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Naming a Web Site on the Internet: How to Choose, Register and Protect the Right Domain Name for Your Web Site
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
How to Find the Right Web Hosting Company for your Online Business?
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010Once you’ve decided to start your online business, formulate a strategy of setting up your website for which you’d need to register a domain name and choose a good web hosting service. There are a number of web hosting companies operating in the market today. Hence, you need to play smart and do proper research before choosing a web hosting company for your online business.
The choice of a good web hosting provider is critical as the as the hosting services are an index of the accessibility of your website. A good web hosting service increases your brand value by making your website accessible to the world round the clock. Here are some good web hosting companies such as:
LimeDomains: Latest entrant in web hosting business; owned by Lime Group; One-Click Application Hosting Solution; the first ICANN accredited registrar to include powerful open source applications and a full featured hosting account with every new domain registered or transferred.
GoDaddy: A domain name registrar and web hosting company; sells online business related software and services such as spam-protected e-mail, secure socket layer (SSL) certificates, and Web-site creation tools.; currently the largest ICANN-accredited registrar in the world.
Network Solutions: ample storage, disk space and bandwidth, domain name registration, web hosting & email hosting services, 24 ×7 technical & customer support; until January 2009, more than 6.6 million domain names managed.
There are a number of important factors to be taken into consideration before finalizing a web hosting provider for your online business:
1.) Bandwidth required by your business: Depending upon your activity on your website such as blogging, uploading videos/audio streams etc., you should choose a hosting service. If you want to have an advanced website, ensure that the web hosting service supports programming languages such as Ruby, Perl, PHP, MySQL, CGI etc. Also, make sure that your web hosting company provides some user-friendly programs that would enable you to build your website.
2.) Technical support provided by the web host: This is one of the most important tenets to be considered before choosing a web hosting company for your online enterprise. Most of the operating web hosts claim that they provide round-the-clock technical support services. However, you need to find out whether they offer reliable and instant telephone, web chat and email support. Only after giving due consideration to these solutions offered by the company, you must make your final choice.
3.) Uptime provided by the web host: Again, many web hosts promote themselves by saying that they provider 99% uptime, which means that their servers remain fully operation 24 hours a day. You’ve a great online tool, Host Tracker, through which you can verify if the claim made by the host company is true or fake.
4.) Operating System used by the web host: Some web hosts use Linux while some use Windows or any other OS. However depending upon you business requirements, you need to find out which system is compatible to your website.
5.) Security offered by the company: Figure out whether the web host provides spam filtering or anti-virus protection as this is quite important if you don’t want your website to be spammed or attacked.
6.) Backup servers of the web host: If the web host that you’re looking forward to choose does not offer you back up servers, better look for a new one. So if you don’t wish to lose information and find out whether you need a dedicated or shared host, it’s better to choose a host that owns and operates its own data center.
7.) Terms and conditions of service: Read all the terms and conditions of the service carefully and see if they offer money back guarantee in case you feel dissatisfied with the services of the web host.
Hence, you need to play smart before making a choice of the webhost for your online business. A good web host would always update or notify you in case any problem arises. So, just don’t toil hard to find the cheapest web hosts as your website would suffer due to it in the long run.
Choosing the Right Domain for your Web Site
Monday, May 3rd, 2010When registering a domain name for a company, using the company’s name is a given. Yet, using a company’s name as the “only” domain name may be a disadvantage if the name is so complicated that you need to spell it out, specially when including it on email addresses.
In the following article we will discuss two alternatives to long or complicated company names a web site addresses.
1st.Use Acronyms: although it may be hard to find an available acronym, there are additions that you can make to find a friendly, easy-to-remember domain. Acronyms as domains are also important to use when creating email addresses. i.e: Instead of using info@superlongdomainname.com, info@sldmail.com can be used just to give out for email addresses. Also, instead of using http://www.superlongdomainname.com, hhttp://www.sldonline.com can be implemented as an alternate. This makes it easier to type your web site address.
2.Register multiple domain names: did you know that you can register multiple domain names that lead to the same place? Well, now you know. If your company name is John Smith and son, and your area of business is landscaping in the area of Miami, FL you can register and unlimited amount of domains based on your company name and keywords.
ie. johnsmithandson.com, floridalandscaping.com, landscapinginmiami.com (I know john smith is easy to remember but you get the point) Using keywords as a web site address makes it easier to remember and may increase your ranking on search engines.
I hope this recommendations come handy for you when choosing a domain name.
