Web Hosting Geeks' Blog » data transfer http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog Web Hosting Industry News, Latest Trends, and Analyses. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:48:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A2 Improves Dedicated Hosting Servicehttp://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/06/08/a2-improves-dedicated-hosting-service/ http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/06/08/a2-improves-dedicated-hosting-service/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:05:26 +0000 Art http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=1654 A2 Hosting is a Linux-base web hosting provider that recently enhanced the amount of resources dedicated to their managed dedicated hosting monthly packages. Each plan now features double the data transfer. Additionally, the provider has waived the setup fee on all dedicated hosting packages to make their plans much more affordable. These two new enhancements are sure to increase traffic.

Discounted Plan Promotion for New Account Holders

New dedicated hosting account holders will be able to save up to 40 percent on their first bill when using coupon code “GODEDICATED” during checkout. If the member is not completely satisfied with their hosting service, A2 provides a free 30-day money back guarantee.

Standard Plan Features

Every server is individually managed by A2 Hosting’s Grew employees and includes a variety of standard features such as cPanel control panel, around the clock Host-Guard Server Monitoring and managed hardware upgrades. Also, CloudFare CDN is free with purchase and all servers are back with a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee. The amount of basic features in all plans beats most of the competition.

Comments from the A2 Hosting Marketing Manager

The Marketing Manager at A2 commented that dedicated servers have become extremely popular with their customers. As a result, the provider has removed the setup fee to eliminate that barrier for new customers looking to migrate accounts. Also, by doubling the data transfer and providing limited-time discounts, webmasters will be able to see how A2 operates and treats their customers.

A2 Company Information

Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, A2 Hosting is a Linux-based web hosting provider that offers around the clock support. The company boasts a variety of services such as affordable, developer-friendly hosting for personal and business websites and full service solutions for all types of companies. Also, A2 Hosting is compatible with numerous Internet-based technologies such as PHP, MySQL, Python, Perl, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL and much more.

With the decrease in price and increase in demand for dedicated hosting, more providers are appearing on the market or expanding their offerings to remain competition. A2 Hosting is an excellent web hosting provider with many features, plans and a high-level of security. By increase the amount of resources dedicated hosting customers receive, the company is becoming more competitive and attractive to potential account holders.

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]]> http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/06/08/a2-improves-dedicated-hosting-service/feed/ 0 Web Hosting and Web Site Launchhttp://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/01/16/web-hosting-website-launch/ http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/01/16/web-hosting-website-launch/#comments Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:17:33 +0000 Dmitry http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=3697 A web site is the most effective as well as cost effective way to advertise about your product and company in the large global market. There are many web hosting companies providing world class Internet base to our customers along with other web hosting services like, website design, logo design, and email service.

Why web hosting service?

Web hosting service is the service which will launch your website on the World Wide Web and make you available to the online users as well. There are two kinds of web hosting services, the ones which can be availed free of cost, and the ones which are paid web hosting services. A free web hosting service, as the name suggests, is the web hosting service which will launch your company website without paying any fees to the service provider but the website of the company will be, in that case, bound to present the advertisement and banners of the web hosting company. A free web hosting service is greatly liked by customers but it has limitations which make it less preferable. These limitations are basically the limited disk space and limited data transfer.

A paid web hosting service is then a better option. However, if you are a small business organization and do not want spend much funds on website hosting free web hosting will be a better option.

For organizations which have enough resources to concentrate on extended website design, they must opt for paid web hosting service as it will allow their website more space, as it will be given more advanced services by the web hosting service provider. However, if you wish to spend a handsome amount of money on web hosting, make sure you get the top web hosting service for your organization. A good website will be an impressive introduction to the company and so, make sure your company website not only looks perfect but it is also well managed. A web hosting service should not only launch you in the global Internet world but it should also manage it well after it is launched. Web site management is one of the functions which require great efficiency and skill.

Find the best web host for yourself!

