Cloud hosting, also commonly referred to as cloud computing, is an alternative delivery model for IT services over the Internet. The “cloud” is typically a network or cluster of servers that is designed to easily scale business applications to where the user only pays for the resources they use, and has largely become the primary advantage for cloud hosting. This works well for many businesses, including start-ups who may not be able to afford dedicated hosting or managed hosting services initially. Now there is a way where they can easily scale as their users scale with the applications.

Cloud Hosting in Plain English

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Other Benefits of Cloud Hosting

In addition to scalability and cost, cloud hosting benefits from agility where users can rapidly and inexpensively deploy new technology on the server, such as operating system upgrades, database upgrades and more. Another benefit is reliability with the inherent redundancy that is built into a cloud hosting network. With your web applications replicated on multiple servers, it becomes attractive for companies needing a disaster recovery plan.

• people who have great (babbaal) inter conectivity have no problem using godaddy, coz it takes too much of time to load home page ( I am a Nepal based )
• yes, problem in changing nameserver , Duh “a fatal error”
• And Yes your Hosting panel really suckss
• You suck these days!

Yes i use name.com to register domain names.

• they have a great admin side for domain management
• Cheap Domains
• Free Private whois
• Free google Apps
• Easy Domain transfer

Name.com domain registrar is one of the cheapest domain registrars on the Internet. As far as I know, It’s the cheapest for .com TLD domain registrations at just $7.99 an year (it was $5.99 upto a couple of days back until all the domain registrars upped the prices because of the increase in ICANN fee or something), .net TLD is $5.89 a year, .org is $7.99 a year, .us is also $7.99 and it offers many more TLDs.

Their website used to be down for a couple of times a day. But these days everything seems OK. With every domain registration they give you free private Whois, Google apps (I think with the help of Google Apps sponsorship, they are able to provide domain registrations at the cheap rate they are offering right now), free email with every domain, free custom start page, free webpage creator. I like their bulk domain checking tool. I was kind of doubtful when I first saw their prices. But after registering a couple of domains with them, now everything seems fine. Some people say their support is (or used to be) a little bad. But I never had to contact them for any kind of support. I have yet to have experience with their support guys.

And I hear Name.com, Name.net and Domainsite are all sister companies. They give their contact No. and contact email address right at the top of their home page. So far, I am pretty much satisfied with them and their free features. I hope this domain registrar doesn’t turn to be another RegisterFly.com (I say that keeping their low prices in mind). Of course, we can never expect which domain registrar is going to be another scam or fraud. Try Name.com domain registrar if you haven’t tried them yet.

You dont need to search whois of my domain , i am planin to transfer this domain to name.com

Good Luck with your Name

I have been using Bluehost as my shared hosting provider since last 2 year..  and reffer every one to use if you really looking to make your website load and run fast . Right now i am in nepal so i also refer nepali companies to use bluehost. Company from Nepal using Bluehost as per my recommendation.

• Sathi Nepal Travel & Tours Ptv. Ltd
• Unity Life  Re-team

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From looking at the BlueHost.com web site, the company appears to be a serious and professional web host. A visually appealing web site, clearly posted contact information, lots of awards (from legitimate places), and grammatically correct text on site, all help make BlueHost seem like a formidable web host. A great feature (that seems to be awfully rare) is that BlueHost provides a demo of their control panel (a very slightly customized cPanel using the X skin) that actually works and isn’t impossible to find. It’s a great feature that allows you to review how cPanel works if you aren’t familiar with it.

BlueHost Features and Pricing

The features BlueHost provides seem pretty standard (nothing lacking) with all of the expected features of a web host such as cPanel, multiple database support, FTP, email, etc. BlueHost’s one (the only one I could find, at least) package features unlimited diskspace, and unlimited bandwidth. There’s a limited number of databases (50 each for MySQL and
Postgre) and more FTP and email accounts than you could ever use (1,000 and 2500, respectively). Unlimited numbers of addon domains, parked domains, and subdomains are given. Pricing varies depending how long you sign up for:

• 3 Months: $9.95/month + $30.00 Setup + Domain ($10.00 if purchased from BlueHost)
• 6 Months: $8.95/month + $30.00 Setup + Domain ($10.00 if purchased from BlueHost)
• 12 Months: $7.95/month (no setup fee, free domain included)
• 24 Months: $6.95/month (no setup fee, free domain included)

I have never been a big fan of a minimum of three months contract, and you do have to click around (to the second step in their order process, actually) just to find out the price. Ignoring the minimum contract length, pricing is quite competitive.

Terms of Service

BlueHost has a very unique Terms of Service – there’s no legal jargon at all. It’s just some bullet points on a page with the major points included in most Terms of Service agreements. The shady point is “All activities may be monitored, recorded, and examined by any authorized person, including law enforcement.” with a semi-shady “Any violation found or fraudulent activity that system personnel deem inappropriate may have your account immediately terminated without notice and any recorded evidence reported to authorized persons.” However, in fairness to BlueHost, the points are quite clear, and not hidden within a 10 page agreement.

cPanel Control Panel

Two clicks later, I was into my control panel. If you know about cPanel, you can probably skip this paragraph. It’s all very standard. You have the same SQL, subdomain, email, etc. features as every other cPanel. There’s a few nice addons such as a domain manager, a sitebuilder, and some options to manage your account (basically, it just logs you into their billing system, but still convenient). BlueHost has Fantastico, which from what I saw, was up-to-date with the latest stable versions of all of the scripts. The cPanel went very fast and did everything it was supposed to do.

Script Installation

Like a lot of cPanel hosts, BlueHost supports addon domains. I set up a few addon domains, and everything worked well, and without any problems. BlueHost doesn’t allow SSH/Shell Access by default, but says it will enable shell access for your account if you fax a copy of your driver’s license, passport, etc. to them. I installed some basic scripts (a blog, a CMS, a forum) without any problems. Speed was about average, and BlueHost seems to keep up in terms of software updates and the like.

BlueHost Support

I called their support department using their toll-free number. I was talking to someone within about 30 seconds after dialing. I asked some basic questions: Do you support mod_rewrite (Yes), do you support mod_security (didn’t know, but checked), and do you keep your Fantastico up-to-date with the latest versions (Yes)? Support was nice enough, and keep to know what they were talking about. The representative obviously wasn’t reading from a prompt (no delay with answers).

I decided to test the BlueHost support out with some more complicated issues that an average webmaster may run across. I was caller #2, and had to wait about a minute or two. I spoke to a different representative (meaning they have more than one tech on duty, always nice) and asked does BlueHost support PHP5 (they have two servers that do, and can move your account if needed), if they support Ruby on Rails (nope), and if I should use ‘localhost’ as my host name with the script I was trying to install (Yes). I reworded the questions slightly and sent them to BlueHost support via email at 4:50 PM on a Monday. By 5:17 PM, I had a helpful response.

All and all, BlueHost seems like a good web host. The company certainly has their act together and by all means can be labelled as a top quality web host with great features and support.

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