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On Dec. 13, 2008, the Central Mat-Su Fire Department and the Alaska State Fire Marshal's Office contacted ATF Anchorage Field Office and requested assistance in investigating the fire that occurred on Dec. 12.
The on-site investigation revealed an ignitable accelerant that had been poured on and around the exterior of the church in multiple locations, to include the entrances and exits. Evidence recovered from the fire scene was collected and retained by members of the Alaska State Crime Laboratory. The initial damage to the structure is estimated at about $500,000. No injuries have been reported.
"ATF will continue to work diligently alongside our local partners and will make every effort to find the person or persons responsible for this fire," said Dawson. "Most importantly, there were no injuries or deaths related to this incident."
This is an ongoing, joint investigation with the Central Mat-Su Fire Department, the Anchorage Fire Department, the Wasilla Police Department and the State Fire Marshal's Office.
Historically, arson investigators have relied on a variety of indicators to determine how and where a fire started. The physical evidence that "defined" an arson was accepted as "fact" and used in court to support an incendiary cause for a fire.
However, successful defense challenges to many of these indicators has required further scientific validation. ATF's Certified Fire Investigator (CFI) Program has taken fire investigation and analysis beyond a discipline based on experience and has applied scientific and engineering technology.
Today, there are 56 ATF special agents trained as CFIs stationed throughout the United States, and 29 special agents are in the initial stages of training. These agents are the only investigators trained by a Federal law enforcement agency to qualify as expert witnesses in fire cause determinations.
This cadre of origin-and-cause specialists has recently been introduced to the intricacies of computer fire modeling. Through computer software programs, these agents can utilize mathematical equations that describe the chemical and physical behavior of fire. When used properly, these computer programs can simulate a characterized fire, calculating such things as volumetric smoke flow and room temperature as a function of time, the peak heat release rate (or "Q dot," which has come to symbolize the CFI program), and the point at which a transition to flashover will occur.
Although a relatively new tool to law enforcement, computer modeling has proven successful in the courtroom. It has been used as an interrogation tool to verify what a witness or suspect has said and as a means to refute the testimony of a defense witness.<eot>A lot of people don't think about the later part of buying a house which is paying the mortgage interest. Buyers, in their excitement of purchasing a house, often forget to think about other possible options they have that can save those thousands of dollars, if they only take the time to evaluate each one.
Before you choose which lender you go to, find out which one your agent has done business with before. The relationship between your agent and the lender plays an important role in you getting the best loan program. If the lender and your agent have done business before, your lender will know that your agent is someone that can be trusted to bring in qualified buyers, and will make sure that your agent will be satisfied with their service enough to bring in more clients by presenting you with the best program that you will be happy with.
Paperwork can be intimidating for some people who are not knowledgeable on how to go about the requirements. If you do not know what to do, your lender and your agent are there to assist you with all the paperwork and requirements.
Make sure you give the lender correct information in your documents. Your lender may be able to give you fixed loan rate if you have a variable loan rate. Talk to your lender and negotiate, you may have that option in your program.<eot>Luxury Eco-Conscious Fashion \| News \| FashWand – FashWand® by Azi
New FashWand by Azi Wavy Mesh Capri Arte Leggings "White Giraffe" Design!
Meet the new FashWand by Azi Wavy Mesh Leggings embellished with our intricate White Giraffe Design from The Patterns of Wildlife Collection.
New FashWand by Azi Luxurious "Tropical Moonlight" Painting Silk Scarf
This luxurious scarf is made of soft Silk Crepe de Chine and decorated with Azi's striking Tropical Moonlight painting full of.....
New "White Giraffe" Design Arte Scarf in Silk from The Patterns of Wildlife Collection!
Intricate patterns of one of the most beautiful animals "The Giraffe" and the natural beauty of pink diamonds were the inspiration for the timeless prints and details of this exclusive hand-drawn "White Giraffe" Design from our "Patterns of Wildlife Collection". Tagged:
New Wildlife Jewels® Flip Flops and Tote Gift Set in Ruby Jewels Design!
Our new Wildlife Jewels® Flip Flops and Tote Gift Set in Ruby Jewels Design is now available! Read more
Sneak Peek: New FashWand by Azi Wildlife Jewels® Painting "Sapphire The Spix's Macaw"
We are so excited to be transforming one of our favorite Wildlife Jewels® paintings "Sapphire The Spix's Macaw" into fashion.
The majestic Ruby The Six Plumed Birds of Paradise Painting transformed into Jeweled Embroidery!
FashWand by Azi Wildlife Jewels® "Ruby The Six Plumed Bird of Paradise" Satin Scarf Square
Our new Wildlife Jewels® "Ruby The Six Plumed Bird of Paradise" Arte Scarf Design in Silk Satin is now available!
Introducing Wildlife Jewels® "Ruby The Six Plumed Bird of Paradise" Satin Mai Tini Dress!
Meet the new Wildlife Jewels® "Ruby The Six Plumed Bird of Paradise" Mai Tini Dress in Silk Charmeuse! Inspired by the natural beauty of Six Plumed Birds of Paradise, the gemstone Ruby, and intricate details of Ancient Architecture.
Meet the new FashWand "Tropical Moonlight" Painting Men's Silk Pocket Square!
The original 53" x 36" Tropical Moonlight Painting on Canvas painted by Azi transformed into this stunning pocket square.
