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Web Hosting And Domains

By admin on Monday, September 6th, 2010 | No Comments

This article is going to explain why it’s a good idea to have your own domain and paid web-hosting.

To put things plainly if you want people to take you seriously online it’s best to have your own website. It isn’t entirely necessary to buy web-hosting or your own domain if you don’t want to if you’re just starting out and money is tight. You can get free hosting and a free domain by just searching with Google for free web-hosting, but there will be limitations to what you can do with your site. In the long run it’s best to go for paid hosting as having your own domain looks more professional and you have full control over what you can do with it, and it may not be as expensive as you might think.

If you decide on paid hosting then I suggest you go for a host that allows you to have unlimited domains, which means you can have as many websites as you like, and has a CPanel user interface. A CPanel interface gives you massive control over your domains and makes life so much easier if you need to edit web-pages or upload files etc. Two such web-hosting companies are Hostgator, which is just about the most popular web-host around and Bluehost who are also extremely popular and who I use myself.

I pay about $7 a month for my hosting at Bluehost, which is about the same price as a couple of cups of coffee. So if you can afford to buy hosting then I seriously recommend you check out these two web-hosting companies and see what they have to offer. Remember though that buying a new domain will set you back around $10 so this is worth considering. These are of course just two hosting companies among many so it’s always advisable to do your own research.

Advantages & Disadvantages of Free & Paid Web Hosting.

Free Hosting – Advantages

• It’s FREE! That’s about it on the advantages side.

Free Hosting – Disadvantages

• More often than not, the web-host you are with will place advertisements on your site that you have no control over. This is one reason it may look unprofessional.

• Don’t be surprised if your host change their terms and conditions which give them the right to do put ads on your site that they may not have done before.

• Some free hosts have chosen to stop their free service in the past and change to paid hosting. This means you either start paying a fee or you lose your website and all your hard work.

• Your URL will most probably be <a target=”_new” href=”http://www.yourusername/domainname.com”>http://www.yourusername/domainname.com</a> or <a target=”_new” href=”http://www.domainname.com/username”>http://www.domainname.com/username</a>. Again this doesn’t look professional.

• Probably the worst scenario would be that your hosting company just disappears, and your website disappears with them never to be seen again!

Paid Hosting – Disadvantages

• You have to pay.

Paid Hosting – Advantages

• When you choose a domain name then that is what is displayed in the URL. For example www. domainname.com. Now that looks way more professional.

• You control what is displayed on your site and how your site looks.

• Feel the need to change your hosting company? It’s a lot simpler to transfer from one paid hosting company to another.

• If you have any problems then most hosting companies provide 24/7 support and most offer a host of help videos if your struggling.

• You get way more bandwidth and disk space and you should have plenty to suit all of your requirements.

If you’re serious about making money online then it’s pretty certain that you will be buying more than just the one domain. If you have never paid for hosting before and never had your own website before than even this simple step can seem daunting. I found it daunting at first. So many things to learn and hardly any time to learn them but it isn’t that hard. It’s really quite simple, it just takes a little time to understand how things work, such as how to build a website and upload it to your hosting account. How to upload files, move files, delete files etc. As with anything, new it just takes a bit of time to get the hang of things, and this is no different.

If you decide to go with Hostgator web-hosting then use the code in red to get a $9.94 discount. COUPON9876. With this saving you can use it to buy a brand new domain!

How to Select the Best Blog Hosting Provider

By admin on Sunday, September 5th, 2010 | No Comments

A blog hosting provider is a company or a person that “hosts” your blog on his or her own server space. When you wish to set up your own blog, choosing the blog hosting provider is probably one of the most confusing tasks.

Since blogging has become a business where companies hire bloggers to tackle different subjects ranging from consumer electronics to the best movies of all time, choosing the best blog hosting provider is the most important factor to be successful in a blogging career.

When shopping around for blog hosting providers, you can narrow down your search by dividing them into three categories – exclusive blog hosting providers, web hosting providers and web hosting resellers. Exclusive blog hosting providers and web hosting providers offer both paid and free services.

