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Slide 1: Web Hosting 2012 – The Facts 2012 – During the year that this article has been finished, many things have already changed in the field of information technology. The legendary innovator of computing, Steve Jobs, has just passed away from this world. During his last productive years, he has created many breakthroughs in technology. The impact of the changes he has made can be compared to something like earth-shattering. However, there were also changes in technology that were surprising but not necessarily explosive, like how the development of digital photography is now pushing film photo companies to the brink of bankruptcy, or the state of changes of web hosting 2012 – the facts will now be shown, and here, you will be briefed on what’s new and what to expect in the field of web hosting. The change in computing that has made a subtle yet threatening impact is the emergence of cloud computing. This technology makes use of delivering computer programs as a service that is being transferred via web, instead of being like software that has to be installed on the CPU. This kind of change, dubbed a few years ago as “the word that Bill Gates is afraid to hear,” has extended its impact up to web hosting in 2012. As said earlier, cloud technology provides computing as a service instead of products being delivered via web. In the case of web hosting using cloud technology, which is called cloud hosting, the website that you wanted to be host will now be handled by not just one but several computers. This is quite like the opposite of shared web hosting. In this method, instead that several websites and databases will be sharing on one server, now, many several servers will now share the hosting of one website. This provides a lot of flexibility and removes many of the regular maintenance procedures that you could’ve been taking if you do not use cloud hosting. With cloud hosting, your website can handle an almost infinite number of traffic. For those who are experienced in managing websites, this is a huge advantage, because most host would temporarily shut your website down once it began receiving too many hits all at once – which is actually what you wanted for your website, the huge traffic. Now, with cloud hosting, your chosen server can now scale your bandwidth capacity up and down depending on the number of hits that your website is receiving per second. This flexibility in increasing and decreasing of your website’s scale also works for the changes in the upload and downloads of your website. This type of web hosting is considerably much more expensive when compared to shared web hosting providers, but the services that it can provide is very much close to what collocation servers can do – which are even far more expensive. However, this increase in price is just relatively temporary because the technology is still new. This always happens to any form of new technology. Expect that the price of this technology will go down in at least four or three years in time.
Slide 2: Top Benefits of Web Hosting Providers of Different Kinds Different websites have various purposes. They may serve as a simple personal blog, a website that promotes or reviews products; it may also be a platform for taking purchases for business, or a means to promote a charitable cause. Since different websites have different purposes, they will also have different needs, and these different needs can be provided by different kinds of web hosting providers. Here, you will find the top benefits of web hosting providers of different kinds for different needs. The cheapest of all kinds of web hosting services are the free web hosting providers. The top benefit of this kind of web hosting provider is obvious: it’s free. Of course, all web hosts has to make some money out of what they’re doing so they have to place adds somewhere in your website, which also has a very limited flexibility and features. This kind of web hosting provider is best for blogs and that doesn’t really aim to make much profit out of it. If you want to get only the top benefits of web hosting providers that are free without the unwanted ads on your webpage, and you’re on a tight budget to pay for other kinds of web hosting, then you must go for shared web hosting providers. They charge for their services for less than $5 a month with much more features than a free web hosting provider could give. It’s like paying for as low as $3.50 a month and taking a giant leap for your website’s design and database. However, there are still a few disadvantages that may spring out once your website hosted by a shared server got a lot of traffic and many download and uploads. This is when Virtual Dedicated Servers can go into the picture. The top benefits of web hosting providers of this type is that it manages your website like it’s working on an exclusively dedicated server with a price that is not very far from a shared web hosting provider. Now if you want confidentiality and a high degree of security for your database, it is time for your website to be hosted exclusively not only on the software it uses, but also on the hardware where it works. This is what dedicated web hosting servers can do for you, but at a considerable price hike from shared web hosting providers. But still, if you have your own team of web designers and database managers, and the only thing you need is the physical security, a very large disk space, bandwidth capacity, and of course, internet connection. Then getting a collocation server is what you must do, but be sure that you have serious cash and serious business to do before doing this.
