The importance of choosing a good host company has been overemphasized with different different imperatives that helps you determine which host is best for us and our business. This helps us make better choices because our business will be better for it.

However there are certain factors that are often overlooked or not deemed important to consider when making a hosting decision. This factor has nothing to do with the functionality of your website. Rather, it determines how the search engines treat your website.

You might be asking yourself what has choosing a host company got to do with search engines. Yes, they have a whole lot in common than you think. Even though the world has become a global village. Where you buy anything from anywhere in the world and have it shipped to you talk less of a virtual product like web hosting. But you need to consider some salient information when choosing a host outfit especially as it concerns the location of the server in which you are hosted under. Note that it is the location of their host server and not the location of the host company, because a host company can be located in the United States and have their servers in India.

Take this case scenario. If you use your website to sell books to people who are located in the United Kingdom. Normally your website is supposed to have the “.co.uk” domain extension which signifies that it’s a UK domain. But instead you opt for a “.com” domain extension which is not wrong in itself. But you run the risk of your website not indexed when someone searches for “books in the United Kingdom” in a search engine.

You see. That’s why it’s very imperative to choose a host company that has their server located where your target market is. This will make it possible for search engine to index your website as one located in a particular place.

 



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There are literally thousands of web hosts on the net today competing for your business. So how do you find the one that’s right for you? Here are a few general points to consider while you search and compare.

Free Hosting

We should address this issue first, because many search for free hosting not realising the possible ramifications.

These MAY include:

-    Hidden ‘Adware’ ‘Spy’ software

-    Forced advertising on your pages

-    Trojans, viruses and viral marketing

-    Inconvenient server down times

-    A hard to use, complicated control panel

-    Limited, or no support

-    Not being able to use your own domain name [URL]

-    No full domain server management

-    No full email management

-    No bonus software saving hundreds of dollars

-    No free website builder

-    No ability to host ‘multi’ web sites from the one control panel

-    No choice of servers in US, UK or Europe for example

-    No free Marketing Tools

-    No free scripts like Wordpress, Joomla, Mambo & more

-    No easy 1 Click program installation

-    No free text & video tutorials

If reliable paid web hosting was expensive, you could be forgiven for searching out any free hosting options. But these days you can buy incredible web hosting plans for literally a few dollars per month that avoids all the above potential issues.

We think it is well worth your while to check out what is available at very little cost these days. You will be pleasantly surprised.

Windows vs. Non Windows Servers

There are two types of hosting servers available to you – Windows and Non Windows servers like Linux for example. While some may insist one is better than the other, the bottom line is that both are quite able to host your website. Both can have easy to use control panels and host the same features. In fact, you may not even notice any difference when managing them.

Generally, Linux servers are more abundant and thus offer cheaper hosting plans.

However, websites that use. asp-scripted pages, which are unique to Microsoft will require a Windows server to host them. Linux type services perform the same tasks within a website via the more widely used .php scripted pages.

[Please note just because you may run a PC with a Windows operating system, you do NOT have to host your web site on a Windows server]

Shared Hosting.

Shared hosting is where you host your website on the one server along with other web sites, hence the name ‘shared hosting’.

This is not only the most economic way to host but also the most common method of hosting because the majority of websites simply do not need the full resources of their own server.

The only downside to shared hosting can be when a web host places too many websites on the same server resulting in the poor performance of your website. Fortunately, this is a rare occurrence, but should be kept in mind when considering very cheap hosts who may overload their servers to make a profit.

The alternatives to shared hosting include Semi Dedicated and Dedicated servers which as the name suggests gives you either lesser websites hosted with yours or a server completely reserved for your website. This however, this can be very costly and really only needed for specific high-end websites with very high data storage, transfer rates etc.

Server Location

You can sign up with a web host anywhere in the world resulting in your website being hosted on servers for example in the US, UK, Europe, Canada etc.

Although there is often debate on the net as to whether your website should be hosted within the country and therefore the market you are in, there is no firm evidence to suggest where you host your website has any adverse effect on its performance.

The domain name extension probably has more to do with this than where you host your site. For example, if you are in Australia, a .com.au domain may appear more readily in search results than a .com domain because people often select to search Australia in their search engine.

So you can take advantage of the best servers and rates you can find no matter where they are in the world, without fear of the location adversely affecting your websites performance.

Some hosts, like ourselves, which run multiple data centres across the globe, even let you select the location of the server to host your website.