Choosing The Right Web Hosting Is Now Made Easy
Monday, May 3rd, 2010Before we even go further with the word ‘web hosting’ let me explain what it is all about and what you need to look out for…. It is a space on the net for your Web Page with many features like disk space, bandwidth and number of domains that can be hosted in the given space etc.
There are many companies that offer special web hosting package, web hosting email, plenty of professional web hosting all dedicated server hosting with free domain hosting, some are windows hosting, some have reseller hosting abilities, unlimited hosting, php hosting, cgi hosting, ftp hosting, blog hosting, small business hosting, free file hosting, templates for web site design, web hosting unlimited bandwidth and all these hosts, servers are dedicated 24/7 with excellent support with an affordable web hosting price. This is all and much more for you to explore on all of these server providers.
It is a known fact, that choosing the right web hosting service is very important for any website owner out there. There are indeed many ways to find a web hosting service, but referring to the reviews is considered to be the best. Many owners have published their reviews in lot of places all over internet. Trust me these reviews are the right one’s and are reliable as most of the times it is their own experience that they would have tried to bring to other’s notice in the form of words. Thus these reviews will help any website owner make intelligent and well informed decisions when it comes to choosing the right web hosting account.
There are two kinds of reviews that you come across all over the web… complete and concise. Concise reviews as the name itself suggests are quite very short and gives you lot of information about the hosting company in the form of bulleted points. Complete on the other hand are quite longer and are more advantageous when compared to concise reports. Thus reading complete reviews will greatly help you in determining the right kind of web hosting service.
Since all this information is available to you it is you, who has to make the decision to budget and get ahead of the unpredictable economic offsets. Everyone is looking for ways to cut back and save money. One of the best and easiest ways you can save money is by finding cheap web hosting. No matter what your website is or where you are located you can easily find good web hosting offered at reasonable pricing. You may be able to cut your web hosting bills substantially by finding a good but inexpensive web hosting provider.
Free Web Hosting – is This the Right Choice, Baby?
Monday, May 3rd, 2010In web hosting world as soon as one talks about free web hosting the question which strike one’s mind is why to pay for anything when it can be availed free of cost?
In case of free web hosting even the availability is not a problem as they are available in plenty.
If one is not a stranger to web host and is using free web hosting, from him anyone can ask for his/her experience about the free web hosting. Is he/she satisfied with his/her current provider? Is it everything he/she was intending? Answer is in most cases not.
IS free web hosting really worth?
The one who has opted free web hosting, his/her website will automatically turn into an advertising machine that works for the free web host. Not only that banners, pop up windows, frames are also added. By these advertisements the vitality professionalism will get lost.
The user is not allowed to generate revenue by making advertisements on his web site as providers prevent it. Generating revenue by means of advertisements is not a main motive for a user but still it would be a great loss if it were not possible. Thus against this point paid web hosting has an answer.
The facility of having sufficient space will lack in the case of free web hosting. The free web-hosting provider provides mere 5 to 15 MB of disk space, which is not at all sufficient for a user. Another negative point is the user is not in a position to even think for expansion as the provider restricts it. If one wants to expand above the limit provided by the provider then only the paid web hosting is the choice. So choosing free web hosting means nothing because the user needs to pay in all the cases ultimately. Not only that, while in the switching over process the user will even loose the traffic to his/her website.
There is not a single online store that can go without secure server to enable secure online credit card processing. Secure web servers are generally lacking in case of free web hosting. For a free web host it’s very difficult to attract customers as most of the customers feel insecure and remain concerned about their personal information. Thus making survival of free web host providers problematic. Moreover there is not a single online store hosted by free web host, which is running successfully.
In case of free web hosting the uptime of one’s web site is unpredictable just like the weather forecast where one should always hope for good, but at the same time should get prepared for the worst. Unfortunately the downtime through free web hosts is quite uncommon. Free web hosts generate their revenues from advertising and so are not concerned with the web site of a subscriber who doesn’t pay them anyway.
The list of problems is not yet over; free web hosts generally have a limited budget and cant afford to hire large customer support teams. Thus support is also not available in case of free web hosting and user is alone at the time of problems merely staring at the FAQ page.
In case of free web hosting, one’s domain name is just measured in feet and reflects nothing or let say very little of one’s business. The overall result of above is low traffic scores, as the visitors even won’t be able to remember one’s URL. In this era of computerization where companies try to create their own image, one’s web site will loose its importance due to reflection of subdomain of his/her free host. Now the questions which arises are can really one can rely merely on search engines, linked sites and people book marking his/her? Will one’s customers trust a business hosted by a free web host? What credibility will one’s web site inspire? The answers of all above are unfortunately against free web hosting.
