PHP Hosting & Free Joomla Templates

It doesn’t matter whether you have a retail establishment or your business in just something that you do out of your garage or that vacant bedroom, the way to improve the business of your business is to have a presence on the Internet!  That said; let’s take a look at how to go about it.

Many people, when faced with the idea of having a web site, seem to think:

It’s too expensive.  I don’t have the ability.  My business won’t work on the ‘Net.

All of those concerns are valid until you actually take a little bit of time and research them.  Let’s take the concerns last to first.

Enter the type of business you have in the Google search engine.  See how many “hits” that term gets.  There are probably more people looking on the internet for that type of stuff than you obviously thought.  So, it might be a valid place to market what you have!

There are many tutorials out there to show you how to do it.

There are many business web hosting companies for less than $20.00 per month.

Many people have a lot of knowledge about web-hosting, some have a little bit; some have none. What the people who have a lot of it have in common is that they have been saying that PHP hosting is one of the best options in their entire arsenal.

PHP or Hyper Pre Processor is a server-side programming language that will help you to take your web sites into the next level of interactivity and automation. PHP is one of those things that many people have done without for so long that, when they finally get it (it’s free) they do not know how they did get along without it!

It works with all other programming and scripting languages to assist in building some of the most beautiful sites out there. Many of them you see are PHP hosted and more and more are on their way.

A good portion of the Adsense sites are set up in PHP because of the ease in which they can be changed and modified to aid in the modifying for different occasions.

Any web hosting server needs a mechanism to access the server remotely. A large number of UK web hosting companies will provide secure shell access to the server in order to manage the server. There are many ways of accessing a server remotely, a ton of protocols including both command line and GUI based in order to ease the travesty of managing the server. Choosing which mechanism to use to manage the server is as much a personal choice as it is a technology choice. In the Linux world, most people would recommend using SSH while VNC is also getting popular for the Linux newbies. In the Windows world, the remote desktop is the most common way of accessing a Windows server while use of SSH is not unheard of. In addition, depending on the length of the management session the user might decide to choose different mechanisms. An RDP session is likely to take much more bandwidth and hence likely to be much slower than the SSH session. Again, it is a personal preference.

 There are many who would say that there is no question! Of course, you need to know what the answer is first for that to actually be of any use to you, however, a few comments about both of these systems are in order.

Many say that the reason that Windows Hosting is the answer is because this is the system put together by Microsoft, so it must be the best! That is not necessarily the answer because Linux is an open Source product and thus has many people working to get it right and to keep it right.

They both use many of the same programs and scripts and that makes it easy for you. They both use FTP accounts to transfer files, they both utilize PHP and CGI, JavaScript and MySQL databases. These are all very popular so there should not be a big issue on either one.

Linux corners the market on price (free) and the Open Source availability, however, Windows is usually easier to configure! This comes from many of the web hosting review sites that compare the two.