Category — Singapore Web Hosting

“Some people tend to go for freebies, but would you take free eggs if they were offered on the parking lot of a supermarket? I know I wouldn’t”.

What is affordable anyway? At first, you could think it solely depends on the price. In most cases you end up realizing it’s rather far away from that. Taking the cheapest hosting service on internet is not far away from buying the cheapest house or a car available. I know you wouldn’t do that so read on and i’ll explain why you shouldn’t get the cheapest hosting service provider either.

There are many hosting companies out there offering web hosting for ridiculous prices. They offer everything unlimited for only 5.95 per month. At the same time they talk about global sales, special trained staff, fiberoptics, fully redundant cisco networks and so on but how can they get all the money for building the infrastructure, equipment and training then? Not from hosting. You can see it from their price tag.

While these companies render themselves economically unwit by the promises that are proved to be impossible, they also reveal their true knowledge of technology by claiming to offer unlimited anything. The truth is, nothing is unlimited, except outer space, and this we are still unsure of. So unless we prove the space to continue forever and get it captured inside a hard disk cover, let’s just assume there is no such thing as unlimited. Especially when it comes to bandwidth and disk space.

The major concern when it comes to choosing a web host is the speed. Not the bandwidth or the disk space as you can always get more. But when it comes to server speed, or responsiveness, that is something that you cannot get with money. It’s just what it is and usually gets worse by the time when the server fills up. If your host offers unlimited features with a low price, you can be sure that the servers need to be filled with a lot of customers to get profit from the server. And that means slow speeds which will never get any better.

The next concern is what you can do with the service. Many companies like to play safe and simply install everyhing into their servers and offer that as a single package. But what happens on a computer that runs ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, Perl, Python, mySQL, MSSQL, SSI and so on? In worst cases, nothing. In a milder variation of the above, something but not what they truly intended. When they get it all working, the server will have so many workarounds configured and security holes created so that it should be drawn out of production to be repaired. Unfortunately on some companies this doesn’t apply and instead of being concerned about clients security, they’re more concerned to get everything somewhat working so they can write all the fancy features in a single ad on their site.

The time goes by, they apply some updates and nothing works. They apply some more funky configurations and get the computer running once again. This game resembles a lot of the spring-games I used to play when I was still a kid, trying to get the waterflow from melting snow going where I wanted. It’s not like you tell the flow where to go but where not to. No matter how hard I tried, the next morning the water was going where it wanted. The problem wasn’t with the tools or the technique, but the original idea of getting the water go forever where it wouldn’t go. This is very close to the idea of having all the technologies running on a single box. Cool, but doesn’t work.

When you get your site hosted on a server with the above configurations, you’ll force your webmaster coding in a broken environment. Many times with old drivers because the new ones caused problems. The code that the webmaster codes on the server is forcibly filled with workarounds similar to the ones in the operating system configuration. And when the time comes, that the hosting service provider discontinues their services because they were found to be impossible, you will need to switch hosts. For your surprise, the code won’t work on the new server. Why? Because the new server doesn’t have all those “special” configurations and “hot ideas” in the operating system.

At this point you will need to contact your webmaster to get things working. And pray the god that you can contact the same webmaster you previously used as he hopefully remembers even somehing about the workarounds in the code and why they were implemented. Getting a new webmaster would probably lead to rewriting the whole code. At least it should be cheaper that way. Sounds pricey? It is, especially when you take into account how much time and money were used with the initial code while coding in all the workarounds we’re about to trash.

So when choosing an affordable host, you should search for a host with reasonable prices compared to the services they offer. This way they can afford keeping all the technology working top notch. This way your environment will be stable and working and the development on the server should be as fast and cheap as possible. Do not believe in marketing gimmicks like unlimited mailboxes, disk space, bandwidth or anything. It’s not even possible and it only proves that the company is driven by marketing people biased to improving their own economy. Not the customer’s. When it feels too good to be true, then it is exactly that.

Web hosting can be an exciting business start up for aspiring entrepreneurs. All you have to do to set up your business is become a hosting reseller, i.e., provide hosting facilities to website owners. Here as a business owner, you are buying space from a big hosting company, and redistributing the hosting space to other website owners.

