Web Hosting:

What is Web Hosting?

Web hosting is simply the allocation of your website on a web server that is connected through the internet. In another words, web hosting allows your website to be connected to the Internet at high speed via a web server so its information can be viewed globally through a browser. Because the nature of the Internet allows anyone from anywhere connected through an internet computer to view your site, your web server must be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
How is this possible when owning and maintaining a Web server can be very expensive, as well as technically intensive? This is where a Web hosting Provider comes into the picture to provide you with the hardware and software that allow this to take place at an affordable cost. In order for a web hosting provider to offer you hosting service, the provider usually needs to configured a high speed network infrastructure and connected to internet backbones. These internet backbones are long-haul backbone fiber connections capable of transmitting data at extremely high speed.

Shared and Dedicated Hosting:
These two terms are widely used on the internet to describe the services that a web hosting provider can offer you. Shared hosting is multiple web sites residing on a single server/computer. Shared hosting is sometimes referred to as virtual servers, and definitely cheaper than dedicated host, because your site is residing on a server that also hosts other websites. A normal web server usually can accommodate up to 250 websites. On the other hand, a dedicated server is a computer that hosts only your site. Dedicated servers provide more hard-drive space and greater autonomy and flexibility, including choice of software, operating systems, and database management systems.
To choose between a shared and a dedicated host depends on the volume of traffic to your site and the amount of control and flexibility that you want on your hosting account. In a shared environment, other sites on the same server that you host are competing to use the server resources, and if your site has high traffic, it is wise that you switch to a dedicated server that can serve your web users faster without sacrificing any other hosts.
However, if you are fairly new to web hosting with a limited budget, shared hosting is the recommended solution for your site. The primary advantage in choosing a virtual server over a dedicated server is significant savings in setup and operating costs.

How important is your web host to your business?
Over the last few months we talked to several customers who were having problems with their web hosts. We talk about major business and money losing problems!
Problems like the web hosting companies going out of business and leaving the customers in the lurch. Problems like their sites being inaccessible 20% of the time because the web host kept selling out the space. Problems like having their web sites hacked because there were NO security precautions in place.
And these are only some of the problems customers have come up against. The bottom line is … You cannot afford to do business with a bad web hosting company!! It will cost you clients. It will cost you revenue. It will cost you your credibility. And finally, it will give you massive migraine headaches!
If you have a web based business, like it or not, your web host is your business partner. The choice you make as to who your business partner will be is critical to your success because if they stumble along, giving you less than optimal performance (sometimes far less than optimal!), guess what? It cripples your business.
When you have an Internet business, your most important partner is your web site host. Trust us.
Assuming you've got a business domain (or are about to take the plunge and get one) you need a reliable web host.
The trick is finding one! And the trick to finding a good web site host is in knowing what to look for.
So, what should you look for?
Service, service, service. Service is so critical to your business. Say you have been working away on a fantastic sales letter and you are now ready to post it to your web site so you can test it the next day. You run into a snag and need help from your web site host. The problem is, it's 10PM and they are not open until 9AM the next morning! So you cool your heels until 9AM and then … busy signal! Talk about feeling frustrated! You've now had to put off your urgent project, not once - but twice!
Security. Do you have any idea how much damage a hacker can do to your site? Imagine the impact on your business if a hacker could worm their way into your system and shut you down... or if the wrong people broke into your client files and stole confidential credit card numbers! This is the stuff nightmares are made of!
The problem is that many of the smaller web hosting companies (and even some of the larger ones) don't pay attention to security. They don't have the resources or the personnel … but then again, neither do you! You want to spend your time marketing your products or services and providing great service to your customers … not becoming a security expert.
You need to look for a web hosting company that has all the big security issues worked out so that people can't hack into your web site and do terrible things to your information. Your web host should be on top of the latest techniques that hackers are using and they should have protection in place to combat security problems and issues.

Fast connection times. How important it is to have quick loading web pages. But even the quickest loading pages are affected by the level of "connectivity" that your web site host has to the Internet. If your visitors have to wait 30 seconds for a page to load, you have a problem … no customer! Why? Because on the Internet, 30 seconds feels like 30 minutes, and we live in a very impatient world!

Extra Services. Some web hosting companies appear to be a good deal on the surface. That is, until you sign up with them and start finding out they charge for every little extra service. Things like your own POP mailbox, email aliases, an auto responder, CGI scripts and bins. This is when a deal is definitely NOT a deal. Any web host you look at should, at the very least, give you a few CGI scripts and your own mailbox!
Now that we've examined some of the things you should be looking for in a web host, let's look at some of the options we have available to you:

Why I Must Choose JOINNET To Host My Web Site?
Well … for all the reasons we have listed above and MORE!
-First of all, our service is impeccable! We take great pride in letting people know that we are available to help 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
-Uptime is 99.98%. This is at the very top of the Web hosting industry. You don't have to worry about your web site being down for hours or even days at a time! ·
-We have fast connectivity (which means your web pages will load faster).
-Our customer satisfaction ratings are second to none!
-Full security, so you will not worry about your web site or your database.
-ASP.
-CGI script.
-Perl script.
-PHP.
-Web Site Stats.
-Backup.
-SQL Database
-My SQL.
-MS Access.
-ODBC.
-ASPMail.
-W3Jmail.
….and more.

For more details contact us at sales@joinnet.com.jo or please use the CallBack feature to discuss your requirements in person with our consultants. We'll get back to you ASAP.