With literally thousands of web hosting companies in the industry all vying for your business, carefully consider these key points to ensure you make the most well informed decision possible.

Server Disk Space

First, think about how much space your site will take up on a server. Unless you are planning on running a software repository or an image gallery, the files that make up your website will probably only use between 1 and 5 megabytes of disk space. Many companies will offer several hundred megabytes of disk space for a very affordable price in an attempt to out perform their competitors, but ask yourself “Do I really need that much space?” Though it’s true that you should allow your site “room to grow”, don’t opt for what seems like a great deal on a massively sized account if you’ll never use all of the space offered. Chances are you’ll find an even better deal on an amount of space more suitable for your site size. But make sure you think ahead. Will you be running a forum, an article repository or a multimedia marketing campaign? You have to at least think about these issues before abandoning that mega-deal.

Bandwidth Allowance

This assessment should be based on the same factors as above. Though you may be thinking that your business web site will be the next phenomenon in Internet marketing and garner millions of visitors a day, you really shouldn’t need an exceptionally high bandwidth allowance unless, as previously stated, you’re running a software or info product download site. Even extremely popular sites usually only use a few gigabytes per month in bandwidth. Don’t go hog wild just because it seems like an amazing deal. You may also want to be suspicious of companies that offer “unlimited” data transfer as there are usually some fine-print conditions that make this promise illegitimate. Be sure to read the legal terms and conditions very carefully before deciding on this type of host. A five or ten gigabyte bandwidth allowance is usually plenty enough for a small to medium sized business or personal site. But I must reiterate. If you are planning a business that sells software and e-books that are available for immediate download upon purchase, then you must take that into consideration.

Support

A critical issue to think about when choosing a web host is the types of technical support offered by the company and how easy they are to contact when you need them. Optimally, a company should offer 24×7 toll-free telephone support and email. I have seen companies that do not even offer a telephone number on their website. I was actually ripped off by one of these companies in my early days as an Internet marketer. You should look for a company that is extremely easy to contact and deal with in your time of need. Nothing is more exasperating than being in the middle of working on your site and needing an essential nugget of information to finish the job and not being able to get any support from your hosting company.

Script Access

No matter what type of site you are developing, chances are you will ultimately need to install some type of CGI script. Whether it be a mailing list management script, contact form processor, or maybe even a fancy credit card processing script or shopping cart, your hosting account will need to allow you to install and run them. This requires access to special CGI-bin folders on the server. Some hosting accounts will only allow you to use “pre-installed” scripts as a security measure. These are scripts that the hosting company have installed and configured so that they know that they will work properly and not adversely affect their server’s performance. That may be all you need, but if you have the knowledge, it’s great to have the capability to install your own scripts and configure them to suit your personal situation. You should also be sure that the account you choose supports the language in which your scripts are written, such as PHP, Perl, etc. Most good hosting companies that I have dealt with offer all the script support and languages you will need.

Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Another significant issue in assessing the value of a hosting company is how often and for how long their servers go down. No matter how good a deal you get on server space or bandwidth, or how wonderfully the company’s tech support takes care of you, your site can’t entertain visitors or generate revenue if the machine on which it is hosted is not up and running. Obviously you want a company that can guarantee the highest up-time percentage possible. Servers are taken down for a short time occasionally for maintenance or upgrading, so no company can guarantee 100% up-time, but you want your site to be hosted on reliable, well managed and maintained servers that are not continuously having problems which require them to be down for long stretches of time.

E-mail Accounts

Again, like bandwidth allowance and disk space, some companies will offer you loads more email accounts than you will ever use. Some offer hundreds or even unlimited email accounts as a selling point. This is an important factor if you are IBM and have tens of thousands of employees, each needing their own e-mail box. But it’s not a big deal if you’re just one person or a small company. You should be fine with 10 or 20.

