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		<title>Logo Maker makes life easy</title>
		<link>http://microments.com/logo-maker-makes-life-easy/786</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are planning for your new company, business or venture and have got the idea of starting one with a very clear and precise vision of where to make the next move in order to make your vision a reality and have come with all the required paperwork, then there is only step left [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are planning for your new company, business or  venture and have got the idea of starting one with a very clear and precise  vision of where to make the next move in order to make your vision a reality  and have come with all the required paperwork, then there is only step left in  making your vision get into the local shelves or the internet. The only issue  is that you have no plan of what type of logo you need to design your product in  order to make it the best one. To solve this problem, you are very luck to have  this simple software tool called â€œ<a href="http://www.onlinelogomaker.com">Logo Creator</a>â€. The Logo Creator will give you  the flexibility of providing many ideas to your single thought in order to make  it into the correct design with the help of <a href="http://www.onlinelogomaker.com">Logo maker</a>.</p>
<p>Many people tend to become overwhelmed when  they think of logo design software. But with his software tool, there is no  need to have any pre requisitions like learning Photoshop etc, in order to  develop a very good and efficient logo for your company. There is no need to  worry at all as what you have to know is how to use your computer and the rest  is to just follow some simple instructions and analyse the right template in  getting connected with your company needs. The more you imagine, the more you  are bound to get out of this software. No body can stop you from creating  amazing and wonderful logos using this software. There is also free logo maker  available in the Internet.</p>
<p>Even  kids with sufficient computer knowledge can use this wonderful tool to create  the perfect logo for your company. <a href="http://www.onlinelogomaker.com">Logo creator</a> will help you save money and  lots of time instead of going for a graphic designer. It is really very easy,  fast and very efficient to create the logos of your choice and with logo maker,  you can create that unique logo that gets well connected to the company and  your customers where they will thrive to have an ever ending relationship with  your company. If you can do a little study on the testimonials and the clients feed  back, you will easily come to an understanding of how effective and easy is  this Logo creator. You can also have the option of getting users feedback that  has used this tool and the work they have done with this tool. By looking at  the logos designed with the help of this tool, one can know the real fact of  how good the logos can be designed with the help of this powerful tool. So do  not think twice in getting this wonderful software that will cater all your  company needs and take your business to the next level. So always choose the  best to be the best in the market with the kind of competition you have today.  And then there will no looking back for you and your organisation.</p>
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		<title>Shared Web Hosting Explained</title>
		<link>http://microments.com/shared-web-hosting-explained/608</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have designed your web site, and have all your content ready to be hosted, now all you need to do is decide on the type of hosting required for your site, but with so many hosting companies offering various types of web hosting plans based on shared hosting, dedicated hosting, mangaged hosting, and virtual [...]]]></description>
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<p>You have designed your web site, and have all your content ready to be hosted, now all you need to do is decide on the type of hosting required for your site, but with so many hosting companies offering various types of web hosting plans based on shared hosting, dedicated hosting, mangaged hosting, and virtual private server hosting, which type of hosting do you choose?</p>
<h2>Shared Web Hosting &#8211; What is it?</h2>
<p>Shared hosting is an economic way of hosting web sites where you do not require high performance (CPU workload) and high bandwidth. As the name &#8220;Shared Hosting&#8221; suggests, the server that is hosting the web pages is shared between many users, this is how web hosting providers can sell web hosting space at affordable prices down to as low as $3-$4 a month, many accounts on one server spreads the cost of the server among many users. Whereas a dedicated server can cost upwards of $100 per month.</p>
<p>With many web sites hosted on a web server you can be sure that web hosting providers will not make any compromises on performance issues, they will also not make any compromises on security, as one web site with a security issue could affect all other sites on the server, for this reason shared servers are monitored and maintained 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by IT professionals to ensure minimum downtimes.</p>
