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Black Friday 2011 – Hostgator 50% Discount on All Hosting Packages

by Mahesh Kukreja on November 25, 2011

First of all Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! And it’s Black Friday today. Lots of discounts & deals for everyone. I’ll be writing about a couple of Black Friday 2011 deals on my blog today. And this is the first one.

Hostgator, an online web hosting company, has started it’s Black Friday deals. And it is giving 50% discount on all hosting packages. The deal includes 50% off on shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, Dedicated servers and Windows hosting! This does not include domain names.

Hostgator 50% off - Black Friday 2011

Hostgator is one of the leading web hosting companies. It provides 24×7 support via Internet or Telephone. I’ve a good experience with their customer service & I can guarantee about it’s services. Also, it provides 99.9% uptime. And their servers support fast access.

Here are the Black Friday 2011 plans for Hostgator (50% off)

  • Shared hosting: As low as $4.95 Now only: $2.48/month
  • Reseller Hosting: As low as $24.95 Now Only: $12.48/month
  • VPS Hosting: As low as $19.95 Now Only: $9.98/month (First Month)
  • Dedicated Servers: As low as $174 Now Only $87/month (First Month)

The offer has begun on November 25th, 201 CST (-6 GMT) and runs for only 1 day. So at the time I wrote this post about 12 hours are remaining to avail 50% discount off all Hostgator hosting packages.

The offer is available on first invoice only. So, if you’re planning to buy Shared or Reseller hosting, I suggest you pay for yearly invoice. That’ll be very cheap as compared to original Hostgator prices.

Here’s the link to register at Hostgator:

Hostgator 50% off Discount Link on All Hosting Packages – Black Friday 2011

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Five Practical Applications of Dedicated Servers

by Mahesh Kukreja on November 23, 2011

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A dedicated server is far and away the most secure hosting method for storing critical data. Unlike shared hosting, a dedicated server provides a company with its own off-site computer with an independent IP address. Most companies prefer a managed dedicated server because the service contracted provides skilled staff to manage, maintain, and upgrade your server as needed.

Dedicated Server

Here are five practical & common applications of dedicated servers:

Online Businesses

While shared hosting for smaller website is generally sufficient, online businesses often require a dedicated server. Databases that drive user forums and shopping carts require large amounts of storage space. A typical e-commerce business starts out with shared hosting but soon outgrows its capabilities. Because the server is dedicated to that one business, it is more stable and flexible.

Video Streaming and Other Web Sites

People looking to establish a streaming internet radio station or video service often turn to dedicated servers as the answer to their needs. Streaming video requires a substantial amount of storage and bandwidth. Depending on shared servers for multiple video streams often results in slow or stalled service to the end user. The quickest and best fix for this is a dedicated server.

Running Softwares that require high-end hardware

A dedicated server also allows a web master to install proprietary software that enables automation. The flexibility of a dedicated server is often the first choice for SEO specialists and software developers.

Application Servers

Business apps are becoming increasingly popular for a variety of reasons. Web-based interfaces enable customers to access information through a wide range of devices and on multiples platforms. By creating apps that run in the cloud on a dedicated server, a business frees the end user from needing software to access company services. Such system apps also enable a business to provide automatically upgraded apps to customers. This lessens the load on in-house systems, saves money, and ensures customer satisfaction due to less down time. Dedicated hosting provides nearly unlimited storage space for databases that are essential to running a business.

Backup Servers

Whether you use these to backup office data, websites, or personal information, a dedicated backup server is an indispensable tool that can protect you from the consequences of lost data.

The flexibility and computing muscle that you gain from a dedicated server does cost more than shared servers. But unlike in-house servers, dedicated off-site servers are paid for as they are used rather than in advance. And, the cost of a dedicated server is often only slightly more than a shared one.

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WordPress Web Hosting: Should you go Dedicated to Handle the Traffic?

by Mahesh Kukreja on August 15, 2011

In recent months, I faced a couple of traffic hikes on my blog which resulted in high CPU usage and my webhost suspended my account to get the resources under control. I thought it was the time for me to switch to VPN or Dedicated servers.

Dell's PowerEdge Server

I even signed up for an unmanaged VPN account to host my blog. As I was installing all the resources on my VPN, I started to thinking whether the traffic hike was so deadly that switching to VPN server (which costs around $20/month) was important. I get around 2.5K – 3K pageviews daily and I started researching traffic rates and hosting packages of my fellow bloggers.

Some of them were getting 7K – 8K pageviews daily and had VPN servers. Others who were getting 3K – 4K were still on shared hosting. So, I thought I still have time to switch to VPN or Dedicated servers. Shared hosting is good for me till then.

