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<title>Personal Web Hosting - Professional Image or Family/Friend Connection</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ When it comes to personal web hosting, we are talking about using web space not only for keeping in contact with family and close friends, but also a promotional tool for your professional image.

A personal web site could be very useful in promoting your professional image to potential employers and business contacts. The look of a personal URL and e-mail would definitely benefit your image as a professional. Part of the image of successful professionals nowadays is a good personal website.

Another side of personal hosting is family website creation and hosting to stay connected with friends and family. In this day and age family members are becoming spread out around the globe. Going to college in another part of the country or taking a job on another continent, families become disconnected.
 
With a family web site, all members of a family can stay in contact with one another. Sure, there is email and telephones, but with family web site hosting you can stay connected with everyone at once sharing photos, videos, exchange messages or even chat live - anytime of day.

Some web hosts even have professional genealogy features to start your own online family tree.

With personal web hosting many face the dilemma of choosing between free or paid web hosting. Although the costs associated with paid web hosting is rather small, it's still money.

If you are just starting your experience with the World Wide Web, or if you are setting up a web site with only close friends and family as intended audience, a free personal web host or a low cost web host might just do it for you. These are just a few of the examples of having a good reason to publish your web site with a free personal web-hosting provider.

Free personal web hosts or a good budget web host has helped thousands of people to be acquainted with the Internet experience, as first cradles for their web presence. This is one of the reasons free personal web hosts have contributed to the overall popularity of the Internet.
 
One good suggestion when researching a family web-hosting site is the site is easy to customize and manage. You do not want to spend time learning web publishing tools or becoming a web wizard - you want connection with your family - the most important reason for having this web site.

Get everyone in your family connected and preserve your family history with a family web site. A web host that offers security with your own private password protected web site is the way to go. Security with family website creation and hosting is important to keeping your memories safe.

There are many web hosts on the internet ranging from free services to paid. If you are looking at a paid hosting site, check to see if they offer a low family fee instead of a fee for each family member. Having a family web site created and hosted on the internet will enable your family and friends to create a lasting gallery of life's special moments. ]]></description>
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<title>Budget Web Host Guidelines</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Budget web hosting is generally defined as any hosting service that is below $10 per month. Most companies in the budget web hosting category only offer one year plans. Most hosting companies however, will quote you the monthly fee you would have to pay. Keep that in mind when you are comparing one company with another. The other thing to look out for is the setup fee to get up and running.

What's your first impression of the company?

The first place to start evaluating web hosting companies is their front page. Does their website look professional? Is it easy to find all of the information you need? Take a look at their contact information. Do they list a physical address, an email address and a phone number to contact them? If they don't provide any contact details, that has to throw up a red flag. If you run into problems setting up your website and you have no contact information, how are you going to get service from that company?

How about a toll free support number?

Does the web hosting company provide a toll free number for you to contact them? If they are based in Atlanta, GA and you are in Seattle, WA, you don't want to be paying long distance while you are trying to solve problems over the phone. A toll free number also speaks to their willingness to deal openly and honestly with their customers.

What is the uptime guarantee?

Uptime guarantee refers to the amount of time the server is live and serving your web pages. An uptime guarantee of 99% means that the host guarantees that their servers will be up and operational 99% of the time. Over the course of one year, 99% uptime would represent a downtime (the one percent) of around 87 hours in a year or an average of 7 hours per month. An uptime of 99.9% would involve only 8 hours of downtime for the entire year.

What kind of after sale support can you expect?

While there are many factors to consider, make sure the company provides after sale support. What kind of resources do they make available for you? Find out if the budget web hosting company offers free scripts. Do they have any marketing tools they can make available to you? What kind of support for setting up your account can you expect from the budget web hosting company? All of these factors must be taken into consideration. Just because a company offers a budget web hosting service, doesn't mean you necessarily have to compromise on features, quality or service. All three will only be found, however, if you make sure to do your homework to find a budget web hosting company that is a good fit for you. ]]></description>
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<title>Website Hosting with ASP or MySQL</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ What is website hosting with MySQL and why would you want to use it? Simply put, it offers application developers everything they need to be successful in building database-driven information systems. Website hosting with MySQL offers consistent fast performance, high reliability and is very easy to use. It is the most popular open source database in the world and has become the database of choice for applications of Linux, Apache, or PHP.

