Posted: December 22, 2009 at 7:42 pm |
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Google’s Matt Cutts recently suggested that the speed of a web page may soon get more attention in Google’s ranking algorithm. It seems that Google focuses on fast websites to make the searching experience better.
What can you do to make your web pages faster?
Of course, you should start by choosing a reliable web host that has a good connection to the Internet. Your web server should be easy to reach and it shouldn’t have any down time.
In addition to choosing a fast web host, you can do the following to make your web pages faster:
* Combine external JavaScript code files into one file. The fewer files the server has to request, the faster your web pages will load.
* Compress your JavaScript code to make the JavaScript file smaller.
* Combine external CSS files into one file and compress your CSS files.
* If your web server supports it, enable gZip compression (your web host can do that for you).
* Use as few images as possible on your website and compress your images. Most graphic tools enable you to choose the compression rate when saving an image for the web.
* Put tracking codes and other JavaScript snippets at the end of your web pages.
Host your website with VEXXHOST web hosting to insure fast web page with optimum performance.
While fast loading pages are good for web searchers, using the page loading time in the ranking algorithm can cause problems for smaller businesses:
* Businesses will be forced to choose a fast (and probably expensive) web host if they want to be found in the search results.
* People with a low income or businesses from a country with slow Internet connections won’t be able to compete with companies that have more money.
* Big corporations that have a very good connection to the Internet will have an advantage.
* The big websites will get bigger and the small websites will get smaller.
Sign up with VEXXHOST for a fast reliable loading site yet with very affordable web hosting prices.
The role of the page loading time in Google’s ranking algorithm isn’t clear yet so the above points are speculation at this time.
Optimizing the loading time of your web pages is a good idea, no matter how large the effect of loading time on your website rankings will be. The faster your web pages load, the more visitors of your website will be able to see the contents of your pages.
Web surfers are impatient people. The average web surfer wants immediate results. For that reason, your website should be fast loading and it should also contain clearly arranged content that makes it easy to read your pages.
Posted: June 25, 2009 at 1:56 pm |
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The PHP configuration feature, exclusive to vexxhost web hosting clients that use our shared web hosting or reseller web hosting services, allows you to modify any PHP settings, enable or disable modules such as Zend, IonCube, FFMPEG-PHP or phpShield. This allowed our clients to configure their websites instantly without having to go through the mess of going through php.ini files.
After hours and hours of designing and implementation, we are pleased to finally announce our new PHP configuration utility. Most of our clients found our previous PHP configuration utility to be very helpful and useful. However, the user interface was not very user friendly and it was hard to understand.
We have listened to all of our customer’s suggestions and now we have implemented the new system in all of our servers, as you may see, it’s a two-step process that happens all on one page. First of all, you select the directory to be configured from the left of the page, after you have selected the directory; all you do is click “Configure”. The system will contact our servers and verify your settings, and then it will display it for you, you may make any modifications you want and after you’re done, you click “Rebuild configuration” at the end of the page.
The new system is now very easy to use comparing to the previous one specially in pointing to directory because a drop down menu was not very user intuitive and not easy to understand, the new structured directory listing will help clear this up even more and not having to refresh the page every time you select a directory which will save bandwidth as well as make everything load faster.
This new system uses the latest AJAX technologies to get your configuration instantly from the server using JSON. This new system is just part of the upcoming new features that we’re giving a complete update to.
We are pleased to announce those new features and make sure our clients enjoy our high quality web hosting, yet very affordable web hosting for the low price at the same time. We have always introduced more features on our services without ever raising the prices. By upgrading all of our hardware to latest Xeon CPUs, upgrading RAM and ensuring most of ours servers have plenty of it at all times, implementation of RAID systems to ensure redundancy and speed, being one of the first in the industry to add R1soft CDP backup features, the recent introduction of our SiteBuilder, and another vexxhost web hosting client exclusive, InstantVideo Installer.
Posted: August 26, 2008 at 2:47 pm |
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According to many of our clients, they classify our web hosting as low cost web site hosting however that doesn’t make our web hosting rated as cheap web hosting. Considering our reputation for being one of the best web hosting companies in the web hosting market with our high level of support & affordable ecommerce hosting site web
There are a lot of factors when it comes to picking a web hosting company, the requirements of every person and company are different. In the web hosting industry, you have people who are looking for cheap multiple domain web hosting, those who look for low cost web site hosting & affordable ecommerce hosting site web. The list can go and on however we can offer almost every combination for our clients.
Our servers are located in our tier-1 private data center space located in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Our location is one of the most strategic locations weather you’re looking for international web hosting or North American web hosting. Our datacenter has state of the art UPS which assures that your web site is never down for a single second and also can have interrupted backup power for a week without having to refill any of our generators. The cooling in our datacenter is designed in a way to run at 133%, so if any failure occurs, our datacenter can run at full capacity using only 70% of our cooling power. Fire alarm systems, man traps and magnetic cards that monitor every entrance/exit of any data center room are standar.
Our servers also utilize the latest in technology standards all using Intel server equipment only. Most of our servers come with redundant power supplies which makes the chance of having a full catastrophic power failure impossible. We use RAID to avoid any data loss at all and we implement IPMI systems in most of our servers to monitor each server and control them. We only use server-grade hardware such as ECC registered RAM to avoid memory failures, Xeon processors in any of our servers weather it’s shared, reseller, virtual private servers or dedicated servers as well as Intel motherboards that are made to last and run for months and years.
