Guys, I felt like clearing with some of you the fact there are different types of hosting.
It all boils down to control of resources.
Shared hosting: no control over the server's software. Others control it for you. The pooled financial resources pay for the shared IT staff, all sites banded together (i.e. server modifications and upgrades affect all sites at once). Shared hosting IS NOT BAD PER SE. If you don't know how to manage a web server, it is ideal. Others control the software, so you just point & click on the control panel.
The downside is you are fighting for resources with -at times even hundreds!- of other sites and you're served with what's left at the moment. Or not served at all. Shared sites are known to throw the blank page error even when the machine is still running because other sites are consuming too much.
Dedicated resources: you have control on the server's software and services. You have the power. There are several levels of hiring, which you can control. You can hire anything from a full server to guaranteed "resource slices", on which -once bought- nobody messes with your disk, bandwidth or RAM allocation. It's all dedicated to your website and it's nobody else's, even if they're all idle, they're entirely yours thus guaranteeing a greater level of service as long as the machine is running.
Now the point.
Yes, there are $1 dollar/month hosting available out there (i.e. http://www.brainhost.com/dollar/), hell, there are even $0.50/mo hostings (i.e. http://www.hostblast.net/). It's obviously shared. That's how they can offer such prices.
Ramming 300 clients onto a single server sure makes wonders for cutting prices. If the server's actual monthly bill is $100 and you divide it among 300 then you can do $100/300 = $0.33 per site, and still make a volume gain with $1 or even $0.50.
Which brings the focus to us.
Sadly, after receiving some messages today, I got the impression there's the thought our betselection.cc site must be thrown in a server with hundreds of sites along and hence it's a fairy tale we're enjoying dedicated resources or it being a tale that I have full control of all of our web server / database server / and related services' software.
Good thing is there's a public, transparent way to get a taste of the sites pointing to the same server address. It's called reverse dns lookup.
There are plenty of pages to make it. You can find a plethora easily:
http://www.google.com/search?q=reverse+dns+lookup+service
Please feel free to reverse-lookup us.
Furthermore, here's a live, direct, reverse-lookup link for our betselection site via the reputable and accurate domaintools site:
http://reverseip.domaintools.com/search/?q=betselection.cc
You'll only find our place and hobbycode (programming language project). Not hundreds of other sites.
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Also, please try the same lookup services you use on us with other sites to check for differences. For instance, an openly shared hosting site in the community such as RouletteForum.net shows a different view:
http://reverseip.domaintools.com/search/?q=rouletteforum.net
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And chances are sites such as -say- Ford.com aren't quite the resource sharing type:
http://reverseip.domaintools.com/search/?q=ford.com
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The utmost point is: if I weren't honest and the reality was we're being crammed in a shared host I wouldn't give you this information and instead the big skeleton of us being on a crowded server at .50 cents/mo would be an utmost secret with me praying for you to never find out there's a possible way to see the other hosted sites via the reverse name lookup service I give you above or any of the others from the google search.
On the contrary, I'm providing you the information for you to check for yourself in any one of the reverse lookup services.
By the way, there's one being more open than domaintools at yougetsignal.com's "web sites on web server" page:
http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/web-sites-on-web-server/
(Manual input, but actually shows ALL the other sites' addresses. Interesting one to see for some webs).
As a final note, let me state this:
...When I dump us in a server with 1000+ other sites to save the bucks at expenses of giving a crappy service, I resign. (And do believe service on those El-Ultra-Cheapo "half-a-dollah" crowded spaces shows!!).
Cheers! & Enjoy our *fine* place; its resources are here to serve you.
Vic
It all boils down to control of resources.
Shared hosting: no control over the server's software. Others control it for you. The pooled financial resources pay for the shared IT staff, all sites banded together (i.e. server modifications and upgrades affect all sites at once). Shared hosting IS NOT BAD PER SE. If you don't know how to manage a web server, it is ideal. Others control the software, so you just point & click on the control panel.
The downside is you are fighting for resources with -at times even hundreds!- of other sites and you're served with what's left at the moment. Or not served at all. Shared sites are known to throw the blank page error even when the machine is still running because other sites are consuming too much.
Dedicated resources: you have control on the server's software and services. You have the power. There are several levels of hiring, which you can control. You can hire anything from a full server to guaranteed "resource slices", on which -once bought- nobody messes with your disk, bandwidth or RAM allocation. It's all dedicated to your website and it's nobody else's, even if they're all idle, they're entirely yours thus guaranteeing a greater level of service as long as the machine is running.
Now the point.
Yes, there are $1 dollar/month hosting available out there (i.e. http://www.brainhost.com/dollar/), hell, there are even $0.50/mo hostings (i.e. http://www.hostblast.net/). It's obviously shared. That's how they can offer such prices.
Ramming 300 clients onto a single server sure makes wonders for cutting prices. If the server's actual monthly bill is $100 and you divide it among 300 then you can do $100/300 = $0.33 per site, and still make a volume gain with $1 or even $0.50.
Which brings the focus to us.
Sadly, after receiving some messages today, I got the impression there's the thought our betselection.cc site must be thrown in a server with hundreds of sites along and hence it's a fairy tale we're enjoying dedicated resources or it being a tale that I have full control of all of our web server / database server / and related services' software.
Good thing is there's a public, transparent way to get a taste of the sites pointing to the same server address. It's called reverse dns lookup.
There are plenty of pages to make it. You can find a plethora easily:
http://www.google.com/search?q=reverse+dns+lookup+service
Please feel free to reverse-lookup us.
Furthermore, here's a live, direct, reverse-lookup link for our betselection site via the reputable and accurate domaintools site:
http://reverseip.domaintools.com/search/?q=betselection.cc
You'll only find our place and hobbycode (programming language project). Not hundreds of other sites.
[attachimg=1]
Also, please try the same lookup services you use on us with other sites to check for differences. For instance, an openly shared hosting site in the community such as RouletteForum.net shows a different view:
http://reverseip.domaintools.com/search/?q=rouletteforum.net
[attachimg=2]
And chances are sites such as -say- Ford.com aren't quite the resource sharing type:
http://reverseip.domaintools.com/search/?q=ford.com
[attachimg=3]
The utmost point is: if I weren't honest and the reality was we're being crammed in a shared host I wouldn't give you this information and instead the big skeleton of us being on a crowded server at .50 cents/mo would be an utmost secret with me praying for you to never find out there's a possible way to see the other hosted sites via the reverse name lookup service I give you above or any of the others from the google search.
On the contrary, I'm providing you the information for you to check for yourself in any one of the reverse lookup services.
By the way, there's one being more open than domaintools at yougetsignal.com's "web sites on web server" page:
http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/web-sites-on-web-server/
(Manual input, but actually shows ALL the other sites' addresses. Interesting one to see for some webs).
As a final note, let me state this:
...When I dump us in a server with 1000+ other sites to save the bucks at expenses of giving a crappy service, I resign. (And do believe service on those El-Ultra-Cheapo "half-a-dollah" crowded spaces shows!!).
Cheers! & Enjoy our *fine* place; its resources are here to serve you.
Vic
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