Resellers are nothing but entrepreneurs acting as middlemen, offering you hosting services by leasing time and space from another Web host’s server rather than owning their own. Most of the times, the quality of services offered by resellers are so good that consumers do not even have the idea that they are dealing with resellers who do not have servers of their own. Resellers, since they can pick and choose their servers, are basically in a position to provide the customers with the best of services.

Reseller hosting business can be quite a profit making venture once you understand the figures and profit margins involved. Let us go through them. One can buy around 1000 MB space from a major web host at a cost of $25 per month. This 1000 MB space that you now own can in turn be redistributed to site owners who need space for uploading their site. Here you can give about 25 MB space for around $5 per month. Which means your monthly income comes to around $200 when you sell 40 hosting packages. Want more. some hosts allow you to oversell the space and do not charge you extra unless the actual usage of your account exceeds 1000MB. It is seen that a typical user uses less than half of the allotted web space. which means you can double or even triple sell your quota and make unlimited wealth.

And mind well, this income is residual income. It will keep coming to you month after month, year after year. You do the work once. and get paid for it over and over. All you are doing is buying space from a major web hosting company and becoming a reseller host. Your efforts are focused towards selling hosting space and the rest is handled by your web host. Some of them even handle customer service to your customers for a nominal fee. which makes it even easier for you.

If this is not enough. you can earn additional residual incomes by adding recruiting more resellers through you. By doing this you will earn regular commissions on their monthly sales. isn’t this smart business. The profit margins in the business of reseller hosting is quite good and you can start on this exciting business venture even if you do not have the required expertise and access to funds for setting up the required infrastructure. Strange as it might sound, there are also times where a reseller can also be more scalable than a typical hosting firm. A true Web host is limited by its hardware; if a client suddenly requires an upgrade the host is not prepared for, the only way the host will be able to satisfy the customer is by upgrading its hardware - expensive and time consuming for both sides. The reseller host, however, can simply choose to locate with a different Web host that will better suit the customer’s needs.

I write this article especially for people who are new to web hosting. This is why I will only talk about the basic needs (in a shared hosting environment): space, bandwidth. Most of the people looking for advanced features (scripting, databases) already know what they want/need anyway.

So let’s start with the space. Web space (disk space) is the amount of data you can store on the hard disk of the web server. Each web hosting accound comes with a certain amount of space, usually over 50 MB and less than 1000 MB.

Obviously, the amount of needed space depends on the size of the website. Most websites are composed of html (text) pages with a few images (gifs or jpegs) or even a little bit of Flash animation. Text is very economical; it occupies very little space. Images and flash are more expensive; they require a lot of space. If you’re new to the web you might think it’s great to have a lot of colorful images to make your website really beautiful. Don’t make this common mistake!

Your aim should be to say as much as you can on a page while maintaining it’s size under 50-60 KB including images. The reason? There are still lots of people using slow dial-up connections of under 56 Kbps. For them a 150 KB will take more that 21 seconds to load. A 60 KB page will take more than 8 seconds to load. That’s still a lot of time! A good page size is under 30 KB. A maximum page size is 50-60 KB.

Considering an average page size of 30 KB, you can put approximately 33 pages on 1Mb of space. If you have 10 MB of space available, you could host 330 pages. I only wish I had so many pages to put online. Don’t worry, I’m working on it!

The idea is this: unless you run a busy forum your needs for space are likely to be rather modest. Just keep in mind to achieve an average of 30KB/page and you should be more than fine even with 10 MB of web space.

Bandwidth is the amount of data that you’re allowed to transfer per month. It includes all uploads and downloads regardless of the protocol used (HTTP, FTP, POP etc.). Bandwidth depends very much on the average page size, but it also depends on the number of visitors your website will have and the average number of pages they visit. For an average page size of 30 KB, 20,000 visitors per month and 3 pages per visitor your website will need about 1800 MB (1.8 GB) of bandwidth per month. Most low cost hosting packages include that amount of bandwidth. Not to mention that 20,000 visitors per month is only a dream for most websites. Most don’t even have 2,000 visitors per month.

