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How to choose Hosting?

Choose the right hosting is the most important part of a website.

We are not talking about history, yet it would be good to remind that the burst of Internet bubble years ago was due to the misunderstanding of hosting website.

Even for the famous ENRON case, the first problem happened was the loss of investing millions for a website.

Some might be mislead years ago to suppose that a website must be hosted within the corporation. That lead to huge investment for servers, routers and networks. Everyone knows that computer hardware would be worthless within a year.

How we have the knowledge about hosting? Well, we have found tons of information from theoretical papers, the structure of the ARPANET etc.

Our owner had turned down an offer to establish a website years ago because the investor had decided to purchase all hardware to have the website built internally. Failure was certain. With millions investment, unless the investor was the leading supplier of a certain market, it would not be possible to build up anything at all.

Remember that GOOGLE was developed with the facilities of the universities. Business was not set up until the development had reached certain stage. Of course, we can say that if their project failed, they had no investment loss at all.

For most corporations, it would be better to choose hosting services instead of building their own servers. Just think of maintenance works and the cost of upgrading hardware, any decision-maker should aware of the right choice.

One simple fact is, can we find by visiting the website whether it is located in private server or hosting server? In fact, if it took longer to load a webpage, it may be the problem of private server because of the overall bandwidth is usually limited with private structure.

Now, let's see how to choose hosting.

Where

As everyone knows, Internet has no boundary and we can access to websites round the world in milli-seconds. We must not think about the roads or the distance on the map for this. We may have faster link from Hong Kong to a website in USA than a website next to our door because of the router linking.

With today's technology, there is no problem to use hosting elsewhere providing we have the knowledge to handle.

Which

If your corporation is a big one, then look for the highest price hosting. Hosting providers of this kind have experience to serve large corporations.

Otherwise, look for the best match of price and services. This is not easy for newcomers. There were good advice from experts in the beginning stage of the Internet. After commercializing, no matter how they said, all websites for suggesting hosting are working for profit instead.

The simple thing is to get reference including specific forums. Remember that almost every hosting provider had been recommended and criticized. We must check for the balanced result.

Our company have several websites and we have decided not to rely on a single hosting provider. The major reason is that different service providers have different way of operations and it is important for us to know more in order to offer advice to our clients.

Have we chosen the wrong one? Yes, it happened years ago with the first hosting provider. However, the problem was not the service. The founders of that provider had conflict that lead to collapse.

This is not something that we can foresee. Of course, the disturbance was minimal because that management immediately offered the transfer of websites to another provider.

Speaking frankly, our company have accepted to join the affiliate program of Lunarpage, one of our hosting providers. The reason is that we have years of experience with their services. Our websites have never suffered any problem aside by their upgrading of servers that affected the traffic for less than one hour and only two times in years.

You can see that we have the banners in our site. If you decide to use their hosting services, we are ready to answer your questions and share our experience.

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