Often clients will purposely choose a server in an opposite time zone, so when their market is accessing their website, the server itself is running on a local off peak time and therefore using lesser resources, increasing its performance.

Disk Space

All hosting plans will quote server disk space. This is the amount of space you can use on the server to host your website. These days you can buy huge disk storage space on plans in the gigabytes. More than you will ever use.

However, in the highly competitive business of web hosting more is considered better. Hence some hosts promote huge data storage amounts, which they suspect no one will ever use, but it promotes well.

However, problems arise, if clients actually manage to use those huge quotas and in doing so drain the shared server resources resulting in the host suspending their account.

How can they do that, I hear you say?

Well in nearly every case these hosts cover themselves within their Terms and Conditions with a Fair Use Policy. Within this Fair Use Policy, they qualify how this storage quota should and should not be used, giving them an opportunity to restrict or suspend your account.

Hosts offering, ‘unlimited’ disk storage, especially use this form of qualification. Simply read through their Terms and Conditions and you will find qualifications that do place limits on disk space.

The bottom line is, unless you intend to use a very large amount of disk space, you should never have a problem. But do not be fooled into thinking that the hosts that advertise ‘unlimited’ disk storage are any better than those who do not.

We think it is better to openly state the disk storage limited on a hosting plan so potential clients know exactly what they are buying.

Monthly Traffic

This feature relates to the number of visitors the server receives via your website each month and the amount of information downloaded from your site. Most hosts offer very generous amounts which again, the average website will never exceed.

But just like with disk space as explained above, no matter what the amount quoted [especially unlimited], you will nearly always find qualifications within the hosts Terms and Conditions, so please check.

Domains Hosted

Many hosts now offer what is called ‘Multi-domain’ web hosting where you can host more than one domain/website on the one plan.

You may only intend to host one website at this point, but it can be a great advantage to have the future option should the need arise, to host more, at no extra cost.  It means you can host your business website and still host a family or personal interest website as well.

Again hosts should offer you scalable plans, depending on how many domains you wish to host. And again some hosts will advertise ‘unlimited’ domains on their plans, but remember this may be qualified within their Terms and Conditions and is definitely limited by the plans disk storage amount.

Domain Registration

Many hosts also offer domain name registration as an added service. This is a great opportunity to buy and store your domains in the one control panel saving you the hassle of multiple accounts.

While some hosts may not be quite as cheap with their domain costs as a dedicated domain registrar, when you way up the huge advantage of keeping your domains and website together safely with the one control panel, the time saving alone outweighs any small cost variance.

Also make sure your domain registrar allows full management access to your domain in the registration fee. That is, access to your Name Server, Domain Forwarding, Parking, and Redirection etc. Some domain registrars advertise very cheap registration fees only to find out later that you have to pay for full management access, which they regard as an extra.

Control Panel

This is really important and can make or break a website hosting plan. Many cheap hosts offer very confusing control panels that can take you ages to work out how to perform the simplest of web site management tasks. Just setting up a simple email account can be a nightmare.

Chose a web host that offers an easy, user-friendly control panel even if it costs a few dollars more. Better still go with a host that offers a DEMO control panel. Take the opportunity to test-drive it, before you buy.

Databases

Make sure the plan you buy offers you access to at least one database. While you may think you do not need one, chances are you will need one in the future. Many web software programs these days offer you the opportunity to create, password protected areas, polls, mailing lists etc, all which use databases.

Free Website Builder

Good web hosts offer a wide range of free bonus software with hosting plans, the most widely used of which is a FREE web site builder. You can save a lot of money in not having to buy web creation software this way. Firstly, check that the host has such a free program and better still check that they have a fully working ‘demo’ area for you to test the software before you buy.

Bonus Software

Many web hosts include a huge selection of bonus software/scripts to enhance your hosting plan. The two many systems offered to deploy these scripts are ‘Fantasico’ or ‘Elephante’.

These two systems will automatically install [with just 1 click] a long list of scripts including, image galleries, CMS, calendars, forums, blogs, ecommerce etc.