I took you through all those numbers just to give you an idea how to estimate your needs. If you’re just launching your website you will not need neither a huge amount of space, neither a huge amount of bandwidth. For 99% of people a hosting account with 10MB of space and 1Gb is more than enough.

Conclusion: Unless you have reasons to believe that your website will definitely have lots of visitors and unless you’ll offer movies or music for download (legally of course ), I see little reason for you to worry about space and bandwidth.

Just make your own calculations and also try to make sure that the host you choose allows account upgrades. That is to make sure you will be able to get more space and/or bandwidth if/when you need it without going through all the trouble of changing hosts.

By: Daniel Ionut Lemnaru owner of WHReviews.com

With over 1 million web hosting companies on the web, it prove to be very difficult for the average consumer to select a decent and top-notch service provider when every provider seems to be talking about the same thing. Business owners in Singapore often asked what is the difference between a US hosting company or a Singapore Hosting company since the variation in fees seems to be almost 10 folds compared to the features US hosting companies provide.

In US, it is very common to find a web hosting provider that provides you terabytes  of hosting space at only low cost fees from $10 USD per month. They will also throw in 1001 hosting features which will be supported with every hosting plan that you have signed up for. Most people do not know the bandwidth charges in US and in Singapore is almost 5 times more, with Singapore being a more expensive place to host your web site here.

Under US Hosting, due to the low fees structure and over-selling method, you get thousands of customers loaded onto one server. Over-selling means they do not expect you to fully use up to 100% of your disk space (imagine how are you going to use terabytes of legit web data?) . There is also highly protective TOC (terms of conditions) to indicate how much processing power you can used for your account and in the event that you exceed due to overage, they reserve the rights to terminate your account without refund. If you do your maths properly, imagine every single user use up to 1 Terabyte of data, the data transfer and bandwidth would kill the provider.

In Singapore Hosting, always check who your provider is hosting their network on. There are major network providers in Singapore such as Singtel, Starhub, Pacific Net, Qala (Known as M1 Connect now) . One of the many reason HostSG chooses Singtel is for their extremely large infrastructure based in Singapore that has the best international  coverage to Asia as well as worldwide. While better network coverage means higher cost for HostSG, but we believe in providing the best possible network platform for businesses that wish to have the highest standard of hosting service. This is part of HostSG vision.

To find out more about Singtel extensive worldwide coverage, please visit http://business.singtel.com/coverage/

The annual great web hosting sale is back. Starting from 1st June 2010, all new customers sign up for Budget Hosting, Business Hosting, On-Demand Hosting, Reseller Hosting and VPS will all receive additional 3 months free for 12 months sign up or 6 months free for 24 months sign up.

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New website owners aren’t usually as aware as they might need to be regarding how your web hosting affects your SEO. There are a number of factors that indeed make a significant difference, and it is wise to at least bear them in mind when choosing a web host or a particular hosting package. Let’s look at some of them, and what you can do to help yourself!

Where Does Your Site Reside? - There are such things as bad web neighborhoods, and your site could be sitting smack dab in the middle of one. This happens when another site, usually on a shared server, is penalized for whatever reason by Google. Unfortunately for you, this often paints your site with the same brush, as you typically share an IP address. Until you prove to Google otherwise, you are in just as bad a position as the offending site, and you didn’t do anything wrong! There is really no way to know this ahead of time. All you can really do if you have to use a shared hosting account is to pay for a few more IP addresses you can use, (if your host allows this) in the hopes of distancing yourself.

Does Your Site Disappear Often? - If you have a web host that keeps experiencing problems with uptime, you’ve got serious problems. If your visitors can’t get on your site, or if search engine robots are unable to index your pages because your site is down, you’ll be hurt not only in the short term in lost visits, but in the long term with a non- or poorly indexed site. Stuff happens, but frequent outages in service and downtime are grounds for desertion. Don’t tolerate it.

