1) What is CDN Hosting

A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system of computers containing copies of data placed at various nodes of a network. When properly designed and implemented, a CDN can improve access to the data it caches by increasing access bandwidth and redundancy and reducing .........See: What is CDN Hosting

2) What is FrontPage Hosting

Frontpage hosting is hosting older frontpage websites. As frontpage has been deprecated since 2003, you do not normally see this aqnymore, however any webhost should be able to host a frontpage site..........See: What is FrontPage Hosting

3) What is phpBB Web Hosting

phpBB is a forum that runs on Linux using PHP and MySQL. It is a very nice script and used extensively..........See: What is phpBB Web Hosting

4) What is Managed Hosting

Managed hosting is when a hosting company handles all the security etc for you. It is best for people that do not want to have the hassle of dealing with their website..........See: What is Managed Hosting

5) What is MOODLE Hosting

Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites..........See: What is MOODLE Hosting

6) What is Forum Hosting

Forum hosting is hosting forums. There are many forum scripts including SMF (simple machine forums) phpbb, vbulletin and many others..........See: What is Forum Hosting

7) What is a Control Panel

A control panel is a script that does the back end work on a web site, They do things like track statistics, create databases, install security and other things. Examples are Cpanel, DirectAdmin, LXadmin and others..........See: What is a Control Panel

8) What is RSS Hosting

RSS is Really Simple Syndication, and is used to publish frequesntly updated works such as news stories..........See: What is RSS Hosting

9) What is Hsphere Hosting

Parallels H-Sphere delivers a multi-server hosting automation solution for Linux, BSD, and Windows platforms. H-Sphere includes its own controls panels, automated billing, and provisioning solution in a single integrated system. Hsphere runs under a windows systems..........See: What is Hsphere Hosting

10) What is Flash Video Hosting

Flash hosting is hosting flash based videos on your server..........See: What is Flash Video Hosting

11) What is Canadian Hosting

Canadian hosting is Canadian based hosting service..........See: What is Canadian Hosting

12) What does the CGI-BIN do

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard (see RFC 3875: CGI Version 1.1) method for web servers software to delegate the generation of web pages to executable files. Such files are known as CGI scripts; they are programs, often stand-alone applications, usually written in a scripting languag.........See: What does the CGI-BIN do

13) What are Cookies

Cookies are little bits of code placed on your computer to track things you do. They can be good and help you make sales on an ecommerce site or be used to track the sites you go to..........See: What are Cookies

14) What is Shared Hosting

Shared hosting is where multiple web sites share a common IP address. This is normal web hosting..........See: What is Shared Hosting

15) Will I have unlimited access to update and make changes to my pages

Of course, update and change all the webpages you want..........See: Will I have unlimited access to update and make changes to my pages

16) Can I sell my space to friends

Not with a normal account. However with a reseller account, you can sell hosting to friends and family..........See: Can I sell my space to friends

17) What is Zikula Hosting

Zikula: an open source application framework

No matter what your needs, Zikula can provide the solution. Whether it is a corporate presence with ecommerce, a simple blog or a community portal, Zikula can do it all..........See: What is Zikula Hosting

18) What is Web 2.0 Hosting

Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites and hosted services..........See: What is Web 2.0 Hosting

19) What is Email Hosting

Email hosting is specialized hosting of an email server. This is done to speed up the emails and allow a dedicated solution for it..........See: What is Email Hosting

20) What is Website Hosting

Website hosting is hosting websites on a webserver..........See: What is Website Hosting

21) What is Xoops Hosting

xoops (pronounced zoo'ps) is a web portal that can be used as a website or CMS. It runs under Linux and uses PHP and MySQL..........See: What is Xoops Hosting

22) What is JSP

JSP or Java Server Pages, is Oracles answer to PHP and ASP. It allows for dynamic pages. It must be deployed on a compatable web server with a servlet container..........See: What is JSP

23) What is SMF Hosting

SMF hosting is hosting a simple machines forum. SMF is a very robust scalable and easy to use forum, written in PHP and using a MySQL database. Sasquatch Hosting has a one click installer to make it easy to install and use..........See: What is SMF Hosting

24) What is Javascript Hosting

Javascript is a web scripting language that normally runs under Linux, and is used in many PHP scripts. Javascript is unusual in that it runs on thr clients computer not the server..........See: What is Javascript Hosting

25) What is Scalable Hosting

Scalable hosting is a plan that allows you to increase or decrease the size of your web site on a as needed basis..........See: What is Scalable Hosting