Why did my visitors burn up the resources of my Web Host?

All the post images were hosted in wp-contents/uploads folder of the blog. That was the main reason for the use of processor and bandwidth. CPU was being used upto 25% and bandwidth usage was about 1 to 1.2 GB daily. I wasn’t worried about the bandwidth because my shared hosting offered me unlimited package. But, CPU usage was a problem. Unlimited is truly not unlimited. Check the TOS of any shared host and you’ll find that they limit the CPU usage to 10% to 25% per account. Anything about that will fire up the resources and because you’re hosted in a shared environment, you must share all the resources with other sites hosted there.

How to make sure you don’t go Dedicated too soon?

There’s nothing wrong in going dedicated “too soon” if you’re not worried about burning a hole in your pocket. But why spend extra money when you can still hang on to your shared Linux or Windows web hosting.

Here are some tips to reduce the CPU usage of your WordPress blog:

1. Cut & Paste your images from your shared server to free image hosting sites. Sites like Photobucket & ImageShack will do a great work for you

2. Optimize your blog’s database atleast twice a month. It clears the extra overhead caused on the database

3. Use Page caching plugin like W3 Total Cache

4. WP Minify is also a great plugin to compress your JS and CSS files. This will save your processor’s extra work

5. Remove unwanted plugins. Yes, plugins cause extra load on your server. Also, make sure you remove plugins which track visitors to your site. Such plugins consume a lot of resources. Use Google Analytics instead

6. When you’re writing a long and time consuming post, make sure that you write it locally on Microsoft Word or any of your favorite text editors. This is because, WordPress’ text editor constantly saves drafts after a couple of minutes, which causes unnecessary connections to your MySQL database

Conclusion

If your WordPress blog is getting less than 5K of pageviews daily, then you should optimize your blog and stick to shared Linux or Windows web hosting. If your blog is getting more traffic and your server can’t handle it further, it’s wise to switch to VPN or a dedicated server.

If you’ve any questions/suggestions, feel free to Comment.

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The Benefits of using Cloud Hosting over Traditional Hosting Servers

by Mahesh Kukreja on July 13, 2011

Everybody’s talking about cloud computing, and with good reason – it’s likely to become a fundamental part of day-to-day life. The impact of cloud computing on web hosting can’t be underestimated. Trying to figure out the best hosting option is one of the first major headaches that anyone who is trying to set up a website has to deal with – be they a web developer, company or small entrepreneur. If they decide to play it safe and choose an option with too much capacity they are wasting valuable capital, but choose too little and customers will face unacceptable delays.

The Benefits of Cloud Hosting

The ability of cloud hosting to keep websites running quickly and smoothly is one of its major benefits. Slow page load times aren’t just inconvenient, they’re a major factor in users’ perception of a website – a 2009 study found that 52 percent of users would no longer use a website that loaded too slowly, with 2 seconds being the upper limit on the load time. This is also reflected in Google’s search algorithm, with pages that load quickly being rewarded.

How The Cloud Works?

This is apart from the very real “Slashdot effect”, where a recommendation or discussion on a popular internet hub can lead to a sudden and drastic rise in traffic that can completely overload a website just as it becomes well-known. Not only is the website unable to capitalize on these new visitors, but it disappoints them at the same time, making them unlikely to return when the website arranges hosting to meet the demand. Cloud computing solves these problems and more.

Pay as you Go

The pay as you go concept that some providers offer links expenditure with income, whether it’s via ad impressions or visitors that the business hopes to convert into sales. Hosting costs increase with more visitors but decrease with less, so that the business need not estimate a budget based on past performance or future performance, but rather pays only for what has been used. There are a variety of different billing models out there, so those who prefer a more structured payment system can use a subscription based payment scheme and won’t need to worry about sudden price-hikes.

All of this is taking place in combination with server allocation that mirrors the ebb and flow of the load on the website. Sudden popularity for a website that means a spike in server load leads to more server capacity being allocated. Similarly, a steady increase in use is also catered for by the cloud servers. Cloud servers allow users to upload as much data as necessary, from small amount to vast quantities without necessarily having to organize it with their hosting.

Cloud Security

In cloud computing the client/customer is unaware of where the processes are running or where the data is stored. So, logically speaking, the client has no control over it. The cloud computing uses the internet as the communication media. When we look at the security of data in the cloud computing, the vendor has to provide some assurance in service level agreements (SLA) to convince the customer on security issues. Those that are concerned about security might want to consider using cloud hosting with a virtual private server or VPS, so that their server space can be partitioned separately from that of other users while still offering the dynamic functionality and scalability that is making cloud computing such a high-profile development in web hosting.

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