Dedicated server hosting wins because of problems with shared hosting.

Many internet businesses start out with a hosting account that seems adequate. In the beginning this may be fine to get your website built and your business up and running. While you’re busy growing a young business, server issues might be easily dismissed. But when the site is gaining momentum and users are becoming more demanding, these issues can become critical.

One thing that can go wrong is site uptime. Sites on shared hosting accounts can go down a little bit too often for comfort. And many times during peak hours. Usually this problem occurs because other sites on the same server share resources. If there are bad codes running on any of these other sites, this may cause server crashes or bandwidth hogging. Another issue is adjustments to server side software like PHP. If your site’s programmers need a feature enabled or disabled for whatever reason, this may pose a problem. Often shared hosting accounts are restricted from making important server adjustments. On top of these are security issues. Some may say this is the main reason to switch to dedicated hosting among the many known drawbacks to shared hosting.

Why is dedicated server hosting the way to go for fast growing businesses.

Moving to a dedicated server gives a site owner almost full control of the environment that runs the site. You are able to make adjustments to key software like PHP and Apache, track system statistics and gather logging data. Security is more easily managed, by simply not having third parties on the same server, and adjusting restrictions as needed.

The performance boost your site will receive after moving to dedicated hosting will be easily noticed. Scaling your site up as usage grows poses no major barriers. Also, you will most likely be able to add large amounts of hosting accounts for various websites. Essentially giving you the ability to managing the hosting for several websites, all from one control panel.

A quick list of the top low cost dedicated hosting companies.

Although there might be many providers of this service, a few are popular for being exceptionally cheap and reliable. These are:

ServerPronto:

AMD 2000+ / 1024 MB RAM / 40 GB Hard Drive / 1400 GB Traffic / $32.95 monthly

1&1:

AMD Athlon 3800 / 1024 MB RAM / 320 GB Hard Drive / 1000 GB Traffic / $49.00 monthly

DedicatedNow:

Celeron 1.7GHz / 512 MB RAM / 80 GB Hard Drive / 1200 GB Traffic / $49.95 monthly

GoDaddy:

Celeron 2.0GHz / 1024 MB RAM / 120 GB Hard Drive / 500 GB Traffic / $79.00 monthly

SingleHop:

Intel Dual Core Atom / 2048 MB RAM / 320 GB Hard Drive / 3000 GB Traffic / $99.00 monthly

ThePlanet:

Pentium G6950 2.8GHz / 2048 MB RAM / 250 GB Hard Drive /2000 GB Traffic / $99.00 monthly

Reselling dedicated hosting is big business.

Lots of people are getting into selling hosting plans as a way to generate passive residual income. Because the infrastructure is maintained by established professionals, actually selling the various service plans becomes much easier. In many cases a reseller can private label the service, adjust prices as needed, buy plans on behalf of others and are not required to provide technical support. The wholesale company takes care of most of the administration and support for the accounts.

By offering dedicated hosting, resellers have an opportunity to increase their earnings relative to shared hosting plans. Because the cost is a few times higher. One such company that allows maximum control over the service with little customer support needed is ResellersPanel.com. They offer a few types of hosting plans including dedicated servers. They also provide a ready made store website to promote your various plans.

Conclusion

At first a shared hosting plan may work for most startups. But when your sites starts to grow and demand more resources, a dedicated server hosting account is the way to go. These plans allow for maximum control over the server, allows the account holder to add multiple websites on one account, and helps alleviate downtime problems and errors with the web server and database server among other installed software.

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A brief explanation of how search engines work today

Search engines today are dumb. I know this is not politically correct. But why do I say that? I say this because, face it, most searches do not return exactly what you want. They offer a bunch of related content, that’s usually not on target. We often have to refine and re-enter our search. Search engines use a number of factors to rank websites, in many cases this method fails. This is partly the fault of the user and the search engine. The user often enters vague keywords that the search engines cannot properly interpret. Search engine do not handle this issue gracefully.

What is the problem with the current model?

The problem is Search Engines do not know what a user means in many cases. The search engines are now experimenting with live suggestions to help the process. But this method must be more intelligent. Another problem is search engines don’t always rank sites based on relevance to search. But try to make a guess at what is really expected from the request, and offer the best based on their very imperfect ranking methods.

A few ideas that might come to the rescue

There are a number of research projects currently trying to tackle this issue. For example XFN (XHTML Friends Network). Using hyperlinks we are able to represent human relationships. Website owners can state who they are linking to and how they know that person or site. Also FOAF (The Friend of a Friend), with their method we are able to do similar relationship declarations as XFN, but with more control over information. With more access to deeper attributes and connections of each relationship. There is also Hakia. This is a Semantic Search Engine. Their method is based on the idea of more credibility than popularity. They use librarians to judge the content among other factors. These are just three examples of the next generation of technology that will make search engines just a little more intelligent.

How these can be implemented

Implementing some of these new technologies might not be so practical. For one, there needs to be far more options available through XFN and FOAF. The Hakia search engine uses humans, and this might not be easy to scale. There are other projects that might prove more reliable than presented here. But currently no one person or company has made significant strides to building some thing remotely as smart as a child.

How will the future of search engines look

The future of search might prove to be revolutionary. With the right information probably being instantly available to us in a streamlined and natural way. For example, we speak our search and have the request taken by our in house computer system, and then give us the answer in voice, video text or any number of other formats. This would of course be highly intelligent and would return only the most relevant and credible results.

Conclusion
The search engines are not smart enough. Their ranking methods are faulty and need serious upgrading. There are technology being researched and developed that might help. There exists the problem of scaling because the amount of information required cannot be handled effectively at the moment. In the future, search will be radically more intelligent. They will give almost perfect answers to our questions, instantly and in any format we desire.

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