26) What is MySQL Hosting

MySQL is a linux based database server. It will allow your data to be saved and reused by your server..........See: What is MySQL Hosting

27) What is Merchant Hosting

Merchant hosting is needed for an online store. Usually you need a decent amount of bandwidth and diskspace. You will also need a merchant account so you can accept payments for your merchandise..........See: What is Merchant Hosting

28) What is cPanel Hosting

Cpanel is the leading framework for hosting your website. What Cpanel does is handle all the backend tasks such as creating databases, websites, web statistics, and other assorted tasks..........See: What is cPanel Hosting

29) What is Backup Hosting

Backup hosting is a service that allows you to backup your data. These types usually need a lot of disk space and bandwidth..........See: What is Backup Hosting

30) What is Cheap Hosting

Cheap hosting is just what it sounds like. One thing to watch out for on cheap hosting is a lot of cheap web hosts oversell which can lead to our site running slow or possibly even crashing..........See: What is Cheap Hosting

31) What is Audio Hosting

Audio hosting is hosting of audio files, for this you will need high bandwidth and disk space..........See: What is Audio Hosting

32) What is Personal Hosting

Personal hosting is hosting someones personal website. Usually to do this you dont need a very big website, or a lot of bandwidth..........See: What is Personal Hosting

33) What is Traceroute

A traceroute is a way of finding how your requests are sent to a server. It will tell you all the computers inbetween and how long it took for a packet to make the trip. This is good for troubleshooting to see if the problem is on the hosts site or somewhere else..........See: What is Traceroute

34) What is a Data Center

A data center is a specialized building that houses computer servers, switches and a lot of incoming and outgoing high speed connections..........See: What is a Data Center

35) Will I have Root Control

NO, you will not. If Root is needed, you need a dedicated server or a VPS for the safety and security of all others on that server..........See: Will I have Root Control

36) How long does it take to set up a new account

New accounts are setup when payment is verified. This usually takes just minutes, but can take up to 48 hours..........See: How long does it take to set up a new account

37) Can I monitor my disk space and bandwidth usage

Yes of course. When you log into Cpanel, there is a monitor on the left hand side. There is also a warning sent to you at 80% usage and at 90%..........See: Can I monitor my disk space and bandwidth usage

38) What is WHOIS Lookup

A whois lookup is a way to find out who is the owner of a website, as well as other information such as where they are hosted among other items..........See: What is WHOIS Lookup

39) What is VPS Hosting

VPS or virtual private server hosting is the process of taking one physical server and by using software cutting it into smaller separate partitions where each partition acts as a separate virtual computer. They can run different software, different websites etc..........See: What is VPS Hosting

40) What is Colocation Hosting

Colocation or colo is when a company buys a server and places it in another persons data center. This is usually done when you want a special solution for themselves or their customer and more control on what they can do..........See: What is Colocation Hosting

41) What is CubeCart Hosting

Cubecart is a shopping cart that costs to buy and use. It is a very good shopping cart. Any web host like Sasquatch Hosting can offer Cubecart hosting..........See: What is CubeCart Hosting

42) What is Charity Hosting

Charity hosting is merely hosting charities usually at a discount. At Sasquatch Hosting we offer all 503(c) non profits discounted prices with proof of their non profit status. Please contact sales for more information..........See: What is Charity Hosting

43) What is ASP Hosting

ASP hosting is a provider that runs windows server software so that a script written in ASP can work..........See: What is ASP Hosting

44) Can I host my own site

If you have a high speed connection always and the right software yes you can. However, most home connections are not allowed to do this and your site will be slower(on average) than one hosted on a webserver..........See: Can I host my own site

45) What is virtual hosting

Virtual hosting is just hosting many websites on a single server all using the same IP address..........See: What is virtual hosting

46) What is perl

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl borrows a lot of features from C and offers extremely powerful text processing capabilities..........See: What is perl

47) What is ASP

ASP or Active Server Pages is Microsofts answer to a dynamic page that can access database information. It is a nice language, but on the web you will see more sites running PHP instead..........See: What is ASP

48) What is CPU

CPU is the central processor unit or core of your computer. The faster and more cores it has the better, as well as the bigger the memory cache the better..........See: What is CPU

49) What is Unlimited Hosting

Unlimited hosting is a trick played upon users. Companies advertise Unlimited disk space or Unlimited Bandwidth, but in reality there are limits usually hidden in the terms of service. They count on most people not knowing that the average website uses very little resources -- much smaller than most.........See: What is Unlimited Hosting

