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Kenny is owner of webhostpark and has been working in hosting industry since 2006. We provide unbiased hosting reviews and release the latest promo news. Follow me on Google plus

Webhostinghub Coupon

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Looking for the best value webhostinghub coupon code? Congratulations! I would like to guide you how to get the HALF price webhostinghub hosting for only $3.95/mo. At the mean time, if you're looking for other popular web hosting coupons, just click on the last tab from our site main menu. All hosting coupon codes are up to date and valid!

How to claim webhostinghub 50% off promo?

The secret of webhostinghub coupon is NO coupon code offered. Yes, that's the truth. If you have tried to sign up from webhostinghub official site you might have noticed there's no place to enter any promotional code. Yeah, but how can we give out such 50% off promotional price? It's simply because of our special relationship with webhostinghub group. I'm proudly to tell I have been webhostinghub layal customer and affiliate. Their team is pretty nice to offer me $3.99/mo price. If you sign up through my website directly you will get the same deal!

To claim this great offer, you need to navigate by this WebHostingHub special promotion link. No coupon needed and the price will be decreased to $3.99/mo instead of the initial $6.99/mo.

What's actually good of webhostinghub?

The webhostinghub is sister brand of Inmotion that's already revealed from our previous posting "Inmotionhosting vs Webhostinghub". However, that doesn't mean it's just copying from inmotion. While inmotion hosting is offering full web hosting solutions, webhostinghub is focused on a single hosting plan and provide the same quality service from inmotion site.

The big difference comparing to Inmotion hosting would be their affordable price. We just pay $3.95/mo for all needed features from webhostinghub. Although this brand is pretty new (since from 2010), it's growing up madly fast among the business competetion. It's safe to believe webhostinghub will be rated the same as Inmotion in near future, Just like bluehost and hostmonster, the same hosting with two successful brands.

WebhostingHub advantages that are not available from other brands:

  • RatePoint – Word of Mouth Marketing
  • RingCentral – Virtual Phone Systems
  • iContact – Email Marketing Tools
  • e-Online Data – Accept Credit Cards Online
  • Paypal – Accept PayPal Payments
  • eFax – Internet Fax Service
  • Constant Contact – Email & Newsletter Marketing

Special Notice for This Webhostinghub Promo

Yes, like most popular promotions, the webhostinghub special price is only available for 36 months sign ups! if we only apply for 12 months or less time frame purchase, the price will go up. Screenshot as below

webhostinghub coupon

The special price is available when you sign up 3 years server in one billing cycle, sother options such one year plan will start with $5.99/mo and two years plan at $4.99/mo.

Also, in order to save the most money with webhostinghub purchase, make sure to dismiss the add-on services during sign up. All other services except for domain name registration are not actually needed for regular website hosting purpose.

Visit webhostinghub for full hosting details http://www.Webhostinghub.com

Top 5 VPS Hosting

top 5 vps hosting

When the shared environment is no longer enough for our website growth, vps hosting plan is the best choice before we have to upgrade to dedicated server solution. However, since vps is being offered by almost every hosting company, it's little hard to determine which service plan is offering quality service. Especially when some super cheap vps server being advertised everywhere, start users will always be misguided. After one year's experience with some popular vps hosting providers, I would like to compare the top 5 vps hosting brands. Generally speaking, each solution in the list will work according to people's different requirements.

Top 5 vps hosting list

Please note, The top 5 vps hosting companies in my list are all offering full hosting solutions including shared, vps, reseller and dedicated servers. The dedicated server companis are not included such as rackspace, softlayer etc. The top 5 vps hosting names in my list are Hostgator, Greengeeks, Bluehost, InmotionHosting, Arvixe. Each in the service names have their own unique advantages. Here I would like to make a basic introduction and introduction. Let's look below for a table list of their service specifications

VPS Brand Arvixe Hostgator Greengeeks Bluehost Inmotion
Server Specs Intel Dual Quad Core Intel Dual Quad Core Intel Dual Quad Core Intel Dual Quad Core Intel Dual Quad Core
Starter Pricing $40/mo $19.95 $39.95 $17.95 $39.95
RAM 1024 MB 384 MB 512 MB 2 MB 256 MB
Disk/Bandwidth 40GB/Unlimited 10GB/250GB 25GB/500GB 20GB/500GB 40GB/500GB
Control Panel cpanel/Websitepanel Cpanel Cpanel Cpanel Cpanel
Virtualization Tech Hyper-V Virtuozzo OpenVZ Openstack Virtuozzo

As we see, all the 5 vps services have their own advantages either in space/datatransfer or pricing. The hostgator is probably most well known by people because of their leading position in the business. However, that doesn't mean there's no weakness with their vps hosting plans. For example they do not offer windows vps solutions.

