VPS Hosting sounds like a good idea, all of the conveniences of a dedicated server, but only a fraction of the cost.

But why would you want a VPS, if you are not sharing the server with anyone, the cost of a good control panel, installatron/softaculous and backup space all adds up, and then how much CPU and RAM are you getting for your money.

VPS’s are very useful if you have some seriously intensive jobs that you don’t wouldn’t be allowed to run on Shared hosting, such as running your own search engine, because these processes never end and will use all available resources.

If however you websites uses resources only when it is visited and you have a moderate number of visitors, your website will probably run a lot faster on our performance SEO hosting platform.

No VPS hosting service will offer you 32GB of RAM, 13.8Ghz of CPU, and one of 12 European locations, starting from just £2.50 a month.

A reseller account will give you the greater majority of the functionality and give you access to larger resources when your visitors come calling. It’s more cost effective as the burden of cost is shared between you and other customers.

No VPS reseller will offer you up to 10 UK IPs guaranteeded to be on different Class C Subnets, or the ability to host from 12 different European Coutries from a single hosting account. (Of course you can buy any number of dedicated IPs, but these cannot be guaranteed to be on different subnets).

Have you decided what is more flexible for running your SEO campaigns?

Our Fast, Reliable, Reseller Hosting accounts come with a standard shared UK IP, but will allow you to have upto 10 her furtUK SEO IPs on different Class C Networks.

If you want to go one step further, you can purchase a European GEO IPs from 11 other Eurpean Countries (Max 1 from each country), each country connected by a fast Eurpean Backbone.

The European Zones and types of hosting are listed below.

We believe that this offering sets us apart of the rest of the hosting pack. Not only are our servers higher spec’d & therefore faster, they come packed with Euro and UK IPs of different Class C subnets, giving your link building a greater chance for SEO success!

WordPress is one of the best SEO enabled CMS/Blogging scripts available, so it’s not surprising that a great many of our customers choose this system to run their websites, but if you’ve just moved host what is the easiest and quickest way to import them?

Well there are a couple quick methods.

1)      If you wordpress blog was installed by Installatron or Softaculous, you can use use these tools to make a backup and then just restore the backup to your new host.

2)      If the old and new Host have the same Control Panel, i.e. DirectAdmin, cPanel or Plesk, then you can use this tool to backup and restore your domain.

Failing these options you will have to do it the hard way.

1)      Take a copy of your HTML/PHP and your MySQL dump.

2)      Upload the HTML/PHP code into your hosts webspace.

3)      Create a new MySQL database from the dump you took earlier.

4)      Use your hosts phpMyAdmin to search for the old file structure.

i.e.

Plesk: /var/www/vhosts/<domain>/httpdocs

cPanel: /home/<user>/public_html

DirectAdmin: /home/<user>/domains/<domain>/public_html

5)      Once you have found the guilty tables, you can run some update queries like the following

UPDATE wp_options

SET option_value = replace ( option_value, “/var/www/vhosts/<domain>/httpdocs”, “/home/<user>/domains/<domain>/public_html”);

The above query may be to be altered slightly for a few tables in the database, but once this is done you should be OK.

If you have any poor plugins that contain hardcoded paths, you can run a simple search from your command line shell like.

$ find . –type f –exec grep –il “<old_path>” {} \;

This should reveal all of the files that need editing, or if you are brave you could run the following

$ for i in $( find . –type f –exec grep –il “<old_path>” {} \;)
do
sed ‘s/<old_path>/<new_path>/g’ < ${i} > /tmp/tmpfile
cat /tmp/tmpfile > ${i}
done

(If are you going to be this brave, make sure that you still have those backups to hand.)

What size hosting package would a small company need?

A relatively small company with under 10 employees who regularly check their emails, with a basic website/blog should need no more than 1GB of disk space. A fairly large website can be written in under 50MB, with lots and lots of photos etc, maybe 100MB, leaving plenty of space to store incoming emails.

What package would suite my small business?

Unless you are a webdesign company, even our smallest package, “Starter Hosting” should be sufficient, and starts at only£2.50 per month if bought anually.

This packages comes with everything you need. Easy email setup, with forwarders (allowing you to forward email to other accounts if necessary), auto-responders (allowing you to notify your client instantly that their email has been received) and Vacation Messages (for those out of office times).

Easy website installation. If you want a wordpress, drupal, joomla website etc, choose either of our script installers (installatron or softaculous) to install and maintain your website for you!

You can choose to host a website out of many European Locations if your business sells overseas.

This really is a great value, flexible, package!

How much RAM do other hosting companies offer on their shared and reseller servers?

eHosting.com -> 2GB

Heart Internet -> 8GB RAM

UK2 -> 8GB RAM

UnixGuru Hosting-> 32GB RAM

Spend a little time researching the server specifications before you sign up for your shared or reseller web hosting package.