Dedicated Hosting and Your Business

In the grand scale of things, it would have been quite difficult quite a long time ago to fathom that in the great scale of things, there would be a time and place in this world where anyone and everyone can make money if they put their mind in a space called the information superhighway, and this has become a sort of a reality now days. Now the internet is a place where you can do business and make money, and if you have a relatively good idea, you can get away with almost anything that you put your mind to and sell anything that you want.

But for one thing, you need to be smart about these things, because one of the most important things about business online is your reputation and if you do not take care of it, you will find that more and more people will spread, through the power of DWOM or digital word of mouth, the fallacy that is your online business and you will find that profits will be dipping and you would have wasted your time online. So what you need to look at is the sort of hosting that you are going to be subscribing too and this is really the most important thing of them all.

All in all, what you need to know is that when you are running a business, what you need to be having is a dedicated hosting service, and this is far different from the free or shared hosting options that seem to be running rampant on the web. It is literally like owning your own shop or sharing it with a host of proprietors selling all sorts of different goods. When you are doing business online, you are going to need your own space, and the only way that that is going to happen is when you decide to realise that spending a bit more for a dedicated server space is the right thing to do.

This means that the resources are all yours and in the end of the day, that makes the difference between an efficient and reliable commerce site, or one that is constantly crashing and making no business sense at all. Be all and end all of this matter, is that you need to instill some sort of trust in your customers and the only way that you are going to be doing this is if you have something to show them that makes them not mind giving you their money, or punching in their credit card numbers over a, honestly speaking, unsafe digital world where hackers and worms are waiting to pounce around every corner there is.

So with a dedicated server, you will have the sort of trust that you will need to exude so that more and more customer will literally come flocking to you and buying all they can from you. It is just a matter of some money - some money that will get you more money than ever before.

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Dedicated Server - Do You Need One? If So, Which One?

After a recent episode with my hosting company shutting down my site because it was using too much CPU resource, I decided to look into purchasing a dedicated server.

The main reasons were to ensure that my sites were always up and running as they are my livelihood and if they are down for any length of time it obviously hurts my pocket.

So if you are running websites that gets good traffic or uses high resource software like direct mailers, etc... a dedicated server is for you. This was my thinking anyway.

I was adamant I was not going to use Hostgator, as they were causing me so many problems with my current hosting. Aside from the fact that it takes them forever to respond to support requests.

So I shopped around a little and decided to use a UK company as I'm based in the UK. I was a little unsure whether to use a Linux or Windows based machine and so questioned the sales person for some time regarding the benefits of both. I have to say 2 weeks on I am totally convinced I chose the wrong option.

I decided to buy a Windows based Server. At first it seemed a great choice. The Hosting company have their own Control Panel built into the machine and it was a breeze to use when setting up domains. However, as anybody who has used a Windows based server will probably justify, they are a complete nightmare when you come to load up your websites. (Unless of course you are a Windows Server Certified Professional).

I use a lot of PHP/SQL based systems for my websites, and despite the sales person stating they are supported by Windows Server, the usual commands I am used to using, i.e. CHMOD, Redirect, etc... are not available in the standard control panel. I had to learn how to use IIS6 to make the sites work. This is not an overnight process, and resulted in many hours of frustration.

In fact it got so bad that I left my sites with the current host whilst I decide on my next course of action.

I am a total convert to Linux based systems, as it uses the Web Host Manager and Cpanel interface. If it's not already installed on the server, this can be easily achieved with the free download of this software available on the internet.

The reason I purchased the Windows based system originally was because the sales person stated that it was GUI based, which it was. But it doesn't allow you to change things like write permissions, domain forwarding, or even SQL databases easily.

My recommendation is to stick with Linux based systems, certainly for the immediate future anyway. As I believe cpanel is being released on the Windows platform in late 2008. Probably 6 months too late for me though as I'm returning to Linux.

Steve Sharpe is the CEO and Editor in Chief of http://www.articleland.co.uk He has been in internet marketing for a number of years and lives with his family in Cardiff, South Wales, UK. Article Marketing is his area of expertise and he is offering a free book entitled Article Marketing Avalanche on his website.

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