We also operate our own private internet powered by BGP4. BGP4 is the protocol that the internet uses to have its full redundancy and routing. Operating from our own AS numbered 33028 with Cisco hardware only. Our hardware is carefully picked to perform at top speed with no bottleneck and we always give a huge overhead in our network. We are also running 4 of the top internet providers on our network and having all 4 failing at the same time is close-to-impossible.
We test out the latest technologies and make sure our clients have them by the time they are stable enough for usage. Being one of the first web hosting companies to introduce Ruby on Rails, Roundcube and right now the only web hosting company that operates with R1Soft at 3 hour backups. We also have Fantastico for all of our clients so they can install over 52+ known scripts with a couple of clicks without having to go through the fuss of setting up databases, etc.
We pride ourselves in our R1Soft backup system, we have backups that run daily aswell as daily backups every 3 hours, no other web hosting company has yet to offer that and no other web hosting company at our price range can offer that. This means that if for some rare reason we had any hardware failure, the maximum loss of data would be 3 hours only, compared to other web hosting companies where a whole day of work could be lost.
We have highly trained staff that have been in the web hosting industry for years and know every in-and-out of it. Network engineers and server administrators that are available 24x7x365 to help you with any of your problems no matter what. Our network engineers and server administrators are highly trained and can resolve most issues within minutes of identifying this issues.
Our products range is a very wide range as we have products starting from professional powerful shared hosting for the daily user or the small business, going up to reseller accounts for those who’d like cheap multiple domain web hosting and would like to isolate their domains instead of having them all under one account. Virtual private server for those who would like the redundancy that cannot be found anywhere else other than with us and dedicated server which are with the quality of our other services. As well as services such as domain registration and SSL certificates.
Our long time experience in the web hosting industry and our high quality infrastructure is what makes our price affordable while keeping the reputation for one of the companies with the best services makes us perfect for your affordable ecommerce hosting site web. We treat your business like it’s our business and we will help you in every step we can when you have your hosting account with us.
To conclude as you can read from what we mentioned in this article that price doesn’t matter and has no link with the quality of the services. We have the best pricing in our web hosting class as well as having higher quality web hosting than any of our competitors and bringing offers to our customers before any other company that charges much more brings them to theirs.
Posted: November 6, 2007 at 9:49 pm |
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A lot of users who are looking for web hosting usually take the location into matter to add to the complicated equation when looking for a web hosting company however it is not always the most important factor. It’s not completely unimportant but it is important to some point, you would at least want to have the datacenter at least in the same continent.
Of course, you won’t get the best speeds off your web hosting company if you are located in North America, it wouldn’t be the smartest idea to get your web hosting somewhere in southern Asia as it will be very slow & will be crawling for you and most of your clients if they are located in North America.
However, if you do take web hosting in a place such as Montreal, QC which is 5 hours north of New York, NY – The speed will not be that much different if it was actually located in Montreal, QC or New York, NY because the difference between the two is close to nothing at the speeds that the internet runs at.
To conclude, the best idea is to get your web hosting services at a company close to you but not necessarily very close but not necessarily very far that your web site would be very slow.
Posted: July 1, 2007 at 2:18 pm |
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Web hosting is a pretty vague term because there are plenty of web hosting types out there, ranging from Shared Web Hosting up to Clustered Web Hosting, I will be explaining all of these in this article.
Shared Web Hosting
This probably is the most popular type of web hosting on the internet. Shared web hosting means you and other people share the same server and are hsoted on the same server. Usually, there is a control panel such as cPanel that helps you manage your email and other features such as MySQL. This is the most common type of web hosting purchased by people who run their own small blog or a small business.
Reseller Web Hosting
This type of web hosting is less popular compared to Shared Web Hosting. Reseller web hosting is a special type of account that comes with a special control panel which generally is WHM and the difference is that Reseller Web Hosting gives you the ability to give away shared web hosting. Typically, start up web hosting companies get Reseller web hosting so that they can offer Shared Web Hosting.
Virtual Private Servers
Virtual Private Servers are pretty common for people who have out grown the resources of Shared web hosting but do not want to pay yet the high prices of dedicated servers. Virtual Private Servers are virtual machines located on dedicated servers; it’s like dividing the server into small servers. However; the Virtual Private Servers are not shared, you have your own operating system, your own kernel. It’s a complete dedicated server environment.
Dedicated Servers
Dedicated servers are a bit less popular due to their high prices however they are usually used by very high traffic websites or web hosting companies who would like to have their own servers instead of working on Reseller Web Hosting. Usually the servers are leased with a specific bandwidth allotment and when purchasing, you usually choose the server’s specifications (RAM, HDD, CPU)
Colocation
Colocation is pretty close to Dedicated Servers; however, the colocation provider only does provide you with bandwidth, space & power for your server. You have to purchase your own server and send it to the colocation provider. The colocation provider has nothing to do with your server and generally colocation is not recommended unless it’s a local datacenter because of the high costs of repairs.
Clustered Hosting
This most probably is the least used web hosting solution as it comes at a high price and is for high usage sites. They usually have multiple servers and each server would get a specific role, one server could serve all the HTTP traffic and one would manage all the MySQL traffic. Usually; this is a custom solution and it is not sold as packages on the internet.
This article pretty much sums up all the types of web hosting out there, stick around for more articles about web hosting, make sure to subscribe to this blog!
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