What is cooperative hosting?

My site is hosted on a shared hosting account.Do I need a static IP address for my site?

Maybe. There are some advantages to having a unique IP for your site. When you change servers, you can point your users to a new IP, so they don’t have to wait for the domain name change to propagate. With a static IP, it can also be simpler to upload and test your site before transferring the domain name to a new server. Setting up SSL is also much simpler. You may also not want to share your IP with some sites that could lead to your site being banned by search engines or spam lists.

I am newbie and looking for a hosting account.Which is the best OS for Hosting, i should go for Linux, Windows or BSD Hosting ?

please describe me elaborately

Well Linux and BSD would be smart choise.

They are fast and most of the applications for these servers are free.

I like linux becuase it very easy to use

I personally use Window

Linux – fast and easy

How important is the website design to your decision to purchase hosting?

I don’t feel having a unique design is too important.

customers are most likely to interested in the level of support provided, live chat/instant messenger features, package features and hosting plan price. If these features are what they expect then i m sure the current site design would not put them off.

site design is extremely important when it comes to increasing vistor to sales conversion.

I think that the key to success is not a unique site design, but simply the volume of visitors that a site gets.

It’s just a numbers game. A site with tons of visitors (qualified) will outperform a site with low site traffic everytime.

Just wondering, how did you come across your web host? On what criteria was your selection based?

we chose our host based upon price and their compatability

I have a web hosting company and my clients prefer better support and I think that is very much needed for a webhosting company so i choose cpwebhosting.net

I would say reliability.

I have a small website so i used to go for the lowest price for that i choose cpwebhosting.net shared hosting plan

We were looking at datacenters which used good bandwidth. Those who gave us uptime guarantees and those who gave us a serial port console access as well as a remote reboot facility.

The most important thing for me is support.

Technical support is most important.I have went through so many hosting companies both as a customer and reseller. I am currently with cpwebhosting.net and happy with them because it provides 24/7 support

When a web host uses account automation software for user sign-up how can they control security in terms of keeping fraudulent users and spammers, etc. from automatically signing up and putting their evil content on a server?

web hosts still have to face this problem because it is difficult to say Whether it’s automatic or manual.

I think it’s a matter of human monitoring.

Firewalls and automated servers monitoring is a good way to prevent spamming eg. CPU load, Mem Load, database loops, mail queue etc.

What I know is that these spywares etc needs to access a few dlls (windows) or need right permissions to execute. You can use a script to prevent client applications to use these files.

I think you’re right because no matter how good the systems, you must have a human monitoring on all your server

I have newly added a forum to my web hosting business web site. My intention was to increase the number of pages on the site to improve my Google ranking.
how can i do it?

u can use text generater on the forum.

I have found that text generated on the forum is not picked up by Google.

Yes, u r right. Is there anyway that the pages generated by a forum can be changed so that they appear as HTML (or something else) and the search engines can read them.

It could be that the forum software you’re using requires a login or uses dynamically generated pages so that Google can’t read it.

Use robots.txt file on your server? That could keep Google out if you’ve got that forum page listed there. Normally, text on a forum should be accessible to Google.

I’m not too familiar with H-sphere, but I know it’s features and have heard quite a few good things about it.Anyone out there who is using the H-Sphere control panel?

I have been using it for years and LOVE it.

I have used it in the past and it was a decent cp and its cluster feature really worked nice.

cpwebhosting.net provides H-sphere control panel with their all web hosting plan. I m using it from last 3 years and its really very nice.

It also has a built-in billing system.

I have used every CP out there plesk, cpanel, directadmin and ensim. not a single one has even come close to H-Sphere.

what are the top features that you will like to have in your hosting package, as a user.

Webspace
support
uptime
price
Features
Bandwidth
others

I think support and uptime should have top priority in the list.

Support, Uptime & Price are the may concern of user.

I would like to have all the above mentioned features in my hosting package.

Uptime is most important.

All of them, but the “Features” are not so important

For a highly visited website bandwidth is most important.

i am looking for a web hosting package.
one of my friend told me to buy such a package which have some other control panel instead of cpanel.
What u think ?

Every CP makes difference for everyone and everyone have a choice of their own CP. My choice – H-Sphere.

My thumbs up too for H-Sphere always. I love it.

cpwebhosting.net provides H-sphere control panel with their all web hosting plans. I m using it from last 2 years and I never had problems with it

H-Sphere is an excellent choice.

I also don’t like CPanel and I can recommend H-sphere control panel.

The CP dosent matter you’ve to choose with which you are comfortable and feel easier to use.

CP security is something else worth considering. I’ve heard that CPanel has plenty of bugs.

I have used H-sphere before. It is very fast and easy to use CP. I strictly recommend it.