Talking About the Top 10 Web Hosting Providers
July 31, 2009 by Web Hosting Watch
Filed under Windows Hosting
The top 10 web hosts are considered to be top from the rest because of their unique capabilities as a web hosting provider. Normally, the popularity of a particular web hosting provider is judged on the basis of many factors such as : number of awards won, the review’s of other websites and also the Alexa traffic ranking etc. Some of the web hosting category awards for 2007, are as follows: 1) Best budget web hosting. 2) Best blog web hosting. 3) Best forum web hosting. 4) Best unix web hosting. 5) Best windows web hosting. 6) Best php web hosting. 7) Best email web hosting.
Best e-commerce web hosting. 9) Best multiple domain web hosting. 10) Best reseller web hosting. 11) Best virtual private server hosting. 12) Best dedicated server hosting.
To identify a web host, can be a very difficult experience since there are so many web hosts available nowadays. All of them sound good and reliable. However, I am going to talk about the top 10 web hosting providers and based on the basis of their features and other factors, who can then decide which one is suitable for you.
1) Bluhost web hosting provider ranks first among the top 10 web hosting providers. It is affordable and provides reliable web hosting solutions. Bluehost hosting plan consists of free domain name, free setup, free $50 yahoo search marketing credit, free $50 google Adwords credit, 24/7 support plan and a 30 day money back policy is also being provided. You can enjoy the facility of hosting unlimited domains in one account. A professional web hosting plan is being provided for $6.95 a month.
2) Yahoo web hosting provider is considered as the most reliable hosting provider. It stands second among the top 10 web hosting providers. The plan includes free domain name, $100 yahoo credit and $50 google credit offer.
3) Hostmonster: is known for its cheap unix hosting. It ranks third among the top 10 web hosting provider. It offers a free domain forever. It includes $50 yahoo credit and $50 google credit.
4) HostingPad: is known for its cheap unix hosting. It is the fourth among the top 10 web hosting provider. The package includes free domain forever, $25 yahoo credit and $30 google credit.
5) Vistapages: is fifth among the top 10 web hosting provider. The package includes a free domain facility and $25 yahoo credit. It is known for its cheap web hosting facility.
6) FastNext: is the sixth among the 10 web hosting provider. It is popular as a cheap reseller hosting provider. It includes 500gb space and free domain name.
7) Lunarpages: stands seventh among the top 10 web hosting provider and is known for its best shared hosting facility. It provides free domain forever and facilitates hosting of 11 domains.
Startlogic: is considered as the best value hosting provider. It stands eight among the top 10 web hosting provider. It offers free domain name, can allow a hosting facility of 50 domains. It provides easy to use professional multiple domain web hosting solutions, free domain, free setup, free $50 yahoo search marketing credit.
9) Dot5hosting: is considered as the best budget hosting provider among the top 10 web hosting provider. It is a professional and reliable web hosting provider. The package includes free domain, free setup, free $50. Yahoo search marketing, credit, 24/7 support facility and 30 day money back policy. Also, you can host up to 6 domains in one account. The Dot5hosting plan starts from $4.95 a month.
10) 1and 1: This hosting provider stands tenth among the top 10 web hosting provider. It is known for its cheap web hosting plan. It offers a space of 120gb, 2 free domains is being provided and also offers $25 yahoo credit and $25 google credit.
The top 10 web hosting rankings are given based on their best price, host reliability, uptime, its key features, customer support facility, past and current user feedbacks, user – friendliness and their hosting awards.
Realtors, Start Using Google Analytics
July 31, 2009 by Web Hosting Watch
Filed under Webmaster Tools
Realtors are you looking for a way to track visitors to your website. Advertising has always been the life blood of the real estate industry, but it has always been difficult to judge what advertising was working. In mid November Google announced a new free service called “Google Analytics”. Google had previously offered this service under the name “Urchin”. Urchin was a wonderful way to track traffic through your website. However, Urchin cost around $299 per month, and was out of the reach of most small businesses. Well get ready for some good news. Google Analytics can help Realtors use performance data to improve their online marketing campaigns and websites. With Google Analytics, realtors can determine what keywords attract the most visitors, which email campaigns create more customers, and how to design web pages that hold people’s attention. Best of all, it is completely free if you have an active Google “AdWords” pay per click advertising account.
