Whoever you are not matter your operational size and in whatever market you are trading, a website has nowadays become a true necessity whether you are a business or an individual. Top 7 Reasons Why You Should Have A Personal Website ? Having a website of your own equals entering into an invaluable communication environment. There are at least 7 reasons why it is highly advisable for you to be present online: Represents your personal profile: A website can be your virtual portrait, showing off your personal self to the world on a 24/7 basis. Among the most popular ways of...
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Selecting the right name for your website is the most important step you can take when starting your own business. The name will tell people what you have to offer and will help them decide if they are interested in looking further. There are several ways you can select your domain name to bring in your customers. If you are starting your first website you may feel overwhelmed by the many choices that you have to make. Make yourself a list to help you get started. First of all you want to write down all the products or services you will be offering. Determine what age group or groups...
Written by: Sandeep Painuly | Web Hosting | |
Excited about blogging and wanted to create a blog for your own ? Heard lots of friends making money with their blog and want to create you own blog too ? Well, I am happy on your decision to join the internet blogging community but there are several things you must know before rushing in to it. We will not be looking at what blogging software to use, there are basically a dozen good and popular ones out there, select one that you feel is easy to learn and pickup, and perhaps ask around what your friends are using is a good option too. We will be concentrating on comparing free and paid...
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The Internet is a virtual environment. Every single thing you see is non-tangible. Your visitors cannot actually hold your product or service in their hands. They cannot feel it, smell it, taste it or hear it. You can only work within a limited environment; the Internet. So how do you sell a product or service you offer if your visitors can only see it in this virtual environment? You simply work with what you have and make it better than your competitor's. Almost all web sites are stores or offices that have been placed online. If you have a store or office, it needs to be "translated"...
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Overselling is selling more disk space or bandwidth per hosting account than actual capacity on the server, with the expectation that most people will never actually come close to using their full quotas. So a hosting company that oversells can sell at least 10 or even 100 times the amount of space and bandwidth PER SERVER than each server is actually capable of handling. This is how hosting companies can offer huge amounts of space and bandwidth for extremely low prices. This practice allows many accounts per server, keeping expenses down and cranking profits way up, and making it LOOK like...
Written by: Roshana Mallawaarachchi | Web Hosting | |
Just finished your first website? So it's the time to look for some hosting and make a choise. Your first qustion probably will be whether to choose free or paid hosting service. Let's have a look at some advantages and disadvantages of these solutions. Free web hosting: (+) It's for free. You don't need to pay for domain name. (-) Your URL will be something like username.freehost.com or freehost.com/username. As I noticed above, the advantage is that you don't need to pay for domain. But note that if you move your website to another provider in the future you can loose some or all...
Written by: Petr Sejba | Web Hosting | |
So you’ve decided to create a website? The most obvious thing that you need is of course web hosting. Among other things, like cost and features, you’ll need to decide which server you’ll need: Windows (NT, 2000 or XP) or Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc.). Both have their merits, so the first thing you should think about when making this decision is if you are looking for stability, or ease of use. UNIX based servers are generally superior in the site up-time and stability areas than Windows systems. However, while they need to be rebooted more often, Windows servers are generally...
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Linux vs. Windows web Hosting, does it make a difference?
One of the most confusing decisions someone new to web hosting will have to make is which platform their server should be on. There are a number of different choices out there but the main two are Linux and Windows web servers. There are also a lot of sources of information about hosting, but the majority of them are tainted by the author's biased personal opinion unfortunately confusing the issue. Having just put in some solid hours researching the topic I have come to the conclusion that in general it quite probably does not matter...
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Bandwidth explained: Bandwidth is the amount of data transfer that you are allowed to have for a hosting package i.e. Let’s say you have a web page that is 48KB in size, now each time a user opens your site and goes to that page S/he downloads 48 KB of information on to their computer. If a 100 users view that page one time each then there has been a total of 4800 KB of data transferred from the server on which your files are stored for the computer of users. Size of web Page: 48 KB Number of users who viewed the web page: 100 Total amount of data transferred: 48KB * 100 = 4800 KB ...
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Many of us who is still beginner in web hosting industry didn't really know what is Dedicated IP/Static IP and does it really important to have dedicated IP for your site ?. And is there any difference between having dedicated IP and shared IP. In this article, I will try to explain and elaborate as much as possible so you can have better understanding and decide whether you really need them. As the IP Address is getting harder and harder to get, most web hosting company doesn't offer dedicated IP to their hosting account. So basically when you host your site with them, you are sharing...
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Changing to a New Host? No More Worries! John's online business is expanding. His customers are increasing day by day. However, he feels very frustrated at the moment as he finds his website is 'down' about every 4th day. Whenever he calls up the support team of his web host, he gets the same old answer that his problem will be rectified soon. If the problems do persist it will surely hamper his business. He has been with his present hosting provider for the last year but now he feels he has to find a new web host as soon as possible because his present hosting package is also not able...
Written by: Priyanka Agarwal | Web Hosting | |
There are many tools of the trade in the world of Web site development, but very few have as many good uses as your .htaccess file. What, you don't have one? I'll admit, information on these little darlings are confusing to some and hard to find. Hence the reason why we need an explanation of what it is and what it can do for you. Inside your Web hosting space, you know you have folders, HTML documents, and other things that make your Web site work. Think of this file as just another addition to the many thing you have inside there. It usually sits inside your root directory, such as...
Written by: Mitch Keeler | General Hosting | |
Every Web host provides you with one, and if you do a lot of work on your Web site it could be something you curse or something you get to adore every single day. A control panel is like the brain behind your Web site’s body. It gives you one place to look at to do everything you would ever need to do to your Web hosting account. You can create E-mail accounts, create FTP accounts, track statistical information and so much more.
Did you know that there are different types of control panels though? I do not think anybody can argue with the fact that the most popular control panel software...
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Reseller Defined: The term Reseller according to the dictionary means to sell again i.e. to sell a product or service to the public or to an end user, especially as an authorized dealer, while making sure that you make a profit on the sale. Reseller Hosting Reseller hosting is no different either, a reseller buys a Web hosting package from a hosting company and tries to sell it independently. The profit for the reseller lies in either the discount or in the commission s/he gets from selling an account. For example: The reseller might purchase a package whose features are valued...
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Stay away from Web hosting deals that sound too good to be true. Why? Well if it sounds too good to be true, chances are it is. There are too many good Web hosting companies out there trying their best to run a good company. Too many out there to be ruined by one snot nosed brat who thinks he can make a few bucks by telling folks false promises. One of the main reasons I got into Web hosting writing was so that I could warn people about these sort of shifty characters on the Internet. That is right, not even Web hosting is free of low life scammers who want nothing more than to make a few...
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