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I normally write about comment spam over on my marketing blog but in recent times I seem to be getting more and more that emanates from web hosting companies on this site so I thought I would make a quick educational post for these SEO lost causes and free ad seekers.

1) This site may well still be listed as a “dofollow” blog, but, alas, the spammers caused that to change some months ago now and our decision was posted here at Goodbye To DoFollow

Now, my reason for restating this is that it is blatantly obvious that some of the comments are being posted by services who advertise their comment spam as SEO  and link building services on the sites they link back to. These are smart people without a doubt.

Most of these comments are flagged by Akismet as spam already, so, they are charging people for something they cannot hope to deliver, having secured themselves a warm seat in the spammer hall of  shame. The point is, if you see someone advertising a service to post links for you, for a fee, on dofollow blogs, don’t be a sucker. You are wasting your money. This is not SEO or legitimate link building and in my experience, the comments are usually so poorly written &/or completely generic or irrelevant that even if the perpetrators haven’t yet been flagged it sure won’t be long until they are.

2) Hosting providers – I think it is fairly obvious what kind of website this is. It is also fairly obvious that an area entitled “Customer Reviews” exists for customers to post their feedback. Somehow, more and more hosting sites seem to interpret this forum as “place your free ads here” or similar.

I’m not going to name any names, but invariably these companies are operating out of the Indian sub-continent or the far east. So, let’s help clear things up for you – the area of the site you are looking for is titled “Advertisers” and can be found easily in the top menu bar of every page. Yes, this site owner has bills to pay too and the rates are extremely fair as some of my existing customers will tell you.

Again, a great deal of these kinds of free ad seeking comments are finding their way into Akismet’s sin bin too and if they haven’t, you can be sure I’ll be one more webmaster/blogger doing my bit to help Akismet’s filters for the future.

To make things even easier and more convenient, if all you really want is a link, once again, it’s right there at the top of the page. I realize that reciprocal linking has lost a lot of juice in recent times but if you have a related site, I have made exchanging links as painless as possible.

3) On the subject of advertising and spam – unsolicited emails are not the way to do business online, however, I recognize that sometimes, an email to a webmaster with some kind of proposal is not always a bad thing.

Having said that, I would like to make it very clear that you cannot buy a listing at this site, nor can you buy a favorable review or similar shenanigans. I am well aware that this is common practice in the industry and is also why hosting review sites often have little credibility – see the article and video on Honest Hosting Reviews for more.

Again, I am not going to name names, but there have been several occasions where an unsolicited mail has arrived, offering me what I consider pretty substantial consideration in return for a “top listing and review”. To my mind, if you have to buy good feedback for your service, whatever industry you are in, you have some serious problems, both business and ethical.

Whilst it hurts to turn down such offers (at least in the pocket) there is little hope for any kind of  impartial hosting information should every site owner be lured by the promise of easy (dirty) money.

If you want to pay for advertising on these pages there are convenient an easy channels for doing so, but bent reviews are not part of the service provided and, I’ll say it yet again,  there is no such thing as a “Top Ten” or “Top Twenty” list of hosting providers unless the criteria are very strictly defined, and, even then, it’s hardly objective.

4) Affiliate programs – the majority of web hosts here on TCH run affiliate programs (it’s all in the disclaimer) and therefore I am paid a commission should I send customers their way. I hope that if my visitors find the reviews and articles helpful, they consider this fair exchange for the site’s features and any assistance it provides for them.

Such affiliation does not guarantee either party any favors or special treatment. Well, aside from a couple of cases where affiliate status has been withdrawn because of a refusal to remove/edit negative but fair feedback. (yes, sadly it has happened). Reasonable criticism and complaint is part and parcel of a place on our real estate.

5) To those who would genuinely like to be featured on TCH, please feel free to use my contact form and submit your proposals or requests. Whilst I can’t and don’t guarantee anything, I will always consider them. Lack of an affiliate program does not exclude you either.  As I’ve always stated on these pages, I try to offer a site where visitors can give and get some honest information and also to feature hosts who have a proven track record for reliability and fair practices. That’s not to say I never get it wrong, but if  serious problems with a company are becoming the norm,  I try to keep people informed and do remove companies who perform really badly, regardless of my personal affiliate status.

