Web Hosting 101

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Another bit of information I want to contribute this time is pay attention to the server specs.

A regular user may not find any difference and even feel confused reading about server processor, memory swap and the like, but for the experienced webmaster or developer this is a must, as it is find (or ask to pre-sales support) if they are running Apache or LiteSpeed.

Once again, this can't make too much difference for a regular client, but those who need to run specific scripts may find noticeable performance differences or even incompatibility.

LiteSpeed is supposed to be faster and more reliable than Apache, but there are some applications that needs expressly Apache, for instance Elgg, the social networking script, which can't handle mod_rewrite efficiently if an Apache extension is not enabled.