Mail Server Hosting

When i started out making websites, as always is the tendancy i started looking for the cheapest web hosting options on the internet. I checked various websites and my google queries often said “$1/mo web hosting”. I knew there will be people like me looking for cheap web hosting companies and hence there will be cheap web hosting companies around to cater to the market demand of people in need of cheap web hosting; people like me!

While searching, i just typed web hosting on Ebay and viola; there were loads and loads of “cheap” web hosting companies out there. I obviously was happy and was very eager to get my site up and running and hence immidiately paid the money and got my account setup and believe me; that was end of all the happiness. Then after that, i faced a lot of problems like frequent downtimes from 6 hours to 4 days to my site getting hacked and defaced by hackers and many such problems.

Now, open source software come in all sizes and shapes right from the simple wordpress; which is a blogging platform on which this blog is based or to the most complex open source softwares based on which you can build entire social networking sites. So, the spectrum of open source softwares or the open source scripts is large and hence you can understand that the web hosting requirements of the open source software is also very large. Hence, we have to consider the open source software into account before making any generalized conclusions. Having written the above paragraph it is a known fact that the requirements of most open source softwares or scripts are not much and usually come under the shared hosting plans that most web hosting companies give. Most of the open source softwares are either PHP based and a few of them are PERL or CGI based. PHP is offered by any Linux based web hosting plan. Also, PERL and CGI as well as these days Ruby or Rails(RoR) is also offered by many web hosting companies in their standard shared hosting plans.

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