Free Miva Merchant Store License from WebNet Hosting
Washington-based dedicated hosting company WebNet Hosting is running a promotion for hosting clients who sign up for a new Miva Hosting account.
New ecommerce clients will get a free Miva Merchant license and a free Miva design template. WebNet Hosting are also offering a free store setup and site transfer from the previous hosting company.
Managed shared Miva Merchant Hosting plans at WebNet start from $24.95 per month. Dedicated Miva Hosting packages starting at $199 per month.
Low Cost UK Dedicated Hosting from PC Smart
UK dedicated hosting provider PC Smart Hosting is offering a great deal just now on Intel Atom Servers.
Hosting specs include Intel Atom 330 HT (4x 1.6GHz), 2GB DDR2 RAM, 250GB SATAII HDD, monthly transfer of up to 500GB, 100Mbit Switchport and 2 fixed IP addresses. Operating system choices include CentOS, FreeBSD, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu.
PC Smart offers next day dedicated hosting setup for orders received before 5pm UK time. Prices start from £40 a month. The UK hosting company offers a 99.9% network uptime guarantee.
Quick Guide to Type of Dedicated Hosting
Sometimes the choices offered by dedicated hosting companies can be confusing, especially if you’re not used to making those types of choices. Here’s a quick guide to the different types dedicated and semi-dedicated hosting out there.
Dedicated Hosting
With dedicated hosting you rent an entire web server for yourself. It’s much more reliable than shared hosting because you have full control over what is installed and the server resources aren’t shared with anyone else.
Dedicated Virtual Hosting
Developed as dedicated hosting low cost solution, Dedicated Virtual Hosting or Dedicated Virtual Server packages give you the power and flexibility of normal dedicated hosting but at a much lower cost through grid hosting. If you have – or are expecting to have – a medium sized site with quite a lot of user activity this could well be a great technical vs. hosting budget solution.
Managed and Unmanaged Hosting
Describing dedicated hosting as managed or unmanaged refers to whether your hosting company will be taking care of server maintenance (managed hosting) or you will (unmanaged hosting). Although unmanaged hosting is the less expensive of the two choices you need to factor in the cost of hiring your own server administrator.
Colocation Dedicated Hosting for SEO
Colocation America has announced low cost dedicated hosting packages for search engine optimization, or SEO.
Designed to help business customers rank better in the search engine results of Google, Yahoo and Bing, Colocation America’s SEO Web Hosting Plans use individual C-class IP addresses for backlink recognition. This spreading of IP addresses over multiple domains adds a boost to the quality of backlinks as well as providing protection from being associated with low quality domains using the same IP address.
Right now, Colocation America has some pretty good dedicated hosting low cost deals, ranging from $99 a month for a Dual Xeon 2.4, 2G Ram server with 2x73GB SCSI Hard drives and 1Mb of Premium Bandwidth on a dedicated 100Mb port through to a $399 a month deal on a Dual Quad Core 2.1 8G RAM server with 2 x 500G SATA drives.
Virtual Servers (VPS Hosting) – Quick and Cheap Dedicated Hosting
Here’s a situation that many site owners find themselves in sooner or later. When they first launch their site, they use inexpensive shared hosting. Then, as their site gets busier or as they get more ambitious about what they want to do with their site – in terms of features or capabilities – they start thinking about moving from shared hosting to dedicated hosting.
Then they hit a problem – there’s quite a jump in cost between a shared server hosting environment and full dedicated hosting. It used to be that the site owner had no choice but to absorb the additional costs. But these days there’s a solution that sits between shared and dedicated servers. It’s call a virtual private server.
Imagine a dedicated server that’s been split into multiple virtual dedicated servers – that’s VPS hosting. The advantage over normal shared hosting is that each VPS user has control over their own CPU, RAM and other system resources – so they’re not harmed if another webmaster manages to bring their site down or is hogging system resources.
And the best bit? It’s usually quite a bit cheaper than normal dedicated hosting.
LCN.com Launches “Best Priced” UK Low Cost Dedicated Hosting
Leading UK web hosting company LCN.com has launched a new range of dedicated servers which the company says offers the best priced Quad Core servers in the UK.
LCN.com currently offers three variations of its low cost dedicated hosting with up to two Quad Core Intel Xeon Processors, 2 x 500 GB RAID1 hard drives, 8 GB of RAM, 16 IP addresses and unlimited data transfer with free reboots. Dedicated hosting low cost package prices start at £44.99 going through to £143.99 a month.
LCN.com is home to over 40,000 UK sites hosted at its recently completed data centre in Hertfordshire.
Dreamhost Offers Low Cost Dedicated Hosting
DreamHost – which has been one of the big players on the low cost hosting market for over a decade – now offers dedicated server hosting.
The hosting is being offered through its recent equity stake in Alchemy Communications, another Los Angeles based collocation and dedicated server provider. Dreamhost customers can take advantage of a special introductory offer on dedicated hosting that includes:
* AMD Opteron 2.2GHz Dual Core Processor
* 4GB Memory
* 250GB SATA Hard Drive
* Bandwidth: 2TB / month Bandwidth
Customers can choose to run CentOS, Debian, FreeBSD, or Ubuntu operating systems on their server. Custom setups also available. The limited introductory low cost dedicated host offer works out to $69 per month with a one year pre-payment.
How to Choose Low Cost Dedicated Hosting
Choosing the right web host for your dedicated hosting package is one of the most important decisions you need to make for your online business. By making an informed hosting choice you can avoid a lot of headaches – not too mention long nights trying to work out what went wrong.
The good news is that these days, with falling server hardware costs, you can find yourself a great dedicated hosting deal that doesn’t cost the earth but still has all the features you need.
If there’s one single piece of advice it would be this: choose a known name. There’s a reason why the big hosting companies are big – they’re good. They’ll give you reliable service at a good price. Low cost dedicated hosting companies with a great reputation include Media Temple, Dreamhost and GoDaddy. There are more, of course, and we’ll be covering them all at Dedicated Hosting Low Cost.
