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- Web Hosting Affiliate Programs
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Web hosting affiliate programs give webmasters the opportunity to earn commission by referring their website visitors to a web hosting company site. When a person signs up for a web hosting package and has been referred by an affiliate, commissions are usually paid in a lump sum ranging from $30-$60.
This provides a great opportunity for webmasters with community and web development driven sites to make extra revenue. As the general public becomes more and more internet savvy, an increasing number of people are putting their first websites online. Read more... - Beware of suspicious web hosting deals
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Stay away from Web hosting deals that sound too good to be true. Why? Well if it sounds too good to be true, chances are it is.
There are too many good Web hosting companies out there trying their best to run a good company. Too many out there to be ruined by one snot nosed brat who thinks he can make a few bucks by telling folks false promises. One of the main reasons I got into Web hosting writing was so that I could warn people about these sort of shifty characters on the Internet.
That is right, not even Web hosting is free of low life scammers who want nothing more than to make a few bucks off of you. Read more... - Benefit from offering a free web hosting service
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The practice of viral marketing can be very useful to internet marketers. Viral marketing consists of giving away FREE products or services along with your original ad copy such as links, contact information, and mailing list. In return, those who receive your FREE products can pass it along to their own customers and prospects. Viral marketing is a great way to advertise for free and without a lot of effort on your part.
Read more... - What makes a good web site design company
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Whether a business has just got off the ground or has been established for years, start-up and long running companies are looking to the internet to expand their sales as well as service to customers. Many new websites are going up and with so many people opting to go with the cheapest route or the quickest design process, sometimes the quality of a website gets left behind. Lets face it, you wouldn’t want a possible client coming into your office, looking around at a mess, so why would you send them to your virtual office looking like one? Read more...
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With consolidation and price cuffing making services more affordable, the Web hosting market has changed dramatically over the years. Unfortunately it has also reduced the number of choices available to business consumers. Existing host providers need to “raise the bar” to be more competitive. Many are trying to do this by bundling services to keep generating revenue from their remaining customer base. In addition to providing rack space and managing servers and storage, many host service providers are also managing applications that run on their customers' Web sites. Growing competitive pressures are driving some host providers to make unrealistic promises. The need to stay in business and keep their customer base intact has driven them to overextend themselves in what they say they can deliver. Take for example Electronic Data Systems. In February they offered a service level agreement that promised 100 percent availability for Web sites and applications that EDS is hosting. That raises the bar pretty high and adds pressure to deliver. Another example of raising the bar too high is that some service providers often promise 99.99 percent uptime, which gives a cushion of about 53 minutes of “down time” a year when servers are shut down briefly for regularly scheduled maintenance. By touting 99.999 percent availability, it narrows the margin for error considerably. Business consumers need to be wary of such claims. Taking it one step further, promising 100 percent uptime seems to be over-reaching and is virtually impossible. Common sense dictates that anyone offering 100% availability doesn't leave much room for mistakes and disasters, especially these days when there are so many other issues for Webmasters to worry about. It’s a fact that Internet connections go down, Web sites become temporarily unavailable or fall prey to denial of service attacks and an errant Java script will crash a Web application. EDS seems to be hedging the uninterrupted claim by backing the offer with a "time-to-repair commitment as short as 15 minutes for fully redundant systems" and providing service credits that accumulate from the first minute of downtime. It’s only comforting if you're worried that the actual uptime might fall a little short of the 100 percent mark. When you see the words "fully redundant", a red flag should go up. What does it really mean? Does it mean that you have an extra hard drive mirroring your hard drive? Or does it mean that there is a third drive just for laughs? Maybe it means that there is an extra server mirroring your server, or an uninterruptible power supply backing up the electricity for the servers. The point is, ask yourself what it really means. Better yet, make sure you find out. With today’s economic slowdown, the Web hosting market has grown more competitive. It’s dog-eat-dog trying to gain and maintain business in this climate. Fewer companies are launching Web sites and many more are scaling back plans for multimedia Web casts and brand-building/bandwidth-hogging activities. The need for Host providers to focus on niche industries and promote unique capabilities to differentiate themselves from the pack has never been stronger. The claim of perfect uptime is one such strategy even though it may never be achievable.
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