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Use the Hostgator Reseller Hosting to Earn an Income

By admin on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

With the hostgator reseller hosting you can become your own hosting company that can earn unlimited amounts of income. You can offer quality web hosting from a quality company if you use hostgator reseller hosting.

If you are not already aware then website hosting is one of the most lucrative online businesses there is. Just imagine having only 100 clients that pay you £6/month, Thats $600 every month as its a residual income due to monthly billing. This is not hard to acquire but you need to start off with a feature rich reseller hosting account that is provided by hostgator.

The hostgator reseller hosting package starts from just $24.95/month and has the best features that allows you to control automatic account creation and billing which is exactly what you need to run a successful hosting company. Using web host manager, you can create, edit and configure any of your packages and then you will use the automated billing features to scale your online business.

The software that is enabled utilises what is referred to as: autopilot client management and billing interface which is the nuts and bolts of your reseller web hosting business. A client will visit your website, go through the checkout process and pay you via paypal that is set up on a monthly subscription.

As you will need to offer domain name registrations from your website, hostgator reseller hosting will also provide you with an enom domain reseller account which is all built in and also automated so all you have to do is advertise your website and then offer support.

You can offer your clients the cpanel controls, website builders and all the features that are found on the actual hostgator shared server packages but as your own with white label access from your own website. This creates your very own website hosting company that you can grow over time and build a residual income.

The Domain Name – Web Hosting Relation

By admin on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

So, what has the domain name to do with hosting a website? Well, there is a close relationship between your domain name and your web host (the computer where you’ll host the website). The domain name is in fact a “label” that will redirect the visitors to the IP address of the computer where the site is hosted, so these two work in pairs. We use this system because it’s easier to remember a name rather than an IP address which is a group of 4 numbers, each number between 0 and 255 (e.g. 67.72.123.201). The pair domain name – IP address is then recorded by a DNS (Domain Name Server). But, although they are related, the website/domain name and the hosting server are two different things, so one should not confuse the domain name of a website with the hosting for that website.

Here’s an analogy with real life to better understand the concept. Let’s say you want to call your friends, the Smiths, to invite them over for dinner. You ask your wife to do it, as you are a little busy at the moment. She doesn’t know the number by heart so she goes and searches the number in the phone book and calls them.

This example almost replicates the way domain names and hosting works. The Smiths are the equivalent of the domain name. You didn’t ask your wife to call a number; you just said call the Smiths. Of course, the Smiths have a telephone number associated with their name, that’s how you can actually reach them by phone. The telephone number is the equivalent of the IP address of the computer where the site is hosted. The role of the phone book is also an important one. It helps you find the match: name – phone number. The phone book role is played by the DNS servers. They are a network of “phone books” that know every association domain name – IP address, so when you write a website address in your browser, you get the content of the site that is associated to that name and not the content of another site (or empty content).

To change hosting, you simply redirect the domain name to another IP and modify the DNS servers of your domain name. Of course you also need to actually move the files to the new hosting server. It’s like the Smiths getting a new phone number. The name stays the same, but they can be reached by calling a different number.

In conclusion, when you’re buying a domain name, you’re buying in fact the right to redirect that URL to a web server of your choice, where your website is hosted.

xxx Domain Names

By admin on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Domain names with a .xxx suffix at the end (where.net,.com,.co.UK usually goes) has recently passed as a legal domain name. A British entrepreneur expects to make $200 million from registering out the domain names to pornography sites around the globe. The man plans to hire out each domain name for $60 a go.

People for Internet porn and against it are happy with the new domain suffix. Those against it want to be able to block it totally from their view which is simple by just blocking the.xxx domain. People for it will now know which sites contain what they’re looking for. Whereas before they all had normal suffixes like.com.

With so many sites ending in.com from car sites to porn sites, it’s easy for people to be tricked into viewing pornography. With a.xxx domain name they will always know. It’s not quite available yet but is expected to be so by the end of this calendar year. Sites have already started registering multiple.xxx domain names in anticipation of this massive shift in the industry.

The British man has stated that support in the industry could not be stronger and 8000 owners of adult sites have put forth their names in support of the scheme. Some religious groups though have opposed the scheme because it legitimizes porn and giving it its own domain names makes it seem acceptable.