The list of factors against free web hosting is not yet over. One more disadvantage is that free web hosts do not always offer FTP access to one’s web site file, or they just offer one email with address like john.peu@freeserver.com. Which bears unprofessional look on the customers?
As against to free web hosting, paid web hosting requires money, but the prices are quite lower in comparison to the benefits one derives from paid web hosting.
Thus the lesson of the article is that if one is searching for a solution to host his/her business or even a professional personal web site, free web hosting is not at all a right choice.
Tips to Find the Right Web Hosting Company
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010“This article outlines the most important considerations one should keep in mind while looking for a website hosting service provider. Let’s take a look at some of them.
There are many things to consider when choosing a web hosting plan which suits your requirements. The 10 most important are listed below.
1. Types of Servers
2. Disk Space/Storage
3. Bandwidth or data transfer
4. Database support
5. FTP Access
6. Easy to use Control Panel
7. E-mail services
8. Cost
9. Customer Support
10. Added Features
First thing to do is make yourself clear about features you will use. If you are planning to make a complete static *.html based website you can go with either windows or linux server but if you are making a dynamic website i.e. Php then you need a server which supports PHP generally a linux of Unix server supports PHP. Webmasters using PHP probably will need MySQL database support & if it is a ASP based site then you need choose with a windows hosting server.
Disk Space/ Storage
Now we are clear about which server to choose and feature like PHP, MySQL supported… let’s take a look at Disk Space/ Storage and bandwidth or Data Transfer. This usually depends on number and size of WebPages you want to host.
Bandwidth or data transfer
For an average user or a small company website takes 100 Mb of disk pace and 1 GB of data transfer is enough. But it is recommended to choose the web hosting plan which gives you at least 2 – 3 times higher bandwidth. As your website visibility will increase with the time you might need more bandwidth to coop up with your requirements.
Ftp Access:
FTP access is used to upload your files to the server or web space or to the hosting server. FTP access is provided by most web hosting providers. You may need more than one FTP account if you have coworkers working on your website from different locations.
Easy to use Control Panel
The web based control panel will help you in managing your web hosting account and website. Generally all web hosting providers provide a web based control panel to access and manage web site features. Ask for a demo of their control panel to check their control panel features. The control panel should provide access to features like creating new FTP and e-mail addresses, databases management and all other functionalities for effective web site management.
Plesk, Helm and CPanel are the leading brands of administration control panels.
E-mail services
Checkout the number of pop3 accounts and email space provided with your hosting plan .Choose a web hosting provider that provides both POP3 and IMAP e-mail accounts, web-based e-mail, autoresponders, mailing lists, forwarding accounts, antivirus and spam filtering software.
Cost
It is very important that cost fits into your budget without compromising on features you require .choose a Web hosting company which provides multiple web hosting plans. So if in the future if you outgrow the selected hosting plan, you can upgrade another without changing the web hosting provider.
Generally the web hosting cost anywhere between 3 to 5 dollars per month for 100 MB of disk space .there are lot of web hosting companies on the web who provides web hosting as cheap as 1 dollar PM but you may need to compromise on some features like support ,bandwidth , number of email accounts and Uptime guarantee etc…
Some web site hosting companies charge one-time setup cost. This fees in additional to the ongoing monthly web hosting charges. While purchasing the hosting account findout the setup cost and their after monthly cost .
Customer Support
This is as important as the disk space or any other feature in web hosting. Ask your provider if it provides customer support whether by FAQ section, a knowledgebase, video and flash tutorials, toll-free support, e-mails support, live chat support or a community forum.
Try e-mailing the web host a couple of times to check how quickly they respond to your requests. This will help in knowing their response time and on the basis this you can decide which host to choose .
Added Features
Most of the web site hosting companies provide some added features or freeware to attract customers .these can be in any form like i.e. ash ,gift vouchers, free domain name, Free Site Builder ,one click script installers like fantastico, guestbook’s, forms, surveys, newsletters, image-gallery scripts etc…
Last but not least read some web hosting reviews to discover how satisfied the customers of particular web hosting company are. Try to find their experience with technical support and server uptime. Discover how they are satisfied with control panel.
