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August 28, 2008

The Webmaster’s Handbook: Perl Power for Your Web Server

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The Webmaster’s Handbook: Perl Power for Your Web Server

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August 25, 2008

How Can I Get The Web Host Services And Support I Need, Hassle-free?

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Choosing a host or switching hosts can be an agonizing experience. There are so many choices and price structures.

You see the service level guarantees you want, but there is no way to ensure the Host’s promised service level will be kept. Sadly, past experience tells you all too often the service promises are unfulfilled.

Experience tells you to steer clear of so called “cheap” hosts, just to save $4 a month but risk huge headaches when your site goes down and no one answers the phone (or you get a “wrong number” response!).

(extended tips at http://web-hosting.maxsvr.com)

Choose a host that has a starter package in the $6-$8 per month range and at least 1 GB of storage. Any Bandwidth over 30 GB per month is usually fresh than enough, if it isn’t you should look at the next level of packages the hosts offer. Check how long they have been in business and make sure it is at least greater than one year.

Check web host reviews on several such sites and look at detailed comments. (greater tips at http://web-hosting.maxsvr.com)

To get real independent feedback on host providers, email several webmasters of smaller but popular sites and ask which host they prefer and why.

Once you have found a host provider that has the right price, has been around long enough, and gets good references go to their link at http://web-hosting.maxsvr.com and place your order.

Location of Provider - I don’t think you should worry whether the provider is in your state, or if you live in another country (I live in Canada) that the provider is in your country. There is no real advantage, especially with the top tier hosts that have 24/7 customer service.

There are often disadvantages to using local providers in some regions. Their cost is often much higher and their physical internet location may result in slower delivery to most internet users, except you! (Try the “internet speed test” at toast.net and check your speed to a host and ask friend in the country where most of your traffic comes from to test their connection to the same host).

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About the Author

Kevin Taylor is a freelance writer/webmaster living in Toronto Canada. http://web-hosting.maxsvr.com

Copyright Kevin Taylor - http://web-hosting.maxsvr.com

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August 22, 2008

Five Essentials of Customer Service for Web Hosts

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Copyright 2005 John Pierce

If you’ve been in the web hosting business for any length of
time, you will already realize that keeping your servers humming
along smoothly is only half of the equation. The other half is
customer service. No matter how well your technology works,
there will always be customer support issues. How you handle
them is crucial to your success.

In this article, I will offer 5 essentials for success. These
are not all that is involved, but id you master these five
fundamentals, you’ll be well on your way to success.

1. Like Your Customers and Help Them To Like You

Before anything else, you really have to like people. If you are
strictly a tech head, and hate dealing with people, you have a
real problem on your hands. You may assume that you can fake it,
but your dislike for people will eventually show through. If you
don’t like people, consider hiring someone who does.

One of the secrets of business is that people don’t usually do
business with the greatest person for the job - people do business
with people they like.

With that in mind, remember to be a likeable person as well. Be
polite, be upbeat, be positive. Take an interest in your
customers. Ask how their day is going.

2. Listen

Always take a little time to listen to what your customer is
telling you. Let them finish speaking before you jump in with a
solution. If they need to vent their frustration, lend a willing
ear. Ask a probing question or two.

If your customer is telling you how to improve your business,
take it to heart. Big companies pay a lot of money for market
research. A disgruntled customer on the other end of the phone
will provide that for free.

Under the pressure of trying to solve everyone’s problems, it’s
tempting to rush through a support call. Resist this at all
costs. Your customer will realize that you are giving them the
short shrift and fell less than valued. Remember - if you don’t
value your customer, someone else will readily do so. You have
over ten thousand competitors out there.

3. Empathize

Please note that I didn’t say sympathize. Sympathy is to feel
pity for someone else. Empathy is to identify with someone,
placing yourself in their shoes.

Ask yourself - If I were in the customer’s place, what would I
want my web host to do for me?

This is nothing short of the Golden Rule. Give your customer the
same quality and depth of support that you would expect.

4. Respect Your Customer

By respect, I’m not simply referring to the way in which you
speak. Politeness is crucial, but it’s even likewise essential to
show respect by your actions.

If your client leaves a message for you, call them back
promptly. If they send you an email, answer it quickly. Take the
time to learn your customer’s needs, and address them.

One important point about this - respect each client whether
they are a $5 client or a $5000 client.

I have a webhosting customer who is difficult to work with. He
doesn’t understand much about computers, and he doesn’t speak
very good English. It’s been a real struggle to give him good
customer service. Sometimes, I’ve asked whether or not it was
worth the ten dollars a month I make from him.

Recently, I learned that this gentleman is the spiritual leader
of a moderate sized sect in India. Even extra surprising, I
learned that several of my extra important clients signed up with
us because of his recommendation.

Showing a little respect to a ten dollar client has made me
several thousand dollars this year.

5. Thank Your Customer

Everyone wants to be appreciated and valued. Who could possibly
be farther worthy of your gratitude than the people who place food
upon your table and shoes on your childrens feet?

