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How Much Web Storage Hosting Do You Need For Your Website?

Friday, January 8th, 2010

You can calculate the amount of web hosting storage you will need for your website. All you need to do is to determine the amount of disk space your website will use. Web hosting storage makes it possible to build web pages with particular content like images, text, graphics, JavaScript, flash video, audio, and more. All of these files have weight and compose a web page. The total of this weight for each page in your website will constitute the amount of storage you need.

Your web-hosting provider has a certain amount of storage space available to you; this is your web storage hosting amount. All files that make up your website put together must fit in to this amount of space.

The call for web storage hosting space is on the increase because of video. Video takes up a lot of space, and video is in demand on the web. Even source code has weight and adds to the storage needs of a web page.

Web hosting providers use web storage hosting as a competitive edge, attempting to out do one another in the amount of space they offer. Because of this, most hosts now let users store as much as 1500Gb of content. The basic plans, these days, allow plenty of storage to start up your website and lots of room to expand as you move along. Some plans will allow you to carry manifold sites on a single account. In these instances, you need to be certain that there is ample space to carry your demands.

As web hosting providers meet the challenges of today’s storage requirements, you should always have abundant storage to maintain and grow your website business. You should be capable of creating as big a site as you want, without confronting any upper limits. Web storage hosting shouldn’t be problematic at all.

Tips to Get Your Site on Top of Google

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Everyone wants their website to get top rankings on Google. Though it sounds like a far away dream, this is quite possible if you make the right efforts in the right direction.

The website should be in top form

This means that all your web pages are totally clean and do not have any pointless flash or animation. The meta tags should correctly reflect what is on them, this includes keywords, description, content and title. And most importantly, your content should be in top form, useful, and informative. All the hyperlinks on each paragraph or each page should work out fine.

Make the presence of the website visible to Google

In order to get this done, you need at least 35 quality links pointing to your site. Only then will Google even start to take notice of the website. And each of these 35 links should come from different websites. So if you submit to directories, chose the best ones that are high in page rank themselves. Don’t waste your time getting links from sites, that can’t ensure quality listing. That will not really help you.

Research what Google is actually looking for

Therefore if your content is not helpful or unique, don’t expect to find great favors from Google. A website that has just been put together to reap in money without anything concrete on it will not really get you anywhere with Google.

Keep on working on the website

You have to keep improving your website. Meta tags should be reviewed. Php and html should be pulled up. So not forget to improve the navigation, structure and content of your website. The trick is to update. And this goes for backlinks too. just because your website has figured once in top ranking does not mean that you forget to do the base work.

Top 5 SEO Tricks

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Ever since business owners have discovered the importance of websites in boosting their every webmaster wants their site to gain top rankings in search engines. However, most are not successful in getting top rank. Here, are some tricks to help you get top search engine rankings.

Content is king

This cliché is actually true. So you need to get the content right. Search engines prefer websites that are actually useful for users and provide quality information. Also, other webmasters will be more open to giving you backlinks if they find your website high on quality. Plagiarism is a huge no-no and you cannot copy paste content from other sites.

Keyword is important

The keywords that you use for your website need to be researched thoroughly. They are the base for ranking. Hence, you don’t want to goof up by putting in keywords that bring in the wrong audience.

Page linking

Link the different pages of your website to one another. This serves as a guide for search engine spiders. Text links add to the relevancy of your web page, so make use of them. Creating a site map is a very beneficial step, because it can have all the links to the different pages.

Keep the website simple

Most people go wrong by jazzing up their website too much. The rule is to keep it simple. Therefore, don’t bank that much on flash or animation. They don’t add any real value to your website, and also slow down the speed of the download. This may also deviate traffic to other websites, because no one really wants to wait that long!

Submission in directories

There are hundreds of directories on the Internet where you can submit your website. Backlinks from reputed submission directories contribute in increasing the page rank of your website. However, it may take days before your link shows up. But the wait is worthwhile.

How Web Hosting Aids In SEO

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Web hosting is in fact one of the most popular services that nearly millions of people use for creating some of their best web sites. Most of the people use these services for creating anything starting from blogs, community sites, personal sites or even e-commerce sites. But most of the people simply don’t know the importance of this web hosting especially when it comes to SEO. One can literally benefit from most of the search engine traffic by simply devising a unique SEO strategy.

