Talking About Various Features in a Web Hosting Package – ( Part 1)

Talking about various features in a web hosting package – ( Part 1)

A web host is a service provider who basically puts your web site on a computer which is connected to the internet. In this case, the computer that we are talking about is called as a server. A web hosting provider normally has a fast connection to the internet and they have the ability to host thousands of websites on many servers. The web host rents out space to you so that you can have your website seen on the World Wide Web. Once you give the responsibility of hosting your website to an internet service provider, you then need not to worry about the complicated server technology and also about the proper technical maintenance. All this issues are handled by the hosting company. Hence, you can free yourself from website maintenance work. There are many features that come along with the web hosting package provided by the web hosting provider. They are as follows:

1) Control Panel:

cPanel is the most popular control panel. The control panel is basically an interface for accessing your website on the web server. It allows you to update and customize your website.

2) Disk space:

Your disk space requirement depends upon your website. If your website does not have too many graphics, sound and video clips or downloadable files then in that case you predict your website space requirement to be approximately 50MB. However, you can always have some extra disk space left for incase you need to upgrade your website.

3) Bandwidth:

Here, bandwidth is referred to the amount of data that is transmitted and received through the internet. The bandwidth gets consumed when the visitor makes a request for certain files available on the website and then downloads the same on to his or her computer.

4) Email Account:

Email account facility is provided so that you can check your emails. You also have pop3 email account facility, where you can check emails using outlook etc.

5) Scripting language:

The top web hosting companies use unix and linux platform, php, perl and cgi. There are all different languages provided by the hosting company. Choose a hosting company that also provides latest version.

6) Database provision:Check whether your website needs a lot of data that must be dynamically accessible. Example: user accounts, maps, interactive news, forums etc. If your website requires a lot of database then you have to choose a host which deals with the same. MySQL is a popular database program and It’s operating system is linux.

One must understand that if you have opted for more disk space and bandwidth then you will have to pay more fees. So, one must choose a web hosting package based on the present requirement and also see that the company provides after sales service

Steps to Becoming a Web Host Reseller

You’ve decided to get a reseller web hosting account to resell web space. What now? Here’s a step-by-step guide.

1. Choose the platform you want to use.

More open source software programs are available for Linux than for Windows, which makes Linux less expensive. While most programs (Perl, PHP, Flash, etc.) run on both platforms, a few run on only Windows or Linux. A site that requires ASP or MS Access, for example, requires a Windows platform.

2. Choose the control panel you want to use.

Control panels for websites range from very basic to loaded with features. As a reseller, you’ll also have a control panel for you to set up and control hosting accounts.

In Choosing Your Hosting Automation Software, we compare several control panels, all of which offer good features for web host resellers.

3. Choose your web host.

The web host company that you choose for your reseller account is a key decision — your business success depends on the quality of your host. Factors to consider when choosing a web host for a reseller account:

The platform and control panel

Account features

The company’s reputation — search for online reviews by clients

The record of server uptime

The level of support — how fast does tech support respond to support requests, especially time-sensitive ones?

Flexibility — does the web host have packages that allow you to upgrade when your needs increase? Will they customize plans if necessary?

How long the web host has been in business — while a new web host may be very good, many web hosting businesses fail within the first year

Price — consider what is included in the price

4. Set up your hosting plans and prices

Divide your bandwidth by your disk space to find out the ratio of bandwidth to disk space that you can offer. Take into account any ratios that differ if you upgrade to a larger package, and then base your packages on that ratio.

For pricing, consider what competitors charge, but also factor in any additional services you’ll be offering.

5. Develop a business website

You have three main choices for website development:

If you have web design skills, design your site yourself

Include all the information that clients will want to know about your services and company.

6. Make your site e-commerce ready

To be able to accept payments for hosting accounts, you’ll to set up:

An SSL certificate

A merchant account

A payment gateway

7. Set up a helpdesk

A helpdesk allows clients to contact you with support requests and you to track and respond to those requests.

8. Set up billing

With an automated billing system, clients are billed and payments are registered with little effort on your part. Most billing software licenses are priced per month or per year, with some billing software companies offering prices for lifetime licenses.

When you choose a billing software program, check if it’s compatible with your server platform and if support is included.