<h2>The Advantages of Shared Web Hosting</h2>
<p>As many web sites are hosted per server, hosting providers are able to offer very competitively priced shared hosting plans. For shared hosting you can expect to pay $3-$8 per month for shared hosting services, with some providers offering up to 20,000MB of space and 1TB of bandwidth within in this price range. This is amazing value, thanks to competition web hosting is now within the reach of the personal web designer or hobbyist, and not reserved for just businesses with large budgets.</p>
<p>Shared hosting web servers due to their nature need to be maintained round the clock by highly skilled IT professionals, this lets you concentrate on managing your web site, you can leave all the other things related to web hosting to the professionals.</p>
<p>Shared hosting web masters can manage their web site using what is commonly known as a control panel to manage their hosting, this allows you to add domains, monitor statistics, create databases, manage email addresses and all manner of other things. Each web hosting provider varies what facilities are made available to you in their control panel, but thanks to fierce competition between web hosting providers these days the differences between each providers feature set is decreasing.</p>
<p>Todays shared web hosting service comes with enough disk space and bandwidth to be more than sufficient for small businesses, and if you ever need resources than what your current plan offers you can always upgrade as your web site grows in size and popularity.</p>
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		<title>Choosing Your First Hosting Provider</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Ok, you have finished your great new web site. You&#8217;ve spent hours upon hours working on the design until you have made it perfect, you have chosen an excellent domain name to use for the site, and a great deal of content. Of course, your next question is &#8220;What step do I take next?&#8221;. Choosing the best web hosting provider for your needs can be the difference between a successful web site, or a failure.</p>
<p>An excellent site running on a poor host is a recipe for disaster, if your provider cannot keep your site online 24 hours, 7 days a week you could be missing out on visitors and if your site is for your business, this could mean lost sales as well. It is very important to consider several elements when choosing your first web host, too many people are dissatisfied with their current web hosting provider. First and foremost, the best web hosting provider is the one that suits your needs.</p>
<h2>Disk Space</h2>
<p>The first thing to take into consideration is disk space. The amount of disk space your will require depends on the size of the web site, and of course how much money you can afford to spend. Ideally you should always go with a plan that has room to grow, if your site currently is around 200mb you must ask yourself, how large will the site be in 12 months, or even 2 years. If you plan to serve media files from your site such as videos, flash animations, or any other type of content that tends to be large in size, you will need to allow for this as well.</p>
<h2>Bandwidth</h2>
<p>The second thing to consider is bandwidth. Bandwidth is the amount of data you will be serving to your visitors, if you have plans of having a high traffic site in the future, you should consider a plan that allows for a high amount of bandwidth. As with disk space, it is also wise to consider more bandwidth than what your site will require initially, not less.</p>
<h2>Serving Speed</h2>
<p>The speed that pages are served from the host is often overlooked when it comes to choosing a hosting provider, you should always track down other sites hosted at the web host you are considering. If pages are not served in a timely fashion, your visitors may not wait around to view your content.</p>
<h2>Final Words</h2>
<p>Each of the above elements need to be taken into consideration when you are choosing a web hosting provider, for all the hosts out there this can take considerable time and effort, take the time to research each hosting provider as well as you can and you will be rewarded for your efforts, rushing into a hosting choice is more often than not a bad decision.</p>
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		<title>The Four Types Of Web Hosting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free Web Hosting Free hosting is the most basic type of web hosting. Free hosting is generally supported by advertisements, and only offers limited features. This is the best type of hosting for those that are starting out and only need hosting for a small personal site that will require little bandwidth. Free web hosts [...]]]></description>
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<h2>Free Web Hosting</h2>
<p>Free hosting is the most basic type of web hosting. Free hosting is generally supported by advertisements, and only offers limited features. This is the best type of hosting for those that are starting out and only need hosting for a small personal site that will require little bandwidth.</p>