Even before getting a hosting plan you may simply be interested in getting a domain. If you already have a domain name you may be considering of registering it with some of the other host. You can even try registering with one of the host by paying $10 for around a year’s time although some may even be much cheaper. When speaking of SEO we all know that URL and domains are very much important because when these spiders simply come crawling they would in fact index your pages.

So if you are in fact having one of the most unique domain name that matches your URL which is simply designed best, then you start being visible in the eyes of most of these SEOs. Some of the features of the web hosting also does benefit the SEOs efforts to a much greater extent. Optimization for some of the most targeted search is certainly very much effective as most of the host present today simply offer a number of tools that may in fact help with the research in choosing some of the best key words for your site.

Most of these also provide with a handy web application features. These keywords also give you with the graphical statistic about the type of traffic your website may be getting. It in fact provides the complete details like when visitors come and also from where these visitors come. It also shows the spider that visited your site. A number of companies do offer a free service for SEO along with free marketing and tools. Most of the web packages are simply loaded with most unique tools.

Web hosting simply plays a very major role in SEO as most of the results simply depend upon the hosting company. It certainly plays a crucial part as it emphasizes more on the quality work than quantity work. Here cost of the service certainly does not make any difference. You may even find a number of hosting services that are in fact cheap and better. So before looking for any services you need to keep in mind that it is actually the fate of your rankings what you are talk about.  You fate simply lies in the hands of some other company that is watching you.

This is the relation where only trust counts. So perform your research and rush to the services which may not harm your page rankings and make your visibility much better is what you need.

Benefits of reseller hosting

Monday, October 26th, 2009

If you are ever thinking of getting some cheap virtual host for hosting your website, than it is certain that you might in fact receive a number of long term benefits. A number of cheap web hosting is available on the internet today as a lot of competition exists in the business of web site hosting services. You can be sure of getting a number of domains hosting for only little money what most of the companies had to pay earlier. You can find a number of domain reseller services for only a fraction of amount. Apart form their low cost a number of other benefits are there if you plan to choose one of those right virtual hosts.

You can in fact save money for now and also in future when you certainly do compare most of their plans for hosting web sites. Considering the cost of your virtual hosting is very much important when you are in the initial stages of launching your online business. In case you have planned to build a very strong online business then it is certain that you may have to pay for hosting for a number of months or even years. So a very dependable and affordable host is what you may be requiring.

The benefit of most of these resellers cheap virtual hosting is that you may in fact save every month and every year for a number of years. So even if you manage to actually save around $ 4 per month by choosing one of the cheap resellers web hosting service then you can manage to save around $ 48 per year and $ 240 in another five years. The amount may not seem to be much big but when looking from the business point of view we can certainly say that any savings is worth the effort. You can in fact save much more amount if you may be looking for more services than just a basic web hosting page.

You can also get a minimal overhead cost with some of the cheapest resellers on the internet. More over where else can you ever afford to open up a store for only a few dollars a month? Just think about opening a good store in the main street in your area or your town. You may simply have to incur nearly thousands of dollars monthly for all the rent, water, repairs and electricity. There may be other charges also that you may have to pay. But with cheap resellers you can simply afford to open up a good store only for few dollars monthly.

These resellers are in fact the lowest over heads that you can ever get. More over the potential of the profits is simply tremendous. You may use a number of features like PHP or even the MySQL or any other as you require. It would only cost you a little bit of extra amount monthly. No matter what business you have you may in fact benefit by using the reseller services. If you are using the reseller hosting facilities then you certainly can sell some of the cheaper web hosting to your customers. You can in fact sell any type of hosting and also narrow all of your ads to reach some of your targeted audiences.

So if you even own a wholesale store you can use it to advertise to your customers. So simply get started with your business by choosing some of the cheapest web reseller services and run quickly.

cPanel 11 is Here!

