Web Hosting Bandwidth Explained

When shopping for web hosting, a very common concern, and legitimate one, is the amount of bandwidth you will need. This article is intended to help you determine just how much of bandwidth your web site requires.

When shopping for web hosting, a very common concern, and legitimate one, is the amount of bandwidth you will need. This article is intended to help you determine just how much of bandwidth your web site requires.

When you are buying insufficient bandwidth, you might find yourself in two undesired situations: paying, usually high fees, for the extra bandwidth your web site needed or having your web site shut off. Overbuying bandwidth is not a good thing either as it will put you in the position to pay for something you dont use. This article is intended to help you determine just how much of bandwidth your web site requires.

What is bandwidth anyway?

Lets just see what bandwidth is. Bandwidth is the term that is used to denote the amount of data that has been transferred from your web space to the computers of your visitors. To put it simple, bandwidth is the amount of data that flows across a network wire in a given period of time. In web hosting industry this time period usually is one month. This happens simply because web hosting providers are also charged monthly for their huge broadband Internet connection. This is the cost that ultimately is then passed on to the consumer in the form price for their individual web hosting plan.

Bandwidth being such a delicate matter for a successful web presence, could you at least estimate the bandwidth needs of your web site? The answer is yes, you can estimate it, but you can never be sure of your estimate being perfectly correct because of all the variables involved.

How do I calculate my bandwidth?

If your index.html page has a size of lets say 50 KB, every time you get a visitor on your start page (assuming that your visitors will only open you first page and not browse your entire web site), your visitor will download 50 KB of information onto his or hers computer. For 100 visitors, you will get a total of 5.000 KB of data being transferred from the web server hosting your site to your visitors computers.

So a formula for computing your estimated needs of bandwidth would look like this:

Size of your web content * number of visitors that accessed that web page = your consumed bandwidth

The formula looks very simple, yet estimating correctly the bandwidth required by your web site is anything but simple. This is obvious when you look at what makes up this formula.

The size of one web page is one thing, and the total size of your web site is another. You should take into consideration the total size of your web site and this means including files offered for download. Also web sites grow in time or even change completely. When this happens, you must redo the estimates for your web site bandwidth.

When it comes to visitors browsing your web site, it is rather difficult to predict what pages your visitors will access. For example, some visitors would stop at the index page, other will look for the contact details, and some will download your brochure. Knowing the sheer number of visitors your site has over one month can be very helpful in estimating the bandwidth required to support them.

Ultimately, when trying to find out the amount of bandwidth your web site requires you must answer two important questions:

• What is the size of your web site?
• What is the traffic your web site will get?

For a not very large web site that is not very that doesnt offer audio/video downloads and doesnt get very much traffic, you dont need a very large amount of bandwidth. Average web sites use only about 500 MB of monthly bandwidth. But for small web sites that generate a lot of traffic, you should consider a web hosting plan that offers a lot of bandwidth.

For your reference, an average web site (for example a personal or a family web site) will also get average traffic, meaning a range of 50-500 visitors per day.

When assessing the requirements of your web site bandwidth, you must also understand that although you have purchased your web hosting together with the bandwidth as per month, your total monthly bandwidth is usually broken down into daily rates. Exceeding the daily rates might result in having your web site shut down for the day.

How to keep your bandwidth down?

Having a lot of rich web content (images, flash files, audio files) is a good way to make your web site more attractive for your visitors, but also is the shortest way to burn out your bandwidth. This article wont tell you to give up using such files for your web site, instead simply point out that overcrowding your web pages with images could harm not only your bandwidth, but also the usability of your web site. Good web site design is not proportional with the number of images per page.

Offering downloads on your web such as site music files, .PDF files, flash or video files is another thing that will almost sure consume your bandwidth by just a handful of visitors. The simple download of an average .PDF file half of megabyte in size will consume monthly 1 GB of bandwidth, only with 2.000 people downloading it.

Stick to your goals and adjust your web sites content strictly to fulfill them.

Keeping down the amount of bandwidth your web site is consuming might be easy to achieve with good preparation and excellent web design.

To avoid sky-high bandwidth costs, try to apply the following suggestions:

1) Make the file size of your web pages as small as possible. Lots of tools, some of them freeware can help you to do just that by compressing them.