White Giraffe and Pink Diamonds + Crushed Black Velvet! New Top and Legging Design!
Black Crushed Velvet + White Giraffe and Pink Diamonds! Discover the new FashWand by Azi mesh leggings and open back top featuring our exclusive "Patterns of Wildlife" White Giraffe design! Tagged:<eot>Collective Intelligence: 🌱🌲 🌱 Nurse Log Notes — a mind garden planted by c wess daniels
wess15th May 2020 at 7:55am
This is the fourth of six aspects of participatory culture I discuss in my Dissertation.
Pierre Levy's Collective Intelligence has taken a key place among participatory cultural studies because of his insight into the contemporary information landscape (Lévy 1997). Collective intelligence is concerned with establishing "social relations" and "constructing society" (Lévy 1997: 10), where the new knowledge-culture is progressing toward an "achievable utopia." In contrast to earlier formulations of fandom as resistance to dominant culture, collective intelligence offers:
A way of thinking about fandom not in terms of resistance but as a prototype or dress rehearsal for the way culture might operate in the future...an achievable utopia—not something that grows inevitably from the new configuration of technologies but rather something we must work toward and fight to achieve. (Henry Jenkins 2006b: 134)
Thus for Jenkins, "fandom is one of those spaces where people are learning how to live and collaborate within a knowledge community" (2006b: 134). Knowledge, within this context, is not simply immaterial but participative, mutual, and relational.
Collective intelligence fosters apprenticing communities, or communities of shared practice (see Bolger 2007) where adherents gain the skills necessary for the thriving of that community, as demonstrated by YouTube. In these communities: work is shared, participation is mutual, and authority is decentralized—no one, or better yet everyone, is an expert. "The basis and goal of collective intelligence is the mutual recognition and enrichment of individuals rather than the culture of fetishized or hypostatized communities" (Lévy 1997: 13). According to Lévy, the future of society is in "the renewal of the social bond through our relation to knowledge and collective intelligence itself" (1997: 11). As participants relate to others in the knowledge community, they are apprenticed, and are mentored into the particular skills necessary for the thriving in that community:
Through our interactions with things, we develop skills. Through our relation to signs and information, we acquire knowledge. Through our relationship to others, mediated by processes of initiation and transmission, we bring knowledge to life. Skill, understanding, and knowledge (which can all refer to the same objects) are three complementary modes of cognitive transaction and continuously interpenetrate one another. Each activity, each act of communication, each human relation implies an apprenticeship. By means of the skills and understanding that it envelops, a life can continuously feed a circuit of exchange, nourish a sociability of knowledge. We can explicitly establish, openly and publicly, mutual apprenticeship as a way of mediating relationships among individuals. Our identities would then become knowledge identities. (Lévy 1997:11-12)
In these communities mutual interactions of learning bring about new knowledge. These interactions entail a sharing of skill, understanding and knowledge. In order to maintain this kind of mutuality of learning and apprenticing, the very practices of the community must nourish this "circuit of exchange, [and] nourish a sociability of knowledge" (1997: 11-12). This approach assumes there are some practices that do not, or no longer, nourish this kind of knowledge identity.
Collective intelligence names a collaboration and pooling of knowledge by all of the members of a community, broadening the horizon through which the entire community is able to operate:
Lévy distinguishes between shared knowledge (which would refer to information known by all members of a community) and collective intelligence (which describes knowledge available to all members of a community). Collective intelligence expands a community's productive capacity because it frees individual members from limitations of their memory and enables the group to act upon a broader range of expertise. (Jenkins 2006b: 139)<eot>In Learning CourseTags hosting cloud, learn affiliate marketing September 3, 2019 Eli Zhang
Well, now, you have selected a niche in affiliate marketing, and you have a branded affiliate marketing domain name.
I assume you probably have your arms akimbo thinking, "what should I do next?".
Alright, so what we have to do now is to choose the appropriate hosting cloud server for your website and in this lesson, you will be learning about the hosting cloud server selection.
Without further ado, let us get onto the next course of action. The next step is to find a suitable hosting service for your affiliate marketing website. Now, I have got you even more perplexed right? 🙂
You must be wondering what a hosting service is? In simple terms, a web hosting service is a kind of internet hosting service that allows you to have your website accessible on the internet.
Similarly, companies that offer these hosting services are referred to as web hosts; they do this by providing server spaces and internet connectivity, which they lease or sell to you.
Some of these companies include HostGator, A2Hosting, BlueHost, DreamHost, GoDaddy, 1&1 IONOS, AWS EC2, among countless others.
Hosting Cloud Server Type
Dedicated Hosting Service Pros & Cons
Now we have that knowledge up our sleeves; it might interest you to know that we have three major types of cloud hosting. They include:
We are going to treat each of these types extensively so that you can make a choice afterward on which kind of cloud hosting service you feel will be more suitable for your affiliate marketing niche.
It's going to be a long and interesting read; hence, I suggest you get yourself a cup of coffee, lean back, and enjoy the read. 🙂
It is a type of web hosting service where numerous websites are connected to a single web server with internet connectivity.