Blog Hosting Providers: Know Your Options as a Blogger

When choosing a blog hosting provider, you have to determine your blogging needs and preferences as well as the intended purpose of the blog. Some people create blogs as a personal journal, while other people create blogs to make money. Determining your intended purpose will be a factor in choosing the blog hosting provider that will meet your needs.

If you’re not familiar with HTML or other encoding, you could look for blog hosting providers that offers simple, no-setup interfaces for blogs. However, if you want to have total control by completely customizing your blog, you could search for blog hosting providers that offer unlimited features and options for bloggers like you.

Unlike free web hosting providers, blog hosting providers can give more chances of a blogger’s exposure compared to paid blog hosting, especially if you wish to set up a blog to make money. This is because popular blog hosting providers, which are on the top list of a search engine result, can give your blog exposure to a wider audience because of the automatic encoding included in the service.

On the other hand, when you choose to host your blog with web hosting providers, you will be in control of the look, template, interface, add-ons to include and other features you wish to include on your blog. However, when choosing web hosting services rather than blog hosting providers, make sure that you have basic knowledge of HTML, different encoding methods and techniques to market your blog site.

Simply put, choosing the blog hosting provider depends on how well you can create, manage and market your blog site. If you’re an IT-savvy person and you want total control over your blog site, then go with a paid web hosting provider. However, if you want to blog to make money, to create your personal journal or to obtain instant fame without encoding or HTML knowledge, then your best bet is to go with blog hosting providers.

How To Open A Free Google Web Site

By admin on Saturday, September 4th, 2010 | No Comments

Google has started offering limited free web hosting.

First off you must have a Google Gmail account.

I have two Gmail accounts and while I was signed into my main email I was researching Free Web Hosting for a personal project. I found several Free web hosts and I signed up for a two. They both said you will get a response in two business days after you join our forum. I do not quite understand what that is about.

Anyway I stumbled onto an article about a Google Free Web Site. I did a little bit more digging. Then when I did a search for “Google Web Hosting” on Google a web page opened up. I went ahead and built a test page and edited the page and saved it. Then I built another page and edited that one also. I linked them together, the link interface is the easiest linking I have ever done. Maybe I am just getting a little more link savvy.

The Google Page Creator interface to choose your web page design is also very simple and easy to use.

The pages use with my Google email address in the website address.

http://zbikenut.googlepages.com/

Zbikenut [http://zbikenut.googlepages.com/%20]

I found this interesting and wondered if I could rename it. I fumbled around and no such luck. Your first website will use the name of your Gmail account. I did find that I could build more websites. At this time Google will let you have 5 different website names including your first unchangeable one.

All of your website names will end in .googlepages.com.

Depending on what you want to do this is a very simple way to build a web site. In less than thirty minutes you can easily put a couple of pages up if you are familiar with a basic word processor.

You can build a blog for free at Blogger.com also but I think you can present and organize information much better on a simple website than on a blog where the latest post is what dominates.

For Beginning Web site classes this is awesome. I do not think these pages will rank highly on the search engines but I do not know.

Web Hosting The Pros And Cons

By admin on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

The Pros and Cons of Managed Hosting

Managed hosting is a type of internet hosting using a dedicated server. For you, the client, this means that you have the server to yourself and you do not share digital space with anyone else. This is also called a dedicated hosting service. Using a dedicated service like this will enable you to have complete control over the programs, operating system, the hardware, and other specifications. The server administration is usually provided through the hosting company as an add-on service. In many cases, a dedicated or managed hosting service can have fewer overheads and can cost much less to run or purchase for a company.

It is ideal for large online corporations, as the extra room allowed by the exclusivity of the server can enable more programs and computer to run off the server.

Another ideal feature for larger companies is the ability to perform updates and patches to programs, whereas a shared hosting service would prevent that. In addition to this, the availability of high powered networks from multiple providers enables server providers to secure massive amounts of bandwidth, thus providing for a lower price for its clients.

There are on the other hand a few downsides to this hosting.

It does come at a price as most managed servers will cost significantly more than unmanaged servers. They can mean different things to different companies, so you must be clear on these differences before committing.