2) Keep the images on your web site to a minimum. For the images included in your web site, use .JPG or .GIF compression tools to reduce the size and still keep the quality at an acceptable level.

3) Try not to offer too many downloadable files. If your have to offer downloadable files, it is best to only include the ones around 1 MB in size.

The right way the to start when planning your web sites bandwidth needs, apart from the traffic your site will get, is to look at the type your content your are going to serve to your visitors. If your web site is packed with multimedia (video, music, flash etc) or if your offer .PDF files for download, you might consider opting for a dedicated server. Even in the event your web site is just starting out an you have limited funding for its hosting, it would be wise to choose a web hosting provider that will offer you a plan with more resources than your estimate need at a reasonable price.

As no matter how good your estimate is, there is a chance that it will fail, dont forget to look at the charges for the bandwidth exceeding your monthly plan.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Calin Indre is editor at HostPinPin ( http://www.hostpinpin.com ), a Cheap Web Hosting Directory Resource.

HostPinPin.com is a resource for webmasters and consumers looking to find a web hosting company. Providing web hosting reviews, compare web hosting plans, web hosting articles, glossary of terms, free hosting guide, free hosting quote, tips and more.

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What Makes The Best Website Hosting Company

When choosing the best website hosting company, it is important

to consider several things before making your choice. As they

say ” You never get a second chance at a first impression.” This

is true when we are talking about your website!

Web hosting is a service that allows users to post Web pages to

the Internet. A Web host, or hosting service provider (HSP), is

a business that provides the technologies and services needed

for Web sites to be viewed on the Web.

When you choose hosting for your website consider the following

things.

Price: Dont simply look for the lowest price. Your website is

your lively hood and you need reliablity that you may not get

with cheap hosting.

Technical Support: Is it available 24 hours a day, 7 days a

week? If you have a question you need an answer.

Features: Various internet hosting companies offer a variety of

services. Make a list of what you know you want your website to

do. Here are a few services you will want to consider. Set up

fees, transfer fees, email aliases, site stats, contol panel,

site creation tool, front page extensions, submit to search

engines, sub domains, multiple domain discounts.

Disk Space: The amount of disk space that will be allotted to

your web site is another of the key elements in a good web host

package. While it might seem that 30 megabytes is plenty of

room, the potential for growth of your company means that you

could easily need more space later. If you choose a web hosting

provider that simply can’t offer more space, you might find that

your growth will be severely limited.

E-mail accounts How many e-mail accounts do you need? You’ll

probably need one for each employee and one for each department

(sales, accounts, support). Make sure you purchase a hosting

plan that has enough e-mail accounts. Also, do you want full

POPS access, Web-based e- mail, or both?

E-commerce Will you be selling goods or services through your

site? If not, there’s no need to sign up for an e-commerce web

hosting service. If you are, e-commerce web hosting services

such as shopping cart software, SSL support and a merchant

account will be vital.

Speed: You need to know how fast your internet hosting provider

can provide access to your visitors.

Uptime: This may be the most important thing when choosing the

best web hosting company. You can not make money if your web

site is down.

It is reasonsable to expect to spend $20-$30 a month for a good

hosting company. I personally use Host4Profit for my hosting

needs. I have found them to be reliable, fast, offer top

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What’s Wrong With Web Hosting?

Copyright 2006 Larry Dozier

It’s no secret that the webhosting industry has an incredibly high percentage of dissatisfied customers.

Having been a webmaster for 10 years, and the owner of a webhosting company for 8 years, I’ve come to realize that the problem can usually be traced to one thing - communication.

There seems to be a real gap between web hosting customers and their providers, which inhibits free communication.

One of the reasons we encounter this is that most webhosting companies are owned and operated by computer geeks. As a genaeral rule, geeks relate much better to computers than they do to people. As a result, we have an industry full of providers who are fairly adept at technology, but woefully lacking in people skills. Let’s face it - if someone spends 16 hours a day interacting with computer and networking components, they will probably have no understanding of the little niceties which grease the skids of human interaction.

Another problem is false expectations raised by the web hosts own marketing material.

Most webhosting providers have a site which portrays them as being a large corporate entity, when, in reality, most hosting companies are run by sole proprietors. The website might have a picture of high tech glass and beam office building, but the reality is often an overworked fella sitting at home in his pajamas. When the customer starts to encounter the limitations of this arrangement, frustration and resentment set in, souring the relationship.

