Shared Hosting: Merits and Demerits
With the advent of time, several type of web hosting emerged in the market which can broadly be divided into various categories as under.
One can get hosting service both Paid and Free; Linux/Unix-based and Windows-based (other which are inferior in terms of popularity); shared, dedicated and VPS. However each of this type of hosting has its own merits and demerits.
But the main objective of this article is to explain user about the prevailing merits and demerits of shared hosting.
However, before that user should understand what is the term “shared hosting”.
Shared hosting is type of hosting in which a host provides space to a user on his/her server which he/she has to share with other customer’s web sites. Same software and operating system is applied by all web sites. With this type hosting however a user can have more advantages as compare to free web hosting.
One can again divide Shared web hosting into two categories:
Free Shared Hosting:
It is considered an ideal choice for a person trying some new concepts and who is not interested in paying money for paid hosting. This type of web site hosting provides the user with everything which is required for boosting his/her site. However, one cannot avail excellent facilities for his/her site. Site will receive restricted amount of Bandwidth and Disk Space. Such type of hosting will not guarantee user with MySQL, PHP support. Web statistics will also be of worst condition.
Paid Shared Hosting:
This will provide all the essential features which free shared hosting seldom to provide, these include e-mail, MySQL, and PHP support. One can use it if he/she wants to host small business web site, intermediary or large professional site but don’t requires the entire server’s space. Via shared hosting one can get a good possibility to host his/her site on an influential, well administrated server at a cheap per month cost.
Shared hosting is quite popular among the webmasters who are beginners, because of providing reliable web service to that user also who do not have unique technical skills.
As now one must have understood what is the shared hosting, we can come to merits and demerits of shared hosting:
Features in favor:
A. Low cost
B. Fine server administration
c. Multiply e-mail, MySQL, PHP support
Users don’t having special knowledge in web site and server administration can also conclude it very well.
Features in against:
A. Low security level
B. Resource limitation – same memory, CPU and Hard Drive is used by everyone. The user is compelled to use only that software which is provided with his/her particular hosting company, and likewise one cannot install his/her own server.
Other restrictions can be due to security policies of the company.
The best part of shared hosting is that one doesn’t need to worry about possible server problems as for this hosting company’s support service is available to sort all problems. Thus, while selecting a shared hosting one should carefully examine the company support’s quality, the better the quality of support – the better would be the conditions for site.
Also with shared hosting one can place several sites in the neighboring parts of the server.
So, finally after knowing all the pros and cons it is on the user to decide the one which is most suitable as per his/her needs.
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How can I get web hosting from my internet provider?I have Qwest internet, and I want to know if there is a way that I can get web hosting from them. Otherwise, does anyone know of any sites that are relatively inexpensive and effective for web hosting?
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October 11th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
I found these to be the best
bit[.]ly/hostsgator
If you search on google, you can usually get a coupon, that will give you the first month free.
October 11th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
You can resell 1&1 via their affiliates program.
http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/Affiliate
If 1&1 allows you to host multiple domains and multiple FTP users, and you're smart enough to be able to keep others from figuring out how to log in to the panel and deal only with their own FTP, then I see nothing in the 1&1 TOS that prevents you from charging others to use your Web space.
http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/Gtc
October 11th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
October 11th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
I'm on my 13th! Our first just as an arrival family. I have four Danes, three Germans, two Swedes, two Swiss, one Finn and one Brasilian!
As you can tell, we love it. We've also had exceptional students to work with as well … and we wouldn't trade any of them!
To top it all off, we spent our 25th anniversary on a three-week tour of Europe visiting many of them!
Hosting not only gives you a new son or daughter, but it gives you a whole new family as well!
The one thing that concerns me about your question however, is that it ALMOST seems like a recruitment of host families. I'm sure you really didn't mean it that way, but I certainly would NOT be looking for families for students on the Internet!
Congratulations on your international family!
October 12th, 2009 at 12:11 am
I host my own WoW server and I haven't seen a big impact on my computer's performance. Since towards the beginning, you won't have too much people until you advertise etc…
October 12th, 2009 at 9:03 am
Phpbb is open source and plus its more userfriendly than vbulletin ..
More themes and more support ..Vbulletin mostly used by large professional organisations and is expensive..Very few templates and themes..Me I prefer Phpbb3 cuz its more modern ..ALot cooler to me
Currently I am sellimg a loveley established phpbb3 board
http://www.bourbonix.com/classifieds
Plus a vbulletin board
Let me know
host2001@gmail.com
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October 12th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Windows and Linux often use two different web server applications. Windows sites use the Windows IIS server, while nearly all Linux sites use Apache.
Linux sites focus on PHP, Perl and other open-source script languages for server side scripting. Windows-based sites use ,NET and ASP technologies. They might also offer support for PHP.
Linux sites offer MySQL as the database for backend content storage. Windows sites will probably offer SQL Server, though some offer the Windows versions of MySQL as well.
There shouldn't be any difference between the two if you use strict web standards in your HTML. However, you need to be aware of the fact that, since Dreamweaver is a Windows-only product, it may insert some non-standard things into your HTML. Frontpage also does this.
As long as you stick to accepted web standards and don't use any Windows-centric stuff in your site, you should have no problems with either one.
October 12th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Macaroni Salad
1 package salad macaroni, cooked
1 red bell pepper, chopped
1/2 onion, chopped
3 ribs of celery, chopped
Mayonnaise (however much you want it to be, start with a small amount and add a little at a time until you reach desired consistency)
1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese (depends on how much you want in the salad)
Mix the macaroni, bell pepper, onion and celery together, then add mayonnaise. Add cheese last, and any more mayo, if required. Salt and Pepper to taste. Better if made the night before, the flavors merge together.
Fresh fruit skewers are always a fun addition – watermelon, cantelope, pineapple. Chips, potato salad, or cole slaw are always good, too. If you want recipes for the potato salad or cole slaw, just email me.
October 14th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
I recommend using http://www.spacenetmedia.com/linux-beginners-hosting.html They are cheap and reliable, I use them for all my sites and not 1 of them have ever gone down.
October 14th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
The most important question I usually want to know of the students we host is "Why are you doing the exchange?" Other important questions (in no particular order):
- What (specific or general terms) do you expect of us, as host parents? For example, do you expect that we will take trips to (insert names of tourist spots near to where we live) at least once a month while you are here? Do you expect that we will be strict? Do you expect us to have the same level of trust in you that your parents have? Do you expect us to help you with your homework for one hour every night? Etc.
- What personal adjustments do you expect to make and how can we help to make those happen?
- What's your favorite kind of food? What foods do you absolutely hate?
- What do you do in a typical day? How about on weekends?
- What is your family like (mother, father, siblings, personalities, habits, etc.)?
- What kind of 'living situations' have you lived in? For example, living in a small apartment in a big city where you walk to school (less than 15min away) and the mall (less than 15min away), living on a farm in the country where you take a bus for 30+min to school and your grandparents live with you as well, etc.
- Have you ever been away from your family for a significant amount of time (eg. visiting a friend who has moved away for a month)?
- What are you hobbies?
- What is your favorite family tradition?
- Can you trust us to do what's in the best interest of you?
- Can you ask for help when faced with difficulties?
- How do you show 'good' and 'bad' emotions?
The list is endless, but the reasons for doing the exchange are the most important thing – if you're heart isn't into the experience, nothing else matters.