Trying to identify a web host can be a very daunting task especially when there are so many available nowadays and all of them promise one thing or another. Hence, it is crucial that before you jump in, you do your own homework or research for selecting the most appropriate web hosting company for your website.

With the changing trend of technology, web hosts are also changing. Most of them provide various services in addition to their basic ones. Say if you are running an e-commerce website, then of course you need high end security and a medium through which you can manage your web content efficiently. There are many tools that facilitate this, however if your web hosting service is not reliable then you can miss out on serious revenues and prospective clients.

Once you have determined and identified what web hosting services you require for your online business, it is then time to enlist certain web hosting features and options you must consider. You can find below some of the most important aspects of web hosting:

Disk space and bandwidth

You should know how much space your website would need and approximate data it will generate. When we talk about disk space, well, it’s actually the amount of storage assigned to you by the web hosting provider. The bandwidth is the amount of traffic that is allowed to access and leave your website. In case your website has a lot of graphics then you would require higher storage area and greater bandwidth.

Programming tools and the OS

You need to be sure that your website is uploaded through secure servers using the latest Operating System. Most web hosts run on a UNIX based operating system, usually Linux or BSD. For the running of various web applications you would require ASP, .NET, MS SQL, SBS and for these you need a Window based host.

Pricing Aspect

You need to compare pricing before you finalize a web hosting service. Some may provide you better services but at low pricing. It’s not always true that the best hosting services are always the most expensive. Do your research and then finalize.

Support, Security, Guaranteed uptime and Backups

Security and backups are two very important aspects that you need to consider. You should always choose a web hosting service with reliable telephone support. Some also offer 24/7 support through local or toll-free numbers. In case you are running an ecommerce website then security is one aspect that you just cannot discard. Your web hosting service provider should be such that they can monitor things round the clock and ensure no unwanted intruder can hack your site. After all it’s your website and it is really worth looking into this aspect of web hosting.

An IPS TAG is a unique identifier given to each Tag-Holder with Nominet (the registry for all UK domain names). Tag-Holders are the ‘Domain Name Companies‘ that provide domain name registration services. They include specialist domain name companies, hosting companies, ISP’s and others such as web designers. The tag is used to identify the company responsible for the management of a .uk domain. It is a single alpha-numeric sequence, in uppercase, sometimes hyphenated.

If you want a different company to “look after your domain names” you can do this by changing your IPS Tag. For changing the IPS Tag you need to contact the company where you have registered the domain name and ask them to change the TAG to the TAG of your new provider. Some companies will charge a small fee for this change and are reluctant to “let you go” and want reasons for the change. The company you change your domain name to will provide you with their IPS TAG which you need to hand over to the current company, so that they can make the change. The new company might charge a small fee too for transferring a domain name to their business.

The Domain Name System or Servers (DNS), is the way that Internet domain names are located and translated into Internet Protocol addresses. A domain name is a meaningful and easy-to-remember handle for an Internet address. Internet domain names are the names which we use to refer to hosts on the Internet, such as www.webhosting.uk.com while internet protocol addresses are the numbers which routers use to move traffic across the Internet, such as 197.71.123.219 DNS is part of the application layer of the TCP/IP reference model. DNS is implemented using two software components: the DNS server and the DNS client (or resolver).

If you have a domain name with www.123-reg.co.uk, and your webhosting is with www.webhosting.uk.com (for example), the domain name servers would have to be changed to ns1.webhosting.uk.com and ns2.webhosting.uk.com. Your domain name needs to “know” where your website files are. By pointing the DNS to the servers of
webhositng uk, your website will be displayed.

Digg is a popular social bookmarking and content discovery website. Although site management and maintenance is done the website’s paid staff, everything on digg is submitted by the digg user community. These submissions are subject to peer review and are voted upon by other site visitors. The stories receiving enough diggs is posted on the websites front page, for the millions of digg visitors to see. According to Alexa, Digg is one of the most popular websites on the internet, reaching 1 out of every 100 internet users daily.

How to submit stories?

Submitting stories to digg is very easy. To submit stories you have to be a registered member of the digg, once you have registered and signed in, just click on the option submit story and then enter the URL of the story which you would like to submit. Then enter the title of the story with a short description and select the proper category for the story. You are only allowed to digg only original story and not any duplicate entry.

What can you do as a digg user?

Every digg user can digg (help promote), bury (help remove spam), and comment on stories. You can even digg and bury comments you like or dislike. Digg also allows you to track your friends’ activity throughout the site.

A mailserver is a family of programs that answer email automatically. These programs are also called list servers. A good mailserver will be able to filter out spam, and prevent your mailbox from being clogged. A mailserver can be installed on the main Web server, or on a separate server.

