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Host Gator Review

K M Rehan Salahuddin — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:45:50 +0000

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Connection Speed

Very high speed if compared with other shared hosting. This is perfect solution for rich media
website in limited scale.

Uptime
If there is no natural disaster,or other extreme situation to cause a failure then all the websites hosted with hostgator is listed as having 99.99% uptime guarantee.

File Type/Size
“Unlimited” disk space is sold to customers with clearly stated limitations. There is no limitation
on file size or type. Any type and any sized files can be uploaded.

Inode/File Limit
Other than Vps this company is offering the moist allowed inode limit of 250,000, which is the best on the market. When many other companies are offering only one fifth of this limit without backup, hostgator is not only offering a large number of inodes but also with backup.

Disk Space
With 250,000 inode limit a webmaster can easily occupy 250GB of disk space which with VPS would be 100 times as expensive.

CPU Resource Limit
Up to 25% of CPU resources are allowed for each hosted account, and the resources are well managed, allocated and optimized for each hosted account. It is really very difficult for any hosted account to go beyond this limit if only 1 domain is hosted under the
account. If any hosted account continuously go beyond this limit then it would be better for a webmaster to think about a VPS as in what our research shows, there is no other shared hosting offering more resource allocation than Host Gator.

Customer Support
Usually any support ticket would be answered within 30-45 minutes. There is a very good support documentation to go through for more knowledge. The support department would even provide guidance about how to optimize a website for better performance. The customer support service is satisfactory.

Satisfaction Guaranteed
It is well known that money talks around the world and with Host Gator it is no different. The cost of hosting with hostgator is 2.5 times higher than average market price of shared hosting and the result is 10 times better service with total satisfaction. For webmasters who want a hassle free, fluent webhosting experience in cheap pricing then Host Gator is the ultimate solution.

Unlimited Hosting and Hidden Disappointments

K M Rehan Salahuddin — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:43:43 +0000

Most webmasters are always in a hurry to make their website available for the whole world. In the process of making a website webmasters hardly ever do any research on their needs and requirements for a healthy hosting environment. One of the basic reasons behind this is that most of the webmasters are unaware about hosting logistics. They don’t want to skip a very lucrative unlimited offer to a limited offer; they don’t want to read the Terms of Service and/or Acceptable User Policy. They only compare between the pricing and how many unlimited items are listed, before they decide their hosting provider. And that’s where the tragedy starts with a lot of hidden disappointments.

The hosting providers are usually offering unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space, unlimited email accounts, unlimited domains, and unlimited databases on their shared hosting plans. But, when these cheap shared hosting plans are compared with vps/dedicated server there will be a big difference between the pricing and the features. Because the vps/dedicated hosting plan is at least 10 to 100 times as expensive as the shared unlimited plans and they come with a lot of limitations.

: Compare between a shared “unlimited” plan with a dedicated server plan.

A simple question to ask yourself is, if unlimited hosting can be obtained for only a few dollars then why do people need to buy vps/dedicated server which has limits disk space/bandwidth? The straight and clear answer is that there is no such thing as unlimited web hosting available on earth. All the unlimited features are having hidden restrictions to provide free disappointments through the hosting period.
Unlimited disk space: It is almost impossible to offer unlimited dist space. Every server has its own limitation which depends on the hard disk driver size that is installed in the server, and there is no such unlimited sized hard disk available in market. Also in a shared hosting plan, there are many websites hosted in the same server, and those websites shares the resources of the server. In this case there is no such possibility for having a unlimited disk space to offer to all those clients, whose websites are hosted in the same server. All the hosting service providers usually restrict the clients from utilizing more than certain amount of disk space with a quota named “inode”. Generally, one file uses one inode. Thus, if you have 50,000 files you have used 50,000 inodes. This inode limitation varies between different hosting providers. But be aware about those hosting services who offer only 50,000 inodes.

Unlimited bandwidth: One website only needs a lot of bandwidth when you are having a lot of visitors and when your website contains a lot of images/large sized files. But all the hosting providers restrict the processor per user under their terms of service or under a acceptable user policy. Cpu uage per user is restricted between 10% to 25% among all the hosting providers. Also sometimes some providers limit the connection per ip address. If the cpu per user is restricted then the visitors will experiment either a very slow performance of your web or will see an error message.

Unlimited Email: Another feature that depends a lot on other features. If a webmaster wants to open unlimited email address then he/she requires unlimited inode count along with unlimited disk space. It also requires heavy Cpu usage when a lot of email clients start to retrieve email/attach large sized files. As all these features are limited, unlimited email accounts is also can only be available in dreams.

