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It is imperative to get a good web hosting company, if you happen to do anything over the internet. The following tips would allow you to hit upon a good web hosting company sooner than you ever expected.We all want to be associated to a cheap web hosting company; however one of the first things you need to know is the amount of hosting you need, based on the complexity of the applications involved in your website. Pay close attention to their uptime and there have been a lot of instances where the web hosting companies have disappointed their clients with prolonged downtimes. This could be frustrating, especially if you run an online business for your consumers.

Choose the company that ensures at least 99% of the uptime. The second most important thing would do is to assess the amount of space you need for your online business. There could be some pretty expensive options out there; however do your own researches on the cheap reseller hosting plans. Pick the bandwidth that would complement your consumers while they are on your website.

HostNexus is one of the most reputed web hosting companies since 2001. The company has been providing cheap web hosting plans and has gained a lot of experience over the years by meeting complex client requirements. They focus primarily on solid uptimes, customer satisfaction, and secured servers. The site claims to be associated with more than 3000 satisfied webmasters and hosts about 50000 websites on a total of 150 servers. The technical support team is extremely efficient and provides support round the clock.

written by rajit \\ tags: Cheap Web Hosting, HostNexus, Web Hosting

First of all for those who might not have heard about cPanelHosting.com, it is one of the oldest in the business of web hosting, providing hosting services for more than a decade now. We all know how important a good web hosting providers is. If you don’t then soon you will when your hosting will be banned due to stupid reasons like high traffic, or will be down regularly, or when your pages won’t open quickly, and you won’t get good support from your provider. I don’t mean to scare you all but it’s happening in the real world and I was just trying to make you aware of it. You should always do a thorough study of where you’re getting your service from before coming to any conclusion.

cPanelHosting.com as I’ve already mentioned has got a decade long experience and has survived the fierce world of internet. They provide premium quality cPanel web hosting (along with flexibility, capability and amazing uptime) at an affordable price. But even though they come cheap, they don’t make any compromise with the quality.

Their Shared Hosting Plans starts from $4.99 per month, Reseller Hosting Plans starts from $19.99 per month and VPS hosting Plans starts from $29.99 per month. For Enterprise class customers, they have separate cPanel VPS Hosting and Reseller plans too, due to their great enterprise class clustered based infrastructure.

There are number of reasons why you might want to join cPanelHosting.com; among which few are:

• Use of top-of-the-line Cisco Networks gear with complete
• redundant capabilities, not to mention backup hardware to improve their base robustness
• Because they have so many network providers entering their datacenter, they are more than just redundant, fault tolerant and safe, but they pas this on to their clients.
• 99.9% uptime
• 30 day Money back guarantee on all yearly services
• Round the clock support via phone, chat and or email
• Free multi-software/script library

Now coming to the point, cPanelHosting is giving out Special Server Offer for a limited time being. So, when you order a Reseller or VPS, and pay quarterly, annually or biennially you get $45 off your order. You can use a coupon code : 45off for that.

written by rajit \\ tags: Affordable Hosting, Cpanel Hosting, Hosting, Hosting Plans, Reseller Hosting, Special Server Offer, Web Hosting, WebHosting

WebHostingGeeks.com has been a real solution for all your web hosting related needs. I’ve been suggesting my readers to go through this site time and again if they are looking for web hosting services of any kind because WebHostingGeeks has dedicated itself to providing real and unbiased reviews of major web hosting companies from the customers who have used their services. Also they make sure that the reviews are unbiased and customers point out the negative aspects of the hosting providers as well.

Based on the best price-value ratio and keeping other different features link host reliability, uptime, key features, bonus features, customer support, past and current user feedbacks, user-friendliness and hosting awards into account, WebHostingGeeks has created a top ten list of Web Hosting. The list in order or rank for this year is as follows:

1. Inmotion
2. JustHost
3. WebHostingPad
4. Bluehost
5. FatCow
6. Hostmonster
7. Globat
8. Lunarpages
9. GoDaddy
10. Yahoo

On top this year is Inmotion with unlimited space and traffic at $8.95/month. There are bonus features like free domain name, choice of data centers and top technical support. On second position is JustHost providing unlimited space and traffic at just $4.95/month, free domain forever, unlimited domains hosting and $75 marketing bonus. Third is one of my favorite WebHostingPad which is a cheap and best hosting solution at $3.96/month. It also gives free domain forever, unlimited domains hosting facility and $100 marketing bonus.