50) What is SEO Hosting

SEO hosting is a way of putting content all over the world on different servers for the purpose of increasing the ranking of a web site..........See: What is SEO Hosting

51) What is Open Source Hosting

Open source hosting allows you to run open source projects. Sasquatch Hosting, Inc is a big proponent of open source, we have even given talks at regional conventions..........See: What is Open Source Hosting

52) What is OS Commerce Hosting

OsCommerce is the number 1 open source shopping cart software on the web. OsCommerce hosting means the host allows you to setup a OsCommerce shopping cart on your web site. Sasquatch Hosting, Inc has been working with OsCommerce for many years now..........See: What is OS Commerce Hosting

53) What is Multiple Domain Hosting

Multiple domain hosting means a hosting provider like Sasquatch Hosting will allow you to buy one hosting account and have more than one website there..........See: What is Multiple Domain Hosting

54) What is High Bandwidth Hosting

High bandwidth hosting means you host sites that have a lot of traffic such as videos, music or pictures, where every person looking csn use a lot of bandwidth..........See: What is High Bandwidth Hosting

55) What is Green Hosting

Green hosting is trying to host your websites, and minimize the foot print thats left. We do true green hosting here at Sasquatch Hosting, as our offices are off grid on solar power..........See: What is Green Hosting

56) What is Affiliate Hosting

Affiliate hosting allows you to make some money! We and many other hosts pay a referral fee for new clients..........See: What is Affiliate Hosting

57) What is Adult Hosting

Adult hosting is a hosting company that accepts adult rated sites(xxx)..........See: What is Adult Hosting

58) Why should I have a dedicated IP

A dedicated IP is needed when you want SSL for your site. If you do not need SSL, such as a blog that doesnt sell anything, you do not need to get a dedicated IP address. If you sell anything, yo need to have one to secure transactions..........See: Why should I have a dedicated IP

59) What is the difference between UNIX hosting and Windows hosting

The difference between Windows and Linux is the operating system your web site works on. In a Linux server, it will usually be Centos(Red Hat) and in a windows, it will be a product by Microsoft. While windows servers are very good, most of the web runs on Linux..........See: What is the difference between UNIX hosting and Windows hosting

60) What is uptime

Uptime is the mount of time in a month that your site is visible. If it was 100% uptime, your site could have been seen all the time. You take days times hours times minutes, and your uptime percentage is based on that. 99.9 is considered normal, 99.95 or better is very good. To give you an idea, in.........See: What is uptime

61) How do I upload my site online

To upload your site you use a program called a FTP -- or File Transfer Protocol. I suggest Filezilla, its very easy to use and free..........See: How do I upload my site online

62) What is PayPal

PayPal is the leading online payment processor. You can link them to a bank account or credit card, and use them to safely and securely pay online bills..........See: What is PayPal

63) What is MS SQL

MSSQL is Microsoft SQL, or database language..........See: What is MS SQL

64) How can I pay for web hosting

Most hosts accept Paypal and credit cards. Some will accept cash or check offline as well. A debit card will also work for most hosts..........See: How can I pay for web hosting

65) How do I register a domain name

A domain name is registered through domain name registrars. com, net, info, org are the top level domains -- often called tlds. Uk, us, fr, de are country domains -- united kingdom, united states, france, and germany. Different domains have different rules and registrars. Rule of thumb is com is goo.........See: How do I register a domain name

66) What is RAID

RAID is a way of making sure that even if a disk drive should fail, your data is still safe. We run RAID 10 the highest level of RAID..........See: What is RAID

67) Can I add software to my account

Yes you may run any legal software!.........See: Can I add software to my account

68) Why do some Hosts offer a Money Back Guarantee

We offer a money back because we are sure you will like us, and we want you to feel safe to try us!.........See: Why do some Hosts offer a Money Back Guarantee

69) What is Fantastico Hosting

Fantastico is a helper to let you install over 200 scripts easliy and instantly. We do offer Fantastico Deluxe to our customers..........See: What is Fantastico Hosting

70) I want to sell products online, what do I need

you need a way to get paid, Paypal, google checkout or a merchant account to take credit cards and you need a website. You should also have SSL for security on any page that a customer inputs private information..........See: I want to sell products online, what do I need

71) Do I have to change my Domain name to change hosts

Not at all, all you do is point your domain to new nameservers and you are done..........See: Do I have to change my Domain name to change hosts

72) How often can I update my website

All day every day and every minute of every day -- as much as you want -- its your website!.........See: How often can I update my website