It is the most common type of web hosting service used, and it is relatively cheaper and more economical than the other options.
Here, the cost of maintaining is shared among several customers, all the resources of a single web server such as server space, FTP accounts, database, and bandwidth are shared amongst several websites.
This service also includes system administration, it is ideal for customers and users who do not want to have anything to do with managing the server, but then it is a setback for those users who desire to have more control of their servers.
It is not suitable for users who require an external software outside of the support the hosting service providers give.
On the other hand, it is ideal for those who are content with the support the host providers give.
Here are some of the pros and cons of the shared hosting services:
When compared to other web hosting services, it is relatively cheaper.
This is because the cost of maintenance and additional costs are shared between numerous websites.
Hence, if your budget for an affiliate website is not that fat, then this hosting service is most recommended.
Most hosting providers lease for an average of $7 per month.
System administration, management, and maintenance are taken care of by the hosting providers.
Whew, this is a substantial burden taken off your shoulders, you have no idea how expensive and difficult it is to maintain a server.
Since it is not your responsibility to manage and maintain your server, you do not need to have any prior knowledge of web server administration.
Your hosting service provides you what we call a "cPanel" along with other applications, all user-friendly, form where you can manage your space and website effectively.
The biggest drawback of the shared hosting service is related to security issues that the server might likely face.
Shared servers are vulnerable to hacking and other cyber-related attacks.
Moreover, any attack on the server affects all the websites residing on it.
Since you share the resources of a single server with other websites, sometimes, your site might be sluggish, due to continuous requests from a couple of different websites.
There are limits to how much you can use specific resources as you do not have the server all to yourself.
Sometimes, the servers might overload due to a swamp of requests; this might cause it to stop.
Shared hosting gives you fewer features than other types of hosting services.
You do not get to choose the applications and software you wish to use, because you cannot use software outside what your hosting provider offers.
You might not get the same level of customer support, dedicated hosting, and VPS hosting offers.
With shared hosting service, you get relatively cheap service with some level of customer support; resources use and security.
If your affiliate website is small or medium scale, then this hosting service is ideal for you.
VPS or Virtual Private Server is a type of web hosting service for people that desire just a step ahead of a shared hosting service. Here, VPS allows a fewer number of users to share the resources of the server – hard drive space, CPU time, and memory.
Every user of a VPS server is given access to a virtual machine, which runs on its copy of the operating system.
So with VPS, it is as though you are on a dedicated service, it provides you a similar feel with using a dedicated server.
You do not have a physical server all to yourself, but you have a virtual server.
This is a step forward from the shared hosting service when your affiliate marketing website grows and hence demands more resources and functionalities; you can try out this option of a web hosting service.
To illustrate, let me use this example:
a dedicated server is like having your acre of land, and a house on it, the land, the house, and its resources are yours, all yours.
Shared servers are like living a self-contained apartment; it doesn't give you much space, you have your room and all the space in it, outside the lock of your door, nothing else is yours.
VPS, on the other hand, is somewhere in the middle, it is like having a flat – which is bigger than a single room, you have access to a balcony and all other resources that might even make you live independent of your neighbors.
Let us look at some of the pros and cons of the Virtual Private Server.
Unlike shared hosting service, the traffic and requests of other VPS users do not adversely affect your affiliate marketing website; hence, this service is more stable than the shared hosting services.
You have all to yourself a virtual allotment of resources with lesser limitations, more memory, hard drive space, and CPU time and power. Hence you can offer your customers a better user experience, as it features a faster loading time.
You have a choice of the operating system and software you want to be installed on the server since you have your own virtual space.
With VPS, you have root access, that is, you have complete control of your VPS account from the configuration unto the software installations.
VPS providers allow you to host multiple websites on your virtual server, without deteriorating the performance.
VPS providers monitor networks and server hardware regularly to ensure enhanced security of the server, to defend against hacking, DDoS and other cyber attacks.
One of the significant disadvantages of the VPS Hosting Service is the cost of incurring. The high monthly dues you'll have to pay, and the cost of employing the services of experts to help you manage your server.
With VPS, you have limited hardware facilities, remember you still share your server and services with other people, only this time, it is a fewer number.
So technically, there is still slight competition for resources. So, at peak periods, your website may receive a slower server response.
If you are choosing the VPS service, then you should be ready for the increased server responsibilities it brings you.
Although you are not responsible for patches and updates, you are still however responsible for your server.

