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Sunday, July 12th, 2009

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If you’re a college student that is new to online business, you likely have many questions about web hosting. Luckily, you don’t need to be technically savvy to understand how web hosting works. With the right information, you can choose a reliable web hosting company that provides your website the customized hosting plan it needs.

Who needs web hosting?
Web hosting is a crucial component involved in taking your business online – along with your domain name and your website design. In order for your website to “go live,” you must have a web hosting service.

What is a web hosting service?
A web hosting service provides physical storage for your website’s content.  Your web host’s server functions as the home of all the data – files, graphics, audio files, etc. – that visitors see when they navigate your site.

Why pay for web hosting services?
If you’re serious about making your business a success online, it’s best to consider a  monthly hosting fee a small price to pay for the support you will receive. Think of your hosting costs as renting space for your website – much like rent you may pay on your dorm room or college apartment. While free web hosting options certainly exist, they often carry too much risk for the prudent business owner. These risks include insufficient space and bandwidth, frequent downtime and the inability to profit from advertising placed on your website.

Where can I find a reliable web hosting provider?
In today’s crowded online arena, there is no shortage of web hosting companies from which to choose. However, many of these companies attract customers with misleading offers and false information. Before you get stuck with a web hosting company that can hinder your online success, be sure to ask questions and read the fine print. A professional web hosting company should offer uptime reliability, customer service, and other tools that can help you manage and promote your website more efficiently.

When do I choose web hosting – before or after I register a domain name?
While web hosting and domain name registration are two important parts of your website,  they may exist separately. Your web hosting company should be able to accommodate your hosting needs regardless of where you register your domain name. Your web hosting company may, however, offer a free domain name with your hosting package – an added bonus, especially if you are just getting started.

How much web hosting space and bandwidth do I need?
Hosting is not a one size fits all package. In fact, your web hosting needs will depend on the unique needs of your business and the nature of your website content. For example, if you have an ecommerce site that uses many images to promote your products, you will have an increased need for storage space. Also, the more your site asks visitors to interact, the more bandwidth you will need. Finally, consider the amount of traffic you expect and find a website hosting package with enough bandwidth to accommodate your visitors.

Your choice of a web hosting provider – and a hosting plan – will depend on several factors. By giving careful consideration to your business’ current needs and future goals, you can find the hosting that works for your business website.

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The Basics of Website hosting

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

The individuals, who want to share their ideas and business with the rest of the world, are no doubt in need of website hosting information for launching their own website. Gone are the days when the practice of web hosting had to incur the cost of thousands of dollars. Still, the intender’s can find web hosting at higher cost, however there are lots of companies that are offering cheap web hosting solutions.

The users will probably know the fact that various web hosting companies are there which are claiming to render free web hosting services. However, if one wants to give a professional appearance to a website, it is not a good option; the companies can have some other ways to take out money from you such as irritating pop up advisements etc. Not only this, the free web hosting solutions offer a smaller disk space limiting the customers with images and amount of data the site can hold up. Also, the need may arise to hire some other company for having technical support because those free web hosting services will not provide complete technical support.

Need of a Web Hosting Account: If one is looking for a reasonably priced web hosting technique, there is a multitude of great alternatives available. One should be capable to find the best which has strong technical features. If you want to create a website, you need a web host. A web hosting server stores all important information of the website on the system and is responsible for displaying the entire information set over your website whenever the request is received. There is also a web site hosting company involved in the entire procedure which sees running the hosting server and ensuring that the information is obtainable from your website quickly as and when needed.

There are also some web hosting sites which facilitate a number of articles and web hosting reviews and ensure that information is being updated constantly. Highly efficient and independent web hosting reviews will save huge time and help you in considering best price rates. Moreover, these sites offer a splendid prospect to acquire inclusive direct data web hosting solutions and also provide a great option for those who are searching for premier and best web hosts that will custom fit the requirements of intenders.

Dream host comes equipped with the facet of backup and offers around four gigabytes of storage room for backup settings and files. If a customer has some hosting account, then he/she probably will have certain settings made to the account and also there are lots of database and files included as well.

Once the development of website has been completed, the very next step includes publishing it over the internet so that it can be accessed by the visitors looking for the products and services offered by your company. There are 3 major choices to get the website published on the internet as selecting suitable web hosting site on dedicated server and hosting the site directly on computer. The last one is somewhat practical and involves running a business portfolio as dedicated. Moreover, fast internet connection is also required if one wants to get all jobs done without any major difficulty.