Some of the best sites to read web hosting reviews are:
Find all web hosting reviews here www.hostreview.com
Visit the www.webhostingtalk.com And this is a great forum to know more about web hosting www.webhostingtalk.com”
Grabbing the Right Domain Name
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010If you are looking for web hosting, it is quite unlikely that you are not aware of domain names and their essence. But still let me define it once again for you so that things go in a much smother way. A domain name is a name by which your website will be known in the internet. These names act as a website’s Universal Resource Locator (URL) in the World Wide Web, which is a home to thousands of websites round the globe.
Bagging the correct domain name is an important point of consideration for any type of online business. A correct domain name which well suits your business perspective can allure a high percentage of customers to your site and a wrong one can decrease the trafficking confusing them to a great extent. None of the web masters can give a perfect suggestion when it comes to choosing your domain name as there is not any unanimity regarding their views. This article deals with some points that could be of some help in your decision of extracting the right domain name.
From the SEO perspective, the search engines continuously keep on changing their algorithm of weighing the various aspects that would keep your site on a higher position in SERPs. A little bit of research could be of help in this respect. Generally it always helps to stick to the KISS principle (keep it short and simple), without any numbers or hyphens in your URL. But the search engines find it suitable to locate a site with hyphens between the words in the URL. So if this is what you want, i.e. search engine optimization, than keep this consideration in mind before selecting your own domain name.
But if you are a profit making industry relying totally on your customers then the consensual view is to keep it simple avoiding numbers and hyphens, so that your customer should have no problem remembering it. But most of the people tend to overlook the market sector they are in and use numbers thinking that it would contribute to bring their site into a better position by placing it even before the letter ‘A’.
One of the minute consideration that should be taken care off is that .com is still the most recognized extension and people tend to type it before thinking even. So a “.com” always helps. However, when it comes to country code level domains like .co.us or .co.uk, it always work better for regional level business as someone from distant east may not like to trade with someone at distant west. So when you go for country based domain extensions, be doubtless that you deal with that particular region.
Some precautions to be taken when you go for a domain name of your own include at the first place that you make sure that the domain name is registered with your own name and correct contact information. You can check it out anytime using the WhoIs record which is a search engine providing detailed record of the domain registrar, the owner of the domain and Domain Name System (DNS) records of an internet entity, for example, a domain, a network, a host, etc. Also be particular of not using any company’s trademark on your domain name as it may drag you to lawsuit. The domain name is the online identity, of yours and your business, so be very particular and responsive while choosing one be sure to rest the authenticity of your domain name registrar which must be ICANN and ccTLD accredited.
How to Choose the Right Domain Name for Your Internet Home Business
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010If you are researching the many benefits of having a Internet home business to start earning extra retirement income hopefully you understand the value of owning your domain name versus using a free domain name service.
Choosing the correct domain name is the first and a vital part of succeeding with a Internet home business. It can also be a confusing and daunting task if you are unsure of how to proceed. There are a few basic approaches you can use to help determine the best domain name for your particular situation.
Using keywords in your domain name is a popular and easy way to get quickly recognized by the search engines and traffic to your site. Once you determine what the focus of your Internet home business will be choose one or two keywords that customers search to find your product.
One easy method to search for keyword ideas is by using Google Adwords. This allows you to enter a keyword and then get results of how many searches per month for that phrase along with different variations of the phrase.
Chances are that the particular keyword you choose will have a very high amount of searches each month but more than likely someone is already using it for a domain name. With this tool you will get many variations and eventually you should be able to find one that works for you.
Using your name or your company name as your domain name. Many people will choose to brand there name and drive traffic to their site that way.
Think of Ebay, or Amazon or even Google. There are no keywords in those domain names and nothing to tell you what service they provide. However virtually everyone knows those company names and what service they provide. By constantly branding their name people automatically go to these sites without even searching other sites.
Of course the chances of ever achieving this type of brand recognition is not very feasible however with the proper amount of marketing simply using your name as the web site address can bring substantial traffic.
This method usually takes longer to start bringing traffic but over time the quality of traffic can be better.
Instead of searching by a particular keyword customers begin to search for your name. This usually mean that you have begun to make a presence on the web and people trust your opinion. If they trust your opinion chances are they will purchase from you .
Regardless of what method you choose remember that simply having have good domain name will not guarantee success with a Internet home business. There is still much work that needs to be done but your domain name is key to start earning extra retirement income.
Things to Look for When Choosing the Right Web Hosting Provider
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010There are a number of different web hosting providers who all are assuring the same web hosting packages. So one may wonder how to find the right web hosting provider that will suit you and your needs.
