iCrawl - Get Your Website Crawled

Web Hosting, the most significant part in building your online identity requires your careful attention, as you may go to sleep but your website can never sleep, as someone from some part of the world may be interested in viewing your website at any point of the time cycle.

Let’s look at certain parameters

Volume/ Space/Storage - The amount of disk space you require to host your website files including your images/ style sheets etc.
Expected Bandwidth - When the web surfers visit your website, how much data are transferred. It is generally measured in megabytes or gigabytes

Hit - A file sent from the server to someone viewing your web page. A page may be composed of many elements - for example, the page text, images and scripts. If a page has 4 images and a script, each time it loads (viewed), that would be 6 hits

Page view - A statistic associated with how many times pages are requested from people visiting your site

Domain - The web address used to access your website (e.g, www.ThinkHost.com)

Mailbox - An email account that receives email for an address at your domain. (ie. yourname@example.com)

FTP - A method used to transfer files directly to the server.

(Server Side) Scripting - Applications such as blogs and forums created with a variety programming languages

Server - Computer that stores your web site

MySQL - A type of database - many popular blog and forum applications make use of a MySQL database

HTML - The basic programming language of the web

PHP - A more advanced programming language that allows for scripting

Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, Apache - types of operating systems used on a server

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The recent Google update of July 2008 has perhaps emphasized much more on internal linking structure and dynamic content, rather than the prevailing concept of inbound links and traffic. Google algorithm has shown its traditional resilience against the huge number of outward links from a single page. If your web page contains too many advertisements and sponsors, be careful! You may earn a good amount of revenue, but the uncontrolled outbound links may bring about a formidable disaster by degrading your hard earned page rank value.

Have you noticed a radical change in Google search? Just type ebay in the search box and hit the Search Button. You will find the original ebay.com followed by the list of sub domains in a tabular form. You will find them in a list with hyperlink to each of the sub domain main pages.

So, perhaps a feather to the cap of Google search, the listing of sub domains along with the main domain while displaying in SERP

Most of us have been aware of the fact Google Update has taken place at the fag end of April 2008. Have you noticed the contribution of each parameters in the update and assigning the page rank.

Our observation is Google has brought about a sea change in it’s algorithm. They have emphasized highly on the domain names and the tenure of it’s existence. As an example, if the age of a domain is 4 years, it has got a significant priority, even if the hosting has taken place off late.

The Age of the domain really matters instead of the age of the hosting.

We have also noticed that genuine and materialistic content has got significant weight. We have noticed that even one post in a blog has created a sharp difference in acquiring Page Rank value, which precisely reestablishes the ever cherished fact, content has got a special soft corner in the mind of Google.

When we talk of hosting, we surely look for some providers, who will maintain the web server on our behalf and will ensure the 99.99% uptime.

Let us understand the two types of hosting in a nut shell. Dedicated Hosting hosts your website only and a seperate IP is maintained for that, whereas a shared hosting hosts multiple websites in the same IP by creating logical partitions.

Another way of looking at it is if you find several domains point to the same IP, then it is a share hostings. The logical partitions ensure the safety and security of your files and even the databases will have exclusive rights to the hosting buyers, if managed properly. Normally individuals and organizations look for shared hosting until their website becomes mission critical or demands high level of security.

The basic reason of opting for shared hosting is obviously pricing factor. A normal shared hosting may cost you $20 per annum, whereas a dedicated hosting will cost you at least $90 per month.

What should you opt for between shared and dedicated? It entirely depends upon your exclusive requirement, which can hardly be generic.

Microsoft has decided to take over Yahoo and both the boards have fundamentally approved the merging. During the course, objections have come up from yahoo emplyees due to the obvious insecurity complex. Moreover the question of intelligence property right has come up as Yahoo has been one of the first few search engines on the web.

The information is that Microsoft has decided to forge ahead to get rid of all initial teething problems.

We feel Microsoft will surely take over Yahoo, but we need to wait and see the repercussion.

Once you have built your web pages, you need to upload them to the specific server, so that people can view your vision/ objectives in an elaborate manner.

Once you book the domain name, the agent or the service provider gives you a user-friendly, wizard based Control Panel for managing your domain.

As Control Panel gives one the real control over his domain it deserves a very high level of security and can be only accessed through the right combination of valid username and password.

You can not only transfer or park your domain from control panel but also manage various services like Changing of A-Records or MS Records, URL Forwarding etc.

If you book the domain name and the server space from the same service provider, then managing your entire hosting activities become a cake walk, but if two are from two different vendors, then all these jargons come into the picture, but don’t worry! The technology marvels have made it a much simpler task for you. Let us site an example, if you change the A-Record of your domain to another valid IP address, your domain will search for the pages in the changed IP Address instead of the default one.

You have got hundreds of options for designing your Web Pages. It can be simple pages designed by you or you can even take help of various web designing templates available both free and paid over the Internet. You can use simple tools like FrontPage or Dream Weaver to build your website. The selection of the right tool depends upon your own objective and the presentation style you are looking for. You can also hire a professional group, but it all depends upon your taste and requirement.

Do you know that even MS-Word and MS-Excel can generate web pages?

Control Panel allows you to create email-ids of your choice and the number of such email-ids depends upon the package or contract that you have purchased. But most importantly, it provides you the username and password for FTP (File Transfer Protocol).

FTP is a must to upload or download file to or from the server respectively. You have got many wizard based FTP tools readily available.

The list starts with WS Ftp, Cute Ftp, ACE Ftp, and Smart Ftp. The options are really infinite. You can also accomplish the same job just from the command prompt of your windows operating system. However, once you complete the entire process, then only people can browse your site, the way you are browsing this article right now.

The popularity and ease of availability of Internet has cast its spell directly onto website designing and related activities.

The humane desire of publishing personal charismas on the web has gained immense popularity.

By the rule of nature popularity comes hand in glove with frauds. Web design is therefore no way an exception. Being lured by the attraction of money people and organizations sometimes come up even with some unrealistic commitments just to take advantages of your ignorance. As the intellectual conspiracies become much more dangerous and adverse you fail to resist yourself from the attractive terminologies which are used by them.

So, we do feel that literacy can enlighten people around preventing them from this type of fraudulency.

Our continuous efforts to make you more knowledgeable have led to this series of articles, which we believe to be highly beneficial for all people at large.