Website Hosting Decisions

I have been creating websites for several years now and started out with very basic needs. Initially I was satisfied with a very basic free package that did everything I thought I needed at that time. This was a simple package that was included for free with my high speed internet access.

With these types of packages, the number of features is extremely limited but it will introduce you to the basic processes. Although they might appear totally unacceptable to the experienced webmaster, they are not all that bad. This is a way to learn the basics at no cost.

More serious involvement and desire for a better website lead me through another progression. This was still in the free webhosting realm though. I began experimenting with the other types of free websites offered by places such as Yahoo and Geocities. This seemed like a great progression for me at the time and I was quite proud of the achievement.

Again, although these hosting packages are looked down on by the experienced webmasters, they filled a need. I learned more about creating websites for free while on a gentle learning curve.

I then made the big move to paid website hosting. At this point I created websites in which I had much greater control over the appearance and functionality. The learning curve has been steeper since then. The hosting packages today permit anyone to create professional looking websites that permit interaction of all sorts with the viewers.

Most packages have server side web creation software to build very nice looking websites that will serve most basic requirements.Most of the offerings today are very similar in pricing and features. There are a couple of areas that I suggest you look at very carefully. These may well be the most important differences in the offerings.

One important feature you should understand on signup is the term bandwidth. Many applications such as the very popular blogging can ultimately generate considerable traffic and resources demands on your hosting package. This is where you will sort out the wheat from the chaff. Some packages simply do not permit the resource load (bandwidth) that many common applications require. This could be cause for them to suspend website activity at any time with no notification. This will be very frustrating for you.

I have left another issue to the very last because from my experienced point of view it is the very most important and possibly misrepresented by some webhosting providers.

I don't care how good you are or how experienced you are in building and uploading websites; there are times when you are going to require support from your website hosting provider. Now some of these people go to great lengths to proclaim that is a priority. Unfortunately that is not always the truth. Nothing is more frustrating than having a website that is not functioning properly and not permitting potential viewers to access it.

You will be pulling your hair out if you have an issue and you can't get anyone to respond to your pleas for help. I strongly suggest you research customer testimonials or forums to confirm their record of satisfaction. Remember that if you have good support, you will work through any issue in putting up and maintaining your website.


Tom is a webmaster with experience and knowledge gained through actual subscriptions to a variety of hosting packages. Recommendations are based on first hand experience.

Free Web Hosting

Is free web page hosting ever a good choice? We look at the free web hosting market and how free hosting services have changed in recent times.

Free web hosting is something that many people choose when first starting out online for one reason and one reason only - the price. But is free web page hosting worth it, in either the short or long term?

The rise of free web hosting services in recent years proves that there is without doubt huge demand for no cost hosting and there has been no shortage of companies and marketers keen to tap into what is seen as such a lucrative market.

The first companies offering free hosting were able to do so by using advertising revenues to offset their costs and usually, to turn free hosting into a profitable venture for themselves.

For you, the consumer, such a tempting offer was hard to resist. The reality of building a site on a free hosting account however, often turned into a rather frustrating and sometimes worthless end user experience.

The early pioneers were often hastily set up and after they had raked in the money, users often found themselves high and dry when the free hosting provider went offline overnight, never to return. The fact that users were not out of pocket may have cushioned the blow, but all the work customers had done was invariably lost, along with the time invested.

For those who signed up with a more stable free hosting company, the downside was usually the ads that they were forced to run on their websites, over which they had no control. These were usually not remotely relevant to the content of the site, and usually so intrusive that visitors would be scared away pretty quickly.

Add to this the fact that free web hosting users were usually stuck with a sub domain name and found it almost impossible to achieve any kind of worthwhile results in the search engines results pages, and free web page hosting started to look far less appealing.

Many free web hosting services also left a lot to be desired in the reliability stakes with sites often being offline and unavailable to Internet users. This was annoying for many, but to anyone trying to run some kind of online business it was disastrous.

Because of all these things, you will doubtless have read in many places that free hosting is really not worth the price you pay, particularly if your site has any commercial aspirations.

I would not disagree with this even today, because anyone operating a business online usually needs far more than most free web hosting plans can offer. However, the choices in 2008 are far greater than they have been in the past.

Several free hosting providers now offer PHP and MySQL and some pretty decent storage and bandwidth numbers. There are even services that give cPanel access and the ability to host your own domain name.

For many people, particularly those on a very tight budget, perhaps free hosting is still worth a look. If you are just looking to host a non commercial website, or perhaps just a place to host marketing squeeze pages and the like, free hosting might well be a viable choice.

As with most things, if you get them for free, there is usually a trade off, but the free web hosting industry has certainly improved in recent times and consumer choices are more wide ranging than they once were.

Selection of Web Templates

Website templates act as the framework of the website. They are like an empty frame where you can fill in any picture of your liking. There are several web templates available Online. You can either select any one of them or take tips from them. Here are a few factors that will help you select the best web template for your website.

Lots of people make a lot of mistakes while choosing web templates. The most common mistake web masters make while selecting a web template for web designing is picking up the common templates of the lot. If you pick a common web template, your website will not look any different from the rest of the pool of websites. In order to make a difference with your website, and to look unique amongst the rest, it is important that you select a different web template from the rest so that you stand out from the crowd.

