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I am scouting out hosting companies and have run across many suggestions through these threads. But I’m wondering the basics (and then some) of what to look for in a hosting company. I know one of my criterion is something affordable, but not TOO affordable that I sacrifice quality – I do believe you get what you pay for. But I’d like some advice in having other standards of what to look for. Recommended bandwidth, disk space, etc…
I also checked out SBI! (from the “Build Your Portal” link at the top right corner of CAP website), and not sure if you’ve used or considered them, but I’d like some feedback regarding their hosting features perhaps in comparison to hosting companies you’re currently using.
Also, are there any specific conditions where one would want to start out with a dedicated server vs. a virtual server? Or is that more advanced than what I need to be concerned with?
Sorry for the research paper questions. Any advice would be great :satisfied
Mahalo
You should go read some of the articles on our site
xxhttp://www.hosting-review.com This website should help you…
Your questions are pretty broad sweeping and in order to properly answer the questions you would have to provide the requirements for your website. What are you trying to do?
I would start out with a shared/virtual hosting plan until you are familiar with the process…you will get plenty of space and bandwidth for 99.9% of most websites. Once you exceed this, you can always move your domain to a dedicated server plan.
Hope this helps…
The website definitely helps out :clapper: Much mahalos Jamie.
Basically what I’m just trying to start out by having a main casino review portal which I would like to eventually link to other review portals such as poker, bingo, slots, etc…
Btw, your sites look very nice and professionally done. Good job.
casinowahine – You dont always get what you pay for actually. Most people find web hosting via referals or search engines. Just because a hosting company is ranked high doesnt mean it’s the best.
There are hundreds of niche hosting companies who do a tremendous job.
You need to analyze your needs, then determine the things you need first.
Do you have dozens of domains that you want hosted accross different C’blocks?
Do you need php, mysql?
What are your bandwidth and hosting space requirements?All these things factor in and the more you want the more its gonna cost.
BTW – I own a couple of hosting companies in addition to my marketing biz so I am not completely ignorant on the subject. Too often people pay for more than they need.
There are tons of good hosts out there….
I use resellerzoom for a reseller account so that I can host many sites.
I used hostgator for a while and they were good until my site got hacked and used a ton of resources, then they tried to force me into a dedicated server which cost a ton of money.
I use slhost with VPS now, which is nice. (also can host as many sites as I want with different IP’s if I want)
I also use site5 (no problems with them).
Thanks for the Kudos…
As Kevin said..people often pay for more than what they need.
Sounds like your requirements are pretty basic (right now).
I would test out a couple of the control panels and see which one you prefer to use. This is really an individual thing. The majority of the shared hosts use Cpanel and if you prefer that particular control panel going with someone like Bluehost may be ideal for you. You can host up to 6 domains with them and their support is very good. Lunarpages is also a good CPanel host.As mentioned, there are a number of good quality niche hosting players and it really depends on your specific needs. However, unless you have a real HEAVY traffic website such as a busy forum such as CAP…most of the bandwidth and server space provided by the top shared hosts would be fine for you.
If you are comfortable with hosting in general you may consider reseller hosting plans such as HostGator which allow you to manage multiple domains in one control panel. Having multiple “Cblocks” or domains on various web hosts is important if you want to cross-promote your various domains. If they are all at the same host i.e. Cblock, then the search engines could possibly interpret that those domains are related and discount your links.
Hope this helps….
I guess when you put it that way, people are paying more than what they need. Mahalo for the insight guys.
If you are comfortable with hosting in general you may consider reseller hosting plans such as HostGator which allow you to manage multiple domains in one control panel. Having multiple “Cblocks” or domains on various web hosts is important if you want to cross-promote your various domains. If they are all at the same host i.e. Cblock, then the search engines could possibly interpret that those domains are related and discount your links.
Opiemarket, please correct me if I’ve interpretted this wrong. So if you plan on cross-promoting you would want your domains to be hosted by different companies, right? And would a host like say BlueHost not be ideal for cross-promotion purposes since they offer multiple domains when you’d actually want the domains to be spread out amongst different companies?
So kind of tying in that concept with kwblue:
I use resellerzoom for a reseller account so that I can host many sites.
… kwblue, since you are using a reseller account, does that mean your sites are hosted through other companies and managed through the control panel on resellerzoom?
Sorry if this is confusing guys. :blush:
I asked a simular question in the general area recently, and I have recently read several other affiliates opinions of hosting companies on the forum as well.. a search for ‘hosting’ or some other keyword in the forum might be a good idea, always great to see what others have to say here in a forum where noone is profiting from their opinion
~LadyH
For your requirements check out HostMonster. Can’t beat the services / features and it has been very solid. Low prices, great phone support.
cowboy wrote:For your requirements check out HostMonster. Can’t beat the services / features and it has been very solid. Low prices, great phone support.Do you have multiple domains there? Does it work ok?
