Bundled Hosting Packages – You can even buy one with poker site
July 12, 2011
Choosing a Hosting Package – You can have almost anything including hosting with a poker website
A product is not cheap or popular until its being given away with your breakfast cereal. I paid about £200 for my first domain name and my first web hosting package cost similar amount if not more. Fast forward over 10 years from when I bough my first domain name and hosting package and both domain name registration and web hosting are not only being given away free, hosting companies such as 1 and 1 also give you tonnes or software worth hundreds of pounds just to sign you up to their platform. What is even more remarkable about software, packages and services bundled with web hosting is the diverse website niches being bundled and sold of offered free with web hosting including poker websites .
It is quite interesting to look back briefly to where web hosting companies were a few years ago and where they are now in the hope of partly charting how web hosting companies have increased their services not just significantly but radically. The basic web hosting package in the early days tends to come with only a very basic server side script functionality and the only one on offer back then was cgi which made Perl script quite popular in those days, since then ASP.Net and its predecessor ASP and PHP has eclipsed Per (cgi-bin) in popularity.
With the advent of multiple server side scripting capabilities on web hosting servers come more support call from hosting customer as permission and script coding issues particularly from novice webmasters kept the support desk more busy than the hosting companies would like, this led to the hosting companies introducing pre-installed script in cgi-bin so that all the site owner needs to do is reference the script, more demanding users are still allowed to upload their own scripts but the introduction of pre-installed script certainly help the hosting companies reduce the script related support call.
Before long, the scripting help offered by hosting companies became standard with all major hosting companies, which made more adventurous hosting companies to start thinking of how to differentiate their products from the competition, this let to script such as Fantastico which allows hosting customers to install almost all scripts under the sun at the click of a button.
These days, hosting has move much more away from power users requiring complex scripting to newbies who are just doing things on the net by themselves. Most newbies to ecommerce tend to use eBay, it is not much later when they have exploited the potentials of eBay to it limits that they discover the fact that they can have their own website and have an ecommerce shopping sites. This applies to newbies entering various online businesses ranging from selling autographs online to someone setting up a website for poker games .
It is quite extraordinary that web hosting companies employ specialist who have detailed knowledge of niches completely unrelated to web hosting or web development to organise and arrange poker websites so that it can be bundled with with hosting package. But as the opening paragraph of this article started, a product or services can only be considered popular when it start bundling services that are in themselves more expensive than what you are trying to see, normally a poker website is much more expensive to develop than a one year web hosting package.
Virtual Private Server (VPS)
July 2, 2009
One choice of web hosting that has gained a lot of ground in recent times is the Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting. That is because it presents you with the flexibility, versatility and speeds of devoted and committed servers at a cost that is very much comparable to that of shared servers. This kind of web hosting is ideal for those who cannot afford the cost of a wholly committed server and are into the reseller hosting activity. They are also ideal for those who are owners of many websites and desire to provide each one with sufficient bandwidth so that they can be accessed speedily and without any of the problems associated with that of shared servers, notorious for slow speeds. VPS, all said and done is a very attractive option for most website owners.
But what exactly is a VPS?
This is a standalone server or mega computer, which is hosted on something called the VPS Node or another name for a physical server. The advantage with these VPS nodes is that they possess huge RAM and hard disk space which makes it possible to divide them into many VPS systems. As a consequence, every VPS has its own RAM along with sufficient hard disk space and can therefore function like an independent server, though it is deriving its resources from the mother VPS Node. The drive responses are quicker and there is no danger of any data loss. This method of operation enables you to load software that you require, including any operating system, without compromising on the performance of any of the other VPS systems on that particular mother Node.
The customer thus partakes of the hardware, power supply, network facilities of that Node and shares the same with other customers linked to that Node. This however, in no way compromises on the benefits of a VPS hosting system such as:
· Dedicated RAM and disk space
· Flexibility to load own operating system or other files
· Control of administrative jobs like modifying server settings, freedom to load software
· Running and maintaining the VPS like your own system, including booting and rebooting of the system
A VPS system is one which allows you the flexibility of something in between a shared and a dedicated kind of web hosting. This is therefore ideal for those who are at the moment enjoying services of a shared host, but wish to upgrade to an environment which gives them a dedicated facility without having to pay a great deal extra.