Ironically, this same same client might be absolutely thrilled with this same web host, despite the limitations, if they had only known about the limitations going into the arrangement.

Finally, communications can be strained to the breaking point by a web host that views customers as an annoying part of the job, rather than seeing them as real people with real needs who are interested in an ongoing business relationship.

Happily, this problem may be avoided entirely, if the hosting client uses some wisdom and discrimination while shopping for a provider.

The good news is that there are some wonderful webhosting companies out there. It’s just a matter of finding one which fits your needs.

When shopping for a web host, try to speak directly to the owner of the company. Failing that, speak with the customer support people on several occasions before purchasing. Are they friendly? Do they use common courtesy and politeness while speaking to you? Are they honest and open in their marketing approach? Do they address you by name while speaking to you? Do they return your phone calls and emails?

With a little leg work, you should be able to seperate the wheat from the chaffe, and find an excellent hosting company.

Managed Vs. Unmanaged Dedicated Hosting

“Unmanaged dedicated servers” - this is a pretty uninviting term to many, especially the non-gurus, but in most cases is not as “non-servicing” as it seems.

“Unmanaged dedicated servers” - this is a pretty uninviting term to many, especially the non-gurus, but in most cases is not as “non-servicing” as it seems.

“Unmanaged dedicated servers” - this is a pretty uninviting term to many, especially the non-gurus, but in most cases is not as “non-servicing” as it seems. In fact, I think someone one day soon, ( who knows maybe me ) will coin a new phrase to replace the term “unmanaged” - similar to how “used cars” is now “pre-owned” or how “apartment complexes” are now “rental communities”. The truth is that unless you just picked a lousy provider or have unreasonable expectations, unmanaged hosting offers more service and support than most think.

The Difference

While exact definitions vary among providers, generally speaking managed hosting means your provider takes complete or near complete care of your server. This can include anything from basic system maintenance and patches to applications maintenance, security, monitoring, etc. Someone that needs dedicated hosting and wants to rely on their host for pretty much anything and everything regarding their server needs to strike a relationship with a managed service provider. Full blown managed services involve lots of skilled people hours. Not only that, since every managed customer is unique, it’s hard for a managed provider to be overly systematic. For this - expect to pay a great deal more than today’s budget server provider but if your needs demand it, and you choose a solid provider it should be money well spent.

Unmanaged dedicated hosting obviously refers to dedicated servers with less, little or none of the skilled people support you’d expect to find in managed. You signup, you pay, and in a few minutes to a few hours you get a welcome email with IP address, login, FAQ’s, etc. - Beyond that you are pretty much on your own. Relax - you are not really as own your own as it seems.

First off, most unmanaged providers do in fact offer technical support, and most that we’ve seen is very good. If you choose unmanaged dedicated service you do need to have someone on your team that knows the technical side a good bit, but they don’t necessarily have to be experts. While you may have to wait 12 - 24 hours or you may even have to pay extra for it, nearly all the unmanaged providers I know do have high level techs available to handle serious issues. In addition most providers give some sort of immediate reboot service. Unless you’ve been tinkering with some critical config files or have a hardware failure, a reboot can help with a range of issues. Lastly, unmanaged providers may not support you or whatever you put on your server after you move in, but they do stand by the hardware and software they sell you. If a hard drive crashes they are going to replace it for you (although you had better be doing your backups) and if your system crashes most will fix it for you.

Summary

The bottom line is if you’ve got mission critical needs and don’t have the in-house staff to efficiently keep your servers performing the way they should, then you are going to need managed services. Even still it’s a more cost effective route that hiring your own staff and most likely you will receive a higher, more consistent level of service. If your needs are more basic, and or you or your staff has the time and know-how to perform 75% - 80% of your server’s maintenance then an affordable unmanaged service should do you just fine.

Please refer following web sites for useful resources related to web site hosting:

http://www.vipwh.com

http://www.thehostingguide.com

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paras Shah

Chief Technology Officer

VIP PowerNet, Inc.

Phone: (713)787-6501

Email: paras@vippowernet.com

http://www.vippowernet.com

A Good Web Hosting Provider Is Vital For An Enjoyable Internet Experience

When looking for a web hosting provider it is important to look around and compare what is on offer. It is important to ensure that each potential provider is offering the same features and benefits. It is not unknown for some providers to make basic options like a good quality control panel optional extras and charge monthly fees for them.

