![]() The questions to help you determine which one you need are beyond the scope of this book, but we will discuss the differences between the two. You will need to determine right away the type of hosting you need, shared or dedicated. The next question is to ask them if they have fuel-contracts and what is the delivery time? What you are asking them is- Can you get these noisy beasts refueled before they run out of fuel? The person you are speaking with may or may not know it, but ask them to find out. Ask them- How long will it run without refueling? This is expressed in hours, such as seventy-two hours or forty-eight hours, and so on. Chances are they will say "we have a generator". One question you may wish to ask when evaluating a host is to ask about their "emergency power". If they cannot offer you this support, then find another host. ![]() Another mark of a good host is 24-7 network monitoring with live personnel.įor instance, if you call them at 2:00 am local time (local to you), they should pick up the phone and be able to address your questions. This is important to understand because if they are down, you are down. One data center the author is familiar with personally, has a fully-redundant network, meaning, if a backhoe were to cut through their data lines leading to the Internet, the hosts would be able to continue their operations through another path. They should be enabled with fire-suppression and protection, water-detection, security personnel, caged and locked access to servers, and more. These facilities should provide a great deal of protection for your website. Most of them can provide you with as much bandwidth and speed as you need, allowing you to buy what you need. Often, they have more than one connection to the Internet. Typically, the hosts are housed in a physically secure facility, and provide emergency power in the form of a generator or other means of battery backed-up power. These are all critical to know if you want to have a successful launch of your Joomla! site. While this book will not be recommending one, we will cover ways to evaluate and learn more about them what the different terms mean, and some important differences between hosts such as "shared" versus "dedicated". If you've spent any time at all searching for a host, you will no doubt have found about eight-bazillion different hosts, each claiming to be the best hosting site on the Web. ![]() In this section, we'll discuss a little about what a host is, and how to select one that will fit the needs of your Joomla! site and your business. Many of these hosts are not the best choices for you, due to the inadequate security models they have set up. Yet the advent of cheap hardware, the demand for growth in the Internet landscape, and the abundance of high-speed software have caused a glut of cheap hosting. In those days, I met with several hosting companies in my career and they were running very well, in fact, most of them are still running quite well. One interesting type of business that rose up to support the growth was hosting companies. Some like eBay and Amazon, survived the "dot-bomb" days, as did others. The Internet enabled the clicks and bricks strategy of taking traditional businesses to the Web or even an 'Internet' only business. In the "dot-bomb" days, everyone had an idea for the next Million Dollar deal. So let's take a detailed look at the following: The intent of this chapter is to get you prepared to have a good, solid setup before you go live. And lastly, we'll establish the permission settings of various files and folders. Once you install it, you will need to check a few key settings. You will need to ensure that your copy of Joomla! is original and not compromised. While Joomla! itself is inherently safe but misconfigurations of the CMS, vulnerable components, hosts that are poorly configured, and weak passwords can all contribute to the downfall of your site. He or she is merely a target to be taken down. He or she is not a specialist in security, either good security or bad security. An ordinary user, who wants a powerful and yet an easy-to-set-up website might choose Joomla!. Every day the "bad-guys" are out pacing the good guys-and for a good reason. They exist on the Web, which is one of the most lawless places on the planet. This highly versatile software has found itself in such lofty places as large corporate web portals, and humble places such as the simple blog.Īll of these share a common thread. You can install it on almost any host, running Linux or Windows. This ease of use has lent itself to rapid growth of both the CMS and extensions for it. Joomla!, a very popular Content Management System (CMS), is as you may know an easy-to-deploy-and-use content management system.
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