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VPS or Cloud Hosting

vps or cloud hosting

When your web requirements is far beyond a shared hosting environment, the two popular choice would be VPS or cloud hosting. Because they both have similar features, we always have to compare a lot in order to choose the right solution for our web requirements. Indeed, they look similar but difference are more. We will compare the main features between the two products so you will get a basic ideal when you need a VPS and when should go with cloud hosting.

Relationship between VPS and Cloud hosting

No matter what kind of hosting, they're all configured on actual server hardware/software. Both VPS and cloud hosting server have the actual amount of disk space, memory and network bandwidth etc. They both can be managed via web base control panels. Because of this, more and more server providers begin to offer a new type hosting – cloud vps hosting. It's becoming a more popular choice comparing to traditional service plans, we also see the advantages of cloud computing.

Difference between VPS and Cloud Hosting

Comparing to trandtional VPS server, coud hosting is based on newest technologies so there're lots of difference. In order to understand their main difference, we can compare in the following orders

Scalability and stability

All VPS resources are pre-configured and could not be changed while running, services like disk space, RAM are all setup during purchasing. On the other hand, the cloud hosting server resource is active, means it can be added/removed instantly based on your resource usage and bills accordingly.

As for stability, the VPS servers are sharing the single dedicated box resources so if one of the users over used it's allocated resource then other vps users will be affected. However such case does not happen to cloud hosting. In theory the cloud hosting server resources can be unlimited, so a single user over use will not affect other customers.

Customization and Security

VPS is working like a small dedicated server and user can perform almost whatever they like. Since all vps data is stored on a single local disk partion so it's easy to maintain and security protection can be ensured mostly. On the other hand, the cloud hosting resources are distributed across many machines. This limites the control over data and security because you're not sure where the data is stored in any given time. There's still a long way to go for cloud computing security. On this point of view, VPS has more advantages over security protection.

Cost

VPS is charged based on your chosen specs such as disk, RAM, bandwidth etc. Because of this we have good control over the budget for predictable usage. The cloud hosting billing can be charged per minutes. It's perfect option if we're not sure how much resources to use and don't wish the web service going down. The disadvantage is we can't control over the cost especially for some heavy traffic applications.

Is VPS better than Cloud hosting?

Based above comparison we should have learnt it really depends our actual web requirements. If we have predictable usage and need reliable security protection for the server, VPS would be better selection. If it's a big application with high server resources usage, cloud hosting would be right solution if we have good budget.

Best VPS and cloud hosting solutions

There're many quality vps hosting providers, we recommend the top 5 vps hosting names in case you need our recommendation. Also the myhosting custom vps hosting plan is also highly recommended if you like to make a custom vps server. For cloud hosting we highly suggest checking out the main datacenter providers such as rackspace, softlayer etc because they're direct service provider with no extra cost.

Web Hosting Advertisement in London

The London Olympics Just begins. Because it's joined by all countries in the world, a little event might cause global response. Before the Opening ceremony, all kinds of advertisements have occupied the London streets and squares because everybody would like to make their names noticed by people. Web hosting providers also joined this campaign and put their ads/promos everywhere they can thought of. In this posting Let's view some of the popular ones.

Godaddy is the leading advertiser in web hosting industry. The godaddy brand is showed in almost every important sports meeting, either civil or international. The company hopes to use the Olympics stage to try to re-brand its image. The common theme: beauty on the outside but brains on the inside.

godaddy ads

From the overall Godaddy marketing history, they have been relying heavily on the sex appeal of its "Go Daddy girls". Although they wish to reload it's brand by the Olympics, there's no much difference with their new image comparing to old images. However, instead using the traditional sexy girl to attract eyeballs, this Olympic ads shows more about the company's customer service and website design service. Hot lady is still there but it tells us more that people who do the company’s actual work are all men.

Another big name in this ads campaign is 123-Reg. They're using 160 'streetliner' advertisements installed on 160 buses throughout Greater London during the Olympics period. It's said to be the first try for online hosting advertising.