Still, I’d not refer people to just go for cheap hosting. First understand your requirements and then choose accordingly. Even in this case WebHostingGeeks can be of great help. There are different articles related to web hosting which can assist you in knowing better what your requirements are.

written by rajit \\ tags: Hosting, Top 10 Web Hosting 2009, Web Hosting, Web Hosting Geek, WebHosting

I’ve been spending some time investigating the social aspects of gaming since it can become quite a lonely activity playing your Wii or Xbox. How do we fill our social needs, if we have any, without compromising in gaming time? After some hard-boiled thinking and research I’ve reached two concrete solutions. It’s either the internet or Guitar Hero that can bring friends and like-minded together to analyze, compete and hang-out together.

Guitar Hero – collect the whole set

However, Guitar Hero is not automatically the most social game to run on your Wii console. Things can easily become quite dull with the ”Guitar hero” blocking the tv for everybody else while trying to keep up with the rhythm. Even when there’s two guitar and VS mode is available Guitar Hero demands skill and outmost accuracy and therefore can become to internal, not including anyone in a larger group.

But this is not a problem since there is not only one guitar to buy but instruments for a complete band; drum set, base and guitar. Now we’re talking about social gaming, working together and including at least the majority of a group.

The Internet

Then if you find games such as Guitar Hero and Sing Star a bit cheesy, like they are, and want to focus on more kick ass games such as Halo, World of Warcraft and GTA you can, I may already have, turn to the web for help.

There are many online communities allowing member’s access to their game servers and live gaming with and against other members. You might not meet or actually see so many of your interactive buddies but the chat runs hot and it is a fun way to make friends.

By finding professional web hosting that offer game servers you can be a part of large global networks of players and like-minded.

That is perhaps one of the greatest benefits with the internet, the connection with others and the insignificance of geography. You can meet anyone from anywhere on the basis of sharing the same interests and fascination for games.

There are many more ways of integrating social needs and activities with gaming and if you have any ideas please comment below. These examples above is merely to exemplify the possibilities of the gaming community, the fact that we are many who live, eat and sleep for gaming. That is also why we must unite!

written by rajit \\ tags: Internet, Social Gaming, Web Hosting

There are numerous webhosting companies out there in the wild. Just a quick search over your favorite search engine and millions of results will be displayed. And if you go thoroughly thru each of the web hosting companies’ site, you’ll see that none of them are pointing out any of the drawbacks of their company. Everyone’s boasting about how good their hosting is than others and that people should select it to its competitors.

I had written about WebHostingGeeks.com in one of my previous posts where you could read unbiased reviews of top web hosting companies that you can find over the internet. It’s a big help for those who are seeking for web hosting to suit their needs. At that time I forgot to mention that it has been running another sister website too WebHostingRating.com which has been a trusted name since 2002 and is very much similar to Web Hosting Geeks.

Web Hosting Rating is an unbiased source for web hosting provider selection too where the customers themselves have rated the hosting services that they have tried out. They make sure that the ratings aren’t only positive thus giving out 100% customer based ratings which is a big help for others who are seeking to get the hosting service. To me though, the articles I found here were of much value than the ratings of hosting provider. There are many useful articles and tutorials that give even a novice person a pretty good idea about web hosting (Linux Web Hosting, Windows Web Hosting, Managed Hosting) or things that one should consider while getting a hosting and other related stuffs everything about web hosting. If you are looking for a new hosting provider or even planning to switch to another hosting, then I’m sure you’d find this site very handy. You are a customer and who’d better know you or who’d you trust better than another customer, isn’t it? Now, if I have to be impartial and rate WebHostingRating.com it’d be 6 out of 10.

written by rajit \\ tags: Rating of Web Hosting, Web Hosting, Web Hosting Articles, Web Hosting Companies, Web Hosting Reviews

There is a great demand of customizable software in the market today. As off the shelf software packages are manufactured for in general purpose they can’t fully fulfil the requirements of business houses. So, organisations are more bent towards customized software are as they are customized as per the need of the organisation.

Are you too thinking of computerising your business operations? Does your business need a website that truly reflects itself to your the targeted customers. I’ve got just the name that might be handy for you. World Market Systems help businesses design and create customizable websites that fit your business needs and they don’t take months for it to complete. Just 24 hours and your website will be ready for launch. Cool huh? But because it took such a short period to create doesn’t mean that it’s not of good design or doesn’t meet the firm’s requirements. It will still be up to date and very intuitive.