“We want to give all online marketers and publishers access to powerful web analytics to help them better understand what their customers want. With this knowledge, businesses can create more accurate advertising and build better websites,” said Paul Muret, Google engineering director, and one of the founders of Urchin. “By making this powerful service free, we aim to give all websites, large and small, the tools they need to better serve their customers, make more money, and improve the web experience for everyone”.
Google Analytics tracks all of your online marketing. Be it email, newsletters, pay per click, natural search results, or any other online advertising you can think of. Get visual summaries of traffic in the form of graphs and pie charts. Track conversions on your real estate website without hunting through complicated reports. You will quickly see any problem areas. Get real time feed back on your Google pay per click, or Yahoo advertising campaigns. See what keywords your customers are using to find your real estate website. The Google analytics dashboard gives you a clear visual format that is fast and easy to digest.
If you have an AdWords account, you can access Google Analytics directly from your AdWords control panel. Google Analytics also saves you time by automatically importing all your keyword data from AdWords. So you see return on investment and other key metrics for every keyword you have in your AdWords pay per click advertising campaign with no extra effort on your part, just by using Google Analytics.
If your a professional realtor with a website, you should be using a Google pay per click advertising campaign to promote your real estate website. You can list the keywords that you want to use. You can customize your ads within minutes. You can change your ads on the fly and see the results live on Google in ten minutes. Setting up a Google advertising account only takes about ten minutes and the start up cost is five dollars. Once your real estate advertising campaign is in place Google analytics will show you what is working and just as importantly, what’s not working. Just setting up an account is easy enough, however it is a good idea to seek the help of a full time Google AdWords professional. A professionally created AdWords advertising campaign can save you from some expensive mistakes and can help you get the positive results you are looking for in a very short time.
Web Hosting Empowers
July 31, 2009 by Web Hosting Watch
Filed under Windows Hosting
If you want to take part in the internet as a business, information resource, directory, or as a hobbyist wanting to share data, information and knowledge with the many people and communities on the internet, you have to contain this in a central spot on the internet. You have to own a piece of space in cyberspace.
Web hosting empowers you and anyone with a computer and internet connection to own a piece of cyberspace. In your space, you can have news, bulletins, documents, data, files (your web site) and your own post office (mail server) to accept mail, all in the context of you or your business. This is your space and to get this space you either have to own a piece of the physical internet with a network connection to the internet backbone and computer(s) operating as server(s) offering access to your files and post office, for people on the internet to view your web site or send and receive email with you.
The cost of owning a direct connection to the backbone and a server dedicated to a web site and email is out of reach for the average business and especially general members of the internet. Even running a web site and mail server on your own computer when it is connected to the internet requires a lot of technical ability and knowledge. The internet itself has to be your business for either of these options to be viable.
In our modern society, for every person in business or with a career in most industries today, it is imperative to have a place in cyberspace, not just to be competitive but to survive. Web hosting companies were born out of this great need to provide an environment for the masses to own a piece of cyberspace, to offer an environment where people could have their piece of cyberspace on the internet 24/7 without the great cost. Web hosting companies developed a model where they could split up areas on the servers connected to the backbone and? rent? This space, cutting the costs across many people sharing the server and backbone connection to the internet.
In a web-hosting environment, you are offered a web site to place your files, data, documents, and bulletins for people to access with their web browser and an email server for you to send and receive email messages. The web host will also provide you a means to get an address for people to get to your web site with a web browser and post email to you.
To obtain space in a web hosting environment you become a member and agree to terms and conditions of renting the space ? Just as if you were to rent a house or commercial premises for your business. Once you agree and become a member, you are given an access code, a key, to your piece of cyberspace. This key, in the form of a login and password, allows you to connect to the web hosting server and up-load (transfer to) your web site so it can be accessed on the internet. Your login and password is also used to connect to a mail server to create and administer mailboxes to send and receive email for you, your staff, or family members.
Just like when you rent a house or commercial premises for your business, you have so many rooms, bathrooms, and floor space to use. In a web-hosting environment, your area is defined as disk space and network transfer.
Disk space is measured in Megabytes (MB) or Gigabytes (GB). Megabyte roughly means 1,024,000 characters and Gigabyte roughly means 1,024 Million characters. Imagine a character as one key on your key board. These amounts determine how many files, documents, or data you can have on your web site.
Network Transfer is also measured in Megabytes or gigabytes which determines how much data (how many of your files, documents or data) can be downloaded (transferred to) people accessing your web site. The more people or the more data each person accesses on your web site the more data is transferred on the network.
