Thursday, June 19, 2008

Is Dedicated Server Hosting the Best Hosting Option?

What's a dedicated server?

A dedicated server is a hosting company with a server that gives you an advantage of having more hosting for your website.

It is referred as the dedicated server hosting. This sort of company will give their clients more control over the servers. Some of the control is usually unavailable if you are subscribed with a shared hosting service. For instance, you will have control over the operating system, script installation and also the choices of hardware.

Why dedicated server?

Choosing this service, you will have an entire server for you to use. Therefore you will be able to upload files to your website and it will be displayed online on you website. Companies usually turn to this dedicated hosting service because they have a greater need of presence with their website. With 24 hours maintenance and support, customers can feel comfortable to upgrade to this service.

Having total control over the hosting, users could have more control because they are only one who will manage whatever details that happen in the website. Having control over the entire server gives customers a more security because they will not have downtime problems, a problem that will occur when a website sharing the same server goes malfunction.

Another added feature that a dedicated hosting service has is the ability to control the development of the content of the website without having to worry about the designing elements because that will be taken care of by the experts. The company usually provides great management to attend to any technical problems that you may have. Your servers will be well maintained and running with zero risk at all times.

Is dedicated server the way to go?

Not all websites need to be host on a dedicated server.

Depending on the traffic and function of the website, a dedicated server hosting will definitely be the choice if you require much traffic and complicated stuff going on in your website. This is a benefit that you can not have if you subscribe with a shared hosting plan. If you are not getting that much of traffics then a shared server would be good in term of pricing.

Where to Get a Free Website!

There are many places that offer a free website. First let me clarify what I mean by free website. I mean space online for some web pages, not necessarily a domain name (domain name is the web address for a website, ex: www.YourName.com).

So where are these places? Well, I've listed a few of the top free places you can get a website. Also it's important to know that many of the web providers will display ads on your site in exchange for having a free website. Although there are a few provides that provide web space that's add free.

Geocities.com - they offer some great free web services including a free website. An account with them comes with FTP access, web based file manager, and an online editor that you can edit your pages with as well. They are currently owned and run by Yahoo.com

Awardspace.com - is a favorite among many Internet users. They offer banner ads, php/mySQL, and FTP uploads with 200MB space, 5GB monthly transfer. Thats pretty impressive and hard to beat!

Freewebs.com - I believe they are newer to the scene. They have a easy to use web page editor that seems very user friendly. There user interface and web pages look similar to a blog interface.

pages.google.com - Interestingly, Google also offers free web pages. I've never used it but It looks interesting.

50webs.com - This web provider supports multiple sub-domains, FTP as well as database. And as the name indicates that offer 50 megs of transfer a month.

Myfamily.com - They have unlimited storage space, 100 MB transfer a month as well as backup protection. Although it looks like they are advertising their web space is for family web pages.

100webspace.com - This provider offers PHP support and database support. In exchange for free web space they place Google ads on your site.

funpic.org - They provide 2500 mb of web space, and support for PHP, 8 FTP, and 8 MySQL databases.

justfree.com - They offer FTP access, MySQL databases, and a web based site manager.

Your Own PC - Lol, well actually it is a great web provider. If your computer savvy you can download a web hosting software such as Apache and host your website on your own computer.

Well, I hope that helps and you find a free web hosting provider that suits your needs. But when you need a professional website designed and developed please take a look at what we can offer you. We do web design, development, and search engine optimization.

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