Creation of website is easy but choosing a web hosting provider & a suitable web hosting package for your website can be  quite a challenging task, especially for someone new. This critical decision is inclusive of multiple tenets, which must certainly be kept in mind while choosing an apt web hosting package.  Bandwidth is one of these important factors.

The concept of bandwidth is quite simple to understand. Bandwidth can be understood as the volume of data, which is transferred per unit of time. In fact, bandwidth is the rate of data transfer. It can be easily understood with the help of an analogy.

Here’s a quick analogy–Take for instance, a highway & cars. The broader the highway, the more is the number of cars passing through it. Similarly the greater the bandwidth, more is the rate of data transfer. How much bandwidth you consume depends on the content your website has. So if your website has a good number of videos, audio & multimedia files etc. obviously it would be seeking more bandwidth.

Bandwidth requirement is also determined by the number of visitors performing some actions on your website. The more is the number of visitors, the more is the amount of data transferred from your website, and so more will be the data transfer and hence more will be the bandwidth consumption.

Bandwidth requirement is driven by consumption such as uploads, downloads, transferals  etc. The more these actions are performed, more is the bandwidth needed. Hence, you must purchase a web hosting plan that meets your bandwidth requirements most efficiently & effectively.

Now you must be wondering ‘How much bandwidth does your website need?’ It can be easily figured out.

Bandwidth needed = Average Page Views × Average Page Size × Average Daily Visitors × Number of days in a month (30) × Redundant Factor

•    Average Daily Visitors: The total number of monthly visitors/30
•    Average Page Size: The average size of your web page.
•    Average Page Views: The average page viewed per visitors
•    Redundant Factor: A safety factor ranging from 1.3 – 1.8

(Note: Redundant factor signifies extra unused bandwidth. The greater the redundant factor, more capable your web server is for coping up with sudden peaks in traffic.)

Once you’ve your bandwidth figures with you, you can then decide easily which plan you should sign up for. It’s recommended that you don’t pick a cheap web hosting package since you can’t afford to compromise with the performance of your website for few bucks.

At LimeDomains, we offer three web hosting plans namely, Basic Plan–free with every domain purchase/transfer (Bandwidth offered: 1 GB), Standard Plan–for beginners & growing needs (Bandwidth offered: 100 GB) and Premium Hosting Plan–for high-traffic websites (Bandwidth offered: Unlimited).

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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.

Bugzilla, a top-rated open source bug tracking system, enables you to keep a track of outstanding bugs in your product. This extensively used open source application is compatible with most systems including CVS, Bonsai or Perforce SCM, and offers a rich repertoire of exclusive features to netizens worldwide. It’s used to track bugs for proprietary products as well as free & open source software.

Bugzilla also provides a documented & streamlined work flow, and also predicts product versions for integration to help users take critical business decisions. It also offers advanced search capabilities and scheduled reports by email.

After you purchase a domain name & web hosting plan on LimeDomains to setup your website, you need to install the application ‘Bugzilla’. The steps to setup your website on our platform using Bugzilla are listed as below:

Step 1: Log in to your LimeDomains account. Go to Control Panel -> Create Website.

Step 2: Enter the details related to your domain name and hosting plan and proceed. A message that your website has been successfully created appears.

Step 3: Click on ‘Applications’ tab under the ‘Hosting Management’ section of Control Panel in your account.

Step 4: Select ‘Bugzilla’ and click on the link of ‘Install’.

Step 5: Click on ‘Installation URL’ tab on the ‘Application Management’ page after installation.

Step 6: Enter the email in the Login field along with the password that you entered during Bugzilla installation. Click on ‘Login’.

Hey, you’re done! Your Bugzilla website is successfully created on LimeDomains now.

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An award-winning software—Joomla—enables you to create/build and maintain dynamic websites. This great content management system (CMS) is beneficial for both technical and non-technical users. After you’ve purchased a domain name and a web hosting plan on our platform, you can install this application to manage the content of your website (in case you’re a non-technical user) and build large-scale online applications (if you’re a technical user).

The steps to setup your Joomla website on LimeDomains are enumerated as below:

Step 1: Log in to your LimeDomains account. Go to Control Panel -> Create Website.

Step 2: Enter the details related to your domain name and hosting plan and proceed. A message that your website has been successfully created appears.

Step 3: Click on ‘Applications’ tab under the ‘Hosting Management’ section of ‘Control Panel’ in your account.

Step 4: Select ‘Joomla’ and click on the link of ‘Install’.

Step 5: Click on ‘Installation URL’ tab on the ‘Application Management’ page after installation.

Step 6: Select the language of installation and check on the requirements and click on ‘Next’. Go to Database Configuration page.

Step 7: Input the database details and click on ‘Next’.

Step 8: Enter the FTP layer if you wish to access the site using a FTP connection and click on ‘Next’.

Step 9: Enter the site name and the necessary admin details. Click on ‘Install sample data’ if you wish to.

Step 10: Remove the installation directory completely before continuing. Log in to the site with the required details.

Congratulations! Your Joomla website is successfully created on LimeDomains now.

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