Get hold of a company which gives you best services at modest prices. Find the best web hosting service for your company website and this is possible if you properly analyze web hosting reviews of various web hosting companies. You must make a sound decision on the basis of reviews if you wish to get the top web hosting service.

There are various kinds of web hosting services like shared web hosting service, reseller web hosting, server space and bandwidth service. A good server space is required for loading sufficient information to the website by adding a sufficient number of webpages to the website, whereas shared web hosting service is required to maintain links and hyper links on the webpages of the website. So take sufficient time to decide the best web hosting service for your organization’s website.

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]]> http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/01/16/web-hosting-website-launch/feed/ 0 Shared Hosting – How Much Can You Afford to Share?http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2010/08/16/shared-hosting-%e2%80%93-how-much-can-you-afford-to-share/ http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2010/08/16/shared-hosting-%e2%80%93-how-much-can-you-afford-to-share/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:50:37 +0000 Art http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=1050 Your website is the focal point of your online business, as it represents your online identity and reputation on a continual basis. The performance, appearance and presence of your site directly affect the way your visitors perceive the professionalism of your online business. Every site operates on a web server, and this server ultimately dictates the full functionality and performance limitations of every web page on the site. Every time a page is loaded a small burden is placed on the web server, and if the load is too heavy the site performance begins to suffer, in the form of slow page loads, and even site down time. The likelihood of this decreased site performance occurring depends entirely upon the kind of web server being used, as some are more powerful than others. Shared web servers are perhaps  the least beneficial, simply because all of the server resources are shared amongst various sites simultaneously.

How Much Is Shared?

Fortunately, sensitive site information  (such as financial data) is not shared between unrelated sites in a shared hosting plan. However all of the server resources, such as bandwidth, data transfer, and even storage space are shared with other users that are renting a hosting plan with your web host. Your site’s IP address is also shared with these users as well, which means that their actions may reflect on both the legal credibility and search engine ranking of your site.  Since you are sharing all of these attributes with sites that are not under your control, it is possible that unforeseen circumstances could arise, such as being de-indexed from search engines, or even having your site taken offline temporarily.

How Much Can You Save?

The main reason why anyone would purchase a shared hosting plan would be to save money. However, when you factor in the issues that could result from sharing all of your server resources with dozens of other sites, it becomes clear that you may not be saving anything at all. In fact, the percentage of people that will eventually upgrade from a shared hosting plan is rather high. Therefore if you’re inevitably going to upgrade in the future, then there may be little sense in paying for a plan which will soon be obsolete. The truth is you can save a lot of time and money by starting with a plan that is right for you.

When Would Shared Hosting Be Optimal?

If you are operating a personal blog, or a .info domain that is not of high importance to you, then a shared hosting plan could accommodate your needs. Shared hosting is only recommended for individuals, and is not an ideal solution for the online business owner. If you are currently using a shared hosting account for your online business, you may want to consider switching to a VPS or Dedicated hosting account instead. Dedicated and VPS hosting plans offer flexibility, privacy and capabilities that cannot be found in any shared hosting service.

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]]> http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2010/08/16/shared-hosting-%e2%80%93-how-much-can-you-afford-to-share/feed/ 0 What is 95th Percentile Monitoring?http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2010/04/29/what-is-95th-percentile-monitoring/ http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2010/04/29/what-is-95th-percentile-monitoring/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:55:02 +0000 Art http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=874 95th percentile monitoring is a collocation technical term that relates to bandwidth. This method of monitoring logs 30 days worth of traffic samples every 5 minutes. This log is then sorted in descending order, placing the largest traffic spikes at the top of the list. These top 5% traffic spikes are thrown out.

This remaining top value, within the 95th percentile, is the bandwidth usage for the month. Colocation hosting providers often use this method to bill their corporate customers. Most collocation hosting companies feel this is the most fair and effective method for conducting business with corporate clients.