<p>Free web hosts will normally give you a directory for use (www.xyz.com/~yoursite) or a subdomain (yoursite.xyz.com). They only provide a small amount of space and bandwidth, and also tend to not offer any support for server side scripting such as PHP, or MySQL databases. Generally free web hosting is limited when it comes to email services as as site statistics.</p>
<h2>Shared Web Hosting</h2>
<p>Shared hosting is the most popular type of hosting. In almost all cases small businesses, with small to large web sites find that shared hosting fits their requirements perfectly. Small businesses generally don&#8217;t need all the resources that a dedicated server can provide, not to mention the costs associated with purchasing a dedicated server</p>
<p>Shared hosting as the name suggests allows web hosting providers to have more than a single account on a server. Shared hosting providers also provide close system administration which is excellent for users that don&#8217;t have the time to deal with the hassles of running a server along with a number of other users.</p>
<p>While it depends on the specifics of the hosting plan chosen, most server features will be avaialable to the user such as PHP, MySQL, ASP, multiple email addresses, multiple domains or sub domains, and more storage and bandwidth than a free host will provide.</p>
<h2>Unmanaged Dedicated Hosting</h2>
<p>Unmanaged dedicated hosting is a good option for those that are looking for more bandwidth, storage or other features that shared hosting doesn&#8217;t provide. Having dedicated hosting means that you have access to virtually unlimited databases and email addresses that the user can create, as well as access to larger bandwidth capacity. Also with dedicated hosting, you can normally purchase upgrades for your server, such as a new hard drive to gain extra storage, or more system memory to improve server performance.</p>
<p>There is one drawback to unmanaged dedicated hosting, you must be your own server administrator. If you do not have the skills to manage your won server, you have two options, learn how to manage a dedicated server, or go with Managed Dedicated Hosting.</p>
<h2>Managed Dedicated Hosting</h2>
<p>If you require the vast resources of a dedicated server but do not want to deal with the day to day operation of an unmanaged dedicated server, then a Managed Dedicated Server should fit your requirements. Going with a managed dedicated server means you will have the avaialability of technical support to help you set up your server, and you will also have ongoing technical support assistance if a problem with the server should ever arise.</p>
<p>Pricing of managed dedicated servers vary according to how much support you will require, and also how much reliability you require.</p>
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		<title>Why Choose Paid over Free Hosting</title>
		<link>http://microments.com/why-choose-paid-over-free-hosting/605</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people are faced with this question everyday, after you have developed your web site you will most likely begin looking for good free hosting, but what is the catch with free hosting providers? Nothing in this day and age is free, and this is especially the case with hosting. Try asking yourself this question. [...]]]></description>
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<p>Many people are faced with this question everyday, after you have developed your web site you will most likely begin looking for good free hosting, but what is the catch with free hosting providers?</p>
<p>Nothing in this day and age is free, and this is especially the case with hosting. Try asking yourself this question. How do free hosting providers survive? They have to pay for bandwidth, server hardware, server software and support staff just the same as a paid web hosting provider, the answer to this question is advertising.</p>
<p>Most if not all free hosting providers place advertisements on your web site, either by framing your site within their own page with advertising all around, or using pop-up or pop-unders, these free hosting providers also may have tracking of your site to check if your site is generating income for them from these ads, if your web sites visitors are not clicking on these ads and generating income for the free hosting provider, don&#8217;t be suprised to find your free hosting account closed after a some time.</p>
<p>Here are some things to consider when using free hosting.</p>
<blockquote>
<li>Free hosting providers will usually place some form of advertising on your site.</li>
<li>There are a few free hosting providers around that may not place on your site, but if you see some traffic pass through your site, the free provider may shutdown your account.</li>
<li>Server side scripting languages such as PHP, CGI, Perl, etc. will most likely be disabled.</li>
<li>You will have limited disk space and limited bandwidth.</li>
<li>You may not be able to use your own domain name, instead you will be stuck with something like &#8220;/freehost.com/somedir/~youraccount&#8221;.</li>
<li>You won&#8217;t access to useful utilities such as site builders and add-on scripts that paid hosting providers offer for free.</li>
