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Shared hosting may mean being associated with other businesses whose work is the search engines that serve them. If you wind up sharing an IP address (unique web server address) with an for example, a spam website, this can cause you problems if the search engines associate your site as an highly spammed site. This can be avoided by asking for your own unique IP address.
See our list of good hosting providers that will provide you a unique IP address for only a small additional monthly charge.
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When it comes to estimating web storage space needed, here is where everyone
gets in trouble.
Now when I say everyone overlooks this important detail I mean 98 out of 100 website owners never consider this one very important point. By default (automatically) website logging is turned on for every new website. Web site logs keep track of every visitor that visits your website and every page that they look at on your website. Everytime a visitor moves from one page to another, the website automatically makes another log entry for that activity.
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Web logs track everything. Besides what pages you visit while you are on the website they also track where you were before you came to the website. They know what search phrase you used if you found the website in a search engine. They know what operating system your personal computer is using, what screen resolution your monitor is set at, what web browser and version you are using to view the website, along with how many times you have visited this website and how long inbetween times you stayed away. Web logs are filled with all kinds of useful information.
There are also special logs tracking all the mistakes that happen with a website called error logs. These logs track everytime a web page is requested and the web page doesn’t work right or can’t be found. They keep track if some specialized program creates an error or if a JavaScript doesn’t work right. They are also log files for all the mail that a website receives or sends out.
All these logs are constantly writing new entries with each visitor to the website. Each visitor to your website may only cause about 500 bytes of log files to be written, but all these entries start piling up over time. Every 1,000 visitors eat away another half megabyte of space. On a busy website you might be eating 1MB a day in log files. The thing about log files is no one usually realizes they are there so they never clean them up and purge the old information. They just slowly and silently eat away at your available web space until one day you get an unexpected bill from your web hosting company for going over your allotted disk space. You are of course confused because you haven’t changed the size of your website for months. You think this must be some mistake. And that’s when website owners first become introduced to the concept of website logs.
To make a long story short. Get far more web space then you ever think you will ever use because you probably will eat it up one day. They say that disk space is like rat populations. Rats will continue to reproduce until they reach overcrowding. The same holds true for disk space. People will just keep adding and growing file sizes until they eventually run out of space.
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- Why Bandwidth Can't Be Unlimited
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- Testing Hosting Server Speed
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