Yes, I have about 20 domains there and it’s been working great so far. And as I mentioned the phone support has been really good. They have probably the best and most up-to-date control panel I’ve seen for managing everything.
casinowahine,
To answer your question regarding multiple domains. There are varying opinions on this topic…but if you have multiple domains…then it is better to have domains hosted on seperate…servers, ip addresses & C-blocks.
The last thing you want to do is have your sites interpreted by the major search engines as being an interchanged link farm from the same person.
This is the limitation of having all you domains hosted with one host or using one “reseller” account with limited IP’s.
Think about this…why this rule is in place. People would get thousands of domains (on the same server) pointing to their one main domain…to make it appear that their “main domain” is popular. The way around that is to ensure that the incoming links are “independent” of each other.
If you have multiple domains…then they will all be on the same C-block with probably the same IP address. (Unless you buy multiple IP’s for each domain).
The search engine may interpret your links from your domains as being from the same server and not only discount those links but also penalize you for potentially spamming their engine.Our two sites listed here are on seperate servers, seperate IP’s and seperate hosts & c-blocks. This is important if you plan on having or promoting multiple domains.
If you only have a few domains…don’t worry about it.
You could also get your own dedicated server, and they are all on seperate IP’s. This is something that a good dedicated hosting provider would provide. You could also get your IP’s spread against seperate C-blocks.
With respect to HostMonster (no affiliate link here) they are owned by Bluehost. Same owner, same data center and same support group. Different and new brand. You can find their review on our website…they are an up and coming host that will have their own management soon. Currently HostMonster has about 1500 domains under management. Started last month and their parent Bluehost has over 200,000+ domains.
opiemarket wrote:The last thing you want to do is have your sites interpreted by the major search engines as being an interchanged link farm from the same person……The search engine may interpret your links from your domains as being from the same server and not only discount those links but also penalize you for potentially spamming their engine.
Spreading your domains across separate hosts seems logical. Wouldn’t want to upset the search engines now would we? :fencing:
By the way, what’s the difference between a “c-block” and a “server”? After reading your previous post, I’m guessing they’re not synonymous like I thought.
Agree with Opiemarket –
One question though. I have several domains all hosted with the same hosting company. Only two of them are semi-related in content but all of these domains are set up with their own dedicated IP address. How does the search engines view that? Will it still hurt because they are on the same block? At least I assume they are on the same block because they are all with the same company.
Whatever the case, I have learned to always have my own IP because if you are sharing with other users and one of those users are spamming or doing something the search engines don’t like, everyone on that IP will be affected.
An IP address is the location of a computer/server on the Internet. It is 4 sets of digits, known as octets.
The third octet is called the C-Class IP addressFor example 211.125.125.91
125 is the C-Class IP address.
Generally webhosts assign a certain number of IP addresses for each server, and when you buy your shared hosting account you are getting a shared IP address. If you get a reseller hosting account they will assign you maybe a couple of IP addresses. Therefore, you have to ensure that your assigned IP addresses have different C-classes. The easiest way to do that is to use different web hosts, or if you have a dedicated server you can get your web hosting provider to assign you IP addresses from different C-classes (if they are a data center like The Planet – and not just someone selling boxes in a data center that should not be an issue).
Where you get into a real issue, is where you are hosting inter-linked websites on basically a cheap shared hosting plan such as what we talked about earlier in this thread. You probably are on the same IP-address for all your domains or worse yet…you are basically using sub-domains in your structure that are being assigned/redirected to primary top level domain addresses. This is another topic altogether.
Another issue that EWhitaker indicated and it is an excellent point to make… if you are going to use shared/virtual hosting make sure you at least have your own IP address in case one of the other users on that server is doing something like spamming or wasting the resources of that server. The web host will cut-off the IP address. However, you are still at risk with shared/virtual hosting of your server going down by others on the same box using all the resources. This is the risk of shared hosting.
One of the factors we have been talking about here is that search engines determine your ‘importance’ according to the number of other websites and webpages linking to you. There are other factors that determine your ranking in the search engines but this is one of the major factors. Because of this fact, webmasters often set up multiple websites with similar content and link them together to achieve higher-rankings in the search engines.
Such sites have been known to be called sister sites, parallel sites, etc.
If you are using the same hosting provider for multiple websites i.e. like reseller hosting or “hostmonster”, etc, the probability is that your sites will be on the same IP address or the same C-class IP block.
If you are going to run sister/parallel sites, make sure they have different content and try to ensure those sites are on different C-Class IP addresses.
Here is some more detail in case you are interested
xxhttp://www.searchguild.com/redir/o.php?out=http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question549.htmGood Article
xxhttp://www.theinternetdigest.net/articles/ip-address-overview.html
