresses. Always check a web host's site to make sure they have one available before you sign up.

7) The last step is to make sure they offer some sort of an uptime guarantee. Some companies offer a 99% uptime guarantee, and if your site is not up that much, you get the month free. While this does not bring you back the potential clients that you have lost, it does encourage hosts to have their servers up as much as possible.

If there is one thing I want you to understand from this article, it is this: "You get what you pay for with web hosting." I have had hundreds of emails from people that went cheap and their site was a disaster because of it. Don't choose a $5 a month host, and expect to recieve quality services. You should aim to spend at least $30 a month for a basic package, and at least $300 a month for a dedicated server.

Be careful not to be ripped off though. While I am telling you not to spend to little, you have to be careful not to spend too much. If you are interested in a host and you feel they might be trying to charge you a little too much, feel free to contact me and I'll check them out for you.

Good luck finding a new web host!

Michael Bray, webhostarea.com, a site offering free consulting about web hosting, a directory of web hosts as well as helpful guides and a user forum. Michael has been working on-line for 2 years now, running both his own sites and creating sites for other people. He runs webhostarea.com so that people don't go through the experiences he had to go through when choosing a new web host.

Your Own Name Servers

I've gotten downright tired of moving my site again and again. It seems there are no competent hosting companies anywhere on the planet. I don't ask for much. In addition to the usual features for a paid web host, I just want my site to be up and relatively quick. Downtime should be measured in hours per year, and at it's slowest the site should respond in less than half a second.

So far I haven't found a single hosting company that even comes close. I've tried about a dozen different firms, and they've all come up short. In fact, the most important rule of any web host is violated on a regular basis time and again. The sites are down and very slow. Virtually anything else can be tolerated, except for downtime.

Finally I sat back one day and thought long and hard about my options. I was getting very frustrated with my current hosting company because the server was timing out on occasion, causing my sites to become unavailable for a few minutes here and a few minutes there.

I started looking for hosts and saw a word that caught my eye. The word was "dedicated". Now that was a thought - a whole machine all to myself. There was some appeal to that thought, but the price was too high, or at least I thought so at the time.

Looking closer into the concept, I found a dedicated hosting service that was actually reasonably priced. For a couple of hundred dollars a month I had a web and mail server all to myself. Yes, I know that sounds high when compared to a shared hosting service, but remember this included an incredible amount of bandwidth, lots of disk space and plenty of power.

I paid for the first month and soon discovered the server had it's own name server software. This meant I no longer had to deal with an ISP for name server services.

What's so good about that? Well, as an example, some time ago I wanted to install Bigmailbox on a site. This would have allowed my visitors to have a mailbox named "theirname@renaissancefaire.org". I thought this would be a pretty cool service to offer my visitors.

The ISP would not make the change necessary to install this feature. The change requires about 1 minute, yet they would not do it. Not even for a charge. With access to my own name server I could have made this change myself. It's very simple really. Just a one line modification.

Another thing I wanted to do on occasion is create subdomains. For example, wallpaper.renaissancefaire.org. This would allow me to create sites within sites in a logical, easy to remember format.

Most of my previous ISPs would not allow me to make these changes. One of them wanted to charge $10 per change. Ten dollars for a one minute modification. Now I can do this kind of thing myself, as often as I want.

Another change that I've wanted to make also involved subdomains, but with a twist. I wanted to create a subdomain of search.renaissancefaire.org which called up a search engine on everyone.net. My old ISPs would not make this change - not one of them. Yet it was a simple one line entry in the nameserver. Now I can make these changes myself.

But a problem soon introduced itself. You see, the name server is actually entered into the domain definition at the domain registrar. This more or less informs the internet where to find your site, email server, subdomains and so on.

Registrars require at least two name servers. My site only had one. I could have defined two by asking my dedicated hosting company for another IP address, but this had a problem. The reason for requiring two name servers is redundancy. If both IP addresses are on the same machine, then that redundancy does not exist.

I needed another name server somewhere else on the internet. A little searching and I found one.

http://soa.granitecanyon.com/

This is a free service which allows people with exactly the same problem that I was facing to create their own name server entries. You simply enter the domain name, your email address and the raw DNS server table for the domain. These DNS server tables are a little tricky to set up, but the service provides excellent documentation and will not allow an invalid entry to be set up.

So what do you do? You create your entries at this service, then modify your domain at the registrar to use them (wait a couple of days after defining them, however).