9. Create a welcome email

After you set up hosting accounts for your clients, you’ll need to send them a welcome email. Include in this email:

A confirmation of the plan details

The name-server names

A username and temporary password

A link to the control panel

Links to your knowledge base / FAQ and to your helpdesk

10. Market your website

Submit your site to search engines. Tell your family, friends, and business acquaintances about your website. Include a link to it in your signature line in outgoing emails.

Domain Name Selling Why it Shouldn’t Work

You’ve probably seen domain names for sale for ridiculous amounts of money. Think those names will lead to surefire online success? Before you get tempted to buy one of those names, read this article.

One of the most interesting phenomena on the Internet is the selling of domain names. In some situations it could even be likened to an auction-based system. There was a time in the nineties that it reached ridiculous proportions, with several people becoming millionaires from selling domain names.

Why are these names so expensive? Who are the buyers? Does domain name selling actually backfire sometimes? In what situations has it paid off? A lot of these questions have no clear cut answers, as long as the world has rotated; people have bought and sold “everything,” literally. Domain name selling would be consigned to a scam if it was examined closely.

Most of the names that go for extremely high prices (for this topic anything above a hundred dollars is considered extremely high) are domain names that contain key words that are in demand. Some of the domain names are actually category names. That’s all very well and good so far. But when these practices favor the seller over the buyer, then something has gone wrong with the equation.

Most of my grumbling against domain name reselling stems from the view that, from a branding perspective, it is a failure. Quite a number of SEO proponents argue that having key words in the domain name is good (something I have never agreed with) but the real issue is, the name alone does not make good SEO. If it is good to have the key word in the domain name, why wasn’t Monster simply called Job seekers?

I will be using as reference an excellent book by Al and Laura Ries, “The Eleven Immutable Laws of Internet Branding.” Al Ries considers domain names so important that he uses up two of his eleven laws on how to name your web site. But why am I bothering to bash a totally “harmless” practice? First, because it seems to be catching on in SEO circles; and second, it will definitely add useless costs to the cost of domain name registration and hosting, making it relevant to any one who is thinking of buying that attractive domain name. By the end of this article, you should be able to go through the mental exercise of coming up with an original name of your own.

In branding the most important decision you can make is what to call your product, in this case your web site. This concept seems to have encouraged the buying of “key word rich” domain names. A good translation of the phrase “key word rich” is “generic.” Your SEO expert and you webmaster will probably advise you to name a site which fits that description.

Sadly, most of these domain names are pretty awful; they lack imagination, and a lot of them just copy a description (common adjective) or a class (common noun) and turn it into a name (proper adjective or noun). Yet they are sold for ridiculously high prices; think www.desktop.com, www.mortgage.com, www.womenonline.com, www.seopro.com, www.etoys.com, and I am sure you think, what great names! Well, all failed in the first dot com bust; their names did not help them survive the changing tides.

In Alexa’s current top ranking web sites, it will be interesting to note that there are no common adjective nor common noun website names (the kind of names that are most commonly sold). All websites that are listed as top sites are proper nouns. In any listing of top brands there are no generic brand names (common adjectives or common nouns), yet unsuspecting buyer after buyer is sucked into the mental trap that all it takes for a web site to achieve success is a generic name.

The lure of getting generic domain names is encouraged by some SEO practitioners and is also a product of the herd mentality; SEO “experts” in all their wisdom tout key word rich domain names as essential for high ranking in the SERPs. The key word effect is negated by the fact that hundreds of sites jump on the key word rich name band wagon. The herd mentality is due to the fact that “everybody is doing it, so it must make sense,” without checking the real reason other webmasters buys up generic domain names.

The herd mentality stretches back to the first dot com boom and bust, when hundreds of websites went for generic names like www.shoes.com, www.cars.com and other common adjectives. This trend has carried on to the second Internet boom (and inevitable bust) despite all the indicators that it can be counterproductive at worst and indifferent at best. Personally the only reason I would use a generic name on a website is so as to take advantage of the current “herd mentality” and jack up the resale value.

Have you ever looked for a site you found once, didn’t bookmark or note down, and didn’t find it again? No matter how many key words you typed into the various search engines, you just couldn’t find it? Why didn’t you simply type the name into the address bar? You couldn’t remember it. Why couldn’t you remember it? It was too long, too boring, too generic or all three. The majority of names that are sold have these faults. They are actually forgettable.