I hope this clears things up for everyone. To those who have been guilty of comment spam I urge you to rethink your tactics because it really does you nothing but harm. To those who have ever considered paying for any kind of “blog commenting” service, please save your money and put it towards some legitimate marketing and advertising. Comments are about interaction and sharing, not a shortcut to high SERPS rankings.

TCH

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Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to complete the web hosting survey. It’s not to late to send us your feedback, so please, if you can spare five minutes, leave us your comments on your own host and we will credit you here with a link and a mention.

Hostgator – So far the company are scoring very well with very high ratings from users.

One respondent, the webmaster at squidooaffiliatemarketing.com says:

“Their online support is great and their people know what they are talking about. I would like to see a simpler, more user friendly billing information system – it seems to be on another site. I have multiple accounts and appreciate what I can do because of Hostgator’s features and reliability.”

The overall rating from this webmaster is a 100% 5 out of 5 stars.

Also from www.randallbishop.net down under in Australia another perfect score of five on each question asked who adds:

The webmaster at http://getpaidtowriteonline.com rates the company with 4 out of 5 stars overall and sees no reason to change, giving them top marks for reliability and a good 4 out of 5 for support, value and features.

Vlad over at SageBlogger also give the company a good overall 4 out of 5 and says that the only reason for changing hosts in the future would be that the site is soon going to require a dedicated server, unfortunately not available at Bluehost at present. He says: “I really like BlueHost. The time is near where some of my sites will need to be moved to a dedicated box. But I would stay with BlueHost if they ever decide to provide dedicated hosting.”

LiquidWeb – Josh Spaulding at the excellent EZ-Online Money.com says that Liquidweb are quite simply the best host he has ever dealt with. High praise indeed. Josh runs on a dedicated server but Liquidweb do offer shared hosting plans too. Josh docked the company only one point for price/value giving them an overall score of 5/5.

JustHost have received only one response in our survey resulting in a 1/5 from an unhappy webmaster who has this to say:

“Just host sucks cheap it maybe but you get what you pay for apps don’t work and to cancel and try to get your money is painful 5 emails when they finally answer and point you to their cancel url go through seven screens each one times out 3 or 4 times. and maybe just maybe you will get your money back”

This response was from an anonymous webmaster in the UK who says he will be changing hosts as soon as possible due to service issues.

WingSix.com are a not a host we were familiar with but the webmaster at baldydog.com who has had a shared account with them for over three years rates them only 3 out of 5 overall and claims their downfall is service and customer and technical support, for which reason he would decline to recommend them despite competitive pricing. Another customer who states that he will be changing providers in the near future.

WiredTree another firm unknown to us come highly recommended by a commercial blog owner with over 100,000 monthly visitors who hosts on a VPS with the company and sees no reason to change after a year with the company. An overall rating of 5 with only a couple of rating point dropped overall, one for features and one for reliability.

Those are the results so far and we hope they make for interesting reading.

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Dedicated web hosting Has Many Advantages
By Volodymyr Zablotskyy

Compared to shared web hosting, it is more expensive to host your web site on a dedicated server. You may wonder why you would even think about using a dedicated web hosting solution. Well, there are many advantages to having your own dedicated server. There are several web hosting providers with different web hosting plans that can provide you with the right kind of dedicated web hosting solution and many can be found here in our directory.

The first and perhaps the biggest advantage of dedicated web hosting is stability and reliability. Your server has a higher uptime if there are no other users on the same server. With others sharing the same server, you have a risk overloading the server. It is also possible that some of the webmasters of the other sites on the same server can be beginners who write code that will crash the server.

The second and perhaps as important benefit is customization. With a dedicated server you get to choose the server operating system and all the features of the server. If you need special server software or extensions there is no one telling you it can’t be done. You can even choose which control panel you will use to manage the server.

