As we said in part one, the choice of operating system you use is a major consideration when building your business website. The way you set up your website is usually the best determinant of what OS you choose. If you have primarily wanted to set up a site that will allow you to blog or as a way to present your products for online sales using an “etail” shopping cart a Linux hosting system may very well be the best choice. This system gives you more flexibility as Linux…

The perfect host lets the guests choose what they want when it comes to food, drink and even mood music. The same holds true for web hosts – they offer you many choices and you want to choose properly for your business’ particular needs. One of your first decisions after choosing a web host is which operating system you’ll use for your website. Its okay to ask advice from others based upon which operating systems they use but this decision is ultimately up to you as the website owner. You…

In the early 2000s, when processors became faster at a breakneck pace, computer memory (RAM) had a hard time supplying the CPU in a timely manner. This problem led to CPU caching, where the memory the CPU needed to get quickly to perform necessary functions was more easily accessible. The business owners with their own server infrastructure who upgraded to better and faster computers many times focused too much on processor speed. This can force the company’s IT department to have to arrange a “memory hierarchy” to best serve their…

Many entrepreneurs are very hands on and they don’t like to give over control to just anyone. The IT part of business is complicated though and should really be handled by the pros. There are some things you may want to tackle in this area and that can be accomplished with the help of cpanel. Cpanel is a UNIX product that can aid a business owner in managing their own website. Certain functions like managing databases, controlling spam and email accounts can be performed using the cpanel. It also allows…

The small business owner has many choices to make – some in areas that they have little or no expertise. This tends to be especially true when it comes to IT solutions. The demand for computer storage space is one problem with many solutions. Throwing money away on a large computer system may not be the best answer for upstarts or small companies. The new business owner may be best served by a web hosting service that supplies free domain registration and other amenities that will require only a small…

The web design community has been hearing about the need to develop new technologies that could function with older web browsers since 2004. The World Wide Web consortium has targeted 2014 as the date for full recommendation of HTML 5 and they are developing a test suite to evaluate its operability. Back in 2006 noted software engineer and HTML 5 editor Tim Hickson targeted 2022 as a possible full recommendation date. It seems that 2014, by that standard, is highly optimistic. This may be confusing to those less involved in…

SSL Certificate is used to convert your website from http:// to https://. The protocol was created by Netscape to ensure secure transactions between web servers and browsers. It uses a third party, a Certificate Authority (CA), to identify one end or both end of the transactions. In this article, we explain how to generate private key file (server.key), certificate signing request file (server.csr) and webserver certificate file (server.crt) that can be used on Apache server with mod_ssl. For the sake of example we will be using www.my-server.org as our domain.

Colocation hosting is yet another web/server hosting type. The Collocation hosting is ideal for those businesses or individuals who want to have total control of their websites and applications but do not have in-house hosting facilities. Choosing the data center to host your server is like finding a nanny to take care of your child; therefore, there are several points and factors you need to consider thoroughly before making the final decision. I am providing you below the 4 most important points that should influence your server’s collocation hosting decision.

It was about time to launch the VMWare Cloud Web Hosting, a fully managed service with 100% uptime guarantee and of course greater security and scalability than other hosting types. What is Cloud Hosting? Cloud hosting is a term used to describe the practice of combining the resources of multiple web servers to create a single network in which server resources are allocated and distributed to sites as they are needed. In essence, this gives every web site on the network access to a seemingly unlimited amount of server resources…

Yet another popular question from customers and webmasters, what is the difference between Shared and VPS hosting? Whilst we discussed the advantages of shared web hosting and the difference between virtual and dedicated servers, it is time to go through a “crash test” between shared and vps hosting. The goal of this article is to introduce the Shared and VPS hosting to the “hosting newcomers” and then depict each hosting type’s pros and cons. In that way you will have a solid picture of these two services and hopefully you…