I believe you can use this service even if you host your site on a normal shared host (and possibly even a free host). You would need to set up your site normally and get the ISP to set up their name servers as appropriate. Once that was done, you could go to granitecanyon.com and define your own name server entries, then proceed to the registrar a couple of days later to use those entries. Theoretically this should work fine.

What is the bottom line? If you are using a dedicated host or you want to gain some measure of control over your name servers, you can now do so. This will enable you to do what you need without paying high costs or begging your ISP for a favor.

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A Change in Paradigm: Dedicated Server

I found it hard to believe, but suddenly I was faced with a real problem. Well, I suppose most people would not consider it a huge problem, quite the opposite, in fact. However, it was stressing me out complete, interfering with my writing. I even had trouble sleeping.

What was this horrendous problem? My web site was becoming very popular. So popular, in fact, that I was getting very worried about bandwidth charges.

You see, this was happening after September 11th, 2001, and I had been reading about some people who had created very special and beautiful sites. These sites were so incredible that they attracted lots and lots of visitors. So many visitors that they received hundreds of gigabytes worth of traffic. The webmasters suddenly found themselves charged hundreds or even thousands of dollars for using bandwidth over their allocations.

I had purchased a contract with a shared hosting service which allowed 27gb/month of traffic. This seemed like more than enough at the time. However, I was noticing the bandwidth increasing at an alarming rate - about 2gb/day. At that rate, I would exceed the allotment by quite a bit. I had some time, but not much.

Okay, what to do? I looked around at the various shared hosting options and didn't see much that was all that attractive. There were some that offered "unlimited" bandwidth - I didn't trust these at all. Most of the terms and conditions actually did place a "reasonable" limit of some kind. I preferred a limit that was know verses a limit that was unknown.

Actually, truth be known, I was getting a little tired of the paid host option. I mean, it's far improved from free hosts, but there is still much room for improvement. Some of the things that were bothering me were:

Downtime - All of the shared hosting servers that I'd checked out so far seemed to be down more often than desired. I've been in the computer industry for over 23 years, and to me a few hours of downtime in an entire year is about all that's acceptable. It's not that hard to achieve these kinds of statistics - I've been doing it myself for years.

Support - The level of support from virtually all hosting companies I've used to date has been pathetic to mediocre. My expectation is simple. My site is down, I want someone to work on it quickly. I want to call someone, get an answer right away, and get the problem resolved. Especially during normal business hours. I have never received that level of support from any hosting company yet.

Strange errors - I've noticed that my web sites will run fine for a few days or weeks, then start having strange delays. I know this because I monitor my sites with an automated service. These delays are probably caused by things that other customers are doing on the same server.

Lack of communication - Web host support people seem to forget that we webmasters and businessmen depend upon our web sites. I don't know about you, but if my site goes down for any length of time I completely freak out. I want to know why it's down and what's being done about it. And virtually always I get no answers. This is most annoying when the downtime has been planned - these hosts have my email address, why is it so hard to send an email and let me know what's going on?

Log file issues - Log files are very important to any true webmaster. They are useful for finding errors, gauging traffic and determining the success of promotions and articles. Yet so far all of the shared hosts gave me incredible grief about log files. They seemed to want to initialize them at odd intervals (unpredictable), didn't allow easy access, allowed too easy (unsecured) access and generally made it difficult.

Okay, given all of that, it was time to make a change. Not just a change to another host, but a change in paradigm.

I had tried free hosts (three of them) before deciding they were not at all suitable for anything except a small hobby web site. I moved up to paid shared hosts and for a while was happy. I moved, then moved again, then again. The hosts were all fine for a while, then starting having trouble.

Shared hosting was not doing what I needed. The straw that broke the camels back was a question of bandwidth. Internet Tips and Secrets was exceeding 50gb a month (almost four million hits and three quarters of a million page views). Wow.

I could not find a shared host that offered a package of a full gigabyte of disk and upwards of 50gb a month. Not a single one after looking at over a hundred different packages.

I had a real problem. You see, go over the monthly bandwidth charge and you get smacked with huge overcharges. For the web host I had at the time, the charges were $6 per gigabyte. This would make my hosting bill very large indeed.

Thus I began looking for a dedicated hosting service. I quickly found a company and purchased a single month.

Here's what I got. A web server all to myself. I could define as many as 250 different web sites on the server, and I had complete control of the DNS. I had root access to the server (meaning I was more or less god on the box) and could literally do anything I wanted. I could install anything, do anything and control or not control everything.