Software Updates - This has to do with the software that your web host uses in the operation of your web hosting account, as well as any scripts they are offering as part of your deal. It’s not unusual for hosts to neglect to upgrade to more current versions of software. This can have a negative effect on the operation of your site, and subsequently, affect other aspects of how the search engines view your site. Again, this is usually through no fault of your own. Ask if the software is current, particularly if you are using a Wordpress installation, or any other type of CMS.

How Fast Is Your Server? - More and more these days, it looks like search engine rankings are factoring in how fast your site loads and performs as a part of their ranking algorithm. Like it or not, Google is all about end-user experience, and if your visitors have to wait around for your site to load, while your competitor is up lickety-split, you have a problem. The only way to ensure that this never happens to you is to make sure you are using a web hosting plan that affords you the amount of server resources you need, particularly if you get busy. Many webmasters spend all their time and money trying to get traffic, and when they do, they find that the plan they are on can’t service them. Get the most you can afford, and don’t be afraid to upgrade when the time comes. Your web host will gladly help you!

Making sure you have the proper web hosting plan for your business is a crucial link in your web business. Get it wrong, and you’ll find a lot of your efforts wasted. Don’t get it wrong!

HostSG will be upgrading all existing Business Hosting customer email account from current 200mb to 1GB coming July. With this upgrade, current pool of 35,000 business email users need not worry anymore about lack of account space for email storage. Designed to be cost effective for our business hosting customers, it is believed HostSG is the web hosting first company in Singapore to offer this large amount of space upgrade.

Many people don’t understand how crucial domain names are to effective search engine optimization. A domain name is capable of changing the entire fate of an online business, and this has never been more true than in today’s highly competitive keyword driven market. A good domain name could mean the difference between a page rank of 10 or a page rank of 1.

Search engine optimization can be a very complicated process to try and master, especially if you are relying entirely upon on-site optimization. Although populating your site with high quality content is definitely a good way to get a high ranking in the search engine, there is nothing more effective than good old domain name keyword targeting.

How Do Domain Names Affect Search Engine Optimization?

This question may seem basic to some, however the answer is a lot deeper than most would expect. If you want to fully understand why and how domain names affect the search engine optimization of a site then you need to understand how the search engines think. Search engines base their search results on the usefulness, relevancy and popularity of a site. Now first and foremost if your site is brand new then it cannot be very popular yet, so we can eliminate that form the equation. However, your site does not have to have any daily visitors to impact the relevancy category of search engine optimization. In other words -you can rank highly in the search engines based on just your domain name alone. By having a domain name that is similar or identical to the keyword or phrase you are targeting, you are automatically guaranteeing yourself a high ranking in the search engine for that keyword.

How to Find the Right Keyword for Your Domain

This is perhaps the most challenging part of picking your domain name. If you are searching for a domain name that targets a keyword, it can be very difficult to find one that is even similar to a valuable keyword. It is however possible, and with the right researching skills you can easily make it happen. The key to finding a good keyword for your domain name is targeting long tail keywords. Long tail keywords are basically long spin offs of the main keyword. For example, trying to register a domain name with the keyword “loans” (loans.com) would not be plausible. However you could target the keyword “bad credit car loans” (badcreditcarloans.com) and you may be able to secure this domain. If you can get a domain with that name, and place content on it that pertains to that niche, then you will find yourself at the top of the search engine for that niche in a very short period of time.

Optimizing your Keyword Targeted Domain

Once you have your keyword targeted domain, you will need to fill the site with content that is relevant to your niche, and then submit your site map to Google so that it can be indexed. Simply find a few articles that pertain to your niche and rewrite them or write a few unique articles yourself. Once you have done this you’ll being to see consistent traffic to your site on a regular basis, based on your domain name and very minimal work on your behalf.

Web hosting is very essential especially in case if you are looking forward to expand your business at an international level. In this evolving market of web based business hosting the business reseller always try to make use of the business website hosting. If you really want to boost up your business then you are supposed to make use of the initiative derived from the venture names business hosting.

