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CONCEPT OF WEB HOSTING

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The one who wants to enter in this web world and desires for a long time survival, then he/she should be familiar with each and every terminology used in this field. If user considers all the important factors before choosing a hostingplan then only he/she will be able to have a successful future in this world .User should not choose any of the plan, rather he/she should opt the best and most suitable one and this can only be made possible by fetching more and more informations and also by studying properly all the requirements. New comers should start from the basics .They should learn the meaning of each and every term used and also in addition those factors that can affect his/her selection.

Web Host ....

Web host refers to a computer connected to the internet. Web host can also be termed as ‘web server’. The computer that is playing the role of the web server needs to be

more powerful than normal PCs and the function of this web server is to serve up websites.
The website content of the user will remain will on this computer, so as the people who are surfing on the internet can get a way to access his/her website.

There can be three main categories in which the web host can be classified based on the economic factor and common features:

1. Free Hosts:

The users who are not professional but are making website only as a hobby then for them free hosting can be a good option. In free hosting space, bandwidth and other features provided are very limited. With free web hosting one can not only make his/her website successful but is also suitable for personal websites or for temporary usage. Generally free hosting enforces pop-up, text or banner ads. Reliability, best performance and customer support lacks in case of free hosting as well. When a user registers for a free host then the word free host gets added with the user’s domain name that gives an adverse effect in the eye of the visitors.

2. Shared Hosts:

The next type of the web hosting to be discussed is shared hosting. This hosting service is used by many of the web sites .This type of hosting service is Suitable for personal, small and medium businesses. This service can be used by paying $1 to $25 per month. The features provided by this service vary from very limited space/bandwidth to semi-dedicated servers. The users host their website by this type of hosting service and it has its own top level domain facility. No doubt that shared web hosting is quite better than free hosting but still it does not provide 100% satisfactory services. In case of shared hosting one server is shared by the number of websites so its performance and availability gets affected. More websites usually means less performance. If less number of websites are hosted by one server then it will be more expensive, but in this case there are more chances of reliability. There are many companies allowing customers to host multiple websites with different domains under a single account.

3. Dedicated Hosts:

The next type of hosting is dedicated hosting. This type of hosting is most reliable hosting. In this type of hosting a full server is dedicated to a single customer. Generally this type of hosting is used by large businesses, professionals and very active websites dealing with thousands of visitors daily. The customers having dedicated hosting can have their total control over the server as well as able to create as many websites as they like. Customers can run their own hosting company on a rented dedicated server. Payment module is mentioned according to specifications and services provided with the server, which varies from $100 up to about $800 dollars per month.

4. Collocated Hosts:

Now the other type of hosting service to be discussed is collocated hosting. This service is very much similar to dedicated hosting. The difference between collocated hosting and dedicated hosting is that in collocated hosting the customer owns the server hardware instead of renting it. In this service the server will be placed in provider’s data center. This service is more expensive than dedicated hosting.

5. Reseller Hosts:

In reseller hosting the providers offers web server storage to their customers, and resells the web server storage to them. Generally providers offer resellers a discount price.

6. Other Hosts:

Including the above type of hosts there are also many other hosts such as email hosts, media hosts, data hosts, etc but these hosts will not be discussed in this article.

Domain Name

Domain name is the name which shows the place where one’s website is located. The actual address of the website is a set of numbers. Each and every web server has its own unique address. Domain name indicates the real addresses of every websites. One can easily remember the domain name of any of the website. Remembering domain name is easier than recalling the IP addresses.

Space / Storage

Space is one of the services provided by the web host. It plays a very important role in the website development. It happens many times that the customer requires more space but the host fails to provide it, so customer should be very careful while choosing the web host. Storage is the amount of web server’s disk space available for customer’s website files, images and databases. Space can be according to the requirement; it can be as small as 5MB in some free hosts and as big as 300GB for some dedicated servers. Earlier prices of the space were very high but prices reduced significantly during the last few years. The hosting plans offering 3GB of space for less than $10 a month can be easily available.