The more disk space and network transfer you use the greater percentage of the web-hosting environment you are using? Therefore the higher the rent.
Just as no office building and home is the same, neither is every web-hosting environment. Some offices have stairs, others have lifts, some houses have enquires, swimming pools, and gardens,? And others do not. Web-hosting environments are much the same, some offer bare structures to do just the basics and others offer an array of features and facilities to help you do just about everything you could ever need or want. Some of the features and facilities likely to be offered are ranges of software to use, components, databases, and server side script processing.
The similarity of renting an office or home to renting space in a web-hosting environment is even more similar. With some buildings a gardener and/or a guard is available to look after the gardening or provide security. In a web-hosting environment, you have support people to help you do what you need to do on your web site to make it grow and there are server administrators to protect and secure your web-hosting space.
When you rent a building there are key parts needed to work or live in the space, like rooms, offices, kitchens, toilets, and bathrooms. In your web-hosting environment, you will find equally important components that are required to make the space workable. The core components in a web-hosting environment are:
Web Server
The web server is a relatively simple piece of software that accepts requests over HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and delivers HTML pages and Image files.
FTP Server
FTP is the means of which a web master can transfer files to and from the server. To put your HTML and image files on a server you will generally use FTP to upload (transfer to) your files to the server running the web server.
Mail Server
The mail server consists of two parts POP (Post Office Protocol) and SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). POP is where email is received into your mailbox and SMTP is what is used to send and receive email between mail servers.
Database Server
If you are using server side scripting on your web server (you use something like Microsoft Internet Information Server) then instead of providing? static? Data only on web pages you can provide data from a database allowing your users to search and view the data in different and dynamic way. Also, a Database server is used to gather data from visitors to your site; orders, feedback, discussions and the like.
Each one of the above components is software programs running on servers in the web-hosting environment. You can interact with each of these with special software programs you use on your computer. The main ones being:
Web Browser
when viewing the web you use a web browser like Internet Explorer. Many web hosting companies provide a ?Control Panel? To administer your web host account, which you use with your web browser. Most allow you to configure most aspects of your account using a simple web browser.
Web site/page editor
today many web servers allow editing of WebPages over HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) based on Microsoft FrontPage technology. These special editors allow you to essentially look at your web site as if you were using a web browser and edit the pages directly as you see them using WYSWIG (What you see if what you get) technology. Most web hosting environments support this, and if you are starting out, make sure it is available. One tip: make sure the web host providing this really does understand this technology? It is the main area of which many hacks and security intrusions occur.
FTP Client
This is a very simple piece of software that allows you to view the server folders and files in your web host account as if they were files and folders on your own computer. You can then drag and drop files between you computer and your web host account.
Email Client
If you are on the internet you would already is using an email client to send and receive your email. The most common are Outlook Express, Eudora and Web based mail clients like Hotmail.
Database Administration Client
The most common databases used with web servers are Microsoft SQL Server (available only on Windows) and MySQL (commonly found on Linux and UNIX but also available on Windows). SQL Server comes with its own administration client where you can view your databases, edit them, backup data and do all the administration functions you need. MySQL has an active online community where there is a range of administration clients available.
Choosing a web host is, again, similar to choosing a house to live in or commercial premises to do business. You need to define what it is you require: how much space you need and what features and facilities you need.
If you have been reading this article because this is new to you, then it is likely at this stage you only need minimal space and basic facilities. Once you have worked with the basic facilities you will learn more and become aware of greater facilities and features and then you can simple move from one web? hosting environment to another ? Paying more or paying less. Moving in cyberspace is much easier, faster, and more seamless than physically moving house or commercial premises.
Initially you may use the web-hosting environment offered by your ISP (internet Service provider), the company you use to connect to the internet. But remember these companies main business is connecting many thousands of people to the internet ? Not managing web hosting environments. You will generally find they offer less than basic facilities and minimal space.
If you are just starting out with your first web site the first major choice you will be faced with is? UNIX? Or? Windows? For a person just starting out on the internet, both are equally capable and will offer the facilities you need to have your place in cyberspace.
If you have a web designer or technical person to help you, you only need to consider how much space you really need. With this simple idea in mind, when you are just starting out, owning your piece of cyberspace will not cost anymore than $8 per month. Many web-hosting companies will offer what you need for as little as $3 per month (usually paid yearly).