<li>You won&#8217;t have an email address that matches your domain name.</li>
<li>As these free providers are giving hosting away at no cost, they will not offer 24/7 tech support, or any form of downtime guarantee.</li>
</blockquote>
<p>If you choose to pay for your hosting, you will eliminate all of the above inconveniences that come with free hosting. If you need just a simple site to share information with your friends, free hosting is most likely suitable for your needs.</p>
<p>But if your site is for a business, needs to be presented exactly as you wish, or requires server side scripting such as PHP, paid hosting is the only way to go.</p>
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		<title>cPanel Primer For The New Web Master</title>
		<link>http://microments.com/cpanel-primer-for-the-new-web-master/604</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are about to purchase web hosting, it is very likely that you will be using cPanel to manage your hosting. To get the most from your web hosting, you need to learn the workings of cPanel. What Can Be Done with cPanel? If your web hosting doesn&#8217;t offer shell access, cPanel will be [...]]]></description>
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<p>If you are about to purchase web hosting, it is very likely that you will be using cPanel to manage your hosting. To get the most from your web hosting, you need to learn the workings of cPanel.</p>
<h2>What Can Be Done with cPanel?</h2>
<p>If your web hosting doesn&#8217;t offer shell access, cPanel will be the only way to manage your web hosting, cPanel is a web based server control software that allows you to do the following operations and a whole lot more. Common operations such as adding FTP users, creating databases, creating mail accounts and a multitude of other hosting operations can all be performed with cPanel.</p>
<h2>Creating Mail Addresses</h2>
<p>If you have the domain xyz.com and you would like to create a mail address called info@xyz.com, you can perform the following. Firstly click on the Mail tab from the front page. There you will see options to create, modify or delete mail accounts. If you to forward mail to an existing account here you can set an addres to forward to the account of your choosing. To read emails access the Webmail tab from the front page</p>
<h2>Managing your domains</h2>
<p>You may want more than a single address directed towards one web site, for example if you owned xyz.com and xyz.net, this can be achieved by using the Parked Domains tab, here you can type any address that you own to point to one of your web sites. If you hosting provider allows you to have more than one web site on your account, you can add domains via the Addon Domains tab. If you hosting provider supports the creation of sub domains you can create these via the Sub Domain tab.</p>
<h2>FTP Options</h2>
<p>You can create additional FTP users, set their access levels and other FTP related tasks using the FTP tab.</p>
<h2>Database Tasks</h2>
<p>To create a new database, or modify existing databases use the Database tab. Here you can perform all allowed database tasks, to perform more advanced database operations you will need to use phpMyAdmin, this can also be accessed from the Database tab.</p>
<h2>Analyze The Logs</h2>
<p>When running a web site you need to know what your visitors like, where they are coming from, which search engines are bringing the most visitors and all other data about them. Normally you will have access to the raw log files, but these are hard to analyze, to see data that is formatted about your visitors in an easy to read way go to Web/FTP Stats, here you will have the option to review your sites statistics using a variety of software such as Webalizer or AWStats.</p>
<h2>Fantastico</h2>
<p>Most if not all cPanel installations these days come with Fantastico which is an auto installer for many php based scripts. Fantastico can be used to install popular php scripts such as WordPress, Mambo, phpbb and many other php products. Using Fantastico is the easiest way to setup these php based scripts and will save you having to manually upload the scripts, and more often than not Fantastico will do all the configuration of the script for you which is a real time saver.</p>
<h2>Final Words</h2>
<p>cPanel is a very advanced application for configuring your hosting and learning all the tricks can take some time, but hopefully with this guide you will have the basics down and you can progress from here as your experience with web hosting increases.</p>
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		<title>Finding The Right Web Hosting Provider</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding the right web hosting at an affordable price can be a daunting task. Most common web hosting providers will promise the world and then bring many headaches. Would you like to see your site down for 24 hours or more and receive next to no help from support regarding the problem? This situation is [...]]]></description>