Buying names because they have generic key words makes it difficult for web surfers to form a mental association between the name and your site. People find it easier to remember weird and off the beaten path names than they do common place terms and names. Everybody knows how to type in Google.com, but you may as well forget it if you are called search_engine.com — or is it searchengine.net? Or rather searchengineinfo.org? The mistakes that would arise from misspellings of your name would probably get searchers to another page entirely different from one on your website.

Consider www.sexproject.com, www.sex_info.com, www.sexinfo.com, and www.sexinfo101.com. Unfortunately I can’t remember any of them over any period of time; there are so many variations that it is virtually impossible for any of them to register in the mind of any searcher that is typing directly into the address bar. It would take a miracle, literally, for any of these web sites to make an instant impression based on their name alone.

The same cannot be said for www.clickz.com. Compare the name clicks to such websites as www.searchenginewatch.com or www.searchengineland.com (don’t forget that there is still www.searchenginenews.com) and take it for granted that search engine anything in a domain name is sure to be for sale for over a thousand dollars minimum, and to what end? To join the hundreds of sites jostling for sandbox positions in the SERPs? All the above have generic terms in their name, and all the rest with such terms in their names will be viewed as good buys. But isn’t there a mix up somewhere?

When buying a site that has a prior reputation and a prior standing in the market for particular key words (for example Developer shed buying up http://www.seochat.com/ or Google is buying www.jotspot.com) the buyer is actually buying the brand. No matter how cluttered the domain name is with key words, what is relevant is the way the site is identified in the minds of its searchers. Incidentally, the number of surfers is usually counted by using either registered users or daily number of page views.

Now let’s look at the usual situation where a buyer, simply because s/he believes that a domain name is “key word rich” (my translation is generic), buys that domain name from a speculator for a hundred times the original price or even more. With no real idea of what to do next to get the domain name into the minds of users, apart from hoping they will type it into the address bar, such a move is sure to be counterproductive.

Another situation is one that arises when buyers buy a domain name hoping to cash in on another site’s popularity. For example, buying a domain name such as www.my_yahoofinance.net to cash in on a successful brands name is probably copyright infringement. It’s mostly phishers, scammers and also some MFA sites, who participate in this particular type of domain name buying.

Others buy names which closely approximate popular brands to take advantage of misspellings by users (like the user won’t notice). There is a massive difference between the services of www.technorati.com and www.technocrati.com. Of course if you just want a Made for Ad Sense site (or worse, if you are actually a scammer) these names are all well and good. But if you are serious about building a serious long term Internet presence, you may as well forget it.

A recent high profile case occurred between Google and adult search engine Booble. Google sued the adult search engine for “aiming to deceive” with its look-alike domain name. Google’s case ultimately failed, but other situations may not end up the same way. Companies are not afraid to defend their copyrights, and the results may not always be pleasant for the infringing company depending on how that jury interprets the situation.

Here are some ridiculous fees that were paid for “hot” domain names that ended up as spectacular failures (note that at purchase most of these domain names were just that, “domain names”). The name www.business.com was bought for 7.5 million dollars, www.wine.com was bought $3 million, and www.wallstreet.com was bought for $1.3 million. All failed as websites (unimaginable, huh?). Fortunately, those times have ended. Now such domain names are “reasonably” priced to tempt the average webmaster. I mean $1500 is a measly amount to pay for http://www.quickloans.com/ right? Wrong, it will probably fail in as spectacular a manner as those in the first dot com boom.

Over and over again, the most successful brands on and off the net have been proper names. AOL and Yahoo! were the first Internet brands to break into Interbrand’s top hundred lists. The most successful Internet brands created their domain names using basic rules of naming which work for every naming situation.

Yes, some people are much better at naming things (and websites) than others. Over time we will look at these situations and see how best to come up with a domain name that should work, and not cost you anything more than $15 (at the most). Before then, next time you see that “must have” domain name for sale, take a deep breath and consider finding an alternative.

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Expired Domain Names – How to Get That Perfect Expired Domain Name

Does someone else own your perfect domain name that, quite frankly, would look better on your website? Is that dream domain name about to expire? Should you try to buy the expired domain name?

It all depends on how much you’re willing to pay. Expired domain names are usually sold by auction because there’s usually more than one person bidding on the name.