Slide 3: With the emergence of cloud computing come the use of this technology as a means to host websites. The top benefits of web hosting providers using cloud computing is that the client can upgrade the limit of his website up as long as necessary. Web Hosting as Per Your Needs and Requirements ‘Web hosting as per your needs and requirements’ is web hosting that tailor-fits web hosting services to suit specific needs and requirements of individual web site owners. There are over 50 million web sites today built for a myriad of reasons and markedly distinct from each other. There are sites used as personal journals or blogs, there are e-commerce sites, there are social networking sites, there are also b2b sites and corporate sites, and a whole caboodle of web sites built for different purposes and having different hosting requirements. Unfortunately, most of them, if not all are hosted with pre-packaged standard hosting packages that are offered by different hosting solutions providers. More often than not, these standard hosting packages either provide insufficient storage space or more than ample space as required by individual website owners. Those with insufficient storage space are often adamant to upgrade to the next hosting package because of the exorbitant price difference between hosting packages! On the other hand, those with more than ample storage space can not down grade to a lower hosting package simply because the next lower level because it will then be insufficient for their requirements. Comes now ‘Web hosting as per your needs and requirements’ to provide the perfect hosting solution offering hosting that fits individual needs and requirements to a tee! For the past several years, web hosting has undergone several changes and massive development that saw the emergence of reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a special type of hosting where the reseller buys wholesale hosting services from a hosting provider and sell them to others in smaller packages to others at a profit. In some cases resellers sell shared hosting space while in some cases resellers rent dedicated servers and resell disk space and band width. Disk space and bandwidth sold by a reseller come with the same hosting services come with features offered by standard hosting packages. These include uptime of up to 99.9%, 24/7 technical support, data protection, anti-spam and anti-virus protection. They also usually include domain name registration and free site maintenance. The beautiful thing about this reseller program is disk space and bandwidth is now sold on retail basis in much smaller packages than the standard hosting packages. This allows web masters to choose a package that will perfectly suit any site owner’s budget or a web master’s space requirement. With ‘Web hosting as per your needs and requirements’, site owners will no longer be stuck up with web space they don’t use and more importantly they only get to pay space that they actually get to use. On top of that they will now be able to upgrade and buy space as needed since they now come in smaller more affordable packages. There is something that everyone must know about ‘Web hosting as per your needs and requirements’ hosting packages. The servers for this type of reseller programs are either Linux servers or
Slide 4: Windows servers. This has nothing to do with your own operating system. It refers to a choice of which reseller program you choose – the reseller whose server uses a Linux operating system or one who has a windows server. Linux based hosting are suited for shared servers which means the cost is also shared bringing down the price of the hosting package dramatically. On the other hand, windows servers are ideal for dynamic websites that make use of such applications as online chats. Learning About Web Hosting Providers Learning about web hosting providers and web hosting in general has become essential before one can choose the suitable web hosting provider for himself. With such a sudden surge of new hosting providers offering basically almost identical hosting packages, web masters are often in a quandary as to which hosting provider to choose. Web hosting has become such a big industry world wide that it has now become difficult to differentiate hosting providers who offer truly beneficial hosting services from those who are merely riding on the popularity of the business just to make a quick buck! At any rate, with reseller hosting joining the fray to muddle the choices further; one is left with no option but to learn the basics of web hosting before he can make an intelligent choice. Before you can publish content to the web, you need to copy it to a server first which then publishes and stores the data for you. This server is your web hosting provider and it hosts and keeps the data you have copied (uploaded is the more appropriate word) and keeps it ‘live’ for others to access. The company who owns this server is called a hosting provider because it serves as the host for your data by providing you a storage space in its server specifically earmarked for your use in copying (or uploading) all the data you wish to be publish or go live in the web (being live in the web means it can be accessed, read, listened to, or watched at any time). There are many factors that contributed to the sudden rise and proliferation of web hosting providers. The many innovative advances in internet and server technologies and the development and deployment of advanced servers as well as the emergence of shared server hosting paved the way for the mushrooming of new web hosting providers known as the resellers. With large capacity servers that are more efficient and technologically advanced, hosting providers are now able to sell and share server space on a wholesale basis to resellers who now can provide their own hosting services using the shared servers of their hosts. You can liken the web host to a manufacturer or producer of goods while the reseller is similar to a distributor or a middleman and you as the consumer. Learning about web hosting providers gives you the advantage of choosing a hosting package that fits your needs and requirements to a tee! You will be able to avoid hosting
