Philippine Web hosting
There are several companies in the Philippine that provide scalable and affordable webhosting packages that suit every business or personal need you have.
Many of the webhosting companies in the Philippine have Internet backbones and data centers based in other countries, thus providing your site with a backup medium that literally crosses the seas.
The advantage of having website backups outside your locality is that in case the country experiences some sort of incident that takes its entire Internet infrastructure down, your site will still be reachable across the rest of the world.
Take for instance the June 2005 incident involving submarine cables powering the Internet connections in Pakistan. The Internet infrastructure of the country rested on those submarine cables which were located under the Arabian Sea, 35km (21 miles) south of Karachi (BBC news). The cables had a fault and it took several days for the cables to be fixed.
All 10 million Internet users in the country were crippled with zero Internet access. Websites based there were inaccessible for a few days, thus putting a plunge in businesses that operate by using the Internet.
Thus, when you look for an ISP in the Philippine, it would be good to know the backup links they have, the location of the data centers, and other relevant services you may need.
One of the more affordable and popular Philippine webhosting company is Philhosting.net. Their most affordable package costs 30 pesos (0.60 US dollars) per month for a 60MB disk space and a monthly traffic of 2GB. One of their top of the line hosting packages costs 800 pesos (16 US dollars) for 3GB of disk space and monthly traffic of 20GB.
Philhosting.net also provides packages for website design starting at 20,000 pesos (364 US dollars). This package includes free domain registration for one year, one year free webhosting, and five (5) POP3 email accounts with 25MB of mail space.
Another popular and affordable webhosting company in the Philippine is Ploghost. Ploghost offers very affordable rates for webhosting. Their lowest rate package costs 75 pesos per month (1.5 US Dollars), providing 75 MB of web space and monthly traffic of 2GB. If your site hosts a simple set of webpages, we recommend this package for you.
If you run some sort of E-commerce, this package will suffice if you do not expect very large volumes of web visits and if your site does not contain a lot of multimedia. Ploghost offers as much as 500MB web space and a monthly traffic of 20GB for only 500 pesos (10 US dollars).
You can choose between hosting your site on a Linux or Windows server. All the servers of Ploghost are powered with Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Cpanel.
If you intend to stay in the Philippine for a long time, you could subscribe to a DSL Internet or leased line connection and hence have your own webhosting from your ISP.
The most populars ISP's in the Philippine are PLDT, Bayantel, Sky Internet, Pacific Internet, Mozcom, Globe, and Eastern Telecom. All these companies provide DSL Internet access and some of their packages including webhosting.
If you want to host your own website on your own servers, your ISP can assign one or more IP addresses depending on your requirements. There are a host of other add-ons that are included with webhosting, including the number of email addresses you could have, pop3 email access, spam filtering and even free wireless Internet access on designated hot spots.
In the Philippine, DSL connections are a little more expensive than in other parts of the world since the proportion of subscribers to the cost of setting up an Internet backbone is still smaller than other countries in the world.
Hence, ISP's charge higher rates for DSL Internet connections in the Philippine. The average price for a 256kbps DSL connection in the Philippine is around two thousand pesos per month (around 40 US dollars).
In countries with ultra fast Internet connections and with a high volume of subscribers, say Japan for example, the cost of 100Mbps Internet access is around 26 US dollars, very much lower than the worldwide average.
One problem which the techies may encounter is the difficulty of securing ssh access for your website. There are a lot of web owners who are tech savvy and definitely want to have ssh access to their website.
Here in the Philippine, there is no provider that explicitly states that they provide ssh access to their servers. If you really intend to have ssh access, the best thing to do is to explicitly request for this service from your prospective service provider.
Some companies require you for some documentation before providing ssh access. Others will let you agree to their rules regarding ssh access. No matter what the webhosing company says about ssh access, it is best to confirm this in person through any representative of the hosting company you intend to have for your service.
For more information on Internet Service Providers that also provide hosting services, you may want to look at the following websites:
BayanTel Communications Inc.
Mozcom
Eastern Telecom
Globe Telecom
For other webhosting based on the Philippine for your personal website or your E-business, you may want to consider the companies we presented earlier, namely Philhosting.net and Ploghost. The websites are:
Philhosting.net - http://www.philhosting.net
PlogHost - http://www.ploghost.com
Remember, there are several webhosting companies you can choose from. But remember to be clear on your needs so you could present these needs when you scout for a service provider.
Try to ask your prospective service provider as much questions you deem necessary. In this way, you will get to choose the hosting service that matches your needs, whether for a simple website or for your business.
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