In order to build a good market you are supposed to make a survey on the market so that you can derive your benefit in a proper way. Planning stands to be the key factor that determines the stability of your business concern. As a reseller you are supposed to opt for long term plans in order to derive your success as a result of the business hosting as featured by you. Owing to the fact that there is competition among the reseller as far as stability of the market is concerned. So it is your concern to determine the chances of your survival in this mode of business. Becoming a website hosting reseller can surely land you to your success. Analyzing the market condition stands to be the dominant factor that determines the ability to fetch success in business. Business hosting is really indispensable as far as business website hosting is concerned.

Credibility of the web host stands to be the most determining factor that enhances the chances of survival in this mode of business. You are supposed to compare the various web hosts that are available in the market. The hosting reviews are really beneficial as it helps you to gather information regarding the strategies that are associated with the concept of business website hosting. The accessibility of the hosting companies also determines the chances of survival of the business since it is involved with a broader concept of marketing plan. The web hosts stands to be the redundant lines that are necessary for to fetch success. A desired hosting company is known by the efficiency as derived in the field of customer services. In the field of online business technical support that are available in the form of customer services are really inevitable.

Business hosting is a concept that is acuminated with the concept of several strategies that if implemented can really land you to your success. Flexible plans are essential in order to fetch success in the field of business website hosting. In this age of globalization the internet services are considered to be one of the most important tools as far as online business are concerned. The forums, blogs, etc. that are known for the services provided in the form of bandwidth and disk space are really indispensable for your business. Business website hosting is supposedly considered to be a stable mean of marketing that is acquainted with the use of certain strategies that helps the reseller to derive success. Thus implementing the above mentioned tips you are surely able to fetch your success.
HostSG is one of the largest web hosting company in Singapore, providing services to more than 25,000 clients worldwide. From domain name registration, virtualisation hosting, cloud hosting and VPS, we have the right solution at the right price for all businesses. Talk to our consultant today to find out how we can help your business.

A keyword based domain name is vital to establishing an internet presence and allowing the inherent resources of the internet (organic search traffic) to work in your favor. Choosing a keyword based domain name can be critical to the success of your website and should be given careful consideration.

In order to take advantage of the organic search engine traffic (optimization), choosing an optimized/ keyword based domain name is a critical step often overlooked. By selecting a domain that is the equivalent of a keyword search, websites are able to rank higher for targeted keywords; your website keyword site density will increase; thus giving you the benefit of additional organic search traffic and more potential clients. Whether you opt for a brandable domain name or a keyword domain name is a choice you must make in alignment your off-line and on-line business plan; but should not be taken lightly.

Here are a few simple rules to follow to maximize the benefit of a good keyword based domain name and to enhance your site keyword density:

Try to register a.com domain: Always, always use a “.com” domain. Most of the world is familiar with the “.com” naming convention and you should defiantly keep that in mind when choosing..Net domain names are becoming more familiar, mainly because all the.com names have been taken by other marketers, but you still want to stick with the.com format if at all possible.

Structuring: Order the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) so that the more vital keywords are listed before those that are less important. For example, if the target keyword is “money” then moneyonline.com would be more effective than onlinemoney.com.

Length: A lengthy, complex URL is more likely to be rejected by directory editors’; so you’ll want to keep it as simple, to the point, and as short as possible.

Correct English and Must Make Sense: Make sure that the URL is grammatically correct as well. This also will play a role when submitting to directories and so forth.

Put together “power words”: In order to create a distinctive domain name that is still available, one way is to add another less important word to the mix. A few examples include: now, top, just, goto, pro, guide, online, find, etc… Though not ideal, it is the next best option available.

Finally, it is very important to choose a keyword phrase domain name very carefully. This should be considered one of the most important decisions you will make regarding the success or failure of your on0line business/website. You must identify the exact phrase or phrases that searchers will use to find your website and build your domain name from there. The more targeted the campaign is; the more organic internet traffic you will receive which will ultimately leading to more sales.

If you are relatively new to web hosting, then some terms like VPS web hosting (Virtual Private Servers) may sound like a foreign language to you. But as you spend more time on the web doing business or research, you will eventually learn about it. And once you’ve learned about it, you will then realize how much you need it for growing your business or improving your website.