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<p>Finding the right web hosting at an affordable price can be a daunting task. Most common web hosting providers will promise the world and then bring many headaches. Would you like to see your site down for 24 hours or more and receive next to no help from support regarding the problem? This situation is avoidable by carefully considering a web hosting provider before handing over your money.</p>
<p>The largest problem with affordable web hosting providers is support, many web hosting providers that offer the world but for only $1 or $2 per month are only there to provide the hardware aspect of web hosting, at this price point it is simply not possible for them to offer the kind of technical support that you should expect.</p>
<p>The reason most people don&#8217;t find the best host that suits their needs is because they fall prey to a seemingly good web hosting plan that they find first before spending the time to research prospective hosts properly. It takes some level of knowledge to find the best web hosting provider for your needs.</p>
<p>In this day and age though it is possible to pay less than $10 per month for web hosting that comes with good technical support and features to cover all your needs.</p>
<p>To be sure you are choosing the right web hosting provider, here are some of the features that the &#8220;right&#8221; provider will have:</p>
<p><strong>Comprehensive Web Site Statistics:</strong> How many visitors is your site getting? What search terms are they using in search engines to find your site? What sites link to your site? All of these things you need to know if your site is business oriented, comprehensive statistics will help to understand your customer base.</p>
<p><strong>Bandwidth:</strong> This is the amount of traffic served from your web site per month usually measured in gigabytes (GB), a host that offers more than 75GB per month should cover most sites needs.</p>
<p><strong>Cpanel:</strong> This control panel makes managing your Web Site Hosting very easy.</p>
<p><strong>Disk Space:</strong> This is the amount of storage space on the web hosting server to store your web site, it is recommended to get a plan that offers at least 5GB of space to cover your needs well into the future.</p>
<p>Finding the right web hosting provider the first time is not too easy without the correct advice and some good research on your part, but if you follow our advice and research your prospective web hosting providers, in the long run it will save time and money when you choose the right web hosting provider the first time.</p>
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		<title>How To Switch Hosting Providers Without Downtime</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>To many the idea of moving your web site from one host to another can sometimes seem like a daunting task but the process of moving your site is simple when you know what steps to take and the order to take them in. This article will walk you through the steps required to perform a site move without the downtime.</p>
<p>Firstly there is this one important thing you need to remember, <strong>DO NOT TERMINATE YOUR EXISTING HOSTING ACCOUNT</strong> until the very last step. You may be very unhappy with your current hosting but it is essential that your current hosting account remains active until you are 100% sure your site is all operational with the new hosting provider.</p>
<p>If you follow the steps below you should be able to transition from one host to another without any downtime to your web site.</p>
<h2>Create A New Account</h2>
<p>Firstly you need to choose your new hosting provider, once you have chosen that provider sign up for the chosen hosting package and once the new account is setup you can move on to the next step.</p>
<h2>Backup All Your Files From Your Old Account</h2>
<p>This is a relatively simple process, but can be time consuming depending on the size of your web site. Go to your old hosting account and download all the files via FTP, and backup any databases in use. Remember that you cannot cancel this account yet even though you have backed up all your files.</p>
<h2>Upload All Your Files To Your New Account</h2>
<p>Once you have backed up your files on your old hosting account, it is time to go to your new hosting account and upload the backups via the new hosts FTP.</p>
<h2>Create Your Mail Accounts</h2>
<p>To avoid losing any of your email when you later change your domain name server addresses, it is imperative that you now create all the same email accounts that you had with your old hosting provider in your new hosting account. Once this has been done, all email addresses on the new account should match the email address on your old account.</p>
<h2>Checking of Your Files and Links</h2>
<p>Now it is time to check all the pages of your web sites and verify that all links are working correctly on your new host. To do this you will need to create a temporary URL to the web site. A quick and easy way to do this is to create a sub domain of another URL and point it to your new web site by the way of mirroring. Any good web hosting provider should provide you with the ability to create temporary a URL so you can test your new site.</p>
<h2>Changing Your DNS (Domain Name Server)</h2>