Here is a sample of the scripts you could receive all for FREE:

Openads

phpList

b2evolution

Movable Type

Textpattern

WordPress     

Maian Events     

Classifieds     

Drupal     

fuzzylime (cms)     

Geeklog     

Joomla     

Mambo     

Moodle     

Nucleus     

Open Realty     

php-fusion     

phpWebSite     

WebSiteBaker     

Xoops     

Help Center Live     

PHPTickets     

phpBB2     

Simple Machines Forum     

OS Commerce     

OS CommRes     

DOTproject     

PHProject     

Mjguest     

4Images Gallery     

Coppermine     

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Flexibility to upgrade plans without penalty

Firstly, make sure your host offers larger hosting plans should you ever need to upgrade your plan in the future. You can then save money by starting off with a small inexpensive hosting plan with the peace of mind that you can upgrade if necessary.

But you should also check that you can upgrade without penalty. Some hosts will upgrade you to a larger plan by charging you the full 12 month cost of the new plan, meaning you lose the remaining time left to run on your existing plan. Make sure the host provides for pro-rata upgrades where any unused time/money left on your existing plan is credited against your upgrade.

Support

Without doubt the most important aspect of any hosting plan is support. You want to know that if you have a problem, you can get help fast.

Check that your host offers 24/7 phone/ticket support and in the case of ticket support, that you do not have to wait hours for a response. Some cheap web hosts can keep you waiting for over 12 hours for an answer.

A good web host should guarantee to respond to your support tickets within a maximum 1 hour 24/7.

Price

The last but by no means least, is the price. We always say when dealing with price – “don’t buy the cheapest – buy the best value”. By this we mean compare each host by the criteria above and reward those hosts that openly and fairly offer the best plans even if they appear to be a few dollars more.

You can get all the benefits listed above in a web hosting plan and more, for just a few dollars per month. Plus when you consider that this low cost plan should also allow you to host more than the one website as well, its incredibly inexpensive.

One last word of caution when dealing with price, do not get fooled by the hosts that advertise a very low monthly hosting fee up front, only to find out in the checkout that you have to sign up for up to 2, 3 or even 5 years to get it.

Summary

We hope these few pointers will help you in your search for a reliable web host.

If all else fails and you are still struggling to make a decision, email the hosts on your short list with your concerns and gauge the timeliness and quality of their response.

Above all we wish you well with your search.

Regards,

Sales Team

www.dutyfreehosting.com



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A website is an invaluable tool for your business. It provides a source of contact between you, the customers, the employees and the business. That is why putting up your website with a reliable web hosting company is such an important decision.

Canada web hosting spans the entire North America continent as well as into Europe. The internet has made communication between people from different continents possible. Even if the Canadian web hosting service is located in a Canadian city or town, it can still effectively serve its clients around the world and provide satisfactory services. However, the first thing you need to know before you can engage the services of a Canadian web hosting is to know what your website is for.

Canadian web hosting is reliable, fast, convenient and affordable. For those in the North American continent, Canada web hosting offers a good alternative to the traditional American based web hosting services. Although it is not encouraged, Canada web hosting is one way to stretch your money’s value to the limits. The Canadian dollar has a lower exchange rate compared to the American dollar. This is one important feature for the budget-conscious.

For those who are new to the web hosting business, Canada web hosting could provide a way for the users to avail of the same service at a lower price. If your website has numerous data, generates many hits and heavy bandwidth, it might be faster and more convenient to use Canada web hosting. Canada web hosting offers technical support to customers as well.

There are a number of web hosting Canadian companies that offer great service to clients. Among them is MonsterHosting.ca. Their web hosting plan starts at $6.95. Another Canada web hosting service is IPowerWeb. They have their headquarters in California but have a number of offices in Canada.

ReadyWebsites.com extends website layout and hosting for a total of $8.99 a month. If you want to launch a business website, you can use Canada – based Builder Spot.com. Their site has some building tools that enable you to get your website up and running in no time at all.

If you live in Canada or somewhere near, it is easier to avail of Canada web hosting in order that you will be able to contact your host for technical support when you incur problems related to the Canada web hosting. Customer service is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year through phone or email. Before you engage the company’s services, be sure to do some research on Canada web hosting services you are interested in. This way you will know what to expect from them and know if they do offer the services you really need.



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Before choosing a Canada web hosting provider, one should realize that it has several advantages that most people may not be aware of at the outset. Obviously, if a company is intending to target a Canadian audience, it would most probably look for a Canadian web host having servers located in Canada to get best site responses as well as best search engine rankings on Canadian search results. So, being closer to the server will enable one to experience better response timings.

