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What is Managed Hosting?

2006-08-16T01:20:00.000-07:00

When I first heard about managed hosting, I thought it was more or less the same thing as dedicated hosting. In both forms of hosting, you have a server with your web host that is completely dedicated to your web site. Keep reading to find out why that’s almost the only thing they have in common.

Dedicated hosting has long been an option for companies whose web presence is such that they can’t put their web site on a shared hosting plan without someone taking a big hit. Maybe their web site is really huge, with lots of interactive elements; or perhaps they get a lot of traffic, especially ecommerce. There might be any number of reasons a company needs a dedicated server.

While a dedicated server can provide a growing company with the space, bandwidth, and reliability it needs, there is a potential downside (other than cost). With most dedicated hosting plans, the server is effectively yours – which means you handle most of the server administration tasks. For those who are technically knowledgeable (or willing and able to become so), this might not seem like a large hurdle. But the fact of the matter is that the skills required to create and run a successful online business are not the same as those required to be a decent server administrator.

Managed hosting sprang up as an additional option for companies with a strong enough online presence to require a dedicated server. With managed hosting, most of the server administration is handled by the web host rather than the company that owns the dedicated server. The service has been described as “a glorified dedicated server armed with extended features and support.” As with a dedicated server, you get your choice of operating system, routing equipment, network connectivity and complete administrative control. But a web host that offers the option of managed hosting also takes care of much more than that for its customers.

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Web Hosting Providers

2005-11-07T04:40:00.000-08:00

Hosting Your Own Web

Hosting your web site on your own server is always an option. Here are some problems to consider:

Hardware Expenses

To run a "real" web site, you will have to buy some powerful server hardware. Don't expect that a low cost PC will do the job. You will also need a permanent (24 hours a day ) high speed connection to your office, and such connections are expensive.

Software Expenses

Don't forget to count the extra cost for software licenses. Remember that server licenses often are much higher than client licenses. Also note that some server software licenses might have limits on number of concurrent users.

Labor Expenses

Don't expect low labor expenses. Remember that you have to install your own hardware and software. You also have to deal with bugs and viruses, and keep your server constantly running in an environment where "everything could happen".

Using an Internet Service Provider

Renting a server from an Internet Service Provider (ISP) is a common option. Here are some advantages:

Connection Speed

Most providers have very fast connections to the Internet, like full T3 fiber-optic 45Mps connections equivalent to about 2000 traditional (28K) modems or 1000 high speed (56K) modems.

Powerful Hardware

Service providers often have many powerful web servers that can be shared by several companies. You can also expect them to have an effective load balancing, and necessary backup servers.

Security and Stability

Internet Service Providers are specialists on web hosting. Expect their servers to have more than 99% up time, the latest software patches, and the best virus protection.

Things to Consider

24-hour support

Make sure your Internet service provider offers 24-hours support. Don't put yourself in a situation where you cannot fix critical problems without having to wait until the next working day. Toll-free phone could be vital if you don't want to pay for long distance calls.

Daily Backup

Make sure your service provider runs a secure daily backup routine, otherwise you may lose some valuable data.

Traffic Volume

Study the provider's traffic volume restrictions. Make sure that you don't have to pay a fortune for unexpected high traffic if your web site becomes popular.

Bandwidth or Content Restrictions

Study the provider's bandwidth and content restrictions. If you plan to publish pictures or broadcast video or sound, make sure that you can.

Email Capabilities

Make sure your provider fully supports the email capabilities you need. (You can read more email capabilities in a later chapter)

Front Page Extensions

Make sure your provider fully supports FrontPage server extensions if you plan to use FrontPage to develop your site.

Database Access

Make sure your provider fully supports the database access you need if you plan to use databases from your site.

Overselling Web Hosting: What does it mean to you?

2005-06-13T01:23:00.000-07:00

Overselling is a big trend in the web-hosting world at the moment. It’s an easy way to get more out of your servers than normally is possible. The basic idea of overselling is that the majority of your clients are only going to use a fraction of the resources allocated to them so there’s going to be a lot of wasted bandwidth and space. Overselling involves taking a gamble and selling more than you can handle assuming that the unused resources will cover it.