<p>If you are now certain that your files have all been uploaded correctly and the links within your site are working correctly, you can change your DNS (domain name servers). Your new host should have provided you with their DNS settings. If they have not, contact them and ask what addresses should be used for your domain name. Usually the addresses will look like this, ns1.domainname.com, ns2.domainname.com.</p>
<p>The place to change the DNS addresses is whoever your domain name is registered with. If you registered the domain name through a registrar, you will need to login to their control panel and change the DNS servers there. If it was registered with your old host, you will need to login to their control panel and change the DNS entries there.</p>
<h2>Wait For DNS Changes To Propogate</h2>
<p>After you have changed your DNS (domain name servers) you will need to wait between 24-48 hours for your domain to propogate across the internet. During this waiting period your site will still be served from your old hosting account, as the DNS propogates your site will be served from your new host. Once the propogation has completed all requests to your domain will be served from you new host.</p>
<h2>Cancel Your Old Account</h2>
<p>Make sure you wait at least 48 hours for the domain name to propogate, and make sure that your domain name is resolving to your new hosting account before cancelling your old account.</p>
<h2>Final Words</h2>
<p>By following these steps you should now have successfully transferred your web site from your old host to your new host without any downtime.</p>
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		<title>Small Business Web Hosting Checklist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Internet today there is an enormous amount of information about web hosting. There are thousands of different hosting providers offering an even larger number of plans, while this is good for competition, it also makes it hard to decide on which host and plan will suit your needs best, especially when you do [...]]]></description>
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<p>On the Internet today there is an enormous amount of information about web hosting. There are thousands of different hosting providers offering an even larger number of plans, while this is good for competition, it also makes it hard to decide on which host and plan will suit your needs best, especially when you do not understand all the web hosting related terminology. So what should you do, choose the cheapest plan? Choose the company with the highest profile?</p>
<p>In this article I will try to help your decision easier by explaining the most common terms you will come across when searching for a web hosting provider for your small business.</p>
<p><strong>Space</strong><br />
Space is measured in MB (Megabytes) or sometimes in GB (Gigabytes). One gigabyte equals 1024 megabytes, so when a company quotes 5GB space, compared to a company offering 5000MB, you will actually recieve more space with the first plan.</p>
<p>The space your site will need depends on its requirements, does your site have many images? Images use a lot more space than the webpages themselves, to have an idea of the space your site will require you will need to add up the sizes of your website files. If you are unsure of the space your site will require, you can start with a plan offering lower space and upgrade at a later time if need be.</p>
<p><strong>Programming Language Requirements</strong><br />
Is your web site written using only static html? You will need to check this, if your site uses any of the following languages, ASP, Cold Fusing, Perl, Php, Java or any other programming language, you will need to choose the hosting plan that supports the programming language used. If you are unsure of which language was used, ask your site developer about it.</p>
<p><strong>Web Server Operating System</strong><br />
Check the scripts that your site uses see which operating system or service they require to function, while some scripts require Apache, other scripts will require IIS running on Windows to function.</p>
<p><strong>Allowed Traffic Per Month</strong><br />
Initially a new site may need very little traffic but as your site grows in popularity, so will the amount of visitors to your site. Be sure to choose a plan which offers a reasonable amount of traffic to allow for future expansion in your visitor base. Also check that the plan you choose allows for upgrading in the future if the need arises.</p>
<p><strong>Databases</strong><br />
Will your web site use a database? If your site requires a database be sure to choose a plan that supports the database type you intend to use for your site. Some common databases are MySQL, SQLServer, PostgreSQL or Access. Again check your script requirements, or check with your web developer to type of database you will need.</p>
<p><strong>Customer Service</strong><br />
It is very important that the hosting provider you choose answers technical questions promptly. Take note of which means they have for you to contact them. Do they have phone support, do they have a ticketed email system for you to ask questions?</p>
<p><strong>SSL</strong><br />