Search Engine Results Page

Another important advantage to using Canada web hosting is SERP or search engine results page which is the page that a search engine returns displaying results of its search. Most leading search engines will normally show four kinds of listings on their SERPs. These are listings indexed by the search engine spider, listings indexed into the search engine’s directory by humans, listings that are to be listed and finally, and most importantly, Canadian search results.

However, Canadian bandwidth is more expensive than that of US counterparts who sell bandwidths at less than half the Canadian Internet Service prices. Nevertheless, being close to the server gets better response times and even though this only amounts to milliseconds, it is of importance to a number of webmasters.

Depending on which city or location that the business or individual is located in, the company or individual can select the Canada web hosting server according to its proximity to their own location and, thus get the maximum mileage out of their websites. To find a decent web host one may make use of hosting directories that contain names and addresses of Canadian web hosts and, this is a recommended strategy due to the fact that such sites aggregate a great deal of information pertaining to the Canadian hosting industry as well as its participants.

Leveraging a host directory will enable regular customers to contrast as well as compare different features of several Canada web hosting firms. The best web hosting directories will contain catalogues which allows one to search for hosts that meet specified criteria is it cost based, technology or geography based.



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Are you looking for a reliable web hosting company to get your business website online? If so, you should know that besides the common features which all web hosting services provide for their customers, an ecommerce web host must offer two additional important features. These two features are mentioned below:

Shopping cart:  With Shopping Cart, you can accept PayPal® and credit cards via your site. This software allows online shopping customers to place items in the cart. 

SSL Certificate: People are getting smart about online security. Today most of them are looking for the padlock icon and “https” prefix in the address bar of their browser before submitting personal information online. An SSL Certificate helps your customers do their online transactions under a secure service. If your Web site doesn’t have an SSL Certificate, visitors may leave before making a purchase or creating an account.  

Take into consideration that web hosting is a global service. It does not matter what country you are located in; US, UK, Canada, Australia or India. It is good to note that the cost of hosting services in most countries is generally a little more expensive in comparison to the same services in Canada and the United States. Specifically, American web hosts offer a much better value for money than any local hosting.  

Threehosts.com is a reliable website to help you make the best choice. Their experts have been evaluating business web hosting service providers for years, and now they provide you with the most reliable results.  There you can reach the three reputable companies that are leaders in the E-commerce web hosting industry. They fulfill all your requirements to sell online or do any online transaction via your website. By using each of them, everything you need for your business website is provided in one eCommerce Hosting Package.

http://www.threehosts.com/business



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If you are located in Canada and you are in search for the best web hosting services then consider some important guidelines. You need to look at the hosting service’s important features before investing your money with a website hosting canada. The first thing to consider is the reliability and uptime.

This refers to the amount of time that the host is accessible via the internet. It is a must for a web host to be active and accessible 24/7 unless otherwise some rare maintenance checks are done. With good uptime, you can access your account whenever you want and make some updates to web pages. Also, users can visit your website anytime.

Another thing to consider is the disk space. The website hosting Canada should offer enough space to store your HTML, video/audio, graphics, and other files. It is best to go for a hosting service that offers unlimited disk space. Next is the bandwidth. This is the amount of data that is accessed by visitors. The better the bandwidth, the better you can serve your website visitors. Aside from the bandwidth, the control panel offered by the website hosting Canada should be as user-friendly as possible.

This way, you can manage and access your website easily. Follow these guidelines and you are way to having a highly competitive and powerful website. The success of your site greatly depends on the website hosting Canada thus, be sure to pick the right one that will meet your needs.

Take note that web hosting services are not limited to one country only, whether you are in Canada, Australia, UK, or any other part of the world, they can provide web hosting service that is right for you. The only differing factor is the cost – some can be expensive while some come cheap. Weight things over and over again before deciding which website hosting canada will invest on.



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Are you looking for a reliable web hosting company to get your business website online? If so, you should know that besides the common features which all web hosting companies provide for their customers, an ecommerce web host must offer two additional important features. These two features are mentioned below:

Shopping cart:  With Shopping Cart, you can accept PayPal® and credit cards via your site. This software allows online shopping customers to place items in the cart. 

SSL Certificate: People are getting smart about online security. Today most of them are looking for the padlock icon and “https” prefix in the address bar of their browser before submitting personal information online. An SSL Certificate helps your customers do their online transactions under a secure service. If your Web site doesn’t have an SSL Certificate, visitors may leave before making a purchase or creating an account.  

