The first brick that lays the foundation of the pillar of your online presence is a domain name. When we talk about domains, it becomes important to mention top-level domain names (TLDs).

TLDs contribute considerably in the structuring of Internet. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, manages the creation of TLDs, which are operated by different registries. Each registry, like us, pays a fee to ICANN for getting the rights to operate TLDs.

Dot Com (.com)

The ‘.com’ TLD is the king of the jungle of TLDs since 1994. Nearly everyone, from individuals & SMBs to big corporate houses, who steps on the Web wishes to grab a ‘.com’ TLD at the first instance since it stands for ‘Commercial’. It reflects that the site is for commercial purpose. However, now this domain extension has become more or less a ‘defacto extension’ used by almost everyone.

Dot Net (.net)

The ‘.net’ TLD stands for ‘Network’. This is one of the original TLDs mostly used by Internet-specific providers /businesses, such as social networking websites, SEO, web hosting etc. It’s the one of the most coveted domain extensions after ‘.com’.

Dot Info (.info)

The ‘.info’ TLD stands for ‘Information’. This TLD is mostly used by information & resource-based websites, which are not involved in commercial activities. This domain extension can be used for lead generation, knowledge sharing and community building. You can use this TLD for providing information to reinforce your brand.

Dot Org (.org)

The ‘.org’ TLD stands for ‘Organization’. This domain extension is mostly used by non-commercial & non-profit organizations. This TLD can also be used for building your community & leveraging your branding endeavors to win over your potential customers.

Dot Biz (.biz)

The ‘.biz’ TLD stands for ‘Business’. This domain extension, originally created in 2001, is mostly preferred for creating business websites. This open TLD is exclusively for “bona fide business or commercial use”, and has an immense sales pitch.

Dot Name (.name)

The ‘.name’ TLD stands for ‘Name’. This domain extension, originally introduced in 2001, is mostly used by individuals, who use this domain extension to represent their real names, fictional names, display names, nicknames, pseudonyms etc. These days, this domain extension is being popularly used as a web address for Digital Identity applications.

Dot Mobi (.mobi)

The .mobi’ TLD stands for ‘Mobile’. This domain extension, created in 2005 but available for public registration since 26 September 2006, must be used for all mobile-compatible sites as per the standards. This TLD is financially supported by biggies such as Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, Ericsson, Vodafone etc.

Dot Tv (.tv)

The ‘.tv’ is a country code top level domain (ccTLD), introduced in 1996 for the islands of Tuvalu. Its intended use is for all entities related to Tuvalu, whereas it’s promoted commercially for television/video sites. However, it can be registered for any purpose by anyone.

Dot Me (.me)

The ‘.me’ TLD is yet again a country code top level domain (ccTLD) introduced in 2007 for Montenegro. This domain extension is being promoted adequately for its global use, and become more like a personal name space. It can be registered for any purpose on the Web. However, it’s being marketed on the Web by the registrars as ‘.ME domains all about you’.

Dot Cc (.cc)

The ‘.cc’ TLD is also a country code top level domain for Cocos Islands, Australia. It was introduced in 1997, and administered by VeriSign as the ‘the next .com’. This domain extension is put to different assortment of sites, some of them especially referring to Cocos Islands.

It is expected that a dramatic change in the creation of new TLDs would be observed in 2010. We hope that many more new TLDs would flow in the New Year on the Internet as well and we shall be able to offer you more of such TLDs.

Currently, LimeDomains is offering 10 major TLDs to its users at mostaffordable prices in the market. Register yours now!

Countless web hosting sites have surfaced on the World Wide Web.  And so have countless web hosting offers & countless myths! It’s time to cut through delusions & know the truth about web hosting; shared hosting in particular in this post.

Here are some common myths related to Shared web hosting, which no longer hold true.

Myth#: That Shared hosting is a victim of “bad neighborhood” problem

It’s a common belief that as hundreds of websites are sharing the common server space in shared web hosting, your site might suffer from slow speed if any of the bad neighbors (websites) is consuming lots of RAM/disk IO/memory/network etc.

Fact—Most of the good web hosting providers have been able to minimize this problem to a great extent with their quick action & considerable monitoring of the server. A good provider aims to keep its server in a healthy state by keeping a constant vigil on its online resources. If any intricacies crop up on the server, it takes the necessary action to resolve the issues and send an alert to all the website owners. As a result, the ‘bad neighborhood’ problem is no more a serious concern.