Another benefit of this scheme is that filtering in schools will become easier. But on the other hand, in the land of freedom that is the Internet nowadays, there is always ways to get around it and filtering will never work 100%. If someone hosts pornographic material on a free hosting site for example, or sends it over MSN messenger, there is no real way to block this from happening.

A small minority of adult porn sites are against the move because they feel that the government may enforce strict regulations and actually enforce them to move to the new.xxx address. This would ruin their search engine rankings and reputation they’ve built up over time. Someone might have already registered the address that they were seeking and their brand name would be in ruins.

The British man running the sites states that if the government did enforce certain rules then people would not be as hesitant to enter information because it would be a trusted source when backed by the government. Anyone can register a .com domain name and start providing content.

This debate is likely to continue and be a big point in these uncertain times on the Internet but with an estimated 75 million users a month browsing pornographic sites, it’s going to stick around for a while. Demand always creates supply.

Web hosting and domain names – Two Essentials Website

By admin on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 | No Comments

Understandably, deciding to start a website, and actually going through the process of creating that site, is an exciting and potentially overwhelming experience. There are so many different things to choose from. The first things people think about are what they want their site to say, what they want it to look like, what they want it to offer to customers and viewers, and other considerations. But while these are very, very important elements to the site, they’re not the first things you need to consider.

Every good website is built on a solid structure. This means not just the design of the website itself, but where it’s hosted and the domain name at which it is located. These may not seem important from a user-end experience, but they really are because of how they allow the website to perform, and how accessible they allow the website to be.

Two of the most important components of all websites’ back ends are their UK web hosting and their domain names. Why do these matter? Well, in the case of the web hosting UK websites have, this determines how much space there is for their site to grow, and how much bandwidth there is for their readers to access information.

What about domain name registration? If you do a domain search, you’ll see that there are literally thousands of cheap domain names available. But not just any domain is right for you. Search engines assess domain name when determining how relevant a website is to what people are looking for. And people consider domain names when they decide whether a cite is worth clicking on.

In this case, for businesses serving clients within the UK, then.co.uk domains are the best choice. For clientele that is located worldwide, buy domain name rights to a.com domain.

In the best case scenario, you can get free domain names if you register your sites by a company that offers web hosting, and if you are looking for a qualified web hosting package. Available Domains sounds too good to be true, but I am very much reality. Web hosting is a term-long relationship, a British company Web hosting is probably the most frequently found for the domain in return for the election to make your dealings with them. If the company offers good customer service and support at a good pricethe domain name is an added bonus to an already advantageous business relationship.

Web Hosting & Domain Name Registration Packages

By admin on Monday, August 30th, 2010 | No Comments

When you are in the market to find web hosting and/or a domain name you can often find a great deal if you are prepared to shop around. A lot of people find a good hosting package or domain retailer and every time they need one, they automatically buy one from there. If this sounds like familiar then you could be throwing money away each and every time you do it. Different companies will have various deals throughout the year, you should treat every purchase as your first in order to get the maximum savings.

With the ever growing amount of competition in this specific industry, companies will be fighting for your custom so they will bring bigger, better offers out in order to make you choose them. Don’t be afraid to use this to your advantage.

In the past you used to have your domain name registered with one company and then a hosting package with a different company, this was simply down to the fact that the stand-alone hosting companies are much less expensive. Also helped by the fact that it is too hard to get the domain name purchase and hosting connected together so you can not launch the site in minutes. In the time domain registrar started moving different building packages allows you to purchase a domain name and hosting them at the same time. This not onlyGave greater savings, but it is very easy and only a renewal fee and all in one place. Would hate to review a number of companies, just to make sure everything works as expected.

If you do your research, you can also find some companies out there are willing to give you free hosting if you purchase a domain name. These are definitely worth groped, as can be cheaper in fact to registerdomain in the first place. Be sure to find out the renewal costs before you make any decisions because the low price may just be an introductory offer they have on. Look out for other free features such as email setup, parking/sale pages, forwarding, beginner’s guides to making a website and more. Some even offer initial assistance and a free web page to get you started if you are not 100% sure what you are doing.

