Hosting or Server for your travel website, not much different than normal.
Travel information about Choose a Host for you website?
Travel Webmaster or any webmaster of a large site will reach a point
where they really start to research their host and need to learn terms. I am
baffled that techies can assume that you understand all the word they use and I
have tons of information at my fingertips, but they still talk in techie.
MAJOR CONSIDERATIONS:
1. Money
50 Dollars per year is good for starting and no worries.
2. Speed of the host connection?
When you start to get over 2000 Unique visitors per day you need to worry?
TERMS:
MBPS
(MegaBits Per Second) One million bits per second. Mbps is commonly used as
a rating of transmission speed. Upper case "B" in MBps means megabytes per
second, but using "b" for bit and "B" for byte is not always followed and
often misprinted. MBps or MB/s would be used for disk and tape transfer
ratings as data is transferred in parallel, not serial.
BACKBONE
In communications, the part of a network that handles the major traffic. It
employs the highest-speed transmission paths in the network and may also run
the longest distance. Smaller networks are attached to the backbone.
A backbone can span a large geographic area or be as small as a backplane in
a single cabinet.
FIBER OPTICS
OC
(Optical Carrier) The transmission speeds defined in the SONET
specification. OC defines transmission by optical devices, and STS is the
electrical equivalent.
Service Speed (Mbps)
OC-1 STS-1 51.84 (28 DS1s or 1 DS3)
OC-3 STS-3 155.52 (3 STS-1s)
OC-3c STS-3c 155.52 (concatenated)
OC-12 STS-12 622.08 (12 STS-1, 4 STS-3)
OC-12c STS-12c 622.08 (12 STS-1, 4 STS-3c)
OC-48 STS-48 2488.32 (48 STS-1, 16 STS-3)
OC-192 STS-192 9953.28 (192 STS-1, 64 STS-3)
OC-768 STS-768 38813,12
LOAD BALANCING
The load balancing switch can be implemented internally by hosting
companies. It should be on their network. Basically, if a load balancer
detects server 'A' is down or does not respond, it intelligently
switches to the next one thereby eliminating downtime. The user
accessing the site has no idea of whats going on. To do this, the
hosting company has to have servers clustered that distribute the data.
This is not mirroring.
MIRRORING
3. Type of computer that your page is on?
When you start to get over 2000 Unique visitors per day you need to worry?
Windows, UNIX or Linux
4. Cpanel
- I require this and will not go without it, although my present server
upgrade to not having it, and it is possibly the worst decision they have ever
made.
5. Support? Forum?
A company without a forum to browse around does not have a company in my world.
6. Are they really big enough to have most solutions already handled?
7. Scalability? Will the host let you expand seamlessly.
BIG BIG PROBLEM
This means or is the question... What happens when I hit a limit?
I have a 60 Gig bandwidth transfer right now, what happens when I reach
that, does it just let me go on through and it BILL ME or does it stop the
page?