If you want to get in the game and try to buy that perfect expired domain name, then you need to know where the auctions are. There are two spots when they might happen.

Here’s how a domain name moves through the internet:

1. Someone registers a domain name.
2. The owner doesn’t want the domain name any more so they let the domain name pass the official expiry date.

Opportunity #1

3. When the domain name expires, it goes into a Renewal Grace Period (0-45 days). The original domain owner can buy back the expired domain name at the regular renewal price.
4. Next, the expired domain name enters a Redemption Grace Period (30 days). The original domain owner can buy back the expired domain name at a penalty ($80-$150)
5. Finally, the expired domain name becomes Pending Delete (5 days). After this point, the expired domain name is deleted from the ICANN database and released back into the world.

   Opportunity #1: Buy the expired domain name from the registrar that currently controls the domain name (i.e. GoDaddy, NetWork Solutions, etc). On one hand, the registrar is giving the old domain owner a chance to buy back the domain name. On the other hand, the registrar may be auctioning the expired domain name to the highest bidder on their aftermarket. Check to see who the registrar is and watch to see if they are auctioning off your dream domain name.

Opportunity #2

6. About 75 days after the domain name officially expired, it becomes publicly available again.
7. Professional companies that specialize in grabbing newly released expired domain names will snatch up the expired domain name literally the second it becomes available.
8. Whichever company gets the expired domain name will now auction it off to the highest bidder.

   Opportunity #2: Hire 3 or 4 professional companies that specialize in grabbing expired domain names when they get released into the wild (Pool, NameJet, Enom, etc…) One of these companies will grab your dream domain name and then you can fight in the auction to win the expired domain name.

Bottom Line: If you’re after a specific domain name that is expiring soon, then you need to do your homework and figure out where your auction will take place in.

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5 Benefits of Google Analytics in a Search Engine Optimization Campaign

Google Analytics is a free tool that you can used to track information about the way visitors to your site interact with it. During a search engine optimization campaign, you will need to use Google Analytics to track the performance of your keywords in order to have a successful campaign. You will be able to know how much traffic each of the keyword brings to your website. Google Analytics will open up a world of information you probably never knew about visitors on your site.

Here are some benefits of using Google Analytics during an optimization campaign:

1. It is completely free of charge. Although it is a free tool, but it still offer just as much or even more functionalities when compared to other paying tools.

2. Able to find out how your visitors locate your website. Other than the core set of keywords that you are optimizing, you will also be able to find out what other keywords your visitors type in to find your website. During the initial optimization campaign, the number of keywords may be little. But as time goes by, you will start getting more keywords being listed on organic listings, due to your overall optimization effort.

3. Able to identify which pages and links your visitors click the most. You will be able to know which are the popular pages and links, and measure whether your optimization campaign is directing the traffic to the correct pages.

4. Visitor segmentation. With this, you will be able to know how many new visitors that your search engine optimization campaign brings to you. You can segment your analytic result by new/returning visitors, geography and referral sources.

5. Able to fine tune your website. With this analytic report, you will be able to fine tune your website, and do a new copywriting on any page that is not converting well. In the end, it will bring you more quality prospects, and thus gaining more customers in the near future.

With Google Analytics, other than collecting data about traffic from Google, you will also be able to collect data traffic from MSN and Yahoo! search results with respect to your site and use it to strengthen your stronghold on the search platform.

Every marketing campaign on the Internet needs to be tracked, in order to make it successful. After planning and implementation, tracking tools are necessary so as to calculate the ROI of a particular campaign.

Should You Use Free Or Paid Web Hosting For A Personal Or Business Site

Web hosting is a type of Internet service that provides organizations and individuals their web site access through the World Wide Web. Web hosting also provides space on servers for their clients’ use and gives them internetInternet connectivity which can be easily located in a data center.

Hosting companies provide web content management systems. This is useful for the clients as it will take care of other technical aspects. This is also great for those people who are not really familiar with complicated computer programs. But this imposes great disadvantage for people who want to have more controls to their website design and features as the system limits them.

Web hosting reviews on the top web hosts give an insight on respective web hosting companies. It is advised to search in search engines for the reviews on the products you are interested in and analyze it thoroughly before completing your transaction.

