Sunday, May 30, 2010

Dedicated Hosting and Your Business

In the grand scale of things, it would have been quite difficult quite a long time ago to fathom that in the great scale of things, there would be a time and place in this world where anyone and everyone can make money if they put their mind in a space called the information superhighway, and this has become a sort of a reality now days. Now the internet is a place where you can do business and make money, and if you have a relatively good idea, you can get away with almost anything that you put your mind to and sell anything that you want.

But for one thing, you need to be smart about these things, because one of the most important things about business online is your reputation and if you do not take care of it, you will find that more and more people will spread, through the power of DWOM or digital word of mouth, the fallacy that is your online business and you will find that profits will be dipping and you would have wasted your time online. So what you need to look at is the sort of hosting that you are going to be subscribing too and this is really the most important thing of them all.

All in all, what you need to know is that when you are running a business, what you need to be having is a dedicated hosting service, and this is far different from the free or shared hosting options that seem to be running rampant on the web. It is literally like owning your own shop or sharing it with a host of proprietors selling all sorts of different goods. When you are doing business online, you are going to need your own space, and the only way that that is going to happen is when you decide to realise that spending a bit more for a dedicated server space is the right thing to do.

This means that the resources are all yours and in the end of the day, that makes the difference between an efficient and reliable commerce site, or one that is constantly crashing and making no business sense at all. Be all and end all of this matter, is that you need to instill some sort of trust in your customers and the only way that you are going to be doing this is if you have something to show them that makes them not mind giving you their money, or punching in their credit card numbers over a, honestly speaking, unsafe digital world where hackers and worms are waiting to pounce around every corner there is.

So with a dedicated server, you will have the sort of trust that you will need to exude so that more and more customer will literally come flocking to you and buying all they can from you. It is just a matter of some money - some money that will get you more money than ever before.




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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Web Hosting Questions To Answer Before You Get Asked

Your choice of hosting providers is one of the most critical and dangerous choices you can make when you are jumping on the Internet Marketing bandwagon. If your website goes down or the support system is less than positive, your business will suffer and so will you.

Think about it:

You spend months developing your product, including bonuses to entice customers to buy from you.

You test, test, test and research, research, research until your eyes cross.

You seek out affiliates to help you sell to a wider market and set up payment processors.

You pay for and get a good autoresponder to facilitate the delivery of your product and future customer contact email.

You design your website sales page to attract customers and get email sign-ups to your list ("...the money really is in the list!").

Finally, everything is perfect and you go looking for a good hosting service - here's where it can come crashing down on your head.

Before you ever contact any hosting service, there's questions you need to answer so you can select the right service for your purposes.

#1...You need to know specifically what your website will be used for:

Personal enjoyment...family photos, contact with relatives, etc

Hobbies...collecting, pets, gardening, cooking, genealogy, etc

Discussion...speak your mind on any topic, interact with members of a forum or blog

Informational...business, medical, travel, how to..., etc

Ecommerce...business, sell your products online, EBay, etc

Audio/Video...can be on any topics you want

#2...What software are you using to develop your website? Some hosting companies are selective about the software end products they will accept.

#3...How much support do you want...or are willing to pay for?

24/7 telephone or email...which?

Statistics on who visits your site and where they go when they visit
What site control panel to you need?

#4...How large will your website be? How many pages? (Note: video and audio take larger amounts of space than normal text sales pages)

#5...If you need database support, which one?

MySQL... the world's most popular open source database because of its consistent fast performance, high reliability and ease of use

Microsoft SQL Server... a relational database management system (RDBMS) ideal for small, medium and large-size business systems, according to Microsoft

Microsoft Access...a member of the 2007 Microsoft Office system and can be found on your hard drive

#6...Will you require a scripting language? (Simple web pages might not need scripts to create dynamic content) Which one?

ASP (Active Server Pages)

ASP.Net

CGI-Bin

ColdFusion

JSP (Java Server Pages)

Perl

When you have your answers to each question, based on your needs for your web site, you will be fully armed to select the best hosting service you can afford.




Dan Thompson is a veteran website designer and has used numerous web hosts in his time. Dan specializes in writing web host reviews, his latest article is a 1and1 Review. You can view Dan's latest web hosting review at http://www.1and1review.info

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