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What is PHP?

2008-09-07T15:15:00.001-07:00

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a server side scripting language which is most suitable for website development. Php is placed in HTML pages. PHP scripts are executed on the server. PHP supports many databases like MYSQL, Oracle etc.. You can query from db & retrieve data. Almost all free webhosts allow php or provide this service.
PHP files contain html tags and are sent to browser as plain html pages. They might have extension like .php or .php3 or .phtml .
PHP is platform independent.

To practice php on you computer you need to download php parser from http://www.php.net/

What is HTML?

2008-09-07T14:06:00.001-07:00

What is html?
HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is a computer programming language that is used in website development. Html files are just some simple text files with extension .html or .htm with tags in it. HTML is basic website development language. You can learn basics of html in just an hour of reading and practice. There are other types of html like shtml where there are some serverside scripting lines that are executed before the file is sent to the user. Html is powerful static web programming language or dhtml which combines javascript with html to produce dynamic pages. There are some good WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors that can generate HTML automatically for you. All you need to is drag and drop images or type text as in Microsoft word.

What is ASP?

2008-09-07T13:28:00.001-07:00

ASP (Active Sever Pages) are the web pages on a ISS (Internet Information Services). ASP is a server-side scripting environment (not a scripting language) developed by Microsoft that allows embedding of scripting commands in HTML pages to create dynamic web pages. If you want to code or develop a website using ASP technology, you have to get a windows webhosting. ASP also includes jscript and VBScript engines. As the scripts are executed on the server there is no need for browser to support scripts. Optimized asp coding can reduce network traffic. You source code is secure as it cannot be viewed from the browser. There are many more advantages. It can save your time as it takes less time to develop website in asp.

What is Virtual Hosting?

2008-09-06T20:42:00.001-07:00

Virtual hosting is same as share hosting. Shared hosting or virtual hosting means that you are sharing the web space or bandwidth of the server with other many websites. Usually there are few websites that require dedicated hosting. Shared hosting suffices the need of most people and this option is reliable and cheap or affordable. Dedicated hosting costs from 150$ /month where as you can get a very good shared hosting for 100$/year.
But there are limitations to shared hosting. In shared hosting you will be sharing the server's CPU & memory (ram) with other many more websites. Shared hosting is recommended for websites that have traffic less than 100,000/month (one hundred thousand).

What is Web Hosting?

2008-09-05T20:46:00.000-07:00

The process of renting bandwidth and disk space to setup a website of your own is called webhosting.
You can get a free webhosting. There are numerous web hosts that provide free webhosting like Doteasy.com , 110mb and many more web hosting companies (more than 250). But most of them place ads on your website and it can become annoying.

Anyway nothing beats paid hosting. Paid hosting is always reliable than free hosts and they allow ads on your websites. There are many types of webhosting like

Free web hosting
Reseller webhosting
Shared web hosting
Dedicated Webhosting

Unlimited Bandwidth is it possible?

2008-09-05T00:14:00.000-07:00

Many web hosting companies advertise about unlimited bandwidth. Is it really possible for these companies who don't even own their line to be able to provide bandwidth. Some companies find providing unlimited bandwidth possible as most of the webmasters bandwidth usage is below average hence providing the remaining bandwidth to others who require more (i.e, unlimited bandwidth). If your hosting company provides unlimited hosting bandwidth then first read the unlimited conditions given to provide such service, like your content should not take high CPU usage etc.. Bandwidth is one of the costliest resource. It is not cheap as they show.

Many of these unlimited bandwidth providers restrict video and audio files. These multimedia files consume huge hard disk space and bandwidth. The streaming video also takes heavy load. Unlimited disk space / bandwidth is just a trick to attract customers. I have seen one host saying that unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth only for 6$ /month (condition -- if you pay for 10 years of service in advance). Are you stupid to tied up for a single webhost for years without knowing their credibility? Their service might go down hill over the span of 10 years and you have to bear with them for 10 years!!! WTF!!
So choose unlimited webhosting if you know your disk space and bandwidth usage. If you want to have a large site with numerous multimedia files unlimited is not an option because you will eventually run into trouble with them.

