A lot of small and medium companies benefit from shared web hosting via sharing hosting charge with many other companies on the same server. In the competitive market today, you have to take advantage of every edge you can possibly have. By this way, you will definitely save money every month. However, with shared hosting, more than one hundreds websites are sharing the same sever, here comes the most common and popular issue—spam issue.
Spam is defined as unsolicited bulk mail; you have probably often seen a mass of these types of emails in your bulk folder when checking for email that you actually have consented to receive. As on the shared web hosting, to be specifically, there are a lot of web sites which work is based on spamming and such sites have large amounts of traffic resulting in slow functioning of the server. Besides, there are web sites offering harmful download services. Therefore, when choosing a web hosting provider for your web site makes sure that in case of spamming they can take necessary action to block it.
Web hosting industry is highly competitive and it does not depend upon the size of the company, it does not matter if it is big, medium or small. If you would like to host your web site one of the most significant things you should know is what solution they have taken to block spam. How your web host handles spam is an important point for you to consider. You need to first check the terms of service of the company to know that they have zero tolerance policy against spammer. There are many companies providing technical support services and knowledge to fight with spam mails. For example, the web hosting company www.hostease.com offers SpamAssassin, a widely used technology to identify spam signatures. Since anti-spam tests and configuration are stored in plain text, making it easy to configure and add new rules. It encapsulates its logic in a well-designed, abstract API so it can be integrated anywhere in the email stream. SpamAssassin requires very little configuration; you do not need to continually update it with details of your mail accounts, mailing list memberships, etc. Once classified, site and user-specific policies can then be applied against spam. Policies can be applied on both mail servers and later using the user's own mail user-agent application. You can block spam emails by using this particular effective software. Of course, there is a wide range of different types of such effective software and type of solution you are availing will give you the right understanding about the type of web hosting services provided by your web hosting company.
Before signing up with a particular web hosting company, you should make sure that this company will provide you with technical support if your web site faces some problems. If the answer is yes, so do not hesitate and choose this company. Also your web hosting company should provide you with web site update services and there should be the possibility to move your website to dedicated server from a shared one.
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