If you are new to database technology, website hosting with MySQL offers a wide range of certified software and support to make you very successful. It has the ultimate in scalability and capacity to handle deeply entrenched applications of only 1 MB running massive data warehouses holding gigabytes of information.

WEB STRENGTHS AND DATA PROTECTION

This data base software is the standard for high traffic websites because of its high-performance query engine and fast data insert capability. These strengths also apply to data warehousing environments where it scales up into the terabyte range. Because of the open source nature of MySQL, this allows complete customization for those wanting to add exclusive requirements to the database server.

Guarding the data assets of corporations is the number one job of database professionals; website hosting with MySQL offers exceptional security features that ensure absolute data protection. When it comes to database authentication, it also provides powerful mechanisms for ensuring only authorized users have entry to the database server. This ability to block users down to the client machine level becomes possible. A privileged framework is present so that users only see the data they should, and powerful data encryption functions ensure that sensitive data protected from non-permitted viewing.

Finally, backup and recovery utilities provided through website hosting with MySQL and third party software vendors allow for complete logical and physical backup as well as full and point-in-time recovery.

ASP WEBSITE HOSTING - FLEXIBLE, FAST AND POWERFUL

Active Server Pages or ASP in website hosting uses the ASP programming language developed by Microsoft. Even though classic ASP is no longer supported, Microsoft pushes the ASP.NET version for web hosting. ASP.NET is HTML pages with embedded ASP scripts processed on the server before sending the page to the user. This allows for a very fast and powerful web experience.

Web pages displayed on the internet are either static or dynamic. Static pages display information that never changes while dynamic pages can change content automatically. Dynamic, server-side scripting loads changes on the server before sending to the browser. PHP and ASP.NET program languages are examples that use server-side scripting. 

ASP.NET - To Use Or Not To Use?

Website hosting with ASP.NET is easy to learn. It is also very flexible and powerful. Designed with less code and more predefined commands it is faster to learn than Classic website hosting ASP. Being a popular programming language, it is easy to find answers to any questions you may have when using ASP.NET hosting. There are many free tutorials on the internet that will help you with building various types of web pages. It also works well with other programming languages such as JavaScript and VBScript.
 
Even though ASP and ASP.NET are free since they come with Microsoft IIS; Microsoft Windows and a Microsoft IIS server are expensive. Most of the functions and add-ons will cost a lot of money, too. ]]></description>
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<title>Shared Website Hosting versus Dedicated?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ There are two basic types of web hosting packages, shared website hosting and dedicated website hosting. I will explain what the terms mean and how to choose an appropriate type of hosting for your website.

Websites are stored on servers which are nothing more than special networked computers that respond to data requests over the internet. A web site that uses dedicated hosting has the server all to itself. This means that all the resources of the server as well as the IP address are unique to that website. Shared website hosting, on the other hand, places several websites on the same server, all of them sharing resources and the same IP address.
 
Shared website hosting is much cheaper than dedicated hosting because the cost of operating the server is split between many different customers. Shared hosting is available for as little as $2 a month but dedicated hosting could cost up to $100 a month or more.

SHARED WEBSITE HOSTING

As we mentioned above, websites that share a single server are sharing all the resources of that computer. This includes disk space and bandwidth as well as the IP address. In order to provide adequate service to all sites on a server, your host will limit each site to a certain amount of disk space and bandwidth used per month. Sites that exceed these limits may have to pay a hefty penalty.

