Posts from — July 2008

Every businesses understand the frustration when your workstations break down, it stop work production and can drastically affects business revenues. Effective communication with your customers is badly affected. When such happened, it is time for you to consider taking up a preventive maintenance contract by outsourcing your IT support to a third party vendor. [Read more →]

3d package is a 3d-box graphic generator. 3d package lets you instantly create 3d-box images online, free!

Just upload pictures for cover and sides and then get 3d-box in you favorite image format (JPG, GIF, PNG supported). Useful for web site design requires professional product images in boxes.

Swift Mailer is a feature-rich PHP mailer library for sending e-mails from PHP websites and applications.Mail IconIt does not rely on PHP’s native mail() class which consumes high resources. Instead, Swift communicates directly with an SMTP server or a MTA binary to send mail quickly and efficiently.

Swift supports event-driven plugins which offer you the opportunity to really take control of the library and set this mailer apart from everything else that’s out there.

For HostSG email hosting customers, you can consider using Swift Mailer for your PHP email form function.

The user’s actual perceptive of time to migrate onto a dedicated server includes several variables and requires him/her to respond a range of questions. Despite of the fact that dedicated servers are supreme because of the reason that only user and his/her business will be exploiting them, they are costly as well as needs someone to manage them, which asks additional money. One should calculate all the factors before marching to make further plans. Given next are the key aspects that one should keep in mind. Key factors:

1. Affordability
A primary and foremost question arises is whether or not the dedicated server chosen by the user is affordable or not. One is required to do some sort of calculation to see the outline of how much a dedicated server costs, also to know how much the user is required to pay for an administrator or rather can say for a fully managed dedicated server. These can cost high, especially if the user do not possess a large budget. One should make sure that his/her budget permits a dedicated server before searching for it.

2. Managed or Unmanaged

Second aspect to consider is that, is the user requires a managed dedicated server or unmanaged dedicated server. If one is well equipped with knowledge and knows how to manage it by his/her own, in that case he/she can opt for unmanaged server, however if it is not the case then managed server is the choice. One should keep it in mind early before lamenting due to over budget because that’s too late.

3. Requirement of additional space and bandwidth
Is the user really in requirement of space and bandwidth which a personal server provides? In a condition when web pages are loading rather quickly and the user still possess an ample amount of space on a shared server; then the user should consider why he/she need to invest in a dedicated server. If space and bandwidth are in the requirement then one should do it, however if user don’t have any sensitive information then it is useless to waste money.

4. Presence of Sensitive Files

Why individuals want dedicated servers? The answer is that they only hold that person’s information, instead of variety of peoples and businesses. So, if a user possesses ultra sensitive information he/she cannot take the chance. Probably it may get stolen; a dedicated server is no doubt an ideal choice in this case.

5. Requirement of tools and options
If the user possess his/her own dedicated server then it means that he/she definitely got the passport of having a variety of tools and options on the fingertips which he/she cant get if he/she is not having shared server. There are no restrictions with a dedicated server because it is totally of user, so the user can do whatever he/she wishes to do. The only factor that the user needs to consider is that he/she should not ignore the increasing budget size.

HostSG have been providing fully managed dedicated server service to more than 20 MNCs and government organisation in Singapore. Our servers are hosted in Singtel datacentre.

Once you decide to create an Internet presense that will require a web site and web hosting, it is key to figure out the types of resources you will need. This determination can make sure that you are not overpaying for service, paying for features you won’t be using, or worse yet, paying extra for functionality that you required but failed to check on.What type of web site are you building?

This is a key question. Are you going to use the web site for an e-commerce business, as a hobby site writing about your interests, will the site be static or interactive, used as a blog or online forum, or a site that will provide information and generate revenues? If you will be running an e-commerce site you will need to find an online payment system, you might need to have your web host support the secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption, and you should inquire whether they provide any shopping carts like MIVA merchant. If you will be developing custom e-commerce software, it is essential to make sure that you know the web hosting environment to ensure that your software will work on their systems. A blog or a online forums site will most likely require PHP or Perl/CGI scripting and in most cases access to a database system like MySQL, PostgreSQL or Microsoft’s SQL Server.

How much storage space would you need?

If you are running a small, static website, you don’t require a very large amount of storage space. On the other hand, an extensive information or e-commerce site with thousands of web pages and images or a large online forum would require much more data storage. In many cases, the databases are given their own seperate storage limit and could cause problems since 100 megabytes of data capacity may not always equal 100 megabytes of database capacity.

How much bandwidth would you need?

After storage capacity, bandwidth is the next most hyped web hosting feature. If your average webpage (html code + graphics) is 5KB, and you receive an average of 100 hits per day, you can easily see that you are using up (5 x 100) 500 KB of bandwidth a day. Multiply this number by 30 and you have an average monthly figure. It is essential that before you sign up for any web hosting service, you put some thought into how big your web site will be, how popular the category is, and what type of service you will be providing. For example, oneline discussion forums use up a lot more bandwidth than any other type of website because users usually stay on for longer time as they read posts or contribute, and there is a much higher rate of repeat visitors who come back to read new messages, etc. Therefore, your bandwidth needs should be considered prior to signing up for a hosting plan.

What hosting features will you need?

A plain vanilla HTML based website requires different resources compared to a PHP/CGI/ASP based site that uses a database, special image libraries, and custom programming. So if you are developing anything more than an HTML web site that will require custom programming work or uses any type of scripting language, make sure the web host supports these standards and needed features. Often, web hosting companies list everything they offer up front, but if you have questions, make sure you ask. Apart from programming languages, you might need special access to your website, say through FTP or Telnet. Just about every paid web host allows FTP (File Transfer Protocol) access to your website, but Telnet or SSH access is more rare or might cost more. Same with mail, just about every web host will provide SMTP/ POP3 and web based access to email. If you require IMAP or say a secure access protocol, check with the web hosting provider.

For a start, individual can consider HostSG budget web hosting which offers basically everything you need to start an online presence, web site or even a personal blog. For businesses and organisations, you can look into HostSG Business web hosting plan which provide unmatched uptime guarantee services and unmetered bandwidth transfer. When your targetted audience is Singapore, a Singapore Web Hosting plan is essential as you have local support from a Singapore company.

For many web designers, sometimes we want to know what is the font use on a media, brochure, web site or even customer’s logo design. Fret no further, you can simply know the font just by uploading the scanned image.

What The Font is a free service by MyFonts which lets you upload an image, scans a large font database and gives you the font name as a result.

For the web designer who prefer to design their web site in flash -  Please try the FameID menu which uses XML to store the data, almost every setting is configurable and has a submenu feature which is kinda unique. Some of our Singapore Web Designer friends have tried this fantastic menu and it is hassle free and very easy to use.

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Web hosting is the service to host your web pages at a server connected to internet. It´s a file server which serves the clients “web surfers” with webpages and other files such as movies, pictures etc.There are free webhosting and paid ones. Domain hosting includes to option to use your own internet domain name. Subdomain hosting is when you get some name like yourname.hosting.com

For business and personal web hosting, HostSG is the premier provider to more than 20,000 web site. From budget web hosting for individual to enterprise level hosting for large organisation and businesses, HostSG can meet customer expectation and deliver on time.