Importance of Disk Space and Bandwidth In Hosting (Part II)

domain name web hosting Importance of Disk Space and Bandwidth In Hosting (Part II)

After talking on disk space in last part, here we will talk about the  bandwidth factors that you must consider. Like if you provide the downloadable products on your Web site, you will need good amount of bandwidth. You will need to measure the data transfer monthly because you will not like to disappoint your Web site visitors or your current customers and potential users.

So if you buy enough bandwidth, you will never see problems like “you exceed the bandwidth limit.” Many people ignore the important factor and then face such kind of problems with their website hosting.

But if you ask “Why the factors are so important for online business?

The answer is very simple.

For example : As if there is the festival season, demand for products increases widely and Website will get heavy web traffic than any other month, so within that period you require a large amount of disk space and bandwidth for best performance. You can even pay for each year, quarterly, or monthly, and most of the website hosting providers offer similar facilities where you can purchase additional disk space and bandwidth to suit your needs, so this can be considered as a good way for better savings.

Keep Reading : Importance of Disk Space and Bandwidth In Hosting (Part I)

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This post was written by MATIC Actuators on July 2, 2010

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Website Backup With cPanel

As a webmaster you must always take care that you a have backup of your website which can be used in worst cases like server failure or if your website hosting account is hacked and your site has been completely modified. Thus having backup of your site will help you to restore your website as like before.

If you are on Linux website hosting package having cpanel as control panel then you can easily take backup of your website including site content, files and MySQL databases by following the steps, mentioned below.

cpanel backup icon Website Backup With cPanel

  • Login to your control panel.
  • Under “Account Overview”, click on “Backups” icons.
  • You will see several options like Download Full Backup, Home Directory Backp, MySQL Backup. You will need to choose any of this option as per your requirement.
  • Select the destination where you wish to save this backup copy from the drop box next to Backup Destination.
  • You need to provide email address in the field next to Email Address. You will receive an email when the backup is completed.
  • Click on Generate Backup to start the backup process.

You are done and you are having the latest backup of your website, you should try to get backup of your site as frequent as possible which will help you to restore your site in case of failures.

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This post was written by MATIC Actuators on April 5, 2010

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