Myth#: That Shared hosting is non-flexible

It’s a common perception that shared hosting is not flexible, and not many latest software can be run on the shared server.

Fact—Shared web hosting is flexible. A good shared web hosting provider would allow you to successfully install and run any software provided it adheres to its AUP (acceptable use policy) & does not consume a lot of available resources on the server. It also fetches you all the required tools using which you can install the software in the home directory of your website & are not supposed to reboot your system to run the same.

Myth#: That Shared hosting is NOT up-to-date

It’s commonly believed that shared hosting does not entail the latest developments & resources in the web hosting business.

Fact—A good modern shared web host equips its users with all the advanced tools, applications & resources besides updating its repository with new tools from time to time. So, when you purchase a shared web hosting plan keep aside all the fears & go ahead confidently hosting your site on a shared web server.

Myth#: That Shared hosting is full of hassles.

Many people think since there are numerous websites housed on a common server, the experience of shared web hosting would be problematic or rather horrifying. And that, it can deter the progress of your website.

Fact—Shared web hosting does not encompass hassles as it’s commonly thought. Also, it’s available at quite affordable prices, and does not create a hole in your pocket in the process of hosting your website. In shared hosting, the backup of all your data & files is created on the server. So, you don’t need to worry about the aspect of data loss too.

We hope that reading this post would help you overcome some of the myths that you may have about shared hosting, and prompt you to try a shared web hosting plan of a good provider for your website.

If you’re paying for domain registration & web hosting separately, you can save great bucks by transferring your domain to us & you’ll be able to host your website on our shared architecture, absolutely Free.

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Over the past few days we have been experiencing sporadic performance issues with our central storage array, which has lead to some secondary issues with services such as e-mail and hosting becoming temporarily unavailable. During these periods of degraded performance, some users may have encountered problems connecting to the mail server, the LimeDomains homepage and some free hosting accounts were temporarily offline.

At no point were any e-mail messages dropped or deleted - any inbound message that arrived while the mailserver was not accepting connections would have been temporarily queued and eventually delivered. The paid hosting server farm was also not impacted by the outage.

At this point, all services are back up and operational.

Here’s what we are doing to ensure this does not reoccur:

We have already taken delivery of several high performance SAS arrays and will be transitioning services onto this new equipment over the next few weeks. We are also taking steps to compartmentalize services so that temporary load spikes do not impact customer facing services.

Finally, we are putting a process in place to ensure that you are fully informed of the current status of any service issue and the resolution ETA. Look for a network status link on our homepage in the next few days, and more frequent updates in this forum during both planned and unplanned outages.

Thank you for your continued support and patience.

Clustered hosting has lately turned around heads of many including biggies such as YouTube, Yahoo!, MySpace, Flickr etc., which use this web hosting service. Usually, it is chosen by big companies with massive websites receiving thousands of hits every day.

It’s too easy to understand what actually clustered hosting is. In this type of hosting, the load of hosting is served across multiple physical machines (servers or nodes), which increases availability & redundancy of resources thereby enabling the website to run smoother than ever.

Similar to cloud hosting, this hosting service utilizes virtualization technology to improve security & system resources. When you use clustered hosting, you don’t find yourself grappling with the issues of bandwidth, disk space, processing speed, RAM etc. This is practically because through your hosting account, you can easily access the infinite hardware. Also, you can upgrade your website without any hassles & take the productivity threshold of your website to a different level altogether.

Now answering the question when do you actually need it, we would say that sometimes arise  situations when upgrade is very much required but the restrictions posed in other types of hosting might cause your website to be down or run sluggish. This may result in loss of your potential customers & resultant sales. The other possibility of using clustered hosting is that sometimes a single server is unable to address the demands of a website. It is then this type of hosting services emerges as a feasible option.

Also, in clustered hosting you’re not supposed to plan in advance when you should upgrade your website. As & when you website requires some additional power, it can be easily obtained from the cluster of available system resources spread across a number of servers.

Benefits of Clustered Hosting

Speaking about the advantages of clustered web hosting service, it boosts the scalability, performance & efficiency of your website. Since your website remains no longer confined to a single server, it gains unlimited potential. When set up your website on this architecture, you can rest assured that you would not receive complaints of slow-running website as it suffers no effect from abrupt traffic surges. Like most other web hosting plans, you are supposed to pay for it too on a monthly basis.

After reading this post if you wish to set up your website on clustered architecture, we are there to help you out. At LimeDomains, you can choose from either of our hosting plans—Standard or Premium—& get started with reaping the benefits of our clustered web hosting services.