yamunesh kumar asked:

i am goin to open a website of news,blogs,communities,E-mail,web messenger,matrimonial,online buying and selling,file storing etc. so i need minimum 5gb of webspace and minimum 500 gb of database.
i am expecting around 2,00,000 members will login into my website. i dont know where to take web hosting. and also i want the meaning of what is shared and Dedicated Server hosting. thanks in advance.

Amy Nutt asked:


With so many hosting options available, it can be rather confusing what to go with. This isn’t referring to the many hosting plans that are on the market. This is referring to whether you should use VMware hosting, dedicated hosting, or shared hosting. In this case, we’re talking about VMware virtualized hosting and dedicated hosting since you want your website to exist on its own server and not have to share with others. The point is, it is a large decision to make.

VMware Virtualized Hosting

VMware virtualized hosting is different from any other hosting that you may research. You’ll find that it exists on a virtual server that operates independent of any operating system instead of it existing on a physical server that operates an operating system such as Windows. Servers usually have to have an operating system to rely on, but VMware virtualized hosting does not. It is an effective IT solution for your business when you want to manage your server in-house and want to do so in an effective manner.

VMware virtualized hosting also allows you to get multiple servers running in a matter of minutes without having to purchase any new hardware. If you have your own servers in which you require hardware, you can actually combine your VMware virtualized hosting and your hardware servers to make it all more manageable. Basically, you’re creating several virtual machines that are operating in one centralized area. This can save you both manpower and a lot of time. If something happens to your server hardware, you can quickly create more virtual servers to back yourself up. You technically have your own data center at your disposal that can do anything you need it to do with your hosting.

Dedicated hosting

Dedicated hosting is hosting in which the business leases a server that is not used by anyone else. It is not like shared hosting where several customers share the same server. This is a server in which you, the customer, can have complete control over it or you can go for managed hosting that allows the hosting company to take care of your server for you. If you have any problems, you simply have your hosting company take care of it. If you choose to do things in-house, you consult with your own IT department. It is what you find to be more cost-effective for you that determines how your server is managed. If you can afford an IT staff, you can do that. However, if you find that paying for managed hosting is the better solution, you can go that route as well.

The main difference between VMware virtualized hosting and dedicated hosting is the fact that you have to have the actual hardware with dedicated hosting. You can choose your hardware, your operating system, and other elements, but it can be costly. VMware does not require hardware, is not reliable on an operating system, and is vey cost-effective. As stated before, you have the ability to manage multiple servers in one centralized location. You do manage it on your own, but it takes very little manpower to make sure everything is up and running and to operate multiple servers.

Which is better?

Of course it is up to you as to what route you want to take when choosing a server for your website. You may choose that you want the hardware and other options that comes with dedicated servers. Then again, you may choose that you want to take the low cost route of VMware virtualized hosting and having a small staff manage it. Each has their own set of benefits, but only one is the solution for you.

ashwin palaparthi asked:


I have developed a java based web application using struts, tomcat, mysql etc. I want to host all of these on a server (OS platform should not matter since it is all Java and mysql) that runs in some reliable data center. I want to get the benefit of all the managed services (they take backups etc right) but have my own server for dealing with the user-load and also that the Java apps dont run nicely on shared hosted systems (and they will not have all the tools and libraries we use). I am looking to see if there is any data center in India as well that has proven connectivity. Whatsoever information on this topic is much appreciated.

Manuel Barreda asked:


A dedicated hosting service is some sort of Net hosting where you rent out a whole server for yourself. You can control the security, space, and the bandwidth of the server. It is normal to find a provider that will include the instruments you need as long as you keep utilizing their service.

How can you save cash whenever paying for a dedicated hosting service?

You may always negotiate a better deal with your provider. For example, you may ask them if they can offer you a deduction if you pay for an entire year instead of paying in a monthly basis. Monthly fees of this kind of service normally cost a few dollars per month. But if you pay for an entire year, the majority of the time you will accumulate a mark down.

What are the consequences of paying for an entire year?

Everything in life has bad and good. The bad consequences about paying for an entire year is that sometimes you choose a company that offers you a low price without even examining it before. What if the dedicated hosting service supplier never replaces their equipment and it turns antiquated. Or what if the service provisioner just started to operate a few months ago and for some reason they get out of business. In case this happens you will loose lots of money and time. Also, you may want to check for their customer service.

The majority of the web surfers are all the time searching for different ways to pay less for goods and services, but after all they ignore the most dominant thing, quality of service. What you can do is look for numerous hosting providers and compare them all against each other. You can use Choose It, a free tool designed to help you make important decisions. A company that provides a dedicated hosting service is Godaddy. You may examine their prices and furthermore search for a few more other hosting companies so you can have different choices.

