Bandwidth represents the amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time.Browsing the web, sending e-mail and downloading a file occasionally doesn’t consume much bandwidth. Downloading or uploading video or huge audio files will use much more of it. At the moment 2-3% of internet users consume about 90% of the overall available bandwidth. For this reason other users may experience setbacks in performance and slowdowns.Bandwidth is all about the type of the connection and the amount of data specific connection type allows to be transfered in a specific period of time.

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Tosh
Dedicated Hosting

The internet, in the most simplest of terms, is a group of millions of computers connected by networks. These connections within the internet can be large or small depending upon the cabling and equipment that is used at a particular internet location. It is the size of each network connection that determines how much bandwidth is available

TRAFFIC :
Traffic is simply the number of bits that are transferred on network connections.Depending upon the network connection between the web site and the internet, the transfer may occur very quickly, or it could take time if other people are also downloading files at the same time.

These are the factors on which bandwidth relies upon.It can vary from network to network and from one host to another.

1. Upstream and Downstream Bandwidth
Upstream type of Bandwidth, also called Upload Bandwidth determines the amount of data that can be sent (uploaded) to the Internet. This is very important for transmitting data and uploading files to the server.
Downstream or Download type of Bandwidth determines the amount of data that is recived from the Internet. This is important for downloading the files from the Internet.

2. Basic Consumer Bandwidth, LAN Bandwidth, WAN Bandwidth solutions

Basic Consumer Internet access is most commonly provided by Dial-Up, DSL or Cable connections. Each of these types of connections allows certain amount of data to be transmitted in a fixed amount of time.
LAN (Local Area Network) stands for a group of computers and associated devices that share a common communications line or wireless link. A local area network may have as few as two or three users (for example, in a home network) or as many as thousands of users (for example, in an FDDI network). The most widely used local area network connection technology is Ethernet. Others areToken Ring technology, FDDI and ARCNET. LAN can also use wireless technology. Bandwidth allowed in a specific LAN community depends on the type of connection technology used.
WAN (Wide Area Networks) are connections between business organizations and the outside world. A WAN may also be part of a private network that extends across multiple business locations in a city, across the country or even worldwide. Typically WAN represents LAN of the certain organization connected to the outside world. The most common WAN connection is a T1 line. In order to expand Bandwidth multiple T1 lines may be bond together. Another high bandwidth protocol for business connectivity is DS3 over fiber optic SONET service or a T3 line. One of the most popular solutions is Ethernet. Ethernet that runs on LAN can be extended to the WAN. __________________
Tosh
Dedicated Hostin

using the window hosting is the good option for you because windows XP web hosting programs are considered to be easy to cope with, reliable and inexpensive.

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First Web Hosting

before choosing we should consider some characters also like Customer service is a very important aspect of any host if not the most important you will need to check.

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First Web Hosting

Are we talking about a web host having load balancing their servers, or you’d like
to create such set up in your linux/unix environment?

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Tosh
Dedicated Hosting

Well i think You are messing things up .Let me clear you out,i currently have a windows web hosting service with load balancing but now i’m looking to move to a linux web hosting environment and i was wondering if it is possible to have load balancing in a linux environment.
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wipr
Wipro Dedicated Servers

You first have to locate your connection string.
You can find it in the line of code where you Open
the connection,change the “something come here” and you change
the connection string.in your case this is the connection string.
It expects the database file to be located in folder
“db” and be named “login.mdb” and it also try to
use OLEDB drivers – not all hosts will have such
drivers available.

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Tosh
Dedicated Hosting

the experience regarding hosting depends upon some points like disk space in which everything here depends on the size of your website. In fact the easiest way to calculate the volume of the disk space do you need is to check your website’s weight at your computer folder. But note that you’ll need some extra space, just in case.

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You should also consider the bandwidth so that estimate how much bandwidth your web site may use. And of course make sure that you get more bandwidth than your site uses.

You should consider the speed of site also so this is a very important factor while considering a hosting service.This will decide how fast your website loads when some one visits your site.

Make sure that you get enough email addresses with your own domain name. There is no need to pay an extra fee for use of a mail server as many hosts offer this service now for free, within the hosting plan.

so I hope so that that’s all for now my friend. If it’s your first hosting experience this information will be sufficient for you I suppose. Of course there’re many many other features that you’ll find out later.

For free web hosting we should look for some different things like that you will lose some credibility. Having a website on free hosting will not show you up as being truly professional. People will wonder what are you doing with your revenue if you generate any.

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Web SSL

Important factors in selecting a web hosting company include the percentage of server uptime. 98 to 99% uptime is the dream standard for server uptime, 65% is unacceptable.

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Dedicated Hosting Expert

If you really have a serious website, and want to run a successful business – you cannot do it without a dedicated server.It is best hosting service for large website traffic and load.It is ment only for experienced people who know how to handle server resources well.It is rather costly amongst all other types of hosting and you shouldn’t waste your money if you don’t plan to use it in full measure..

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Tosh
Dedicated Hosting

Yes i agree with your thoughts.Let me enlarge your thoughts.Dedicated server will give you a freedom. You will not need to share it with other websites. It will also give you additional 3rd party security for your site and emails. A dedicated server will allow you deep access to your server to configure and optimize your server anyway you need. You’re able to choose the software to install.

Linux/Unix operating systems has traditionally been believed to be very stable and robust. A web site housed on a Linux operating system will have very high up-time (of the order of 99.9%). Of course, other factors such as power supply, network administration skills, and network load etc. also matter when it comes to maintaining the system uptime.

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Tosh
Dedicated Hosting

The Linux Operating System comes free of cost (or at very insignificant cost, usually cost of distribution). Also, it has full fledged server, and desk top applications that comes free along with the OS. These server applications (such as FTP, Web Server, DNS Server, File Server etc.) being free, are also very stable.

According to me friends,as long as you understand how to use your FTP or web publishing software, your can use either operating system.But what is important is that you know what you want your website to do and what you want to offer on it. This is what will ultimately help determine the type of web hosting that will work best for you

When it comes to web hosting, it is easy to host on Linux web servers. The process of uploading and hosting is almost same for both Linux and Windows web servers. If you want to use a Windows based tool such as Front Page for uploading a web site on to a Linux based web server, make sure that the Front Page extensions are enabled. This is only required if you are uploading using HTTP feature (New Home of yourwebsite.com) of Front Page. Front Page also makes it possible to upload a web site using FTP. You need to select ftp://www.yourwebsite.com for up loading using front page FTP option. Note that if you select “Front Page Extensions” during web site design, you must enable Front Page extensions on a Linux web server also. These days, all Linux web servers are coming with installable Front Page extensions, and this should pose no problem for hosting on a Linux platform.You can use almost all types of file extensions (or scripts) when using Linux web server. Commonly, the following extensions are supported:.cgi, .html, .htm, .pl, .php, .shtml, .xml, and others.
Basically it means that you can host web sites that use different types of server side scripts including .cgi, .pl, .php, and .asp (with plug-in).

Linux is very scalable compared to windows.A web site is dynamic. Usually, a web site starts with a few pages of html and grows over a period of time to suit the customers requirements. It is preferable to design a web site keeping this requirements in mind. A web site designed for compatibility with a Linux/Unix based web server meets the scalability requirement easily without making any site wide design changes.