Web Hosting and Dis-services

The LPR web site is nearly back to normal. It's taken me 4 days and endless emails and live chat sessions with Globat support. I got really mad at them at one stage and considered closing the whole thing down...

Anyway, visitors to the LPR site can now expect pages to load in around 5 seconds rather than 4+ minutes.

Actually, this brings attention to an area of online business that many do not consider in risk assessments. Just what can a web site owner do when their hosting company is unresponsive or dismissive when a support request is submitted? Well, with Globat it seems you just have to wait and wait and wait. I never once got a feeling that any sense of urgency was being applied. A very sorry state of affairs.

Quote from the article below:

"Actually the root cause of most trouble when webmasters and site owners are switching hosts is that most people are very upset at the time of the switch and just want to get rid of their old host as soon as they possibly can. This emotional approach when switching web hosts can be extremely damaging and should be avoided at all costs."

NOW, THAT IS SO TRUE!

Today's top article stays on topic with an article that outlines some things to check BEFORE signing up with a web host.

Why Choosing The Right Hosting Company Is Important- By: Ian Bell

Description : You only need to do a search from within Google to give you some idea of the number of web hosting companies that there are out there all over the world.

Hopefully as you are going to be a business user of the Internet, you need to be choosing a hosting company that caters for business users and you should not to be tempted to use any of the free hosting services.

So how do you decide?

Well when you choose a company to host your Internet business web site, then you want one that is going to be totally reliable, feature packed and have some top class support to help you with every aspect of hosting your site. Now unless you are building a web site that is going to contain thousands of pages, pictures, music files and video streams, I don't really think you need to concern yourself too much now regarding disk storage size and monthly bandwidth usage.

However, your decision should include as to whether you can upgrade your hosting package easily as and when it may be required. By this I mean paying for extra storage and bandwidth should it become necessary, this way you can start on a smaller and cheaper hosting plan and when you grow, your hosting grows with you.

You also need what is called cPanel that also includes Fantastico, this is your main control panel for your web site from where you can easily alter, arrange and set up many, many aspects of your web site including your email addresses, you can set up several email addresses for example, marketing, sales, info, admin etc at yourdomain.com Now generally most webmasters have a difficulty here in choosing a hosting company, as most always look very similar in terms of what they offer. Which brings me to this point, personally I think you should choose your hosting company from personal recommendations whenever you can as experience can count for a lot.

For instance the hosting company I use may not be the cheapest on the market but then again, it's a long way off from being one of the dearest, but it is one of the best. Let me explain briefly a little more of what you should be looking for when deciding on you choosing the right hosting company. Below I have listed just some of the points from my own hosting company for you to look out for when choosing your own hosting: You need to look for hosting that can guarantee around 99.9% up time. Live support you can talk with a live person is a nice option. 24/7/365 phone support as well as email.

Choose your hosting that includes cPanel and Fantastico. cPanel demo shows you round cPanel that explains everything about it all. Their cpanel is one of the best in the industry. Tutorials (some are shown in Flash) covering all aspects of your hosting. 52 scripts that you can easily install that includes from running your own Blog, to having your own forum, to installing your own shopping mall. There is a knowledge base also that answers a lot of already asked questions. A user forum where you can ask other webmasters, questions regarding your hosting.

Whether you can pay for your hosting monthly or yearly. Offer of a 30-day money back guarantee if things should change in that period.

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How To Switch Web Hosts Without Losing Traffic And Profits

Switching web hosts should not be such a difficult thing to do smoothly and with minimal hassles. Yet the truth is that usually plenty of things do end up going wrong and the probability of a site being down for several days during a change over is very high and tends to happen rather frequently.

Still by taking a couple of simple precautions you can easily avoid all the common pitfalls that often accompany a simple change over.

The first thing that you must never forget is the fact that you have to establish a new hosting account long before closing your old web hosting one. In fact you should even go further and ensure that your old web host keeps a copy of your site for several weeks after the switch. There are some important technical reasons for this, which I will now go into.

Firstly, it takes a couple of hours, and this can stretch into a day or so, to establish a new hosting account. If you have shut down everything at your old hosts, then it means that your site will not be live or reachable by any of your visitors during those hours or days it takes you to establish the new account.

Secondly the reason for keeping a copy of your site with your old host for a couple of weeks after you have changed hosts, has to do with something called DNS. DNS stands for domain name server. It is critical for anybody in the web hosting business to understand that computers do not use domain names to trace websites. Instead IP addresses are used. To perform the conversion and find the domain name that has been requested, a number of computers are usually involved which act as domain name servers that are able to attach certain IP addresses to specific domain names that have been requested. A DNS cannot handle all conversions so what happens is that it converts local domain names on which it has information on and passes on others to the next DNS. This will continue until the information reaches a DNS capable of making the conversion.

Now when you make a switch, it will take a while for all domain name servers to update their information on you. So some domain name servers will initially refer surfers to your old host. What this means is that if everything has been shut down then the surfer will get a page not found error message. This is precisely why it is advisable to keep a copy of your site with the old host for a few weeks after the switch to a new host so as to ensure a smooth transition free of any glitches.

Actually the root cause of most trouble when webmasters and site owners are switching hosts is that most people are very upset at the time of the switch and just want to get rid of their old host as soon as they possibly can. This emotional approach when switching web hosts can be extremely damaging and should be avoided at all costs.

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Author Resource:- Mohamad Latiff is the Author of the eCommerce Web Hosting blog where you can read more of his reviews on the best and the worst of the eCommerce Web Hosting industry.