Let’s say for example that a server hard drive is 80GB and has 1200GB of bandwidth. The hosting company has a look around and decides that to be competitive they need to offer plans with 2GB of disk space and 40GB bandwidth. With these figures they can only offer 30 hosting packages per server. This leaves quite a bit of wasted disk space and after a few months the company will probably notice that their users aren’t using all of the available bandwidth. Because of this the company then assumes that it can safely sell at least 10 more packages on the one server. If the original number of customers already covers general costs then the extra packages provided by overselling are pure profit.

The advantage of overselling for the host is that they make more money off each server than they otherwise normally would be able to. The advantage for the client is that this extra revenue is usually transferred on (at least in theory) by cheaper hosting packages with more features. The problem is that these features are often ‘smoke and mirrors’. A few users would be able to use their entire allotment without any trouble, but if every single client were to build their website up to maximum capacity the host wouldn’t be able to handle the sudden increase in demand without adding extra hard drives, buying more bandwidth, or perhaps even another server. This would most likely lead to a fair amount of downtime.

Web hosts aren’t going to advertise the fact that they oversell. It’s not something that will gain them customers and it’s likely to drive away a few. In general however, they’re likely to get away with it without any real problems. The reason the idea even exists is that it is true that the majority of websites don’t use all of the space that’s allocated to them. The problem is that it’s not a particularly honest way of dealing with clients. It’s a little like the ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ where the host is just hoping that no one notices the fact that a package is in fact a little nude.

Overselling will generally not be a problem unless a host gets too greedy and ends up selling much more than they could possibly provide for. On the other hand, it’s not even necessary as the host can usually make enough money to make ends meet without overselling. It will generally be quite difficult for you to find out whether or not a host oversells unless they specifically advertise it, or they’re well known for having problems due to excessive overselling. Just make sure you do some research and choose a reliable host, not necessarily the one that appears to offer ridiculous amounts of bandwidth or disk space for far too little money.

By Daniel Punch

Unlimited Bandwidth in Web Hosting

2005-05-17T15:36:00.000-07:00

Bandwidth explained:

Bandwidth is the amount of data transfer that you are allowed to have for a hosting package i.e. Let’s say you have a web page that is 48KB in size, now each time a user opens your site and goes to that page S/he downloads 48 KB of information on to their computer. If a 100 users view that page one time each then there has been a total of 4800 KB of data transferred from the server on which your files are stored for the computer of users.

Size of web Page: 48 KB
Number of users who viewed the web page: 100
Total amount of data transferred: 48KB * 100 = 4800 KB

Bandwidth is the term that is used to denote the amount of data that has been transferred from your web space.

The amount of bandwidth that you require while choosing a host depends on two factors:

> The size of your site.
> The popularity of your site.

If your site is not very huge and you do not have any audio/video downloads and it’s not very popular i.e. not a lot of people visit your site then you do not really require a lot of bandwidth, on a average a web site uses up only 500 MB of bandwidth per month. Or if your site is small but extremely popular then you might have to go for a web hosting package that offers high bandwidth.

On the other hand if your web site is huge, providing audio/video downloads, as well as being very popular then you would certainly require a huge amount of bandwidth. Let’s say you have a video file that is 150 MB in size and in a single day a 100 visitors download the file. This means that 15 GB of bandwidth will have been used. If you multiply that by 30 days for the month it comes to 450 GB.

The unlimited bandwidth controversy

For some time now a lot of hosting companies are supposedly providing "unlimited bandwidth" for their web hosting packages.

It’s absolutely true, you can have unlimited bandwidth. However, you will need an unlimited amount of money by your side! Jokes apart, if you ever come across such a host it would be best to turn around and run back the way you came from.

Just think, if you can get unlimited bandwidth for $25-30 a month then why aren’t big companies like Sun, Microsoft etc. not hosted there? In fact, why isn't everyone hosted there? For that matter, if unlimited is a standard feature then why don’t all the hosts offer it? Is it because it is expensive and requires better hardware? No, it’s because some hosts are honest and don’t give in to such gimmicks.

Statistically speaking, a T1 Internet connection (huge broadband) equals approximately 500GB per month and costs around $1200 per month. So how can it be possible to get the same or unlimited for $30 a month?

Nine Questions You Should Ask Your Internet Hosting Company

2005-05-16T01:20:00.000-07:00

1. How often do you back up the files?

The answer you should be looking for is that they backup every night. You should also keep a up to date copy of your site on your computer to be on the safe side.