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Checklist: Establishing a Web Site

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

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Today’s information technologies are expanding at an astounding rate, with everyone going online. Establishing and maintaining a Web site for your business can be very useful to the future success of your business. The following guide provides basic procedural information and helpful hints for establishing a web site for your business.

* Choose an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

An ISP will provide you with an Internet account. Your Internet account should include e-mail access, the ability to access other computers, the ability to transfer files between networks, and server space for a Web site. Your ISP will charge you a monthly fee for its services.

* Select and Register a Domain Name or Universal Resource Locator (URL).

You should choose a name that represents your product and/or services and is easy to remember. We recomend using EZ DOMAIN NAME Before you decide on a name, a full trademark search should be done. On its Web site, www.uspto.gov, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has a free search tool for making limited searches of the federal register of trademarks. You can then search EZ DOMAIN NAME, to determine whether your desired URL is available.

* Design Your Web Site.

We recomend DWHS Web Hosting for this. Think about what you want to accomplish with your site. You can obtain ideas for your site by looking at the Web sites of your competitors. You can then design your site yourself or hire a Web design service or Internet consultant to design the site for you.

* Register Your Site With Different Search Engines.

* Inform Others About Your Site.

Include your URL on your letterhead, business cards, in all advertisements for the company, and in the Yellow Pages.

* Track the Visits to Your Site.

Log data software is available to record the number of hits your site receives. In addition, some ISPs provide access logs. You can ask visitors to your site to complete a questionnaire or to provide input as to your product or services.

* Keep Your Site Current.

No one likes outdated information. Make sure your site is updated.

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Los Angeles, California based web host DWHS buys up two web hosting companies.

Friday, June 20th, 2008

June 18, 2007 – (www.DWHS.COM) – What might seem like a medium sized web host might have other intentions in mind. With a little over 60k domains according the CEO James Garner this is merely a top 100 host rather then a host considered to be large. But some factors like the large amount of traffic they get as shown in Alexa.com (where they are the in the top 100k most visited websites, which is virtually unheard of for a host) might be a sign of something brewing.

But James was very leery about commenting on a massive growth strategy. He specifically said keeping the growth of DWHS steady and regulated is extremely important. Quote “Our primary focus is to have a personal connection available for our customers if they want it. I know hundreds of customers names and our customers service manager Charles Yarbrough probably knows thousands. If a customer is having a issue like sales declining or a somewhat slow loading website design we want to personally help. It seems simple enough that if they become more successful and upgrade to accommodate their growth DWHS wins as well. This is the premise of DWHS and has been since we made our Web Hosting Business official in 2001. We will do whatever we can to help our customers succeed.”

I also noticed they have a 16 person staff which is very large for a 60k domain web host, in fact it’s larger then most of the top twenty hosts staff from what I have heard. So I asked James why the large staff and why are you buying up Two hosting companies in in only 4 months? Quote “One thing I noticed in the business is customers notice everything about their web host. The loading speed and reliability of the website and quality of customer service are essential in this business. A strong local staff and high quality infrastructure is a essential in this industry if you ask me. I also would like to mention most of our employees have been with DWHS for over 2 years. We are also in downtown LA for a reason, we get the best bandwidth available from the top providers at the lowest price possible anywhere. This enables us to offer the fastest most reliable networks at a great price, which in turn our customers love us for it. But realistically we bought these two hosts for there good price not because it was time to buy up hosting companies. Two good deals just came up close to each other. We have bought several hosts over the years with no timing strategy, we just wait until a good deal comes along and we jump on it.”

In conclusion It sounds to me like they have no intentions of becoming a web hosting conglomerate, I think they like how they are doing things and are growing with there clients response.

DWHS is an American corporation with headquarters in Los Angeles California, Orange County California, and Seattle, Washington. DWHS started out sharing a data center in Los Angeles in 1998. http://www.dwhs.com http://www.dwhs.net they also own the free image hosting service http://www.hostive.com and the domain registration service http://www.ezdomainname.com/ and are partners with the new Orange County, California based business directory http://www.ocfocus.com

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DWHS Upgrades php to version 5

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

We are officially upgrading all servers to PHP5 as of 03-07-2007.

PHP5 has been in positive production levels for over three months and has been proven solid on our test servers.

This shouldn’t effect any scripts running unless the script is no being upgraded to standard php practices.

http://www.dwhswebhosting.com/hostingforum/viewtopic.php?t=6312

Thank you,

DWHS Inc.

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