Choosing Linux & Windows Web Hosting Services

Choosing a web hosting is an important step in creating a website. The whole functioning of your web resource depends on this choice.

 All hosting providers are divided into two big groups: free web hosts and shared ones. 

In the first place let me say that many of the free webs hosting providers are not exactly free, i.e. in exchange for their services they may locate their advertisements on your website.

If your website is a home page containing your personal information or a small web resource where you share information on a certain topic, free web hosting will most probably be enough for you. In case your website is an information portal, service or a site of your company, you should definitely use services of shared web hosting.

 I personally recommend treeapple.com . They provide: 

• 250 MB Disk Space
  
• 6 GB Bandwidth
  
• 5 Domains Hosted
  
• 1 MySQL Database
  
• click App Installs
  

FTP access. Support of PHP, Perl, Python, SSI and much more. There is also a catalogue of ready-made scripts with a possibility to adapt the design to your website - the optimal choice for a beginning webmaster.

Linux Web Hosting

Linux Web Hosting is one of the leading web hosting service which allows you to secured your data under high security. In our Linux Web Hosting you will get following benefits are as follows : 

• Unlimited Domains, Disk Space, Bandwidth and Email Addresses
  
• 99.9% uptime with dedicated 24/7 technical support
  
• Powered by CloudLinux, cPanel , Apache, MySQL, PHP, Ruby & more
  
• 30 day Money Back Guarantee
  

Windows Web Hosting

• Disk Space, Bandwidth and Email Addresses
  
• 99.9% Uptime with dedicated 24x7 technical support
  
• Powered by Windows 2008, Plesk, ASP.NET, MySQL, PHP, IIS and more
  
• 30 day Money Back Guarantee
  

 Shared Hosting 

Some may say that shared hosting is expensive, but it's just a myth. Its prices vary from 1 to 50 dollars a month depending on the set of services and resources provided. Naturally shared hosting doesn't have the disadvantages of the free one.

Nevertheless, shared web hosting providers differ according to the range and quality of services. Here are some criteria that will guide you in your choice of the shared web host:

A host should not put tough restrictions on traffic. At least there should be a possibility to pay if you exceed the limit, but the pay should not be too high.

If you need ASP, FrontPage Server, MSSQL, then you should be looking for a web hosting on NT-server and the host itself should provide these services. Otherwise, you'd better choose UNIX-hosting.

It is desirable that a host should provide Perl, SSI, PHP, MYSQL...

Apart from disc space a host should provide mail. Make sure it covers the services of ingoing and outgoing mail. Sometimes it happens so that a host provides you with e-mail addresses and not with e-mail boxes. In this case all your mail will be redirected to the e-mail box you've indicated, which will hamper your job.

A hosting provider should have its support service - working 24/7 through e-mail as well as through telephone (fax). Ask them some questions - a good hosting provider will answer you within 24 hours. If they keep ignoring you, or if there is no support service at all, keep away from such hosts.

Check out what rights you are going to exercise as to managing the server. As a minimum, you should have FTP-access to your catalogue - it will allow you to carry out necessary actions when forwarding, editing or deleting files. It would be advisable that a host had web interface to work with your server and your account.

If you are an experienced user, then it is desirable that a host provided telnet-access - you will be able to work with the provider's computer almost on the same level as with your own one.

Everyday archiving (making reserve copies) of your website is a huge advantage as well.

Good hosting is speedy web hosting. The less crowded the provider's servers and channels are - the better. Minimal bandwidth should be no less than Pentium III-800 Mhz with 512 Мb RAM

It is good practice for a web hosting provider to have their physical address and some other data

Before finally submitting the payment, get acquainted with Internet reviews of other users about this host

Surely, it's by far not a complete list of all the criteria according to which one should choose a web hosting provider. But if a host meets all the requirements mentioned above, you can start working with them.