Actually, only arvixe can offer windows vps in the list. The advantage with Arvixe windows vps is their hyper-v integration. it's officially supported by Microsoft company. Since windows server is also MS product, it's logically to know hyper-v has the best performance with windows vps. Arvixe always keep updated with microsoft. Their hosting server OS is configured on latest server 2012 with newest hardware production!

For start users who do not have too much requirement for server and just want to learn server management skills for simple website hosting, hostgator is definitely the most ideal choice because of their price. Inmotion vps is featured for it's stability and their team officially announced no oversale, their weakness is the high price with the server specs.

From side by side comparison, arvixe is obviously most outstanding in top 5 VPS hosting. Twice more server features with affordable price, you can put your business safe with arvixe!

Go to arvixe for VPS server details http://www.Arvixe.com

Tips when choosing vps hosting plan

Pricing and server reliability are definitely the most important part when we evaluate the servers. However, the price will always not match with the service quality if you selected the wrong type service. For vps hosting purpose, the following factors are considered before you start the service research.

Networking – Speed is always the most important factor when we evaluate a potential service plan. The quality service products are always generated from well-known datacenters. If the hosting provider does not have their  own DC, make sure to choose from the popular DC names such as in this world class datacenters list.

Server Specifications – I'm not talking about the VPS server because we can always choose how much we need. I'm talking about the host server where the VPS created from. For vps hosting purpose, the host server must have at least 24GB RAM with Intel Dual Quad Core plus RAID 10 Disk. Also, try to ask pre-sales support for about how many vps instance they're managing per host server.

Virtual Technologies – There're many virtualization technologies on the market. But not all of them are suitable for hosting environment. Some good names such as virtuozzo, hyper-v, openvz, xen, vmware etc.

Support Availability – Don't choose a service who does not respond within one minute. One minute is enough to your business disaster. Sign up those service who can offer real 24×7 tech support.

Some tips are also available on our previous vps hosting posting.

Internet Survey 2011

Either we're playing as web developer or pure internet surfer, it's necessary to learn about the statistics of various internet services. In this article I would like to talk about the latest report of Top Web Server Market Share and the stats of serveral popular service. For example, how many new websites borned? How many emails sent? How many global internet users? You will get answers in this article.

What're the most popular web server names?

In January, Netcraft made a survey for over 582,716,657 sites. Apache got the largest increase for serving hosted  domains, almost 60% web server market being occupied. The Microsoft IIS got further drop in market share but it's still  the secondary most popular web server solution. On the other hand, Nginx has the fastest growth among all web server softwares. By serving over 1.9M active sites, it's growth rate even overtook the Microsoft's.

Current web server market share graphics

web server survey

Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains
(August 1995 – January 2012)

web server market share

The stats are generated by Netcraft. For further report, you can visit this URL for details: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-survey/

Here's the data of some popular internet stats

Email

  • 107 trillion -Total of sent emails in 2011
  • 294 billion -Email sent per day
  • 1.88 billion -Global email users
  • 89.1% -Email spam percentage

Website

  • 255 million -Total of active websites (Till December)
  • 21.4 million -New website numbers

Web server growth

  • 39.1% -Growth percentage of Apache web server
  • 15.3 -Growth percentage  of Microsoft IIS
  • 4.1% -Growth percentage of Nginx web server
  • 55.7% -Growth percentage of Lighttpd

Internet users

  • 1970 million -numbers of total internet users
  • 14% -Growth percentage comparing to the last year

Social Network

  • 152 million -Number of blogs
  • 25 billion -Blog posts on twitter
  • 100 million -New users on twitter
  • 600 million -facebook users
  • 250 million -New users on facebook

Browsers

  • Internet Explorer: 46.9%
  • Firefox: 30.8%
  • Google Chrome: 14.9%
  • Safari: 4.8%
  • Opera: 2.1%

Online Video

  • 2 Billion -Watch times on YouTube
  • 35 -Numbers of video uploading on YouTube(Per minute)

Picture

  • 5 Billion -Photos on Flickr
  • 3000+ -Photos being uploaded to Flickr per minute
  • 130 million – Photos uploaded to Flickr per month

Email spam is calculated by "MessageLabs"(PDF). Email users and number of box is calculated by "Radicati Group" . Website statistis is from Netcraft. Domain name stats from Verisign and webhosting.info. Internet users stats from "Internet World Stats". Facebook stats from Facebook and Business Insider. Twitter stats from Twitter, TwitterCounter and TechCrunch. The Browser stats from StatCounter. YouTube stats from Google. Facebook stats from GigaOM. Flickr stats from Flickr.