Slide 5: packages that offers you more space than you actually need. Learning about web hosting providers will also save you the trouble of “eating the pudding first before getting a proof of the pudding”! In short, you get to avoid doing a costly trial and error way of choosing the web hosting provider that perfectly fits your requirements. Finally, Learning about web hosting providers saves you the time and the trouble of sifting through a long list of web hosting providers who are offering basically the same hosting packages containing basically the same hosting features. Top Good Ideas for Web Hosting It is time for you to start searching for the top good ideas for web hosting and launch your self as an online entrepreneur! Set up your own online business and get a good web hosting provider to put your own e-Business live on the web. There are a million and one reasons for doing that but the most important one is the fact that will be tapping a limitless market of internet aficionados who are accessing the web 24/7. That’s right, experts have shown convincing proof that more and more people are accessing the internet with their mobile devices. They say it is but a matter of time before their numbers over take those who surf the internet using desk tops. This only means having an online business now gives you the chance to tap a limitless number of potential consumers who access the web 24/7 where ever they may be! With more and more WiFi areas sprouting all over the country, more and more potential customers can be tapped at anytime of the day or night. Don’t waste your time doing nothing! Search for some top good ideas for web hosting now and ride the phenomenal emergence trend – the rise of a highly mobile and ever growing horde of ready consumers waiting for the right goods or services to catch their fancies! For starters, here are three top good ideas for web hosting: 1. Social Media Marketing Assistant – With over 50 million web sites today discovering the unique advertising mileage social media networks has to offer, online entrepreneurs are simply helplessly looking for assistance to tap the seemingly limitless marketing opportunities offered by social networking sites. Because it is a tedious job, online entrepreneurs will hardly find the time nor hardly have the expertise to do social media marketing on their own. This gives you the opportunity to launch yourself as a social media marketing assistant. All you will need is a computer, an internet access, and a good web hosting provider to host your own online business site! 2. Cloud Business/Cloud Working Services – Businesses are discovering the unique advantage of cloud computing. Medical practitioners, clinics and even hospitals as well as other small to medium size businesses are now aware that it will save them a lot of money and even increase their productivity if they transfer a part of or even their whole businesses processes to the cloud. This gives you the opportunity to service a largely untapped market of business
Slide 6: entrepreneurs by starting a website of your own offering cloud working services. As their cloud business consultant you will be helping business owners locate the best cloud and assist them in transferring their business services to this cloud. 3. Start a Blog Network – This is a bit difficult to do but once you are able to achieve putting together a network of at least a minimum of 50 excellent blogs you’d be able to harness the vast potentials of online advertising that makes a difference and that reaches a more targeted group of consumers. There are a lot of top good ideas for web hosting out there that you can get into. The most important thing is to have the resolve and the dedication to succeed as an online entrepreneur. How Web Hosting Evolved Over the Years Web hosting has been very common these days. In fact, if you searched for the words “web hosting” on different countries, you’d get a different result. Well, of course that requires some explanation. If a certain keyword has yielded different results on different countries, that means each country has a certain form of that keyword within that country’s jurisdiction. To apply on web hosting, this means that each country, or at least those that use internet, have web hosting companies working on them and are offering this kind of service locally. This just proves how common web hosting is right at this moment. You may then think of course that web hosting has started out as soon as the internet has been born and since then, it never changed. That is just partially true because the industry of web hosting is not as common as it is today, and not as affordable as you it is right now. Much like how the use of the internet has changed through time, the industry of web hosting has evolved just as well. So then, read on and find out how web hosting evolved over the years. Back then in the late 80’s, the internet is not really used for personal and business purposes, if at all. Capitalists realized the potential that this could realize for them when the use of personal computers became as prominent as the television. When many households are beginning to have desktops on their places, the first wave of web hosting companies arrives, taking dedicated web hosting as their first form. In dedicated web hosting, only one website uses one server. That means that if the computer (if you’re using a PC) that using to read this is a dedicated server, only one website has the exclusive use of all the storage, hardware, software, and operating system stored here. Much more, web hosting is quite expensive as storage is measured in megabytes, compared to measurements in gigabytes or terabytes today. As the use of personal computers became more prominent and the number of small and medium sized business tapping the potential of web hosting increased, shared web hosting came into the scene. On this type of service, several websites could now share the specs of an entire
Slide 7: server, contrary to dedicated web hosting. This has made web hosting much cheaper as all the maintenance costs of the server are now being shared by all the websites using it. A combination of the two came into life when virtual private servers were developed. It is like having the same computer physically, but in terms of function, it is pretty much like having a dedicated server. This is done usually by having not only disk partitions but also by having operating system running each website. Finally, the latest development in the industry came when cloud computing went into the picture. What made cloud hosting much efficient than others is because it not only uses one server, but multiple servers. This makes the uptime of the website almost 100% and the upload speed much faster than the rest. And so far, this is how web hosting evolved over the years.