The security system of a VPS is another advantage. Since your VPS will have its own file system that is unique, there is no danger of anybody else getting access to your data and that provides for adequate peace of mind. Setting up a VPS is easy as well, thanks to the excellent start up support and tutorials presented by most service providers.
To summarize, hosting on a VPS is highly advocated for anybody wishing control, efficiency, speed and affordability. It is easy to avail of and many hosting companies include VPS in their service offering.
How to Grow Your Hosting Company
February 25, 2009
You will need a lot of visitors to come to your website in order to increase the sales of your hosting packages. Getting more customers is the bottomline for any company. In this article we will touch upon few techniques which will help you to increase your website traffic which will positively affect the growth of your webhosting company.
Google as we all know is the most powerful search engine on earth. Wouldn’t it be great if your website shows up on the results page when someone looks for ‘Webhosting Company’? You can easily buy traffic with the help of Google AdWords. This technique will draw a lot of customers to your website which will in turn contribute a lot to the growth of your hosting company.
Apart from Google AdWords there are many other options for increasing your website traffic in order to grow your hosting company. Search engine Optimization is one of the best possible means to get the targeted traffic to your website. Increasing your website ranking on the search engines is an absolutely brilliant strategy to increase your sales.
You can also grow your hosting company by advertising in several forums. Some of the ways to advertise your hosting company in the online forums are as follows.
• Visit the webmaster of the forums and try advertising your services.
• You can also add some valuable posts in the forums which provide valuable content and include the address of your hosting website in your signature. This type of forum marketing is very effective. You can hire a couple of good forum posters to do this job for you.
Once you have the customers for whom you are going to set the hosting, you must provide e-mail, telephonic and Chat support so that they can contact you for any problems and enquiries related to their websites. If you give proper timely solutions for their issues, it will add more value to the reliance and trust of the customers. Therefore, the customer support which you give to your clients will reflect with your company’s growth.
You can also do article marketing to grow your own hosting company. The articles can be on the topics related to “making money online”, “building an efficient website” etc. you can also mention in your articles about the need for web hosting company to create websites. If your articles are good and if the contents are original, you will see your sales increasing in just a matter of time.
You can also provide some advanced control panels for the buyers to manage their accounts efficiently. Good technology will attract more clients and more clients will help you to grow your own hosting company.
You need to adopt excellent security measures to your hosting websites in order to prevent the hackers from destroying your business and your reputation.
The last and the most effective means to grow your own hosting company is by advertising it locally. Having a couple of marketing executives should help you to get more local clients. You can even visit organizations and small business firms and explain the benefits of having a website for their company.
You could also try giving out some freebies like the free web templates to your customers as a value edition service. This will ensure the website renewals with your hosting company resulting in recurring income year after year. You will need to be persistent and patient to grow your own hosting company.
You can discuss this and other web hosting related issues at the web hosting forum section of Webmaster Serve.
Overselling in Web Hosting
June 3, 2008
Overselling is not uncommon in the web hosting industry. MD of a young web hosting company cast a professional eyes on overselling within the web hosting industry, explored the implications from a providers viewpoint and from a customer’s viewpoint.
Excerpt from the article follows:
Overselling, put simply, is a term used in the hosting industry where a company advertises plans that are unsustainable if every one of their clients was to use the full resources of the package.
For example, a host may have a server with 300GB of storage space and offer plans with 50GB of space each at £5 per month. As soon as 6 clients sign up for an account, all space on that server has been allocated, however the company can see that those clients are only using around 10GB in total.
Here’s where the overselling comes in.
It is pretty much a certainty that not every client will use the full resources allocated to their account. With only 6 clients using 10GB of storage space, the hosting company can carry on selling accounts until the server starts to show signs of becoming full.
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