If you are going alone and doing it all yourself you may want to consider an account with a web hosting company that offers and prides itself on it’s support and customer service, 24/7 support access and the experience, knowledge and skill of it’s server administrators. Remember, these are the gardeners and the guards who take care of your environment.
Web hosting is very simple and straightforward an once you obtain your space in cyberspace you will never want to let it go and you can easily move it where you want as a turtle carries it’s shell on it’s back. Always remember you are not stuck in the first web-hoisting environment you choose.
Web hosting is your space in cyberspace and it is imperative to have a place in cyberspace in our modern society, just as it is to have an office to do business.
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The World of a Thousand Businesses! The Secret to Being Seen on the Top of The Mountain.
July 30, 2009 by Web Hosting Watch
Filed under Top 10 WebHosts
The market online for any business is usually so over-saturated with companies that the selection process for a future possible client is a very tough one. Just think if you were to go online and search at google for “web hosting”. You will get around 265,000,000 results returned back to you and if your like me you just don’t have that much time to search. Lets say out of these results that even 1/10000th or 26,500 are actually webhosting companies(probably far more). Do you think even if you were to review them all that you could make a clear decision? I don’t think you could but what would help you make a decision is an attraction developed to some of the sites you’ve visited. This attraction was probably created by the brand and website design which left an image in your mind. This is another form of marketing that allows a company to stay in your mind even after you leave their site. This is the secret on how you can be seen on top of that huge mountain of companies!
Now that you figured out the secret you have to take the steps to using it to gain the edge on your competition and trust me you can. You goals for your company will start to become clearer at this point with you developing a marketing plan based around your website. It is a two step process. Step One(1) is to get people to your website. Step Two(2) is to have people remember you even after they exit your site. Especially having them bookmark you so that they can come back any time and never have to worry about forgetting your url. This is why it is important to have a book mark link on your website!
While developing your website so that it is memorable you also have to make sure that it is stimulating to the mind. That it what really makes visitors think and want to find out more about your company. Once you achieve this you have to combine the design with features that the user can enjoy as well as get use out of. This will be a two prong approach where your activate the mind by not only the design or colors but you also get the mind moving and stimulate it with great website features(actually workable elements such as a domain look up, site builder ect…).
Using this approach will leave a lasting impression on anyone who visits your website and will keep them coming back for more.
Buying Profitable Expired Domain Names-Part I
July 30, 2009 by Web Hosting Watch
Filed under Domain Registrations
If you are a newbie to the world of expired domain names, buying a good domain name is not as simple as it looks or feels. If you succeed in buying a good expired domain name, your buyers will find it an attractive option to purchase it even at a very good price. On the other hand, if you make a bad purchase, you may never be able to sell it to anyone even at very low prices. Buying expired domain names needs a lot of skills and practical knowledge. Before buying a set of domain names that are expiring soon, you may wish learn the basic tricks of locating a good name. This article provides you some of the most common problems associated with buying an expired domain name and how you can take right decisions at the right time.
Everyone keeps taking continuously about domain name extensions and their possible benefits and demerits. Almost every other country now sells domains with its own extensions. As an expired domain trader, you have a range of choices and options while buying a domain name. However, the current preference and flavor is still the dot com extensions, as most of the internet surfers have a habit of typing .com name, even though they are not sure of the actual domain name. Strangely, people never remember any other extensions, other than a name with dot com extension.
It is a blessing in disguise for most expired domain name traders as web surfers automatically type in.com most of the time. Next to a dot com web domain name, web surfers remember .net and .org extensions. If you are not successful in buying a dot com name, you can choose a good .net expired domain name. If you are running a non profit, you can go ahead and buy a dot org name. However, you can stay clear of this name as the current demand for an expired dot org name is very low.
Of late, two other extensions, dot biz and dot info expired domain names are available for purchase with a number of expired domain traders. Several leading businesses and organizations prefer dot biz and dot info names to carry out their business activities. Another advantage with these names is that you can easily brand them by developing a theme based web portal.
There are several other international expired domain name extensions like dot ws, dot fm, dot tv and others. You may find several domain name traders trying to promote these names with glossy and shining campaigns. It is preferable to stay away from these domains, as they are actually worthless and waste of your time. Country specific domain names are also available for you to purchase. Most of the countries of the world have their specific domain name extensions and a number of them are expiring almost everyday. However, most of these names could be too restrictive to be of any real commercial value. You may also need to be the bona fide citizens of some countries to be able to buy country specific domain names.