Normally top web hosting companies are ranked using these categories: the overall quality of the service, the combination of all user reviews, the price, the disk space, its bandwidth, and all the other special features.

All most all web hosting companies provide web hosting coupons that will surely save a lot of money for its clients. The top web hosts vary in terms of service scope, but all of these provide the most basic features which include: control panel with Fantastico, FTP access; MySQL, PHP, and email.

There are many Internet service providers (ISPs) that give free service to their subscribers. A personal web page is typically free (or it may come cheap) as this is sponsored by advertisers. On the other hand, business web site hosting is often a paid service. The company host also provides an interface, also known as control panel, for managing the web server and for establishing scripts. It also provides other services such as e-mails.

Some company hosts opt for specialized software and services like e-commerce. These are used by other larger companies to outsource network infrastructure to its host. Web hosting is often provided as part of Internet access plan. There are free or paid providers offering these kind of services. Before you choose a hosting company, evaluate the applications and requirements of a certain company. Always consider the scripting software, database server software, and the operating system it uses.

Typically, hosting providers offer Linux-based web hosting which provides different software applications. As a customer you may also choose Windows for a hosting platform. Common services are: Perl, PHP, ASP.Net, Classic ASP, and Python. Web hosting clients may choose to have other services like emailFFmpeg for streaming video media or other specific tools or programs that fit the needs of their site.

The public should know that free web hosting servers should not be used for any personal or business purpose. The main reason is that you get what you pay for. Free web hosting often comes with the increased risk of downtime, poor technical support, and lack of services that most clients require in a web host. If you take your site(s) serious you should opt for quality paid web hosting to avoid such risks.

Web Analytics – Major Tool To Tailor Your Online Business

The secret of success behind online marketing business is the ability to gauge the performance of your online business components and tweak them to perfection in order to up the volume of sales. However, it is easier said than done. Given the complex nature of online business, it is not very easy to understand the online business dynamics to make perfect judgment of the components and tailor the necessary actions accordingly. This is why search engine companies have invented many useful tools to help webmaster understand the essential components of online business to maneuver their SEO strategies.

Web Analytics is one of those essential tools that help webmasters improve the performance their websites. It not only acts as a gateway of measurable success, but also helps webmasters understand their target market demographics. Moreover, it plays an instrumental role in increasing the ROI (Return on Investment) for online business. Web Analytics helps you track the number of visitors that enter your website, indicate the most and least popular pages, offer you the list best or worst performing keywords, and the name of the countries where your website gets the most visits from. Basically, it provides you with a comprehensive analysis report of your websites to let you know where you business stands on any given day.

Armed with this information, webmasters can improve the overall performance their websites, and streamline their online marketing efforts apart from ignoring the least effective ones.

Search Engines, Keywords, and Popular Pages

Most webmasters would agree that search engine is basically the major source of online traffic. Hence, many webmasters run SEO campaigns to multiply their website traffic. However, to make the SEO campaigns successful, you need right and specific information using which you can streamline your SEO campaigns. For instance, you can see the list of keywords that your visitors have used to reach you, and, therefore, you can optimize your site on their basis. Secondly, you will be able to know the referrers that send the traffic to your websites. This will help you know the source of referring tools which you can take the help of to generate more traffic to your website.

Landing Page and Exit Page

How visitors reach your website is the not the only factor you take into consideration while optimizing your SEO campaign. In fact, how long they spend, how many pages they visit during their stay, and why they left are all together need to be taken into consideration to find out the way-out to improve your website performance. Luckily, Web Analytics offer all this information to help you take remedial measures against the bad performing pages. If you find that a specific page is the reason of many visitors leaving your website, then you can take immediate corrective measure to stop the same. Hence, Web Analytics informs you about the weak areas of your website so that you can take immediate measures to improve the visitors’ experience.

Tips To Improve Traffic Using Web Analytics

It may so happen that you might get a huge flow of traffic to your website but they will not be converting to actual customers. Web Analytics will tell you the specific reasons causing these problems. For instance, it could be that the content on your website is not impressive enough to them. Or, maybe, your site is driving lots of traffic that is not targeted customers. In any case, you can take necessary actions to right the wrongs in your website.

