Even for a layman , its important to know the concept of web hosting. Visiting any website shows a web page that is downloaded from the web server onto the user’s web browser. Generally, web site is made up of many web pages and web page is made up of texts and graphic images. Now these pages are then stored and made available for the visitors on web servers.
So for a layman if his intention is to have is own web site, then the first step would be owing a host provider so as to host the website on web server. As soon as the website is online on the server, online users can browse that website through Internet. All this job of providing host facility is with the providers called web-hosting providers.
Any established web hosting provider can host even thousands of websites example, iPowerWeb is a popular web hosting company that hosts websites in amounts of lakhs i.e. 3 lakhs. Due to this reason only these hosting companies needs large number of web servers for storing the website. Thereafter all these web servers are connected to Internet and are kept in a physical center ‘data center’. As these web servers needs to be fully operational all the time so data centers are made fully secure having 24/7 environment and given protection from fire, HVAC temperature control, virus detections, computer data backup, redundant power backup and complete disaster recovery capabilities.
Now after knowing what is web hosting it is also important to know the different types of web host which are summarized below:
Shared Hosting
As the name suggests, in shared hosting several websites share space on the common physical web servers. A physical web server can host thousands of websites at one time depending upon the web host. With so much pressure on web servers it tends to make one think that due to over burden perhaps the performance of web server gets affected. But that thinking is totally wrong as for this reason only web servers are equipped with high-end powerful computer so as to support large number of websites to some extent without any problem. However but it is even possible at time of over burden on web servers that the response is badly effected.
In order to get rid of this problem reputed and experienced host providers constantly keep on monitoring the performance of web servers and keeps on adding new web servers when and where required. As many websites share a same physical web server the cost is generally low with start from mere $5-$20 per month and they also have to accept slower server response time.
Dedicated Hosting
As against shared hosting, in dedicated hosting a specific web server is allotted to one customer only. Due to one server the customer is having option to host his single/multiple web sites, can modify the configuration of software, can handle greater site traffic and can even scale the bandwidth when it is taken as necessary. It is because of this facility that dedicated hosting charges good amount which starts from $50 and can range even upto$200 to $500 monthly. So dedicated hosting is regularly used by extremely important web sites having high traffic.
Co-location hosting
The only difference between dedicated hosting and co-location hosting is that here in this case customers can own the web server hardware whereas in case of dedicated hosting customers can just rent the web server during the hosting period. So Co-location hosting provides more flexibility to its customers in respect of control and maintainence. Here in this case 24/7 server monitoring is also possible which can evade the problem of slow response. Because of all above benefits co-location hosting charges good amount depending upon monthly bandwidth and rack space required which is as high as $500 – $1000 monthly.
Reseller hosting
The third type of hosting is reseller hosting where the provider offers web server storage space to third party at a discounted price, who again resell it to his own customer. Normally resellers include web consultants like web designers, developers or system Integration Company who after charging commission which is even upto 50%(taken as discount) can resell the web hosting. Resellers can set up their own hosting company and can decide for their own pricing structure with establishing their own branding.
In case of reseller hosting for reseller’s customers, the reseller is the web host provider. When some technical problem arises like down server or any access problem then in that case the resellers have to settle all with actual web host provider. However this is not the effective way as it leads to unnecessary waste of time due to various channels involved in the communication process like first customer contacts reseller and then reseller contacts actual web host provider and same is with the response it also comes back from the same process, so the problems pertains for a long time. Thus reseller hosting is not considered a good option unless user is having his own personal website or he is having an alternative for poor support from reseller.
Now with growing competition market is having abundant of resellers who are selling their services at a very low price. Due to this and other factors like even some web-hosting providers provide their own toll free numbers to their resellers for co-branded technical support, this makes the decision more difficult to choose which is the right choice.
Thus it is more important to act wisely and to not get attracted with marketing techniques employed by resellers like professional outlook of their website and other strategies like proving technical support in their own name which is actually provided by the provider and not by them but they tend to present it in such a way that they are providing that support.
The general distinguishing feature between resellers and hosting company is firstly the hosting price and secondly the company’s information including their balance sheet example iPowerWeb.com get their company’s information published where they mention their financial strength, their offices and highly equipped data centers. As against this resellers lack these assets and for price what they quote is generally below $5 per month whereas providers charge between $7 and $10.
Thus considering all these facts it can be concluded easily that due to a minute difference of several dollars one must not get struck in the web of resellers and must go for best facilities instead of getting harassment afterwards.
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January 18th, 2010 on 5:24 pm
Running Vista with 2GB of RAM is a trick – if you keep the number of programs running to a bare minimum, you can do it without losing too much speed. Run msconfig (from the Start Search window in Start), fo to the Startup tab and turn off anything you don't want running when you start the computer.
(And get rid of Norton – it's not a good AV program, it's a resource hog and it causes problems. A free one like AVG or Avira is better.)
January 18th, 2010 on 5:39 pm
Well, the answers to questions 1 and 2 are the same. Go to control panel, Click on the programs button, and you will see under default programs "Stop a program from running at start up" and "Set your default programs". Use these two options to choose what to use when you start up windows and it should help your speed a little
January 18th, 2010 on 5:57 pm
You can speed up Vista by installing it on a faster computer. That dinosaur is 7 year old technology trying to run a 2 year old operating system.
If you insist on continuing to use that computer, run XP.
January 18th, 2010 on 11:42 pm
January 19th, 2010 on 12:11 am
yep that will handle any of the vista versions. I'd recommend ultimate.
January 19th, 2010 on 8:42 am
Usually if you take the RAM out of the computer, there is a sticker on it that will list the specs of the RAM.
If you are not comfortable opening the case, you have a program called "MSINFO" on most computers. Go to C:Windowsmsappsmsinfo" and run the MSINFO program. This will give you many stats about your computer, including the RAM speed and type.
January 19th, 2010 on 6:24 pm
Be patient. If you have lots of expansion packs then they will make the loading process longer because of the additional content.
If you have an issue I suggest going to a technician or someone and asking if there may be an issue with either your computer or the game. But it does seem like your sat there for hours on end waiting for the game to load!! Ha-ha.
What I will also say is, if you want to increase the performance of your computer, then you aren't going to do that for free. I'm afraid you must be prepared to pay for things like that.
No one ever got anywhere from being cheap.
Hope this helps. Happy "Simming". x
January 20th, 2010 on 11:46 pm
If you are using Vista Basic or Vista Business editions, your copy of Windows media player won't have its own DVD decoder (Vista Home premium and Ultimate do).
Windows media player borrows the DVD decoder from other DVD playback software installed on your system (e.g.. WinDVD or PowerDVD) to play DVD movies. If these playback softwares are not installed or were uninstalled by the restoration process WMP will be unable to access the decoder and you get the error message. To correct the problem you would need to reinstall the other DVD playback software.
January 21st, 2010 on 4:29 pm
Depending on how old you get, you will notice a difference. However, as in most everything computing, it will be as fast as the slowest piece of hardware. The slowest is likely to be your internet connection, since even network cards from the late 80s could do 10mps and your home internet probably isn't that fast.
Having less RAM (which is memory) will make a noticable slow down, but it won't be like night and day. You will still get your stuff in a reasonable amount of time.