Founded in 2002, WorldMarketSystems-Program.com has helped over 50,000 small and medium sized businesses from around the world till date with a wide variety of services. Also they have been providing hosting plans to host web site. This has added another dimension in their offerings. And if you want to earn some extra bucks staying at home, World Market Systems provides that opportunity too with its Affiliate Marketing schemes. So, please do check it out in case you’re having thoughts of launching a quick website for your company.

written by rajit \\ tags: Affiliate Marketing, Customized Software, Web Designing, Web Hosting

There’s really need for someone who speaks out truth loudly in today’s world where forgery and biasness has taken over every bit of good that is left. There are very less number of people who are bold enough to speak the truth whether it’s sweet or sour.

Nowadays, there are millions of websites launching day by day. Finding the web hosting solutions for publishing those sites is a very complicated task. There are endless results to your search for the best hosting provider and all those boast to be better than the rest. Price is one of the most important factors that everyone looks at but many think that with low price comes poor quality and service. The best way I think to differentiate between them is through reviews from those who have really used the service. Most of the time we see that sites keep only positive (biased) reviews which don’t help much; instead they confuse the customers even more.

Luckily, WebHostingGeeks.com doesn’t do so. This site is fully dedicated to providing real and unbiased customer reviews of major web hosting companies. Not only do they collect web hosting reviews, they also make sure that the reviews are unbiased and customers point out the negative aspects of the hosting services as well. You can check out for yourself that they are not all positive reviews. It’s really easier now to decide which actually the best option for you is (different people have different criteria though). They also have web hosting articles which might be handy for you while getting to know more about web hosting and also while making your final selection. Just feel free to browse through the pages and gain as much information as possible before making the final decision. Sincerely, hope that this information was helpful.

written by rajit \\ tags: Reviews on Web Hosting Companies, Web Hosting, Web Hosting Articles, Web Hosting Companies, Web Hosting Reviews

For those who are my frequent readers and who have read my previous post on the’ Offers on VPS at VirtualServerWarehouse’, they might remember that I mentioned a little about Dedicated Web Hosting at the end of that post. I didn’t just drop those few lines accidentally but because I knew that I had to write a post on dedicated hosting too as VPS (Virtual Private Server Hosting) is not enough for some websites/organizations who need to have full control over the server, get huge amount of traffic and need to use a lot of bandwidth.

“A dedicated hosting service, dedicated server, or managed hosting service is a type of Internet hosting where the client leases an entire server not shared with anyone. This is more flexible than shared hosting, as organizations have full control over the server(s), including choice of operating system, hardware, etc.” - Wikipedia

Well, if you are from UK then let me suggest a name that is one of the leading providers of Dedicated Servers in UK. DedicatedServerWarehouse.com is solely dedicated in providing the best Dedicated Servers out there to customers. Right now they are offering 3 dedicated hosting packages, namely:

1.      Dedicated 2008 VALUE
Dedicated Hosting from £49.99 per month

• Intel Server System
• 1 x Core2 Duo 1.8GHz
• 512MB RAM (Upgradeable)
• 1×80GB SATA hard disk (Upgradeable)
• CPU power - CPS 3 Stars
• 100GB Traffic

2.      Dedicated 2008 EXTRA
Dedicated Hosting from £89.99 per month

• Dell
• Dual Core Xeon 2.3Ghz CPU
• 1GB RAM (Upgradeable)
• 1×80GB SATA hard disk (Upgradeable)
• CPU power - CPU 4 Stars
• 250GB Traffic

3.      Dedicated 2008 PRO
Dedicated Hosting from £149.99 per month

• HP Proliant DL360G5
• Quad Core Xeon 2.33Ghz CPU (Upgradeable)
• 2GB RAM (Upgradeable)
• 1×146GB SAS hard disk (Upgradeable)
• CPU power - CPU 5 Stars
• Unlimited traffic

Dedicated hosting services are pretty expensive but at this Dedicated Hosting UK, they have put their price really competitive along with maintaining quality service. You can compare the prices and select the features that best suit your needs. They do have other sister brands too for VPS Server Hosting or Colocation Web Hosting Services.

written by rajit \\ tags: Dedicated Hosting, Dedicated Servers, Dedicated Servers UK, Hosting, Managed Web Hosting, Web Hosting

Well, I’m seeing that a lot of webmasters are moving on to Virtual Private Server Hosting (VPS) nowadays. I did mention in brief about VPS hosting in one of my previous posts on upgrading your web hosting. VPS, also referred to as Virtual Dedicated Server or VDS sure is a good choice if you’ve outgrown the regular hosting plans but aren’t pretty much sure to get a dedicated server. They are better than your standard hosting plans and cheaper than then the dedicated servers. So, it’s somewhat in the middle.