Further stats can be found on this Pingdom post: http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers/

Dedicated IP Hosting Secret revealed

dedicated ip hosting

Dedicated IP (or called static ip) is a relative term comparing to shared ip. It's also considered as an important feature for web hosting plans. If you're looking for dedicated ip hosting service and not sure where to start. I would like to make a basic explanation and see if it's a must need feature for you.

How does dedicated ip work?

Dedicated ip is featured for it's unique. Just think there're one hundred of websites on same hosting server and all websites are sharing a single ip address. If we assign an extra ip address to the server and configure it for a specific domain name, some third party website analyze tools will consider this website is hosted on dedicated server, though it's under a shared hosting envrionment. So in a word, the dedicated ip makes your website unique among all other domains on same hosting server.

Best dedicated ip hosting plan

Best dedicated hostingDedicated has many good features but it's always expensive to get. Most of the time, a web hosting provider be able to offer you 3 or 4 bucks per month service but you might need pay twice or more for dedicated ip support. Because of the limited IPv4 numbers, the price is going up every few period.

However, that doesn't mean there's not a web hosting plan be able to offer us affordable dedicated ips. Ixwebhosting is the name for dedicated ip hosting provider. Their shared hosting plans will provide us up to 15 dedicated ips for free! The base price of the hosting plan is only $7.95/mo. Plus the ixwebhosting 25% off coupon code, the price is going down a bit! For dedicated ips offer, there's no better place other than ixwebhosting.

How will the dedicated IP offered? You don't have to contact ixwebhosting support separately to claim the IPs. Once you signed up, their system will auto allocate IPs to your account in their IP ranges. When you add a new domain name to account, you have choice to use shared or dedicated IP address.

Go to ixwebhosting for 15 FREE dedicated ip offer!http://www.ixwebhosting.com

Who need dedicated ip address?

There're many services have to be configured via dedicated ips because of the software features. Some popular service such as web server, FTP server, Email server, VPN etc are highly IP restricted. Dedicated ips make it easy to separate all services if you configure them on same server. If they're configured on independent servers, it will let end users easy to remember but not have to deal with dynamic changes every time.

For webmaster, you need SSL certificate if you're running a shopping cart that requires online billing transaction. SSL installation will require dedicated IP address as well.

Dedicated ip vs Shared ip

There's no much difference between dedicated ip and shared ip. Unless you're managing services by yourself with above special requirements, you don't really need it. However, there're few conditions we need dedicated ip in web hosting service.

SSL Certificate website -Dedicated ip is a must for ssl installation on web server. The ssl protocol communicates with dedicated ip addres only. Unless you host a single website on server, it will crash all other sites.

Secured Applications -Some secured applications that're opened for specific locations will require dedicates ip to work with. For example you're hosting an online project and need extra protection to avoid bad effect from other websites on same server, dedicated ip will give a simple solution.

SEO -Although there're many articles saying website ip factor being ignored by search engines, the fact is a dedicated ip based website does get better ranking from SERP. No matter how does the tech document saying, it's still playing an essential role in this industry. Dedicated IP will at least keep your website in safe place in case some websites got penalized on same hosting server.

Advantages Of IIS Web Server Hosting

Advantages of iis web hosting

IIS(Internet Information Service) is one of the leading web server solutions. From the earliest version 1.0 to the current 7.5, the MS team always brings us big surprise with up to date technical supports. Recently, I upgraded my server to windows server 2008 R2 and configured the IIS with all available add-on products. I have to say, it's by far the most powerful system in my web experience. I would be more than happy to share my experience with this product.

What's new in IIS 7.5?

  • Built-in, brand new FTP server and WebDav support
  • Rich IIS configuration editor and scripts for automated configuration management
  • Windows PowerShell snap-in for IIS
  • Quality enhancements with lots of bug fixes
  • Config tracing so you can audit changes to the IIS configuration system
  • Application Warm-Up tech for best web performance

For the full list of IIS new features in 7.5, you can check out this Mai-lan's blog post: http://blogs.iis.net/mailant/archive/2009/10/22/general-availability-of-windows-7-amp-windows-server-2008-r2-with-iis-7-5.aspx

Popular add-on products for IIS

IIS is great because the rich of great add-on products to meet your different web requirements. The add-on products are categorized by production and development sections. You can try out the most recent tech from development release and apply the most stable service on your live site from production category. Although the windows server is costly, all these add-on products are free to download on IIS official site! Here're few of the great products I have tried out.

