000webhost is user donations supported free web hosting service with CPanel Control Panel and Fantastico enabled. They provide you the most reliable and feature-rich web hosting service without advertising. Lightning fast website loading speed, zero downtime, fanatic user support and instant activation.
250MB Disk Space, 100GB Data Transfer
They have enough room for your website, emails and databases. All their servers are also connected to dedicated 10mbps internet lines, so we can give you 100 GB data transfer absolutely free.
PHP With MySQL Database Supported
Unlike other free webhosts they support PHP and MySQL with no restrictions. You get full access to the latest version of PHP and MySQL. The following PHP features are fully supported:
- PHP mail() function and Sendmail
- Curl, GD2 library, ImageMagick, Zend
- fopen() and PHP sockets
- safe_mode is OFF, file uploads ON
- Zend Optimizer support, Ioncube loader.. and much more features are enabled
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A good Web Hosting service is an essential issue about which a serious webmaster or blogger thinks sooner or later. When it comes to Web Hosting Providers there is a lot much confusion.
What are key features which a web host must have to qualify the best.
- More Web Hosting Space
- More Monthly Bandwidth
- Quick and Responsive 24/7 Customer Support
- Easy to use Hosting Panel
- Secure and Fast Servers
- Affordable and Reliable Solutions
- Built-in Ready to Use scripts and Programs (Fantastico)
- Fast Setup and More Databases
Web Hosting Space and Bandwidth are very crucial issues.
Why we need more bandwidth and space?
Because a blog is not a simple website which may be dormant most of the time. Blog grows and expands via visitors and users. Blog is a kind of live and active community which grows rapidly. I started my blogs at a very small host in very small budget which had already my personal website hosted on it. I never felt any problem regarding bandwidth until I started blogs at my host. To be truthful I received calls from my resellers that their servers are not capable of software of blogging and I must consider about purchasing a whole dedicated server which will cost me more. Actually lot more.
I searched many hosts. Besides this I was working on a big multimedia content website which is hosted on GoDaddy. That friend had 200GB of hosting package with GoDaddy which is now available as 250GB. He was not satisfied with the host because it used to go down sometimes due to load. They also suggested him to have a dedicated server. His issue was much much bigger as his content included audio, video, softwares and downloads. He moved towards IXwebHosting which claimed to provide Unlimited Web Hosting Space etc etc. But within days he realized that story behind was different. He moved again to GoDaddy and purchased three more hosting accounts with 200GB facility each and got divided his databases into portions and kept these at different hosting accounts to overcome data load. I do not suggest such host which costs you more money and more time upon website management also.
Many Web Hosting Service Providers boost about their huge resources but they just say it and bandwidth issue occurs everywhere. I had talked to a very successful blogger StevePavlina who runs a Motivational blog. But he was on dedicated servers ServInt Internet Services and the packages there were very high for Virtual Private Servers.
Further browsing and I extracted a list of best hosting providers but everywhere packages were high and web space was less.
Then I came across WordPress recommendations for Hosting Providers. Another friend of mine who was already running a successful blog recommended me of BlueHost which is also recommended by WordPress for their software platform. I finally made my decision and got a package from BlueHost and now I am completely satisfied with that.
Features
- 1500 GB Disk Storage
- 15,000 GB/month Transfer or Bandwidth
- $6.95 /month (1500 GB space + domain)
- $10 /year for another Domain Name
- Unlimited Websites under same hosting
(Just purchase another domain name and attach it with another folder in your hosting)
- Unlimited Domains
- 1000 FTP additional Accounts
- Ready to use Plugins and Scripts
- Secure Shopping Carts
- Free Search Engine Submission
and lot more…
I have not found any other such affordable and reliable host matching with these features. I am using BlueHost and I recommend you the same. You can share with me your experiences here, about your hosting company and your review about it.
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Ever felt pains in looking for a new domain name for your corporate identity? Ever wondered what name should you choose while it seems that all short and nice names have been taken? Well I did. Now that I am considering seriously having some of pro domain names and launching my couple of blogs in a true way, I searched a lot for some good names but It seemed to me that whatever name I thought, that’s taken already.
It is really a tiresome and boring job to search for a good domain name. We have seen many web hosts which suggest some alternatives to our search keywords but these words also do not help sometimes. Here today I found a new online tool for quick and auto domain name suggestions. Interesting fact is this; It tries to come up with shortest keywords combination and sort of bring good and meaningful keywords together to create a domain name.
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Simply put web hosting, or web site hosting, is the process of creating an internet web site and allowing others around the world to view the web site. A web hosting provider is basically a business which rents space on its computers (commonly these computers are called servers.) What happens is that after a web site is created, it is uploaded or transferred to the hosting provider’s server. The hosting provider then allows the world to view the web site when someone types in the web address (or domain name) of the internet site. And then the site (or specifically the page) is sent to the person requesting to view the site. Essentially, web hosting can be defined as providing space on a server which allows others to view your web site.
How Does it Works?
When a site is on the server it is controlled by the software on the computer; i.e., the server software. Currently over 60% of all servers on the internet use the server software known as Apache server. What happens is that when a web site is created on the server, the server software is told where the web site is on the hard disk and the details of the account. Then when a user types in a domain name (web site address) and requests a specific page from their internet browser, that request is sent to the web hosting provider’s server where the web site is located. The server software then finds the specific site and page requested in its list of details, and figures out which page the user wants and then sends that page to the user’s internet browser where the page is displayed. Basically, the server software is the intermediary between the files on the server and the browser requesting the web pages. Server software can process millions and millions of requests each day.
