On January 12, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. Haiti was gravely affected in 2008 by a series of hurricanes and it was recovering from the losses incurred from these natural disasters, that this earthquake struck Haiti. Preliminary estimates indicate that losses will be more severe or worse than those of hurricanes of 2008 since it was severe at 7.0 magnitudes.
The World communities are coming together in response to the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti yesterday, January 12th, 2010 just before 5:00pm. As a result of the calamity, telephone communication as well as internet communication is severely affected, making the assessment of the losses more difficult.
Initial reports suggest that the Infrastructure damage is significant, many establishments like the National Palace, National Cathedral and many Government and private buildings the U.N. Headquarters, the Hotel Montana have been severely damaged.
We share the pain of the affected people and citizens of the Haiti and pray for their well being and urge them to remain faithful and strong in the face of such adversity.
Join recovery efforts mobilizing around the world to assist earthquake victims. Your donation will help disaster victims rebuild their lives and their communities. Google announced to donate $1 million to help organizations provide relief. Visit http://twurl.nl/tnaekc
Dedicated hosting service generally comes in two packages. One is with partially managed and the other with fully manager services. The first one suits those users who have in-house technical resources to manage the servers to ensure maximum on-line availability. In most cases partially managed hosting packages may include installment and customization of OS to suit customer’s requirements. The hosting team also ascertains that basic security features are put in place as per the customer’s need and monitors the server round the clock to assure that the server doesn’t go offline.
The second type of package is fully-managed hosting. This suits the companies that either don't have an in-house IT staff or want to free up their IT staff to focus on their cores business tasks. In many cases it is observed that companies are skeptical about giving the management & hosting of their servers over to their web hosting provider. Experience shows that those who avail managed hosting services can save money and time by focusing on their core business.
While buying a server hosting plan, the buyer should find out whether the plan is un-managed server or fully managed server since an unmanaged server greatly reduces the overhead cost of a dedicated server provider and it comes with low price tags.
The buyers should know exactly what is covered under managed services. Here is a guide for the buyers, but remember this list is not exhaustive as many times buyers’ need are different:
Kernel Upgrades, OS patches, System pre installed services updates.
Custom DNS configuration
Software Firewall Installation and Configuration
Backups and restoration help if needed
Control panel Updates
DLL setup Assistance
Assistance in, creating, deleting, setting up email
Assistance in system alerts or warnings
Mysql updates, Database corruption assistance
SSL configuration and installation
Email/FTP troubleshooting
High Server Load troubleshooting
Bandwidth monitoring & management
Hardware Replacement as per SLA
Server Recovery on failure
Failed Drive service restoration
Hands on help with preinstall system settings
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While choosing a web hosting service provider, pay more attention on Security, customer service and performance. Finding a good web hosting package is not difficult today because most companies have very tempting offers.
The hosting packages based on the tangible feature like bandwidth or HDD space, etc. and IGNORE the most important element of the package, i.e. Technical Support. Most of the hosting companies in this segment are Resellers and do not own and run an in-house Technical Support Team. They totally depend on the parent hosting company based in some other country, making Technical Support time consuming and costly.
Another challenge in choosing the Best Hosting package is that the most web hosting businesses engage in "Over-selling". This happens when companies sell their hosting packages only based on features like bandwidth or HDD space and go on selling until these hardware limits are exhausted. They present unrealistic data about the hosting packages on sale. For example, in a package of 2 GB web space if average used space is about 500 MB, the companies sell more than 5 packages in total space of 2 GB. When web hosting provider prefers easy money over Customer Support then they will attempt to host much more web sites than they can really host. Problems soon appear in the form of overloaded servers, long downtimes and resource-crunch.
To Summaries, the following points should be remembered while choosing a good web hosting package:
1.Do not get impressed merely by the flashy web sites offering so-called best hosting packages.
2.Find out how long the company has been in this business. Particularly see if web hosting is their core business or just an add-on service. Never pay a year in advance with a company who has been around only for a few months.
3.Contact and interact with their support team. You will know if they have a Technical Support team at all in the first instance.
4.If you have special needs (for example, your own DLL or SSL or may be high-traffic requirements very populated sites tell The Technical Team as well as Sales manager about this in advance and get an ok from them preferably in writing.
5.Always have your domain control user id and password. This is handy specially when the web hosting company fails to provide good services and you are forced to move. The challenge will be that you will need approval from them in order to move your domain name to other service provider.
6.Passwords for your domain name registrar and your web hosting control panel should be different. This will ensure that in case your site gets blocked by the hosting provider, you will be in control and will not be in danger of loosing your domain name. Loosing some data can only be expensive but loosing your domain name is a catastrophe. Follow this rule and Avoid.
General Points to remember in every purchase:
Read and understand the TOS ("Terms Of Service"). If you do not understand any terms ask for clarifications from the company.
Look for a 30 days money back guarantee if available.
Make and keep your own backups, even if your host provides it in the package.
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