There are a number of different types of web host providers. The first main differentiation is if the host uses Windows as a platform or Linux. One of the big mistakes people tend to make is to automatically choose a Windows based web hosting provider as they use Windows at home and assume that it will be more user friendly or compatible. In reality the reverse tends to be true and the majority of hosting providers use Linux servers to host websites as it is more stable and configurable. This needn’t be of concern if you have no knowledge of Linux as generally speaking you will have very little interaction with the server directly and almost all control panels use a GUI (graphical User interface).

The next major differentiation is the type of hosting you’ll want. If you want to host only one or two websites then you can choose a web hosting provider offering a smaller amount of web space and bandwidth . If you intend to host a number of sites then look for a host that offers reseller accounts. Reseller accounts come with more space and bandwidth and a second control panel which allows you to set up hosting accounts yourself. This ensures that you can manage the reseller account yourself and add up to 50 individual websites to your account.

The next option you may want to consider would be a VPS (Virtual Private Server). A VPS is just like running your own server except that there will be 4 or 5 located on each server. You will have access to various control panels and you will be able to modify the server configuration. A VPS is really only suitable for users with a lot of technical knowledge.

The final type of hosting you may find offered by a web hosting provider is a dedicated server. This is the most expensive option as you have a whole server to yourself. You can usually choose managed servers or unmanaged servers. Unless you are familiar with configuring, updating and managing a dedicated server then always choose the managed option where everything will be done for you.

When looking for a web hosting provider you may find free hosting on offer. Almost without exception these offers should be avoided. You will find that many of the hosts will add adverts or banners to your site. If you want your site to be taken seriously this is definitely not a good option.

For more information on web hosting solutions, visit http://www.thewebhostinginfosite.com , a website that specializes in providing advice, tips and resources on choosing a web hosting provider that you can use to help you get your website online as easily as possible.

A Little Mistake That Costs Your Website Hosting Business a Fortune

Over the last seven years, I’ve bought website hosting from several different companies. I noticed that the majority of webhosts make the mistake of thinking they are in the webhosting business. They only offer website hosting and, maybe domain name registration. As a marketer, I see huge missed opportunities to make more profits.

Over the last seven years, I’ve bought website hosting from several different companies. I noticed that the majority of webhosts make the mistake of thinking they are in the webhosting business. They only offer website hosting and, maybe domain name registration. As a marketer, I see huge missed opportunities to make more profits.

Some website hosts see these opportunities. They realize that they have gold. They have a group of clients who crave something more than hosting. What do hosting clients want? To make sales from their websites.

Knowing this, these webhosts create backend Profit Centers so they can make more money with their clients. A Profit Center is an area of your business that brings more cash to your bank account. Webhosts who bring in lots of profits offer their clients useful information, tools, software, audios and more to help their clients become successful. It doesnt have to be difficult or labor intensive. First

ASSESS YOUR CURRENT PROFIT CENTERS

In your website hosting business, you may have these current Profit Centers:

Website hosting, of course

Domain name registration, an easy tie-in

Website design

Higher level programming services

Search Engine Optimization services

Search Engine submission services

If you don’t have all of these Profit Centers, remember you don’t have to provide these with in-house talent. You can joint venture with other quality businesses and get referral fees. This is a wise way to go because you dont have the up-front investment and risk if it doesnt sell. If a service DOES sell, you may decide to later offer it in-house.

And this is just a beginning. There are more Profit Centers your business and your clients can benefit from.

NEW PROFIT CENTER IDEAS

You can add new Profit Centers to your webhosting business. Some of them require a few hours up front, then they run automatically for months or years with minor updating. You decide how much time you want to put in. The key is to ask yourself - Does this help my clients make more sales?

Three new Profit Center Ideas are:

• An upsell on your check out page. This works because it catches them when they are already buying.
• A mini-marketing course sent by sequential autoresponder, offering solid information and products to help them achieve their website marketing and sales goals.
• A Resource Center webpage that’s available only to your clients.

Remember, each Profit Center needs to be more than just a pitch. I must warn you…

you can do all of the above and STILL fail at creating Profit Centers that go ka-ching. How?