2. What sort of equipment and software are in place to ensure that my site is up?

Most Internet Hosting Companies use some combination of equipment and software to ensure that the servers are up and working. You want to make sure that the server is hooked up to an UPS (uninterrupted Power Supply). The UPS is just a big battery that will provide the server with power for 30 minutes to several hours. Also most Hosting Companies have software and equipment that monitors the servers and restarts them if they quit serving pages. You will also want to know if this fails, does the company have a way to restart the server manually.

3. How many domains can I host per account?

If you have 2 domain names, say joestools.com and cooltools.com, and wanted them to both go to the same site, would they charge you extra for the domain names or since it all goes to one site will you be charged just for one. If you plan on hosing several sites to see which ones will be successful, you might want to ask for a volume discount or ask if they have a reseller package.

4. What are their billing policies?

You need to find out who to contact if you have a problem with billing and what is the process for resolving problems.

5. What is the procedure for uploading files to your account?

You want to know if you will have 24 hour FTP access. Some hosting companies restrict how you can upload files to the servers.

6. Do they provide log files or Stats?

Hosting companies usually do one or the other, either provide you with the raw logs for you account or provide you with some sort of online statistics. You will want to make sure that the logs contain information from search engines on the words and phrases used, how long the visitor stayed at the site, entry page, number of page visits, broken links and errors, and exit page.

7. Do they provide Form to email processing?

Nearly every hosting company will provide atleast a basic form of this. You will want to know if there are any limitations on the size of the form. Also you might want to ask if there is a way to encrypt the form. If so you could use this for an ecommerce solution until you are ready for a shopping cart.

8. What exactly is included in the monthly charge?

You want to know what the features of the account are, but you also want to know if you need them to do something extra whether there will be a charge for it.

9. How quickly they respond when you have questions?

Before choosing a hosting company call them up or email them with a question and see how quickly they have an answer for you.

How To Select The Right Web Hosting Provider?

2005-05-15T02:19:00.000-07:00

Selecting the right host for your company is not an easy task. The first thing to take into account is your website requirements. If you have secure areas and specialist scripting/programming within your pages, you will need to select a host that both supports your requirements and has a full working knowledge of them. Search around nd make a short-list of the ones that meet your requirements.

When you have your short-list ready, pay a visit to hostsearch. Here you will be able to read reviews on thousands of hosts. either tick or strike through the names on your list dependant on what their own clients are saying about them.

The next step is to send an enquiry email, typically a request for their uptime rate. This will achieve two results, it will give you an idea on their response times to emails and it will also give you an idea of the amount of time their servers are connected to the internet. Ideally you should be looking for uptime of 99.5%+. With regard to the email response time, if they cannot answer new business enquiries quickly, what do you think their support will be like ?

when you are down to the last few names, it is time to start looking at the value of the deals they are offering

Web Hosting FAQ

2005-05-14T03:01:00.000-07:00

Cpanel Newbie Guide

This guide assumes you already have Cpanel installed and we'll walk you some of the very basics of using your new Cpanel server. We expect you have some knowledge of what cpanel actually is and know a bit about server administration. This guide has been created by Steven Leggett and cannot be reproduced without my expicit permission. Please link to this page for the latest updates to this guide.
Lets get started!

Logins!
You need to login to your box right well here are a few things to help you. SSL logins are highly recommended for security - please see our Force SSL logins in the Cpanel Tutorials for more details.

WHM
- Secure SSL https://sitename.com:2087
Notice: Root user should only ever login using the secure HTTPS login!
- Regular http://sitename.com:2086 and http://yourdomain.com/whm
Cpanel
- Secure SSL https://sitename.com:2083
- Regular http://sitename.com:2082 and http://yourdomain.com/cpanel
Webmail
- Secure SSL https://domain.com:2096
- Regular http://domain.com:2095 and http://yourdomain.com/webmail

Edit Setup
Now login to your WHM as the root user.
This is the main section to your web server where you can set the options once and will probably never need to change them.

Main Shared Virtual Host IP:
This is your servers main IP address to be used be default with all shared hosting accounts. This should be setup by default and you probably won't need to change this unless you want to use a different IP.

Server Contact E-Mail Address:
You will get email alerts sent to this address and make sure you have a decent size inbox for them, something over 2 megs because you will often receive updates, log files and all kinds of other goodies.