Free Webhosting

2008-09-03T00:35:00.000-07:00

There are large number of free web hosting companies, but the number of companies that provide reliable free hosting is low.

Just search for free web hosting and you will get about 22 million search results on Google. The free website hosting is a way to promote own paid hosting. Most of the hosts provide free hosting to attract visitors , impress with their service and convert them to paid hosting. Most of the free hosting packages has severe restrictions on technologies available to use. The disk space and bandwidth are limited. Some provide large space like 5gb but place restriction on multimedia files like video, audio and .exe files. Some free website providers provide database support & some don't as database applications can cause heavy load on the servers. There are as many as 200 free website hosting providers.

Some of these webhosts offer free website hosting without any banners or popups on your website. An some even allow you to put your own ads like Google ads. But most of the free website hosting is unreliable and paid hosting is always recommended due to their reliability

To know more about web hosting visit this post

Dedicated Hosting

2008-09-02T23:14:00.000-07:00

Dedicated hosting is the most reliable and expensive option in webhosting. In shared web hosting you will be sharing server’s disk space, bandwidth and other system resources with many webmasters. Your 300 GB of hard disk space is just a part of some 5tb or 50tb space available on the servers. The rest of the space is occupied by the websites of others. Your applications shared the memory of the web server along with applications of other webmasters. Of course, the servers have bandwidth limits which your website will be sharing with many other websites. Then why do people buy shared web hosting options? Obvious reason, the costs!!! Dedicated hosting costs about 60$ to 300$ per month with which you can buy a whole years plan of expensive or premium shared hosting.

Then what does this so expensive dedicated hosting include? When they say dedicated hosting then the whole server is reserved for your website. Only your applications use the memory or CPU of the server. Or they are only running on the server. Only you website occupies the hard disk of the server. All the bandwidth of the server is reserved for your website. Obviously this option is very costly. If your website is very large and has lot of multimedia files like videos etc and requires large bandwidth, you have to consider seriously buying these plans. Dedicated hosting is reliable due to redundancy. The response of servers will be fast. You will have wide variety of technologies available to operate or use. Even if one web server is down other web server will point to your website, which is called clustered webhosts. Some of the web hosting companies provides unmetered bandwidth (no measurement of bandwidth usage) and unlimited disk space options. If you are a serious business user then I recommend you to opt for dedicated server option.

Operation System in Webhosting

2008-09-02T20:47:00.000-07:00

You have to choose in which OS (operating system) your website will be hosted in. Most of the web hosting providers give option to choose either Unix or BSD like system or Windows. If need to run web applications based on .asp, .netMS SQL, SBS you have to host your website on windows server. If you want to run cronjobs or other unix based applications you have to use unix or linux servers. There are some differences while making a website which will be hosted on linux and windows servers. If you are building you website to host on a linux server you have to name your extension of html files as .htm and .shtml files as .shtm .

Domain Name

2008-09-01T22:20:00.000-07:00

For your web pages to be served to the world they must be kept on a webserver which send them to every visitor or client that requests them. Suppose if your webserver has an internet ip address 9.123.168.55. The user or a visitor has to type http://9.123.168.55 to acces you home page. As you can see how awkard it is to type the internet ip address and most of the users forget them (they dont remember all those numbers). Now if you register a domain name like mysite.com then the ip address 9.123.168.55 gets associated with the domain name. When a visitor types mysite.com in his browser, it requests the domain naming servers to resolve the ip associated with mysite.com which gives the ip address associated with that domain name. Domain is one of the important factors of website. Suppose if you search for fruit in google the site www.fruit.com appears in the first ten results. The domain name keywords are very important in search engine optimization. Choosing domain with relevant domain name can boost your traffic. Domain names are also very convinient to promote (like visit my website http://www.mysite.com ) and easy to remember. Also keep in mind to choose short domain names without any hifens ..