Since each server has a limited amount of bandwidth, the amount of traffic your neighbors receive can affect how quickly your website is displayed. Each request coming in to the server is dealt with in the order it was received, so if there is a large queue, there will be a long wait. The number of sites that are sharing a particular server is not as important as the amount of traffic each site receives. A server hosting 200 low traffic sites will respond much faster than one which has 50 sites that are receiving a lot of visitors.

There are some risks associated with shared website hosting. If one of your neighbors runs a badly programmed script that runs amok the entire server could be affected. In extreme cases this could cause your site to be inaccessible for a time. Another risk is that if one of your neighbors is banned from search engines (for spamming tactics, for example) it could affect everyone sharing that IP address. Check with your hosting company to see their policy about third-party scripts and inappropriate activity.

DEDICATED HOSTING

With a dedicated server all the resources are yours to use as you please. You can use it to host a single site or multiple sites. Companies with large complex websites that receive a lot of traffic need to have dedicated hosting. Sites that use a dedicated server are also free to run any kind of script they wish. This may be ideal for those who are developing new scripts and need to test them without affecting other websites.
 
Small websites are usually better off with shared website hosting. The cost is more affordable especially for small companies and individuals. A reputable host will be careful not to allow activities that could jeopardize your site. Large complicated sites that receive more than 1000 visitors a day are better off with dedicated hosting. It is also a good choice for developers who wish to experiment with new Internet technologies. ]]></description>
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<title>Real Estate Web Hosting - A Top eCommerce Business</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ One of the top businesses in ecommerce hosting is real estate web hosting. Each and every day hundreds of thousands of home seekers turn to the web to research home buying and selling and to find a knowledgeable real estate agent or broker. With todays technology including website video, webcams, and high speed internet, producing a high class site to show case your real estate listings are easy with real estate web hosting.

Everybody on the web is in the business of sales. It doesn't matter whether you're managing an intranet, a government or university website, or promoting your business or organization. You're still selling something; still trying to get someone to do something. What do you want your visitors to do? How are you going to convince them to do it? And making the web work is hard because you are selling to someone who is very impatient. They will give you less than a minute to make a compelling case. In this day of information overload, being compelling requires a lot of skill.

Along with your skills, also use the tools of web hosting. Webcams for your website video can tell a complete story of one of your residential listings.  Panoramic views and user control of multiple webcam views to see the whole picture of a listing will give you a nice advantage over your competitors. 

The trick of real estate web hosting is to design a real estate web site that fits the needs of your visitors and answers their questions. Before you decide on an online marketing solution, research what a real estate web host has to offer. Look for internet tools that provide a high level of relevant information to your prospects. Make sure web pages are effective, clean, uncluttered, and easy for your visitors to use. 

YOUR BUSINESS IS REAL ESTATE NOT WEB HOSTING

The real estate web host should have easy to use web-based tools to help you manage your real estate site. You should not have to learn any complicated computer programming or software. The website-hosting-advisor strongly suggests that the web host's administrative tools allow you to make changes and additions to your site instantly. And, to make changes from your home, office, or on the road.

The main premise with real estate hosting is the web design must make information easily accessible. That is its core responsibility. Simplicity, ease of use, as well as clear navigation is powerful web design tools that enhance the visitor experience, and your bottom line as the site owner. ]]></description>
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<title>Best Website Hosting - Compare Hosting Plans and Packages</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Choosing the best website hosting provider can be a challenge. The website-hosting-advisor has come across thousands of companies that offer limitless products and services for website design hosting. A couple of basic steps to follow when searching for the best web host are: 1) Free or Paid Hosting and 2) Compare Host Plans.

Pay or Not to Pay?

Website-hosting-advisor has researched a large percentage of web sites that are free and are associated with the large portals such as Yahoo and AOL. The tools these businesses offer such as email, community interest portals and photo management software are straightforward and make setting up your site easy.

What is the downside to free website hosting? BANNER ADS! Website-hosting-advisor can not say it loud enough. Typically you will have to put up with banner ads on your homepage or other ads you do not get to pick; its how these businesses can afford to set up their infrastructure for free. You have no control over ads that show up on your site. If that is acceptable for you than a paid web hosting solution of $5/month or lower may be your best web hosting solution.

