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Oct02

The Ultimate Clean Sheet on Hosting

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Web hosting is very critical, when it comes to your website’s availability to the public. You have to consider the most suitable hosting, depending on what you will be using your website for. In simple terms, your web hosting should match up to your website usage and needs. If you go for a web hosting that is not suitable for your site, you will end up constantly having functionality issues, which is very detrimental. Various Types of Hosting Options Shared web hosting In this sort of web hosting, you will be sharing resources with multiple other websites. Due to the sharing aspect, such web hosting options are usually cheaper, because the service providers can host thousands of websites at a cheap price and will still make a lot of profit. This type of web hosting is very popular among small and medium websites, because it is concurrent with their needs. The service providers normally invest a lot in the basic infrastructure, in terms of equipment and personnel, which means that the user will find an already laid out framework, and the only thing they need to do is to start uploading content on the site. The following features make shared web […]

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Oct02

The Insider’s Guide to Web Hosting

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Web hosting is more like buying space on the internet through a web server, so that people can access your website. Without the space, it will be impossible for anyone to locate your web files on the internet. There are various forms of web hosting, and the choice of each depends on the user’s preferences among other issues such as budget, functionality, traffic, usage and many other reasons. This is why it is very important to first define what you will be using your website for, because once you do this it becomes easier to find a web host solution that is most suitable for you. Therefore, you will get the best experience out of it. For example, it may be totally absurd to have a very expensive web host, yet you’re the returns from your services cannot even cover the cost, probably because your website is small, and there is nothing really critical about it. The most expensive web hosting services should match up their price, in terms of performance, functionality, security, data transfer rate, uptime and customer service. This brings us to the part where we discuss the essentials of a good web hosting service and how they […]

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Sep25

Things Hosting Providers Love Hyping

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Things Hosting Providers Love Hyping (that have no bearing on quality of solution) Interactions with hosting service providers are an inevitability that everyone who intends to have a website or other online platform must eventually deal with. They provide a crucial service in the form of access to a server to make it possible to publish a website and by extension information online. However, for anyone new to this arena, lacking in experience can be a downside. The technical terms thrown at the prospective entrants into this market can have them confused and eventually deluded into buying a poor service. Or even worse they can end up paying more for a service that will not really serve their needs. Many wonder why this would be the case even with the widespread information access. The truth is that some of the things that service providers love hyping about their respective services have little or no bearing on actual quality of service provided. Here are five commonly hyped things that are of little consequence to the quality of service provided and why. Number of websites hosted on their platform Every hosting provider will have a counter on their homepage indicating the total […]

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Sep12

Cloud Computing and Resistance to Change

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The history of the human race has been defined by a constant striving for development and evolution. It is arguably this trait which has enabled human-beings to develop such a complex and advanced society. However, although striving to better ourselves and develop the nature of our society seems to be an inbuilt characteristic of human beings, a contradictory tendency is also present within many of us. Resistance to Change Many human-beings are in fact resistant to change. We like routine, we like the familiar, we like being in the comfort zone, we like being surrounded with things that we are accustomed to. Some psychologists attribute this to the make-up of human biology, arguing that an antiquated section of the brain which dates back millions of years, and is akin to the brains of reptiles, makes human beings vulnerable to primitive fixations such as routine. Whatever the reasons behind our resistance to change, it can provide us with practical difficulties when encountering new experiences such as an emerging technology. In this regard, cloud computing has had to battle against literally human nature. As this important revolution in computing was initially announced to the world, the advocates and innovators of it had […]

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