To begin with, the VPS is an arrangement where you and other clients of the provider share the same server resources. The server is normally split into smaller ones but although divided, each one has its own operating system. This means, all of them can be rebooted independently if needed.

VPS webhosting is the opposite of dedicated hosting where you will pay the provider for the entire server and use it for your own convenience. With dedicated, you don’t have to share the server with others. So, if this is the case, why must you go with VPS Hosting?

Well, VPS web hosting is the most excellent alternative that you can get out there if you don’t like the idea of having to contend with server instability that’s commonly associated with shared web hosting. Additionally, if you don’t think that the high price of dedicated hosting doesn’t give good reasons for going dedicated, then VPS is for you.

Yes, you can save money for choosing cheap shared hosting, but it will not give you the kind of traffic that you need to make your site profitable. But if you will spend a bit more money every month, be sure that the service that you get is worth exactly what you’ve paid for.

Alternatively, the dedicated hosting is pretty costly and there’s no sense in paying more especially if you don’t really require all of those extra resources that comes with dedicated hosting. In conclusion, with VPS hosting, you will surely get what you’ve paid for. You can choose from the array of plans that is best suited for all your needs. Also, you can make the most of its quality hosting services as well as stable server at a price lower than dedicated hosting. Definitely, VPS is one good investment to have.

Reliable Small Business Web Hosting Services
Small business web hosting services are one of the most important aspects to establishing your business’ online presence. If you do not select a reliable web hosting service, you will not be able to establish a reputable online presence. A reliable website hosting company will provide you with minimal web server downtime, 24/7 customer service and technical support, and they should be able to provide you with a fast web server with the latest software and technology. Without these features, you will be one step behind your competition, which is something that you cannot afford on the internet.

How Web Site Hosting Can Explode Your Sales
Whether you operate a home based business or a real business that has a retail location, you can expand and explode your sales many times over by having a web site on the internet. In order to have a website, you will need to have it created, register a domain name and obtain a web site hosting service for small businesses. If you have products to sell, a website on the internet can be an excellent way to expand your sales revenue. If you are a service provider, setting up a website can be a superb way to attract new clients and bring new walk in traffic to your business. Over two-thirds of all internet searches are for local businesses and information about those businesses. If you do not have a website established and indexed in the search engines in a proper way, you are missing out on an absolutely huge revenue potential that other businesses are making millions of dollars with every single day.

The Ease of Setting Up a New Web Site Presence
Many small businesses believe that it is too expensive to establish a web site on the internet. You can actually have a web site running tomorrow for $20 or less. Your first step is going to be to purchase a domain name and find a reliable small business web site hosting service. This step will cost you the $20 or less. About $10 of it will cover a year’s worth of domain name registration and another $5-8 will cover a month’s worth of web site hosting services. You can obtain cheaper web site hosting by paying for a longer amount of time up front but you can also pay monthly with many of the best web site hosting companies. After you have completed these steps, you will be able to create the content for your site. Many small businesses believe that you have to pay thousands of dollars to get a professional website.

Fortunately, this is not the case at all, although it is true if you hire somebody to custom design it for you. Search the internet for free content management scripts if you are going to have some sort of constantly updated content on your site. If you are going to be selling products, search for free ecommerce scripts. For basic informational website, you may be able to get away with searching for a website template which will do the design work for you and let you add the necessary text. Despite what your needs are, there is usually a way to get it done for free if you look around for it and devote a bit of time and effort into getting it done. Don’t cheap out on your small business web site hosting though - stick with an industry leading company that will provide you with the very best. Getting too cheap will only save you a couple of dollars a month at the very most so it is best to go with something that will help you leave a lasting impression on your customers.

Blogging is a great way for a business to effectively market their product or service without spending a lot of money. There are many benefits of business blogging. Businesses that keep up with a blog can introduce their products or services to consumers and can better communicate their customers. In addition, businesses that blog can understand what their customers want and serve them better.A blog, sometimes called Weblog, is defined as a web page that serves as a journal or diary for individuals. Most blog writers update their blog on a regular basis and writers often share what most interests them. Individuals are not the only ones that have found blogging beneficial. Businesses have learned that this new way to communicate is a good marketing tool for their products and services.