This method of billing is only really seen in peering arrangements between corporate networks. Since internet service providers need consistent data rates for planning, this method is far from appealing to them. Most sites generate the bulk of their traffic on Mondays. Therefore, Monday practically determines the billable rate for the entire month.

The primary advantage is the user can accumulate up to 36 hours of peak traffic that will be ignored on that month’s bill, regardless of the height of the spikes. Unfortunately this bill method attracts a few criticisms.

For instance:

  • Potential to pay for unused bandwidth
  • Inbound and outbound traffic calculated separately

Although the primary advantage is attractive, it works both ways. Users can potentially pay for unused bandwidth. For example, if a website only uses 2Mbps for 5% of the time and nothing more, the client would be billed as if they had utilized 2Mbps for the entire month. If this were the case, the cost could be driven down by sending data reducing the bandwidth to the 95th percentile thus knocking the 5% off.

Another criticism is the split calculation of inbound and outbound traffic. Since these are calculated separately, the highest value is used for billing and not the total sum. This is another issue that could cause for a surprising bill. Critics of this method prefer the flat rate billing system, the average amount of data transferred or billing per byte.

Web hosting providers offer many different types of billing. Some colocation providers even offer a 90% billing method to attract those with inconsistent bandwidth usage. There are so many different steps to getting a website up and running and ever-increasing options to keep it maintained. 95th percentile monitoring is a fair and effective billing method, but it’s generally more useful for individual users to find an alternative with a better fit.

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]]> http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2010/04/29/what-is-95th-percentile-monitoring/feed/ 0 Finding the Perfect Balance of Disk Space and Bandwidthhttp://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2009/06/09/finding-the-perfect-balance-of-disk-space-and-bandwidth/ http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2009/06/09/finding-the-perfect-balance-of-disk-space-and-bandwidth/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:54:11 +0000 Art http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=368 You will find thousands of articles online stressing the importance of disk space and bandwidth.  Many hosting companies will try to persuade you into buying the package that offers the highest allowance of both.  Having a large amount is good but do you really need it?.  If you are not sure, you need to find out how to carefully balance the two.

In order to estimate how much disk space and bandwidth you need, you should first determine what type of website you will have.  In general, small business sites fall into one of the following classifications.

Mini-sites - Also referred to as one-product sites, min-sites are small and usually consist of two to three pages.  The main focus of such a site is to sale a single product or collect contact information from visitors and try to market products to them at a later time.  This is the type of site you often find with a lengthy sales letter along with an order form and contact page.

Brochure Site – A brochure site typically has about 10 web pages that describe what the business does.  It goes over their products and services, location and targeted market among other details.  The site might also contain a contact page, an about page and other pages where items can be purchased.  These sites get their name because they essentially act as the company’s online brochure.

Theme-based Site - This type of website revolves around a specific niche market or topic.  It could be a site dedicated to freelance writers, web hosting or work-at-home moms.  These sites usually receive frequent updates and contain articles, tutorials and other resources.  A theme-based site can either sell its own products, items from affiliates or simply exist to provide a lot information.

Each website classification has different disk space and bandwidth requirements.

A mini-site usually does not require an enormous amount of disk space. On the other hand, if it starts to gain popularity through effective search engine optimization, affiliate promoting or word of mouth, it will likely generate more traffic.  In this instance, the amount of bandwidth becomes crucial.

A brochure site does not require a lot of disk space or bandwidth.  This is the average small business site, one that can get by with the basic offerings of a good web hosting provider.

A theme-based site usually does not require that much disk space or bandwidth.  In the beginning that is.  If this is a website that truly requires frequent updates, the requirements for disk space can increase quite fast.  Moreover, once you add more content and generate more traffic, your needs for data transfer will also increase.

Regardless of what type of site you have in mind for your small business, it is a good rule of thumb to expect the unexpected and take the future into account from day one.  The best thing you can do in any event is to make sure your host doesn’t charge ungodly amounts for overages and provides an easy path to service upgrades.

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