What Features To Look For When Applying For Good Hosting Plan

When looking for a host, it will be useful to obtain as much information as possible about the web hosting company itself and the services they offer. These pre-sales questions are a way to check several things about the web hosting company. You can obtain detailed information about the services they offer – the web hosting plans they have, the features included there, etc.

These days hosting plans on the web are getting very competitive and features of each plan are comparatively the same among web hosting providers. Whether novice or expert, you can find some useful information in this article to learn about some of the considerations to look at when you choose a web hosting service.
In this article I will not talk about things like space ,traffic and prices since there are plenty of related articles nowadays rolling around the net. My goal will be to clarify some of the most important features you have to look for when choosing your web hosting provider.

The following are 10 basic features that can be found in a Unix/Linux hosting plans that every serious hosting provider should offer you.

· Control Panel - This is where you manage your hosting account. In the context of web hosting it is an on-line application that give us the user ability to control many aspects of his web hosting account including, but not limited to: creating mailboxes, setup email forwarding, uploading and editing files, creating sub domains, park additional domains, automated installing of ready to use scripts and programs, managing databases, setup shopping carts. You need to check what exactly is included in a given control panel with the web hosting company you have chosen to go with.Some hosts use a third party control panel like cPanel or Plesk. Others use an inhouse developed control panel.The moment you signup for a hosting package, you must be provided with a CP to manage your webspace.

· POP3 email accounts & aliases - yourname@yourdomain.com is an example POP3 email. POP3 is an electronic mail protocol used to retrieve messages stored on an Internet/intranet e-mail server. Whenever a client wants to check for messages it connects to its Internet Service Provider’s e-mail server and uses POP3 to login to its mailbox and download its messages.

· FTP Accounts & Virtual FTP - This is where you upload your files, delete them, update them. This again comes along with the CP. Make sure you have handful of FTP sub-accounts also to provide your clients/users password protected directories. This is very much useful wherein your clients / users can use the FTP to upload /download files from particular password protected folder of your website.

· Backup - Most of the Hosts take Automated Backups. But users do not take much care on this while choosing the hosting plan. This feature is as essential as any other in this list.

· Web Statistics - Analysis is of your website visitors plays a important role in the success of your website. Say, your website has been launched and you get 50 unique visitors or more than 500 visitors per day. Whatever the case may be, you can view the report using Statistics Application that run in the server backend. A popular web statistic software is Webalizer.

· PHP & Mysql Support - PHP is a scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. PHP is mainly focused on server-side scripting, so you can do anything any other CGI program can do, such as collect form data, generate dynamic page content, or send and receive cookies. MySQL is a true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. MySQL is fast and flexible enough to allow you to store logs and pictures in it. Its main goals are speed, robustness, and ease of use.All the Linux Plans support PHP & Mysql. Make sure you get this free of charge when you buy the hosting plan. Few hosting providers offer good of MySQL Database Support & PhpMyAdmin.

· Webmail & SMTP - A web based email program. Most web hosting companies do provide webmail access to their customers. Often it comes with addressbook, rich text editor, spelling checker, and all the features of any other email program offers. Email becomes key part in your life once you launch the website. Check if the hosts provide with Webmail to check your mails thru a web based interface such as Squirrelmail or Horde. Checking email will be faster if you download the mails thru email clients such as Eudora or Outlook Express. Only if SMTP or IMAP support is enabled you can use this option. All our recommended hosts has this feature.

· SPAM Filter - No email user is free from a spam attack. It is the Email equivalent of junk mail. It is becoming one of the biggest problems in the Internet today.Hence you need to have spam filters installed on the server where your website resides.

· HTTPS (SSL) access to your hosting account. SSL is used for secure communication between the user browser and the server. The information is encrypted and secure. SSL is usually used for eCommerce sites and sites that require submission of other sensible information like usernames and passwords. To have an SSL on your site you can use the shared SSL certificate provided by your hosting company or you can purchase an SSL certificate for your site and ask the host to install it.

· Shell (telnet or SSH) access to your account. SSH is used for secure access to your account. SSH is usually offered on Unix hosting plans. You can zip, unzip files, change permissions of files, run certain programs on the server.

· Sub-domains for creating sub-sections to your site without having to use directories in URLs

· Shopping Cart - A shopping cart is a piece of software that acts as an online store’s catalog and ordering process.