On Dec. 13, 2008, the Central Mat-Su Fire Department and the Alaska State Fire Marshal's Office contacted ATF Anchorage Field Office and requested assistance in investigating the fire that occurred on Dec. 12.

The on-site investigation revealed an ignitable accelerant that had been poured on and around the exterior of the church in multiple locations, to include the entrances and exits. Evidence recovered from the fire scene was collected and retained by members of the Alaska State Crime Laboratory. The initial damage to the structure is estimated at about $500,000. No injuries have been reported.

"ATF will continue to work diligently alongside our local partners and will make every effort to find the person or persons responsible for this fire," said Dawson. "Most importantly, there were no injuries or deaths related to this incident."

This is an ongoing, joint investigation with the Central Mat-Su Fire Department, the Anchorage Fire Department, the Wasilla Police Department and the State Fire Marshal's Office.

Historically, arson investigators have relied on a variety of indicators to determine how and where a fire started. The physical evidence that "defined" an arson was accepted as "fact" and used in court to support an incendiary cause for a fire.

However, successful defense challenges to many of these indicators has required further scientific validation. ATF's Certified Fire Investigator (CFI) Program has taken fire investigation and analysis beyond a discipline based on experience and has applied scientific and engineering technology.

Today, there are 56 ATF special agents trained as CFIs stationed throughout the United States, and 29 special agents are in the initial stages of training. These agents are the only investigators trained by a Federal law enforcement agency to qualify as expert witnesses in fire cause determinations.

This cadre of origin-and-cause specialists has recently been introduced to the intricacies of computer fire modeling. Through computer software programs, these agents can utilize mathematical equations that describe the chemical and physical behavior of fire. When used properly, these computer programs can simulate a characterized fire, calculating such things as volumetric smoke flow and room temperature as a function of time, the peak heat release rate (or "Q dot," which has come to symbolize the CFI program), and the point at which a transition to flashover will occur.

Although a relatively new tool to law enforcement, computer modeling has proven successful in the courtroom. It has been used as an interrogation tool to verify what a witness or suspect has said and as a means to refute the testimony of a defense witness.<eot>A lot of people don't think about the later part of buying a house which is paying the mortgage interest. Buyers, in their excitement of purchasing a house, often forget to think about other possible options they have that can save those thousands of dollars, if they only take the time to evaluate each one.

