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Web Hosting Tips to Host Your Forums

by Mahesh Kukreja on April 24, 2011

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With changing times there is change in the mass appeal and marketing strategy of the products rather than sending on printed ads most of the companies like to spend on online ads substituting social networking sites and pay per click ads. Forum posting is also the best way to make sure your website is popularized among the internet users where you can start different discussions and forums.

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There are many web hosting companies which do have parallel plans for the forum hosting and also some of the web hosting providers will provide forum hosting free of cost under special circumstances. Therefore, choosing your web hosting service provider becomes all more important if you are planning to start your own forum in near future. Although it is preferable to look for the web hosting company which is providing enough scope for the forum posting along with hosting your website which can be managed with similar resources and ease as you ought to manage your website.

  1. Understanding Forum posting

    2. In today’s world, it is very difficult to find a person who does not know about forum, message boards and even the video uploading sites. There are people from almost every country and different communities, castes and culture who participate in forum posting to take part in various discussions and share their views with one another. This is why having your own forum is always beneficial which can generate traffic from all the corners of the world. Depending on the separate views and understanding the tilt of discussion you can always add some flavor and spices from your side to make these forums last long and to increase the traffic.

  2. Speed is the prima factor in Forum Hosting

    3. You will have to make sure that the database management is proper and coding is correct along with the uptime should be high as nobody wants to wait more to download all the contents of your forum. TO make sure you have right uptime you need to check on the bandwidth provided to you as there might be some videos posted by users to support their views and videos needs higher bandwidth.

  3. Look for shared webhosting in the primary phase

    4. Always look for the shared webhosting with ample scope for growth, as you are not able to guess about the traffic your forum will be generating in near future. If you are able to generate enough traffic and visitors and you plan to upgrade your forum hosting capacities then the forum-hosting provider should provide you with all the necessary features and tools to accommodate your growth.

  4. Look for the resources

    5. Most of the forum-hosting providers will provide you with free installation of software, unique features like gallery, blogs and wikis, Best consistency and flexibility for uses and clients, expert advice and timely technical support. Most of the forum hosting companies are cheaper and offer all the resources you need in PHP5 and Pearl as added bonus.

Sarvesh is a student and a blogger likes to write on blogging and technology topics. He blogs for a webhosting site offering ipage hosting coupons.

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What to Look For in A Good Host

by Mahesh Kukreja on February 8, 2009

Good hosting doesn’t always come cheap, especially if your site would require a lot of space and bandwidth to support the growing site. A good web host should provide credible and quality server, rather then just ignoring their customers needs. Choosing a good web host can be quite a headache since there are so many of them out there. Remember, whenever you choose a web hosting provider always look for the up-time. You don’t always want your site going down, do you?

Here are a few tips that can help you find a good, reliable web host. Be sure to read the part about about getting unlimited hosting also. :)

Tip #1

Server Hardware

A good web host always keeps their hardware maintained and well up to date. Imagine, if you will, joining up with a host and your site crashes, with all data lost because the hardware of the server was 10 years old. A Good host will always replace any old hardware that has any chances of failing. The system administrators should always be quick and knowledgeable if or when there is ever a hardware failure. Most hosts manage to get the failure fixed within a few hours, or 24 hours for the smaller hosting providers.

Ensure that the server can handle your site, if you plan on running a forum you may wanna check the servers hardware specifications if there are any. Especially if your forum is going to have over 100 members, that’s quite of a load on the server itself.

Tip #2

The Web Host’s Connection Speed

The hosting package you choose to sign up with should contain more then just one connection to the internet in-order to resolve any connection problems that may occur. Thus, if one of the connections go offline the other one would keep your site up and going.

A good hosting provider will always have a connection speed of T2, T3 or higher running below 60% of its maximum bandwidth it can use. When you sign up for a hosting package you should only choose the package you would need, make sure you think ahead into the future when choosing the package. Would you need more bandwidth, How about some more web space, Would you ever require mySQL or PHP. Perhaps you would one day want to run Ruby on Rails. That’s some things to think of when choosing a package. Some hosts even offer unlimited space hosting. But there may be a limit on how much CPU you can use at one time, such at 20%. If you ever choose to get unlimited hosting be sure to check for limitations on your site.

Most unlimited hosting providers offer little limitations on your site. Most of them may just restrict some certain file types as .MP3 files. And all host are starting to not allow that type of file anyway due to copyright matters. But if you do get unlimited hosting I have one thing to say.

I have, I love it, and I’m glad I got unlimited hosting because my site pulls about 17GIGs a month in bandwidth. That’s a lot! And I never had any problems yet. Never went over any limits, in my case 20% CPU usage at one time.

And I never will, unless I run some huge PHP application for 30 minutes running in a never ending loop. But that will never happen, because PHP has a max execution time that some host allow you to set.

Some host will also allow you to upgrade your hosting package as needed for your website, I have not seen many hosts that say they do that, but I’m sure they will help you out if you contact them. Most hosts always have phone support, or live chat.

Tip #3

Documentation

If, or when you ever buy web hosting you should always document any payments that are being made to your hosting provider. If you ever get over-billed by the host — and that rarely happens, you may need some proof that you were over-billed by that hosting provider.

Although, the hosting provider should always have records of all the payments they are getting, there may have been an error that was not their fault. It could of been a computer error, bank error, or anything could of went wrong if you ever were over-billed by the provider. Remember, a good host will always work with you to help you correct any problems that may occur.

Tip #4

Backups and Domains

A good host will always make backups of their hard drives in-case something go’s wrong. This will also allow you to restore a server backup to your site if you mess up the root folder of your site, like deleting an important folder that you are unable to restore. You would then be able to restore from the hosts backup file of your site.

You should also make sure you have full ownership of the domain name that you would be getting. You should never let anyone control the domain but you. The host should not have to require to take ownership, or have administrative control over the domain that you bought and own.

A good host will have these features taken care of and will always have a weekly or less backup of your site, leaving you to focus on your business and website in peace.

Hope this information is helpful and is of your use.

-Mahesh.

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