Server Contact Pager Address:
Another contact method for receiving special alerts if your server goes down. We recommend leaving this empty and using a third party monitoring service like SiteUptime.com or Alertra.com because if your server is already down, how will it contact you :)

Default cPanel Theme:
The theme you want to be used be default with all new hosting accounts. There are a few to choose from and if you install a custom theme you can enter the name of it here. To see what themes you have installed on the server, scroll down to the left hand size and look for the title: Themes, click on List Installed cPanel Themes.

Alternate Main Ethernet Device:
Don't touch this unless you've setup a custom ethernet configuration.

Default Home Directory:
We recommend setting this to: /home

Home Directory Prefix:
Leave this set to home

Hostname:
Many people get confused about what this is. Basically you make up the prefix in it and apply the main domain used to host your sites to it.
Example: If the main site for the server was test123.com I could set the hostname to server1.test123.com or mars.test123.com The prefix helps you identify which server this is. Make sure to set your hostname properly by using the Change Hostname link at the top left, this should match what you set there.

Apache Access Log Style:
Set this to: combined

Minimum Uid:
Leave blank

Primary Nameserver:
There are two options for these depending on what you're doing.
Option 1) Shared Nameservers - Easiest
This is where you would use your datacentre's default name servers such as ns1.ev1servers.net and ns2.ev1servers.net
No other configurations are required making this a snap. You would when set all your domain names nameservers, that you want to put on the server , to the same name servers that you entered here.

Option 2 Private Nameservers - Difficult
This can get very ugly if you don't know what you're doing. We recommend using shared nameservers but if you want your own then follow our Cpanel Nameserver Guide here.

First off is updates with Cpanel:
Login to WHM (Web Host Manager) and go to, Server Setup/Change Update Preferences:

Edge Release:
Right from a programmers hands, this is the first layer of Cpanel that is used for testing, patching etc. It has the latest fixes but isn't as well tested as other releases.

Current:
This is upgraded from the edge release so it has been tested a bit more.

Release:
Again another layer of testing, it is older code and has been run on more systems but it takes longer for updates to get to it.

Stable:
Very old but the most stable version around, it has been tested the longest.

We recommend you set to manual updates, Release option. I prefer manual over automatic because I like to keep a better eye on what has been changed.
If you select manual and you want to perform the update simply scroll down WHM and go to Cpanel > Upgrade To Latest Version.

This will update Exim, scripts, themes, Perl and Cpanel if updates are available - it will only update to the Cpanel release type you selected previously.

To see if new updates are available go to http://layer2.cpanel.net
You can also click on the Change Log at the top of WHM to see their latest updates and releases.

Cpanel and the kernel - use up2date
Cpanel can update your system software - but won't upgrade your kernel for you, you have to do that with up2date
Note: Don't upgrade Perl with up2date it will break your Cpanel Perl!

Up2date information can be found here:
http://forum.rackshack.net/showthre...ghlight=up2date
Note: You need to use rhn_register before up2date will work!
"You can use the RedHat Network for free by registering from your system (/usr/sbin/rhn_register) and running up2date from there. Then up2date -l will show the list of available updates"

Tweak Settings:

Things to enable:

Webalizer Stats
Awstats Stats (Very nice stats program - recommended.
Spamassassin
Disk Space Usage Warnings
The number of times users are allowed to check their mail using pop3 per hour: (60)
The maximum each domain can send out per hour (0 is unlimited): (250) - This is SMTP only!
Email users when they have reached 80% of their bandwidth

Things you don't or shouldn't really enable:

Prevent the user 'nobody' from sending out mail to remote addresses (php and cgi scripts generally run as nobody if you are not using phpsuexec and suexec respectively.)
(This won't allow PHP scripts to send mail - EG formmail or anything else as they're sent using nobody)
Keep log files at the end of the month (default is off as you can run out of disk space quickly)
Do not enabled email user their lost password option

Backups
Configure Backup under WHM:

