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Anda kebingungan memilih tempat hosting? Ada ratusan penyedia hosting di Indonesia yang menawarkan berbagai layanan yang bervariasi jenis dan mutunya. Mana yang harus Anda pilih? Faktor apa saja yang perlu Anda perhatikan? Berikut beberapa tips di sini mengenai faktor-faktor apa yang sebaiknya dilihat oleh calon konsumen.

1. Support

Mengapa faktor ini kami tempatkan sebagai nomor satu, yang terpenting? Ini karena kami menyadari, apa yang sebetulnya dijual oleh sebuah perusahaan hosting bukanlah seiris ruang pada harddisk, atau bandwidth, atau software, melainkan jasa support. Ruang harddisk atau server dijual oleh toko komputer. Bandwidth dijual oleh ISP atau datacenter atau NAP (network access provider). Software dijual oleh software house atau toko CD. Semua barang itu dapat Anda peroleh/sewa sendiri pada penyedia jasa lain yang telah disebutkan. Tapi jasa support adalah sesuatu yang Anda peroleh dari perusahaan hosting, yang membedakan hosting bayar dan hosting gratis, yang menjadi value yang Anda bayar.

2. Fasilitas/fitur

Tentu saja ini menjadi faktor penting, karena apa artinya Anda berlangganan hosting kalau Anda tidak dapat menjalankan aplikasi yang Anda inginkan? apakah menyediakan aplikasi/software/librari yang standar dibutuhkan banyak orang, seperti PHP, MySQL, Perl, dengan versi yang cukup baru dan berikut librari-librarinya. Tersedianya akses mailbox melalui webmail, POP3, forwarding, dan IMAP4. Anda dapat menggunakan secure POP dan secure IMAP (via SSL).  Apakah menyediakan layanan SMTP agar Anda dapat mengirim email tanpa harus bergantung pada ISP. Dalam hal mengupload website, apakah menyediakan beberapa mekanisme, yaitu lewat interface web (control panel), FTP, shell (SSH), dan FrontPage.

3 . Backup

Faktor ini amat penting karena seringkali data di server (termasuk email dan database) adalah satu-satunya kopi yang dimiliki oleh pelanggan hosting. Sebaiknya Anda bertanya kepada penyedia hosting, seberapa sering mereka melakukan backup, dan menghindari penyedia hosting yang tidak jelas policy backupnya dan hanya seminggu atau sebulan (!) sekali melakukan backup.

4. Stabilitas Server dan Jaringan/Konektivitas

Semakin penting website/perusahaan online Anda, maka semakin penting pula stabilitas dan uptime (dan faktor harga menjadi semakin relatif rendah kepentingannya dibandingkan faktor stabilitas ini). Ada beberapa hal yang mempengaruhi stabilitas/uptime, yaitu mesin, jaringan, dan software/keamanan.

5. Keberadaan Perusahaan Yang Jelas

Menurut kami faktor ini lebih penting dari harga, mengingat terlalu banyaknya penyedia hosting di Indonesia, yang rata-rata: 1) tidak berbadan usaha; 2) tidak memiliki lokasi fisik yang jelas; 3) kelangsungan hidupnya antara beberapa bulan hingga 1 tahun saja, yang mana setelah itu menghilang tanpa jejak.

Bagi konsumen yang baru mencoba layanan hosting pertama kali dan tujuannya hanya untuk belajar/pengalaman/coba-coba mungkin hal ini tidak masalah. Tapi bagi sebuah perusahaan atau situs yang ingin lebih serius ini bisa menjadi masalah. Misalnya: data website/database Anda tiba-tiba hilang karena server sudah tidak online berikut si pengurus hosting tidak bisa dihubungi untuk Anda minta datanya. Atau nama domain Anda jadi tersandera karena kontak/password domain ada pada pihak hosting dan lagi-lagi kini mereka tidak bisa dihubungi.

6. Harga

Hal ini mudah dilakukan untuk barang-barang seperti elektronik/komputer karena kita mengetahui persis spesifikasi yang kita inginkan, dan tiap toko menjual barang yang sama jika spesifikasinya sama. Tapi tidak demikian halnya dengan jasa, yang sulit dibuat spesifikasi eksaknya. Karena itu harga ditempatkan sebagai faktor yang sebaiknya dipertimbangkan lebih belakangan (tingkat kepentingannya rendah), mengingat harga yang sama belum tentu berarti tingkat layanan yang sama.

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TIPS TO CHOOSING WEB HOSTING

You choose the place hosting the confusion? There are hundreds of hosting providers in Indonesia that offers various services that vary the type and quality. Which one should you choose? What factors should you consider? We give some tips here on what factors should be seen by potential customers, from least important to most important.

6. Price

If we look at how the way consumers shop for a computer or phone at the mall BEC Mangga Dua Jakarta or Bandung, usually are as follows: consumers want goods with the specifications of the X, Y, Z. Consumers are asked at a shop (A) at what price. A shop put a price. Consumers ask other stores (B). Shop B gives the price. So forth until you obtain some prices. Consumers ultimately choose a store that provides the cheapest price.

This is easily done on items such as electronics / computer because we know the exact specifications that we want, and every shop sells the same item if the specifications are the same. But is not the case with services, which are difficult to make exact specifications. Because it’s the price we put forth as a factor that should be considered more recent (low interest rates), given the same price does not necessarily mean the same level of service.