123reg ads

About 123-reg: founded in 2000, have been offering domain registration and web hosting to tons of online business. It's by far the largest UK domain registrar. It's working similar to godaddy service and also offering lots of promotional codes. Because it's targeted to UK market, their billing is made for BGP.

More details about 123-reg ads: http://www.outputmagazine.com/wide-format-print/applications/display/internet-company-goes-offline-with-first-bus-adverts/

Other big names such as hostgator is not included in the list because they're in the process of business transition to EIG. If you have tracked the hostgator you will find their official promo/ads are less than before.

How do we think about such advertising?

Well, it's absolutely good chance to gain more business. That's why London is almost occupied by all kinds of ads. However, more ads doesn't mean the level of service quality. Especially for online business, reliability is most important factor to keep customers. Just like all other business, ads is only a method to get customer but you must do more actual work to keep the customer.

Servage.net Review

servage.net review

The web hosting industry is never lack of cheap/affordable service providers. However many of them are either less-quality or going to increase the price once got more business. Only few names still work well. Today we'll introduce one of the oldest hosting brands called "Servage". If you have founded this company and looking for servage review, I would like to share such info with our clients' experience.

Servage Introduction

Their name is resulted from the words "Serve" and "Age". Servage was founded in 1998, it's part of the Servage group AB. Since from the business beginning they have gathered some of the industry's most prestigious awards such as "editors' choice" "best webhost" etc. Currently there're over 180,000 websites being served on servage platforms.

Servage Hosting Plans

Servage is well known for it's "one solution" hosting. There's only a single shared hosting plan that comes with everything they have on hand. The service is configured on standard cpanel with all addons such as auto installer, traffic analyser, sitebuilder etc. In a word, we get all features from other cpanel hosting providers with servage for only $2.95/mo.

Servage also provides domain registration and VPS server hosting service. The servage domain registration service starts with $12.99/mo for popular extensions like .com .net .org etc, it's pretty expensive comparing to leading domain providers like godaddy and namecheap. If you just want to register a domain name without hosting, servage is not recommended.

The servage VPS hosting is very different from all other hosting providers, they just offer a single VPS hosting plan with following configurations

  • 1 CPU
  • 600MB RAM
  • 150GB disk space
  • 5 TB bandwidth

Above server advantages only cost us $19.95/mo + $9.9 setup fee. The VPS server is between managed and unmanaged because they will install their own hosting control panel to the server and offer basic maintenance to it. Based their server features, it's already leading among all hosting providers. To learn more about the servage control panel, plase check this page.

Servage Pros and Cons

The advantages with servage are various, we'll just pick out the spotlights

Affordable service to everyone – Yes, for everyone! the service only costs us $2.95/mo which is quite affordable. In case we're not ready to pay more yet for hosting, servage is definitely a good choice. They even offers a stand alone sitebuilder software for free downloading, if you're novice to web development, just download it to your desktop and create a professional site in few minutes!

Up to date server technologies and stable system – the servage platform is cluster based with redundant setups. server uptime and networking is monitered by their 24×7 professionals

Spam free service – The active anti-spam system maintains a white list for your account preventing spammer from emailing your account, easy to manage in every servage hosting account.

Friendly and efficient response to support requests – Servage has established procedures for communication between support and clients via live chat/phone/ticket tunnels, it ensures the communication is effective.

The weakness of servage service would be their cheap and all in one solution. beause of the cheap and various offers, it's easy for users to overuse the actual server resources and cause problems. That's why we viewed some negative feedbacks to their service. Because they don't have an upgrade option and when we grow out of a shared server we have to switch service. It's bad if we have lots of complex data to move.

Customer feedbacks for servage hosting

Dan
I have used servage for 2 yrs now and am satisfied with the service.
The price is very good and my website has good uptime and speed. The technical support is good too. The response time of the support was around 10-15 minutes when I asked for help.
Therefore I would recommend servage to friends. 🙂

Paul
Servage rocks! I am a fan of servage because support, uptime, speed and security are great! Never suffered any problems. I don't see why people are alsways complaining, change your passwords regularly and update and you will not be hacked guys! It is not the fault of the webhsoter if your website gets hacked but only your fault! And if the webhost suspends you because of this, it is only for your advantage.
So..I would recommend servage anytime!

