May 5

whgHave you ever heard of green hosting? This is a phrase synonymous also to “green web hosting”, which means web host service providers who do their part in saving the environment. This is manifested in so many business practices and office solutions undertaken by web host service companies. This includes planting programs (planting trees) undertaken by company personnel, recycling office waste, running data centers on alternative energy sources (wind, solar, geothermal energy), utilizing bio-fuel and going paperless (as much as possible). Green web hosting service providers also encourage alternative work transportation and buy carbon credits. Buying carbon credits means helping fund plans and projects that seek to reduce, if not eliminate, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. These companies should also be purchasing renewable energy credits to power their data centers. This is now becoming a popular trend in promoting consumer companies to eco-aware clientele. This is definitely good news!

On the other hand, you can engage the services of a web host company and choose between a shared server or a dedicated server to host your website. If you are a little bit constrained, budget-wise, you should settle for a shared server, at least until after you build up more capital to switch to a dedicated server. Evidently, a dedicated server would provide more services than its shared counterpart. In a shared server, you have to share your provider with several (or hundreds) of client websites thereby partitioning the total hard drive space and bandwidth provision among the many users of the same server. You should hence deal with some slowdown in server response time, which in a way may adversely affect your website’s internet traffic. As we know, web surfers do not really have that virtue of patience when it comes to internet access, they want results in so short a time.

Sep 3

To be able to achieve success in business in any industry, it has become more and more necessary to have an online presence for your product or service, be it a simple informational website that serves as an online product catalog, or a full fledged e-commerce site where you can sell your goods and services to customers all around the world. In this endeavor to fully exploit the vast potential market made available by the Internet, it is very important to use the best web hosting service in the market. The online service providers will provide you with the best domain name for your business and storage space where you can securely house your website’s files. The process also involves creating and coding web pages to enable rich interfaces and online transactions for e-commerce. While these steps may be unfamiliar to a regular business owner, there are several websites and blogs which provide invaluable information and articles regarding web hosting and service providers. In these online resources and web hosting tutorials, you’ll get to know the most popular programming languages in the market, how to effectively pick a domain name for your business and why it pays to use several domain names and put up more than one website, and which service provider has the highest web hosting rating from peers and industry groups based on several important metrics. You may even encounter a list of web hosting service providers which have garnered numerous industry awards over the years like web hosting awards, thereby presenting you with a list of the best alternatives in the market today. These information will equip you with the necessary know how on how to create and effective website for your business and eventually lead you into making a better informed decision about the best web hosting provider for you.