Bandwidth

Bandwidth can be defined as the amount of data transferred from web server to clients’ internet browsers. When ever a person outlook a page the data is transmitted from the server to that person’ PC. If any one is having audio, video and images in his/her website then the bandwidth consumed is more in comparison of the website having only text contents. The bandwidth available in free hosting can be as low as 100MB per month where as in some dedicated servers the bandwidth available is as high as 2000GB a month. The customers who don’t want to pay more for bandwidth can easily find hosting plans offering 75GB of monthly data transfer for less than $10.

Server Type

Generally server means the operating system than runs the web server. Some common types are Windows, Linux and UNIX. Server type refers the server side scripting and database types. The difference between Windows server and Linux/UNIX is that Windows runs ASP and ASP.NET with Access or SQL Server databases where as Linux/UNIX servers usually runs CGI, PHP or JSP with MySQL or Oracle databases. The other difference is that Windows servers are more expensive than Linux/UNIX servers.

Databases

As server type is discussed earlier also, we are able to know that there are different types of databases available. The mostly used is MySQL as it is open source GPL (free) software and can serve a lot of online applications’ requirements such as forums, content management, mailing lists, etc. MySQL, rather its features are limited. MySQL is sufficient for small concern but it is not powerful for the complicated large business sites. Large business requires more powerful databases such as Oracle or SQL Server.
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Server Side Scripting

Usually the new comers prefer to use PHP as server side scripting. The reason behind this is that there are hundreds of open source (GPL) PHP scripts that are able to fulfill the webmaster’s requirements. However PHP also has some limitations in features required by advanced websites same as in the case of MySQL, due to this limitation some professional web developers prefer to use ASP.NET or JSP. Some other developers still prefer to use Cold Fusion, CGI, ASP or PERL.

Email

Now the next very important aspect to be talked about is Email. At present no one can move further in this computer world with having his/her Email account. The one who is planning to do any kind of activity through computer such as to run a business or to provide any kind of service, then the first thing he/she need to do is to open an Email account. There are many hosting plans that include the feature of having some email accounts with customer’s domain. The availability of number and size of email accounts totally depends on the hosting plan one opted. Generally this feature is not included in free hosting. Small plans provide only about 10 accounts where as big plans do not have the limited number. Usually those email accounts are web based and accessible through POP3 clients as well.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

The other service is FTP. File Transfer Protocol is a usual way of transferring files across the Internet. Most of the webmasters used to upload and download their websites contents through FTP. The process of uploading or downloading is performed by using FTP client software. Webmasters require FTP username and password so as to access their web server. There are any hosts who use to provide more than one FTP account to their customers as per their requirement. Rather FTP is unspecified; it is not advisable as per the security reasons.

Control Panel

Control panel is the service available by many of the web hosting companies to their customers. It is a web based application that helps in managing websites. Some important functions performed by the control panel are that it used to manage email accounts, providing statistics, managing FTP accounts, managing domains and sub-domains and managing databases. The control panel application that is mostly used by the user is cPanel. There are many companies who use to develop their own control panel application.

Uptime

Now after having all the services, the thing of concern which remains is how the user keeps his/her website uptime most of the time. If anyone is having a website with excellent features but it remains down most of the time it will be of no use, as when ever the visitors visit his/her website and found it down then later on they will think twice before visiting it. In result he/she will suffer the loss of visitors. Uptime is very important feature of web hosts and that is usually measured in percentage. If a server remains down near about 30 minutes a day will have an uptime percentage of about 99.98%, which is acceptable for most small to medium business websites. If any of the business website is not having at least this percentage of uptime then that website is not suitable for a business website. Mission critical sites cannot tolerate frequent outages, thus they may use web monitoring services to notify web administrators immediately when an outage happens.

Price

Finally the factor left is price. In this option also there is a great variability found like for example customer is having option to choose between the prices ranging from 0 to $1000 per month. For most personal, small and medium websites the total amount of cost involved is just $15 per month. Thus its not at all advisable for business website owners to select very cheap plans let say less than $5 because this price can lead to huge cost indirectly afterwards.

