Recommended Providers
EON Webware does not provide Web site hosting. We could, but would rather let the pros do that and concentrate on making really excellent Web sites and database applications.
Server Software
The four top most common Web or HTTP server programs are:
- Apache HTTP Server from the Apache Software Foundation.
- Internet Information Services (IIS) from Microsoft.
- Sun Java System Web Server from Sun Microsystems, formerly Sun ONE Web Server, iPlanet Web Server, and Netscape Enterprise Server.
- Zeus Web Server from Zeus Technology.
There are thousands of different Web server programs available, many of them are specialized for some uses and can be tailored to satisfy specific needs.
See Category:Web server software for a longer list of HTTP server programs.
Web Hosting
Unix/Linux Hosts
We recommend Unix hosting for reliability and many other reasons. Our favorite Web hosting company is Site5.com; we are even an affiliate. They have fast tech support, many useful tools, good statistics packages... and they're very affordable: depending on how you wish to pay, hosting can cost as little as roughly $7 per month, for an excellent package with enormous capacity.
Windows Hosts
We always recommend against using Windows hosting if it can be avoided. It is generally agreed in the industry that Unix hosting is more reliable and less prone to security holes. However, if for some reason you need to run SQL Server or Access databases or .NET on your site, then you'd need a Windows hosting company which will be using IIS (see box at right). We have no particular company to point you to for it, though we might point you away from a couple. We write sites for Windows hosting (see Belfast Adult Education in our Portfolio, for example), as we've a long history with VBScript/ASP technologies, though we are currently not accepting .NET projects.