The third advantage of dedicated web hosting is security. You are the only person who has an access to the dedicated server. You can be certain that nobody is installing any malicious code or ever viruses on the server that hosts your important website. You can even have you own external firewall to make sure that you are the only person allowed to access the server.

The fourth advantage is that you have more options with hard drives. With a dedicated server you can opt to have two hard drives where the other hard drive will always be a mirror image of the other one. It is almost impossible for both of the mirrored hard drives to go bad at the same time. You will never lose any data because of a hard drive failure.

A unique IP address is the fifth important advantage. With a dedicated server you are guaranteed to have a unique IP address. A shared server has one IP address and special header-reading software determines which website traffic is directed to which actual site. This can slow down a server. Upgradeability is the sixth advantage. You are free to upgrade your dedicated server any way you like.

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By Matt Ryan

If you own an active website, two hosting issues you’ll definitely comes across are bandwidth and server load.

It is interesting to note that the term Bandwidth carries two meanings. Firstly it defines the magnitude of data that can be transferred to and from the server at any given point, hence the total network capacity available for users on a server. Secondly it also relates to the total limit of data transfer allowed for each user in a given month.

Any activity that you perform on the server causes consumption of bandwidth. For example each file you upload or download, any email you send or receive, any web pages that visitors to your website access etc, all of these actions result in network traffic being utilized.

web hosting firms devise their plans and packages in a way that there’s a limit to total bandwidth that a customer can consume in a month. This makes sure that other users on the shared server also have enough traffic for their website visitors and that hosting companies themselves do not end up buying more bandwidth from their uplink provider.

The other important aspect affecting the performance of your website is server load. While server load has many definitions, it generally refers to the utilization of CPU. Just like every computer has a central processing unit to process instructions received from various applications, a web server also has a CPU that is central to its performance.

Anything you perform on the server adds some load even if very trivial to the CPU. In wider sense, the server load also refers to usage of other components like main memory, hard disk drives etc that are mistakenly taken as part of the CPU.

A request to visit a web page may result in server’s disk drive getting busy fetching files associated to that page from different locations, passing it to the main memory for visitor retrieval. While delivering web pages is a simple task, add customized scripts and web based database solutions in this scenario and very soon you’ll realize how tedious it becomes for the CPU to allocate limited memory among the competing requests.

Life would be much easier if all users on a shared server start to care about the load they are pushing onto the server, however generally that is not the case. Therefore it is important for you to learn if the shared server your website is hosted on is going under heavy load and stress caused by other users. Most of the times it’s only a small number of users that place the server under undue stress and only the system admin can figure out who they are. What you can do is ask your hosting company to move you to another server that is not heavily loaded.

Server load on a shared server is one of the reasons why many website owners prefer to have a dedicated server, especially those with successful websites. On a dedicated server it’s much easier to optimize your html pages and any scripts or databases you may have and see the result of this optimization in terms of faster website access and more satisfactory experience for your visitors.

Visit The Top Ten Web Hosts today to find out more about who some of the Best Web Hosts are and learn a bit more about Affordable Web Hosting

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StartLogic web hosting Review by Tom Counts

There are plenty of StartLogic hosting reviews on the Internet, so why one more? Simple. This is a company that deserves to be mentioned at every opportunity if their positive press is to be believed. Just about every StartLogic review will begin by saying something similar and this is a web host that has built up a solid reputation in a very short period of time. Opening its doors in 2003, StartLogic has garnered awards for the exemplary customer service and support it offers, as well as having a five hundred page StartLogic guide, one of the most detailed you will find among any of the web hosting companies operating today. Attention to detail is hallmark of StartLogic , and one of the reasons for their rapid growth.

Most StartLogic reviews would also mention the fact that this provider also offers its customers web site building tools that include a logo, web page, and template editor that is very easy to use. Because of these types of tools, StartLogic often attracts people who are unsure of their ability to create a quality site. The tools really do make a difference.