These are the most common features of a good web hosting plan. A reputable web hosting provider should offer you at least these ones in his hosting plans.There are some more additions you can get from a good provider.For more info on that topic you can visit my site http://www.itstandard.net/and get all what you need .

Web Hosting And Domain Registration Basics

Web Hosting

A kind of Internet hosting, the web hosting service is that which enables individuals and organizations to provide their own websites accessible via the World Wide Web. The web host companies provide space on a server which they own for their use and providing internet connectivity. The web host also offers data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers which are not owned by them and are located in their data center.

A web hosting company has computers that are hooked up to the internet 24/7/365. These computers are called servers and they are assigned IP numbers in order that they may be found by other computers hooked up to the internet. It is on these severs that all your web files are stored in variety of fashions.

The hosting servers that store and serve up the web pages to the internet cost money to set up, configure, and maintain, this is why web hosting providers typically charge a fee for that service.

There are different kinds of hosting services- free web hosting service, shared web hosting service, reseller web hosting, virtual dedicated server, dedicated hosting service, managed hosting service, colocation web hosting service, clustered hosting and grid hosting.

The hosting services have different scopes of which the most basic is a webpage and small scale file hosting where files can be uploaded via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or a Web Interface. The files are normally delivered to the Web “as is” or with little processing. The web page hosting service is also available for free at several places. In fact, the personal web site hosting is typically free, advertisement sponsored or economic in comparison to the business website hosting.

When you type a web address into the address bar of your browser and then click Go or press enter, your browser sends out a request to get that web page. The request travels across the internet highway to the appropriate web sever and attempts to locate the web page on that server.

When choosing web hosting you should keep a few things in mind. Most website hosting services offer a stats package that you can study. Statistics are a vital part of tracking your marketing progress. Know how many GB of space, and bandwidth you need, and how many email accounts you will need. Also, it would help if you know whether you need just a basic hosting package, virtual dedicated hosting, or dedicated hosting. If you don’t know don’t worry, help is usually availble depending on the provider to assist in choosing the right solution for your needs.

Web Site Design

There are many different reasons for creating websites. A website is entertainment, education, enrichment, and enjoyment. It contains art, music, museums, and culture. Further, a website is political, governmental, and religious. Some people use websites simply to have a piece of the internet or to expand their businesses. Basically it can be anything you want it to be.

However, keep these principles in mind when building your web site. Have a quality banner/header with high resolution. Have images with high resolution. Your color scheme should be uniform. Your text colors should be uniform. Text font should be consistent through out the page. Text size for content should be 10-12pt. Text should be clear and readable. Flow of layouts and cleanliness of transitions is important. Backgrounds should accentuate not take away from content. White space should only be enough to allow readability. You should have good navigation. If building your own website seems too difficult or time consuming then hiring a professional web designer is another option. Here is a web design company that I would highly recommend if you are looking to have a web site built for you.

Fax Thru Email

Fax Thru Email allows you to send and receive faxes from any computer. Two things are required, an Internet connection and email. No more hassle and expense of a fax machine, tons of paper, and ink cartridges. Fax thru email makes it more affordable, flexible, and convenient.

Domain Names

A domain name is the official name of a computer connected to the Internet. It is that part of the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that tells a domain name server using the Domain Name System (DNS) whether and where to forward a request for a Web page.

Domain registration is the process of registering a name or identity on the web by which your website will be known. Just as a person is known by his name, a website is known by its domain name such as www.yoursite.com.

To own your preferred domain name, you need to register it on the Internet. This paid service is offered by several websites, who register your domain name, provided it is not taken-up yet by anyone else. Registrations are processed by dozens of registrars approved by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).

The general rule of thumb is that a Domain name should be short and easy to remember. Decide what you are using your web site for. Conduct a search to see if the name is available. Often times even if the name is taken a search will reveal available names that are very similar. Also, to prevent someone else from copying a domain name very similar to yours it is often recommended, depending on what you’re using your website for, to purchase a couple of other similar domains in order to prevent this from happening. Individual and business needs usually dictate whether this is necessary.

