Keep in mind that having a domain is not enough because you also have to buy the space onto which you
will upload the website's files.
This service is called hosting and generally it is possible to buy at the same time within the same
purchase order of the domain.
If you need to have a registrar the company that allows you to register the domain and separate hosting
you will need to use DNS management in order to point the server's name towards your servers.
Address in this section you will find out about the various types of servers that can be rented.
The famous question of using HDD PS the importance of IP addresses and the consequences of using reverse
proxies in an NCO campaign server types and performance.
We know that there is a lot of speculation behind each and every service on the Worldwide Web.
This is precisely the case with server selection.
If the various servers look the same to an inexperienced Ai who only notices the differences in terms
of price.
In reality there is actually a gulf between one solution and another not being a system administrator.
It took me some time to learn something about the server world and still today I feel grateful to the
people who have had the patients to help me choose new hosts for my sites in the past.
My suggestion for clients these days is to base their choice regarding hosting on these elements application
type.
If it is an application or some script that uses Java you will probably have to purchase hosting with
particular resources and libraries available.
If you just use WordPress then you could opt for a standard solution with Linux hosting uptime guarantees.
If you have a Web site your first concern is that it is always accessible.
Otherwise some of your audience will not be able to visit so they will leave hosting panel.
I strongly advise you to by hosting that offers see panel or Plessy as control panels because they are
safe.
Simple easy to use and they all have the functions that a classic WordPress Web site might need such
as cron job antivirus automatic backups and much more dedicated hardware.
I refer to available disk space and bandwidth look for hosts that have SSD hard drives because they
are very fast and also check how many gigabytes they offer you.
I recommend at least 10 gigabytes.
If you have a lot of images videos or other heavy content you should to carefully evaluate the disk
size you will be needing bandwidth.
It all depends on how much traffic you will have and how big the files of your site are generally 100
gigabytes of monthly traffic are enough for a small blog.
Depending on the application type you will also need to consider RAM and CPSU in order to maintain high
performance SSL or TALF certificate lately.
Many hosting services include lets encrypt free SSL certificate in order to provide greater security
while browsing the web site.
Thanks to the TTP as protocol instead of the classic TTP automatic backups the periodic backups saves
a copy of all the files databases and other website settings some hosting automatically backs up your
Web site at regular intervals so that in case of malfunctions or hacker attacks you just contact the
support and everything will be restored for free.
And exactly to the state in which it had appeared a few days before not all hosting is the same.
We can generally make three distinctions shared hosting.
This is the ideal choice to start a new project shared hosting is simply a server used by dozens of
different customers.
The big advantage is the cheap price.
The monthly fee can be around five dollars or less.
The disadvantage is that pretty often you don't have dedicated resources and in peak moments generated
by other sites your site will suffer in terms of available resources to let your users navigate server
managers have various systems to resolve these situations through load balancing limits for each Web
site VPN s or virtual private server.
This is the ideal choice for sites with traffic.
In a nutshell it is a virtual machine mounted on a dedicated server with this configuration.
Only a few customers use the same server.
Another great advantage is having dedicated resources such as ram or CPE you that no other neighbor
can occupy at peak times the price between 10 and 20 dollars a month is certainly higher than the price
of shared hosting and it varies according to the configuration.
In order to manage a VPN s it's either necessary to have technical skills or purchasing a management
service package dedicated server.
This is the ideal choice for high traffic and professional web sites.
The big advantage is the possibility of having a dedicated IP with the dedicated server option.
You can have an entire server for yourself without having to share it with anyone else.
The prices are very high starting from 40 dollars per month but thanks to this server you can manage
huge traffic loads and also you can offer high speed to your audience.
In this case server management skills are indispensible.
My students ask me what I use to host my domains and I must say that over the years I've really tried
it all I started with a simple shared Italian hosting in early 2000 when the LIRR letter of responsibility
assumption of the NYC was still in place for the registration of a new domain in Italy after that I
switched to external shared hosting which hosted dozens of domains.
However I soon realized that I needed something more powerful so I switched to VPN as not knowing at
the time how to define the load.
I noticed that even with VPN as the performance was affected and as search engine bots were passing
to crawl the site the servers suffered from it.
I then switched to dedicated servers and I'm still into it today because I believe they are the optimal
solution for those who want to take business seriously besides having a customized configuration of
firewalls and resources a dedicated server also provides maximum freedom over everything and with some
Linux expertise you can really do great things especially from the point of view of security.
I must say that in 2011 as I was moving from shared hosting to a dedicated server I managed to bring
an Italian Web site in the law market from 70 daily visits to around 2000 visits without actually making
any new changes.
It is most likely that the shared hosting couldn't support all those visits or there was a problem of
IP address neighborhood which we will discuss later on in light of this fortunate discovery.
I will never cease to remind my students how fundamental it is to realize when your server is down or
otherwise when it fails to serve all the requests because due to these problems we're losing visitors
and consequently we're losing money.
Precisely for this reason I created a service on get SEO fixed dot com slash uptime dash monitor which
constantly checks your website and alerts you with an email as soon as it does not respond correctly
if it presents a response code of error in order to allow you to promptly take action.
In my experience these problems occurred for two reasons hosting.
As I mentioned above hosting did not support the load of visitors and neither did it warn me about this
issue.
Human Errors I happen to forget to renew the server contract so I had various domains down for a few
days until only by pure chance I noticed it due to situations like these.
All my sites on Google were unfortunately D indexed.
Luckily however after the renewal they were re indexed almost immediately and consequently I didn't
lose any rankings but I earned zero dollars during those days.
Obviously it also happens to have a plug in not properly configured which generates a 5 0 3 or 4 0 4
error and makes the entire Web site inaccessible.