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Which one to go for? Free or Paid Web Hosting?

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

When choosing a web host provider, one first has to determine if they wish to use a paid or free hosting service. There are plenty of both available. Before even examining the differences between paid or free hosting, it should be understood that if you have plans for your web site to be anything more than a personal “About Me” or “My Hobby” site to share with your friends–a free hosting service should be out of the question.

In short, providing free hosting services isn’t a very sustainable business model and the majority of those who attempt it fail, often disappearing overnight and leaving all of their users stuck with no web sites, and worse yet, no access to the files they had on their free hosting accounts.

Reliable web hosting depends upon quality hardware along with trained customer care and support technicians. Obviously, a hosting provider who offers their services to users for free–even if they include some small advertising on their customer’s pages to earn a minimal return for the service–isn’t going to be able to provide top of the line hardware or hire the highest trained and most experienced personnel; it simply won’t be within their operating budget.

If you want dependable and stable hosting, you have to use a paid service. The good news is that the costs for paid hosting are extremely affordable so there really is no reason to risk sacrificing the quality or security of your web site with free service providers.

With paid hosting you generally receive very generous disk space and transfer allowances, the ability to use your own domain name, email and FTP accounts, support for multiple scripting languages and third-party applications like forum boards, blogging software, content management systems, advanced eCommerce and shopping cart solutions, comprehensive visitor statistics and even web site design tools to work with.

In addition, with paid hosting you will usually also have access to qualified online and phone support 24/7.

Everyone has their own budget to work from, and it basically comes down to a risk versus rewards decision. With free hosting you risk the reliability of the service for your visitors and that your provider may go out of business without warning at any time. In making your decision you will have to weigh those risks against the rewards of reliability and advanced features that come with using a paid service for your web site.

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Host your Blog on Domain

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

Blogs are more content driven than ordinary sites and it is often used as a platform for sharing information and elevating people for great deal about the products you sell or the services you offer. Blogging is a favorite product for any one, one can start a blog with free blogging programs without technical knowledge like wordpress and blogger - just you need to choose a domain attached with their domain name and start blogging, even most of them offer you free hosting.

Though it is easier to start with and you get free hosting with such program but the biggest drawback is that you start making popular someone else domain name & for instance just imagine what happen when you use it ( blog with hosted version ) to its full potential and suddenly you come to know that your blog account has been taken down due to some reason, for most current example blogger.com is already on the move of deleting blogs which are either inactive or breaking their rule somewhat with some reason. For another example if your blog is hosted in Wordpress.com and you found involve in payperpost like program, they can delete your blog anytime without notice, also most of the free blogging program restrict ad placement, affiliate program, your partner links and many other features that you would like to include with your blog.

Looking on this, If you are serious with your blog to use it for your business purpose, it would be highly recommendable that you should register your own domain name from a reputed registrar or through a reliable host providers such as eWebGuru and go for hosted version that would be more precise as you are proudly owner of your domain name and you can customize your blog as per your choice and need rather than fixed with limited features and configuration option with a hosted version. I don’t find its good idea to promote someone else domain and make popular their site. If you do blogging for just personal interest as a hobby and or getting touch with your friends the hosted version might be a preferred choice but for serious business & SEO purpose you should always prefer to get your own domain name and host it your own.

Many webhosts also offer wide variety of blogging softwares that comes packaged free with their hosting plans, for example CirtexHosting comes with prepackaged blogs with autoinstall feature such as WordPress, b2Evolution, nuecleus and more!

Cheers :)

 

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Don’t fall prey to Cyber Squatters

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Cyber squatters can stole your domain name. Cyber squatters are those whose main mission is to steal your web identity and there way of working is like this. They could register YourDomainName.net, and do the same thing with YourDomainName.org, after that contacting you and try to sell you those names at higher prices. If that doesn’t work, then the following events could happen.

They will allow your competitor to get a domain that sounds like yours, and allow him to cause confusion or try to steal your hard-earned traffic, business and clients.

Take these steps right now to halt the cyber squatters.

Have people go through you for authorization: Go through your domain name registrar and fill in a form that locks in authorized entities of your claim of other domain names. You can buy these names and keep them under your roof. It will provide you information to include, such as contact information, who should be contacted if someone wants to register your domain, the character string you are claiming (this must be an EXACT match), description of your current products/services, when you began using that domain name.

You have a small window to accomplish filling out an authorized entry form. Check with your domain registrar for time frame windows in filling out an authorized entry form Failure to enter a claim during a certain time frame means the registering entities will not check to see if there is an equivalent .com, .net or .org name. They will not check the IP Claim Service database. Meaning, you could lose your .info or net-version of your domain name.

Don’t let cyber squatters shake you down and ruin what you have built up on the net. Get the rights and the authorization to similar or like names to your main domain name!