All this means is that “unlimited web hosting” does, in fact, have its limitations. There are several criteria of limitations that are applied to unlimited web hosting, including RAM, bandwidth, CPU, queries, FTP uploads, and the number of MySQL databases being utilized. Each of these can trigger an automatic or even manual suspension of hosting/website.
So our suggestion is that whenever you visit a site promoting “Unlimited Bandwidth/disk space” as one of the account features, be sure to visit the Acceptable Use Policy, or the Terms of Service. Read the fine text about the so-called “Unlimited” disclaimer, you will be surprised!

Suggested

Host Gator (Higher Cpu Resource & Inode Count, Fair Bandwidth Ratio)
Host Moster (Higher Cpu Resource, Good Maintenance)
Linode (Good VPS if you are a “Do it yourself” type, Best Price for Performance)

Bad Ones

Justhost (They bought a dedicated server on Singlehop.com, and hosts everything in that server, 10% cpu resource, 50,000 inode count and almost no tech support)
Inmotion (10% cpu resource, inefficient tech support)
Globat ($4/Month for 1TB of space, but it’s so slow it would take you 12 months to fill it up!)

K M Rehan Salahuddin is an Opinion writer for different media & Newspapers. He has freelanced for different media for years before he has started professional career. Currently working at Eximlabs Ltd Hong Kong as Chief of Public Relations (www.sortoflife.com & www.sortofmag.com).

K M Rehan Salahuddin has become a Icon figure among the youth for founding Eximlabs Ltd Bangladesh back in 2001 at the age of 19. The company has created a big crowd as it served 188 clients in a period of 15months to create/design/host various websites/databases/servers. To peruse higher education he left the company at 2002. At 2009 he has again joined back the company and registered it as a Limited Company at Hong Kong. K M Rehan Salahuddin has been awarded best National Debater at 2004. For his charity works and great achievements in study he has also been awarded with Provincial Recognition Certificate at 2007. He is much known as Soul among the young generation for his continuous effort to support the environment and the society. He has published a poetry book “Truth of life” at 2008. He is currently studying as a phd student at PR China. K M Rehan Salahuddin’s interests are broad but there are some specific interest like World Affairs, E Marketing & Technology.

Best CD Ripper

+Jason — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:00:30 +0000

Why use VBR MP3s? Well unlike regular lower bit-rate codecs, LAME can use VBR to provides the best Sound Quality to space ratio, and WinLAME makes the process as easy as 1 2 3. I use WinLame to rip CDs and convert them into VBR MP3s on the fly.

winLAME MP3 + CD Ripper

Lame is a Codec, and WinLAME is a GUI for that codec. It’s a superior codec than most and best of all it’s completely FREE. You can grab the latest version over at http://winlame.sourceforge.net/ Give it a spin, it’s open source and contains NO SPYWARE or Adware.
I ♥ winLAME, and I think you will too. It’s way better than using Windows Media Player, but easier than Exact Audio Copy.

Windows 7 Review

+Jason — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:40:57 +0000

Here is my review on Windows 7 comparing it to Vista.

This isn’t for everyone, so if you want the short version, just scroll to the bottom…. I was a beta tester for Windows 7 (in fact, all the way back to Whistler; I missed out on Chicago) and this is an honest review of what I think about Vista, Windows 7, and XP, with 7 being the primary focus. This review assumes you are familiar with XP. Windows 7 is a major upgrade from Windows XP, if this is the route you are taking, you missed out on a lot of new features brought about by Vista, and you might be a little overwhelmed at first at everything that has changed in 7. However, if you were a Vista user, then the only things to really take note of, from a users perspective, is that the Start bar has received a major reworking. Getting familiar with the new start bar is pretty easy and will come naturally after a few days for most people.

Under the hood, as they say, is what most people are interested in, because “Vista was so full of bugs, etc.” However, I’ve used Vista extensively with little to no trouble. Vista’s main faults were driver signing enforcement (users who were early adopters, found that they didn’t have good enough hardware and drivers to match), and a new strange user interface. Networking also went from simple in XP, to quite a pain in the rump if you didn’t have a solid understanding of networking. This upset quite a few people, because XP worked just fine, and Vista ran really slow on their computer and wanted to eat up all their ram, resources, etc, and they couldn’t set their network settings as easily.

Enter Windows 7. It’s Vista, with all the patches, and instead of just assuming everyone has a super beast computer, it adapts resource usage based on your hardware. So install it on a Super Computer, it will actually utilize the resources available (unlike Windows XP, but just like Vista). Likewise, place Win7 on a netbook, and it will become very conservative with resource usage (like Windows XP, NOT like Vista).

Other than that, Win7 is very much like Vista. I also published this article on Experts-Exchange.

The Verdict:

In short, if you’re shopping around and aren’t sure about making the switch from XP, please skip Vista, and grab a copy of Windows7 today. It’s wonderful…