Imagine, a man wants to get married. A friend tells him to start on the road to marriage by simply finding a nice woman and asking her for a date.

Will this work? It CAN, but you and I both know there are many factors that make a difference…

WHO he asks, WHEN he asks, HOW he asks, WHERE he asks, and WHAT he says

All this makes a difference to him (and her) and it makes a difference to you when you’re building Profit Centers. Profit Centers need marketing finesse. You may remember Beta videotapes. It was a superior video format, but it failed because it wasnt marketed as well as VHS.

CONSIDER THIS WHEN BUILDING NEW PROFIT CENTERS

WHO you make the offer to - are they a good match for the product or service? If they are not in the market for what you offer, it’s very unlikely they will buy.

WHAT offer you make - will this offer make a difference for your clients or do they feel like you’re pitching them for your own benefit?

WHEN you make your offer to them. Before they buy hosting? After they buy hosting? Once their site is live?

WHERE will you make the offer - on your website or in an email? Either can be successful.

WHAT will you say? This is crucial. You can have a useful product or service and still may not make sales.

What you say makes a huge difference. Use poor copywriting and people will click away from your offer like water jumping off a hot skillet. Great copywriting can inspire people to GO FIND THEIR WALLETS. That’s the level of copywriting you want - compelling.

To start building your Profit Centers, test your offer on a group of clients. See if it sells, and if not, analyze why not. Edit your Profit Center until it consistently helps your clients and brings your website hosting business more money.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Author and Marketing Specialist Raynay Valles produces New Profit Centers for website hosting businesses - upsells, mini-courses and resource pages, customized for your business and complete with proven copywriting. Just plug in and start profiting. For more information email her at webhostingprofits@jawdrop.com

Get Yourself Reliable Web Hosting Service

Unsatisfied with free web hosting services provided by Geocities, Angelfire, and Fortune City? Easily forgotten long domain name full of dashes and slashes which will fail the Radio Test, Pop-ups, banners making your life miserable! You start looking for a real professional hosting service for your beloved website. You start searching over the Net. Suddenly the possibilities are immense! $20 a month and 20MB space. Fantastic, isn’t it?

Is it?? Read on. Way back, when I was a real novice, when I was amongst that typical ?The Internet is so wonderful? optimist, I signed up with a paid web hosting service provider. I thought I found the perfect solution. I was provided a chunk of webspace, a web address and content for my site. But before I could even realize what’s going on, I found out that the space was a useless chunk which won’t work properly, the address wouldn’t connect, the contents warped and too much downtime.

Wiser I grew as an year passed, I labored my way up to get a working website, having a helpful lovely support team. I knew what I wanted for my website. How did I achieve it? I had the advantage having a lot of wonderful friends who are working for several web hosting companis. But what about you? You see a world of opportunity waiting to be tapped and just dive-in into the vicious circle of money loss and disappointment!

I don’t seek to be the angel of all odds, but I thought some useful tips and hints on how to get started in the web might help the ignorant and also save you from the misfortune. So what is it? I don’t want to repeat the ?Know what you want? statement because that’s too clich?d and not that simple to handle when it comes to the real thing. Sure you have a vague idea of what you want but what about the fine prints in all that, the ?mumbo jumbo?, so to speak?

I don’t think you do! So relax, sit back and before you go jumping off to the last line, just read a bit.

MB of Space

What’s an MB? MB stands for MegaByte. Basically this is the storage place allotted to you. Before buying the space, spend a little time in thinking about your website’s requirements. Calculate approximately how much you require and then add another 50. Excess space will help you to add and alter and expand in the future. Always better to have too much in the bag than too little, isn’t it? Remember audio and video files need a lot of space.

Pricing (Monthly/Yearly)

The payment options are either monthly or yearly. Believe me it is wiser ‘test the water? first by starting with the monthly plan. Don’t be tempted by all the marketing talks about discounted rates for longer period of time and pay for the year (or more) at one go!

Domain Name Registration

What’s a Domain Name? It’s basically the www.yourdomainname.com. This Domain name has to be registered so that no one else can use it. Most web hosts would provide domain registration as a package. If you already own a domain name then you surely have to transfer to the new host. Ensure that the host provides this service. Also ask for directions on how to do it yourself. If you don’t have a name already, then ponder for a moment and think how many names you would need. Will one be enough? No extra names to be attached to sub-domains? Do you need redirects?

