Archive for August, 2009
One of the best features offered from website hosting plans on the Internet today is the access to email accounts on the host server. The amount of email accounts provided by the host company is typically the deal breaker when a person is deciding whether or not to sign up for a hosting plan with that company. The number of email accounts provided with a plan depends on the size of the plan. If the hosting plan is for a tiny amount of space then the plan will come with only a few accounts.
If the plan is for a medium amount of space then it will come with 100 accounts. Finally, if the plan is for a ton of space then it will either come with over 1,000 accounts or an unlimited amount of email accounts. The price of some hosting plans will increase with the amount of email accounts provided too. All of the accounts will have addresses with @(your website name here) attached to them and will have all of their messages and sent messages saved on the server that hosts the website affiliated with the email accounts.
Prior to agreeing to a contract with a website hosting company one should determine how many email accounts they will need for their website and how much space each account will need once it has been setup for use. This will help the customer determine which plan should be purchased from the hosting company. As mentioned earlier, each different plan has a different storage space on the server, which in turn means different numbers of email accounts.
Do you partake in reseller hosting as a side job? If so, you need to market your little business in order to pick up new customers to keep the business running successfully. This can be a fairly easy task to complete since your business is solely based on the Internet. So, where should you market the reseller business you are running from your office or home? Try creating ads to be used with Google Adsense or Yahoo ad units. Also, write a couple of articles about reseller hosting linking back to your reseller hosting business website.
Make sure that you do not spam people’s inboxes if you decide to use email marketing to grow your business. People will either never see your email newsletters or they will delete them almost immediately. The best way to email market a reseller hosting business is to do so with customers you have already done business with because they will be more likely to approve your email address and read what is in the body of the email.
Another great way to market a reseller hosting business is to get your site indexed by as many search engines on the Internet as possible. Submit your URL to sites such as Google, Yahoo, MSN and others in order to get as many visits to the site needed to keep your business running successfully. It might take some time during the marketing process before you start seeing the results in your site’s stats but if done properly then you will be selling hosting of the reseller kind quite often.
One of the biggest no-no’s when it comes to website hosting is to make sure you never host your own website, especially if that site is for your business. Having a well designed website that is running 99 percent of the time is incredibly important to the success of a business. We can’t say it enough but if your website is crashing 50 percent of the time then customers will stop visiting the site and you will stop making money from sales and other items on your site such as pay per click advertisements.
It is vitally important for us to stress here at iSoft-Host that if you have a business website you should not host it yourself. You have enough to worry about when running a business or a business website and adding the stresses of being the website’s host can throw a person overboard. There are thousands of hosting companies on the World Wide Web today that will host your website for very little money per month. These companies are better equipped to deal with website crashes and other server problems when they arise on a 24-hour basis.
If you host your own website you cannot sit there at the computer 24 hours per day to make sure that it is always up and running. It is just too difficult to do. Hosting companies have software that will monitor your website to make sure that it is constantly up and running unless they are performing routine maintenance on the server. So trust us when we say to find someone else to host your site and don’t do it on your own because it’s just too difficult of a task for one person.
easy CGI Hosting is a website hosting company based on the Internet today that offers its customers three different hosting plans. The three hosting plans are called Advanced X, Advanced X 2, and Advanced X 4. easy CGI Hosting has some of the most expensive website hosting plans on the Internet today. Their Advanced X plan costs $7.96 per month or $95.52 for one year. Their Advanced X 2 plan costs $15.96 per month or $191.52 for one year. Their Advanced X 4 plan costs $21.56 per month or $258.72 for one year.
All three plans either come on Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 and the server runs on IIS7/IIS6. The monthly data transfer starts at 3,500 GB, to 5,000 GB, and ends at 7,500 GB. Disk space offered by the three plans are 350 GB, 500 GB, and 750 GB. All three plans also offer a 30-day money back guarantee and 99.9 percent guaranteed uptime. This means that 99.9 percent of the time your website will be up and running and not down, which will cause customers to stray away from your site.
All three accounts also offer unlimited domains to host and unlimited FTP accounts for the customer to setup. easy CGI Hosting offers its customers 24/7 customer support in the event that problems arise, a trouble ticket system, knowledgebase and software and control panel tutorials.
500 email accounts come with the first plan, 1,000 email accounts come with the second plan, and an unlimited amount of email accounts come with the third plan offered by easy CGI Hosting. The three plans offer 50 MySQL Databases, 100 MySQL Databases and unlimited MySQL Databases for their customers.
So you may be asking yourself, “Where can I find the best hosting deals?” The answer to the question isn’t as simple as it may seem. You really can only do your hosting search on the Internet because almost every single hosting company is Internet based. You can’t go to a physical store, walk in the front door, and request a form to fill out for website hosting. It’s not that simple.
So how do you find the best hosting deals or where do you find them? Well, some of the most popular and cost effective hosting companies include GoDaddy, HostMonster, Yahoo, Host Gator, FatCow, In Motion, Blue Host and Just Host. Why are these companies some of the most popular hosting companies around? The answer is simple; they offer the best services for the best price.
It really isn’t hard to find the best website hosting deals on the Internet these days if you just perform a simple web search. Log onto your favorite search engine’s website and type in website hosting companies and then hit search. You will be overwhelmed with the amount of results that will come back once the search is complete. There will be millions of results returned to you during your search. Now comes the difficult part of the process. You have to sift through all of the results.
Your best bet is to log onto the sites whose names you recognize, such as GoDaddy or Yahoo, and leave the others be. Also, when you log onto a website and it looks unprofessional or poorly put together then best bets are that their service isn’t strong and they are going to charge you an arm and a leg for their product. Basically, stick with the known hosting companies to find your best website hosting deals.
There are thousands of hosting companies across the World Wide Web today that offer various hosting plans for different prices. All of these hosting plans have different features that try to intice the customer to purchase one company’s plan over another company’s plan. It is tough to differentiate between a lot of companies plans because some of them seem to be almost identical to each other. The best piece of advice we can offer anyone you when searching for hosting is not to get ripped off.
There are plenty of scams out there on the Internet today that take hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars from people browsing the web. We aren’t saying that there are some hosting companies that are scamming people but you never know what can happen. In terms of not getting ripped off; don’t overpay for a service that shouldn’t cost as much as your monthly gas bill for your vehicle.
Hosting doesn’t cost much to purchase, typically anywhere from $3-$12 per month for certain plans. Make sure you do a little bit of research prior to purchasing a hosting plan for your website. You will be surprised at what a little bit of research will do for your wallet in terms of keeping money in that wallet.
Ask your colleagues, your friends, and your family members that use hosting services as to what company they use, how much they pay per month, and the services that come with the plan they are using. Compare all of the results and browse the websites of those companies prior to making a decision. It will make a difference in your bill.


