Reputation

This is probably the most critical aspect to consider when choosing a web host. Do your homework. Pay attention to any negative feedback you may hear or read about a particular hosting company. There are several sites around the Internet that offer discussion forums that encourage people to chat about and evaluate different hosting companies. Ask precise questions about any company you might be considering. See if anyone else has had any bad experiences with them. Dig into the hosting company’s web site and read everything that they offer about themselves. Read their policies, terms and conditions. Check out their contact info. How responsive are they? Does the founder tell you anything about him or herself or are you left to deal with a nameless, faceless stranger? It sounds like a lot of work, but the alternative can be very expensive.

There are several sensitive areas, which a user should take into consideration while selecting a web host:

1. Disk space

2. Bandwidth

3. Scripts and utilities

4. Dedicated/Shared servers

5. Customers service/Support

6. Uptime/Reliability

7. Price

8. Free Hosting Providers

1. Disk Space: It denotes space provided by the host to the user in which he/she can locate his/her web site. It can ranges from 25MB to GBs to store all the essential requirements of the user. One can easily calculate storage space if his/her site is already constructed by considering all the aspects. This is the least requirement by the user. For sure success one should go for a plan having additional resources in comparison to user’s current requirement.

2. Bandwidth: One of the crucial parts to verify is regarding bandwidth. There are several sites, which loose their host due to excessive downloads causing budget going beyond their expectations. Occasionally, host even charges in hundreds of dollars for the additional bandwidth. One should confirm about this before dealing with any of the host. Usually, ideal-hosting providers deliver initial bandwidth of 25 to 50 GB to the users.

3. Scripts and Utilities: Does one’s priority is dynamic information related to his/her products and services? If the answer is yes! Then user’s plan should include a database tool. One cannot deny the fact that, Databases are extremely multitalented and will change according to the operating system, which the user chooses for his/her hosting server.

If one talks about further famous scripts it usually includes chat rooms, forums, blogs, and calendar programs and help desk software. Such scripts, which come along with user’s hosting plan, are pre-configured by the service host so that user can properly work on their server. There are several hosts which even propose the Fantastico script package known to be the combination of 36 different free scripts which a user can easily install to his/her website.

Next thing to consider is the 3rd party script. These are those scripts which are available on the net to purchase and one can easily install to his/her website. One should note that there are only few of the scripts, which one can run on both the operating systems i.e. Windows and Linux; however, others are meant for only one operating system to be used.

4. Dedicated or Shared Servers: If one talks about the key difference between a dedicated and shared server then it is that there are several sites present on a shared server, however, there is only one website in case of a dedicated server.

Through a shared server one can save a high amount. If one talks about the drawbacks then Spamming and blacklisting from different search engines are the key problems. Such problems arise due to the reason that several sites are assign to one particular IP address. One should demand for a separate IP address for his/her website (on additional monthly charges) to secure the user from such problems.

Dedicated servers are considered best for big, highly trafficked websites, which requires large amounts of server resources to run. One of the negative points of dedicated server is that the server’s resources are divided across all the sites it’s hosting and answering page requests for. Thus, if one is working in a dedicated environment he/she always has to keep an eye on his/her resources. Another disadvantage is that dedicated servers costs around $50 per month or even more whereas shared hosting can be purchased for mere 5$ a month.

5. Support system: Another important aspect to consider is support. What is host’s response time? Does their phone support is 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

Additional features one should verify for:

Is there POP email account, if yes, then how many?

What no. Of database is there?

Is there Web based e-mail with the host?

Does they provide Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus filters?

Do they provide the facility of Password Protected to user’s directories?

Is their frequent backup if by chance crash in server takes place?

Does user get some money return back, if he/she is dissatisfied with services?

Does there is assistance for Perl, PHP, Crontab and Secure Server Layer?

There are several good hosting providers in the market, who known for their rapid response and numerous amounts of other excellent qualities for reasonable price.

Hence, one should before choosing should keep in mind the above-mentioned points, which can prevent the user from unexpected future problems.

