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Tag Archive for Web Hosts

bikram | May 6, 2011
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Tips for the First-time Web Hosting Buyers

If you are a web hosting aspirant and you are confused about where to start from, here are some effective tips for your help.

Check multiple options

Before settling for web hosting, always check multiple options, check forums for suggestions, take advices of experts. There will be people who will be paid to recommend specific ones. Beware of them. Look for genuine information. Do your independent research to find out the best deal. You will find both good and bad reviews of all, but make sure numbers of good reviews are more than the bad ones. Check out numbers of actual users of each hosting site.

Billing is important criteria

Don’t settle for a web host which fails to automate and smoothly run the process of billing and payment.

Avoid outages inclined web hosts

Don’t settle for a web host which faces constant outages. They may have plenty of excuses for it, but frequent and lengthy outages can’t be justified in any way. Good web hosts have back up plans to prevent extended outages. Your website can’t afford to be unavailable much often. It not only affects your reputation, and income; but also affects your search engine ranking. If your web remains unavailable for more than 24 hours, it’s indeed serious matter; particularly when you have not been notified prior to it.

Act fast

If your website has remained unavailable for more than 24 hours and the host hasn’t taken any measure for the same, start looking for a new host. Extended outages need to be checked immediately. An unprofessional web hosting company is to be avoided.

Keep backup

Apart from maintaining backup with host’s server keep back-up of your website in your own computer or another server. Your web host may not regularly keep back-up of your site, so don’t count on the same. At times host goes down or bankrupt, so your back-up may go away forever. Generally web hosts clarify this in their list of terms of conditions.

Domain name

Don’t register the domain name through web host, as there is a big risk of losing your site to the host in case tomorrow it goes bankrupt, cheats, vanishes or gets into conflict. You will lose the chance of shifting your website to another host.

Don’t pay in advance

Don’t get seduced by huge discounts from web hosts and end up paying in advance. After payment you may find it a fraud or it may simply go down forever, and also refuse to pay you back. Rather than ending up in mess, pay for your hosting by month.

 

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bikram | January 7, 2011
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How to Publish Your Own Website?

Now publishing a website of your own won’t be a mystery to you. Here are some effective step by step guidelines which will help you publish your own website.

Create your website

First create your website. Know what should be your website all about, its content. Start making the website only when the plan is ready in your hand. Know web development procedure. You can create a website manually or through editing software like Dreamweaver, Editplus or Notepad. If you are not equipped with programming knowledge, you can use other alternatives like WordPress, Joomla. WordPress is a successful and extremely popular free content management system used by bloggers. It has extremely user friendly structure with new content addition facility, attractive web design themes archive. You can also create your own WordPress theme. Joomla is free content management system software which makes web development process much easier. There are many more site building tools.

Hosting plan

Now it’s time to actually assign a web url to website development plan and make it live. Hostage plan not only involves putting web files online, but also assigning an address to that. On the basis of your website size and potential traffic volume get a hosting plan. Web hosting is no longer a fancy affair, it easily fits into every pocket size. Don’t get too confused seeing too many web providers. Make sure your chosen web hosts also carry the required features and don’t compromise with quality. Just Host, iPage, FatCow are some of them.

Upload files, preview and publish

Upload all your files to the chosen web hosting server. You may choose in-house file manager of your hosting account or FireFTP, a Firefox add-on. Latter one will ease your file transfer and web browsing process. Check preview if it’s there and then publish. You may control comments that visitors put in by holding back the approval and unapproval right in your hand.

Let your website speak for you and make your presence felt all across the world. In a click, you will reach millions of houses. What are you waiting for? Get started now.

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sarahwooten | April 1, 2009
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Email Hosting: How, What and Why

If you are reading this blog, then you are exploring the wide, wide world of professional email hosting for your company.

You probably are already internet savvy enough to know that email hosting is an internet service that manages email through an electronic server.  It is mostly used by small to medium businesses that use a custom email address that matches the company’s website domain name.  For example, Joe Smith works for widgets.com and his email is joesmith@widgets.com.

There are a variety of options when choosing an email host; most individuals choose to use a free ISP email host, such as hotmail.com or gmail.com, and that works quite well.  For a business, however, having your own business branded email is essential (regardless of the size of your company).  One way to think about it is that in this electronic age, you should regard your email address as a company letterhead.  If you are Joe Smith, do you want to advertise Yahoo! to your customers, or do you want to sell widgets?

Many web hosts provide email hosting services; just enter a Google search for email hosting, and you will come up with hundreds of web hosts wanting to sell you their email host service.  What is a small business owner to do?

Let me share some tips that can help you get started.  When shopping for an email host, keep in mind that a variety of options are available to create and manage your internal email addresses, such as spam and virus protection, secure authentication, and convenient webmail access, so that you can access your email when you’re not at your computer.  Check with the provider to see which of these options they offer and at what cost.  Decide whether you want to leave your emails on the server for the long term, or if you want to download your messages frequently from the server; you should do this before talking with a provider, because your choice will influence the type of service that they will recommend to you.  When shopping, check the megabyte storage that each web host provides; some give more than others!  Make sure your hosting package comes with secure POP (short for post office protocol) access, so that all the popular desktop email clients (like Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Eudora) are supported.  Most email applications use the POP protocol, although many can use IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol).  Before purchasing services, make sure you know which email clients and servers the web host supports!

In short, for small businesses, using the services of a professional email host is a good investment.  Just do your research before you make a purchase.

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