Of course, nice tools would not make customers hang around. What does that is StartLogic ’s high incidence of uptime. Just about any StartLogic review will note the reliability of their network and the proactive nature of the StartLogic staff when it appears that anything may impact service delivery to their customers. These folks know how to take care of their clients. StartLogic ratings on various blogs and more than one StartLogic review bear this out, with many of the ratings being above 95%.

When it comes to pricing, StartLogic uses a tiered pricing system, with the monthly charge determined by the duration of the commitment. There is a significant discounted monthly rate if you sign up for a two year term, as opposed to a one month term. All term commitments come with no setup fees, and unlimited POP email and email forwarding. This is worth noting in any StartLogic review of their services.

Contacting StartLogic and interacting with them can be accomplished by calling a toll-free number any time of the day or night, or by using an online chat feature. Typically, a service ticket will be opened when a customer has a query or concern, and it will remain open until both StartLogic and the client have decided the matter is resolved.

One distinction mentioned in many a StartLogic review is their policy of a 100% refund of any unused hosting service. The fact of the matter is that customers rarely leave, so few people ever take them up on this offer. Given the great job that StartLogic does, that should come as no surprise.

Customer Support:

We have included StartLogic in our listings of the best web hosts based on the actual user experience and testimonials for the most outstanding customer support available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They let you take advantage of the fastest technical assistance via email or online chat as well as correspondence option allowing you to send those not-so-important questions to be answered by their experts as well.

StartLogic keeps the individual touch for every customer and aims to provide you with unlimited 24/7 access to live support person that will make sure your solutions work and your website performance is excellent.The strength of support and their infrastructure systems, allow StartLogic to offer an industry-leading 99.99% uptime guarantee, covering all the websites hosted on their stable servers. If you would like to benefit from reliable, hassle-free hosting service at the most affordable pricing, StartLogic should be able to cover all of your personal and business website needs.

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If you have been paying attention to the matter of web hosting in recent times you will probably have seen the term "overselling" and, depending on your experience you may either nod your head sagely or scratch it and wonder what it means. In order to clear matters up we have taken a look at the overselling trend and explain it here in simple terms. (Note: shared hosting means that your websites are stored on a server with a number of other customers sites and that all resources are shared by the customers on that server).

Web hosting companies usually promote their shared hosting services with "figures" and parameters of the hosting packages they are offering. Storage space on offer, monthly data transfer (bandwidth) limits etc. and although for most professionals this gives a fair indication of what kind of sites the service can support, the marketing philosophy is usually based on the belief that many people lack the knowledge to translate the meanings of the numbers and simply go for the biggest. In an attempt to outdo one another a lot of hosts have raised the numbers game to rather silly levels. On the face of it, some of these offerings just look too good to be true and in reality, they are. We have taken some hypothetical numbers for this exercise and you will often see far bigger numbers bandied about. Sometimes numbers are replaced by one word but we hope most people realize that hosting resources never can, and never will be, "unlimited".

Just by way of example, (and this is pretty arbitrary) let’s say that a company is offering 100GB of storage for $10 per month. If they are using entry level servers rather than high-end equipment which is far more expensive, their hard disk may perhaps be capable of storing around 400GB of data (based on current technology) and assuming that all that space was given over to storing customers content, they could host 20 accounts with 20GB of space, generating $200 monthly revenue. At that rate it would take over a year to even cover the cost of the server, and remember, our theoretical company is offering 100GB per user, not 20GB. Think about it – just four customers per server for $40 per month income would make the hosting company far more than a charity!

Realistically, few users can use more than 1-2 GB of space and most will probably need less than 100MB. If a customer did manage to gobble up 20GB of storage, hundreds of others will not, effectively subsidizing the few people who actually did manage to upload such huge amounts of content. (think about your own computer’s hard disk space and how much data it is capable of storing and what a tiny fraction of that would be used were you to make a backup of your site(s) – I think my last full backup was a shade over 20mb.

