Your website has become successful and at last you are getting the sort of traffic you have been dreaming of. Then you get the dreaded email, your web host informs you that the high traffic is monopolizing the server and your account may be terminated (often without a refund) for breaking its terms of service.
So what are your options now? How can your website grow without the fear of your site being terminated?

Well you will be pleased to know that there are several different options available to you! This article will cover each one, so that you can be sure you choose the option that is most suitable for your individual business needs.
Premium Hosting Benefits: –
Premium hosting is very similar to shared hosting except the packages have far more bandwidth (traffic) allowance and they are guaranteed to have a maximum number of accounts on each server.
The benefit of premium hosting is the fact that you are sharing the server with far less accounts (normally just 30-70); therefore your website can have high traffic without affecting the server speed or causing downtime.
The other great thing about premium hosting is that is requires no extra technical knowledge and of course you still have peace of mind knowing that you still have 24 hour technical support (of course this depends on the host you choose).
The last benefit of premium hosting is the fact there are several different packages to choose from, this means you only have to pay for the resources that you need at a given time. As soon as your website grows even further it is very easy to upgrade with only a slight increase in cost, which means your costs are always kept to a minimum.
Reseller Hosting Benefits
Reseller hosting is designed for individuals who wish to split up the resources allocated in their plan and resell each of these parts individually.
Resellers are normally web designers, or customers that have many websites or entrepreneurs who wish to start their own web host company. (Reseller hosting is also not suitable for audio, video downloading or video streaming websites and free/email providers for the same reason as above)
With reseller hosting you can host unlimited domains, so you decided how many accounts you want to create and you decide the price you want to resell them for.
Each of the reseller customers has their own control panel, personalized email and FTP accounts, fantastic scripts. The reseller can even have their own name servers which make them look very professional. The other benefit of reselling is that although it requires slightly more knowledge of the industry, there is always technical support close at hand.
The great thing about reseller packages is the fact that the web host will continue to provide the technical support to these customers anonymously, which means you don’t have to worry about getting your own staff.
Dedicated Hosting Benefits
In a dedicated hosting service, you are the only user of that server. The price depends on the quality of the server and whether it is a ‘managed’ or unmanaged one. (Always be sure that the server you get is from a reputable company).
An unmanaged Server is generally cheaper, however you must know first hand how to run your server (or hire a system administrator that does) as you will be responsible for all the server side problems and configurations.
With a dedicated server you have
– Full root access so you can modify the configuration of the server to
whatever suits you best.
– You can also install any software or scripts that you choose (all of which are
not possible with shared hosting.
– Better reliability. If you are the sole user, no worries about other domains
affecting your server speed or security.
The second option is a managed server. Although this option still requires technical knowledge, you have peace of mind knowing that your web host will always have technicians there to assist you, which means you do not need to hire your own administrator.
When considering an upgrade to your existing e-Commerce hosting service, these are the key options to consider. While certainly not an exhaustive listing of everything you need to consider this should get you on the right path to narrow your choices down to at least three or four services.

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The author has done his masters in computer science and presently he is assisting serverplex.com. For more information please visit us at www.serverplex.com

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With your hosting package comes at least one email account. These email accounts are extremely vulnerable to all forms of internet crime, from identity theft to system sabotage.

Phishing:

Phishing is when an email in your inbox seems to be from a company you know and trust (like a store you do business with online, or a financial institution, or your hosting service), requesting innocently enough that you follow a link to their site where you’ll be prompted to update your personal data. The link takes you to a page almost identical to the corresponding page on the actual company’s site. If you or hosting company don’t catch on in time, you could be giving a fraudster all they need to fleece you clean: credit card numbers, passwords, etc.

Lucky for us, a large number of hosting companies include with their hosting packages the technology to identify schemes like this and keep you from ever having to deal with them.

Viruses:

Another way criminals can use your email to get at you is by infecting your system with viruses via email attachments. Most computer owners have encountered viruses at one point or another, and fortunately most hosting companies offer some sort of virus blocker as part of their hosting packages.

If the hosting company additionally offers you a firewall, even better. As well, many hosting companies are scanning all attachments coming through their system for viruses. For maximum peace of mind, they should also be updating their database regularly with every new viruses as it’s discovered.

Spam:

Who hasn’t heard of spam? Your hosting company sure has, and if you don’t think their grossly affected by it, think again! It boggles the mind that so many companies still think these relentless, impersonal, mass emailings will win customers over to them. Most hosting companies know how much you hate spam, and are committed to helping you to combat it.

Many hosting companies now use spam filters to isolate emails that, for one reason or another, send up a red flag: be it because the sender is not listed in the recipient’s address book, or because the email was simultaneously sent out to hundreds of recipients. Self-learning spam filters now existing that, based on your patterns of acceptance and rejection of emails, continuously develops its ability to discern between legitimate emails and spam. Using text analysis, a hosting company can even examine the exact content in an email to better determine its origins and intentions.

You can select whether to have your hosting service automatically delete emails it identifies as spam, or just place them in an alternate mailbox for your later examination.

And spam doesn’t just annoy, it harms. It’s possible the spam that gets through your hosting providers server could be carrying a virus.

Your email should be kept as sacred as the rest of your private belongings (like your identity), and it’s a responsible hosting company that does whatever it can to keep it that way. There are so many hosting service providers out there now, it would be a shame to settle for one that doesn’t.

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Robert Michael is a writer for Farsi Hosting which is an excellent place to find hosting links, resources and articles. For more information go to: www.farsihosting.com