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

As everyone may already know, cPanel 11 was released in it’s first part 5/2/2007. We will be testing various types of configurations with this new version as one of the main new features is Apache2 support. Some of the other things we will be testing are PHP5, MySQL5, Ruby on Rails, New Security Features, and much more. We already have test servers up and running Version 11 to ensure it’s safe to run in a production environment.

cPanel 11 Screenshot:

To keep up to date with our testing please subscribe to the thread located on our forums at: http://forums.hostnine.com/showthread.php?p=1137

New cPanel Theme

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Well as it turns out our designer logged in to his cPanel account on his HostNine server and felt the X theme was lacking that and I quote “HostNine Feel”. So this morning I come to the office and find a new header and style sheet for our Shared Hosting cPanel X Skin (Unfortunately we’re going to have to break the bad news to our designer that cPanel 11 is coming out soon and it will have to be redone).

We hope you all enjoy it! Here is a screen shot of the all-new H9 X Skin

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Starting a New Hosting Company? Get Free Help on Site Design!

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Are you a new web hosting reseller? If so, you’ve got to meet our friend Ben over at Reseller Guide. His site offers lots of great tips on growing your hosting business.

For instance, as a startup, the first challenge you face is creating an attractive website. You want to project a professional image, but without breaking the bank. And ideally, you’d like to get something up and running yesterday so you can start selling. Being the nice guy that he is, Ben put together 12 free templates you can use. Our favorite is #8. Incidentally, 8 rhymes with profitable in Chinese :)

Fantastico Exploit Discovered

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Earlier this week we were notified about an exploit in Fantastico allowing remote file inclusion. This affected any server in the world running cPanel and Fantastico. While we quickly had our own patch applied to prevent the exploit on our servers, Fantastico has released an emergency upgrade which resolved all of the discovered security holes found in their software.

This upgrade was completed automatically on all of our servers so there is nothing to worry about. As always we’re on top of server security and just wanted everyone to rest assured that there is nothing to worry about with this reported exploit.

More information on this exploit can be found at: http://milw0rm.com/exploits/3459

HostNine is ModernBill’s Fastest Growing Partner!

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Just want to share the great news with everyone. ModernBill says HostNine is their fastest growing partner! A copy of the press release we sent out is below We’d like to thank you, our customers, for your support. We really appreciate your business!! By the way, I will be speaking at ModernBill’s Administrator Workshop in Louisville next month. If you’re in the area, please join us!

HostNine, ModernBill’s Fastest Growing Hosting Partner, to Present Reseller Best Practices at ModernBill Workshop

March 8, 2007 | West Palm Beach, FL: ModernBill (http://www.modernbill.com) is now the billing platform of choice for over 12,000 technology companies worldwide. VP of Sales Jonathan
McCarrick says hosting partners have been instrumental in reaching this milestone. In particular, he names West Palm Beach, Florida based HostNine (http://www.hostnine.com) as ModernBill’s fastest growing reseller.

HostNine offers an all-inclusive “Business-in-a-Box” for web hosting startups. It includes a merchant account, a domain reseller account, cPanel/WebHost Manager, site builder software, and ModernBill’s billing software for $19.95. In addition, HostNine’s support staff are available 24/7 by phone, live chat, instant messenger and email. HostNine even helps resellers migrate customer websites at no cost. According to Operations Manager Ben Gabler, “we’re here to make launching and growing your hosting business a hassle-free experience.” He says his service is especially popular among web designers and developers who see web hosting as a synergistic add-on.

On April 5, 2007, Gabler will present HostNine’s experience at ModernBill’s 3rd annual Administrators Workshop in Louisville, KY. Gabler, a web hosting industry veteran, says he will share his 9 strategies for reseller success. At the top of his list are creating an easy-to-buy solution, and offering multiple channels for customer communication. To register for the event, please visit http://www.modernbill.com/events.php.

About HostNine
West Palm Beach, FL-based HostNine is an industry leader in reseller hosting. The company helps web designers, developers and other technology service providers extend their capabilities, and empowers web hosting startups to quickly launch and grow their web hosting
businesses. For more information, please visit http://www.hostnine.com.

About ModernBill
ModernBill is the flagship product of Louisville, KY-based ModernGigabyte. The company offers turnkey financial solutions for web hosting providers. Its fully integrated suite of products include
ModernBill, the ModernAuthorize merchant account service, the FraudGuardian order verification service, and the ModernDNS domain reseller service. As of March 2007, ModernBill is the billing platform of choice for over 12,000 companies worldwide. For more information, please visit http://www.moderngigabyte.com.