While selecting the suitable domain name for your website, make sure that it is relevant to what your site would feature. It should not be that you talk about ?woodworking? while your website name is ?cool-curtains.com?. That’s very embarrassing!!

Email Accounts

There are quite a few options here.

Mail Servers: You think you would be getting substantial amount of mail through your website, then opt for a mail server. It is basically an actual online site, like mail.yoursitename.com, where you have your personal mail box. An email address like info@yourdomainname.com would be more professional unlike those free email addresses like John6578@hotmail.com

Mailing Lists: Do you want to promote your site through newsletters, promotional informations, sending emails to lot of people, then you might look for this mailing list option. However, lists are not always a ?must-have? service option for the hosting company.

Mail Catch all: This service executes what the name suggests. It collects emails which have wrongly typed names (typo), wrong names etc but have your domain written properly in the email ID, like typo@yourdomain.com

Mail Redirects: If you want the emails, to be redirected from your name@yourdomain.com email ID to another mail box e.g. to your hotmail account, then avail off this service.

There are many other options you might choose for your page. Like having multimedia, Front Page Support, Access/Database support, cgi bin, custom 404 error pages, search engine submissions etc. Think and make a list of your website’s requirements.

But before you initiate anything, send an email to the support team of the web hosting service provider, asking them whether they provide the services you require. Try to be polite and friendly and point to your specific requirements. Assess their feedback and response time, whether they are prompt or slow. This would give you a good indication of what kind of support you would get in the future.

Basically, the crux of the matter is that you think before you spend. Countless victims are there to tell their tale of woes and frustrations. I’m one of the one but I had grown wiser. Don’t be fooled by sweet talking marketing guys whop would spare no efforts to promise you everything. Are you sure they can deliver?

About the Author:

Ainuddin Mohamad is the Webmaster of http://www.BestWebsites.com.my which is a Directory of Best websites. Since 1998 it has featured thousands of best websites in many categories of interest with descriptions/reviews given by leading publications and webmasters.

Free Or Paid Webhosting For Blogging Service

Blogging is an abbreviation of “web-logging”. The simplest definition of a blog is that it is an online log that is organized in reverse chronological order. It comprises of comments, declarations, links, or anything else of interest to the blog writer.

There are two basic requirements of starting your own blog. You need a software to run a blog and a place on the Internet to host your blog.

Taking into consideration the above mentioned two factors, there can be four categories of blogs:

1. Free Software + Free Webhosting

2. Free Software + Paid Webhosting

3. Paid Software including Price of Webhosting

4. Paid Software + Paid Webhosting

We have given descriptions of all these four options alongwith their pros and cons.

We have also given recommendations regarding the suitability of these options.

1. Free Software + Free Webhosting

This is a completely free way of blogging. Here you pay neither for the software nor for the virtual hosting.

But there are some drawbacks of this system. It offers very few features as compared to the paid services. You cannot post pictures online or design your preferred look for your site.

The companies that provide free software and free domain hosting frequently place a banner immediately above your site. This detracts the visitors from the look of your site. You also have no discretion over the content of the advertisements.

The key advantage of this system is that it is absolutely free. This option is extremely useful for a newcomer since he/she can try this method to find if they are really interested in blogging.

This option is recommended for those people who would not like to pay anything or for the newcomers.

2. Free Software + Paid Webhosting

This option provides you free software but you will have to pay for the domain hosting.

There is a cost factor involved in this option. Minimum cost of domain hosting would be $5 per month but a realistic budget would be slightly higher, around $7-8. The annual registration fee for domain name would be about $10-30.

This system will let you do certain things that you were unable to do with the free one. Here, you can modify the look of your site and you can also post pictures. But free softwares have fewer features than paid ones.

This option is highly recommended because by just paying the cost of virtual hosting and domain registration, you can avail great features and flexibility.

3. Paid Software including Price of Webhosting

This is a subscription-based option. There are ongoing costs involved in this option.

You have to pay at least $6 per month for basic services and for advanced features the fee would be around $15 per month.

The cumulative cost for a year would reach up to $200. That makes this option a very expensive one.

Apart from customizing the look of your site and posting photographs online, you will be able to use a software that provides more features than a free one.

