Archive for October, 2009

Anybody who wants to put a website on the Internet must decide where and how the site will be hosted. The key to deciding what you need in a web hosting directory is to understand the nature of the website you are planning to put on the Internet.

For instance, if you are posting just a few personal web pages that hardly anybody will access, a very basic, perhaps even free web hosting may be just the thing for you.

When looking to host your website, there are several key issues you must take into consideration.

1. Uptime:
In simplest terms, uptime is time that Internet users can access your website, browse through its pages, and place orders. For you, uptime means time that you can receive orders and make money.

Uptime is generally measured as a percentage – the percentage of time a website is up and available to Internet visitors. In industry terms, the more ‘9s’ a hosting provider achieves in uptime performance, the better.

2. Security:
For a website that collects credit card payments and personally identifiable, security is of utmost importance. In fact, your customers must feel confident that your site is secure, or you will not receive their business. Security is also linked directly to uptime.

3. Redundancy:
In addition to security and standards compliance, a good hosting provider will have the redundancy incorporated throughout its entire hosting infrastructure. In simplest terms, redundancy means having more than one of something – multiple servers, multiple firewalls, multiple databases and storage units, etc.

A hosting provider with redundant servers, for example, can ensure more uptime because if one server goes down, another can takes over and do the work of the first without losing website performance.

4. Facility Maintenance and 24/7 Monitoring:
To protect against disaster and other threats, a good hosting provider will maintains a locked, temperature-controlled data center equipped with fire protection and an alternate power source. The facility should be monitored on a 24/7 basis, as should performance details such as server uptime, load, traffic, etc. Monitoring should include an established intrusion detection system to guard against security breach.

5. Technical Support:
The amount of technical support you receive from your hosting provider is often contingent on the amount you are willing to pay in monthly hosting rates. Some cheap web hosting companies offer no technical support at all, while others in the low-to-mid-cost range offer email or online chat support. Some of the best hosting providers offer phone support (sometimes toll-free, but not always) in addition to online support methods.


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You have decided to hire a professional to do your web design. The problem is that not all of them are professional. Some are working with knowledge that is out of date, and some of them are working out of the basement that belongs to their parents!
What you need to know:

1. Qualifications are worthless. Unless the person has a proper graphical design background, almost all of the web design training is learned at a community college part time and not very credible. Unless the person you are qualifying can explain XHTML and CSS to you and why they are good for your website, stay clear.

2. A good web designer will have a diverse portfolio and lots of attractive sites they have built for their customers. They will also be able to explain to you why they designed the site the way it looks. If a person does not have a substantial portfolio, get them to do a first draft design to display their skill to you.

3. Your designer candidate needs to realize that they are building your website for users. This means all users regardless of technical ability and which web browser they are using. Amateur web designers tend to come up with what they think are impressive looking pages while ignoring the visitors who will come to your site. Ask the prospect which browsers they will test the web site on? (Answer: as many as possible) What is the purpose of the website? (Answer: explain the point of the site very simply).

Help hiring a web designer.

Reseller Hosting – What exactly is reseller web hosting. Wikipedia defines it as a form of web hosting wherein the account owner has the ability to use their own lot of hard drive space and bandwidth to host websites on behalf of third parties. The reseller purchases the host services wholesale and then sells them to customers for profit. A certain portion of hard drive and bandwidth is allocated to the reseller account.

A reseller might be a web design firm, a web developer, a small-business owner or perhaps a website flipper. Web design firms may also resell web space as part of a package on their web designs. The main benefit of reselling hosting accounts is the ability to brand your company.

There are three major benefits to a reseller hosting plan. It allows you to have multiple domains, there’s a definite cost advantage and there is flexibility. Cheap reseller hosting is both economical and an ideal way for small business owners, both online and off-line, to make an impact on the Internet. It is becoming a very popular option for those looking to profit online.

Managing a hosting account with the c-panel has made administration tasks much simpler than using complex command lines. Those looking at reselling should still have a working knowledge of a Windows and Linux environment. But that should not stop anyone from entering this field. There is nothing so technical that an average person can’t learn how to manage an account. And as a reseller most of the difficult technical tasks along with a lot of your customer service can be passed on to the host.

With a reliable host like Hostgator or Hosting24 cheap reseller hosting can be an affordable way to both get your business on the Internet and possibly earn extra income.

Reseller Hosting makes domain flipping much easier!