6. Uptime and Dependability: Another influential factor. Is there any performance guarantee provided by the host? Can user expect a refund if he/she is suffering from downtime form a very long period? Is there any money back guarantee in the contract? There are several hosts in the market who refund full or partial amount of monthly fees (excluding spamming or other illegal activity) if user is dissatisfied with their service quality and want to quit their service option.

7. Price: In general one will get hosting service between the ranges of $5.00 – $10.00 dollars a month; it may very according to features provided. Service below $5.00 a month is quite awful in usual sense. Similarly, any service above $12.00 a month can provide not only a package of awesome features but probably can also include a complimentary domain name; a unique offer not provided by everyone.

8. Free Hosting Providers: In today’s market one can enjoy website hosting at quite nominal amount. Hence, there is nothing worthwhile in going for a free web hosting; as there is nothing free as it seems like.

Conclusion:

One can end the search on an ideal host by thinking ahead. One should purchase as much possible bandwidth and disk space at the most reasonable price he/she can. One should know that every website requires room to groom which user needs to deliver without any form of much risk.

I am creating a bot for an IRC chat room.

It will be an rpg (role playing game) room.

I need help creating a dice script. It can be written in Perl.

For example this is how it would work:

Chatter: d10
Bot: Chatter (d10) Result i.e 8

Can anyone offer any assistance?

I am looking for a chat script from Delphi 6

If we are not aware while shopping for a website hosting can quickly turn from a careful, measured issue to a frenzied one but if we know our needs than to shop for the best website hosting can become easier and nice experience. In recent years the “budget hosting” concept comes into existence and many hosting companies have cut down their prices to remain in competition. This is a beneficiary stage for the customer to get better services for his money. Here we are discussing how to choose a website hosting giving priority to our needs and for the serious persons money is not a matter.

Find out the Needs before shopping

It is most important to Judge our needs before going to shop. What we need and where to look for hosting services give us a baseline idea of how much we are willing to pay. This is a basic step always keep in mind before jumping online and hunt for the “best bargain”. There are many sites which are looking to accommodate the bargain hunters. So know the difference first and than buy.

Space and Transfer are two core/main attributes of website hosting. Simply we have to keep in mind that, how large we expect our site to be and how many people will visit it over a monthly period. But if we’re completely new to hosting, we may not be able to accurately estimate our needs also. So before shopping we might consider what is uploaded to our site or what kind of site we actually want. Knowing the file size which we are planning to upload will give us a basic idea of the amount of space we actually need and this will depend on the nature of the site. For example a small, “hobby” sites won’t consume a lot of space, i.e. not even 10 or 20 megs but Online stores , media files and sites hosting downloads will require more space.

“Transfer”, or “Traffic”, or sometimes “Bandwidth” is some general and equivalent terms giving information about the no of viewers coming on our site generally per month. Some hosts are having daily meters nowadays but mostly prefers monthly period. To estimate our transfer, there is a very simple method, take the total size of site files in kilobytes or megabytes and multiply by the number of visitors we are expecting. Many times our assumption is not highly accurate. But Overestimating traffic is always better than underestimating it, as we need a space to grow with our hosting plan.

If we have totally no idea what should be the size of our site and how many people will visit it? Than don’t panic and start with small. Though our dream to have a control on the web is strong, we should start it calmly and the Popularity and Traffic will come over

Determination of Required Features

Though space and transfer are core attributes but assessment of the features we required is also important in web hosting and it vary with our familiarity to the web and websites in general. No complex features are required for those who only wish to publish with the time. Choosing the host with a clear upgrade path and starting with a small plan help us in upgrading our idea of monthly traffic easily. Perhaps the webmasters hope that their traffic will grow, and a host with a variety of increasingly larger plans is best suited to handle such growth. Static web pages with content and they intend to update personally. Www is composed of “HTML” pages, which work on any browser on any kind of computer, be it a “PC”, “Mac”, or run by a different operating system is a basic level. Beginner out there should assured that HTML pages they create on a PC can be read by people browsing the web using a Mac. HTML. Databases and active scripting required by the sites have to be coded using languages of our prospective hosting company’s servers. There are many options beyond the scope of this article to go into them, but simply be aware of kind of active scripting we plan to use and make sure that our host supports it. Common alternatives are PHP, ASP.net, and Cold Fusion while some of the options will vary depending on the type of server used by our hosts generally Linux or Windows only.