Best Free Web Hosting

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These are the most recommended free webspace / free webhosting providers (our opinion of free web site hosts based on our personal use and experience, and visitor feedback). Of course, it depends a lot on what features you value the most: reliability, speed, scripting options, amount of webspace and bandwidth, type of forced adverts, etc. Two of the largest, oldest, and most popular free website companies (though not the best free hosting for features) are Tripod and FortuneCity. You can comment on and rate each host by going to that host's review page.

There are also automated features ratings for each free web host based on that web host's features. For more details on the rating system, see How Webhost Features Are Rated. The Webhost Reviews and User Reviews & Ratings Info pages now have info and details on user review totals also, such as the 20 top webhosts by user ratings.

Interests	Webhost	Space	Forced Ads	Your Ads	Upload	Scripting	Your URL	Rating
Personal, Business	Jumpline (12-months free trial)	10,000 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, FrontPage Extensions, Perl, Python	Domain	116	Review
Personal, Business	AwardSpace	200 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, FrontPage Extensions, Perl	Domain or Subdomain	112	Review
Personal, Business	ByetHost	5,500 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser	PHP	Domain or Subdomain	108	Review
Personal, Business	50Webs	60 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser	-	Domain or Subdomain	88	Review
Personal, Business	AtSpace	50 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser	-	Domain or Subdomain	83	Review
Personal, Business	110mb	110 MB	No	Allowed	Browser	PHP, SSI	Domain or Subdomain	81	Review

Free Web Hosting

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"Free Webspace" is a directory list of free web hosting providers (free hompage hosting sites), with about 300 of the best free web space hosting sites with reviews, testimonials, and ratings, and is updated daily. To find a free web page hosting service that fits your needs, use the Search box on the left. If you need special web hosting features for your free web space, such as FrontPage server extensions, PHP, CGI, ASP, MySQL databases, etc., try our Advanced Free Web Hosting Search. The web hosting review page for each free website hosting company listed will allow you to read the reviews and ratings by others, or give your own. The newest additions to our searchable database of free webhosting providers are in a list below. The Linux web hosting for this website is now hosted on a fast dedicated server hosting, to serve you better.

We have recently had some downtime due to the Ev1servers / ThePlanet datacenter having a power outage which affected 9000 dedicated servers, and have moved to a dedicated hosting server at SoftLayer (now moved back to Ev1 Servers again).

Free Domain Hosting

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Below is a list of free domain name hosting service sites (links to the reviews page for each) where you can host domain names free, and in some cases a single free hosting company will provide multiple domain hosting free (host multiple domain names from a single freehosting account, or allow multiple free web hosting accounts per person). In most cases you will need to already own and have the top-level domain name registered (or buy domain registration from them), but there are a few websites where you can get free domain names if you don't already have one." The alternatives to using a free domain host would be to use free subdomain hosting (using a subdirectory or a subdomain of the free web host), or buy cheap domain hosting (aka "budget domain name hosting"). While a free domain web hosting server may not be considered reliable enough to host a high-traffic website, having free domain name web hosting service (and especially having multiple domain web hosting free) is quite useful for beginning webmasters or SEO on a budget (it is recommended to have each of your web sites hosted on a separate IP address, which usually means using a different web hosting company for each domainname hosted free).