Does your site have the need for secure pages, for example an online shopping cart where customers can purchase products from you online? If you require SSL, check that the plan you choose providers for it. It is common to pay an extra fee for this service, also keep in mind that you will also need a digital certificate on your site to prevent browsers showing an alert when visitors enter your secured site.</p>
<p><strong>Frontpage Extensions</strong><br />
If you site is built using Frontpage extensions you will need to check that the plan you choose supports this.</p>
<p><strong>Parked Domains, Sub Domains</strong><br />
If your site will require sub domains such as sales.yourdomain.com or news.yourdomain.com, the hosting plan you choose will need to allow you to create sub domains. If you have several domains pointed to the same web site, you need to check that the plan supports parking of additional domains.</p>
<p><strong>Control Panel</strong><br />
Finally any provider you choose should provide a web based control panel to allow you to manage your web sites quickly and efficiently.</p>
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		<title>What Is DNS Propagation and Why You Have to Wait 72 Hours</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you have found your domain name, registered that new domain name, and paid for hosting to store all your sites pages ready to be served to your site&#8217;s visitors. What comes next? Well we need to point that domain name to the server at your hosting provider where your web site is stored. Firstly [...]]]></description>
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<p>So you have found your domain name, registered that new domain name, and paid for hosting to store all your sites pages ready to be served to your site&#8217;s visitors. What comes next?</p>
<p>Well we need to point that domain name to the server at your hosting provider where your web site is stored. Firstly DNS stands for Domain Name Server. The word server may sound a little intimidating to begin with, but this is not the case, a server is any computer that is providing a service, even your own computer can be a server. We call a computer a server when it is providing a service such serving web pages, video files, or any other of the multitude of things that can be served by a computer.</p>
<p>Now that you understand what a server is, and that the term server is not something to be intimidated by, we can move on to why configuring your DNS can be tricky when initially registering a domain, or transferring your site from one hosting provider to another. When setting up your DNS sometimes odd things can occur, and usually your first port of call is your web hosting provider, but 99% of the time the web hosting provider is not to blame, below I will explain why.</p>
<p>To explain DNS you need to familiarize yourself with a few things first, once you have an understanding of these things you will be able to better understand how DNS works.</p>
<p>The following things are what you need to know:</p>
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<li>IP Adresses</li>
<li>Service Providers</li>
<li>Domain Names</li>
<li>Domain Registrars</li>
<li>DNS</li>
<li>The Process of Propagation</li>
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<p>1. IP Addresses</p>
<p>Computers communicate using numerical addresses, these addresses are used to identify each computer connected to a network, much in the same way as your phone is tied to your phone line. When a computer on a network wishes to communicate with another it uses this numerical address to connect to the computer it wants to communicate with. It is this numerical address that is known as an IP Address.</p>
<p>Here is an example of an IP Address: 207.68.172.246</p>
<p>2. Service Providers</p>
<p>Service providers use these IP Addresses for indentifying their network hardware, these addresses allow them to conduct their business on the internet.</p>
<p>There are countless types of service providers but for simplicity we will only need to discuss two types of providers.</p>
<p>Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) is the business that supplies you with access to the internet. When your modem connects to the ISP, your ISP will assign your computer with an IP Address. This IP Address is then used to identify your computer while connected to the internet.</p>
<p>The Web Hosting Provider is a company that provides storage and the associated networking hardware to businesses or induviduals to allow them to publish their web sites on the internet. When a web site is published it is placed on a server that is connected to the internet, this server also has an IP Addresses assigned to it.</p>
<p>To help explain what we have learned so far, I will give an example of what typically occurs when an internet user connects to a web site.</p>
<p>For example you wish to view your newly published web site. Firstly you will connect to your ISP, then your computer is assigned an IP address by your ISP, next you open your browser and type in your web site&#8217;s domain name and you hit enter.</p>
<p>Next your computer send a request, this request travels across the internet through many different networks, through routers and gateways until this request finally reaches your web server.</p>
