webhosting

Selecting the right web host provide you stability, time-saving and updated features. Selecting the wrong web host can set you back and cost you dearly when you want to switch another web host. Therefore it is important for you to know how to select the right web host which is critical for your online success.

Below are a few guidelines which you can use:

- which operating system you need? linux or windows?
- able to host unlimited space?
- support unlimited monthly bandwidth?
- able to host unlimited domains?
- cPanel support?
- include fantastico or simplescripts that supports wordpress, joomla, phpBB?
- 24/7 live support & fast email response?
- video tutorial on how to use their web host platform?

Before you signed up with any web host, just make sure you have listed out what you want, tried out several web host demo account, tested their customer service level and understand their payment mode.

For review of popular web host, you can go to http://www.hostreviewsite.com

Today, I will like to discuss about organizing your website using sub-domain & sub-directory.

Let’s say you decide to host a website i.e. www.yourdomain.com

If you want to include pages like Home, About, Product, Service, Links, Contact, etc you can organize your website using sub-directory like this way:

www.yourdomain.com/home
www.yourdomain.com/about
www.yourdomain.com/product
www.yourdomain.com/service
www.yourdomain.com/links
www.yourdomain.com/contact

Sub-directory is normally used on lightweight or static page and if you going to host heavyweight & dynamic pages you can organize your website using Sub-domain for instance:

sales.yourdomain.com
finance.yourdomain.com
manpower.yourdomain.com
operation.yourdomain.com
it.yourdomain.com

There are several advantages of using sub-domain to manage your website:

1. Load Balancing: If a visitor enter your website (www.yourdomain.com) and if your website is experiencing extremely high traffic, a technique called load balancing can redirect the visitor request to another server (www2.yourdomain.com) which contain the same website information.

2. Scalability: If your primary server is unable to handle such high volume of traffic, you can migrate the sub-domain together with all the associated files to another dedicated server easily & hassle-free.

3. Free Registration: You do not need to register your sub-domain with a registrar. Sub-domain feature is usually included in the web-host.

As far as Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is concern, both sub-directory & sub-domain achieve approximately the same results.