Foreign Virtual Host Purchase guide

Foreign virtual host and domestic compared to have a lot of advantages, such as not to record, the price is relatively low, stability, although a little slower from the domestic visit, but it is a low cost to create a good plan for the site. Foreign space is basically based on linux+apache+mysql+php, because PHP has in fact ruled the website design language standards, so the domestic people can also give up the use of ASP.

However, foreign virtual host is still a mixed bag, and even some very famous virtual host vendors are also in the mess, I buy foreign virtual host has been a long time, my Moonlight blog English site in the use of foreign virtual host this time also encountered a variety of previously not thought of the problem, So I will sum up some of the purchase and identification of foreign excellent virtual host methods for your reference.

The principle of the virtual host, is a real host into a lot of "virtual" host, they are completely independent, so that multiple users share a real host of resources, save the user's hardware costs and traffic costs. Usually the price of the virtual host is about 5 to 10 dollars per month, very inexpensive, virtual host for the limited server and network resources to obtain the greatest benefits, then must be violated the interests of users, over sales (overselling) virtual host, therefore, Only a virtual host that recognizes excessive sales (overselling) can select a stable and excellent virtual host.

How to identify an overselling virtual host, I've summed up a few points here:

　　The trick of capacity and flow parameters

Most overselling virtual hosts are playing a number game, less than 10 dollars a month, you can buy large capacity and flow of the host, its capacity and flow parameters are often more than the flow of a server to rent a larger, for example, the use of stand-alone Server Moonlight blog current monthly flow of only 450G, And almost all overselling virtual hosts are claiming to be able to provide more than 1000G per month of traffic, of course, this commitment is always impossible to cash, if you really have a monthly 1000G traffic site, then absolutely can not consider these overselling virtual host, Because when you're not using about 1% of the traffic, usually these virtual hosts will terminate your service on the basis of using too many resources, and the deceived users do not realize that the huge space and traffic are different from the CPU and memory resources used, if you use a lot of traffic, The host business does not use excessive traffic to terminate the service on the basis of using excess CPU and memory resources.

　　The risk of paying by year

Almost all overselling virtual host payment methods are based on the annual payment criteria. Either they only support a yearly payment, do not support monthly payments, or the price of a monthly payment and the price of a yearly payment vary enormously, forcing the user to choose to pay by year. Why do these hosts want to do this? Because their limits on CPU and memory will certainly cause users to be dissatisfied with the purchase of the virtual host, users will definitely terminate the payment to select the host business. If a monthly payment, the user found that the host is slow or poor service, the next month will be able to suspend payment and choose other hosts, for individuals with less risk and no loss. If you pay by the year, you will not get a refund and lose a year's cost. This method is used by the virtual host to force the user to spend a lot of money. Regular and confident hosts, which usually do not engage in overselling, are happy to offer a monthly payment, and the monthly and yearly payments will not vary greatly.

　　Recommend rebate Rewards

Engage in overselling virtual Host in order to expand the user base, will be used in the form of rebate rewards or cash return to promote, that is, users recommend a new host registered users, referrals can be awarded the amount of reward or rebate, similar to the form of MLM. This kind of activity basically belongs to Overselling's virtual host. They do get a large number of users in this form, but their host quality decreases as the user increases.

　　Number of domain names that can be bound

Engage in overselling virtual host to provide almost unrestricted domain name binding, a user can bind a virtual host countless sites, many people like this function. But we need to know that the resources of a single server are limited, the more bound the site, the more resources consumed, the result is that the site's response speed and stability will be reduced, often 500 errors, such as I purchased a virtual host, above even bound to more than 1000 FTP users, such a virtual host can use it? Therefore, the formal virtual host provider to provide 1, 2 domain binding can actually guarantee the interests of most users.

This is my summary of some of the overselling to identify the virtual host of the skills, if you use the WordPress or forum is likely to achieve 10,000 IP access per day, then it is best not to choose overseelling Virtual Host, Because of their CPU limitations, Web site access is extremely unstable. Of course, if you have a lot of small sites, or the site is all HTML format, very little use of PHP and MySQL, it can also choose the overselling of the virtual host, because the pure HTML page consumption CPU is very small, does not produce a large load. Otherwise, it is best to choose a virtual host that restricts traffic rather than limits the CPU.

I recommend a overselling virtual host that is typically priced at 5 to 10 dollars, limiting traffic to 100G per month, and binding 1-2 domain names. This type of parameter is typically a virtual host that does not limit the CPU, and is suitable for those dynamic PHP sites that visit more than 10,000 IPs per day.