Backup Status: Enabled
Backup Interval (Note: Selecting Daily Backup with give you monthly and weekly as well, Selecting Weekly backup will give you monthly as well.) Daily or weekly - up to you
Days to run backup (explanitory)
Remount/Unmount backup drive (requires a seperate drive/coda/nfs mount) - Disabled
Bail out if the backup drive cannot be mounted (recommended if you have selected the above option) - Enabled
Incremental backup (only backup what has changed. (**No Compression**) - Disabled
Backup Accounts - Enabled
Backup Config Files (not needed to restore specific accounts) - Enabled
Sql Databases (at least per accounts is needed to use the restore feature) - Per account
Backup Raw Access Logs - Enabled
Backup Destination (this should be a dir/nfs/coda mount with at least twice the space of all your /home* partitions. Setting this to /home is a VERY BAD IDEA.): - /backup
(Note: you need a second hard drive and should have it set to /backup in your fstab file)

Service Status
System Health and running services - eg Apache, Exim etc.
Green = Good | Yellow = Warning | Red = Trouble
Clients can see the service status through their own Cpanel as well.

Things to pay attention to:
- Server Load 0.12 (1 cpu) - the lower the better!
- Memory Used

Firewall
How to install APF (Advanced Policy Firewall)

Logs
Apache Logs Explained
No one tells you where they are but it's very important to know
*Important!
All users have their own seperate log files - every domain has their own logs - eg: sitename.com

Exim: - /var/log/exim_mainlog -/var/log/maillog -/var/log/exim_paniclog
Apache: -Error Log: /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log (404 not found errors, etc)
- Access Log: /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log
- Site Logs: /usr/local/apache/domlogs/sitename.com
Logins: /var/log/secure /var/log/logins_log
Messages: /var/log/messages
Cpanel: /usr/local/cpanel/logs/access_log

Fixing Log Rotation Problems

Since installing cpanel on some of our server, we noticed the logs in /usr/local/apache/logs/* growing out of control without ever being rotated. In /etc/logrotate.d the script called "apache" is the reason why. Its totally wrong. Its looking for files located in /var/log/httpd/ and that is not where my log files are located. In fact, we dont even have files in this directory. Its completely empty.

The first line:

/var/log/httpd/access_log /var/log/httpd/agent_log
/var/log/httpd/error_log /var/log/httpd/referer_log {

should be changed to, at the very minimum;

/usr/local/apache/logs/access_log
/usr/local/apache/logs/agent_log /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log
/usr/local/apache/logs/referer_log {

In addition, you may want to add the follow logs to the list above
and any other files you find that needs to be rotated in this directory.

ssl_engine_log
suexec_log

You could leave out agent_log and referer_log since i dont see those as even existing in my /logs/* directory but if you have them add them.

UDDATE: 08-23-03 - Thanks dkair!!!!
httpd.pid is not located in /var/run/. On my server its located in /usr/local/apache/logs. Also in "apache" change the following line;

/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true

/bin/kill -HUP `cat /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true

End Change

Editing logrotate.conf

In /etc/logrotate.conf where is the reference to lastlog? The default apache log includes a rotatation of lastlog but i didnt find an entry in my logrotate.conf.

My /var/log/lastlog was around 19megs so add the following to logrotate.conf so the added entry looks like this.

# no packages own lastlog or wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}

# system-specific logs may be configured here

/var/log/srv08.primenet.cc { <---- Change to the name of your cert.
weekly
rotate 1
}

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/access_log {
weekly
rotate 1

}

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/stats_log {
weekly
rotate 1

}

SSL logs:

If your running ssl on your server you will find some huge log files in /var/log if you have never rotated them. Ours was hitting 51megs. Your SSL log files will match the name of your hostname or the name of your certificate or both depending on how many SSL certs you have running. You could also add those above.

Also, do you really need to keep 4 sets of rotated logs? I rarely refer back that far unless i have some problem and i need to go back to view the logs but usually going back 1 or 2 weeks of rotated logs is sufficient. I have changed my number of backup logs in logrotate.conf to 2. Old rotated logs even going back 4 weeks could take up huge amounts of disk space if there was alot of activity. Consider compressing the rotated logs. Simply uncomment #compress which will compress your old rorated logs.

Now whats happening to xferlog? It was being rotated at one stage but no longer. The last time it was rotated was back in Nov 22 of 2002 on my box. Since then the file has grown to 25megs and not rotated. So was it lost somewhere in all the cpanel updates? One will never know since i cannot find any reference anywhere to it being rotated. If this is also the case on your box do this. If anyone knows where its being rotated let me know because i cannot find it

cd /etc/logrotate.d

is there proftpd in that directory?