Another important factor to look out for is the support, if you are making money from your website you will want 24/7 support available in the event your sites goes down for any unknown reason. For every second your website is unavailable it will be costing you money.

Just because the hosting may be free it doesn’t stop you checking the features of it, you have to ensure that it will give you sufficient space and bandwidth for you to get the full potential out of your website or there is no point in using it – regardless if it’s free.

With all this being said you will definitely see the benefit from buying a hosting/domain name package as you will have everything in the one place, the once renewal fee and they will often give you a discounted price if you plan on buying in bulk.

Domain Web Site Hosting

By admin on Sunday, August 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Domain Web Site Hosting is a little confusing for some people. I am going to try and explain it so that it makes a little more sense and hopefully clear up a few things.

First of all, registering a domain name is completely different from hosting a web site. When you register a domain name, you are just taking control of that name on the internet. This is so you can use that name for email, or a web site. The problem is, in order to have an email address or a web site using that name, you have to have some kind of hosting for it. The domain is just a name and only a name.

So, you have to purchase a domain web site hosting account. Well, unless you are going to set up your own server, you just rent a hosting account. But they are pretty cheap for what you get, so that is good news. One misconception that people have is that they think wherever they get their domain name, they have to get their hosting account and this is just wrong. It is possible to get a hosting account from a completely different company than where you registered your domain. In fact, some domain registering sites don’t offer hosting and some hosting sites don’t offer domain registration.

Just be careful when picking a place to purchase your domain from, sometimes they may sound really cheap, but they hook you by making you host your page/email with them and that is where they get their money. So just because it sounds cheap doesn’t mean it is.

Another thing to keep in mind, is that if you decide to purchase your domain from one place and point it to a domain web site hosting account at another, you may want to make sure and have the hosting account set up and ready before you purchase the domain. This is because, when you re-point your domain, if it has been around for a few days already, all the DNS servers on the net are already set up to find it at its current location and it can take up to 2 weeks for all the DNS servers to update. But if you re-point it in the first few minutes of purchasing it, it will change within a few minutes usually.

Understanding Web Hosting

By admin on Saturday, August 28th, 2010 | No Comments

You have your business all new and established now you are ready to take the next step and create a website to tell the world that you are online here and have something to offer. You have found a catchy domain name and call your … What next? Well, the answer is that you need to build, to find web hosting for the site go. What does this mean and how do I know which type of web hosting you need? First we startwith the basics.

Just what is web hosting anyway?

In simple terms, web hosting is renting space on a web server. A website is not simply a domain name, it is a collection of files linked together by HTML code to display text and graphics on a computer. In order for anybody to see this collection of files you’ve created, it has to be housed on a computer somewhere that has access to the internet. Not just any computer will do, of course. A web server is a computer set up with special software that allows it to receive requests from the internet for the website files it has stored on it and to send those files out over the internet so that the requesting computer can display them. It is very much like a waiter in a restaurant taking your order and bringing the food that you ask for from the kitchen, hence the name “server.”

Along with making sure your files can be seen by internet users around the world, a web server provides other important services as well. First and foremost is the ability to create email addresses based on your domain name and to send and receive email with them. The web server also has various types of software installed on it that allow your website to run programs, create and manage databases, display video, and many other functions you might find useful. Almost any type of computer can function as a web server, but it’s the software that’s on it that makes it a server.

When you buy webhosting, the monthly fee you pay goes to the continued maintenance and upgrading of the server’s hardware and software, the cost of keeping it online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in a secure data center with a fast and powerful internet connection, and to pay for the expertise of the people who do all that work. It is completely possible to turn your own home or office computer into a web server if you really want to, but in most cases it is far more economical to pay someone else who is dedicated to providing this service in a properly reliable manner than it is to try and do it yourself.

What kinds of web hosting are there?

Shared Hosting – Most websites are not huge affairs with hundreds of pages and thousands of files and graphics, and they are targeted toward a particular audience, so they will not get as many visitors as the large general sites like Yahoo! that are targeted at everybody who uses the internet. As such, the average website therefore is not going to require the full resources of an entire web server to run it. Web servers are designed to be able to handle dozens, even hundreds of websites at once because they are powerful machines.

