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Same as other business the ISP provider industry is fluctuate, sometimes get a big profit but not a few of them get closed. An so it’s with their service quality, some of them always give a good service but few of them have decreased their service level. What can you do when your ISP provider’s service level has decreased or even the provider has just closed shop? Don’t worry, all you have to do is switch or move to a new ISP provider. When you know how these ISP provider services work, then moving over to a new ISP provider will not be bad as you think. All it takes is having a contingency plan.

There’re two components to the internet ISP services including the physical network connection to your SOHO or small office and the connection to network services that allow you to retrieve email or look at a website. No matter the SOHO businesses are big or small, most of them would have network integration that also called Wide Area Network (WAN). The connection via the network allow you to connet to the internet physically to look at website pages, manage an email account, use your email account or even use the instant messaging. (more…)

When you want to access the internet you need connections that connect your computer and the internet. The ISP service can provide this connection access but some of them ask you to pay for their service. It can be crucial when choosing the ISP service and base on experience the rule is to pay for their services as you only need. Commonly the website for small business, that composed of four to seven pages, could use a virtual hosting service with multiple email addresses, T3 connection and cgi-bin access from the internet for only $19 to $27 monthly.

Most of the small businesses use the managed hosting server packages that could range from $3.95 per month to $20 per month. As I talk in previous post, these type of hosting packages equipped with all the administrative support you required and the only thing that you should to worry is the development of your website. To load your website to the internet you are given a FTP client that you can use to upload any file to the web server. (more…)

After talking about web hosting service now let’s talk about domain name. What is domain name? For you who have been familiar with internet may already know the answer, but for some people who new on the internet may get confuse with the term of domain name. The computer or web page on the internet addressed by an IP number. It’s difficult to remember an IP number so that a domain used as a name which identifies IP addresses on the internet. As example Yahoo.com domain name represents about 15 (fifteen) IP addresses. Web pages also use domain names to identify them. For example, in URL http://www.umsitemanager.com/index.php, umsitemanager is the domain name.

When you want to own a domain name you can use a domain name registrar services to register your domain name. There are regulation on the domain name industry that overseen and regulated by ICANN. ICANN is an organization that responsible in providing procedures and standards for certifying domain name registrars Companies.

Over the years the domain name registration has grown. The first domain name registrar was Network Solutions that ever provide such service. But that was over ten years ago and today there are hug accredited registrars all over the world. (more…)