What’s the practical difference between Linux and Windows hosting?

They offer a somewhat different set of services. The whole question is not too easy to answer – your choice really depends on you. For those starting from scratch Linux would probably be a better (and cheaper)choice, since the very OS is free, requires less hardware and in most cases runs faster, while those clients transferring their sites made with the use of Visual Basic, ASP and other Microsoft-related technologies would prefer using Windows hosting. Most commonly, hosting providers prefer to offer both Windows and Linux hosting to give their customers the widest range of services.

What is the difference between Virtual Hosting and IP Based Hosting?

HTTP/1.1 allow Virtual or Shared IP Hosting. All the domains are registered with the web server on the same IP. Web Server finds the correct web site by the domain name. Such hosting was created to make up for the lack of IP addresses.

Shared IP hosting – one IP address is assigned to several domains and access to a domain is available only by its domain name;
Dedicated IP hosting – one IP address is assigned to one domain. To access a domain you can use either its IP address or its domain name.

What are the Advantage and Disadvantage of Shared IP and Dedicated IP hosting.

Shared IP hosting

Advantages:-

1. can be used for virtually unlimited number of virtual hosts;
2. easy to configure and use;
3. requires no additional hardware of software;
3. can be used for free.

Disadvantages:-

1. does not support Virtual FTP;
2. does not support SSL protection.

Dedicated IP hosting

Advantages:-

1. supports Virtual FTP
2. supports SSL

Disadvantages:-

1. It is a pay service

What are e-mail aliases?

Aliases are different names for the same mailbox. Answer:

For example: You run a one-person business, but you want your website to make it look as if your company is much larger, with several departments. You can use e-mail addresses like sales@yourbusiness.com , info@yourbusiness.com , and tech@yourbusiness.com which will all point to one mailbox. In this way, it makes your company look as if there are several people behind it, running different areas, when in actuality each alias simply points to one mailbox.

Each of cpwebhosting.net hosting plans allow you to set up a specific number of aliases for free.

Which payment method is best Paypal or Credit card.

Put your suggestion here

As a customer, paypal is more secure.

Paypal is more simple and easy.

most of the companies doesn’t have payment method for paypal, so Credit card is best

credit card is still more widely use as compared to paypal.

Yes, there are only few companies that accept paypal

Paypal is a secure method of payment but it’s a pity it’s not allowed in all countries

In some countries paypal doesn’t works and some people don not know the importance and advantages of paypal and thatswhy they don’t accept paypal.

When do you consider to move to VPS hosting or you prefer to stay with shared host that says it offers plenty of monthly transfer and disc space?

You may consider moving to a VPS when your site is generating a lot of revenue and it’s using a lot of data transfer. When you have a VPS you have real bandwidth and space.

A VPS can still be a decent way to avoid spending a lot of money on a dedicated server, while usage is still moderate, but a bit too much for a regular shared hosting environment.

I guess small sites are probably better off with shared hosting.

if your website is so big that it needs more resources to utilize, you require root access, receive a lot of traffic, run different applications/scripts then you should opt for VPS.

There is some value of dedicated IP addresses to the serious programmer and SEO type of customer but most have no need for a dedicated IP address. IP addresses are too valuable to be assigning to each customer’s domain.

Any comments? Pros and Cons?

It is absolutely rediculous to assign IP addresses for no reason. This contributes to the headache of subnetting

Actually, Google handles virtually hosted domains and their links just the same as domains on unique IP addresses. If your ISP does virtual hosting correctly, you’ll never see a difference between the two cases.

As far as Se are concerned, there is no difference between dedicated and shared IP usage.

The only time an account needs a dedicated IP and/or is justified (i believe) under Arin Rules is if they have a SSL..

I have a hosting account and add multiple domains to it, Is the contents of one site/domain affect the others?

not sure but i would presume that each of your domains on the same account will be add-on domains using the same IP unless you specify a unique IP for each of those domains. So, if they all use the same IP and SMTP gets blacklisted by several providers, then yes, you will experience the same results for other sites. I would recommend using a unique IP for each site.

Whether (or how) the contents of one site/domain affect the others will depend upon how your hosting plan enables you to use multiple domains

If you’re wanting to avoid SMTP blacklist problems caused by other users of the same mailserver, I would suggest considering a VPS if it’s within your budget – this will give you your own private SMTP server and therefore any blacklisting issues could only arise from problems with your site(s).

In terms of the sites/content being banned somewhere by some provider or organisation etc. I would guess that this is typically done via domain name rather than IP and therefore other domains pointing to the same content would need to be targetted individually (and domains pointing to different content would presumably avoid being blocked).

There are many problems with free hsot.
what u think?

You are right.
talking about my expierence, at begginning free host was good but after 1 week i have to move because server down or another problem.

i say a free host with awesome features without control panel.

Free web host without domain name support and They dont have mysql.

free is good to small sites but is your proyect is important well you have to think twice before put ur site at free host.

The obvious problems with free hosting are the advertisements that are stuck up on your site.

Even if it was ad-free though, free hosts are not as reliable in terms of how long they stick around, or how much control of your own uploaded files you have.

With free hosting, you have the constant worry of the host going offline. I mean what if they run out of money, whereas with a paid host, you feel comfortable that they are funded by you to stay online.

Yep, I have never felt comfortable with free hosting

There free hosting option is available then why we go for paid hosting.
Which hosting will you prefer Free or Paid and Why?

Paid hosting, as is usually more reliable than free hosting.

For the websites that have long-term targets paid hosting is the best option.

I also suggest you paid hosting because the support ,reliabilty and uptime are the important factor which you get under paid hosting.

You get what you pay for so “paid hosting”

Of cource Paid!!!
because Free hosting don’t intend for solving serious tasks.

The free hosts put up an advertisement either in the form of text link, banner or pop ups on the websites. Many users find these ads take away from the design of their sites and also these ads sometimes are very annoying to the visitors.

Free hosting can help people test their web sites until they decide to turn their websites into serious businesses, or until they need serious hosting service.

If you go with free, then you might need to exchange a link or a banner, or there are hosting companies that use mod_layout in their apache, and so you will have forced ads put on your website.

There are many other feature too which you are not able to get under free hosting(because of costly software) but get under paid one easily.

Hi,
some web host provides 100% Uptime Guarantees. How can i Understand and Verify Uptime Guarantees of them.

There are two ways to find out the uptime of your host.

1) Many hosts now have an “Uptime Monitored By…” graphic on their web site from a 3rd party uptime monitor, which you can verify as proof of the host’s uptime.
2) Open an account with the host and monitor your individual web site.