Before you choose which lender you go to, find out which one your agent has done business with before. The relationship between your agent and the lender plays an important role in you getting the best loan program. If the lender and your agent have done business before, your lender will know that your agent is someone that can be trusted to bring in qualified buyers, and will make sure that your agent will be satisfied with their service enough to bring in more clients by presenting you with the best program that you will be happy with.

Paperwork can be intimidating for some people who are not knowledgeable on how to go about the requirements. If you do not know what to do, your lender and your agent are there to assist you with all the paperwork and requirements.

Make sure you give the lender correct information in your documents. Your lender may be able to give you fixed loan rate if you have a variable loan rate. Talk to your lender and negotiate, you may have that option in your program.<eot>Luxury Eco-Conscious Fashion | News | FashWand – FashWand® by Azi

New FashWand by Azi Wavy Mesh Capri Arte Leggings "White Giraffe" Design!

Meet the new FashWand by Azi Wavy Mesh Leggings embellished with our intricate White Giraffe Design from The Patterns of Wildlife Collection.

New FashWand by Azi Luxurious "Tropical Moonlight" Painting Silk Scarf

This luxurious scarf is made of soft Silk Crepe de Chine and decorated with Azi's striking Tropical Moonlight painting full of.....

New "White Giraffe" Design Arte Scarf in Silk from The Patterns of Wildlife Collection!

Intricate patterns of one of the most beautiful animals "The Giraffe" and the natural beauty of pink diamonds were the inspiration for the timeless prints and details of this exclusive hand-drawn "White Giraffe" Design from our "Patterns of Wildlife Collection". Tagged:

New Wildlife Jewels® Flip Flops and Tote Gift Set in Ruby Jewels Design!

Our new Wildlife Jewels® Flip Flops and Tote Gift Set in Ruby Jewels Design is now available! Read more

Sneak Peek: New FashWand by Azi Wildlife Jewels® Painting "Sapphire The Spix's Macaw"

We are so excited to be transforming one of our favorite Wildlife Jewels® paintings "Sapphire The Spix's Macaw" into fashion.

The majestic Ruby The Six Plumed Birds of Paradise Painting transformed into Jeweled Embroidery!

FashWand by Azi Wildlife Jewels® "Ruby The Six Plumed Bird of Paradise" Satin Scarf Square

Our new Wildlife Jewels® "Ruby The Six Plumed Bird of Paradise" Arte Scarf Design in Silk Satin is now available!

Introducing Wildlife Jewels® "Ruby The Six Plumed Bird of Paradise" Satin Mai Tini Dress!

Meet the new Wildlife Jewels® "Ruby The Six Plumed Bird of Paradise" Mai Tini Dress in Silk Charmeuse! Inspired by the natural beauty of Six Plumed Birds of Paradise, the gemstone Ruby, and intricate details of Ancient Architecture.

Meet the new FashWand "Tropical Moonlight" Painting Men's Silk Pocket Square!

The original 53" x 36" Tropical Moonlight Painting on Canvas painted by Azi transformed into this stunning pocket square.

White Giraffe and Pink Diamonds + Crushed Black Velvet! New Top and Legging Design!

Black Crushed Velvet + White Giraffe and Pink Diamonds! Discover the new FashWand by Azi mesh leggings and open back top featuring our exclusive "Patterns of Wildlife" White Giraffe design! Tagged:<eot>Collective Intelligence: 🌱🌲 🌱 Nurse Log Notes — a mind garden planted by c wess daniels

wess15th May 2020 at 7:55am

This is the fourth of six aspects of participatory culture I discuss in my Dissertation.

Pierre Levy's Collective Intelligence has taken a key place among participatory cultural studies because of his insight into the contemporary information landscape (Lévy 1997). Collective intelligence is concerned with establishing "social relations" and "constructing society" (Lévy 1997: 10), where the new knowledge-culture is progressing toward an "achievable utopia." In contrast to earlier formulations of fandom as resistance to dominant culture, collective intelligence offers:

A way of thinking about fandom not in terms of resistance but as a prototype or dress rehearsal for the way culture might operate in the future...an achievable utopia—not something that grows inevitably from the new configuration of technologies but rather something we must work toward and fight to achieve. (Henry Jenkins 2006b: 134)

Thus for Jenkins, "fandom is one of those spaces where people are learning how to live and collaborate within a knowledge community" (2006b: 134). Knowledge, within this context, is not simply immaterial but participative, mutual, and relational.

