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Planning to sell ideas, services or products through a well-designed website? Do you need proselytise visitors or customers of other websites into your website? Then, you must need a website hosting server that could efficiently enhance the speed of uploading and downloading of web-pages. Again, before choosing a host server, you need to know that programming languages have deciding authority over whether Linux hosting server will be the best suited or the Windows hosting server.

Props For Choosing A Server: Only the new entrepreneurs may muddle up the nuances between a Linux Hosting Server and a Windows Hosting Server. One should know that a Linux hosting server will be the best choice for those websites which are designed with the programming languages such as PHP, MY SQL, etc., when a Windows hosting server will be the best suited for websites which are generated with the programming languages such as ASP, ASP.NET, MS SQL, or MS Access. A web hosting server should have the offer of the facility of tracking visitors to a website, chatting facility, email accounts opening facility, highly secured check out facility with due authorization of secured payment gateway support.

Props For Linux Server: There are a number of Linux server providers worldwide. Their offers vary from one to another or sometimes vie among themselves feigning for offering the best services. As there are no dearth of providers across the world, so choosers about here must not be the beggars. One needs to weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of the packages, if any, and bargain with the service providers so as to let them accede to one's demands.

Anyway, the priority should be given while choosing the best Linux Server provider to the features as to how much strong public bandwidth is being provided so that host of visitors can see a particular website open at a go as soon as they try, or how much data security (File Transfer Protocol) on part of website owners and also of website customers is being provided, or how much space is being provided. For instance, the standard public bandwidth and registered ECC RAM should be 1500GB and 1GB respectively. It is also to be noted that Linux server can provide ultimate data protection against any kind of hacking.

Props For A Windows Web Hosting Server: Hosting a website on Windows Server will be a good idea for those websites whose HTML or formatting codes such as Java Script, CSS, PHP, Perl allow them only corroborate with Windows Server. Here also, everyone needs to look for the best website data transfer security, the quality speed for letting a website open in no time however number of traffic is trying to log in at the same moment, or the space the server is providing for a website.

Kinds Of Websites: Activity defines the classification of a website. There are two kinds of websites in general. They are Personal Website and Company Website. As the very names of the types signify, their activity also differs accordingly. It is seen that Personal Websites generally consist of 8 (variable) web pages with customized look and proper W3C validation when Commercial Websites may have 20 (variable) web pages with customized look and due W3C validation and sometimes with a flash header. Whatever class of a website may be, it must need a quality server with due file transfer protocol.

Props For Choosing Extension: One may have seen domain name with extension that we call URL. Domain names with proper extension help visitors recognize the motto of a website, country of a website and its activity area, global presence, or in short help to classify a website whether it is personal website or commercial one. To be more precise, when one uses dot com extension with one's domain name, one aims at propagating the facts that the website is solely for business purposes. Again, when dot org is being used with the domain name of a website, that website has an organizational purpose in it without any advantage of doing business. A website which has a domain name with dot co dot UK extension can be easily recognized its location of operational origin. So, choosing an extension should be very careful although the task is very jejune and web hosting companies are ready to extend help in this case. The best one must be chosen to reap maximum response.

Valid SSL Certificate: SSL or Secure Sockets Layer is deemed to be a computing shield protecting the data sent by medium of Internet by using encryption. Due to a widespread apprehensions regarding possibilities of personal and banking data leaks, visitors shy away from entering any details provided they are much and solely convinced that their details are top secured. This top security can only be provided with SSL validation. One of such SSL digital certificate providers is Thawate, a Verisign Company which is also the oldest one in this world. A website that has SSL security can earn the trust of users. So, a company website or any personal venture can expect realize objectives gradually and smoothly.