about Web hosting hints

The web hosting hints website is designed to help the small business owners and webmasters to gather information on web hosting companies and make the best choice possible.

Because it's so important to work with a top web host, I will post web hosting tips about who I think are the best hosting companies now. A web hosting company is a very strategic partner, you need a reliable partner with a great support team and strong infrastructure to begin with.

how to choose your web hosting company

When choosing a web hosting company, it's sometimes hard to know what to look at to figure out who's the best hosting company for you. The web hosting hints website is my view on top web hosts.


Drupal web hosting

Since I'm using a Drupal core to build all my websites (except from the old ones!) I tought I'd write an article about Drupal Web hosting. In this article I will mention what aspects are important to look for when searching for a website hosting company for your Drupal website(s). Of course, without forgetting the other tips on how to choose a web host company mentionned on this website.

the robots.txt file

The robots.txt file file is very important, here's why. Web robots are programs that browse the Internet and search engines such as Google, Yahoo and others use to index web pages. If a robot wants to visit a website, let's say for http://web-hosting-hints.net, it will first check for http://web-hosting-hints.net/robots.txt.

added value hosting

What I mean by added value hosting in this article is that there a a lot of good web hosting companies out there, so if after you've analysed the best ones and you have to make a choice between 2 or 3 companies, that's where added value web hosting comes along.

Top web hosting tips

When searching for a web hosting company, one should consider these web hosting tips:

    1. Does the web hosting company offer a control panel?
The control panel is the main tool you will be using to manage your websites. From your access, databases to email configuration. Make sure they offer a web hosting control panel and that the interface is easy to use.

top asp web host

A lot of people has been asking me: 'Who is the top asp web host?' so I dedicate this post to them! First of all, whatever you want do do in PHP can be done in ASP and vice versa. You can even host ASP on Apache with applications like Chilisoft.

Like I said, hosting a website or web applications built with ASP can be done on an Apache server, but you will most likelly want a hosting site that support asp with a Mircosoft IIS web server.

colocation hosting

Finding the best colocation hosting company can be hard to do because choosing your web hosting is so important. There are many things to look upon when choosing your web hosting company, I will try to cover the major ones in this article. I will also list the major differences between colocation hosting and dedicated server hosting.

free vs paid website hosting

There is a lot of difference with free vs paid website hosting. I used free web hosting a couple of times to test the service, functions control panel... I guess it all depends on your profile! Let me explain. If your a student and your putting up a web page to test some things, or put up a page that is not crucial to you, then I guess free web hosts are ok.