Every company should consider have a regular blog for their businesses. Larger businesses may opt to hire a several special writers with certain areas of expertise to update their blog. A smaller company may have one writer that can effectively write about their product. The idea of blogging for any size business is to get the word out to readers. A reader who frequents a certain blog is more likely to share the blog with others. Also, blogging is a great marketing tool because it allows consumers to be better informed.

When a business chooses to blog, it allows them to introduce their product or service to consumers. Keywords and search engines help consumers quickly find the blog they are looking for with ease. For example, if a company specializes in making handmade jewelry and keeps a blog that is on a search engine, then that search engine would list their blog on a search. Blogging allows customers to research the product they are looking for with ease.

Companies that keep a regular can also use their blog to communicate with their readers and customers. There are many features that a blog site can offer that will allow a reader to enter comments and contact the writer. Companies that encourage their readers to leave comments can take the comments and improve their services and products. In addition, companies can email their customers back and let them know that they are interested in what they have to say. In addition, a company that uses blogging to market their service or product should always rely on an experienced writer to update the blog. Business blogs should be polished and easy to read.

Another good reason why businesses and companies should include a blog in their marketing plan is because a blog provides a unique way to understand what customers want. Companies that are in tuned with their customer’s needs and wishes can better serve them. Keeping an updated blog will initiate more customer communication that can help a company know right away how to improve. Blogs provide good public relations and are generally much cheaper to maintain than a regular web site. Also, a business that keeps a blog can reach out to other complimenting companies and link those blog sites together. This will help build readership and customers.

When setting up a blog for business purposes it is important to look for a blog-hosting site that can offer the right kind of features. Most businesses will use a site that can offer them more search engines and options to add links and URLs on their page. Free blog sites may not have the capabilities to offer as many features as the ones that charge a monthly fee. The search engine option is very important for a company that keeps a blog. This will ensure that readers can easily locate the company’s blog page. Also, a company setting up a blog should always keep the links and contact information within the blog current. A customer will not want to continue using a blog page that is full of broken links or outdated contact information. If a company relies on their customers to read the blog, then those customers will always rely on the company to make their blog experience a positive one.

Blogging can be a great marketing tool for any size business. It is important for businesses to realize that blogs are not a passing fad, but a unique way to interact with customers and gain recognition in a particular field.

Reasons to choose a Linux web hosting When talking about web hosting platforms, there are mainly two types of operating systems: Microsoft Windows web hosting and Red Hat Linux web hosting. Both types of servers have their own strengths and weakness. However, with the rapid development of online website numbers, Linux-based server is certainly becoming more and more the most popular method of web hosting among webmasters with experience or not. You might wonder why Linux is gaining more popularity over Windows server in the market. Well, there are many things that caused Linux to be at the forefront of web hosting choices, the reasons are listed below, just to name a few:

First and foremost, compared with Windows, the price of a Linux web hosting is much more affordable. Since every edition of Linux is free for web developers to use in their web design, the cost of the operating system to use gone, the overall cost of a Linux web hosting plan is reduced resulting in a price advantage for consumers. Aside from the free cost of the Linux operating system as mentioned before, another important aspect of Linux-base servers is that they have an open source code. Choosing Linux web hosting also allows you to use all of the other wonderful program and applications that are also free.

Secondly, another advantage in choosing Linux web hosting is its compatibility with other software and operating systems. Creating a website that is based on Linux server to be hosted by a server that is of other operating system will cause no problem, conversely, if you create a website base on Windows server to be hosted by Linux server will cause troubles. Therefore, it is advisable that you choose Linux web hosting from the beginning so as to avoid any compatibility problems in the future.

Thirdly, the good performance of Linux web server is always praised by webmaster. Compared with other operating system, the Linux operating system and it applications are also gain wide compliments with their performance which dues to their stability and dependability. Linux web hosting is less prone to downtime. Linux reputation as one of the most reliable and dependable operating system in the market is built over many years. You can feel free and keep a peaceful mind to be hosted with it.