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Top India Hosting

Top india hosting

In web hosting industry, India is a huge market. That's why we see many popular hosting companies set branchs and support centers in that area. With it's powerful IT technologies, India also manages the second largest internet highway in the world. If you're going to host your business site on Indian hosting server but not sure which service to go, we'll provide some guidance on how to choose the proper service and rate the top india hosting providers.

India Hosting introduction

Technically speaking, the India hosting has no much difference comparing to any other popular hosting base, because the India has lots of IT professionals who has made outstanding contribution to the industry. The actual limit to india hosting is same as other Asia country — expensive bandwidth. Especially when you doing oversea business and your website is hosted on civil server, the loading speed is relatively slow. However, if you just need local visiting, it's good enough and the price is more acceptable.

Top India Hosting Providers

In India, the Hosting business is mainly operated by 5 names: Net4india, Bigrock, Rediff, Znetlive and Indialinks. They share more than half of the total market. To learn about their service in quick time, here's a table list

Brands Net4india Bigrock Rediffmailpro Znetlive Indialinks
Pricing $1/mo $1.59/mo $52.8/yr $4.95/mo $50/yr
Space/Bandwidth 250mb /Unlimited 10GB /Unlimited Unclear Unlimited /Unlimited 100mb /100GB
Server Location India India India India, US India
Support 24×7 tel support 24×7 chat/tel/mail support Mon – Sat tel support 24 x 7 chat/tel support 24 x 7 mail/tel support
Promo Follow their facebook then discount available 20% off DIY plans none 20% off none

Net4india is the biggest hosting provider in India and being trusted by over 400,000 customers, it's also ICANN & .IN accredited domain registrar. Unlike most other hosting service, Net4 is direct datacenter and network service provider. Net4 offers hosting to small to large businesses including cloud hosting. The spotlight with Net4 is their datacenters are ISO 27001 certified.

Bigrock is part of the www.directi.com group which is founded in 1998. Bigrock is the second largest hosting provider of India.

Rediff is actually a big group with various services. Their most popular service would be email. Web hosting is a small part of their total business. Rediff is a huge and popular name in India, because of this their hosting business got well growth.

Znetlive, it's the only one who offers cloud shared hosting among India hosting list. Their $4.95/mo price(3 yrs deal) is affordable and reasonable to start user and professionals.

Indialinks shares the similar market rates as Znetlive. They manages several other brands related to hosting service such as serverplus, domainsrs and ipcheckers etc.

India hosting vs US hosting

India hosting is a big cake in the business and attracked many popular international investment. The industry leading name hostgator opened India branch, the endurance setup their support in India, the previous popular name webhost4life also setup India office to deal with the local support.

The events simply tell us India hosting is winning popularity and become more international. However, comparing to the leading US hosting, it's still relatively weak. The difference can be checked out instantly by visiting websites hosted on India server and US server. But it doesn't mean there's not any advantage for India service. The affordable man power and relatively low cost equipments will result in huge potential investment, some revolutional improvements is possible for India hosting industry.

Generally, if you're doing international business and need website hosting support, US hosting is still primary choice because of the powerful connectivity. If you just need civil visits for local business, India hosting service is perfect choice.

FDCservers Review

fdcservers review

We have introduced several popular budget vps and budget dedicated server hosting providers. However, that's not a full list because of the big market. Today we would like to introduce another famous server provider who configured affordable service to novice as well as server professionals — FDCservers.

FDCservers Introduction

FDCservers.net LLC was setup in 2003 with datacenters in Chicago IL, and Denver, CO – USA. To date there're over 5000 servers being managed under fdcservers group and the number is fast growing up because of their outstanding services. FDCservers is recognized the leader for cheap server solutions.

