A reliable web hosting service would suggest you the best possible option for your website. However, it is always good to be informed about the advantages of the different kinds of servers. Here are a few tips that would help you decide.
How will your customers or visitors view your site?
When you are planning your site, think of how your visitors view your site. The technology is improving every day and users are upgrading their systems in kind, but it is important to remember that a great number of users are working with technology that is a few years out of date. This concept is important at every level of web site planning, even when deciding what platform to use. Creating a complex web site that requires a lot of data transfer will be slow on older equipment and this may be counter productive for you.
Remember to think of your visitors when deciding what software you are planning to use. This is important because the software you want can some times determine what platform you must use.
What programs and application will work for you?
FrontPage by Microsoft, ColdFusion by Allaire/Macromedia, and Java servlets are just a few of the many names and buzz words that float around the Internet business. Deciding what software you need and what features you want, and therefore what kind of platform you run your site on, is one of the most important decisions you will make. Microsoft’s ASP and Java Server Pages (JSP) are often used for designing the web interfaces if your site is database driven. If the entire content is largely static and not dynamic, the pages could well be designed using HTML and the use of scripts.
How large do you expect your site to grow?
When you are making the plan for your web site try and think of how large it is going to grow. Is your web host going to need to support a lot of features? Do you need Real Audio, Video or Chat capability? Are you going to have a number of web pages and a lot of traffic, e-mail accounts? In the beginning, even if you start out small, on a virtual host (or shared host), remember that one day you may grow large.
How much administrative control do you really need?
In this category, UNIX is generally considered superior. This is because its system allows for programming closer to the base of the programming hierarchy. Find out about these when choosing your web host. But the question is 'how much administrative control do you really need?' Some users do not need the kind of direct control that Linux or UNIX provide and are better off with the simpler, pre-prepared (and integrated) programming that Microsoft supplies for the Windows Server platform.
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