I had 9gb of disk space. Best of all, the service provided a whooping 400gb of bandwidth usage per month. The server was extremely fast for my needs. All for around $200/month plus a setup fee.

The downside (there is always a downside, isn't there)? The price was a little steep, but a predictable $200 a month is far superior to a surprise $500 or even $100 hosting charge. They also didn't provide any real autoresponders (but I solved that by purchasing a package) or web based email. Their support is also very basic - they have a 24 hour help desk which is friendly and competent, but they do not appear to be technical heavyweights.

Thus I have now, after a week of hard work, begun a new adventure - a dedicated web server for the 16 sites that my wife and I own. So far, the experience is far superior to the shared hosting nightmares that I've been facing.

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When looking for a hosting solution for your web site you'll discover you have the choice of shared or dedicated hosting. This article will breifly explain the difference between
them.

Shared hosting is what it says it is. Your web site shares a server with other web sites. You don't have access to the other web sites files, they don't have access to yours and
you don't share a domain name. What you do share is the machine and the scripts that are pre-installed on it. Why would you do this?

Because it's cheaper.

As you can understand, the cost of setting up a server machine is not inexpensive. Even relatively large web sites are only a few hundred megabytes, so today's computers with multiple hard drives are easily able to handle the space. There can be as many as one or two hundred web sites on a shared server.

You'll find there are different platforms available in shared hosting too. You will find you can have Unix/Linux or Windows NT/2000 as your platform. You don't have to choose
the platform your PC is running. This has nothing to do with what the server needs to operate on. Unix platforms are very stable and are perfect if you have a site using mostly HTML pages, PHP or CGI. If you are using scripting such as Active Server Pages, have designed your web site using FrontPage, or need access to a Microsoft Access or SQL Server database, you need a Windows platform.

Shared hosting usually comes with a heap of extras and most are included in the price. You can get email, auto-oresponders, pre-installed scripts including counters and mail scripts, password protected directories, your own cgi-bin, browser based control panels, secure directories and more. Check the options to see that you are getting what you need.

However, if you need complete control of your server, you need a dedicated server. Obviously if you're not going to
share the server with anyone, it is going to be more expensive.

Dedicated servers are usually only required by experienced developers. If you're not sure if you need a dedicated
server, then you probably only need shared hosting. If you're in doubt, contact the company you are considering
hosting with and ask them about their products in detail.

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1&1 Internet Offers Free .info Domains
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ClientExec version 2.3 released

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Innovation Guru Luke Hohmann Brings The Innovation Games to the 2006 SMP Event
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Hosting company reveals hacks, citing disclosure law

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The Host With the Most?