Most businesses want a web site that functions as an online brochure that provides information, but not sell its products. 

Standard packages are ideal for this type of site. Packages that offer e-commerce, media concentrated applications for video & audio, dedicated servers, and complex business necessities come at additional cost.

A large group of low price or discount hosts offering solutions below $5 and $15 per month. Other hosting solutions start above $15, and customer service is usually the primary difference between inexpensive and higher priced hosting solutions. Clarifying expectations ahead of time can mean the difference between great online experiences or completely frustrated event without support occurrence. The extra $10 per month may be worth the piece of mind it buys for your best web site host.

Comparing Hosts

Do you know whether you need a standard hosting plan or an ecommerce web solution? Take some time and visit several hosting company web sites. Go over plan options and see which offer the services and support that provide your best site host criteria. Because of the similarities, hosting plans can become confusing. Most major providers have Compare Plans page you can print. It is good to print out the various packages and have them in hand while you shop.

Once you know whether you need a standard hosting plan or an eCommerce solution and whether price or premium hosting is right for you, it is time to shop for your best website host. Website-hosting-advisor will tell you any of the major search engines will provide a multitude of responses with a query such as Web Hosting or eCommerce hosting. You can even narrow your search with more definition. A search for Cheap eCommerce hosting will yield most companies whose solutions fall in the low price category. ]]></description>
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<title>Guide to Website Hosting Plans</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ One of the important aspects of developing a website is to follow a guide to website hosting plans. Websites can be constructed with one web page to thousands of pages.

Websites, like this one, display specially formatted documents. These documents are formatted with a special language of HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). HTML documents are called web pages that make up websites.

A web host will then make sure their web servers handle the chores of the various websites they contain. These chores include monitoring internet traffic, moving websites from one server to another, deleting old websites, and adding new customer's websites.

When you follow a guide to website hosting plans, you realize they come in four basic types.

THE BASICS

There are many web hosting companies out there on the internet. All will rent you space on their servers and offer you a wide range of services.

So where is one to start, when it comes to picking the right web host? The most important factor is making sure that the host provides everything you need.

For example, will you have an e-commerce site or a personal, information only site you share with just family and friends? These two types of sites have very stark differences in the services they need to operate effectively.

SUB DOMAIN - web plans that do not have their own web domain name. These websites reside in a sub directory of a primary domain. Including both free and paid web hosting plans, these types are cheaper and easier to set up than other plans. You also do not have to worry about registering a domain name.

A plan of this type is great for a personal website you share with friends and family. It would be less effective for an e-commerce site though. The major drawback being name recognition, since your website will be like branches off of a larger tree. The URLs of your websites would be longer and harder to remember.

VIRTUAL, a step above sub domain is a type of web host plan is the most common on the internet. With a higher price though, there is more freedom with content, size, and usage.

DEDICATED SERVER and COLOCATION Servers are the heavy hitters in the web hosting world. Dedicated plans, in the guide to website hosting plans, offer servers with a great deal of options and a large amount of tech support from the web host staff.

Power users of these hosting plans get a highly polished site with room for large amounts of data. Also, optimum levels of service, usage and control come with these site hosting plans.

Colocation is identical to dedicated except the server is owned by the user. The colocated server is located in the web host's facility. They use the web host's links to the internet and the provider's server buildings and infrastructure. ]]></description>
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<title>Forget Emailing Pictures - Use Free Online Photo Hosting Websites</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ There is a very good alternative to emailing photos; they are called free online photo hosting websites. People love to share photos.  However, photos take up a tremendous amount of space and can really slow down your email, not to mention take up a tremendous amount of space in someone's inbox. 

On a free online photo hosting website you open an account and load your photos directly to that site.  You can then invite family and friends to visit your site, check out your photos and even comment on them!  