Before one can even begin the search of the right web hosting, you will need to do a few things beforehand. Before beginning your search for the proper web hosting provider you will want to make sure that all the technical features are correct and compatible. Say you want to set up a website that uses programming environments such as Active Server Pages, Visual Basic scripts, Cold Fusion or Microsoft Access or Microsoft SQL database, then you will need to search for a web hosting service that supports Windows platform. In addition, for programming languages such as Perl, CGI, SSI, PHP or mySQL database, then virtually any web hosting plans that support the Unix/Linux platform should be useful. After attaining the right information and having these types of requirements in mind one can decide on the best web hosting plan for their needs.
The next technical requirement involves disk space and bandwidth requirements. Keep in mind however, disk space requirements may not be that big of a deal if you want to publish your website with a little amount of content. Generally about 200 MB to 500MB of disk space will be adequate enough to sustain your hosting requirements. On the other hand, for those who want to host a website with alot of pictures, mp3 or video files, a web hosting providing huge disk space like 500 MB to 100 MB is going to be critical. As for bandwidth requirements, traffic estimation plays a big role in this. A website that garners high traffic will tend to consume monthly bandwidth allowance very fast. In cases like this, a web hosting service that offers huge bandwidth capabilities with about 40 to100 GB per month is probably going to be needed.
There are a number of ways to know if you have chosen a good web hosting provider. For example, if the web hosting provider offers a reliable server uptime and a fast internet connection, then this usually means you made the proper choice. When selecting an appropriate provider you want to look for a web hosting service that guarantees ninety nine percent server uptime. A trustworthy hosting provider will invest on high performance servers, high speed multiple backbone providers with fail-over redundancy, backup power generators and firewall software protection. This will then ensure the fulfillment of the uptime guarantee specified in the terms and conditions.
Finally, maybe one of the most important things you will want to research is customer service and support. You will want to find a web hosting provider who provides twenty four hour a day, seven days a week technical support with experienced technicians. This will then ensure a timely resolution to any problem you may be having. An easy way to check for this is by sending an email and waiting to see how long it takes to get a response. Generally if a response comes within twenty four hours, then you can consider this as indication of acceptance. If no response comes then take this as a sign of poor customer service. These are a few things you will want to look for while in the process of searching for the right web hosting provider. Take into consideration all factors before making any decision.
The Benefits of Choosing the Right Business Web Host
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010Surely, you would go for a free-domain host, when you are basically starting out in your online business. After all, by this time, you don’t have much money to spend for a dedicated server or for a professional business web host services. However, if you’re thinking of expansion, or if you want to talk about stability and dependability, a well-priced web hosting services is what you’re looking for.
There are indeed several benefits that you can obtain from choosing a professional web hosting service. In fact, when you get to know them, you would not mind spending dollars every month for them. To give you an idea what we are talking about, here’s a rundown:
1. You can have your website running 24/7. The biggest benefit of a business web host service is that people all over the world can see your website regardless of their location or time zone. This is because they can access it anytime and anywhere they want to. There’s no limit when it comes to traffic and potential customers that you can have for your online business. What can affect them now is how you market your products and services.
2. You have an infrastructure that’s totally reliable. Some things are better rented than bought. That’s the same thing with a business web host. Servers don’t come cheap, and you need to allocate a good amount of time to monitor their performance and eventually maintain them. When you go for a web hosting service, everything will be taken care of by the company, including the maintenance of your website. If these weren’t enough, a number of them used state-of-the-art and secured facilities to ensure that your data are kept safe and that your website can run without any technical problems later. For few hundred dollars every month, you get what you need.
3. There’s no need to carry ads just to have your website running. If you hate pop-up ads, flashing banners, and Adsense, then your potential customers don’t like them too. However, that’s what you’re going to get when you go for a free-domain web hosting service, since it’s how they are able to provide you with a free service. If you want to get rid of them, a business web host is what you need. You can choose to remove them completely from your website for a small fee. If not, then you have the option to select which ad you want shown into your website.
4. You have full technical support. Got some issues with your web hosting? You can always reach out to the customer support department of the business web host company. They are usually available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can call them, e-mail them, or send them a fax. They can also teach you how to maximize the web space. Their experience and technical knowledge mean that your website is definitely in good hands.
When you want to improve your customer base and increase your sales conversion rate, you know what to do: you need a professional web hosting company to provide technical support.