Things to Consider When Choosing a Host

**vangogh** · 05-22-2009, 04:56 PM

This is an article discussion thread for discussing the Earners Forum article, "Things to Consider When Choosing a Host"

**~ServerPoint~** · 05-23-2009, 04:30 AM

I have read.
Downtime was mentored here. But how do you think that is possible to guess about that for the newbie which do not have any idea about that before start as well as experienced customer.

**rumsfo** · 05-26-2009, 04:52 AM

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Originally Posted by ~ServerPoint~

I have read.
Downtime was mentored here. But how do you think that is possible to guess about that for the newbie which do not have any idea about that before start as well as experienced customer.

So what about several uptime monitoring tools?

**willcode4beer** · 05-26-2009, 05:38 AM

Downtime promises are usually a joke considering almost everybody excludes scheduled maintenance, network outages, hardware failures and software trouble from "downtime".

Well, what else is left to cause the host to go down?

**~ServerPoint~** · 05-27-2009, 05:52 AM

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Originally Posted by willcode4beer

Downtime promises are usually a joke considering almost everybody excludes scheduled maintenance, network outages, hardware failures and software trouble from "downtime".

Well, what else is left to cause the host to go down?

Maybe natural disaster

**dbinto** · 05-27-2009, 10:41 PM

Never believe that unlimited webhosting actually means that you will receive unlimited resources from your hosting company.

**SiberForum** · 05-28-2009, 05:45 AM

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Originally Posted by dbinto

Never believe that unlimited webhosting actually means that you will receive unlimited resources from your hosting company.

That is not that article about I'm sure. That is article with the tips described and that is on the discussion here now

**~ServerPoint~** · 06-01-2009, 04:20 AM

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Originally Posted by dbinto

Never believe that unlimited webhosting actually means that you will receive unlimited resources from your hosting company.

That is what you will never be able to use. That is only marketing goal in here

**tim84** · 06-02-2009, 09:42 AM

Yes there is no such thing as unlimited space. It's all virtual. Webhosts do this by adding more space when their existing storage space is almost all used up. They don't buy a 100,000,000 TB HDD in the first place, well there isn't one anyway. But they can increase the space as their customer storage span builds up.

**jeffm2009** · 06-02-2009, 07:14 PM

i've heard that often when you start using a lot of resources they will give you a limit or start giving you problems to discourage you from using so much.

**tim84** · 06-03-2009, 07:16 AM

^ Some crappy webhosts do that. That's actually one of the ways you differentiate between a good and bad web host.

**~ServerPoint~** · 06-04-2009, 04:45 AM

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Originally Posted by jeffm2009

i've heard that often when you start using a lot of resources they will give you a limit or start giving you problems to discourage you from using so much.

I believe better inform the customer about over usage and ask to upgrade service plan. That is easy to do

**shennon** · 06-04-2009, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by rumsfo

So what about several uptime monitoring tools?

Hi,

My single piece of advice to have website monitoring tool like observepoint