Registering a Domain Name

To secure a name on the web for our site, what we have to do is first of all, select an authorized domain registrar that is approved by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) the authority that manages the international Domain Name Server database, and ensures that all domain names are unique and map properly to a specific IP address. While selecting the domain registrar we have to scrutinize their trustworthiness through various means such as by checking their review on the net, their customer base, prices, special offers, etc. we should select only that registrar who is giving us complete control over our domain. There are many registrars who hide some critical information for the customers and secure the rights to some very important settings in a domain such as changing the DNS servers.

To register domain name, enter your preferred domain name in the search box, and select the TLD extension (.com, .net, etc.) you want to search under. Then click the “Go” button to see if that domain name is available for you to register.

If the name you entered is available, you can easily register it.

In the event that the desired domain name under the TLD you wanted has already been taken, other options are available. Our intelligent interface will automatically check to see if the same name is available to register with a different TLD extension like (.net, .org, .biz, .us, .name, .ws, etc.), and offer you the option of registering your preferred name with one of those extensions instead. And you may do so either in addition to your first choice in a domain name, or instead of your first choice.

SSL Certification and How it Works

The Secure Socket Layer protocol was created by Netscape to ensure secure transactions between web servers and browsers. The protocol uses a third party, a Certificate Authority (CA), to identify one end or both end of the transactions. If you are an online business it will boost sales and create customer confidence that you are operating a safe, secure location. This is in short how it works.

1. A browser requests a secure page (usually https://).

2. The web server sends its public key with its certificate.

3. The browser checks that the certificate was issued by a trusted party (usually a trusted root CA), that the certificate is still valid and that the certificate is related to the site contacted.

4. The browser then uses the public key, to encrypt a random symmetric encryption key and sends it to the server with the encrypted URL required as well as other encrypted http data.

5. The web server decrypts the symmetric encryption key using its private key and uses the symmetric key to decrypt the URL and http data.

6. The web server sends back the requested html document and http data encrypted with the symmetric key.

7. The browser decrypts the http data and html document using the symmetric key and displays the information.

Something Easy To Remember:

Think of a website as an office building set well back from a road, behind some trees. To find the office building, you’re going to need a sign and a path to get there. You can think of the hosting server as the ground the building sits on, the website as the building. The domain name serves as the sign, and the IP address as the direction in which the sign is pointing. The internet is the road you travel down to get there.

Getting Maximum Benefits From Cheap Webhosting

Now a days we can see so many web hosting companies competing for one’s web hosting dollar, for this companies have to stretch their imagination to grow by introducing new technology and ideas and have to provide ways to convince one that their company is providing the most essential facilities for a mere low cost. The most common way that these companies are opting is by offering several attractions to make complete ‘packages’ so that one gets everything he/she needs at very cheap prices.

For the typical fresher web hosting customer who wants to put up a web site of his own for the first time, all the options obtainable can seem like a bowl of alphabet soup, meaning lots of letters with very little meaning. Following are some of the most common attractions offered by web hosting companies-

Storage and Traffic Allotments of web host

These are mainly expressed in Mobs and GBs – megabytes and gigabytes. They are just like the building blocks on which the whole building of hosting plan stands. Storage is the amount of space that one requires to store his/her files on the webhosting company’s server. Traffic is the amount of bytes of data, which can be transferred to visitors by one’s web site.

How much do you want? It is based on what one is planning to use his/her web site for. if one is running more than one applications, doing streaming video or audio, or running a very large, database driven web site, he/she don’t want more than 1 GB of transfer allotment. Similarly, one can guess the quantity of storage space required by just making a view of the space one’s files are taking on his/her computer. If one is planning to stock up a lot of images or big files, then he/she requires more space else 20 MBs is more adequate for his/her needs.

One can get web-hosting packages free offering 10-25 MBs of storage space, and 300 to 1000 MBs for a low cost of $5.95 and less per month.

Free domain

Registering one’s own domain name can cost in between $4.95 to $35 per year, it may be based on where he/she registers and what top-level domain he/she chooses. Transferring one’s hosting from one web host to another will frequently cost about the same. And most attractive free domain name savings are 50 cents to a dollar per month.

Limitless Sub-domains

A sub-domain is a lower level directory in one’s main directory – except it is represented at the FRONT of one’s web site name instead of coming after the. Com. Certain web hosting companies charges one to set up their account, or restrict the number one can host on his/her domain. With the number of otherwise indistinguishable plans, that permit one limitless sub-domain with no arrangement fees, one should not pay extra for them without any reason.

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