Web Hosting
Is WordPress Hosting different from Standard Web Hosting?
Mar 13th
If you type WordPress Hosting in the Search engines, you will get many results displaying specialized WordPress Hosting but is it True? Is WordPress Hosting is so different from a Standard Web Hosting? Is there any specific expertise needed for WordPress Hosting? Why should i need to use WordPress? You will find the answers for these questions in this article.
What is WordPress?
WordPress is a leading Open Source Blogging engine where you can download and install it on your domain for blogging or you can create your own blog at WordPress.com, you blog at wordpress.com comes as a sub-domain, For Example ibeehosting.wordpress.com.
Why WordPress
Most of the companies / Individuals use WordPress for Blogging. WordPress has different flavors for different needs, for Multi users Blogs like blog.co.in you can use WordPress Mu and WordPress recently launched BuddyPress for Social Networking needs. All these are Open Source and Free to use.
Do i need a specialty hosting provider for WordPress Hosting?
No, You don’t require any Specialty Hosting Provider for WordPress Hosting. You just need to have a MY SQL database and PHP in your existing Hosting package of your domain name. Additionally you might need other pre-requisites according to WordPress to install it, like 777 permissions etc. until you install it. These may be available by default with any Hosting Provider.
What is One Click Install for WordPress?
Many of the Hosting companies advertise that they provide Specialty WordPress Hosting and One Click Install for WordPress. Tools like Fantastico will make this happen, by just giving the folder name to load WordPress and a click you can install WordPress. Most of the hosting companies now a days provide Fantastico along with cPanel Control Panel in Linux Hosting.
Above are some of the facts about WordPress Hosting, You might not need any expertise or skill to install WordPress and start Blogging. Do not fall prey for the marketing gimmicks of some companies say they are WordPress Hosting Experts and charge you more.
For WordPress Hosting in India, you can contact IBEE at 9949922500 or mail at info@ibeehosting.com
All You Need to Know about Linux Web Hosting
Mar 2nd
Linux web hosting simply means the web hosting services that are running on a server that is working under a Linux operating system, so you do not need to stay confused over its description any more. Linux web hosting is mainly considered by the online business owners running either small or medium business in nature.
Linux Web Hosting
The main reason behind the consideration of Linux web hosting is that Linux web hosting costs a lot less as compared to other options such as Windows web hosting for instance. Now the question is that why is it cheaper? An open source software product is what Linux is and this is why it does not carries high licensing fees that other systems have associated with them; you can even download Linux operating system for free and use it without paying anything as ell. While on the other hand, if a web hosting service is offering windows web hosting, it would be expensive since they would be paying for the maintenance fees along with the softwares costs as well.
Linux web hosting carries a few good advantages with it such as being cheaper compared to windows, having support for MySQL databases and PHP scripts, and some of the hosts may also offer telnet accounts at a little or no additional cost as well. In many cases, Linux is said to be the winner when it comes to being secured compared to windows. This is the main reason to why programmers and web designers prefer Linux more. There are also many other customization options and configurations available with Linux web hosting.
You can also expect a high uptime from a Linux web hosting service because the Linux operating systems are too stable. Another plus point is the Linux support for most of the scripting languages and web file types such as .htm, .html, .php, .pl, .xml, .asp, .shtml, and a few others as well. One thing you should know that a Linux web hosting is not compatible with any of the Microsoft technologies such ASP scripts for instance.
So when it comes to the comparison between Linux web hosting and windows web hosting, Linux web hosting is a lot cheaper but, windows web hosting does support ASP and if you pay some extra fee, then you can enjoy other services as well such as Cold Fusion, SQL server databases, and access databases.