  • Search Engine Optimization Toolkit -It helps us how to optimize our web site contents and structures for search engine friendly. Robots and sitemaps are supported.
  • Database Manager -If you think you have to install thrid party tools in order to manage a database well, you're out! IIS Database Manager provides the ability to connect to any database on the network. Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL are fully compatible! You can query and view database diagrams in IIS UI conveniently.
  • Web Deploy -A tool to simplify the web server migration/deployment. No matter if we want to synchronize a webserver or migrate from older IIS websites to new one, Web deploy  is working like a charm! It works with single website migration as well as entire server migration.
  • Web Platform Installer -The best one for end website users. The web platform installer is a gallery of the popular softwares installation. The IIS Web Platform Installer makes the process of software installation easy! just click search the wished name then click "Add" button and it will configure the software smartly on your iis server! It works for website software such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal etc. It also works for server end software installation such as PHP, SQL Server and every products available as free.

There're many fantastic add-ons which is available at http://www.iis.net/download/ for free download. Just try and find out more surprise.

Actually, the biggest surprise in my experience is the increase of website performance. Unlike the old version server where I have to configure services very carefully and test out before applying to production server, The IIS 7.5 on server 2008 can be auto configured via the official team experience. The configuration is available from the web platform installer pack.

Best IIS Web Hosting Provider

IIS is the earliest web server and shares about half market on the planet. However, not too many hosting providers be able to offer reliable iis web hosting plans. A good iis hosting service must be affordable and reliable with easy management. Since 2006, arvixe has been our top recommendation for feature rich and affordable iis hosting plans. Starts from $5/mo, you can take advantages of unlimited storage and monthly data transfer as well as free domain name to put up website in quick time!

Visit arvixe for iis web hosting plans http://www.Arvixe.com

Since from the first release of iis, it has brought us positive surprise for each upgrade. It's hard to say what kind of new surprise their team will bring us. However, since the industry is hot for cloud computing and server virtulization, the iis team will probably give more support in this business. Let's just wait for the coming news.

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Best Hosting Controller Web Hosting

Hostingcontroller web hosting

Web hosting control panel is playing an essential role from the industry. A good control panel solution will help with your business success while a buggy one will bring disaster. There're several popular hosting control panel solutions we introduced before such as cpanel, plesk or websitepanel. Today I would like to introduce another popular name called HostingController which has a long history in control panel development.

Hosting controller Introduction

Hosting Controller is web hosting control panel solution. Since from 1999, the hosting controller group has been offering automation solution for web hosts and cloud based service providers. It's perfected designed to manage both Windows & Linux servers simultaneously as part of a single cluster. Plus the powerful add-on tools, you can keep your hosting business in safe hand.

What's good of hosting controller?

The most outstanding feature with hosting controller would be their full solution to web hosting business. Unlike the standard cpanel which requires many third party tools to make your hosting business running properly, the hosting controller get everything included. For example the automated billing & provisioning and sign-up scripts. The system is integrated with the main domain registrars and the most popular payment gateways. The hosting controller also includes a built in helpdesk where you can create your knowledge base quickly.

Hostingcontoller vs Plesk

If you check the latest version hosting controller, you will find the layout is much like plesk control panel. I would like to share my personal comparison between the two softwares.

hostingcontroller web hostingplesk web hosting control panel

Compatibility -Both hosting controller and plesk is designed to work with both windows and linux OS with different level management panels (Admin, reseller and customer). However, the hosting controller would be better choice if you need to manage some enterprise level solutions like MS Exchange, Sharepoint and Ms CRM etc, the plesk is still lack of support with these softwares.

Pricing -The hosting controller is good for the "all in one solution" where everything is inluded the the price such as sign up script, billing system and help desk system etc. The plesk is popular for its modules, you can add/remove services by configuring the modules, however you have to pay extra for the service support.

Add-ons -Both softwares have their own add-on products. On hosting controller end, it has rebuildXpress which is for system backup/restore, The other one called "Click & Install Apps" which is for scripts auto installer. The both add-ons are costly products. However, these features are available for free from plesk.

User Experience -If you're using some  older version plesk, you might have bad experience especially on windows server which have been discussed hotly on plesk forums. Before Plesk 9 released, the hosting controller is always the best alternative solution because of it's windows friendly performance. The plesk version 10 have fixed most of the popular bugs and accepted more by users.

It's hard to say which one has better performance from their newest release. They both are trying to add more and more features to it's management interface with across-platform support. However, based on their prices, hosting controller definitely has more advantages. Especially when you're running a clouding system, the single server license will work for all.

Read more details about hosting controller and  plesk:
http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk
http://hostingcontroller.com/Hosting-Control-Panel-Software/Products-Overview.html

Best hosting controller web hosting plan?

You might find it hard to find a popular web hosting with hosting controller support because most are plesk or websitepanel based service. hostautomate.com is the official recommendation from hosting controller support. If you just want to use web hosting to host your website, it's worth of a try because of the little price. If you are running webhosting business and would like to reduce the investment, the hosting controller would be the right go.