The following photo hosting websites are some of the more popular sites on the net.

FACEBOOK
FaceBook is a social network of people who have photo pages.  You can find new friends through the search or you can link to your own friends and family while uploading an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos.  

Anyone with a valid email address can join FaceBook.  If you register with your school or work email, you can connect to co workers or classmates.  When you have registered you can find a regional network to join and then you can connect to people in your area.

WEBSHOTS
One of the largest photo and video sharing sites, WebShots has more than 400 million photos to check out and is a great hosting site for your own photos.  

They have free and premium memberships that offer lots of storage, ensuring that you will never fun out of space.  You can share videos, photos and slideshow on both WebShots and on your personal website.  You can even order prints of your photos and create custom photo gifts.

PHOTOBUCKET
The self proclaimed most popular creative hub on the web, PhotoBucket links billions of personal photos, graphics, slideshows and videos to many of the most popular websites and social networking sites such as MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, Craigslist and Blogger.  

However, the free online photo hosting website is not the only method that members can share their photos.  They can also share their digital media via email, IM and even mobile devices.  

Membership is free and it is a great place to share you latest shots of your new purple Mohawk or your adorable new baby.

FLICKR
Flickr is a fun site where members can keep a blog of memories that they have captured on their cell phone camera, or maybe they just want to post their best photos so that they can show off their talents and perhaps earn the title web celebrity.  

Of course, they can post their photos to share with family and friends.  Flickr is a free online photo hosting website, but it also helps members get photos to the people who matter to them.  Members can organize their photos, share and keep in touch with others.  

The free membership on this site offers you a lot of options, particularly if you have a lot of photos to store and share.

YAHOO! OR AOL PHOTO ALBUM
Yahoo! And AOL photo albums are free online photo hosting websites and are very effective for sharing your photos.  

You can save, send and share your photos through these sites.  There is no fee attached, the services are both free.  

You can set your albums to private or you can make them public.  Additionally, you can designate certain albums as private and others as public.  If you want some simple photo sharing, storing and organizing, these are two great sites to use. ]]></description>
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<title>A Quick Guide to Website Creation and Hosting</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Website-creation-and-hosting may seem intimidating, but it doesn't have to be. Whether you're looking for a site to tell the world about your business, or just a personal page to keep track of your hobbies, setting up your own site for fun or business can be easy and painless.

The first and most important part of website-creation-and-hosting is content. You'll want to have an idea of what you want to have on your site. While this may seem obvious, many people get started on their sites without a good plan. 

Make a mental map of what content you'll need for your website and what you can leave out. If you have trouble keeping track of it all, you can even draw out a map.

Once you know what you want to put on your site and where you want to put it, the next step is to find website hosting companies. What kind of hosting you'll need will depend on your site. 

If you have a low traffic, personal site, there are free website creation and hosting websites available. They will give you a certain amount of space, bandwidth and free email in exchange for displaying ads on your webpage. However, if you exceed that bandwidth, your site could be down for a day or so. 

Businesses and people who are expecting a lot of traffic, or who don't want to deal with ugly ads on their webpage, should look into paid website-creation-and-hosting. It's best to shop around and make sure that the hosting you get suits your needs. 

If you're new to webpages, you can get features that will help you set up and manage your page, though this might cost a little more. 

If you're going to register a domain, the time to do it is when you get your webspace. Pick a short, easy to remember keyword. This will help you make sure that you can direct people to your website easily. Your web host will probably have provisions for registering your domain name. Having a domain name is about $20 a year in most cases, though high-demand names can be more. Make sure that you renew your domain every year, or someone could steal it away from you!

The last aspect of setting up website-creation-and-hosting is the actual coding. If you know HTML, you can create your page straight into a text document. However, most people use website hosting programs to have better control over their pages. 

If you don't have any experience with HTML, you can still set up a page. A number of hosts allow you to use templates and wizards to set up a simple page. Of course, for a really professional business page, you should always talk to a professional designer. ]]></description>
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