Some additional features to enhance the sites are Mailing lists, forum software, and

We have to pay attention to a host’s feature set if our site goes beyond elementary ecommerce software. These are common features which are supported by most hosts. If one is planning on setting up an online store, he/she can find out what kind of shopping cart, if any, a host provides and at the same time he/she needs to learn how to use it. For ecommerce sites advanced statistics packages like Urchin are also valuable. Trace out the kind of features we plan to organize with our site and make sure that our choice is available to us.

Supporting Features

This is last but not the least component and important one. This acts as a dividing line between quality hosting and less reputable options. One of the main reasons of cut-rate hosting is support as poor support means our site is rarely up in a month so always check the support option of our prospective web host’s site. Ideally, these days they are providing two options-

[A] They will have phone hours where we can call up and speak directly to first level support.

[b] Another “direct contact” option that is popular these days is “chat.” This still allows direct contact with a live person, only through a chat window on your home computer.

The combination of both is one sign that host has invested some money in support.

While in bare minimum support options they provide a “help desk” or support ticketing system which allows customers to send information/grievances about their issue and have that issue, and all the responses to it, tracked in a central location, so that our support history is always available.

Beware that host is offering an untracked “email” support or not. Having all 3, phone, chat, and helpdesk, is sensibly a good sign as it shows that a host is paying attention to customer support. One can always “test” these systems prior to signing up by calling or chatting, but, it is always advisable to keep the conversation in brief as the intent of a support staff is not, directly, to answer sales questions. However there are cases where brief test has delayed the technician from handling a request from an existing customer.

Conclusion

So always be aware while choosing a host as it is not something to enter into lightly. Always keep in mind the above written 3 key concepts while looking for a web host. Never go on” Price” as it may result in the grievances. If website is important and it is a mission critical for our business than, find a host with an excellent reputation and high-uptime providing best services. Bargaining, Cut-rate or budget hosts will surely not provide the all. Today, due to cut throat competition many reputable hosts are providing “budget offerings” resulting in a stable hosting at reasonable rates. Hence before going ahead complete the homework/search and resultantly we have a happier long run service.

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Starting an online business agenda can be appealing easy, but if you accept no clue of breadth and how to alpha again by annual this commodity it will advice you to get started.

Step One:

The aboriginal affair you charge to apperceive about starting a business agenda online is what is your ambition bazaar activity to be, in added words what affectionate of businesses do you eventually appetite to accommodate in your fresh business directory.

If you already accept a accepted business online or offline again you will already apperceive your ambition market, and you can move advanced to footfall two in this article.

However, if you accept no abstraction what your ambition bazaar will be, again you will charge to do some research, I would acclaim starting a business agenda about article accepted and which is activity to acquire you an assets bottomward the alley or. That will gradually advice abound your accepted business.

Here are some actual accepted and assisting niches for an online business agenda you could start.

1: RealEstate Directory

2: Travel Agenda

3: Online Dating Directory

4: Automotive Agenda

5: Fashion Directory

There are so abounding added and to acquisition them aloof go to eBay.com or Amazon.com and see what is accepted on those sites, or you could go to Google and do a chase for keyword agreement like “Hot Niches” or “Popular Niches” or “Popular Business” get the idea..

Then afterwards you accept absitively on the alcove for your fresh business directory, you will charge to either shop for or annals your breadth name.

Step Two:

Buying or registering the appropriate breadth name for your fresh online business agenda will be the best important thing, so you charge to accomplish abiding you get this actual from the start.

A acceptable breadth name should be no best than two to three words, and it should accommodate the name of the alcove and the chat agenda in it and should consistently be a .com if you can advice it added astute you should go for the .net breadth if the .com for the breadth you appetite is already taken and is not for sale.