I too almost shifted to VPS some months ago when my hosting got banned because my site got a lot of traffic per day and it was using too much of their CPU and bandwidth. With VPS there is no problem regarding CPU or bandwidth usage or anything such. But then I wasn’t that much familiar to VPS and didn’t even have much money to afford one. So, I had to move back to shared hosting. Anyways, I’m still searching over the internet to upgrade to a VPS hosting and my search isn’t over till I find and move to virtual private servers. I’m doing a lot of research and I just found out about this site that is providing pretty cheap VPS hosting in compare to other providers. VirtualServerWarehouse.com offers a complete solution for those who are looking for cheap but still a reliable and secure VPS hosting. They are now providing FREE Plesk and No set-up charge (Not quite sure till when this offer is valid, so all I can say to the ones who are tired and wired of their hosting is HURRY UP!!!). They offer 3 great virtual hosting packages namely:

1. VPS 2008 VALUE
VPS Web Hosting from £14.99 per month

• 128MB Memory
• 7GB disk space
• Unlimited traffic
• Root Access
• Setup Fee £45 - Now Free

2. VPS 2008 EXTRA
VPS Web Hosting from £29.99 per month

• 512MB Memory
• 10GB disk space
• Unlimited traffic
• Plesk 8.2 (30 Domains)
• Setup Fee £45 - Now Free

3. VPS 2008 PRO
VPS Web Hosting from £39.99 per month

• 768MB Memory
• 20GB disk space
• Unlimited traffic
• Plesk 8.2 (100 Domains)
• Setup Fee £45 - Now Free

You can also compare their packages and set them up according to your need and willingness to pay. If you want cheap web hosting then I think VPS 2008 VALUE, which is also my favorite might do it. Want even more? You can try Dedicated Web Hosting from - £74.99 per month from their sister brand, Dedicated Server Warehouse.

written by rajit \\ tags: Cheap Web Hosting, FREE Plesk, VDS, Virtual Dedicated Server, Virtual Private Servers, Virtual Server, VPS, VPS Hosting, Web Hosting

There comes a time for many site owners when they outgrow their first hosting plan and are ready to move up to a more powerful solution. While some may never be faced with this problem, chances are the majority of site owners will need to think about upgrading their web hosting plan at one time or another. Whether you simply want to expand and try new things or your site has grown to the point where it has run out of room, upgrading can be a pretty complicated process. Let’s look at some of the options that are available in this situation.

Standard Hosting – Bigger Limits. If you are simply running out room and you are otherwise happy with your cheapest hosting company, then you may just want to consider upgrading to one of their plans that offers a little more space. Before you make that final decision however, you’ll need to a do a little research on some other web hosting company plans. They vary greatly and you may end up spending even less money than you are now if you switch to a new host.

Virtual Private Server – This is a great solution for those who have outgrown regular hosting plans, but are not quite ready for a dedicated server. You can get a lot more power and control over your site with a VPS server and they are usually quite economical. These plans typically have a decent amount of space and transfer and are well suited for middle level site owners that want a little more freedom and a lot more room.

Reseller Plans – Let’s say that your site has spawned a few spin-offs or you have a few new ideas that you’d like to try. While you can purchase a hosting plan for each domain, it is much more economical to find a cheap reseller hosting plan that will allow you to host multiple domains on one account. Again, these are usually quite economical and you’ll have a lot more freedom and control over your entire account.

Dedicated Servers – Managed – This is the most common type of dedicated server and is usually necessary for those who need advanced levels of disk space and transfer. The added bonus is that you are on the only one using the server, and you get complete control. The main downside is the expense. They can range from $99 all the way up to a few thousand a month.

written by rajit \\ tags: Cheap Reseller Hosting, Cheapest Hosting, Hosting Plan, Web Hosting