The offer from our fictitious company also includes 300GB of data transfer. So, let’s just say that most use around half that – 150GB – which means that around 200 sites could be served by a 100MBs line each one using the complete capacity of a half a megabit carrier – if the offer made was actually used by all customers, the hosting fees would not even cover the bandwidth costs! The truth is that almost none of the customers would need anywhere close to this amount of data transfer.

Basically, by overselling, the hosting companies are offering a service that they are pretty confident you won’t use; certainly one that they don’t want you to use and consequentially won’t ever allow you to use.

Let’s try and translate a few more numbers to give a very rough idea of your likely usage and visitor traffic. We’ll assume that you are going to use your 300GB bandwidth every month, 10GB every day, and we will assume that each visitor you receive results in a download of half a megabyte of data – that means that in the 15 hours a day of peak traffic times you would have 15,0000 visitors. This is a VERY rough example (the nature of internet traffic being what it is) but hopefully it illustrates just what a high traffic site you would be talking about, and how unlikely your business is ever going to need such resources. The point is, that no shared hosting account can handle a site of such magnitude so why do they offer these huge numbers as selling points? Is it deceptive or just good marketing?

If you are a potential customer, just remember that the offers will always be qualified by limitations set our elsewhere in the terms of service – not necessarily "small print" but something that so many people never read. The hypothetical situations outlined above will be prevented from ever becoming a reality by setting certain limits such as no two consecutive days in excess of x amount of bandwidth usage, no more than x hits per second to your site, database connection limits, database size limitations and individual file size limitations just to name a few.

Human nature being what it is, wanting something for nothing is something that marketers have long exploited and in such a hugely competitive industry, overselling was perhaps almost an inevitability, the snowball effect carrying many along with it.

In some ways, these overselling tactics by companies can be counter productive but when the competition steps up, market forces dictate the path for many. The forums are full of people bad mouthing hosts for shutting off their service ’without warning’ and often it is because of the perceived promises and lack of understanding of the real limits. Is it the fault of the host or the customer? It really takes two to tango as they say, but overselling to a market with limited knowledge of the product is a recipe for poor publicity and bad feeling when things come home to roost. Does this help either party? No, it doesn’t, but oversell is, at least for now, here to stay and although companies who oversell cannot simply be categorized as "bad hosts" it re-enforces the old caveat of "buyer beware".

Of course, there are still those that don’t oversell, or at least not to the ludicrous extent of others, and maybe you should seek out a shared hosting deal that costs a little more but backs up it’s service with a solid infrastructure of hardware, service and support. Balance your desire for "cheap" with an equally strong desire for "quality" and you’re on the right path to finding a host with whom you can be a happy and satisfied customer.

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When embarking on this review, I did so knowing that Easy CGI have proved to be one of the most popular hosting companies listed on my sites in terms of click through numbers if not perhaps conversions. This says a lot for their presentation and the design of their promotional creatives; their banners in particular generate an unusually high rate of interest, but are they any good and how do they perform in the cutthroat world of web hosting?

Well, Easy CGI started out back in 1994 as an internet service provider before opening the doors to their hosting operation around four years later. They are a relatively large company now and over the years they have concentrated on success through excellent standards of service and customer satisfaction. Judging by many consumer comments around the web, they have performed well in this area, and many customers have nothing but complimentary things to say about them. This is a good start and a definite plus point for any host.

On visiting the website you will be greeted with a good layout and easy to navigate pages. As is now common practice, their shared hosting plans are prominently displayed offering an at a glance feel for pricing and features. There are currently three levels of shared hosting, initially a little confusingly all labeled “Advanced” and ranging in price from $7.96 to $21.56 per month. Even the cheapest of the bunch offers a good level of features and pricing levels are pretty much average for a budget hosting option. For full details of each plan the company’s website is clear and concise with a nice comparison page making it easy to see how each stacks up against your requirements.