How To Setup A Website For The Ebay Affiliate Program
July 30, 2009 by Web Hosting Watch
Filed under Setting Up Accounts
There are two ways to set up a website for the eBay affiliate program. However, before we get onto that, it will be important to explain to you what the affiliate program is.
Many thousands of people begin using the internet daily, and many of these are seeking good prices for the products that they are seeking. Some will look immediately for eBay, but others will simply enter a search term for the product. If they reach your website for the product they are seeking, you can then provide them with a link to the eBay registration page and earn $20 – $30 for each registration.
Not only that, but you can earn a proportion of the listing fees for the product, which is why you can make a lot of money by having a website offering products for sale on eBay. You win two ways: through eBay registrations for first-time users and also through your commission for any purchasers they make.
So, how do you set up a website? You can do it the normal way or the easy way. The normal way involves a number of different steps that you have to carry out:
• First you have to find a domain name: that is the name by which your website is registered in the Domain Name System (DNS), and once registered, nobody else can use your domain name. It is useful, but not essential, for your domain name to reflect your business.
• Then you have to find a web host. You can try one of the free hosts, though there is normally a price to pay through you having to include adverts on your site, or to use the website for only one specific purpose. Free sites are not the best, and you are well advised to pay. A reasonable web host will cost you from around $5 to $25 monthly, and the more you pay the more you get.
• You will need email addresses and an auto responder system. The auto responder automatically answers email inquiries, takes orders, meets them and accepts payments – all automatically, even while you are sleeping. Your business can run 24/7.
• Now the time-consuming part: you will have to design a website or web page for every product type you promote. If you are promoting 50 product types you will have to develop 50 websites or pages. This is very time consuming, even if you knew where to start. You will have to learn HTML and/or CSS and also how to put a functional website together.
• You will also have to have some means of advertising your websites, or driving traffic to them. You can do this through pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, which can be expensive if you don’t know what you are doing. Alternatively you can optimize your sites for the search engines and achieve high listings, although you might have a lot of competition to beat. You can also attract traffic through article marketing or by the use of a blog on your websites. Both of these last two techniques can be very effective in directing traffic to your sites.
• Another tool that will be necessary is analytical software to capture the statistics of your websites and income. You will want to know which advertising method brings most custom, and what type of product your customers tend to purchase. That information will allow you to fine tune your advertising and the products you promote.
There are other steps you will have to take, and all of this can be quite daunting, especially to a beginner to internet marketing. You need all the help you can get, even if you already have your own websites.
Programs such as ez Affiliate Website Builder (http://www.ezaffiliatewebsitebuilder.com) set up a website for the eBay affiliate program for you, in fact as many as you want in a short period of time, and help you to easily and quickly transfer them into money-making machines that will work for you day and night.
Keep in mind that millions of people are buying on eBay every minute of every day, and your websites will provide best results if they are running 24 hours every day of every year. You will also do a lot better the more sites you have, and any auto website builders will be a boon to you, especially those such as the ez Affiliate Website Builder that comes with videos that enable you to get started immediately with the minimum of effort.
If you choose to do it all manually, then there is no reason why you cannot get the same results, although it will take a lot longer: weeks or even months longer – to begin making reasonable sums of money. If you use a program that gets these sites up rapidly, one after another as often as you like, you can spend all your valuable time on driving traffic to them, and making lots of money.
That, then, is how to setup a website for the eBay affiliate program. Either manually or using software dedicated to the task. The choice is yours as to which you prefer to use, but whichever way you choose there is a lot of money to be made by promoting eBay auctions and referring new members to the eBay program.
Windows Vs. Linux
July 30, 2009 by Web Hosting Watch
Filed under Linux Hosting
Please Note:
One of the biggest misconceptions is that you have to select the same operating system for your hosting account that you use on your own computer. That is simply not true.
The operating system that you use on your computer does not need to govern your choice of hosting platform. All Jaguarpc.com PHP hosting packages come with FTP access and a wide range of web page publishing options. If, for example, your computer runs on Microsoft Windows, you are not obligated to choose Windows web hosting.
Both technologies are suitable for beginners, professional web developers, and everyone in between, but it is essential to choose the technology that is more suited to your style of web building. Each technology has its own distinct advantages for users.
Windows Hosting Microsoft should be your choice of platform if you plan on utilizing Active Server Pages or other Microsoft applications to design your web pages. This platform delivers reduced development time and better functionality for databases.