73) Who is responsible for the server hardware

We handle all the server hardware on all accounts..........See: Who is responsible for the server hardware

74) I want to run a blog - do I need web hosting

Yes you do, You will also need blogging software such as wordpress, which is the worlds number 1 blogging software..........See: I want to run a blog - do I need web hosting

75) Can I use my account for commercial purposes

Not only can you, but we will help you make money if needed!.........See: Can I use my account for commercial purposes

76) Can I upgrade my account if I need to

You can upgrade at any time -- and you can downgrade as well if wanted!.........See: Can I upgrade my account if I need to

77) Can you host more than one

As long as you have diskspace, you can host as many domains as you want..........See: Can you host more than one

78) What is your uptime guarantee

99.9% uptime or your next month is free..........See: What is your uptime guarantee

79) I have a domain name - do I still need web hosting

Yes, a domain name is an address, you still need a building there for your customers to go to!.........See: I have a domain name - do I still need web hosting

80) Will you place ads on my site

Never without your permission. On sites we design we do ask to leave a designed by Sasquatch Hosting link on the footer..........See: Will you place ads on my site

81) What is Acquia-Drupal Hosting

Aquia Drupal is a company that owns a CMS called Drupal. They make their money hosting and supporting large sites. Drupal is what runs whitehouse.gov, and is free to use..........See: What is Acquia-Drupal Hosting

82) How long does it take for my domain name to be available (Propogate)

Domain name propagation is how long it takes for a new domain to become visible to people. Usually it is less than 2 hours, normally within minutes -- but it can take up to 48 hours!.........See: How long does it take for my domain name to be available (Propogate)

83) Do I have to know how to use Linux to host my website on a Linux server

Not at all. Once you upload your site, you wont see any difference in how it runs!.........See: Do I have to know how to use Linux to host my website on a Linux server

84) Am I charged extra for support

There is no charge for support, but there may be a charge for us to work on your website..........See: Am I charged extra for support

85) Why do I receive "Page not found 404" on my website

A 404 error means that page does not exist. If you build on windows and run under linux, check to see if you have a name like PAGE or page. Those will be 2 different names under linux!.........See: Why do I receive "Page not found 404" on my website

86) What is space and bandwidth/data transfer

your space is how much room you have for phots. code etc. It will normally be listed as MB or GB. For a rough idea, I just looked at a medium sized wordpress site and it takes up about 300MB. I have a game site, with 7000 flash games, and that uses about 6GB. Transfer is how much data goes in and ou.........See: What is space and bandwidth/data transfer

87) How do I track how many hits my website gets

The 2 best ways to track your hits are awstats and google analytics. Awstats will be in your cpanel if your hosting company has enabled them. If they havent, find another host! Google analytics requires a java script snippet inserted in the header of your web site. Dont worry, google has a great tut.........See: How do I track how many hits my website gets

88) Why don"t I just go with the cheapest hosting provider

You can! But usually the cheapest providers oversell --they promise a lot, and cram you in a tight are. This slows your site down, and can lead to crashes and downtime. Also usually the cheapest hosting goes to spammers/hackers because they expect to be thrown off as soon as they do damage. Your bet.........See: Why don"t I just go with the cheapest hosting provider

89) What is SEO

SEO is search engine optimization. This is the science/art of getting your website found on a search engine. It consists of on page seo, working title tags, headers etc and off page seo, articles that point to you, backlinks etc..........See: What is SEO

90) What are subdomains

A subdomain is an apartment in a building on a lot! Or in computer terms, if I have a domain name(lot) with a website(building) a room in that building(apartment) would be a subdomain..........See: What are subdomains

91) What is Domain Parking

Domain Parking is when you take a domain name that doesnt have a web site with it, and you put ads on it -- or park it. If someone lands on it, you hope they will click an ad and you will make some money..........See: What is Domain Parking

92) What is PHP

PHP is a dynamic computer language that outputs HTML. PHP is used to access a database using another language called SQL. If you use facebook, that is an example of a PHP site..........See: What is PHP

93) What is a domain name

A domasin name is the address where your web site is located. Computers use something like 209.85.148.105 to find your site -- and thats a pain to remember! Its a lot easier for a human to remember google.com!.........See: What is a domain name

94) What is Web Hosting

Web hosting is the lot where your web site will be built. Like any other lot, some are in good neighborhoods with great police and fire, some are in average and some are in slums. Also some will be crammed up against each other with little or no room to grow(oversold hosting) and some will have room.........See: What is Web Hosting