All in all the website is workmanlike and straightforward, pretty much like the company. Nothing is hidden and there aren’t any silly restrictions or small print horrors waiting to trip up the unwary. We should mention that Easy CGI is Windows hosting as opposed to Linux. This means no C-Panel, so, if that is an absolute requirement you will need to look elsewhere. Having said that their generic control panel is functional and does what it is designed to do although some users have criticized it for not being quite as quick and sleek as other major control panels, and the fact that its interface is unfamiliar to many means a learning curve to familiarize yourself with a different layout. If you’ve never encountered a control panel before, it’s no different to learning any other panel and shouldn’t cause any problems. Not the prettiest interface either but aside from that, there’s not much to say about it and it gives almost total control over your sites and domains..

Aside from the shared hosting you will also find Virtual Private Server options starting at as little as $43.96 a month if paid yearly. They also offer co-location servers and again, prices are reasonably competitive. Domain services are available via the company too and they can also arrange email only hosting for a very low monthly fee.

Sticking with the shared hosting however, the company support a wide range of databases and even the cheapest plan gives you 50 MySQL’s which is pretty generous. You’ll get all the usual things like FTP and PHP, SSI, PERL, ASP and AJAX, plus of course the usual 24/7 support, a 99.9% uptime guarantee and add ons like a website builder (not sure how good it is) 500 pop email accounts and statistics. It’s really a question of storage and bandwidth differences among the plans, but all are reasonably endowed in those areas.

We mentioned support and by all accounts they perform well with both phone and email help systems that we haven’t managed tofind any real complaints about from users, some going as far as to claim them to be “the best I’ve ever encountered”, which, although relative, is good to know. Billing is straightforward and easy to administer for users, all through their control panel. There’s a built in ticket system and some tutorials, FAQ’s etc. to help out the complete novice and all in all the experience is a pretty painless one for people of all levels. Overall it is fair to say that EasyCGI are a competent enough bunch with very good support channels for their customers. They provide everything you would expect without offering anything exeptionally unique but their prices and services are fair, straightforward and reliable and their reputation pretty solid. For those who are “Linux or nothing” zealots they will obviously not be of interest, but for everyone else, certainly deserving of consideration. EasyCGI.com – 3Levels of Web Hosting to Meet Your Needs

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It is virtually impossible nowadays to miss the fact that Hostgator are one of the largest shared hosting providers out there. This makes writing a review of their services particularly difficult in the sense that there are a huge number of supporters and loyal customers together with a number of people who express dissatisfaction with the service. They are also heavily promoted because commissions for affiliates are generous.

Obviously, the bigger you get, the law of averages says that there are bound to be some users who will have a less than perfect experience and as with all hosting companies it must be borne in mind that users are sometimes the authors of their own problems when it comes to web hosting. In an attempt to give a balanced review of Hostgator we have tried to look at the supporters versus the naysayers in an even handed way.

Looking at service plans and prices, Hostgator have become popular because on a features to price ratio they stack up very well against the competition. There are four levels of shared hosting offered with cute names such as "Hatchling" and "Swamp" and they range in price from the $6.95 monthly to $14.95 with a semi dedicated server coming in at $74.95. The middle range plan, entitled "Baby" costs a very reasonable $9.95 per month and you certainly seem to be getting a fair bit for your money. All Hostgator’s plans offer C-Panel and Fantastico with a huge range of ready to install scripts (around 52 at the last count). At the "Baby" level you also get unlimited MySQL databases, PHP 4&5, 100GB of storage and 1000GB of data transfer – this all looks very impressive for the price. The uptime guarantee is 99.9% and all plans are "no contract" so in theory if you are in any way dissatisfied you can move with no strings attached. They claim 24/7 support which is pretty much a given these days but, on the face of the figures alone, the "Baby" plan offers a powerful package for the money. You can easily check the full packages at the Hostgator site which is very clear and easy to navigate, with an ’at a glance’ summary for potential customers.