Fourthly, it is fairly easy to manage Linux server. The procedure of uploading and hosting is approximately similar for both Linux and Windows web servers.

Looking at the cost involved ranging from $150 - $1000 per month why is that dedicated web hosting such a huge punch on the business web hosting market? Is paid web hosting worth it?

Now what is dedicated web hosting? Dedicated web hosting is having one single server rented to a single customer by the webhosting provider. Virtual dedicated servers and co-location web hosting are two similar solutions relatively familiar in the web hosting industry. In virtual dedicated server hosting plans one does not get an entire computer just for oneself this means that the virtual server shares the resources of a web server computer with other customers of the web hosting provider. There are many similarities between both Co-locating web hosting and virtual dedicated servers but the main difference is that, in co-locating web hosting the customer owns the web server computer and web-hosting provider only houses the web server computer and sells bandwidth to the customer whereas in dedicated web hosting the web server computer belongs to the web-hosting provider and is only rented by the customer.

When single web server is rented to a single customer it is called real dedicated web hosting.

For businesses that work with high traffic, dedicated web hosting is the idyllic way out. Application required for its operation and functionalities of web site falls under ones specific control.

There are many advantages of dedicated webhosting:

• Concerns regarding the maintenance, the security, and the reliability of ones web server are all handled by hosting provider.

• One doesn’t have to bother about maintaining the hardware and the connectivity of the computer as it is on rent and not been purchased

• One is freed from replacing the component or solving the problem, as everything is provider’s responsibility

• One gets compensations as part of the Service Level Agreement (SLA) by most o f the web hosting providers.

• In the occurrence of failure one may get reimbursement with the cost of ones hosting plan for a month or a fraction of it, depending upon the severity of the failure.

• When compared to having to pay for the component and for the technical support required for actually replacing the component, while web site in not online all these advantages seems quiet good as at the day end one will just be paying for functional hardware.

Imagine the business with all the resources being saved on the above maintenance issues. One can choose between “managed” or “unmanaged” service levels as the costs of administering and maintaining the web server one has taken on rent will vary depending upon the web hosting provider.

One can choose “managed” dedicated hosting which means one will have access to “control panel” if one is uncomfortable with the technical expertise required by the management of a web server computer. All the essential tasks required to be performed by the proper functioning of ones web server via a simply point-and-click user-friendly interface are allowed by control panel.

This way one can setup, administer and maintain all the web sites on web server without knowing or typing any command lines nor having any in depth knowledge of the operating system.

Those with great degree of technical expertise in mastering a root access to the server can go for “unmanaged” option. “Unmanaged” option offers complete server administration, thus having possibility of configuring every service on the web server. But if necessary services are not configured properly it may result in failure of system. Due to these reasons unmanaged dedicated hosting is recommended for only people having solid server administration background or for web developers who require custom applications for their web sites, or a customized environment. Thus people having dedicated server computer’s stability will not be prone to the plagues affecting shared web hosting solutions.

Imagine-

-errors in programming usually made by the beginners,
- Or overload i.e. server being crowded with applications and components required by the other customers

- Or in a shared web server when the processor time and the installed memory are both shared by the software applications needed by the other users.

Instant support is provided to its customers when required by the dedicated web hosting whether managed or unmanaged which is not possible on a shared hosting plans where one will be facing delays and possible additional technical support fees.

If one is having prompt support service from ones side then the customers will be happy and at the same time there will be growth in business. For those doing business in web designing advantage to have his own dedicated server is priceless not because he will be able to offer pure hosting services, but because he will able to offer them packaged with the web design activity also. When one is having access to web server for 24 hours, then within minutes one can modify a website for a customer or upload a new one.

If complete web presence solution, design and hosting, is offered by the studio to a customer there is chance of that customer being regular this is an added advantage.

The benefits of a good dedicated web hosting are:-

• Businesses solutions being translated into sales growth

• Better customer relationship results to improved company image

• Reduced cost compared with in-house web hosting solution, and so on.

• One can run a better business and better business gives good profit.