Interests	Webhost	Space	Forced Ads	Your Ads	Upload	Scripting	Your URL	Rating
Personal, Business	HelioHost	250 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser, SiteCopy	CGI, PHP, ASP.NET, SSI, FrontPage Extensions, Perl, Python, Ruby	Domain, Subdomain	125	Review
Personal, Business	0000Free	1,000 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser, SiteCopy	CGI, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, SSI, FrontPage Extensions, Perl, Python	Domain, Subdomain	125	Review
Personal, Business	X10Hosting	500 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser, SiteCopy	CGI, PHP, ASP.NET, SSI, FrontPage Extensions, Perl, Python	Domain, Subdomain	124	Review
Personal, Business	365-Hosting	1,000 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, FrontPage Extensions, Perl, Python, Ruby	Domain, Subdomain	118	Review
Personal, Business	ATBHost	1,000 MB - 5,000 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, FrontPage Extensions, Perl	Domain, Subdomain	117	Review
Personal, Business	WebKrib	500 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, Perl	Domain, Subdomain	117	Review
Personal, Business	Jumpline (12-months free trial)	10,000 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, FrontPage Extensions, Perl, Python	Domain	116	Review
Personal, Business	FreebeeHosting	600 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, Perl	Domain, Subdomain	116	Review
Personal, Business	FreeHostingCloud	Unlimited	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, Perl, Python	Domain, Subdomain	116	Review
Personal, Business	UltimateSiteHost	250 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, FrontPage Extensions, Perl	Domain, Subdomain	116	Review
Personal, Business	Free-Space	200 MB - 500 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, FrontPage Extensions, Perl	Domain, Subdomain	112	Review
Personal, Business	AwardSpace	200 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, FrontPage Extensions, Perl	Domain, Subdomain	112	Review
Personal, Business	VlexoFree	300 MB - 2000 MB (2 GB)	TextLink	Allowed	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, FrontPage Extensions, Perl, Python, Ruby	Domain, Subdomain	111	Review
Personal, Business	AgilityHoster	200 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, FrontPage Extensions, Perl	Domain, Subdomain	110	Review
Personal, Business	Qupis	150 MB	TextLink-Bottom	Allowed	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, FrontPage Extensions, Perl	Domain, Subdomain	110	Review
Personal, Business	HostCell	300 MB - 1000 MB (1 GB)	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, FrontPage Extensions, Perl, Python, Ruby	Domain, Subdomain	109	Review
Personal, Business	ByetHost	5,500 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser	PHP	Domain, Subdomain	108	Review
Personal, Business	LeadHoster	250 MB	Banner-Top	Allowed	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, FrontPage Extensions, Perl	Domain, Subdomain	102	Review
Personal, Business	ProfuseHost	200 MB - 10,000 MB	Banner-Top	Allowed	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, FrontPage Extensions, Perl, Python, Ruby	Domain, Subdomain	102	Review
Personal, Business	MegaByet	1,600 MB	No	Allowed	FTP, Browser	PHP	Domain, Subdomain	100	Review

Free Domain Names

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Free Domain Names

Do you own a cool website on a free web hosting server, but can't afford a top-level domain name? Is your free website's URL too long to remember? Do you want your own YOURNAME.COM or other top level domain name free? If so, register your own free domain name at one of the web sites listed below and redirect it to your existing website. Note: You don't actually own the domain name in some cases, but can use it in accordance with their terms, usually requiring a small amount of traffic and a banner or popup. If you already have a domain, you can search here for a free domain hosting provider.

Free Domain Provider	Domains available	Domain Hosting	Requirements
Free Domain Name	.com .net .org (possibly other top-level domains free)	Free web hosting (optional)	Free domain names and free website hosting are gained by using points earned by showing genuine interest in a few advertisers products. You will have full DNS control of the free domainname, and you can transfer it to another web hosting company, or you can host it with their own free website hosting service.
Free Domain Name & Hosting	.com .net .org	Free web space hosting included	Apply for a free top-level domain name and free bannerless domain hosting on powerful cPanelX servers with 5 GB disk space, 250 GB monthly bandwidth, Fantastico, and full PHP and MySQL features, with no forced adverts. It is available for several international countries, though not all, and they must complete stage one of an application to get a Green Card. A credit card is not required. U.S. residents may need to complete other offers that do not cost anything (but time).

Free Web Traffic

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Free Web Traffic

Need more web traffic or free website promotion? Try these companies below. They make use of a popunder when visitors leave your site, and that gives you "credits" which can be used to bring traffic to your site when visitors leave similar sites. On some, you can also earn credits by surfing other websites in their system, or by referring others to their system.