Shared hosting is simply the concept of hosting more than one website on a particular server. Over 95% of all websites on the internet are being run in a shared hosting environment. Since the resources of the server can be split among the clients hosted on it, so can the costs of operating the server, so shared hosting is universally cheaper than any other type. Shared hosting packages are generally designed so that each client is allotted a certain amount of each resource, with different payment levels representing different amounts of resources such as disk space, bandwidth, email addresses, and so on. Shared hosting is also known as virtual hosting.

Dedicated Hosting – If you do have a big, powerful website that gets lots of visitors and has a tendency to hog resources, then you might want to have a web server all to yourself. Some companies also prefer the extra security of not having to share the server with anyone else who could do something accidentally or on purpose to crash it. Renting the use of an entire server is known as dedicated hosting. The web hosting company still owns the machine and takes responsibility for maintaining the hardware and the web hosting software, but you have greater control over the configuration and use of the server. There is also such a thing as semi-dedicated hosting, in which a web server is only split between a very small number of clients, such as 2 to 4, with strong partitions between each to prevent them from interfering with one another. Since the hosting company is still responsible for the upkeep of the server, this type of hosting is also known as managed hosting. For obvious reasons, dedicated hosting always costs significantly more than shared hosting.

Server Co-Location – If you really want complete control over every aspect of your web server, you might very well choose to buy one and maintain it yourself if you have sufficient knowledge. However, chances are that you still don’t have resources for your server is completely safe from power outages, roof leaks, thieves, unwary employees and other hazards and keep it on the internet on a fast broadband connection at any time. Need a computer center to provide these services to you. Co-location is the rental of physical security, continuous electrical power and a fast reliable Internet connection for a server that you have. The data center is not responsible for the maintenance of hardware and softwareco-located server, you are. This can be a cheaper alternative to dedicated hosting if you have the necessary expertise and time to run a web server yourself.

Some web hosts are offering UNIX hosting and Windows hosting. What’s the difference?

The terms UNIX hosting and Windows hosting refer to the operating system (OS) that is running on the server. The operating system, of course, is the software that allows the computer to function and manage all of the other hardware and software that is installed on it. Chances are good that you are reading this on a computer running a version of the Windows operating system, the most popular operating system in the world for personal and business computers. Other operating systems that are growing in popularity are Macintosh and various versions of Linux. However, the operating system you use on your computer is irrelevant to which type of hosting you choose. Here are some of the main features of UNIX and Windows:

UNIX Hosting

Most of the web servers in the world today run on one of the many variants of UNIX. The UNIX operating system was originally developed by universities for servers and networking, and many different versions have been written by programmers around the world under the open-source protocol, which means that the code for the operating system is openly available for programmers to customize and make improvements. Linux and BSD are the most popular forms of UNIX and come in many varieties, such as Red Hat Linux, Debian, SuSE, and FreeBSD. Most of these different versions (and much of the software that runs on them) can be obtained for free, which makes UNIX hosting cheaper for a web host than other operating systems and allows them to offer lower prices. UNIX hosting platforms are generally considered to be stable, secure, powerful and fast. Most web programming applications can be performed by software that is available for a UNIX platform. “UNIX hosting” has become a generic term to refer to any platform that is derived from the original UNIX.

Windows Hosting

Microsoft has developed its own operating system for servers as a special version of its Windows operating system, Windows Server 2003. It is a commercial product which requires the operator to purchase a license, which increases the cost of operation for the web host and usually results in higher hosting prices. Windows is designed to be user friendly, but it is generally considered to be less powerful and secure than UNIX for operating in a network environment. ASP, ASP.NET, and ColdFusion are scripting languages which will only run on a Windows server, as will the Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access database programs. These are popular for certain web programming applications, and if you are planning on using them to build your website, you will need to find a Windows host.

What are some of the terms I need to know when I choose a web host?

Disk Space or Storage – Because your website is a collection of files being offered on the internet for viewing, they have to be stored somewhere for retrieval and take up space. Each web server has a finite amount of hard disk memory to divide up and offer to hosting customers. Typically that space is divided up by different package levels so that the more you pay, the more space you are allowed to store pictures, web pages, videos and whatever other files you like on the web server’s hard drive. If your website gets bigger than the space you are given, you will need to purchase more disk space from the web host.