<p>The web server then replies to this request by sending the contents of your home page back to your computer. As the server knows the IP address from which the request came, it knows to send the contents back to the address assigned to your computer, and now you are looking at the web page.</p>
<p>How does this occur?</p>
<p>3. Domain Name</p>
<p>Typically when you want to view a web site, you enter the domain name into your web browser. Domain names are also typically used when checking or sending an email, for example, for a website you would enter www.yourdomain.com, for an email you would use user@yourdomain.com.</p>
<p>Domain names are a friendly and convenient way for reaching our favorite web sites and sending email. Domains names allow us to use names we can remember, it is much easier to remember www.google.com than 204.154.45.187.</p>
<p>Now I guess you are wondering how the domain name we enter into our browser translates into the IP Addresses we talked about earlier and vice versa. Enter the&#8230;.</p>
<p>4. Domain Name Registrar</p>
<p>If you want your own domain for your web site, the domain name registrar is where you will purchase the domain name. The domain registrar will usually have tools to help you find an unregistered domain, and once you have found the domain you wish to use, you can purchase a domain registration. The domain name registrar is the party at the top of the domain naming tree so to speak. Now that we have learned the above things we can move on to what this article is all about, the DNS.</p>
<p>5. DNS (Domain Name Service)</p>
<p>The DNS is a of software application that runs typically on a dedicated computer known as a DNS Server. The DNS server has two primary operations.</p>
<p>1 &#8211; Translate Domain Names to IP Addresses.</p>
<p>Remember earlier I mentioned that domain names are easier to remember than IP addresses, this is where the DNS does it&#8217;s job, it translates domain names that you enter on your computer into IP addresses, once your computer knows the IP address of the computer it wishes to communicate with. When you connect to the internet typically your computer is given an IP address, also during the creation of this connection your ISP will typically pass on a DNS server address for your computer to use to &#8220;resolve&#8221; any domain names you enter while using your computer.</p>
<p>2 &#8211; Act as an authority for domain names.</p>
<p>When you purchase web hosting for your web site, the hosting provider will have its own DNS servers. These servers act as an authority for your domain name. When you setup a domain with your web hosting provider they will add a record to their DNS server that basically says &#8220;This Domain is Located Here!&#8221;. The technical terminology for this is an &#8220;A Record&#8221;, with the A standing for Authority.</p>
<p>Around the internet there are many thousands of these DNS servers, basically serving the same function as phone book, they keep a list of all domains in use and the IP address that is tied to each and every domain name.</p>
<p>6. The Process of Propagation.</p>
<p>Firstly your domain name registrar is responsible for publishing you domain name at the very top DNS level (techincally known as Root). When the domain is published, it is stored in a directory and is then broadcast across the internet to primary DNS server located all around the world.</p>
<p>The next phase is the primary DNS servers broadcasting your domain name out to secondary DNS servers and so on.</p>
<p>The process of broadcasting domain names out from the top level (Root) DNS to the secondary DNS servers is known as propagation and it can take upwards of 72 hours to complete. The term &#8220;propagation&#8221; refers to the time it takes for all the DNS servers world wide to recognize a newly registerd domain, or that a change to an existing domain has taken place.</p>
<p>Typically DNS propagation will take less than 72 hours but you cannot be sure that all is well until you wait out the 72 hours. Once the process of propagation has completed, any person, anywhere in the world should be able to visit your web site at your hosting provider using your domain name.</p>
<p>While propagation is in progress it is normal to see strange things occur, this is because not every DNS server that needs to know your domain name, actually does yet. Commonly during the propagation process, it can appear that your web site is going up and down.</p>
<p>This is due to some DNS servers knowing your domain record, while others do not and can often result in needless calls to your web hosting provider asking about your server going up and down when the fault does not lie with the server itself, but infact lies with the person who registered a new domain or changed an existing domains record, and not waiting at least 72 hours before testing that all is well with your new hosting provider.</p>
<p>Hopefully I&#8217;ve now armed you with the information needed to understand why you have to wait 72 hours for DNS propagation to occur, and it should save the embarassment of calling your web hosting provider only to be told that the problem is not with their server but with DNS propagation.</p>
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