Therefore, for archetype if I was activity to alpha a fresh business agenda about the alcove absolute acreage the ideal breadth name would be RealEstateDirectory.com or RealEstateDirectory.net but all acceptable breadth names like this accept already been taken, but they may be up for auction so aloof appointment the website and see.

If you acquisition the breadth name is not for auction again you could additionally try abacus a birr amid the two words.. Like this RealEstate-Directory.com or RealEstate-Directory.net and see if they accept been taken or not, and if they are taken see if they are for sale.

If you accept to go with a three chat breadth name you could access article like your boondocks or burghal name in advanced of the breadth so it could be.. Like this NewYorkRealEstateDirectory.com or NewYorkRealEstateDirectory.net and see if it has been taken.

A abundant chargeless online ability I accept begin to advice academician storm a fresh breadth name and see if they accept been taken or not is RegistrarStats.com, accord them a try.

Once you accept begin the breadth name for your fresh online business agenda it is time to annals it, I acclaim Godaddy.com for this as they are the cheapest and action the best services.

Step Three:

Now that you accept got your breadth name for your fresh online business agenda it is time to acquisition a hosting company, and I accept approved abounding and the best I accept begin is SeoHosting.com which is endemic by HostGator.com, and they accept been about for a actual continued time and they accept bags of blessed customers.

Step Four:

Now that you accept got your hosting annual for your fresh online business agenda it is time to body the directory.

Now you could do this a cardinal of altered means but it all comes bottomward to the bulk of money you ambition to spend.

If money is not an advantage for you, again I would acclaim hiring a PHP coder from a website like RentaCoder.com or ScriptLance.com or eLance.com and get them to body a custom band-aid for you, this way you will accomplish your fresh business agenda angle out from all the added cookie cutter directories that are online these canicule application an off the shelf PHP agenda script.

Don’t get me amiss there is annihilation amiss with these types of scripts, and we use one our cocky for our own Articulation Directory, but we accept gone a footfall added and accept had a custom arrangement created for our agenda which has angry out to be a actual acceptable investment.

The agenda calligraphy we use and acclaim if you are on a actual bound starting account is PhpLinkDirectory.com.

Step Five:

Now we appear to the final footfall and which is announcement your fresh business directory, this can be done with or after spending money.

I will account bristles chargeless options and bristles paid options beneath you can alpha to advice get the chat out about your directory.

Free Options:

1: Join online forums and altercation groups accompanying to your fresh business agenda and accomplish a column agreeable business owners to account their website/business in your agenda for chargeless or at a discounted rate.

2: This one is accompanying to 1: accomplish abiding you add a Sig band bond to your agenda in all the posts you accomplish in the forums you accept joined.

3: Abide your business agenda to added chargeless articulation directories online, aloof do a chase in Google for the key chat Articulation Directory.

4: Articulation to your business agenda from your added websites that you already own or run this way the chase engines will acquisition your agenda and basis it.

5: Send out and email to accompany or barter and ask them to articulation aback to your business agenda and in barter articulation aback to their website from your agenda if it is relevant.

Paid Options:

1: Alpha a Google Adwords attack to instantly alpha active cartage to your business directory, but be accurate because if you do not apperceive what you are accomplishing with Adwords you could end up spending a lot of money after any results.

2: Shop for some paid links from added websites or directories that are agnate to your own business directory.

3: Abide your business agenda to the Beast agenda at a amount of $299 per year. Being listed in the beast agenda will accomplish your agenda added admirable in the eyes of the chase engines and your visitors.

4: Shop for some announcement in offline account affidavit if your agenda targets businesses in your bounded area.

5: Shop for banderole ads on added websites that chronicle to your business agenda and try and to accommodate for a 6-12 ages aeon because your can abundantly abate you’re over all banderole announcement costs.