One of the main advantages for choosing the Microsoft platform is the ability to use ASP, ASP .NET, and Access databases to use in building your web site. ASP and ASP .NET provide a rapid, scalable, and efficient development environment to build your web site. These tools, along with MS Access will allow you to make your web site dynamic and interactive.
This platform is also a suitable alternative if you are developing static HTML based web sites, or sites that incorporate Macromedia Flash or other client-side scripting technologies.
We recommend you choose Windows 2003 as your hosting platform if you are using specific applications that require Microsoft Windows to run such as Access, ASP, ASP .NET, or Microsoft SQL Server.
Note: Microsoft FrontPage can be used on both the Linux and Windows platforms.
Linux Hosting Linux is widely considered to be the best operating system for web hosting servers. Characteristically reliable, stable and efficient, Linux has been proven in the most demanding web and mail server environments.
If you plan to incorporate work that uses PHP, Perl or MySQL, Linux is the solution you should choose. Linux is also ideal for the kind of websites that display information as a brochure, in newsletter format or as data sheets. Linux works well for ‘brochure-ware’ sites that offer interaction via inquiry forms, online purchasing and other e-commerce functions.
Essential programs such as Microsoft FrontPage can also be successfully used with Linux technology. In fact, FrontPage Extensions are offered with Jaguarpc.com Linux hosting packages. Linux is an excellent operating system that is well suited to meet your web hosting needs. Additionally, there are a huge amount of free applications available on the Internet for Linux and it uses less hardware resources than Windows 2003.
Guiding You Towards Choosing a Web Hosting Plan
July 30, 2009 by Web Hosting Watch
Filed under Linux Hosting
After having designed your website and having purchased the web domain, its time for you to purchase a web hosting service that fits your need, from a professional web hosting company. A web hosting Service Company does the work of hosting your website on its servers. The web hosting Service Company can host many more websites with different domain names and IP addresses and at the same time it will also host your website efficiently. In return of the web hosting service, you will have to pay a fee amount on a monthly basis. The amount of fee depends upon the extra services that you take towards your web hosting plan. For example: Besides the standard web hosting package, if you go for a large amount of bandwidth and big disk space, then in that case you will have to pay more for the service.
There are many types of web hosting plans, such as : Affordable web hosting, cheap web hosting, ASP web hosting, Budget Hosting, Dedicated servers, eCommerce Hosting, Front Page Web Hosting, PHP web Hosting, Unix / Linux Hosting and so on . A novice webmaster is likely to get confused by various types of web hosting plans. There are certain things to look at, while choosing a web hosting plan. You might require choosing a web hosting plan for a hobby site, a small business site or for a high traffic eCommerce website. Whatever may be the reason, all web hosting plans and terminologies can be classified on the basis of cost, programming languages, operation systems, web servers and functionality. You need to be aware and should understand each of the above mentioned factors, before you decide to purchase the desired web hosting service:
1) Web hosting cost:
You must compare the cost of web hosting services with others. Although cost of web hosting is the first thing that you should think of, yet you must take the quality and service into consideration. You cannot directly purchase a web hosting plan just because it is cheap. You need to consider other factors too.
2) Consider the required programming languages :
While choosing a web hosting plan, you must ensure that the web hosting service provider supports the programming languages of your choice. Some of the common web development languages include PHP, ASP, JSP and PERL. Also, be aware of the web hosting plans that support programming languages such as PHP web hosting, ASP web hosting, JSP web hosting or PERL web hosting. Mostly, every web hosting service providers support PHP / MYSQL but very few support ASP or JSP.
3) Be concerned about the operating systems:
After having selected the programming language for your web development, you can then decide upon the operating system that hosts your websites. One should be aware that ASP works only on Microsoft Windows. On the other hand, PHP, JSP and PERL are the programming languages which work on windows, UNIX and Linux web hosting.
4) Be aware of the servers:
Most of the webs hosting service providers do consider “Apache” as widely supported web server. This type of server has the ability to rewrite in order to make dynamic URL look like static URL or SEO friendly.
5) Check the service performance:
A webmaster should always check upon the performance of the concerned server. There are dedicated servers or virtual Private servers and one has to choose the required type of servers depending upon the type of website. For example : If you have a website that deal with heavy audio / video files or require frequent installation of customized software package, then in that case, one needs to have a dedicated server.
6) Online secured support:
Those websites which accept online payments need to have a secure connection (HTTPS). It also needs to have a digital certification in order to have a safe online transaction.
