unlimited bandwidth web hosting ?


Should I go with a host who gives unlimited bandwidth? Why do some hosts have limits?

Basically, web hosts only have limited resources – ie, webspace and bandwidth – so they make it clear what limits individual users have, and generally make sure that people on the same plans have the same limits.

However, some hosts don’t offer any immediate caps on bandwidth limits,
because frankly most websites actually use relatively little bandwidth. The problem is, if you do find yourself with a busy site with a lot of traffic, the unlimited hosts may either apply extra charges, or simply boot you off. So customers are never really sure what their limits and constraints are.

Because of that, unlimited bandwidth hosts have a generally poor reputation in the hosting industry, and most hosting companies will be clear on such limits from the start.

there is no such thing in hosting business, everything has limits including hosting.

So just stick to other features rather than finding UNLIMITED BW, SPACE

Being in the hosting business I hate these “UNLIMITED” hosts – it’s a blatent out and out lie

How can something like diskspace or bandwidth be unlimited?

The small print of these host’s always give’s them a way out of hosting a busy website – and the price of these unlimited accounts makes me giggle…
My best advice is stay away – if you have a website that isn’t going to be using a lot of resources just put it on a normal account with a reputable host

What is EasyMail?


Can any one tell me What is EasyMail?

EasyMail removes 100% of the hassle and frustration associated with administering local mail services. It completely eliminates the need for specialized hardware on your premises. We run it all for you from our network and give you access to our innovative EasyMail Wizard! remote email administration tools. The EasyMail Wizard! assists you with all aspects of running a corporate email network. You can change your employees’ Internet email addresses, delete old accounts and create new ones, all from one simple interface.

Are EasyMail accounts POP3 accounts?

All EasyMail accounts are POP3 accounts. This means that your mail sits on our servers until you download it to your email software.

Can I check my EasyMail with Microsoft Outlook, Eudora or Netscape Mail?

Yes, you can use any of these email programs to send and receive your mail. All you need to do is configure them to download incoming mail (POP3, IMAP) and send outgoing mail (SMTP).

Do you offer email forwarding?

Yes, you can forward your EasyMail accounts to any existing email account, whether it’s on our servers or not. It’s easier than forwarding a call on your phone!

What is the WebsiteOS?


Hi,
I m newbie in web hosting field. Can any one tell me What is the WebsiteOS?

This browser based website management application allows you to manage many aspects of your website. Using this application, you can:

* Administer your email accounts
* Generate usage statistics
* Promote your website
* Manage your files on the server
* Change passwords
* Setup your own ad server (available on Silver and higher plans)
* Add and remove FrontPage extensions
* Analyze your website’s structure and integrity
* Create and manage an effective single page website
* Check your disk usage
* Manage server logs
* Secure sections of your website
* Configure and install common CGI scripts

What is EasySiteWizard ?


I have listen about EasySiteWizard. What is EasySiteWizard ?

EasySiteWizard is a robust and intuitive application will allow you to create a completely customized website in a few simple steps. There are a numerous selection of professionally designed templates available for you to choose from and are given the option to upload your own graphics or logos for use in your site or use our image library of 10,000 images! With our embedded Page Editor your can tailor your website to exactly your specifications using true ?WYSIWYG? (what you see is what you get) technology that will allow you to create your website in the most simplest of ways. No knowledge of HTML is necessary!

Email Scanning?


What is Email Scanning?

Email Scanning verifies that email and attachments entering and leaving your network are free from viruses and other malicious code.

Choosing A Good Web Host


Hi,
I want to host my newly built website.How To Choose A Good Web Host (When They All Look Alike).

Choosing a web host is never easy. There are just so many unknowns when it comes to finding a host. It’s hardly ever possible to walk into a web host’s office, look around, meet the owners, and get a feel for whether or not you’d like to do business with these people.

It’s important, though, that you bend over backwards to establish whether your prospective web host is a credible provider – or a fly by night artist.

The webmaster industry is awash with horror stories about signing up with a web hosting company, onlty to find out later that this ‘business’ is run by a 14 year old who lives at home.

you can make your decision using whatever information you find online about the web host.

Start out with the website of the web host you are considering.

Is it professionally designed and written? Typo’s and spelling errors may signal that this is a company ran by kids or amateurs.

Is the website easy to use? Is it designed with a view towards helping people? Are help materials available online? This should give you a flavor for whether the company is client oriented.

Where is the company located? Is there an address? Can you email them?

Look at the Terms of Service. Does your prospective web host clearly spell out what may be expected of them and what is expected of you? Every deal is different, but both parties should clearly know what the deal is.

Next, do a search for the company on Google. Are you finding any negative statements? Try different searching techniques, like typing the company name followed by the word “scam”, or by the words “poor support”.