Databases

2008-08-31T22:56:00.000-07:00

Database are applications which store information in tables. Most of the modern applications and content management systems like wordpress, drupal , blogs and forums. The most popular web database applications are Mysql, oracle and Microsoft's SQL server. Mysql is most inexpensive and reliable option. Database applications are heavy on server. They limit the performance of servers. Webhosting companies take extra care in giving access to mysql access. Many free web hosts provide mysql but most of the time their service is unreliable due to bad performace of servers. Most of the time the cause is due to heavily abused Mysql. Due to these performance issues, mysql and webserver (like apache or Microsoft server ) are installed on seperate box or machines for scalability and performance. Website with very huge traffice use Microsoft sql server or oracle which are generally robust.

Email Accounts

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You can create email accounts in your web server. These email accounts are important. Normally if you want to register in ad programs like tribal fusion, you need to apply with email account created on these servers. They don't accept emails which depend on service of yahoo & google etc.. Some email examples like admin@yoursite.com. Most of these email accounts are accessable from email clients like outlook or thinderbird. Most of these email accounts has very small email size like 100mb. So don't use them for storing you personal files. You have to use them only for text messages and delete spam quickly. All web hosts mentions the types of services like pop3 or smtp which will allow you to access these email accouts using eudora or other email clients. There are also limit to no of email accounts you can create. So choose the plan according to your requirement. Of course you can also access these accounts from web browser like firefox or opera

FTP Users

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To uplaod your html files or any kind of files to the webhost or web server requires an ftp client. Normally many webhost limit the no of ftp users. The large no of ftp users the more load on the web server. Most of the servers also restrict the no of connections a ftp user can make to the web server and gap or timeout between retries. You can also use a FTP client which has GUI and is easy to use. I recomment Filezilla. Here is a tutorial on Filezilla. Paid hosts may not put much restrictions. But free web host put heavy restrictions on usage of ftp users. Some of them restrict the no of ftp users to 1 per website.

Bandwidth in Website hosting

2008-08-31T00:18:00.000-07:00

Bandwidth is one of the most important part and costliest part in the your webhosting package. What is bandwidth anyway? When a visitors visits your site, server send out webpages or video content to the visitor. When i enter www.mozilla.com in the web browser like mozilla or firefox or opera, the webserver sends me the home page of that website. A webpage consists of lot of text and images. All of that text & images have to be downloaded first in your computer before you can view them. Usually most of the pages are of about 20kb. Whenever a browser requests the home page 20kb of data is transferred to that computer. Bandwidth is the data transferred froms server to the visitor. In the above action about 20kb of bandwidth is used. bandwidth usage of you website depends on the no of views your website is getting every month. If your website hase large no of video and audio files or pictures, bandwidth usage will be high (depend on how many views you video file gets). Most of the web hosting companies gives you a lot of bandwidth. If you are owning a personal website the bandwidth usage hardly exceed 5gb. A business website may demand more bandwidth. Large webhosts might exceed 5gb in disk space (only text files). And the no of page view is more than million. Which consumes large amount of bandwidth. Large companies lease dedicated hosting where bandwidth is redundant ( twice or thrice the amount of bandwidth required).

What is disk space or disk storage in web hosting?

2008-08-30T22:52:00.000-07:00

Each page of your website occupies some space. Normally a webpage (.html file) is of size 20Kb. But if you have video files or audio file sthey might occupy more space(ranges from 5mb to grater than 1gb) and pictures occupy large space. So you have to choose yur plan according to the no of pages you are going to put on your website. Most of the time 5 gb will be a lot of space for personal webhosting. If you are starting a business website i suggest you take some good plan with redundant webspace (as you will be adding video tutorials or audio files to enhance your web functionality). Disk space is one of the limited resource available in webhosting. Most of the webhosting companies limits your webhosting space or charge you for each of 5Gb or 1GB extra space.