Bandwidth or Data Transfer – Whenever you visit a website and view a page, you are transfering a copy of the files that make up that page over the internet from the web server to your computer. If the page you are viewing consists of an HTML file that is 3KB in size and three pictures of 47KB, 100KB and 250 KB, then you have just used 400KB of bandwidth or data transfer, because that is the total amount of data you just downloaded from the web server to view that page. Bandwidth is a commodity like disk space that the web host has to buy from its internet service provider, so it too is divided up and offered to the customers in specific amounts. Bandwidth amounts are usually measured in gigabytes (GB), because while only one copy of your files needs to be stored on the server, thousands or even millions of copies may be downloaded for viewing. If your website is viewed more times than the amount of bandwidth you are allowed can handle, your website may be turned off until the next billing period starts, or you may simply be billed for the excess amount used, depending on your host‘s policies. You can always purchase more bandwidth as your site’s traffic increases.

Uptime – In an ideal world, every web server would be up and running and offering your web pages to the world 24 hours a day, 7 days a week forever. However, web servers are computers, and like any other computer, things happen to make them fail, or they get old and out of date and require maintenance and repair. When a web host gives you a 99% uptime guarantee, they are saying that the web server will be up and running for 99% of the billing period. If they fail to meet this guarantee, most web hosts will refund a certain portion of your money depending on the amount of excess downtime they experienced.

Traffic Statistics – Website traffic statistics programs try to track visitors to your website. They can track how many times your site was visited, how many visitors were unique and how many returned more than once, which pages were most popular, where the visitors came to your site from, what search terms they used in the search engines, and many other types of information which could be useful to you in marketing your website to a target audience. These statistics can be displayed in tables, graphs and charts by hour, day, week, month or year. Some statistics programs are better than others and offer more types of data, better displays, easier navigation or other useful features. Most web hosts today offer some sort of traffic statistics software with their hosting packages.

CGI Scripts – Many web hosts offer a variety of free CGI scripts with their packages. These are things like hit counters, guestbooks, form mail programs, message boards, and other programs that allow your website to perform commonly desired functions. You can use the ones your host provides you with or perform, and can upload custom CGI scripts yourself or someone else, to produce written to perform various tasks such as conducting a survey or processing customer information, automatic bid. Most CGI scripts are written in programming languages such as Perl, PHP or ASP.

You could spend a long time trying to learn everything, knowing that Have Web hosting, but if you read this far, you need knowledge, you should be armed with the basicunderstand what different web hosts are offering you. Your next task is to figure out what you need and go out and find a host that wants to give it to you at a great price!

Don’t Lose Your Domain Name to a Shady Web Design Firm

By admin on Saturday, August 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Part of researching the right website design company for your project is knowing what questions to ask. This article is addressing one simple but very important question to ask; who will own my domain name? Registering a domain name is one of the very first steps in the web design process and it is one of the most common services that is taken for granted. Any reputable web design firm will help you through all aspects of the website design process and explain to you the importance of each step. Here’s one point that many website design companies neglect to mention – whoever registers your domain name owns your domain name.

What does this mean for business owners? This means website owners beware! Register your own domain names!

I have been in the website design business for many years and have seen some pretty shady practices from several web designers that include holding domain names hostage. I encourage all of my clients and all small business owners to register their domain names in their own names. It is of the utmost importance that the website owner has control over his or her domain name. By controlling your own domain name you can control who hosts your website and ultimately who has the right to maintain your website. Any legitimate website design firm would want their clients to be able to have control over their business information.

Many unsuspecting business owners simply assume that they have control over their website and are free to change hosting or web designers as they please. They certainly should be able to, however, I was inspired to write this short article or warning to business owners after receiving a surprising amount of phone calls recently from people who were being held hostage by their web designers. They were all similar situations where a web designer helped a client set up a site from scratch and everything seemed fine until the website owner wished to transfer hosting or change web designers only to find out that they could not. Finding out that your domain name is being held hostage for more money or out of spite can be devastating.