Problems can still occur on your server, so you must feel you can trust the company that is supplying this service to you.

And lastly you will have less control of your server, so this is maybe not so much of an option for the technically minded that prefer to have more control of their server environment.

In this scenario you can see the pros really do out way the cons.

Shared Hosting – Weighing up the pros and the cons

In sharp contrast, shared hosting means a simple partition is placed in-between companies programs and services. Often, programs or services may even be shared. This allows for viruses and bad code to easily be shared across the partition. This allows bots and other harmful malware to creep across the partitioned platforms and destroy your data. Even though shared hosting may be cheaper than dedicated hosting, in the long run it really isn’t. Shared hosting is also improbable for most companies in other respects, since it is not large enough to hold most the programs a large corporation would take. Additionally, you the client cannot use the programs you want. You are forced to use the hardware, programs, and operating system that are provided by the host of the shared server.

On the plus side, it can provide reliable web presence without having special technical skills.

It can be divided into 2 subtypes -Free and Paid.

Free Hosting allows you to try new ideas without the expense. It provides you with everything necessary for your floating site.

You should however NOT expect the best conditions for your site as Bandwidth and Disk space is limited.

Web statistics are also poorly provided.

Paid Hosting provides features that free hosting doesn’t such as multiply e-mail, MySQI and PHP which are all supported. Whether you want to host a small, intermediate or large professional business website, this can be used.

Using shared hosting you get a very good chance of hosting your site on a powerful, well administrated server at a low monthly cost.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Free Web Hosting

By admin on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Getting Things Everyone loves free, but webmasters receive free web hosting service provider by their better knowledge of a webmaster to understand the advantages and disadvantages of free hosting and as they become beneficiaries.

To all webmasters, hosting may be the right to work a challenge. Free hosting and dedicated are just some of the options available for yourdisposal. Some categories like PHP, DS and shared web hosting is included in the broad genres.

Free hosting is where a webmaster doesn’t pay anything to the host. Examples of free services are banner ads. The client gets good decisions from the web hosts because very few ideas remain in this kind of services. The problem however with free hosting is that Mysql database is not provided to the Client.

On this point, there is no lack of different e-mail account, or inability to perform scripting languages is not available for customers of these services. Customers receive a free domain through the web-hosting, but would seek a sub-domain, or at most a directory that does not support the client in web promotion.

The more viable option every webmaster who can not afford to have a valid hosting because of the costinvolved, is to choose a minor hosting to assist receiving dedicated hosting with full use of free services. Investments made by the client for receiving a cheap yet dedicated hosting will be a great return on investment in the process because of many advantages one gets along the way.

If what is needed is higher bandwidth and greater storage, dedicated web hosting service is your most viable solution. More database, email address and unlimited bandwidth are what dedicated web server is all about which is an advantageous alternative for hosting services. Normally dedicated server plans give web masters bandwidth ranging from 500 GB to 1 Tb per month, which needless to mention, it is more than enough for all website jobs to be done.

Undamaged dedicated web hosting gives the client better control and lots of flexibilities because the server administrator is the user. Be advised though that it takes a lot of time and is not cheap compared to manage hosting solutions. Look at the internet and you will discover there are lots of hosting services available at your disposal, from free hosting to affordable paid hosting plans.

For web masters logging in webhostgear.com could be needed help they can get on topics like windows hosting, and best web hosting service which can be found in the market. This website is the best web server guide.

About Unlimited Space For Web Hosting

By admin on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Just a couple of short years ago unlimited web space hosting seemed fake. You might sign up, but you would quickly find tons of nasty overages on your account before you even started getting into things. This was true of an Internet connection in the past or even unlimited cell phone plan until you found out that unlimited really ment reasonable usage amounts. The Internet and online world has become more competitive with hosting provides which means they had to step up when it comes to competition. This works to your advantage because you will be able to find tons of great offers that will be able to meet your needs and the needs of your business as your business grows over times.