FIX;

in the logrotate directory create proftpd

pico or vi proftpd

add;

/var/log/xferlog {
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/proftpd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
endscript
missingok
}

End Change

Save it.

Thanks to Aussie for his contribution.

Other things to know:
Restart Cpanel in SSH #:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/cpanel restart

Cpanel Manual Backup & Update - if backup doesn't work through WHM - SSH command #:
cd /scripts/ then do ./cpbackup
cd /scripts then do ./upcp

Apache Config Test in SSH: -test httpd.conf file for errors!
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl configtest

The configuration file is located in /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf so you may need to edit it in Pico or your favourite editor and make changes.

Manual Stop - Start of services in SSH: (start | stop | restart) #
service httpd
service exim
service proftpd
service named
service mysql

That's all I can think of for now! Overall Cpanel is easy to use and has some nice automated features but a control panel can only do so much, you need to get your hands dirty sometimes!
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Web hosting Basics

2005-05-13T00:46:00.000-07:00

What is web hosting?

1) For a website to be seen on the internet, it needs a web server to reside on. When people visit a website they are actually accessing files on this web server. Web hosting can be thought of as renting space on a web server.

2)No matter how complex or extensive, every web site must be hosted. Hosting a web site entails storing its constituent files, images, and data on a web server, a computer whose sole purpose is making the site available over the web. Once a site is hosted, it can be viewed from any computer with a web browser and internet connection. A user need only type the site’s web address into a web browser, and the web server will respond by downloading the site onto the user’s computer, where it is displayed by a "web browser" application like Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.

3)Web hosting is a way to get your website online. In fact, it's the only way. You see, a web server is similar to your very own computer, except usually with more power and speed. Servers are stored inside of "data centers" where extremely high-speed connections are running through thousands of servers. All these servers are there for one reason, and one reason only – to get your website online.

What is a web host?

1)A web host provides you with space on a server on which to store your web pages so that they are viewable online to others. Web hosts are responsible for keeping the server (and your website) online, and also maintaining the server on which they are housed. Web hosts work to maintain the server by keeping software current, applying patches and security updates when necessary, and monitoring the overall health of the server hardware. Web hosts deal with the technical end of web hosting, providing both the equipment and the expertise to troubleshoot any problems that may arise. Your web host will work with you to answer any technical and support questions you may have.

2)A web host is a provider of web hosting services. Web hosts can be as diverse as multinational telecommunications companies to small local businesses. Typically, web hosts will provide you not only with web hosting services but also technical support. Your website is stored on your web host’s webserver which maintains high speed connections to the internet. Anyone connected to the internet can view your website through your host’s web server.

3)A web host is someone that provides hosting services to people like you. When you register a domain (yourcompany.com), you need a company and a server to “host” it. We provide you with that service and more. Simply sign up, telling us your domain name, and we are your web host. After a few standard processes, your website will be online for anyone to see.

What is shared (also known as "virtual") web hosting?

1)Shared (or "virtual") hosting means that your website resides on a server that is simultaneously hosting other sites. Your site will be allocated a set amount of disk space and data transfer and, in most instances, you will be able to use your own domain name (eg. www.yourname.com). Note that although the server is being shared by other sites, your site's files are protected and secure, unable to be accessed by the server's other users.

2)Shared web hosting is almost exactly like it sounds – sharing web space on a server. When a company owns a server, the total space of the computer (measured in Gigabytes) is divided into much smaller amounts, so that we can offer you and many others just what you need. When the space is divided like this, the speed remains. Don’t feel that since you are sharing web space with others that you are going to lose the speed you would have had on an empty server. We have many servers, and divide our users appropriately, so no loss of speed occurs.

Hello World

2005-05-12T11:56:00.000-07:00

So,Here comes my first post on my first blog!

I wish you'll be interested in what I'm going to explain on TopHost.blogspot.com .I have some online business and I have dealt with a lot of domain registers and web hosting providers.Some web hosting companies were great were other web hosting providers were not as I thought they are going to be.
But web hosting providers is not all I'm going to talk about.How to protect your sites from hacking,and how to prevent hotlinking.how to use your htacess to protect your sites and much more articles.I'll also share some articles that I find interesting about web hosting.

So Stay tuned for the next post :)