It has two programs installed: Sendmail program and POP program

1) Sendmail Program

This program allows the mailserver to process outgoing email. If an email address does not exist, the mailserver will return the mail to the sender.
If the sender sends the mail to a particular email address and if that email address does not exist then the mailserver send the mail back to the sender.
If any technical problem arises during the mail delivery, the mail might be returned back to the sender. In all cases in which mail is returned, it arrives with an explanation or error code. By reading the error code you can determine why the mail failed to reach its destination.

2) POP  Program

The POP (Post Office Protocol) program collects incoming email. As it receives mail, it creates a single text file of accumulated messages for each email address. If the end-user has configured his or her email client to delete mail from the server upon collection, the mailserver’s text file is wiped when the mail is collected. Some people, however, store email on the mailserver. This is not only a privacy concern, but can also lead to malfunctions on the mailserver when text files become too lengthy.

* Who is visiting our Web site * What browsers do they use?
* Where do they go in the site * What pages do they look at?
* How long they stay at our site? etc.

The answers to these questions would be found in  Server log files

A server log is a file (or several files) automatically created and maintained by a server.
Your Web server log files contain much useful information such as :

• Which pages get the most traffic - and the least.
• What sites are referring visitors to you.
• Which pages visitors look at.
• What browsers and operating systems are most popular with visitors.
• When search engine spiders and directory editors visit.

This information often helps webmasters to figure out problems on our web site. Using log file we get detail information of our visitors. Once we know from where we are getting targeted traffic then it becomes easy for us to take necessary steps for maintaining and improving traffic from particular search engine.

The server stores visitor information in files with the .log extension, nearly all of the major Web servers use a common format for this log files. These log files contain information such as the IP address of the remote host, the document that was requested, and a timestamp.

The syntax for each line of a log file is:

site logName fullName [date:time GMToffset] “req file proto” status length

Each of the eleven items listed in the above syntax and example are described in the following list.

• site-either an IP address or the symbolic name of the site making the HTTP request
• logName - login name of the user who owns the account that is making the HTTP request. Most remote sites don’t give out this information for security reasons. If this field is disabled by the host, you see a dash (-) instead of the login name.
• fullName - full name of the user who owns the account that is making the HTTP request. Most remote sites don’t give out this information for security reasons. If this field is disabled by the host, you see a dash (-) instead of the full name. If your server requires a user id in order to fulfill an HTTP request, the user id will be placed in this field.
• Date - date of the HTTP request.
• Time - time of the HTTP request. The time will be presented in 24-hour format.
• GMToffset - signed offset from Greenwich Mean Time. GMT is the international time reference.
• req - HTTP command. For WWW page requests, this field will always start with the GET command.
• file-path and filename of the requested file.
• proto-type of protocol used for the request.
• status-status code generated by the request.
• length-length of requested document.

These data can be combined into a single file, or separated into distinct logs, such as an access log, error log, or referrer log. However, server logs typically do not collect user-specific information.

These files are usually not accessible to general Internet users, only to the webmaster or other administrative person. A statistical analysis of the server log may be used to examine traffic patterns by time of day, day of week, referrer, or user agent.

string dbdriver = “org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver”;

/*== setup database driver and connect ==*/
Class.forName(DBDRIVER).newInstance();
string conurl = “jdbc:mysql://”+dbhost+”/”+dbname;
Connection db = DriverManager.getConnection(conurl,dbuser,dbpass);

/*== create sql query and execute ==*/
string sql = ” SELECT firstname,lastname FROM users “;

Statement stmnt = db.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmnt.executeQuery(sql);
/*== display results ==*/
while (rs.next())
{
out.println(”Name: “+rs.getString(”firstname”)+ ” ” + rs.getString(”lastname”) +”\n”);
}

boolean dcookiefound = false;

Cookie[] cookies = request.getCookies();

for(int nIndex=0;nIndex < cookies.length;nIndex++)
{
if(cookies[nIndex].getName().equals(“MyCookie”))
{
dcookiefound = true;
//desired cookie found, use it
}

}

if(dcookiefound == false)
{
//cookies not found.
}

Fzip is really useful when you want to load many files into your ongoing project such as images for gallery, icons, thumbails btmaps etc

Note that in order to be able to decompress compressed files in a ZIP archive, FZip requires the presence of an Adler32 checksum in addition to the standard CRC32 checksums contained in ZIP archives (this can be readily managed with a few lines of server-side scripting).
FZip was written by Claus Wahlers and Max Herkender
Originally posted by Matteo; For more detail and demo visit these site;

Fzip - http://codeazur.com.br/lab/fzip/
Fzip demo - http://codeazur.com.br/lab/fzip/demo/