Month: July 2014

July 15, 2014

Domain Related, Hosting Related

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There are various reasons and benefits that your website will get when you get a hosting service from Canada when compared other countries, especially the United States. The first and foremost reason is that, as a Canadian, choosing a service from Canada, you keep your dollars in Canada. This amount is small but the act shows you are loyal to your country. Yet there are some other points that you need to consider. One of the top most reasons that come to many people around the world as an effect of Snowden NSA-leaks is data and personal privacy. Hence, 80% of Internet traffic is routed through US servers and 8/10 of the Internet fiber optic bone links flow in and out of US. It is difficult to have the data and usage guarded totally by NSA surveillance as of today. However, having your website files stored within Canada, and the ability to directly connected to your local Canadian webserver., reduces the chance that your personal information has been read and/or stored by state-actor spies or otherwise malicious entities. Today, many Asian, American, European and Middle-Eastern companies are looking for Canadian web hosting service providers for hosting their business applications and mission-critical websites. The reasons vary across companies, but since 2012 and 2013 4GoodHosting is consistently signing up more customers from US and other countries and it's only been speeding up. read_more 4GoodHosting is completely operated and owned by Canadian citizens. Two of the data centers are situated in Toronto and Vancouver. Canada is a politically stable country and has not seen any majorly damaging earthquakes over 300 years. It has rarely seen power outages and high energy costs as are in California and in other states of the United States. When we consider world wide, Canada is a well-known leader in complex Internet technology and tele-communication. Clients of Canada web hosting companies can have significant advantages like faster loading times, which is a direct result of utilizing a web hosting provider from Canada. Though it is hard to resist the US and other overseas companies with their bait of rock-bottom prices offered, don't overlook Canadian hosting option as Canadian companies...

July 8, 2014

Hosting Related, Security, Security Related

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Benefits of Shared Web Hosting Affordable cost - The benefits shared hosting come in terms of cost as you share a common server with other clients of the web hosting company. With this, we can save money so that we can offer you the services at a lower cost. With less than $10 per month, you can get two different plans of shared hosting. If you consider the features that you are able to get today, our web hosting packages will be more effective and gives excellent value. Simplicity – We maintain the servers and their associated hardware in our peer data center, provide you with the connectivity and along with it, we will maintain all the server administrative tasks that are complex for you. For those people who don't know or who don't have the necessary manpower to run severer or who just need to focus on the critical aspects of their business, shared hosting is a perfect solution. read_more Apart from this, tools such as control panel software and our 4GoodHosting/4GH website builder will make the environment of shared web hosting easy to understand. Even the most technically challenged can succeed because of the rapid evolution in this type of web hosting technology. For more information on shared web hosting, see: Canadian Web Hosting Are you developing a shared hosting account? Performance problems: Sometimes performance varies. For example, if you are having average traffic to your website when compared to Joe who is sharing the server with you has a sudden burst in the traffic. To be frank, in shared web hosting, there is a chance of your website getting affected with neighborhood traffic, which causes the sever delays for a second when it is serving pages. One more issue with shared environment is security that is not sealed-off in shared hosting. Although we are able to provide abundant power to our customers these days, all that requires is one amateur web master to misuse the .htaccess, or another sensitive component for creating a problem on the server. Our server engineers will always diagnose and resolve the problems quickly and will be available 24/7. Your web applications will...

July 1, 2014

Hosting Related

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On modern websites, information is often stored within databases (db's) instead of directories on a web server. Therefore, simply storing your website's files into directories of your website won't deliver all the data your website application presents and also needs to operate. So you should occasionally carry out a database backup. If you utilize a MySQL database, you should use phpMyAdmin to backup your database from inside its graphical interface. To backup your MySQL database with phpMyAdmin, try this procedure: 1. Login to phpMyAdmin. It is possible to find it via your hosting control panel, such as cPanel. 2. Click the database name for the left column in the page. 3. Click on the Export tab at the top of the phpmyadmin page. read_more 4. Select either "quick" to show minimal options or "custom" to display all of the options. 5. In case you chose custom, choose the tables you would like to backup and set the other available choices. Otherwise, proceed to step 6 6. Find the output format. The default is SQL and sufficient for most backups. 7. Click "Go" 8. Save the SQL file into the folder of your choice. The advantage of this method of backup are that you get instant access to your SQL data right on your pc. The disadvantage is also that it's on your computer. Ideally, you should have critical data backed up in a safe location. You can transfer your backups into an external device or use some sort of remote backup system to copy the backup data straight from your server.