Re: UKNM: quick question Hosting pacakges

[Speechrad]

True, Webfusion are nice people but the important things in all host

selection are 'bandwidth'  (What connection do they have?) and Traffic (how

much are you allowed to shift?)  Regretably host Co's (and I do not point a

finger at Webfusion) will intermix the two terms saying you get 5Gig

bandwidth (which would be a pretty spectacular connection) when what they

mean is you can move 5 Gig of data per month. Someone is going to come a

cropper here one day when a customer thinks they are getting 5Gig per second

when what they are actually getting is 5 Gig per month.


For beginners: Bandwidth can be thought of as the connection speed e.g. 1 Mb

of data per second.  Traffic is the amount of data you can supply per month

without incurring penalties. Host companies impose Traffic limits (which

they

sometimes call bandwidth) to preserve their bandwidth.


All small hosting packages share the hosts bandwidth connection, you have to

pay more to reserve bandwidth.


So if a small host company has a 20Mb/sec connection and hosts 100 companies

they will all be sharing that 20Mb. If one site has loads of visitors, the

others suffer.  If small companies allow reselling more and more people will

be sharing.


Simple huh?


The point is, be very careful who you choose as a host company. If you are

just setting up a demo site that has few graphics and no Flash or video then

you can go for the cheaper shared end, but if you want a busy e-commerce

site

you will have to pay more and ask lots of questions about what you get for

your money.


I won't recommend any as I don't want anymore people sharing the bandwidth

on

our demo servers, and you probably wouldn't want to share with our streaming

audio anyway - ;)

Michael

Speechradio.com Ltd


In a message dated 24/08/00 09:28:32 GMT Daylight Time,

Leslie [dot] Bunderentranet [dot] co [dot] uk

 writes:


<< the very nice Webfusion at www.webfusion.co.uk starts from �9.95 a month

for

 a 100meg account with loads of features including php3 and asp... reseller

 Leslie


 ------------------------------------------------------------

 Leslie Bunder, Content Partner Manager

 Entranet


 -----Original Message-----

 From: Kevin Doherty [

droneboyhotmail [dot] com (mailto:droneboyhotmail [dot] com)

]



 hi guys,


 can anyone recommend somewhere to point my browser to that lists/rates UK

 isp and web-hosting services?



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