Collective intelligence fosters apprenticing communities, or communities of shared practice (see Bolger 2007) where adherents gain the skills necessary for the thriving of that community, as demonstrated by YouTube. In these communities: work is shared, participation is mutual, and authority is decentralized—no one, or better yet everyone, is an expert. "The basis and goal of collective intelligence is the mutual recognition and enrichment of individuals rather than the culture of fetishized or hypostatized communities" (Lévy 1997: 13). According to Lévy, the future of society is in "the renewal of the social bond through our relation to knowledge and collective intelligence itself" (1997: 11). As participants relate to others in the knowledge community, they are apprenticed, and are mentored into the particular skills necessary for the thriving in that community:

Through our interactions with things, we develop skills. Through our relation to signs and information, we acquire knowledge. Through our relationship to others, mediated by processes of initiation and transmission, we bring knowledge to life. Skill, understanding, and knowledge (which can all refer to the same objects) are three complementary modes of cognitive transaction and continuously interpenetrate one another. Each activity, each act of communication, each human relation implies an apprenticeship. By means of the skills and understanding that it envelops, a life can continuously feed a circuit of exchange, nourish a sociability of knowledge. We can explicitly establish, openly and publicly, mutual apprenticeship as a way of mediating relationships among individuals. Our identities would then become knowledge identities. (Lévy 1997:11-12)

In these communities mutual interactions of learning bring about new knowledge. These interactions entail a sharing of skill, understanding and knowledge. In order to maintain this kind of mutuality of learning and apprenticing, the very practices of the community must nourish this "circuit of exchange, [and] nourish a sociability of knowledge" (1997: 11-12). This approach assumes there are some practices that do not, or no longer, nourish this kind of knowledge identity.

Collective intelligence names a collaboration and pooling of knowledge by all of the members of a community, broadening the horizon through which the entire community is able to operate:

Lévy distinguishes between shared knowledge (which would refer to information known by all members of a community) and collective intelligence (which describes knowledge available to all members of a community). Collective intelligence expands a community's productive capacity because it frees individual members from limitations of their memory and enables the group to act upon a broader range of expertise. (Jenkins 2006b: 139)<eot>In Learning CourseTags hosting cloud, learn affiliate marketing September 3, 2019 Eli Zhang

Well, now, you have selected a niche in affiliate marketing, and you have a branded affiliate marketing domain name.

I assume you probably have your arms akimbo thinking, "what should I do next?".

Alright, so what we have to do now is to choose the appropriate hosting cloud server for your website and in this lesson, you will be learning about the hosting cloud server selection.

Without further ado, let us get onto the next course of action. The next step is to find a suitable hosting service for your affiliate marketing website. Now, I have got you even more perplexed right? 🙂

You must be wondering what a hosting service is? In simple terms, a web hosting service is a kind of internet hosting service that allows you to have your website accessible on the internet.

Similarly, companies that offer these hosting services are referred to as web hosts; they do this by providing server spaces and internet connectivity, which they lease or sell to you.

Some of these companies include HostGator, A2Hosting, BlueHost, DreamHost, GoDaddy, 1&1 IONOS, AWS EC2, among countless others.

Hosting Cloud Server Type

Dedicated Hosting Service Pros & Cons

Now we have that knowledge up our sleeves; it might interest you to know that we have three major types of cloud hosting. They include:

We are going to treat each of these types extensively so that you can make a choice afterward on which kind of cloud hosting service you feel will be more suitable for your affiliate marketing niche.

It's going to be a long and interesting read; hence, I suggest you get yourself a cup of coffee, lean back, and enjoy the read. 🙂

It is a type of web hosting service where numerous websites are connected to a single web server with internet connectivity.

It is the most common type of web hosting service used, and it is relatively cheaper and more economical than the other options.