The file hosts which pay for your downloads

2008-08-29T22:08:00.000-07:00

There are many file hosts that pay you money for each download of file that you share on their website or through their service

All of these services are free to join.

Easy-share
They have very good service. The speeds on their website are fast.
Here are the services they offer.

They pay you up to 20 dollar per 10000 downloads, depending on quality of your traffic (2$ for 1000 downloads from the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, France, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Portugal, USA, 1$ for 1000 downloads from the following countries: Brazil, Czech Republic, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexica, Turkey, Poland, Russia, Ukraine & other countries are paid $0.1 per 1000 downloads).
You also get 10% of the earning of your referral.
Files are deleted if not downloaded or inactive for 30 days & no minimum download limits
Adult content is allowed only if you hold copyrights.

Ziddu

They pay uniformly for all downloads from all countries.
They pay 1$ for 1000 downloads. Minimum pay check out is 10$.
They pay .1$ for referral.
Files are deleted if inactive or no downloads for 90 days.
No adult content allowed or cracks or copyright material.

Depositfiles
If your website has large no of downloads from USA or Russia then this filehost is most lucrative to you.

They pay 5$ for each 1000 downloads from USA & RUSSIA.
They pay 10% of your referral's earnings.
Files are deleted of there are no downloads for 60 days or inactive for 60 days
Adult content and copyright material not allowed.

FileSend
They have some very stringent restrictions on what counts to be a unique download

They pay is like this

Points Required Reward
8,000 1 month premium service
80000 12 months + $100 usd
400000 lifetime premium + $500usd
800,000 $1500 USD
4000000 $10000 USD
Files are deleted if not downloaded for 60 days..
Adult content is not allowed.

File factory
They have very low duration for which files will be deleted.

Files will be deleted if not downloaded for 7 days.
They pay 1$ for each 1000 downloads.
They pay you .5$ for each premium membership
Minimum pay check out is 20$
Adult content or copyrighted material is not allowed ( they will nuke your account if they find it)

Upload Machine
They pay in Euros. So good better than dollar.
Their payment system is

10000 reward points:		One month premium membership
50000 reward points:		6 months premium membership
100000 reward points:		One year premium + $100 USD
500000 reward points:		Lifetime platinum + $500 USD
1000000 reward points:		$1500 USD
5000000 reward points:		$10000 USD

Redeem points for cash
Files are deleted if no downloads for 90 days

Web page Hosting

2008-08-29T20:03:00.000-07:00

This is the basic type of web hosting. Most of the websites you visit which has html pages, these are hosted or stored on a webserver. When a visitor requests a page or a search engine requests a page the webserver transfers or send the data to the user or visitor. The most inexpensive and almost free type of webhosting is personal webhosting in which both the storage capacity and data transfer or bandwidth of the site is limited. Business webhosting are relatively expensive and has redundant bandwidth and space capacities. The no of page visits for a business website is more that billon page views per months...which might require more than 100TB of bandwidth. Thats a scary amount of bandwidth. If the site contains video and audio contents then god knows how much bandwidth these websites require. Which is the reason why filehosting and image hosting websites flourish.

Types of Hosting

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What is hosting?
Giving or supporting or keeping or entertaining? Modern internet terminology of hosting is about keeping or sharing a file on a server providing bandwidth and storage space for files. Most of files that use huge space are Video's, images, audio and softwares and they hog huge bandwidth. Bandwidth is one of the costliest commodites in internet world. There are many type of hosting services provided and hosting is one of the most established industry.
Webhosting
Filehosting
Image hosting
Document hosting
Video Hosting
Audio Hosting

Introduction

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This blog list all services which are providing hosting

Points Required	Reward
8,000	1 month premium service
80000	12 months + $100 usd
400000	lifetime premium + $500usd
800,000	$1500 USD
4000000	$10000 USD