How to choose a host !!

[shahid_146]

I have tried to cover many aspects of hosting in my recent article at
http://www.binarytrends.com/article_details/11/Choose-a-hosting-package.-How-confusing-!!
I hope it will help. I also need someone to give me feed back on it. So if you fancy doing so please do.

 

[jmweb]

Meaning your site will have an IP address which is never shared with any other site. Although it is very rare for web hosts today to have shared IP, it is possible to host many website at a single address. This approach is called name- based hosting.

This is against ARIN policies.

By the way nice site, is there a forum?

 

[scribby]

This is against ARIN policies.

By the way nice site, is there a forum?

And most webhosts give you a shared IP address...

 

[shahid_146]

Thanks John,
I have added this fact to the article with your reference. I hope you won't mind
And probably Scribby is right as well. What do you think.
I am working on a forum as I didn't wanna use a third party one, so hopefully will add it to the website, not very soon though. Any ideas please share.
Thanks again,
Shahid

 

[scribby]

Thanks John,
I have added this fact to the article with your reference. I hope you won't mind
And probably Scribby is right as well. What do you think.
I am working on a forum as I didn't wanna use a third party one, so hopefully will add it to the website, not very soon though. Any ideas please share.
Thanks again,
Shahid

As a webhost myself all my shared clients get a shared IP, unless they request otherwise, which then costs them $1/pm.

As for reseller accounts, they normally have 2 so they have 1 for shared IP and for their main nameserver and the 2nd one for their second nameserver.

 

[tyler79]

Technical Support: One of the most important point to consider. Look for a company which can give you a 24/7 technical support. The quality of technical support is also important though. The company must have a telephone, email and preferably online chat support. Companies responding in days to your email inquiries are no good.

this is the best key for my point of view...

 

[Senad]

Technical Support - The quality is definetly important as mentioned above and hosts must have 24/7 support.

Bandwidth - There is no such thing as also unmetered data and bandwidth in a shared, reseller or VPS environment. Unmetered can only pertain to dedicated servers via allowing 10/100Mbps data transfer. Although even with this you can calculate how much max bandwidth per month you actually have.

Another important key that you mention is uptime. Make sure that hosts post their uptimes rather just give guarantees. Most of the time the host's ToS/AuP protects them from their own uptime guarantee hence making them not responsible to give you back a percentage in case downtime does occur.

Also in regards to jmweb's post about it being against ARIN policy:

The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) manages the Internet numbering resources for North America, a portion of the Caribbean, and sub-equatorial Africa. There are several other governing bodies for the rest of the world eg: Asia, Latin America and Europe. ARIN rules stipulate that a host can not issue a dedicated IP to anyone except for purposes which can not be achieved via shared IP. Acceptable uses are: SSL certs, nameservers, anonymous ftp servers, etc.

Thus it is prohibited to issue dedicated IP's for 90% of all websites and not a money saving measure as implied above. The basis for this ruling from ARIN are that the IP numbering system as is are a finite resource. Each registry has a specific block of IP's assigned to the regions they govern. This makes it impossible to issue a dedicated IP to every domain on the internet. Which is why the shared IP system was mandated, adopted and accepted universally.

Even ARIN discusses security measures based on Shared Hosting environments hence the statement made above is not up to par.

 

[shahid_146]

Thanks Senad, you explained it nicely and I've quoted it in the article to make it clear to the readers as well.