FDCservers Hosting Plans

FDCservers offer VPS and dedicated server plans as well as colocation service. Unlike most server providers who charge hundreds of dollars with lots of good reasons, the service is pretty affordable with fdcservers company. Here're the basic server specs and price.

VPS Dedicated server Collocation
  • 384MB RAM
  • 50GB HDD
  • 5Mbps unmetered
  • 5IPs
  • 1CPU core
  • Dual Core ATOM ( 2 x 1.6Ghz )
  • 2GB RAM 250GB HDD
  • 10Mbps, 100Mbps, 1Gbps, 10Gbps
  • Free OS reinstalls
  • Fast & Free setup
  • Unmetered bandwidth

As we see, their service is very affordable no matter if we need a vps or dedicated server. Another advantage beside the low price is we get unlimited bandwidth on the server. Means we won't be charged extra in case our server will be visited frequently. Their 390Gbit/s connectivity to the internet is far more enough for any use purpose. As far as I can tell, no other server provider can offer such great feature.

Any other advantage available? Yes, if we sign up the 1Gbps and 10Gbps server packages we'll get free control panel license including Plesk, cpanel, Direct Admin. The best of the best is the fast and free setup after payment, we won't wait 1 or 2 days for the server ready. Anything more? Yeah, don't worry about customer support because of the low cost server. FDCservers team are available 24×7 and always responsive from ticket system. They also provide $50/hr paid support in case we need to troubeshoot something.

For Chinese users. Their reseller program as well as the networking is specially optimized for users in that area. If you have or going to have business in China and need quality network support, FDCservers will be perfect choice.

How do we think about?

Actually, no matter from their service structures or customer feedbacks, fdc was and is the leader for low-cost server. Especially when bandwidth cost server company a lot, fdc can proudly offer it as unmetered for every client. Regardless of their cheap initial setup, they also provide affordable upgrade options. If we need more specs or a custom server, it can be setup with the minimum cost. If I have to rate their service among other server groups, I would give out 10/10 with no doubt.

Top 10 Search Engines

search engines ranking

Search engine is playing an important role in our daily life. While you're surfing on the net, are you aware what kind of search engines people use in the world? comScore provided us a valuable report for top 10 search engines as well as their market shares on the globe.

NO.1 Google 62% — The Top search engine with over half market share. Google is providing over 200 millions search queries and works with over 8 billions web pages every day.

NO.2 Yahoo 12.8% — One of the oldest and most valuable search engines. It is being visited by over 1.2 billions people. Yahoo also offers the top rated SEO tools such as yahoo explorer.

NO.3 Baidu 5.2% — The largest search engine in China and actually only used by Chinese users. Baidu can be ranked the third simply because of the large amount users in China. It's also one of the very few search engines that're not ranked for globalmarket occupation.

NO.4 Bing 2.9% — Bing is some part new in the competition, but got quick popularity because Microsoft decided to integrate all their searches to it.

NO.5 NHN 2.4 — NHN is the biggest search engine in south Korea. It's similar to the Baidu that's designed with local language.

NO.6 eBay 2.2% — Unlike all other search engines that offer general searchs with all topics, eBay is 100% ecommerce based for online shopping. eBay has various local brands in all major countries.

NO.7 Timewarner 1.6% — It was the biggest ISP and media service provider in US. Their search engine service was mainly provided by AOL.

NO.8 ASK 1.1% — Ask.com will give you direct answers over 10 million questions. It's the best FAQ search engine to date.

NO.9 Yandex 0.9% — Started in 1993, it's the largest search engine in Russia and the second most popular in Europe. It is sharing over 44% Russia market. The Yandex successful is because of the management over complex Russia grammar.

NO.10 Alibaba 0.8% — Alibaba is most famous to international business providers. It's similar to eBay but it's more international and almost the must choice if you want to open business in China.

The above stats is provided by comScore till 2010. Some small changes might be occur during two year's progress but the general ranking is kept the same.

About comScore: Founded in 1999, it's an international internet information service provider and famous for it's analytics and research over internet information. It's monitoring over 3 million global websites over 170 countries. It has been leading  data source provider for mobile and internet statistics.