Here is a summary of one of the domain name horror stories that I recently encountered that illustrates the importance of owning your own domain name very clearly. A real-estate agent, we’ll call her Maggie, was working with a web designer for several years. This web designer then got her real estate license and became a competing real estate agent. Once the “web designer” became a real estate agent she no longer wanted to update and maintain Maggies’ website. Maggie also noticed that her website started falling from Google search results. Maggie came to my website design company to see if we could help her make some updates and Google back their search engine rankings.

Maggie was dissatisfied with their current web designer and wanted to move their home to a new hosting company, you work when directed. Maggie, like many entrepreneurs thought they could do whatever they wanted with their website. Unfortunately, there are people, fraud, extortion and revenge. Maggie was a victim of the latter. We were able to make any progress with the former designer and was responsible for advising theclient to contact a lawyer. Unfortunately, this is often the only alternative and can be a tedious and costly process. Many people holding a domain name hostage will release it immediately when confronted with a letter from a lawyer, but there are always those willing to ride out the process to the bitter end.

My recommendation is to avoid any domain name complications that could derail your website from the beginning and register your domain name through a reputable registrar like GoDaddy. I personally recommend using GoDaddy as a registrar due to their exemplary customer service and streamlined processing. It only takes 5 minutes to set up. Having to fight for a domain name you spent years establishing a business with will certainly cost you much more.

An Easy Cool Way to Find Web Hosting

By admin on Friday, August 27th, 2010 | No Comments

If people have been telling you that it’s too hard to have a web page and operate your business online, don’t believe them. People who have their own businesses usually set up a blog or website for themselves. You will find a huge array of choices in web hosting and domain name providers. You will have no problem setting up the site you need at a price you can afford.

Utilizing the internet has developed into a cornerstone for lots of businesses. Lots Blogs of people – both for fun and for the economy. These people also provide a number of companies, such as promoting MLM and affiliate marketing among others. For this reason, there are many website and web hosting company today. They offer a variety of business services for every need and offer you a unique website and domain name.

For example, if your business in North America, but you want to do businessworldwide, you might want to choose a domain name that has several different extensions. If you do this, then people who are looking for your.COM address by typing in a.EU address will be automatically redirected to the.COM address. You will have to make a request for the.EU extension to be forwarded to the.COM destination. It is inexpensive and easy to set up a basic website and establish your domain name.

One good thing is that, if your domain title is exclusive, other people can’t cash in on your marketing by opening a site with a similar name. Therefore, if someone searches your address using a .COM extension, but you really have a .EU extension or some other, a person using your same name with a .COM extension would get your business. Keep this idea in mind when you set up your name. If there are similar domain names available, you should buy them, too.

Remember that you need to safeguard both your website and your company to the best of your ability. The web hosting/domain provider you choose should be trustworthy, supportive, and offer great security. You will probably all enjoy a happy and successful partnership, so it is a win-win situation, all around.

What you should know about domain cheap hosting

By admin on Thursday, August 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Web hosting is something that is not a must, work, or you're online, you need something they have in the first. People are looking for cheap hosting domain that are available on the market. Each domain hosting provider is different, but not a good idea to go for a cheap domain cheap hosting, but the reason why.

You will also find many companies that offer free domain> Hosting, but if you do, your online business seriously, then you should never go free hosting service. Who provide the service free in the world today, whether they provide bad service and that is why I offer services free or are there some catch, so you pay later. This section offers all alone before you, not free to choose for your online business is done.

Make a lot of cheap hosting services that a good and reliableService. No need to pay much money, but you should know what they are looking for a service at low cost. If you go into the wrong hands, then you will in future be stuck with a host of business, create problems for your boss. A poor host will contact you imagine, in too many worries, that can not handle o. You can also block your site, and if the customer buy or read, they want products on your website, the site will not appear before them, becausepoor hosting.

Poor hosting services can also cause your site to load slowly, though today the majority of people have high-speed Internet, you do not want to wait long, or do not have time to load, waiting on your site. Would jump to the next preferred site is available and we all know how many web pages the same niche or content on the net with it the world today. So if you go to make a decision for a domain hosting service, islook better on these points.

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