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On the Internet there is a tremoundous amount of argument over which operating system is the best for web hosting. There are anti-windows haters, there are FreeBSD fanatics and more. But which is the best? The truth is it depends on what you are doing.
The servers which run the web sites and the server software all run on a computer program known as the operating system. If you are running a personal computer chances are that you are running Windows ME, XP, NT or some other similiar computer program. That is the operating system of your computer. With web hosting servers they also need a operating system and there are essentially three different competing versions.
The first version is Windows. Microsoft makes an operating system especially for servers. This operating systems allows true integration with Microsoft’s products and also allows web sites to run Active Server Pages (basically computer scripts for dynamic web site content). Microsoft’s server also allows integration with its SQL database, one of the more powerful databases. The downside of Microsoft’s server software is that it costs several thousands of dollars for each server.
The second version is Linux. Linux is actually a common name for a variety of operating systems. Linux was, and is, developed by a community of individuals which come together to commonly write the main part of Linux. After this main part is developed, and continually refined, additional parts are added to the program to customize it for whatever purposes the end user wants. A variety of companies market Linux and you might have heard of a few: Red Hat, Debian, Slackware, etc. Linux is good in that it is compatible with the popular programming language PHP. It is also favored by some web hosters in that in general it has a good security record and tends on average to be a stable operating system. Linux software is free.
The third version is Unix-based operating systems. The last version mentioned here is very close in comparision to the Linux versions. In fact there are probably more similiaries than differences. The main difference is the history of how the two versions came into being. Linux is an offshoot of the Unix operating system, where the Unix-based operating systems are refinements of Unix itself. Linux basically is a cousin to Unix-based operating systems. The main Unix-based operating systems are FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The selling point of these operating system is that they tend to be very stable once installed. The downpoint is that they are very technical to install. OpenBSD also has the reputation of very secure in that in the last six years it had only one security hole in the software itself. But OpenBSD does not allow everything; that it you have to sacrafice some flexibility for security. These operating systems are free as well.
So which is the best? Well it depends on what you need. If you want the tightest security you can get then OpenBSD is probably for you. But it is very technical to install and you will not have a lot of frills. How about compatibility with all of Microsoft’s products? Well then Windows is the best for you, but be prepared in that it will cost a lot–the other operating systems here all are free. How about compatibity with PHP? Well then look at Linux or FreeBSD. You see it is not so much as which operating system is the best, but rather which operating system is best for what you need to do.
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A server is nothing more than a computer. It has a hard drive, a cpu, memory and all of the things you will generally find in a home computer. Your home computer can be a server if you want it to be. A server by definition is just a computer which serves other computers. A web hosting server is nothing more than a computer which serves web pages to the computers requesting them; i.e., to the person running the internet browser. So while in the generalist sense every computer can be a server; correspondingly what makes a computer a good server?
A web hosting server is a server set up to perform web hosting tasks quickly and efficiently. A web hosting server does not need pretty graphics because typically it runs by itself without input from a person. It is essentially (after you set it up) fully automated. And unless it is necessary, it doesn’t have a monitor. (Of course like all things it needs maintenance from a qualified professional from time to time to ensure it is running efficiently).
A good web hosting server does have a few characteristics that make it different from a normal home computer. One of the characteristics is redundancy. Typically, a server has multiple hard drives which store the data. With a multiple hard drive system data is saved on more than one hard drive so in the event of a hard drive failure the redundant drive takes over exactly where the first hard drive failed. This process is known as RAID. Another redundancy you will find is that some servers will also have multiple network access cards (for faster input and output) and two power sources. The name of the game with servers is *reliability*.
Aiming for reliability with a server typically means that the latest and greatest is not necessary the best for a web hosting server. Web hosting servers typically wait until *all* the bugs are out of the hardware and software because they want their clients’ websites up at all times. (Of course servers should always have the latest and greatest security patches.) With these characteristics in mind sometimes it shocks the average person that most servers run lower end cpus. At the time of this writing the 3.0 Ghz chips are entering the market but you will find a lot of web sites hosted on Pentium III cpus. And quite frequently Celeron chips are used which range from 1.0 Ghz to 1.7 Ghz. The reason for this is two-fold: these chips generate less heat which is important to keep heat down in a server and web hosting does not generally demand much cpu processing. RAM (the computer’s main memory) is actually more important at times than the cpu. Typically a server should have 512 MB to 2 GB of memory, with 1 GB being a sweet spot for processing. But the question always arises-if a Pentium III does a very good job at web processing won’t a Xeon cpu or dual AMDs do better? Maybe-it really depends on what is on the server. If you have just web sites and they don’t use much scripting programs (PHP or Perl or CGI) or don’t have huge shopping sites like Amazon.com on them, a lower end cpu is going to perform pretty good. Of course the dual AMDs and Xeon are going to outperform the Pentium III but not as much as you are going to pay for the premium in pricing for the cpus and the additional requirements brought on by the increased heat (more fans, bigger cases, etc).
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