There are many different types of unlimited web space hosting that you should be aware of. Your service provider might be able to provide you with a combination of information on different unlimited features. The first thing is web hosting where you can have an unlimited number of domains. This will allow you to see which domain names are going to work for you and which will not. You need to ensure that you will have an unlimited number of databases to make sure they have enough space for more then 25 websites. This hosting works great if you are using a bunch of smaller websites. Those of you that are lucky enough to have 25 websites that perform well might not have to worry about bandwidth space.

Other types of hosting plans that exist are unlimited email hosting. The majority of hosts out there will provide you with a couple thousand email addresses free of charge. There is no reason as to why you would need these unless you were hosting an entire blog network! If you did need this kind of hosting you should know that it does exist.

The most highly regarded host is the unlimited bandwidth host. You can pay more money for this type of host, but if you have an enormous site it is worth it. You should certainly check up on the fine print to make sure that you are not getting into an unlimited or reasonable use situation. You should try to combine this with other unlimited features to make sure that you have all that you need for your site to grow.

To find web hosting that is truly unlimited would be the ultimate goal. You might consider going with a host that costs slightly less money, but it will provide you with all of the space you need.

Free Web Hosting – What’s the Catch?

By admin on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 | No Comments

Is FREE web hosting really free? What are some of the clauses that are attached to it?

1. Service may offer crappy servers which have very poor uptime.

2. Ads may be served on your page.

3. Share a percentage of money earned from your website.

4. Its totally free!

It is still technically possible to get absolutely free hosting, some strings attached. The servers are really crappy, and your websites are likely to be down for a few hours everyday. Almost all of these free web hosting sites that you will encounter, offer no interface or a poor interface with extremely limited features. There is no support team what so ever and there is nothing much that can be done, when your website goes down. Anyway, there is never a chance to complain, since the service is offered for free. It is a good idea to google for the company name, check for their alexa ratings and similar metrics before you decide to stick with free webhosting.

WordPress:

The next best thing of getting a free website are the industry leaders WordPress and blogger. While WordPress is totally free, you may rarely see ads served on your page. Also, there are a few restrictions that are tagged along with WordPress. For instance, you cannot write sponsored content on your webpage. While sub-domains are free, you cannot use your own domain for free(Pointing your own domain is a premium feature and costs $15 per year). Even with all these clauses, WordPress.com is still the leading blogging platform for its awesome features.

Blogger:

The next best thing is google’s blogger. While blogger has been around for even longer time than WordPress, it is not cutting edge technology. The website builder has seen some changes recently, but it is not extremely flexible. You have the option of using CSS to create custom themes, but this demands some technical expertise. The interface is not so intuitive, the plugins are so very limited. For instance, it is so easy to add social bookmarks and seo plugins in a click with WordPress. The number of theme options in blogger has been on the rise and has become a substantial collection. The good news though is Blogger offers complete free webhosting, no strings attached. There are no ads served on your page and you get to voice your own opinion, no matter what, which is not the case with WordPress.

Devhub:

Devhub is a free website builder where you get free web hosting. The service offers unlimited free subdomains and also you can use your existing top levels domains for free. The website builder is truly cutting edge, offers drag and drop features with tons of modules. The sweet part of devhub is that these modules can help you make money, and you can add, remove, edit, move around modules in a matter of seconds. However, you get to share the revenue made from these modules with devhub. This is a great option for many people who lack technical expertise to build websites and also do not wish to pay for web hosting. The number of theme options is quite limited relative to blogger and WordPress. Just like blogger, you can customize themes with your own CSS.

Wix:

If you are a fan of flash websites, wix might be a good solution for you. There are a lot of themes to pick up from and the interface is good. There are ads served on your website though and you cannot use your existing domains for free. This is a good fit for invitations, portfolio kind of websites. However flash websites suck at SEO and hence if you need a business page, wix is definitely not the way to go.

Unlimited Reseller Webhosting – Does it Really Work?

By admin on Monday, August 30th, 2010 | No Comments

Take a moment to define what unlimited Reseller web hosting. How does it work? You can get unlimited bandwidth, unlimited space, unlimited client, you can specify a maximum of hosting. The possibility of unlimited Reseller web hosting companies offer more and more web hosting.

