A  Payment Card Industry compliance protocol, better known as PCI compliance aims to protect personal information and to offer security when using payment cards in an online environment.  As important and significant move for sure and one which will impinge on  the entire payment card industry to comply. For an industry moving to engage with many more people in conducting transactions online it is an imperative as credit cards remain the preferred choice for consumers. A failure to meet the standards may mean fines from banks and credit card companies, or even the loss of the ability to process credit cards.

There is a good deal of misinformation flowing around over the terms “managed hosting” and “shared hosting”. In essence, there is an overlap in that may each may use a server which is totally dedicated to a single website. But the defining difference between the two methodologies is that managed hosting is the choice of businesses which have determined that there are risk associated with a shared hosting plan.

Many customers, particularly first-time website builders will be confronted by the perennial question: should we go for Linux Hosting or the Windows version? Many experts inform us that Linux is the proffered choice simply because it is known as being the more technically  stable than the other. Importantly for many business users, it is also the cheaper  option with without any compromise on quality.

E-commerce hosting needs to provide the necessary software and hosting services that enables a  business to sell its products and services online. Regular web hosting services will offer server space, email accounts, technical support, and data security services. An  e-commerce hosting service needs to include shopping cart software and connection to a secure transaction service for the delivery and management of online payments.

Flexible and secure web hosting solutions are in reality available through dedicated hosting. A dedicated hosting solution provides the customer with their own server, unlike shared hosting where the customer shares a server with other hosted clients. The dedicated hosting solution is characterized by a process of “leasing” the whole server from the hosting provider. The web hosting company remains as the owner of the particular server, giving the customer a range of benefits.