	Traffic Zap - Traffic Zap Exchange will increase your website traffic by 50% - get 1 unique visitor for every 2 visitors you send from the popunders. You also earn 10% of the traffic of referrals. Your credits are used very FAST to send you traffic, and you can buy additional credits at very cheap prices.
	Traffic Racer - An automated surfing program and/or 1:1 banner exchange. Get 5000 free credits for joining. A new page loads every 15 seconds in your browser, and you recieve 1 hit for every 1 page you view. For each referrer, you also recieve 2500 hits and 20% of your referrals surfing credits 4 levels deep. One popup is allowed on your page. Option for Url rotator.

Web design

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Web design

At creativeON we build WebPages that are not only attractive to user, but are also we also consider usability and accessibility as a part of our standard quality procedures. All the pages that we build are search engine optimized and comply with industry standards set by World Wide Web Consortium. All these practices will bring quality traffic and real concerned visitors to your website.

creativeON prides itself on being a full-service interactive development company. We are highly committed to work with each client on personal level, so we can provide the online solutions that make sense for your organization.

A typical website goes through following phases.

Analysis:
After meeting with clients a detailed proposal is submitted along with cost estimate.

Design:
3 copies of mockup design for your approval.

Design Implementation:
Converting the design into webpage with contents.

Testing (test release):
Full funcinoal test release for our test team and you.

Deployment (public release):
Your website is accessible for general public.

Maintenance/changes (optional):
We provide one month of maintenance free of cost. For extended maintenance, consider our maintenance plans.

Your specific plan may take advantage of all or just some of our outstanding services.

Register Domain Name

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At creativeON you will find the lowest prices for domains. Our domain deals are not bound with hosting. You can enjoy these prices with out buying any non domain product from us. We offer more than 40 TLDs from a single control panel. You have full control over your domain and you can manage it who-is at any time. You can lock your domain or enable privacy protection for it. We are offering following TLDs

We offer following top level domains

.com, .net, .org, .biz, .name, .info, .mobi
.co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk
.eu.com, .gb.com, .ae.org, .kr.com, .us.com, .qc.com
.de.com, .gb.net, .no.com, .hu.com, .jpn.com, .uy.com, .za.com, .br.com, .cn.com,.sa.com, .se.com,.se.net, .uk.com, .uk.net, .ru.com
.cc, .tv, .bz, .mn, .ws, .eu, .us
.in
.cn, .com.cn, .net.cn, .org.cn

You can buy pknic (.pk) domains with us, have have mega discounts when combined with hosting deals.

.com.pk: Use it for business or personal use
.net.pk: Use it for business that is related to network
.edu.pk: This domain extension is educational institutions
.org.pk: for NGOs, and non profit organizations
.fam.pk: for families, family names and individuals
.biz.pk: Again for general business or personal use (just like .com)
.web.pk: For websites

Web Site Hosting

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Budget Web Hosting

creativeON Hosting caters for personal and low buget hosting demands with its budget web site hosting plans. All budget sitehosting plans are available for on both windows and Linux. All budget web hosting plans are feature rich and come one click installers for famous blogging software, content management systems and image galleries. All the plans come with life time free domain name.
Budget Hosting Planes

Business Web Hosting

These hosting packages are for the small business and corporate clients who use the email and website as a basic business practice. All the business website hosting plans come with “Backup mail servers” so you never lose a single email. Our managed spam protection ("Zero spam" service) can also be combined with these packages for a little extra cost. Business packages mean Extreme performance, higher uptimes, and ultimate data protection.
Business Hosting Plans

Reseller Web Hosting

Are a web developer, or sell web site hosting services? our wide range of multi-domain and reseller hosting plans are the best choice for you. We offer Linux and windows reseller plans (unlike many other hosts who will offer only Linux based resellers accounts). We offer the reseller packs on Plesk and cpanel control panels.
You can chose from our standard reseller plans or Unlimited reseller plans