In order to save useful time people tend to avoid web designing for web templates, and this is the reason why they tend to adopt ready to use web templates. It is good to give your website a unique touch, but make sure that you do not spend a lot of time in making changes. This will take equal time as web designing, and the whole purpose of saving time and effort will be lost. Therefore, make sure that you utilize the least of your time in making these changes yet keeping your website unique.

An essential aspect of web designing is website navigation. Hence while selecting your web template make sure that your website navigation is smooth and comfortable. It is the website navigation that makes all the difference. A well navigated website, makes the surfing experience a comfortable and fruitful journey across your website and thus, your website will be able to serve them better. An important aspect of website navigation is the content visibility. Your website should be so designed, that the content within your website is visible from any part of the website. Give equal importance to all links in your website so that the readers too, are able to navigate across them.

Another very common error which is visible in web designing is not using the title bars. Web page titles are an essential website navigation tool, and hence should be given great importance. Many a times web designers leave their page titles as it is, or misspell them. These are grave errors and must be avoided. As a matter of fact web page titles also help in search engine ranking, hence should be given a lot of importance.

Web designing is as technical a job as it is creative. It is a challenge to the web developers to create websites that are creatively as well as technically upto the mark.

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8 Ways To Host Your Site

There are 8 basic types of the web hosting available in the market today. Hosting even by IT standards, is not considered exciting, if it was a country it would be Belgium. If it was another business it would be fleet car leasing, where shared hosting would be company car pooling. Dedicated, leasing of cars to a sales force on a rolling annual rental contract or lease agreement. Like the gold rush in the Sierra Nevada in 49, nobody pays much attention to the stores the picks and shovels, but this is a mistake it can be vital to your sites success. It is crucial to security and in vital if maintaining site integrity, to have a hosting partner who will grow with you and react quickly and decisively to resolve problems when they arise. A good host can even be a source of revenue for your site.

1. Dedicated Server – rental as well as the exclusive use of an internet connection, server and software

2. Shared hosting – Multiple websites are being hosted on just one remote hard drive and server

3. Reseller hosting – reselling of hosting accounts for another web host under a brand of your own. You determine the pricing structure and other aspects of the offer.

4. Virtual Private Server - You are not renting a real server, but you are rather splitting hardware with the other virtual servers running on the same machine. Many self contained virtual server can exist on one rented remote server.

5. Free hosting – Service usually offered by ISP’s or compensated with advertisements on your website. Free hosting usually offers little or no support, bandwidth, space, or the free scripts or site building features you enjoy with shared and dedicated hosting.

6. Managed Hosting - Expanded dedicated web server hosting. In dedicated servers, the client has to take care of his or her own server but in managed hosting, the provider would have the responsibility of doing that Unmanaged Hosting - Total remote control administration of your web server. The server's technical aspects are controlled by the designated administrator which you would select to manage and handle your website information.

7. Colocation – Requires that you to bring your server to the data center of your host.

8. Clustered hosting - Used by the biggest and most important websites, you buy manage and physically house the servers yourself. Clustered means that the same content would be served on a number of servers enabling better redundancy and resource. Works well for Google.

As you can see there are many types of hosting account. Whether you are planning business web hosting or you intend to run a school site or maybe you are simply planning on getting a small hobby site up and running, you have a decision to make, what hosting package do you chose.

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Web Site Promotion With Directories & Links

You’ve done it! After all your hard work it is finished. Perhaps it’s your 1 st or even you 91 st; whatever the case it’s finally over. But, before you spend the rest of the day surfing through your new website with glee it is time to start focusing on web site promotion. Yes, that’s right, without proper Internet marketing your website is little more than a pretty screen on your monitor. In this article I would like to discuss some web site promotion tricks for the trade that I have developed over the years.

Web Site Promotion
And Article
Article directories are places where people store their own articles together with others who are also using this type of resource for web site promotion. Common sites for article directories include:

EZineArticles.com
GoArticles.com
LinkSnoop.com
Not to forget the article directory where you might be reading this article right now. Web site promotion through article directories can be tedious especially if you have to find all the directories yourself and then manually login to each one before submitting your newest articles. For me, I have found automating this chore with SEO Elite to be my choice of action. Automation is your friend when doing Internet Marketing.

However, if you stop your web site promotion efforts with Article Directories you are really missing the boat in today’s world. Many more people prefer video’s, especially viral videos, to reading articles. Don’t believe me; check out the title "Bionic Burger" on YouTube.com to see that this is indeed the case. Again you can do this all manually or check out my favorite tool named Traffic Geyser for more information about how viral videos can propel your web site promotion efforts into abundant success.

Web Site Promotion
And Swapback Links
What in the world is a swapback link? In all honesty, it’s nothing. However swap links and back links both help greatly with web site promotions. A swap link is when person A decides to link to person B as long as person B links back to person A. This concept had it’s day, though the search engines don’t appreciate it as much as they used to. However, I would not discard swap links altogether as they can still be a good way of driving traffic to your site if done correctly.

Back links, are the boon these days especially when using a resource like LinkTator2. Web site promotion efforts excel when you can get a back link from a higher ranking website like Yahoo Answers. There are tricks to doing exactly that. Send me an E-mail for more information about how to get instant back links from Yahoo Answers.

By the way, you also get a back link each time you submit articles or videos to directories, which is yet another good reason for making this part of your web site promotion activities.