Additionally, check if they have any objections, how legitimate their customer service is, and what their site rank is in www.alexa.com. Also, you may check what other people are discussing about their service in forums. Another thing you need to worry about is for special deals. As an example, Godaddy provides no start up charges.

Every time you find a hosting provider, you need to answer the following questions.

How long has the company been in business?

How legitimate is the customer service?

How is the price?

What is included in the package?

What are their consumers saying about the service?

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Hex asked:


Which is best dedicated hosting?

estonpillay asked:


I want to host a video sharing website, kinda like youtube, if someone could please give me some help with the infrastucture, like dedicated servers, how much bandwidth i will use up, also how do i estimate how many users or tarffic i will get in the future?

Will Some also send me their personal email add so i can ask some more questions?

Thank you.

teckie asked:


My program relies on an executable which must be hosted. I also will like this hosting site to have installed IE explorer since this executable relies on it.

Lorenzo Modesto asked:


For all the hype, over the last few years an increasing number of businesses have started moving not just distribution but more important business processes online in earnest. The main reason this much anticipated migration has dragged its heels is that change takes time, and businesses going online are faced with hurdles of cost, complexity, resourcing, and marketing at every step of the process.

The workhorse in terms of infrastructure of this fundamental change is hosting.

As many businesses now know, hosting has a wide range of options in terms of cost and function, but it’s the growth of Dedicated Hosting that has continued to gather momentum over recent years. The most interesting aspect of this growth is that indicators show that most businesses are at the bottom of the adoption curve and that the most aggressive growth is yet to come.

What customers want

What customers have wanted, but more importantly needed, over the past years has changed considerably. As businesses become leaner and headcounts shrink, so priorities and their drivers have changed. So-called “Have-to-haves” or essential requirements are the issues ones getting any traction, relegating “Nice-to-haves” to the back-burner until they either become irrelevant or are escalated for other reasons.

This phenomenon has seen companies spend less time, resources and money on their online presence than they might have.

Priorities have changed.

Issues that have re-prioritised the importance and investment in online presence and tools now include better brand awareness through greater exposure, increased distribution driving higher sales and new markets, and better processes to increase efficiency and reduce costs.

As customers realise that their commitment to their online tools needs to increase, so too does their requirement for effective development.

Once the development has been defined and is nearing completion, the tool requires a means of delivery, being effective hosting.

Hosting is then divided into two categories: Shared hosting (otherwise known as virtual hosting, as opposed to virtualised hosting) and dedicated hosting.

Dedicated hosting is a requirement once the environment that the developer requires becomes either more complex. or more customised than a vanilla shared hosting environment.

In short, custom development requires the freedom that only a dedicated hosting environment can deliver.

How service providers are meeting customers’ needs

Dedicated hosting has traditionally been delivered by Carriers, Internet Service Providers or Hosting Providers. Of these, it has quickly become apparent that hosting, particularly dedicated hosting, is a specialisation requiring specific skills to deliver the required product offerings.

As dedicated hosting growth gathers momentum, so too does the need for fast, cost effective delivery. Until recently, delivering dedicated hosting has meant a long-winded and complex process for both service provider and customer alike, involving specifying and sourcing the right hardware, burn testing, server OS configuration, application configuration, IDC installation and connectivity configuration and finally a handover to the customer to, only then, start the process of final configuration for production rollout.

The process is long-winded, expensive and complex for all parties concerned.

Issues continue for dedicated hosting servers set up this way as, when the times to upgrade disk, RAM or even the whole server, the process begins again from the start.

Virtualisation: Not as good as, better.

New virtualization technology is now set to deliver dedicated hosting in a way that not only eliminates most of the complexity for both service provider and customer alike, but introduces many additional virtualised hosting benefits that have not previously existed.

For service providers, it allows scalable, profitable and fast delivery of premium dedicated hosting.

For customers, it eliminates hardware, hardware drivers and hardware upgrades. In addition, due to the features included in some server virtualisation technology, it delivers far higher levels of availability and allows clones of production environments to be created for seamless development and rollout.

Virtualisation and virtualisation

As either a service provider or a customer, it’s important to understand that many different flavours of server virtualisation exist, bringing different price points, levels of resource control and base-OS independence.

Apart from resource control and allocation, stability of, and independence from, the underlying OS is essential to realising all the available benefits of server virtualisation technology and quality virtualised hosting.

Of all the current crop of server virtualisation technology, VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 seems to lead the market against all of the above criteria, combining the highest available resource control with elimination of hardware drivers. Infrastructure 3 also allows intelligent high-availability redistribution of VMs from failed physical servers to the remaining healthy servers in the farm.

Server virtualisation technology is set to expand its market share as it has in the wider server market – it just depends on whether virtualised hosting service providers and customers alike realise the possibilities available for premium virtualised hosting.

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