This option is recommended for people who do not want to be troubled with virtual hosting and software installation issues. This is the easiest possible solution. It offers great features but at a reasonably high price.

4. Paid Software + Paid Webhosting

This option provides you paid software and paid domain hosting.

The cost of the domain hosting ranges from $5 to $10 per month while the cost of the software would be at least $45 (one-time cost).

This option gives you great amount of flexibility. You can select your own domain name and have a feature-rich blogging software.

This option is highly recommended for businesses since the cost is not a major consideration.

About the author:

Copyright Active-Venture.com’s (http://www.active-venture.com) virtual webhosting service. This article may be reprinted freely online or in print, provided the resource box, Web addresses and copyright information remain intact.

Some Of The Benefits Of Shared Webhosting

The benefits of shared web hosting can be very useful, especially for someone just getting started. Many individuals or small to medium size businesses choose to do this since it is cheaper than getting a connection to the internet for their web site all on their own. Web hosts provide the customer with the means to get the internet requirements they need in an affordable way. This is a great way for smaller businesses or individuals to save money, but still get exactly what they need.

The shared cost of the internet connection helps these businesses or individuals as well as the companies. The basic fee is a low monthly fee. This fee is cheap enough for you to afford, while still allowing you with the services you need to keep your website running smoothly. Another benefit is the powerful server that you will now have access to. Without the proper server and proper connection you will have a hard time keeping your website up and running.

Another advantage is that you do not have to be a professional webmaster to do this. This shared web hosting allows those who are not as technically advanced a reliable web presence. This is very important if you want to make sure you web site gets seen. If nobody know about your site it will be hard to get anybody to visit it. The shared web hosting also insures that you will have connectivity and uptime.

You will also get at least one e-mail address, and a domain name. You need both of these if plan on making your business a success. An e-mail address allows you to send information back and forth quickly. This is very important in a business.

You will also enjoy the convenience of shared webhosting. It is easy to set up and activate your services. You can do this right from home. Being able to do things from home always make it easier. This will only take a little bit of time, and will be available for you to use within a few minutes of signing up.

For those of you are may need help from time to time there is always support available. This is music to some ears. If you run into any trouble you can call them up and they will help you with whatever you need.

These are a few of the benefits that you may find once you start using a shared web host. If you are looking for a way to lessen your web hosting costs, you may want to look into a the shared web hosting. This is a great way to save money and still get all the benefits that you need for yourself, of your business.

Gregg Hall is an author living in Navarre Beach, Florida. Find more about this as well as dedicated web hosting at http://www.affordablededicatedhosting.com

Underestimating the Value of Free or Low Cost Web Hosting Services and Tools

A variety of free or low cost web hosting services and tools is provided by most web hosting companies. However, in their search for the best web hosting package, many webmasters do a good job of comparing the basic offerings but fail to examine the wide range of additional free or very cheap services and tools offered by their prospective web host.

Overlooked and undervalued

Most web hosts don’t tout these freebies as prominently in their sales copy as they do the basics such as storage space, bandwidth, and tech support. This is simply because they know that most potential customers are only comparison-shopping on the basics.

However, low cost web hosting services and/or free web tools can mean the difference between a robust, customer-friendly web site that supports your expanding business and one that is stuck in low gear just as the traffic begins to increase.

What will you need later?

There is a wide array of these free or nearly-free web hosting services to choose from but first you must know, or at least be reasonably able to predict, the ones you are likely to need when your business grows.

Depending on the nature of your online business you may need some or all of the following:

• Custom web site design
• Search engine optimization services
• Inward and outbound link tracking
• Visitor counts
• Free e-mail
• e-mail forwarding
• Spam filters
• Free web templates
• Free HTML software
• Free website builders
• Auto-responders
• RSS feeds
• Live chat
• Shopping carts
• These are just some of the many free or low cost web hosting
• services and tools you should evaluate before committing to any
• hosting package.

The bottom line

Stretch your dollars by choosing the low cost web hosting plan that provides as many of these value-packed extras as possible so you don’t wind up having to pay full price for them later when your business finally needs them.

About the Author

Anthony Hamill is the founder of Web-Host-Watch which is devoted to helping new webmasters learn the basics of web hosting. It provides tutorials, tips on avoiding common mistakes, a glossary of web hosting terms, and a list of Top Web Hosts.

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