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- Is Free Web Hosting Actually Free
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I want to yell at someone or give 'em a good poke in the nose for this! How could they do this to me? What gives them the right to blow off my best customers, to rob me of potential business and make my clients angry at me? How dare they do this!! I'm just fuming and ready to explode! Don't get too close to me right now!
Why I oughtta . . . what? Complain because a free service isn't available? Threaten to sue them for having troubles of their own? Why don't they have backup servers? Well, I guess it's possible that *I* could at least provide a secondary free service to cover my assets. Those clients that planned to spend an hour of their valuable time to chat with me in the first place. Maybe I should have prepared for the worst so I don't have to go apologize to everyone when the free chat services suddenly became unavailable. Read more... - Web Hosting as a Long Term Investment
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Web hosting is basically a service for web users who may be, but not limited to, individuals or companies with web sites for storing any information or data that can be accessed through the Web. Web hosting companies provide space on their web servers and Internet connectivity for their clients.
In a nutshell, web hosting means making web sites accessible via the Internet. Access could mean through File Transfer Protocol or by any Web interface.
There are several types of web hosting depending on the method of hosting and the targeted clients. Read more... - New trends in web hosting business
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The market is good for new Web hosting companies. According to Forrester Research, there is now “positive — if modest — growth for Web hosting and managed IT services, at both the enterprise and SMB levels.”
This is an especially good business to be in if you are a web designer or IT consultant. It fits naturally with the business model of such small consulting firms. Why refer out or miss out on selling a service that most small businesses need? Hosting is an excellent source of monthly recurring revenue. Read more... - Step by step guide to reseller web hosting
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If you are in the market for a web host, chances are that in the course of your research, you have come across some resellers. There are positive and negative aspects to purchasing your web space from a reseller - however, as long as you have made yourself aware of what to look for and what to avoid you should not have many problems by trusting your site to a reseller, in fact, a good reseller host can save you money and offer you more services than a traditional host.
Like any hosting plan, reseller packages come in all shapes and sizes, but are usually tailored to emphasize the strengths of the parent host. Read more...
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Tech support is there to help, right? The reality is, it depends. Learn some common misconceptions about tech support's responsibilities. You've just gotten a new website hosting account. You're excited to begin your journey onto the web. You're a novice to all this "web stuff", but you're confident and brimming with enthusiasm. Into it you plunge, opening the design program your friend suggested and trying to create some pages. There's a problem, though, and you can't make the program work, and you're not actually building any pages. Well, time to call technical support at your brand new hosting company, right? Your hosting is providing you the space on its servers to put this information, so shouldn't they be responsible for making sure you can actually make a website? This is going to sound disappointing, but the answer to that question is 'no'. Your hosting company is providing you space and transfer for a website, but the responsibility for populating that space is your's and your's alone. What is uploaded to the account and how it is uploaded is the responsibility of the client. The role of technical support at any hosting company is the diagnosis and repair of problems with a site relating to the server on which it is hosted. This article will cover the 2 most common "Tech Support Don'ts," training and content update, and offer alternate solutions to the "problems." Content Update Many novices enter website hosting with the idea that a hosting company's technical support is not only a troubleshooting organization, but a teaching and maintenance organization as well. These impressions are due mostly to a misunderstanding of what constitutes "technical support" problems. Customers may classify a need to update a web page with new information as a "problem", and perhaps, to them, it is, but it is not a problem for which technical support at your hosting company is responsible. If you need someone to update your website on a regular or even intermittent basis, then you have 2 basic options. The first, and most economical, is simply to find an editing program with which are you are comfortable, learn it, and use it make your own updates. The program you need will vary according to the kind of site you wish to build or maintain. Many hosting companies even provide online "site builder" solutions that can be accessed right through your browser without the need to install separate program. Alternately, if you lack the time or skills to update a site, consider hiring a outside web design services firm to perform your needed updates. Prices vary wildly, but you will probably be able to find a great number of resources in your local area, and beyond, by doing a search at your favorite search engine. Most web designers are generally knowledgeable, and, with information you provide, can update your site even if they themselves did not initially design it. Training Hosting and maintaining a website requires some basic knowledge. It isn't just another bill you'll pay monthly, like electric and water. It requires a knowledge both of the programs you'll use to create the site and of the programs you'll use to maintain and upload it. When someone arrives to hosting without this general, basic knowledge, they may find themselves lost and believe the only recourse is to call a hosting company's technical support for what amounts to free training. Training on software, even commonplace software, is something many people pay a great deal of money to colleges and other professional organizations to obtain. Expecting this kind of service for what equates to a monthly hosting fee is, on reflection, a little unreasonable. In virtually every case, there will be resources associated with the programs you're using to provide answers and rudimentary training. Answers to more general questions, beyond those specific to a single program, may be found in a variety of places. Most hosting companies can provide an entry level training in website hosting through online resources, like manuals, knowledgebase, or even advanced video tutorials. Always check for these kinds of resources before immediately picking up the phone to ask your question of technical support.
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