My first proper article on my blog!

[Luke Beale]

I have finally posted my first proper article on my blog.

http://www.monetizeguru.com

Its the one about web hosts... feel free to comment on the blog but also comment on it on this topic

Also feel free to digg... stumble, subscribe to feed etc

[Doskono]

I guess I was the first to stumble. Good simple article, I found it a bit basic but it is a good topic to start on. I'll visit you're blog here and there when I see the link in your sig!

[Luke Beale]

Well... I am new to blogging and so I will improve with time

[Nomar]

Originally Posted by Luke Beale

Well... I am new to blogging and so I will improve with time

Very nice Luke! You will improve with time! that's for sure!

[Luke Beale]

Also the post is good for new users and even old ones... I have seen so many users scammed by those hosts that post their deals on forums.

[Nuvo]

It's a good, if simple article.
Two points that could be made are:

Don't only look for hosting in your own country:
If, like me, you live in a country were the money is worth more than planets and there's a tax on everything, it's usually a good idea to buy hosting from America.
Plans in the UK start at about £120 ($235) for 2 years for 5,000MiB of space (not even 5GiB) on a Windows 2003 server (there's cheaper hosting, but paying £30 a year for 500MiB of space and 12GiB of bandwidth isn't going to cut it for busy sites).
Through an American company such as Powweb, you're only paying $130 for 2 years of 1,500GiB of space on Linux servers.
Though you're getting less space, you're getting a more stable server OS, and you're not likely to eat through 1,500GiB of space anyway unless you're doing something like Deviantart, Imageshack or some other resource hosting site, which would probably warrant dedicated servers anyway.

Avoid over sellers with services you don't need:
With the surge in the popularity of frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and Django, some more specialist hosts have popped up.
Because of how these frameworks actually work, these hosts don't tend to put quite as many users on each server.
As Railshosting.org puts it:

At its core, Rails is designed to be served up in a dedicated environment and runs best with cached ruby, models, pages, etc... sitting in memory ready to spit out data to requesting browsers. This is why Mongrel is so dang popular (for good reason!) as well as good ol' FastCGI and SCGI. They make sites load and run faster because they utilize server RAM. So you can see why trying to serve Rails in a huge shared environment is tough: holding hundreds of persistent FastCGI or Mongrel processes in RAM is impossible.

Shared hosting companies usually pull off the Apache/FastCGI stack by simply killing off dispatch.fcgi processes every minute or so and praying that no client actually uses the bandwidth he/she signed up for. Thus, there's no way you can pack as many clients onto a server like you can with PHP/Perl/etc,,. Loads would go nuts. Servers would crash. Clients would not be happy.

Basically, a company like hostingrails.com will have less people on each server as they expect some things to be floating around in memory a lot, but they also support PHP5, Python and Perl, so there's nothing stopping you from using those instead of Rails.

[Luke Beale]

True.
I didn't think to add that but if I ever post more about web hosts I will add some more areas into it.

Thanks

[abuzz]

Isn't blogging awesome?

Good job tho!

[Luke Beale]

Originally Posted by abuzz

Isn't blogging awesome?

Good job tho!

Yeah.

When I thought about doing it before I was like... How can I post loads of articles but once you start... its really fun