Take into consideration that web hosting is a global service. It does not matter what country you are located in; US, UK, Canada, Australia or India. It is good to note that the cost of hosting services in most countries is generally a little more expensive in comparison to the same services in Canada and the United States. Specifically, American web hosts offer a much better value for money than any local hosting.  

Threehosts.com is a reliable website to help you make the best choice. Their experts have been evaluating business web hosting service providers for years, and now they provide you with the most reliable results.  There you can reach the three reputable companies that are leaders in the E-commerce web hosting industry. They fulfill all your requirements to sell online or do any online transaction via your website. By using each of them, everything you need for your business website is provided in one eCommerce Hosting Package.

http://www.threehosts.com/commerce



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Are you located in Canada and looking for a reliable web hosting company to get your website online? If so, first take a look at some important features which must be considered when choosing your web hosting company:

Reliability and uptime: Hosting uptime refers to the percentage of time the host is accessible via the internet. It is very important your service be uptime (functioning and available for use). It means you can access your account whenever you want to update your web pages, and users can enter your website whenever they refer to your site address. If your hosting service is not uptime it can be catastrophic!

Disk space: Web hosting space is the amount of room that the web host provides to store your HTML, graphic, video/audio and other files. This figure is most commonly stated in gigabytes. If you don’t know how much space you need for your website, you can choose a web host with unlimited disk space, which allows you to build as many web pages as you want.

Bandwidth: Bandwidth (or data transfer) refers to the amount of data that is accessed by your visitors. Web hosts define bandwidth as the total amount of data access from your server over a month’s time. This figure is most commonly expressed in gigabytes. If you don’t know how much bandwidth you need for your website, you can pick a web host with unlimited data transfer, which allows you to support as many visitors as you want.

Ease of Control Panel: It is important that the control panel is easy to use and all information can be accessed easily.

Take into consideration that web hosting is a global service. It does not matter what country you are located in; America, UK, Canada, Australia or India. It is good to note that the cost of hosting services in most countries is generally a little more expensive in comparison to the same services in Canada and the United States. Specifically, American web hosts offer a much better value for money than any local hosting.  

Threehosts.com is a reliable website to help you make the best choice. Their experts have been evaluating web hosting service providers for years, and now they provide you with the most reliable results. They present the information in an easy to understand format that helps the consumer make the best choice within just a few minutes. This is their purpose, to help you make the right choice the first time.

There you can reach the three reputable companies that are leaders in the web hosting industry. They are all easy-to-use and affordable.

http://www.threehosts.com/reviews





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Are you located in Canada and looking for a reliable web hosting company to get your website online? If so, first take a look at some important features which must be considered when choosing your web hosting company:

Reliability and uptime: Hosting uptime refers to the percentage of time the host is accessible via the internet. It is very important your service be uptime (functioning and available for use). It means you can access your account whenever you want to update your web pages, and users can enter your website whenever they refer to your site address. If your hosting service is not uptime it can be catastrophic!

Disk space: Web hosting space is the amount of room that the web host provides to store your HTML, graphic, video/audio and other files. This figure is most commonly stated in gigabytes. If you don’t know how much space you need for your website, you can choose a web host with unlimited disk space, which allows you to build as many web pages as you want.

Bandwidth: Bandwidth (or data transfer) refers to the amount of data that is accessed by your visitors. Web hosts define bandwidth as the total amount of data access from your server over a month’s time. This figure is most commonly expressed in gigabytes. If you don’t know how much bandwidth you need for your website, you can pick a web host with unlimited data transfer, which allows you to support as many visitors as you want.

Ease of Control Panel: It is important that the control panel is easy to use and all information can be accessed easily.

Take into consideration that web hosting is a global service. It does not matter what country you are located in; USA, UK, Canada, Australia or India. It is good to note that the cost of hosting services in most countries is generally a little more expensive in comparison to the same services in Canada and the United States. Specifically, American web hosts offer a much better value for money than any local hosting.  

Threehosts.com is a reliable website to help you make the best choice. Their experts have been evaluating web hosting service providers for years, and now they provide you with the most reliable results. They present the information in an easy to understand format that helps the consumer make the best choice within just a few minutes. This is their purpose, to help you make the right choice the first time.

There you can reach the three reputable companies that are leaders in the web hosting industry. They are all easy-to-use and cheap.

http://www.threehosts.com/reviews





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