Published on
3/5/2010 12:00:00 AM
by The Editor in: Hosting Reviews Gurus
Web hosting is an extremely competitive market and catchy promotional advertisements attract more business. Companies offering “unlimited bandwidth” are a popular marketing ploy, and all consumers should know the facts.
Bandwidth is the amount of data to and from your website. There is no such thing as “unlimited bandwidth.” No data centers offer Internet connections of “unlimited megabytes per second.” How could a web hosting company do it? Computer services and backups would collapse if all customers used all of their bandwidth allowances to the max. Bandwidth costs money, and a company has to meet their costs. The more megabytes (or gigabytes or terabytes) a company gives, the less money they make, but many of these companies merely play the odds.
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Published on
3/23/2010 12:00:00 AM
by The Editor in: Hosting Reviews Gurus
Just the sheer number of web hosts can make choosing a company very confusing. However, competition is great for the consumer because it keeps prices down. One must take into consideration what is needed, and the expense will depend on whether you want dedicated or shared servers, lots of bandwidth, or servers with high end hardware.
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Continue reading Web Hosting Essentials
Published on
4/12/2010 12:00:00 AM
by The Editor in: Hosting Reviews Gurus
PHP is one of the most popular server side programming languages that can be embedded into a website. It contains a wide variety of applications used in building dynamic websites and is easy to learn and use. PHP is adapted from Perl and C, and even if a user has no experience with either, PHP is a great way to start programming and making dynamic websites. Finding PHP scripts and software packages is easy and many of the applications are free.
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Continue reading PHP Web Hosting - Part 1
Published on
4/21/2010 12:00:00 AM
by The Editor in: Hosting Reviews Gurus
Quick Tips for Choosing a PHP Hosting:
Here are some additional tips to consider when choosing PHP web hosting:
1- Technical: Find a web host that gives you all applications (MySQL, PHP, and Perl are standard ones). You may not understand it all, but you may need to use it in the future.
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