In terms of price, MWN in our opinion is included in the hosting is quite economical and competitive. There are still many hosting companies that are more expensive, especially for a class hosting provider that has an equivalent level of service. But we do not close my eyes that there is also a place hosting that offers cheaper prices. Our advice is, you should consider some other factors other than price. Because once again, cheaper prices does not mean better value, because the levels of service is not necessarily the same. And in general, the adage “You Get What You Pay For” applies well here.

5. Clearly the existence Companies

In our opinion this factor is more important than price, considering too many hosting providers in Indonesia, which on average: 1) non-incorporated business, 2) does not have a clear physical location; 3) survival between several months to 1 year only, which after which it disappeared without a trace.

For consumers who has tried a hosting service first time and aim only to learn / experience / trial and error maybe this is not a problem. But for a company or site you want more serious this could be a problem. For example: data website / database you suddenly lost because the server is not the committee hosting the following online could not be reached for the data you requested. Or your domain name be held hostage because of the contact / domain password on the hosting and now again they could not be reached.

MWN alone since 2002 has become a form of business entity PT with the position in Jakarta. Available physical address, office telephone numbers, email addresses, hosting contracts are clear and audited by legal counsel, etc.. Before becoming a PT we had been operating for several years without hiding the location of our offices as well as the names of officers and staff. From the beginning we tried to be a hosting provider that is responsible, which is easily reached (or scolded ) when there is something with the server or your data. We realize that consumers need a handle or contacts & clear identity. Unfortunately there are many hosting providers in Indonesia who want to play safe, to be blurred when incidents occur.

4. Stability of Server and Network / Connectivity

The more important your website / online company you are, the more importance was the stability and uptime (and the price factor becomes relatively low importance compared to this stability factor).

There are several things that affect the stability / uptime, ie machines, networking, and software / security. Therefore in our MWN impose some policy as follows:

a) The machine has always had pretty good specs for a strong and stable enough to accommodate your hosting account. Currently the standard specification of our new machines is a Dual Xeon with 2GB RAM. And each machine is generally not filled more than 200-300 account so as not to burden the engine. This figure is obtained from observation and experience. (We sometimes shake my head when I heard there are hosting providers who cram 500 even 1000 accounts into a machine).

b) We select a datacenter that has a fast Internet connection, stable, and redundant. In our current overseas put on ThePlanet / ServerMatrix, while in Indonesia is in the building IIX2 (central Indonesian ISPs and the Internet). Generally, we recommend that clients put the website / account abroad, because of better overall stability (eg the average person Yahoo! Groups mailing list subscription, and the outside server will be faster / stable in receiving emails originating from overseas as well) .

c) We are very concerned the security of the server. This is because the servers are often hacked will be frequently down even frequent loss of data, something very disturbing operation of the server.

d) We do not tolerate spammers so idle or users try to break the security of any suspicious or install software. This is because the servers that send spam will tend to be blacklisted by other servers, causing the other accounts on the same machine disturbed the email receipt. Likewise, software that is suspicious sometimes spend the resource CPU / memory or cause the server to be blocked by other servers.

3. Backup

This factor is very important because often the data on the server (including email and databases) is the only coffee that is owned by the customer hosting. Experience has proved, the existence of historical daily backups and a week on servers MWN has been several times to save important data lost due to machine / hard drive crash, or accident due to accidentally erased, and so on.

You should ask your hosting provider, how often they perform backups, and avoid hosting provider that is not clear policy backed up and only a week or a month (!) So do a backup.

2. Facilities / features

Of course this is an important factor, because what it means to your hosting subscription if you can not run the applications you want?

MWN himself always tried to provide the application / software / standard libraries that it takes a lot of people, such as PHP, MySQL, Perl, with a fairly new version and the following libraries-librarinya. If there is a need for software / specific special libraries, you can contact our support to discuss whether the software can be installed in our place. For the record, we currently only provide a Unix-based hosting (Linux).

In the case of emails, we also continue to work to improve the quality of service. We have installed antivirus and antispam in SMTP server. You can install your own autoresponder and blacklists to block unwanted email. Available access mailbox via webmail, POP3, forwarding, and IMAP4. You can use the secure POP and secure IMAP (via SSL). We also provide SMTP service to send email without having to rely on the ISP.

In case of uploading a website, we provide several mechanisms, namely through the web interface (control panel), FTP, shell (SSH), and FrontPage.

1. Support

Why do we put these factors as number one, most important? This is because we realized, what is actually sold by a hosting company is not a piece of space on hard drive, or bandwidth, or software, but support services. Disk space or servers sold by computer stores. Bandwidth is sold by the ISP or datacenter or NAP (network access provider). Software is sold by a software house or a CD store. All of the stuff you can get / rent their own on other service providers that have been mentioned. But the support service is something you earn from hosting company, which distinguishing paid hosting and free hosting, which is the value that you pay for.

Therefore, as a legitimate company and clear presence, we provide office can be visited to see / deal directly with our staff (too many hosting providers that are “virtual” without any form of legal entity and physical location of the obvious). We also provide technical support via telephone, email, and Yahoo! Messenger 24 hours (many hosting providers that include only an email or phone / SMS, where you can not speak directly and there is no clarity when your messages will be responded). And lastly, for the platinum package customers, we assign one staff assistant private that you can call in person to help you with problems on your account.

Conclusion

Of course the final decision to choose a hosting provider is in your hands as a consumer. This paper we create to help so that you are not confused or misled see the facilities guests will find a hosting provider through the ads or their websites. Instead, you become consciously aware of what factors are really important and how much value what you get from a hosting provider.