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Bandwidth Bandits

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Files that are loaded to or from servers uses internet bandwidth to push files along the network at various speeds. Every time you upload a file to your ISP, surf the web or use an audio application, you are using bandwidth.?

Bandwidth is a bunch of wires or fibers connecting servers to a network. Depending on the grade of the wire it determines how much data is coming across the network where your web-site is hosted. When someone attempts to get more data than can be handled by the network, the whole network slows down.

ISP’s can put a limitation on bandwidth at certain times during peak periods or charge you a flat fee per month for bandwidth usage. If you go over the flat fee, then they charge you extra for using extra bandwidth. Some ISP’s will shut down the transmissions until traffic is more stable on the network.

You can load most files (images, sound files, videos and flash scripts and other programs) in your web site. This excludes, of course, banners and pop ups and specific documents and images which are supposed to be loaded from a central server.?

Bandwidth bandits link to images and other files directly to some other server instead of putting them on their local server. There are various reasons as to why they do this but one reason is to get as much bandwidth as possible to show their links and images.
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There’s certain ways that you can stop the person from stealing your bandwidth allocation. If they have an email, I would contact them personally or go through Network Solutions and do an IP lookup which will give you information on the person and who the site is registered to. You can always get in touch with the company that hosts their site too.

Bandwidth can be expensive and the last thing that you want is someone stealing it.

Templates for Online Shop Website Hosting

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

Building a professional website can be very difficult. Online shop website design is really a complex task. To cut online shop web site development time, many ecommerce web hosting providers start offering ecommerce web hosting solution with templates.

Whether you’re looking for a simple catalog style web site or a complex online shop ecommerce solution, the chances are that you may be able to find some web templates from your hosting services provider. A simple web template may cost only as little as $20 dollars, but a professional designed online store website may cost a few hundreds or even more. The cost of web templates is still cheap comparing to design the online store website  yourself. Most of Web designers will charge from $50 to $150 per hour. If you want to check out some well designed online store templates, go to www.ecommercetemplates.com.

Apart from the requirements of normal web hosting plans, Website templates for online store needs a shopping cart that supports online catalog and online payment processing such as Pay Pal. Website templates for online store often include standard pages and navigations for online shopping - searching or browsing items, adding items to shopping carts and making payment. The templates for online store do not contain or link to any specific shopping cart. It’s up to the web master to add shopping cart to the site.

Another online store hosting to web site templates is online store turnkey solution. EBay, Amazon and Yahoo are the most popular turnkey ecommerce solutions for small to medium businesses that want to setup online stores easily. Different hosting package may have different structures. The expense of each hosting packages often various on transaction capacity.

When comparing functionality, there’re many things you should be aware: 1) whether a online store accepts credit card or debit card.  2) Whether there’s a limit on the number of items and categories that you can sell; 3) whether it automatically sends out a notification message once an order is placed at your online shop.

When looking at the cost of online shop, you should ask questions about 1) Is there a monthly fee for transactions; 2) is there’s a setup cost for a new online shop; 3) how about handling taxes?; 4) how much it cost for one transaction.

Discuss with your web hosting provider on online store solution and find out the best package to go with.

 

Building Inspection, Leaky Home Inspection Specialist

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

If you are constructing a new building you will need to arrange for an building inspection of the work at some or all of the following stages, or as relevant to your project:

Once you have obtained a building consent and have started building, inspections are carried out during various stages of the process to ensure that each stage of your project complies with the building consent and the Building Code.

Home inspections required for additions or alterations to your property will depend on the type, size and scope of the work you are doing and will include some of the checks as per inspections for a new building.