If there are any downsides to using Hostgator they appear to be on the support side, and users often complain that they are a victim of their own success and that as they have grown some deterioration in service has appeared. By the same token, there are plenty of users willing to stand up and defend the host and claim a very high standard of support and this is a really difficult area to call. On the whole, it has to be said that there seem to be more supporters than those crying "foul". It is not a good sign that some general hosting forums are crowded with Hostgator users asking support questions – whether this is lack of knowledge on behalf of the users or genuine problems with the official channels is impossible to know with any certainty, but if it is indicative of support problems it’s something the company should address. To be fair, I have seen several incidents of customer complaints on an independent forum being addressed by the owner of the company himself through that forum, which suggests an awareness and willingness to talk that goes far beyond the normal official support channels in place, and has to be applauded.

However, a hosting company cannot be held accountable for the actions of its customers and on balance, Hostgator has become successful for a reason. Their pricing is competitive and their features comprehensive. The "Baby" plan offers a big bang for your buck and will probably be more than adequate for a very high number of users.

In the current marketplace they are certainly difficult to ignore and deserve a place on anyone’s shortlist. You can address any concerns you may have in a number of Web Hosting Forums where Hostgator are always a hot topic of discussion.

Overall a good no nonsense host offering value for money and, judging by positive feedback on the web, a good customer support infrastructure which occasionally suffers a hiccup but is generally satisfactory.

If you have something to add to this general review, your own experiences to share, we would love to read your comments about Hostgator .

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Article By Sage Kalmus

If you want total control not only over the administration of your website but also over the very hardware and software used to run it, then you should be evaluating not shared hosting providers, but dedicated hosting providers. If your business is large enough or growing fast enough that it requires its own internet connection and server, you may need a dedicated web host.

What’s the downside to going with dedicated hosting providers? In a word: responsibility. In most areas of life, with total control comes total responsibility, and it’s no different with hosting providers. With a dedicated server, the onus is on you to buy, install, and maintain the actual equipment — the server itself — mounted in the dedicated hosting providers’ data center.

Fortunately, you still get the benefit of their presumably top-notch, around-the-clock security over the physical premises, but you remain fully responsible for the security of your cyber-premises. Likewise, dedicated hosting providers will ensure that the systems in the building are all provided with redundant uninterruptible and backup power and environmental controls, but it’s you who must keep your machines and cables maintained and functioning in this idyll environment.

How do you identify whether it’s time to switch from a shared host to a dedicated host? There are 3 main indicators to stay alert for:

Speed

If the traffic streaming through your shared server is slowing down your customers’ pace as they browse your site (or your employees, if an in-house site), it may simply be time to look for more unencumbered shared hosting. But if you’ve tried several shared hosting providers with the same results, then it may be time to remind yourself how impatient the average web surfer is. While you’re jumping from shared host to shared host trying to save a buck, your customers are jumping ship. Your ability to respond promptly and effectively to customer transactions and inquiries cannot be overemphasized either.

Reliability

The limits to your control are nowhere more apparent than in the areas of reliability and security. It’s not simply that problems can arise: problems do arise. It’s the nature of the biz. And if you don’t have unlimited access to your own operating system, software and database appliations, etc., there’s not much you can do when one arises.

Customizability

If your company is growing fast, you’re going to be changing many aspects of your web presence along with it. You may regularly need to tweak your disk space and bandwidth and experiment with using different applications to better serve your changing needs. On a shared host, upgrading in such a way usually involves leaping from one “package” or “plan” to another. These packages are generally preset and may or may not serve your immediate needs. They may be riddled with programs you don’t yet need, for example, yet lack in the one singular program you do. Or the next leap up from your current plan has way more disk space and bandwidth than you need at the moment. With a dedicated server, you can make changes incrementally, step forward, step back, heck, step sideways if you need to — and when you need to.

In large part, it’s the size and growth rate of your business that will dictate whether you need a shared or dedicated host. Affordability and personal time commitment are nice secondary considerations, but if your business is booming, you would do it a great injustice to try and save on a few bucks and few extra hours per week of your time in exchange for slower and poorer quality of service for your customers.

By the same token, however, if your business is small enough to function quite smoothly on any of the shared hosting providers out there, don’t squander your precious capital on a dedicated server just so you can have total control. Because sometimes total control isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

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