Here, the cost of maintaining is shared among several customers, all the resources of a single web server such as server space, FTP accounts, database, and bandwidth are shared amongst several websites.

This service also includes system administration, it is ideal for customers and users who do not want to have anything to do with managing the server, but then it is a setback for those users who desire to have more control of their servers.

It is not suitable for users who require an external software outside of the support the hosting service providers give.

On the other hand, it is ideal for those who are content with the support the host providers give.

Here are some of the pros and cons of the shared hosting services:

When compared to other web hosting services, it is relatively cheaper.

This is because the cost of maintenance and additional costs are shared between numerous websites.

Hence, if your budget for an affiliate website is not that fat, then this hosting service is most recommended.

Most hosting providers lease for an average of $7 per month.

System administration, management, and maintenance are taken care of by the hosting providers.

Whew, this is a substantial burden taken off your shoulders, you have no idea how expensive and difficult it is to maintain a server.

Since it is not your responsibility to manage and maintain your server, you do not need to have any prior knowledge of web server administration.

Your hosting service provides you what we call a "cPanel" along with other applications, all user-friendly, form where you can manage your space and website effectively.

The biggest drawback of the shared hosting service is related to security issues that the server might likely face.

Shared servers are vulnerable to hacking and other cyber-related attacks.

Moreover, any attack on the server affects all the websites residing on it.

Since you share the resources of a single server with other websites, sometimes, your site might be sluggish, due to continuous requests from a couple of different websites.

There are limits to how much you can use specific resources as you do not have the server all to yourself.

Sometimes, the servers might overload due to a swamp of requests; this might cause it to stop.

Shared hosting gives you fewer features than other types of hosting services.

You do not get to choose the applications and software you wish to use, because you cannot use software outside what your hosting provider offers.

You might not get the same level of customer support, dedicated hosting, and VPS hosting offers.

With shared hosting service, you get relatively cheap service with some level of customer support; resources use and security.

If your affiliate website is small or medium scale, then this hosting service is ideal for you.

VPS or Virtual Private Server is a type of web hosting service for people that desire just a step ahead of a shared hosting service. Here, VPS allows a fewer number of users to share the resources of the server – hard drive space, CPU time, and memory.

Every user of a VPS server is given access to a virtual machine, which runs on its copy of the operating system.

So with VPS, it is as though you are on a dedicated service, it provides you a similar feel with using a dedicated server.

You do not have a physical server all to yourself, but you have a virtual server.

This is a step forward from the shared hosting service when your affiliate marketing website grows and hence demands more resources and functionalities; you can try out this option of a web hosting service.

To illustrate, let me use this example:

a dedicated server is like having your acre of land, and a house on it, the land, the house, and its resources are yours, all yours.

Shared servers are like living a self-contained apartment; it doesn't give you much space, you have your room and all the space in it, outside the lock of your door, nothing else is yours.

VPS, on the other hand, is somewhere in the middle, it is like having a flat – which is bigger than a single room, you have access to a balcony and all other resources that might even make you live independent of your neighbors.

Let us look at some of the pros and cons of the Virtual Private Server.

Unlike shared hosting service, the traffic and requests of other VPS users do not adversely affect your affiliate marketing website; hence, this service is more stable than the shared hosting services.

You have all to yourself a virtual allotment of resources with lesser limitations, more memory, hard drive space, and CPU time and power. Hence you can offer your customers a better user experience, as it features a faster loading time.

You have a choice of the operating system and software you want to be installed on the server since you have your own virtual space.

With VPS, you have root access, that is, you have complete control of your VPS account from the configuration unto the software installations.

VPS providers allow you to host multiple websites on your virtual server, without deteriorating the performance.

VPS providers monitor networks and server hardware regularly to ensure enhanced security of the server, to defend against hacking, DDoS and other cyber attacks.

One of the significant disadvantages of the VPS Hosting Service is the cost of incurring. The high monthly dues you'll have to pay, and the cost of employing the services of experts to help you manage your server.

With VPS, you have limited hardware facilities, remember you still share your server and services with other people, only this time, it is a fewer number.

So technically, there is still slight competition for resources. So, at peak periods, your website may receive a slower server response.

If you are choosing the VPS service, then you should be ready for the increased server responsibilities it brings you.

Although you are not responsible for patches and updates, you are still however responsible for your server.