5 Marketing Strategy
July 29, 2009 by Web Hosting Watch
Filed under Top 10 WebHosts
1. Obtain A Good Domain Name
A commonwealth propose is an directions of your website, more desirable common as a URL. It is separate as it distinguishes your website’s name and identity from the other websites. Make your URL something easy to remember and simply typed in by people. It could be your name, the name of your product or a summarised name fit for your website’s purpose. I do not normally recommend numbers in your URL because when you verbally tell other people about your website, because you have to state whether it is a number or a word like http://www.dollarshoes.info or http://www.dancelive.info Also, do not use complex words that people find hard it to spell and type.
A in toto wise lands quote includes the hotelier name, which is star vacated web or www and the domain registrar which is the part after the dot, as in .com. The .com is the most recommended one to use other than .net or .info because it is easily listed or accepted in search engines and it is good for businesses. Other domain registrars such as .org/.edu/.gov are not good for business, as they stand for orgeanizational, educational and goverment respectively.
2. Find A Webhost
A webhost is a matter that allows you to own your website on their servers. A webhost is step out a so-called hotelkeeper for you to attempt being before you can yielding in the house that is on his land, which is your website. Like when you’re looking for a house to rent, you have to take a look at the facilities and services in the house that is provided to you. So, a webhosting account has certain features for you to look at to see which are the services that you need to have your website running as smoothly as posible.
You will a website that provides you with at beginning 5 Gigabytes of juncture for you to prolong your commodities and at inaugural 500mb/s of inside story transfer, which is the speed of which the time your website takes to download at a visitor’s webpage. They might also provide you with a good website builder if you want to design the website yourself. Find out if they also allow you to input email accounts, audio, video, “shopping carts” for your products, and so on. Also, it’d be great if they have the amazing cPanel feature, which is a control panel that provides you with all the practical applications suitable for your website.
3. Website Design
Firstly, close with a website template friendly for your business. Do master that the human presumption focuses largely on the top, right and center model of the website. So if you want to emphasize on your newsletter/mailing list subscription, product or a promotion, place it at the optimum level of the website.
For design, you can gravy Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver or your webhost’s website builder. If you produce not have parcel reality whatsoever, whack advice or hiring a lattice designer. The colour of your website should not be glaring to the human eye. A professional white background is good for business.
4. The Content
The gratified of your website is acutely important. People avidity to effect for love instruction about a proclivity or a need they have to satisy. Give them more than what they expect and make them trust you with their money. Just when they’re burning and yearning for more details, simply promote your product. It has to state how the product or service benefits the user, how it has improved other people’s lives by using testimonials and promote the other bonuses you’re adding on, etc. Visuals are important for credibility. If you’re selling physical products, take a picture of them. If you’re selling digital products like softwares or e-books, get an electronic cover or an e-cover for them.
5. An Autoresponder
An autoresponder is an automatic e-mail nature that allows you to keep in background with your visitors and customers. For example. you may transfer an automatic e-mail to thank someone for subscribing to your catalogue or to donate out automatic newsletters at a weekly basis. Do support in mind that you also need to provide your visitors and customers with an option to opt out of your list. This is preferably stated at the bottom of your e-mails.
There are multifarious well-suited and pre-eminent autoresponder programs take to Aweber and GetResponse that is largely used by businesses worldwide.
How to Choose the Best Domain Name For Your Business
July 29, 2009 by Web Hosting Watch
Filed under Domain Registrations
Choosing your own domain name is very important and can be critical to your success as a network marketer. Take your time and choose the right one.
Why is it important for you to choose a domain name you are happy with? You need to realize that once you start your business and/or have a lot of customers you will not be able to change your domain name. If you do you will lose all of the advertising exposure for the previous domain name and you will look unprofessional to all your customers.
To set up a domain name you need to find a domain hosting company. There are plenty of hosting companies you can find on the internet and buying your own domain name is not very expensive. You can usually buy domains for $5-$10 a piece, per year.
“Mike’s domain registration rules:” Rule #1: keep it simple. You want to find a domain name that is easy to say, easy to spell, and easy to remember. This is not optional. If you can’t find an address that fits all three of these qualifications, keep looking.
If you are giving your website address to someone over the phone or to a group on a conference call, there can be no room for misinterpretation or spelling errors which means you need to follow the next piece of advice.