Now, try emailing their customer support department. Do you get a fast reply? What about their sales department? Do they answer inquiries quickly? Let’s face it…if they won’t pay any attention to you when they’re trying to get your business, how much more will you be neglected after you sign up?

If you follow these simple suggestions, your chances of signing up with an excellent web host increase substantially

Visit one of the many forums about web hosting, ask the members for advice or search threads from those that have asked before you. Once you’ve located a few hosts to research, the ten questions below will take you a long way towards making an informed decision. You may be able to find many of the answers to these questions on the hosts’ web sites, but always feel free to call the host and quiz them about their operations. The quality of the answers and degree of professionalism you get from a potential host often transfers to the type of support you’ll receive once you become a customer. Without further ado, the ten question to ask your web host:

1. How long has the web host been in business?
2. Does the web host own its data center?
3. How many upstream Internet providers does the web host have?
4. Does the web host monitor its customers’ sites twenty-four hours per day? How?
5. Does the web host provide 24/7/365 phone and email support?
6. What levels of redundancy does the web host’s architecture provide?
7. Does the web host automatically backup customer web sites in case of data loss? How often?
8. What is the web host’s billing policy?
9. Does the web host provide the features that you need for your web site?
10. Does the web host have the products and services to handle your growth?

Unique Features that leading Web Hosts Now Offering ?


There are some leading web host in this web hosting industry. What Unique Features that leading Web Hosts Now Offering ?

Some web hosts are offering more than others for the same price or even for a lower price. There is no denying the fact that as competition increases amongst web hosting services, many are looking for ways and means to stand out and be different from their competitors. The result is that web hosting service standards are constantly on the rise and webmasters are constantly enjoying amazing new features that were previously not there. Let us take a look at a few that some web hosts are now regularly offering to their clients.

There are website hosts that help clients publish and manage their own email newsletters or ezines. This is a powerful marketing tool that helps increase sales. Some hosts go further and also offer an unlimited number of auto responders. This helps a site owner automatically follow up with prospects and thus dramatically increase the chances of making a sale.

Some hosting services are also addressing the rapidly increasing menace of junk mail and provide quality filters to protect your email accounts. Some even provide built-in anti-virus software so that email that arrives with viruses, is automatically deleted.

Another popular emerging new feature from hosts is the service that helps you protect your download page where you are selling digital products like e-books or software from your site. The number of hackers is on the increase and this is an increasingly vital service for many webmasters

Some web host like cpwebhosting.net hosting services help you to set up your own affiliate program. Affiliate programs are the proven most effective way of getting traffic and profits for webmasters. From this you enable other website owners to promote your site and products on their site and in return earn commissions from the sales that result from traffic that they have referred to your site.

Hosting Affects User Traffic ?


How Your Hosting Affects Your User Traffic ?

There are a number of ways that your web host and the package you choose can affect your user traffic. Many site owners overlook one of the most obvious ways, however. This article tells you what that is, why you shouldn’t overlook it, and your best options for making sure it doesn’t adversely affect your visitors.

Picking a Host

You are considering which web host to use for your web site. You consider whether it supports your scripting languages — is it Linux or Windows based? If you do JavaScript, you want to know whether that is supported as well. You consider how much space you need. You also check the email options, the additional scripts, security options, speed, testimonials — you may even (rarely) fiddle with another user’s control panel, before walking up to the sales representative and declaring the specifications you want.

Whoops! Missed a spot, or did I? It seems everybody misses this particular spot; I have listed everything that most people consider.

But as a web designer who does search engine optimization (so that you know where this article is coming from), I discovered that bandwidth is one of the most important design considerations you have to look at before picking a web host. I first ran into bandwidth when I was hanging out with an Internet service provider who metered bandwidth to its clients. This caused sluggish service, severe customer complaints and general heartache all around.

The bandwidth that a web site needs is in download bandwidth. This is how much bandwidth the site has available on a monthly basis for users. If this bandwidth ends before the month runs out, your website is inaccessible to anybody that wants to surf it.

A little design consideration

I have actually never seen a designer (during the design stage) mention bandwidth and how it could affect the performance of the site; all they worry about is the size of the site. When your bandwidth ends, your site users will be unable to access your site’s page at all! This ought to be sufficiently disturbing to any web site owner. The majority of web sites never run into problems with their bandwidth, but those that do get to do all sorts of interesting things like buy extra bandwidth for their sites.

Most webmasters never consider how important bandwidth is until they start running out of it. Some then paste notices all over their site begging users not to save every page. Consider that it is the same bandwidth that is consumed by the user when viewing pages, that is consumed when the user saves it. Methinks the web master does not want every page on his site to be read for the sake of bandwidth; however I am sure that when the site was being uploaded the web master did not believe that he or she would have to spend extra money every month on bandwidth (and perhaps the money is not there; we will talk briefly about monetizing so that you can at least pay for bandwidth). We will talk about what you have to do as far as anticipating traffic and bandwidth. We will also discuss the best kind of hosting that will, over time, afford you protection against an upward surge in traffic.