To make it work, you must register as a reseller unlimited hosting company. Thereseller hosting account control panel, WHM (Web Hosting Manager) will be given to you. cPanel is used by many hosting companies and is highly recommended. Your clients will go here to manage their website. Your client is able to create multiple sites that all point back to the main website by adding different domains. The great graphic ports and automation tools designed to simplify hosting a web site that cPanal offers, is incomparable to other systems in my opinion.

You can create accounts through WHM for new customers, add domain names, create different hosting packages which you can sell to different prices. These programs are encrypted by SSH. You will have total control over the accounts you are hosting as an unlimited reseller. This gives you the ability to suspend and terminate accounts.

You can create unlimited domain packages and use your account without worrying about over-usage and disk space limits. This gives them peace of mind.

Web hosting without major restrictions will give your clients more value for their money. With these packages you are guaranteed the opportunity to resell at a fast pace and you can offer your clients unlimited bandwidth and web space at competitive prices. A final plus point to unlimited reseller programs are the free domain reseller accounts such as the reseller club.

When you have signed up as an unlimited reseller with a primary host you can be sure in the knowledge that they are there to offer you any assistance you may need, ensuring that your business will be uncomplicated and rewarding. You can offer your clients a great product and you are very competitive with an unlimited reseller account.

Unlimited Domains Web Hosting

By admin on Sunday, August 29th, 2010 | No Comments

If you want to get the best value for your money when it comes to choosing a web hosting provider, then you will want to look for a number of things, one of which is whether or not they offer unlimited domains web hosting. You should be able to pay one flat monthly service fee and be able to host as many domain names as you want, without limit.

Going hand-in-hand with this, you should also be able to get unlimited inbound and outgoing e-mail addresses and unlimited bandwidth. unlimited storage, however, might be a bit 'difficult cost-effective, although some hosting providers, but can offer.

Why is that a lot? You do not put all your eggs in one basket? If you only plan to host a special domain alone might not matter or make no difference to you. But if he has left open the possibility of> Web hosting multiple sites, so make sure you do very well to domains to choose a web hosting account limit.

Typical of a domain unlimited web hosting account is offered as an optional part of a server dedicated hosting. This means that you lease the entire server for exclusive use of a dedicated. It will not be jointly hosting provider to another client of the particular. This providesgreater flexibility and room to grow and expand your Web presence without breaking your budget. In fact, you will have full management control of the server.

Free Web Hosting Versus Low Price Web Hosting Service

By admin on Saturday, August 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Are you looking for company providers that will host your website into worldwide web? Most of the time, people misunderstand the concept of having cheap service. They are thinking that if they’re going to utilize low-priced web hosting, the quality would be poor. I must say that it is now all the time.

There’s a lot of web hosting company claiming that they can give you the first-class service at low price. Yes, some of them are maybe just promising, but some are not. However people tend to make use of free web hosting to test on how far they can go in online business without spending any single cent.

Compare this; if you’re going to make use of free web hosting, you may encounter stuff that will create problems into your website. Most of free web hosting service only gives you headache as you’re going to promote bunch of advertisement that sometimes not marked on your site context. These ads are only moving potential visitors away rather than attract them to return to navigate the site. Even with lots of data in your store needs the page, it takes forever to download your entire script and graphics used because it has less bandwidth.

On the other hand, good quality but cheap hosting, you can receive many benefits. Cheap web hosting service can be sharedwhich is very popular in today’s internet marketing. Although you have to throw out some penny (5$ a month or something like that), it will give you the guarantee that the service you pay for is worth it. Most of shared hosting has unlimited data storage, large amount of bandwidth and customer service. It will give you functional website building experience. You don’t have to worry about how you can design your website because some of hosting company provide ready made template that you can use anytime. The only fact that might turn you off is you’re going to share server with other websites. You can always switch to dedicated hosting if you want to solely lease the server, though at higher price.

It is just a matter of searching on which hosting company can give you the best quality of service at low price. You can read some reviews that will give you the idea on how you can find good and reliable hosting providers. Even top web hosting company offers cheap shared web hosting as part of their promotion. But before jumping into them, you better check their background and business record so that you will have nothing to regret in the future.

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