Which Web Host Should I Choose To Host My Business Site?Which Web Host Should I Choose To Host My Business Site? By Jonathan Caputo
This article focuses on the differences between various business hosting services, and helps the reader identify some important criteria in choosing a hosting provider for their business (for instance, do you require a dedicated server, a managed server, or a shared server). A business web site could range anywhere from a simple ecommerce site which sells one product, to a very complex pay per click engine with real time statistics and payment functionality.
Even with all of the consolidation going on in the web hosting industry, there are still thousands upon thousands of hosting companies to choose from. If you visit some of their sites, you will see that each of them tout some features you may or may not of even heard of before (Miva Scripting, Co-Location services, Virtual Private Servers, Redundant backbone connections, etc). The very first question you must ask yourself is not which hosting company to choose but rather, WHY do you need a hosting company?
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| Plan: | Co-Location Option 1 |
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| Plan Type: | Co-Located |
| Platform: | Windows |
| Price Per Month: | 300.00 |
| Price Per Year: | 3600.00 |
| Setup Fee: | No Set Up Fee |
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| Disk Space (MB): | Unlimited |
| Extra Disk Space: | n/a |
| Bandwidth Allowed: | 4.32 GB |
| Extra Bandwidth: | n/a per GB |
| Backup Frequency: | Daily |
| Account Setup Time: | 48 Hours |
| Minimum Contract: | 3 month |
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| Email Accounts: | 0 |
| Email Autoresponders: | 0 |
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| Connection Speed: | Multiple OC3 |
| Server Hardware: | Custom - area51computers.com |
| Server Software: | NT, 2000, Linux |
| Sites per Server: | N/A |
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| Business Hours: | 8:00AM - 8:00PM CST |
| Technical Support Hours: | 10:00AM - 8:00PM CST & 24hr option |
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Webfarms II: Balancing The Load. Okay, so you understand webfarms now. What's the magic that actually distributes the load, and how does it determine how the distribution is handled?
At ORCS Web we use the Foundry Server Iron products to perform our webfarm load-balancing. If one of them fails, the other instantly takes over (In our testing, it had sub-second fail-over!)
So what is this "Server Iron" thing? In simplest terms, it's a layer 4-7 switch. It has multiple network ports on it and can be used literally like other types of switches. But, it can also load-balancing and traffic distribution. A VIP (virtual IP) can be assigned to the SI (Server Iron) and it then handles all traffic sent to that address/VIP. Further configuration is done to tell the SI what to actually do with the traffic sent to the VIP address.
The traffic that hits the VIP on the Server Iron is of course redistributed to a number of server nodes so the client request can be satisfied - that's the whole point of a webfarm. If one or more server nodes are not responding, the switches are able to detect this and send all new requests to servers that are still online - making the failure of a server node almost transparent to the client.
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