Web hosting in one of its various guises should be considered by any enterprise embarking on e-business. The potential for cost savings and benefits through reaching customers and coming to market faster is huge, but there are also great risks. The principal danger is of choosing a Web hosting provider that is either unsuitable -- perhaps being unable to deliver the level of service you require -- or worse, about to go bust.
The dangers of the latter were demonstrated by the high-profile agonies suffered last year by PSInet, the company previously touted as the "Internet super-carrier", which is now threatened with bankruptcy. The problem with the Web hosting business is that to make it viable, major investment has to be made up-front in data centres, staff and network infrastructure, in the hope that the customers will then come flocking in.
Although rapid growth in Internet use continued through 2000 despite the dot-com debacle, PSInet suffered because it was over-ambitious in its projections and a little ahead of its time. Caroline Bryan, Web hosting analyst at Datamonitor, says, "It over-reached itself and sunk too much money into its IP network and datacentres, while the services did not take off quite as expected,"
This showed that size alone is no guarantee of success in the Internet service business, so the question is how can a potential Web hosting customer make sure it is entrusting its Internet shop window to the right provider. After all, in the case of full outsourced Web hosting, an enterprise might be relying on the service provider to collect a sizeable proportion of its revenue through e-commerce, as well as to deal with customers.
According to Bryan, hosting companies that have spun off from some existing large players in telecommunications or systems integration are better placed, because they have independent revenue streams and so rely less heavily on the goodwill and patience of their financial backers. The best UK example is BT Ignite, said Bryan, which although still losing money overall has a huge existing network infrastructure it can call on, as well as BT's IT solutions business Syncordia and its outsourcing company Syntegra.
This point is echoed by other analysts, such as consultant and analyst Ovum's ISP-watcher Henning Dransfeld. "ISPs with a telco background can leverage their telecom network and are in a good position to offer good quality of service," he says. This includes not only the big incumbent carriers such as BT, but also the likes of NTL with cable TV networks and in future others exploiting the unbundled local loop.
It can be argued that BT has over-reached itself with the huge investment in 3G mobile networks on which there will be no immediate return. There is also the little matter of the $1.25bn ([pound]8.5bn) it is spending jointly with US telecoms giant AT&T over three years in setting up the global network of at least 44 data centres for the Ignite Web hosting services. But the principal risk is of takeover rather than collapse, with hopefully less disruption to the hosting.
In any case, at least according to BT Ignite's vice-president of sales and marketing Perses Sethna, the company is on target to start making money on Web hosting by 2003. Some of the individual country businesses making up BT Ignite are already profitable, for example I.net in Italy, which recently had a successful initial public offering with BT retaining a 50.8% stake. But other Ignite businesses, including the UK operation, are still making significant losses.
Expansion
The Web hosting story began in the US with basic co-location services and has since expanded into more managed offerings, including up to full outsourcing and application provision. There is now a broad spectrum of services on offer, but most analysts assign these to just three categories.
For this reason, others such as Worldport only provide dedicated services. Few if any ISPs in the hosting business want to confine themselves purely to co-location because, as research director specialising in ISP issues at the Gartner Group Eric Paulak points out, it delivers a relatively poor return per unit of space and in locations such as the City of London, where property is expensive, it is only just viable.
Matching hosting providers to these categories is easier said than done, as suppliers are reluctant to admit that they are only in the co-location arena, even if that is all they are capable of providing. BT Ignite addresses the entire spectrum, but Sethna admits cheerfully that all their marketing effort is pitched at dedicated hosting because that is where the most money is to be made.
"If you look at the pricing for basic co-location within the UK, it works out at about [epsilon]100 ([pound]65) per square foot," says Paulak. This figure can be increased by perhaps 25% by offering some additional management, for example of the IP routers, but pales into insignificance when compared to the pickings that can be made with dedicated services.
The gulf is not difficult to estimate, As a rule of thumb, according to Paulak, a business-class hosting service with management will cost between [pound]100 and [pound]400 per user per month, depending on location and level of sophistication, with the average being around [pound]200. A typical Web server can handle 50 users and 12 such servers can be accommodated in a rack occupying nine square feet in a room. This equates to about [pound]10,000 per server per month, or [pound]120,000 per rack per month. Dividing by the nine square feet, this comes to about [pound]13,500 per square foot per month, which is a good 100-fold increase on what can be earned with co-location.
The result is that dedicated services are that much more expensive for customers, but when you put into the equation the cost of managing the facility and acquiring the necessary in-house IT skills, it may look more attractive. For a mid-sized company with 100 users, the cost of a dedicated Web hosting service would be [pound]240,000 per year on this basis.
So despite these costs, there is a strong swing in demand from co-location towards dedicated services, according to Sethna. But because of the huge cost differential, a number of larger enterprises that already have most of the human resources needed to run a Web site will at least start off with co-location to test the waters. To cater for this, many business sector ISPs, such as UUnet, will continue to offer co-location services for the foreseeable future, almost as loss leaders to lure customers into their Aladdin's cave of more lucrative services. As Bryan notes, "Web site hosting is one of the first things that a company is quite willing to outsource."
Dedicated services
Basic co-location is technically far easier to provide and is more of a vanilla service, with fewer differences between the contenders. But when it comes to dedicated services, some providers are more capable than others, both in their ability to offer the high levels of availability needed for e-commerce and in the range of options offered. BT Ignite, for example, can now go beyond full outsourcing of IT to embrace customer relationship management (CRM), "In this way we can provide not just the technology but surrounding services to get a company to market quickly," says Sethna.
This could appeal not just to end customers but also to aspiring application service providers (ASPs) which might have a sound proposition but not be geared up to handle CRM issues on behalf of its own customers. "So we are packaging this as a wholesale ASP offering," says Sethna.
Some of the value-added services that a large player can bring embrace both IT and surrounding business issues. One is Web caching, which is particularly important for international multinationals, where a global enterprise might want localised content located close to the relevant customers for performance reasons. This in tarn requires the hosting company to have at least a satellite data centre in each country in which they operate.
But before getting carried away with value-added options, users should evaluate the ability of hosting companies to deliver maximum availability, says Worldport's vice-president of sales and marketing Frazer Hamilton.
This cannot be achieved through resilient hardware and communications alone, but requires attention to the operating systems and applications as well. "For this reason we do not use a standard operating system," says Hamilton. "We harden the operating system to make it more secure, and also the applications." The essence here is to close unnecessary routes into the system that a hacker could exploit, using similar principles to those applied to military-grade software development. Now with large Web site hosting, there is a growing need for such hardened software in the commercial sector.
Another pressing need in Web hosting is better support for peering arrangements between providers. Progress is being made in basic connectivity to create faster transmission with better quality of service along end-to-end paths through the Internet, traversing the domains of multiple service providers. But what is lacking is the ability to retain information about content during such multi-ISP transmission.
"We think new content peering arrangements are needed to drive the industry forward," says Sethna. "We want to be able to swap content across the network and retain the intelligence and functionality so that, for example, information on the consumer is passed back to the source. Then an advertiser might be able to have granular information of who is looking at their content."
This may raise privacy issues, but that is another story. Without doubt though the next chapter in the hosting saga will address the content distribution question.

