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Having dedicated servers can be a challenge but it can be worthwhile for your business in the long run. Having a truly dedicated server will require that more than one person watch over it and repair it on any given day. This is because one person cannot watch over a dedicated server by themselves and hope to have it be up the majority of the time. At some point that person will need sleep and that is probably when the server will decide to die. When that happens all of the sites you may be hosting will go with it and they will complain along with their users, then you have big problems because you may lose customers. In order to truly have a dedicated server several people should be looking over your servers at any one time so that if one decided to go crazy and bug out then it can be fixed with little down time lost.

With several people watching it they can take turns making sure everything is ok with the server in shifts like a job and then when something goes wrong someone will always be there. Even if the dedicated server seems to be working right there are times you may wish to replace parts for newer ones or just do overall checkups here and there. This makes sure things keep working in good order by getting to some of the parts that are prone to breaking before they do so. In that way you can schedule maintenances so that you may transfer things to different servers if you have more than one, while you work on the other effectively keeping things running while you are performing work on the other. This also keeps you from having to work under stress knowing that you have to get a server back up quickly if it goes down when you were not expecting it. Rushing too much can cause you to mess up the server even more and something that only would have taken a few minutes to fix could cause the server to be down for hours.

Constant monitoring and quick but precise fixes, along with regularly scheduled checkups are the keys to keeping servers in great condition. Do that and you should have little problem with keeping the servers up and running a great majority of the time. There are times when something unexpected may occur and there is not much you can do about that but if you do something about the things you can do something about then it will make all the difference.

Draco Letty is a marketing consultant for Megastar Media. Please visit http://www.MegaStarMedia.com for more info about the company.

It has been reported there are currently more than a staggering 50,000 web hosting providers all competing for the honour of hosting your website.

Every day dozens of new web hosting companies are launching and struggling to get your attention and your web hosting business.

Even though the web hosting industry is really quite young, it is certainly one of the most competitive and cut-throat industries on the web today. Yet the growth of this marketplace is assured for the foreseeable future.

Each and every week it is estimated more than 50,000 websites are launched and need to be hosted somewhere online. This figure continues to grow and grow.

In fact the current monthly count for the number of searches at Yahoo for the term 'web hosting' is a whopping 2,149,851. That's right, over 2 million!

Also just recently it was reported that the popularity of blogs was seeing tens of thousands of new blogs launched each and every day. While many of these are hosted freely, the more serious bloggers each require an account with a reliable web hosting provider.

Of course every paid web hosting account usually requires at least one domain name registration. Here are some amazing domain name figures for you:

The registrar holding the largest number of domain names is said to be WildWestDomains. They may be better known to you as Godaddy. They currently hold over an estimated 5 million domain name registrations!

The registrar holding the second largest number of domain names is estimated to be Enom.
The registrar holding the third largest number of domain names is estimated to be Networksolutions.

Domain Name Registration Growth:

By far the most popular top level domain is the .com

There are currently over an estimated 40 million of these registered.

The .com top level domain currently holds over an estimated 70 percent of the domain name marketplace.

The .net top level domain currently holds just over an estimated 10 percent of the domain name marketplace.

The good news for web hosting and domain name customers is that incredible deals have become available as competition increases among web hosting providers.

In fact the price of web hosting has plumeted to just under $10 per month for a quality service. Domain names that cost up to $35 just a few years ago can now be bought for as little as $4.99.

This is a winning situation for both the web hosting providers and their customers. The new web hosting providers must impress their customers with good service and in doing so can compete with more established organisations.

There has never been a better time to find a web hosting provider and establish an internet presence of your own.

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When selecting a web hosting plan, one of the most important things that you will research is the amount of bandwidth that you should by as part of your hosting package. Bandwidth is simply the amount of data that flows between your website and your web host in a preset time limit, usually a month. Web site hosts buy bandwidth from wholesale bandwidth centers and then resell the bandwidth as part of web hosting packages.

Determining your bandwidth needs can be one of the most difficult decisions you make when setting up your web site. To determine your bandwidth needs, take the size of your finished web site and multiple that amount of data by the number of visitors that you expect to visit your site. For example, if your web site is 50 kilobytes and is viewed 20,000 times in a month, then you only need 1 gigabyte of bandwidth. If your site is personal or is devoted to your favorite site, that small amount of bandwidth is likely all you need.

If you offer downloads of music or video, then you will need much more bandwidth than is you just offered a static informational web site. Even smaller downloadable files can eat into your bandwidth allocation. If you offer a video clip that is one megabyte, you can only offer that site 1000 times before you have used your entire one gigabyte bandwidth budget. When you consider that the one megabyte file only offers a few seconds worth of video, you can see just how much bandwidth video files can consume from your hosting plan.

Most people who have their own web sites don't offer unlimited downloads of media files, so many webmasters use only a fraction of their purchased bandwidth. Many web hosting companies set up their plans in such a way that people will buy much more bandwidth than they need. In fact, if you began to use your full allotment each month, you would likely find your web hosting plan canceled without much notice. By using all of your bandwidth each month, you can strain your web host and pull resources from other customers. If you find yourself eating that much bandwidth, you might consider a dedicated server for your website. Of course, if you don't plan to have a site heavy with multimedia files, you should npt have to pay for a web hosting package with much more bandwidth than you need.

By taking a long look at your web site and knowing what you plan to offer, you can correctly estimate the amount of bandwidth you will need from your web hosting package. If you decide to host a number of videos, mp3 files or flash based applications, you should consider a dedicated server for your web site. If you are on a tight budget and your web site is small and unlikely to draw much traffic, you can save a significant amount of money by picking a web hosting package with smaller bandwidth allowances.

Whack A Host offers web hosting reviews as well as one on one support to pick the right host for you.
Chris has been building and support web servers for 5 years.
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