The key responsibilities of a web hosting company are to provide server space, web services and maintenance of servers which host websites owned or controlled by individuals and companies. Most web hosting companies offer shared hosting and dedicated hosting, which are explained in detail below. Shared Hosting Another name for shared hosting is virtual hosting or mass hosting. It works as follows: your content and applications are placed on a server which is shared with other customers who also use that web host. The equipment and server are owned and managed by the web host provider,...
Written by: David Goldberg | Dedicated Hosting |  |
There are many tools of the trade in the world of Web site development, but very few have as many good uses as your .htaccess file. What, you don't have one? I'll admit, information on these little darlings are confusing to some and hard to find. Hence the reason why we need an explanation of what it is and what it can do for you. Inside your Web hosting space, you know you have folders, HTML documents, and other things that make your Web site work. Think of this file as just another addition to the many thing you have inside there. It usually sits inside your root directory, such as...
Written by: Mitch Keeler | General Hosting | |
Every Web host provides you with one, and if you do a lot of work on your Web site it could be something you curse or something you get to adore every single day. A control panel is like the brain behind your Web site’s body. It gives you one place to look at to do everything you would ever need to do to your Web hosting account. You can create E-mail accounts, create FTP accounts, track statistical information and so much more.
Did you know that there are different types of control panels though? I do not think anybody can argue with the fact that the most popular control panel software...
Written by: Mitch Keeler | General Hosting | |
Tracking advertising campaigns performance
with 3dstats.com
Case Study
Advertiser: 3DStats.com. Keywords: 'web stats'
Advertise on Google.com (AdWords Select)
We have a Pay-per-Click campaign on Google.com and we would like to track our campaign performance.
I. Track the visitors sent by our Google campaign.
First, we need to create the campaign tracking destination URL. To do this, we selected the option
'Create Campaign URL' in the campaign menu.
We filled the form with the information requested.
and got the following...
Written by: 3dstats.com | General Hosting | |
John is very happy today, for the first time in his life he has created his very own website. Now he is looking for a web host so that he can put his identity on the net. Casually he asks his friend Mac about it. Mac tells him that web-hosting directories are the best place to look for a web host. Getting curious John then asks Mac what exactly a Web Hosting Directory is. Mac responds that web hosting directories are a web hosting marketplace where prospective hosts list their products, plans, prices and other important information so that according to their requirements, customers can choose...
Written by: Priyanka Agarwal | General Hosting | |
OverviewFrontlineMail is a network-based content filter designed to help businesses and other domain administrators deal with the growing problem of spam and viruses. FrontlineMail works by intercepting unfiltered Internet e-mail via SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), passing the e-mail through a number of local and external tests to determine whether the message is spam or a virus, and then delivering filtered, spam-free and virus-free e-mail via SMTP to a recipient mail server. Identified spam and viruses can either be delivered to the recipient mail server for further processing or...
Written by: Ed Buck | General Hosting | |
Testing web hosting companies the final stages of your search for a good web hosting company, a very important step is to test "the finalists". Because most web hosting companies have client support email(s) listed openly on their website, testing the quality and speed of their support is quite easy. All you have to do is send an email with one or more questions. Let's take things step by step. First you have to find that email address. Usually you can find it in a "contact us" or "about us" section. Different email addresses result in different test results. What I mean by that is...
Written by: Daniel Lemnaru | General Hosting | |
If you want to sell online, you need to be able to accept credit card payments. The traditional way is to open a merchant account. However, opening a merchant account is expensive, especially for small businesses who are just starting. In the last few years, however, a number of companies have entered the market with a new concept: third party credit card processing services (for example, Paypal). This option offers small businesses a quick and easy way to accept cretit card payments. It by-passes the need to open a merchant account, plus, the sign-up process is much easier and faster:...
Written by: Mario Sanchez | General Hosting | |
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