Rule #2: Register plural and hyphenated versions. You want to register all plural and hyphened versions of your domain name of choice in order to capture anyone who might misspell the name, and to protect yourself from competition who will intentionally register any domains similar to yours.
Now this is not going to matter much if you are just a tiny fish in the big internet pond and you are aren’t promoting yourself in a massive way. But if you ever start to brand yourself and that domain name, then you need to follow these suggestions.
I recently started a project on creating lead generating capture pages, so the very first thing I did was register several possible domain names for it. (The hyphened and plural versions of each name).
Do not leave a door wide open for a competitor to leech visitors and customers through a similar domain name. You can bet that if I had not registered a hyphenated version of my domain name right after registering my real domain name a cyber squatter would have bought it and would have then owned a very valuable piece of internet real estate. (And he’d probably have a law-suit on his hands).
Always remember that entrepreneurs are opportunistic people by nature. Just do it right the first time and you won’t have to worry about any of these issues.
Rule #3: Use the top “key words” In the domain itself. (But not every time. I will explain why in Rule #5). Search engines give high relevance to sites with top key words in the domain name itself, and a higher relevance for .com names over any of the other extensions like .net .biz . org or .info.
So how do you find the right key words to use? Head to a search engine and go to the resources page for current advertisers, and click on the link for key word selector tool. (Most, but not all, search engines have a tool like this).
Type in a common search term for your category or product or service. Example: If I type “capture pages,” it brings back the following results: The top result is “lead capture pages,” so I would want to try and register something with the words “lead” and “capture,” right in the domain name itself.
NOTE: If the .com version of your preferred domain is unavailable, choose another. You want to have the .com address, because that is what your visitors will automatically type in when going by memory. And if they do not, many will type it in just out of curiosity, and if it is owned by a competitor, you are in trouble.
Rule #4: pay attention to phonics when purchasing a domain name. Try not to use numbers unless you can purchase both the numerical and alphabetical names. If you can find a domain name with both listings available, then go for it.
Rule #5: Register a “generic” domain name that can be used to promote anything now and in the future. Choosing a generic domain name can be very important when generating leads if you are a network marketer. 99% of the time, you do not want to have the name of your company or product in the domain name because your capture page is not going to be promoting your company, it will be promoting you or your business team.
Why? Because I want to keep control of what my prospects see and when. I want to keep control of the presentation of my business and the timeline in which it takes place. My prospect does not know what company I am with until I tell them. They cannot look at my network marketing opportunity website until I give it to them.
Most network marketers will register a domain name with their company name in it, but what if you change companies? What if you decide to leave your vitamin company and decided to sell products for another natural health company? What are you going to do with an email address (that everyone now knows, with your company name in it) when you change companies?
That is why you always register a generic domain name to use for your email correspondence that you can keep forever, no matter what kind of business you decide to build.
I chose a very generic domain name for my first website for this reason: Once you have a generic domain, you can always register another one for your specific opportunity that you can give to your prospects when the time is right. I have purchased over 100 domains in the last year alone. It is like owning cyber real estate.
This is probably going to be a very frustrating process for you if this is your first time
registering a domain name. Why? Because you will soon find out that 19 out of 20 domain names you think of will already be taken. Coming up with something generic is pretty easy though.
Here are a few ideas: Use your name in combination with an extension, like “LLC” or “Inc.” Think of a company name, or “Doing Business As”, name. Once again, keep these three rules in mind; easy to say, easy to spell, and easy to remember. If your last name happens to be Leibowitz, then pick something else!
Rule #6: You want to buy the .com, net, and .biz versions of each domain you choose. When coming out with a new product I might end up buying a total of 15 a domain names: each with a different “.” ending.
You get the idea. Purchasing this many domain names for one project is not necessary, just recommended. So go ahead and make your purchase, but do not buy any of the other services your registration company will want to sell you like traffic generation, search engine submission, etc. You do not need those.
All you need are the domain names, and a basic hosting account which you can set up with any of the many hosting companies.
Start with the domain search box. You will get to know this one well as you search for a name that is actually available. Continue to search until you find a name that meets all of the criteria we have discussed today.
Once you find a name that works, choose to register the .com, .biz, and .info names. Go ahead and start the check out process. Skip all of the extra services they will try and sell you. You do not need them.
I only register my domains for one year at a time to keep costs down. They will automatically renew each year as long as your credit card on file is current. If it is not, your hosting company will notify you.
Congrats! You now own your very first domain name!