Web Site Hosting For Your Business: Free or Paid?


Web Site Hosting For Your Business: Free or Paid?

It’s time to choose! Should you spend some money to get a web hosting solution for your business or get one for free?

Your business is on the verge of taking the next step forward. It will establish a web presence. This is an important step as from now on your business is able to reach more customers, is able to get more exposure, and hopefully enjoy online recognition.

Space, bandwidth and domain name all come with a cost, but there is a possibility to get them all for free. Resource management principles will probably tell you to choose the free solution.

Nowadays the cost for web hosting services is very reasonable partially because of the technological progress, partially because of the stiff competition on the web hosting market.

Still… why pay for it when you can get it for free?

Dozens, even hundreds of free web hosting providers offer their services on the Internet. Could there be one that meets the needs for your business? Hardly, if any.

Please let me state clearly that this is not intended to attack or discredit hosts or advertisers. Its only purpose is to assess and understand how can be best met the hosting needs of a business. Any business. And yes, in spite of everything stated here, even the author of this article has resorted at some point in time to the services of free web hosts!

You probably learned too, and at a very small age, that in life everything comes with a price. However, there it is … all over the Internet: Free Web Hosting.

Nothing in this world is free. So why is there free web hosting?

The definition of the term “free” according to The New Lexicon Webster’s Dictionary is:

adj. not subject to external restraints or domination; not captive, at liberty; not having to be paid for; unhampered; open to all without restrictions; etc.

adv. without expense; without penalty
v.t. to release from constraint, set free

Therefore a literally free hosting service would mean no restraints, no expenses and no restrictions for the user. Webmasters would design only limited by their imagination and skills. All the space and the bandwidth you would possibly ask for at no cost whatsoever. Real-life scenario? Could anyone really think so?

Indeed nothing in this world comes without a price, even if it is not apparent. And the price you must pay for free web hosting comes in many forms, as free web hosting providers must pay too for bandwidth, not to mention other costs.

While some free web hosts require you to have one of their banners on your web site, others place pop up adds, or flashing advertising messages. So it’s free for you as long as you fulfill their set of requirements and meet their conditions. In addition to this, you should consider that host’s service is free with let’s say 25 MB of space; more space means different conditions and you could have to pay for it.

Host for Business Site


I want to host my Business Site. Which Web Host Should I Choose To Host My Business Site?

Even with all of the consolidation going on in the web hosting industry, there are still thousands upon thousands of hosting companies to choose from. If you visit some of their sites, you will see that each of them tout some features you may or may not of even heard of before (Miva Scripting, Co-Location services, Virtual Private Servers, Redundant backbone connections, etc). The very first question you must ask yourself is not which hosting company to choose but rather, WHY do you need a hosting company?

Your particular needs are crucial in determining the kind of hosting you need. Web Hosting comes in many different flavors and sizes, (not to mention prices!) so its key that you shop for only the services you require or you will be paying for a lot of services that you don’t need. When trying to decide which hosting company will best suit your needs be sure to ask yourself a few questions first. Here are some important ones:
1. What kind of functionality will you require (ie Database, secure server for processing credit cards, etc.)
2. What will your traffic needs require (do you anticipate your site having small, moderate, or significant traffic)
3. How important are load times (if a majority of your visitors are global you might want to consider a hosting company that has a presence overseas as well as the U.S. – also you may want to consider a dedicated server as opposed to sharing a server with several other businesses)

A business site can range in price anywhere from the low end of $40-$50.00 all the way up into the thousands of dollars per month. Features that usually catapult the price range are things like dedicated servers (especially if they are on the high end hardware wise), and bandwidth capacity.

Choosing a web host for your business needs is absolutely one of the most important decisions you can make. If your site is down, your business is down, end of story. Below is a list of some of the important questions you will want to make sure you ask any prospective hosting company before signing on the dotted line.
1. Do they offer a money back, no questions asked guarantee?
2. Do they offer an uptime guarantee? (as in, if there is a outage, are you compensated?)
3. What types of backups do they offer (tape back ups, CD rom storage)
4. Do they have redundant backbone connections to the internet (are they connected to the internet by more than one provider, and are those providers major backbone providers)
5. Do they offer 24-7 technical support (including phone support, or is it only via email)
6. How long have they been in business for and can they provide some business references of other sites that they currently host?
7. Can you pay month to month or do they require an annual contract?
8. Is it easy for you to upgrade/downgrade services you may or may not require as time passes?