Written by: Tom Dahne

Website: http://www.livemoneymachine.com and http://livemoneymachine.com

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What has become more of a fundamental than a phenomenon is that Good Customer Support and Service as well as Satisfaction has somewhat of a direct correlation with business venture success. Quality customer support as well as customer relationship management are the key drivers which reward any business whether made of bricks or working solely on the click based model. An online customer service solution easily assures satisfaction to customers who are constantly seeking help and answers to their queries.

We should always customer’s needs and improvise services that they would not find elsewhere. The most embarrassing situation is one wherein the customer proactively asks for information through mails, whether electronic or otherwise and the customer support lacks the punctuality to reply in time. For physical retailers as well as others offering customer support it has never been a question since all interactions and support occur real-time but what is daunting is the support on web which needs to be real time as well as interactive. By interaction I mean undivided attention to each one of your customers and active conversation displaying concern for all what he requires.

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Not everyone who is new to the internet knows what hosting is so I will assume no knowledge of hosting on your part. Bear with me if you have some experience in this area.

Hosting is usually renting an area on a server or large computer or rack of computers on a hard drive. Most hosting is shared or sharing space on a single hard drive. Dedicated hosting is where a whole drive or computer is dedicated to one customer’s website and files.

Everyone of the websites you see on the internet is stored somewhere on a host computer and it is displayed using html and CSS so that a person’s browser will display the page you see.

Choosing a good host is one of the most important things you need to do.

I could write a separate article on choosing a domain name but I think the two are so related in nature as to be better dealt with together in this article.

Choosing a domain name is nothing more than picking a name by which your URL or web address is known by on the internet. For example, one of my sites is called www.healyourselfnow.net. This is a domain name. I could say that the domain name is important, and so it is, but you need to know more than that.

You should normally choose a domain name that is a keyword for your site. For example, if you are targeting computers as your main keyword, you could use Cheapcomputers.com or Greatcomputers.com. This is just an example, but you get the general idea. Many people use hyphens in the name, but I don’t recommend them as the search engines don’t like them.

Security is another issue. How secure is your site? If you are selling the host should offer SSL certificates at a reasonable price of less than 30.00 so that your transactions are secure. Also, do you have a virus scanner and does your host offer leech protection to protect your images and to prevent other members from giving out passwords to restricted areas of your site.

Does your host support Fantastico or one click access to important scripts like a CMS or content management system like JOOMLA or MAMBO that allows editing or updating of your web site content with the ease of using a word processor. No knowledge of html or css is needed. So anyone in your office can contribute to website content with minimal training! Also, you can add a learning managment system like Moodle, or a live chat program or forum and instantly make your website interactive.

An interactive website is considered “sticky” or a site that will attract and keep visitors coming back to, over and over again.

The last and most important issue in choosing a good web host is customer support. Does your host offer 24 live chat support? There are things that can affect your site and you need the security and peace of mind that comes from knowing that you get competent friendly advice even at 3 am. Live chat is interactive like using Microsoft Messenger except that you are talking on a secure line for the express purpose of customer support. Live ticketed support uses a ticket and email based support system that is not as interactive as live chat but sometimes is necessary to solve a more complex problem with your site.

So to summarize, does your host offer tutorials on your site for cpanel or whm if you are hosting more than one site? Does your host offer scripts with one click installation?

Does your host offer excellent chat based and ticket based customer support? How fast is their turn around time on that support? After all, it does you no good to have 24 hour support if no one answers your call. Does your web host offer competitive prices? I would be remiss if I did not mention that bargain prices are not at all important if your host offers web design with your hosting or some other extras that are not available at other hosts. If you are new to the net, and don’t have much experience you will need a lot of support at first to help you get to know that you are doing.

For example ebooks, templates, and software that you can re sell for money with master resale rights. It is acceptable for your host to charge up to 30.00 per month if they offer web design assistance and offer ebooks, software, and templates, and a template based site builder that can put up a decent site in less than an hour. Economy hosting does not measure up for newbies.

If your host can answer “yes!” to all of these questions then you can rest assured that you have chosen a good host.

Your host determines your success on the internet as much as your efforts do, so choose wisely.