By Gail Seymour

When choosing Web hosting, it's easy to focus on the disk space and bandwidth, uptime guarantees and the extras on offer, and overlook one vital aspect: the security your hosting company offers from hackers. (more…)

By Joanna Fletcher

Security issues are top-of-mind for today's entrepreneurs wanting to use their Web site to communicate with or sell to online customers. Secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) ensures that the relatively simple process of uploading your website to the Internet does not result in attacks by spammers or other nasty Internet drones. (more…)

By Gail Seymour

When you connect to the Internet to browse Web sites or to send emails, your PC needs to exchange information with various servers. You send emails and navigate to Web sites by entering email addresses and domain names. Computers, however, identify each other through a series of numbers, known as IP addresses. (more…)

By Joanna Fletcher

...whole world! An Internet Backbone is a true information superhighway, a bundle of fiberoptic cables that can carry a staggering amount of data at zero cost and high speed around the globe. Backbones are literally the cables that hold the Internet together. Anything that affects service in a backbone will affect all the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) using it, just as damage to a spine can affect the rest of the body. (more…)

By Gail Seymour

If you have a Web site hosted on the Internet, the computer your files are housed on needs Web server software to enable it to process requests for information and deliver it. Chances are the Web server software it is running is either Apache or IIS. (more…)

By Gail Seymour

The majority of new Web sites are hosted on shared Web hosting plans, because they are cheaper than using a full server and require less technical knowledge to maintain. Shared hosting means that your Web site is housed on a computer with several others, all drawing on the same system resources. This may have little or no impact on your Web site's performance, if these resources are well allocated. Poor resource management or oversubscription, however, can cause your site to become sluggish, or even to go down at times of peak activity. (more…)

By Monique Martin
If you’re shopping for a Web host, one of the many things you need to consider is the amount of bandwidth your site will need. But, what exactly is bandwidth, and how many gigabytes do you really need? (more…)

By Emele Maisey

Disk space (not to be confused with bandwidth) refers to the amount of hard disk space on a server that a Web hosting company gives you to save your Web site on. Your site is really just a collection of files including HTML files, images, videos, audio, Flash files, databases and so on. Your disk space must also fit your email accounts, raw access logs and any installed programs or scripts.

The amount of disk space a Web site need depends greatly on the type of site. A Web site that has hundreds of audio and video files will need a lot more space than a simple, five-page site. Unless you're thinking of becoming the next Amazon, Ebay or YouTube it's pretty safe to say you're not going to need unlimited storage space! (more…)

By Janet Attard

Getting visitors to your Web site is only half the battle. To be effective, your Web site has to be structured to help visitors easily find their way around. If it isn't, visitors will click on to some other site and never give yours a second thought. Yet all it takes is some careful planning to make sure your visitors can find their way around without too much difficulty. To be sure your site is easy to use, go through the site and ask yourself the questions in the lists below. Then, show the site to someone who has never seen it before. Ask that person the answers to the questions below, too. (more…)

By Monique Martin

Choosing the right Web host is critical to the success of your Web site. Uptime and reliability are two of the most important factors any small business owner should consider when looking for a host. And now, with the latest buzz from Google about site speed becoming a factor in search engine optimization (SEO), people are taking a closer look at what role Web hosts play in site speed and overall SEO and PageRank. (more…)