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What's the difference between vbuzzer and instant messenger

A new communication tool called vbuzzer is very hot recently. Most people already found it's a useful tool. But there are still a lot of people can not find the difference between vbuzzer and instant messenger after their first look of the software.

Basically, vbuzzer can call to PSTN but instant messenger can not.

This is a very important feature that vbuzzer has. If you got the instant messenger and your buddy is offline, what can you do? Some of them offer you a way to send cell phone text message to them but it's still not enough if it's urgent or, you just want to chat, now.

With vbuzzer, you can call your buddy directly with a very low rate; the quality is like a phone. Even more, you can get a PSTN number, so when your buddy is not online, he can still call you!


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The Money Keyword List - Superchrage Your Websites Earning Power! - Part 1 Of 2Kenneth EchieMany webmaster are making money or want to make money with Google AdSense. The problem is that some of them dont know the keywords to use in their websites. Its become necessary that those of us in the know share this key information with them to cut down their frustration. It should also help those webmasters boost their income.

Below are the keyword list I use when I build my AdSense websites. I call it My Money Keyword List. They pay from $1.00 to $100.00 per click. Can you feel the power in this list?

The list is in alphabetical order. A few keywords may drop in and out of the list from time to time, but 99.9 f them stay on the list.

In the interest of saving space and not make this a very long document, Im presenting this list in 2 parts. This is part 1 of 2 of the list.

Drum roll please-----:-)

1. Acne
2. Adult Diaper
3. Adult Education
4. Alcohol Treatment
5. Annuity
6. Anti Spam Software
7. Anti Virus Protection
8. Asbestos
9. Bachelor Degree
10. Bankruptcy
11. Bextra
12. Blue Cross
13. Bonds
14. Borrow Money
15. Business Credit
16. Calling Cards
17. Canadian Pharmacy
18. Cancer
19. Car Insurance
20. Cash Advance
21. Casino Online Game
22. Casinos Online
23. Cell Phone Plans
24. Cellular Phone Rental
25. Cheap Hosting
26. Consolidate
27. Consumer credit
28. Credit Cards
29. Credit Counseling
30. Credit Score
31. Death Insurance
32. Debt Consolidation
33. Dedicated Hosting
34. Dental Plans
35. Depression
36. Distance Learning
37. Doctorate Degree
38. Domain Name
39. Drug Rehab
40. Eloan
41. Email Hosting
42. Equity Line Credit
43. Equity Loans
44. Extra Money
45. Facelift
46. FHA Mortgage
47. Fioricet
48. Free Credit Report
49. Gambling
50. Gambling UK
51. Gambling Online
52. Helpdesk Software
53. Home Equity
54. Home Equity Loan
55. Home Insurance
56. Homeowners Insurance
57. Internet Broker
58. Internet Poker
59. Investing
60. IRA Rollover
61. Jet Charter
62. Laptop Computer
63. Lasik
64. Legal Advice
65. Lenox China
66. Lexington law
67. Life Insurance
68. Loans
69. Low Interest Credit Card
70. Malpractice Lawyer
71. Master Degree
72. Mesothelioma
73. Mortgages
74. Need Money
75. Online Banking
76. Online Casino
77. Online Casino Gambling
78. Online Gambling
79. Online Marketing
80. Online Poker

Copywrite Kenneth Echie.

You can get part 2 on my website: http://www.extra-income-ideas.com/articles.html or my AdSense Money E-Book: http://www.bye925.com/adm

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