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What Features To Look For When Applying For Good Hosting Plan
When looking for a host, it will be useful to obtain as much
information as possible about the web hosting company itself and
the services they offer. These pre-sales questions are a way to
check several things about the web hosting company. You can
obtain detailed information about the services they offer - the
web hosting plans they have, the features included there, etc.
These days hosting plans on the web are getting very competitive
and features of each plan are comparatively the same among web
hosting providers. Whether novice or expert, you can find some
useful information in this article to learn about some of the
considerations to look at when you choose a web hosting service.
In this article I will not talk about things like space ,traffic
and prices since there are plenty of related articles nowadays
rolling around the net. My goal will be to clarify some of the
most important features you have to look for when choosing your
web hosting provider.
The following are 10 basic features that can be found in a
Unix/Linux hosting plans that every serious hosting provider
should offer you.
· Control Panel - This is where you manage your hosting
account. In the context of web hosting it is an on-line
application that give us the user ability to control many
aspects of his web hosting account including, but not limited
to: creating mailboxes, setup email forwarding, uploading and
editing files, creating sub domains, park additional domains,
automated installing of ready to use scripts and programs,
managing databases, setup shopping carts. You need to check what
exactly is included in a given control panel with the web
hosting company you have chosen to go with.Some hosts use a
third party control panel like cPanel or Plesk. Others use an
inhouse developed control panel.The moment you signup for a
hosting package, you must be provided with a CP to manage your
webspace.
· POP3 email accounts & aliases -
yourname@yourdomain.com is an example POP3 email. POP3 is an
electronic mail protocol used to retrieve messages stored on an
Internet/intranet e-mail server. Whenever a client wants to
check for messages it connects to its Internet Service
Provider's e-mail server and uses POP3 to login to its mailbox
and download its messages.
· FTP Accounts & Virtual FTP - This is where you upload
your files, delete them, update them. This again comes along
with the CP. Make sure you have handful of FTP sub-accounts also
to provide your clients/users password protected directories.
This is very much useful wherein your clients / users can use
the FTP to upload /download files from particular password
protected folder of your website.
· Backup - Most of the Hosts take Automated Backups.
But users do not take much care on this while choosing the
hosting plan. This feature is as essential as any other in this
list.
· Web Statistics - Analysis is of your website visitors
plays a important role in the success of your website. Say, your
website has been launched and you get 50 unique visitors or more
than 500 visitors per day. Whatever the case may be, you can
view the report using Statistics Application that run in the
server backend. A popular web statistic software is
Webalizer.
· PHP & Mysql Support - PHP is a scripting language
that is especially suited for Web development and can be
embedded into HTML. PHP is mainly focused on server-side
scripting, so you can do anything any other CGI program can do,
such as collect form data, generate dynamic page content, or
send and receive cookies. MySQL is a true multi-user,
multi-threaded SQL database server. MySQL is fast and flexible
enough to allow you to store logs and pictures in it. Its main
goals are speed, robustness, and ease of use.All the Linux Plans
support PHP & Mysql. Make sure you get this free of charge when
you buy the hosting plan. Few hosting providers offer good of
MySQL Database Support & PhpMyAdmin.
· Webmail & SMTP - A web based email program. Most web
hosting companies do provide webmail access to their customers.
Often it comes with addressbook, rich text editor, spelling
checker, and all the features of any other email program offers.
Email becomes key part in your life once you launch the website.
Check if the hosts provide with Webmail to check your mails thru
a web based interface such as Squirrelmail or Horde. Checking
email will be faster if you download the mails thru email
clients such as Eudora or Outlook Express. Only if SMTP or IMAP
support is enabled you can use this option. All our recommended
hosts has this feature.
· SPAM Filter - No email user is free from a spam
attack. It is the Email equivalent of junk mail. It is becoming
one of the biggest problems in the Internet today.Hence you need
to have spam filters installed on the server where your website
resides.
· HTTPS (SSL) access to your hosting account. SSL is
used for secure communication between the user browser and the
server. The information is encrypted and secure. SSL is usually
used for eCommerce sites and sites that require submission of
other sensible information like usernames and passwords. To have
an SSL on your site you can use the shared SSL certificate
provided by your hosting company or you can purchase an SSL
certificate for your site and ask the host to install it.
· Shell (telnet or SSH) access to your account. SSH is
used for secure access to your account. SSH is usually offered
on Unix hosting plans. You can zip, unzip files, change
permissions of files, run certain programs on the server.
· Sub-domains for creating sub-sections to your site
without having to use directories in URLs
· Shopping Cart - A shopping cart is a piece of
software that acts as an online store's catalog and ordering
process.
These are the most common features of a good web hosting plan.
A reputable web hosting provider should offer you at least these
ones in his hosting plans.There are some more additions you can
get from a good provider.For more info on that topic you can
visit my site
http://www.itstandard.net and get all what you need .
About the author:
Richard Clement is an online publisher dedicated in helping
online users in various categories. He is an online marketing
specialist and owner of ItStandard.Net hosting company.For more
info visit his site
http://www.itstandard.net
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