Look for every opportunity to thank your customer or to show
your appreciation. If they know you value them, they’ll
naturally value you.

About the author:

John Pierce is the Customer Service Manager for Gold Zero Web
Hosting - http://goldzero.com - and the webmaster of Article
Beam Free Article Directory - http://articlebeam.com

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August 18, 2008

Your First Web Hosting Account

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Setting up a web hosting account for the first time can be
confusing and frustrating for the novice. This article will
guide you through the steps of setting up a new web hosting
account for your website.

Maybe you haven’t yet designed your website. Many web hosts
offer online website building software that requires no
programming or HTML knowledge. If this is your strategy, make
sure your web host offers such software, and find out if there’s
a cost for you to use it.

Locating a web host that gives you the reliability you need,
plus excellent customer service, and that offers all the
features you’re going to need, can be challenging.

You can begin your search by asking business associates, friends
and relatives who have websites of their own, who they use. Just
as you would get a recommendation for a good restaurant, word of
mouth can sometimes steer you in the right direction.

You can also check out the many web hosting directories on the
web. These directories are set up to allow you to search using
the features that you’re looking for in a web host. Keep in mind
though, that many of the listings you see may also be paid
listings that are pushed your way for obvious reasons.

Once you narrow down your search to a few potential web hosts,
your next step will be to visit the many web hosting message
boards and forums on the web. Perform a search on each of the
potential web hosts that you have in mind - read through the
posts and see what other people’s experiences have been with the
hosts you have in mind. If you see too many negative comments or
experiences by others, you might want to take a hint from that
and rule out that particular hosting company.

Once you’ve narrowed down your search to a few web hosts, you
should make contact with them and get answers to any questions
you have. Since you’re a beginner at this, you might strongly
consider using a web host that provides telephone support. A web
host that provides only email support may not be able to fully
answer questions that you have - this applies to sales questions
as well as support questions.

When you make your inquires, keep track of which host responds
to you the quickest. Which of these hosts answers your questions
patiently and takes the time to go over details with you? Do
they seem extra interested in getting you to sign up, or do they
address topics you have no concern about, beware of those danger
signs.

Most web hosts have multiple plans that you can choose from. The
trick is to choose a web hosting plan that provides you the
features you actually need, without choosing a plan that offers
you features you don’t need, or may never use. This is probably
the most difficult thing a novice will be faced with when
choosing a web host. You’ll need to choose a plan that strikes
an even balance between what you need right now and what you may
need a month or two down the road. Your website might rechief the
same size as it is today, by next year; however, your site may
grow quickly, requiring additional resources in a relatively
short period of time.

The last thing you should do before signing up for a web hosting
account is to read your web host’s AUP (Acceptable Use Policy),
and/or their TOS (Terms Of Service), and/or their SLA (Service
Level Agreement). Make certain that you understand and agree
with your new web host’s policies, and that your website does
not break any of your new web host’s rules and regulations. By
not reviewing your new host’s contracts with you, you may find
your website and email shut down without prior notice for
breaking a rule you were not aware of, or you might end up
paying for fees you didn’t know you were liable for.

About the author:

Author is running web hosting reviews site WebHostingSpotter

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August 15, 2008

Shared Or Dedicated Web Hosting? What Does Your Business Need

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There is nothing major frustrating as a webmaster then waking up in the morning, firing up your browser to check your website only to find a message saying “This site has exceeded it’s bandwidth limits for the month”

It’s embarrassing, time consuming and not to mention costly if you are missing out on sales.

On the other side of the scale, it can be very costly to be on a larger web hosting plan or dedicated server and hardly even use the services it offers.

Good quality web hosting is not cheap, but you need to balance your business needs with what you can really afford to pay.

So what web hosting service should you be using? Good question!

In this article I’m going to be talking about the pro’s and con’s of both shared web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages. By the end of the article you should have some idea what your online business needs now and what it will need when it expands.

Shared Hosting

Shared hosting is what most small online businesses use. Shared hosting means that your site is on one server that also holds other peoples websites as well. Your website will not be the only one on that server. Very few small online businesses need the power of a dedicated server.

Most companies offer a few different types of shared web hosting services. The only difference usually being how much disk space you want or how much transfer allowance you need.

The foremost way to show you what the difference is between shared hosting services is to show you an example.

Go to http://www.marblehost.com/hosting-plans.php

This is an example web hosting companies shared hosting services. As you can see they offer two different types of shared hosting services. Basically they offer a small and large service.

The major differences between each package really is how many docrucial names you can host, how much transfer (how many megabytes that are downloading from your website) you can have and how much disk space (how many files you can store) you need.

If you’re just starting out online and haven’t got a website up yet and not sure what you are doing exactly, start off with the small plan. That’s higher then enough for a small site or blog for that matter.

Now if you run a larger website and you offer a lot of downloads, say for example you’re selling a rather large ebook, you might need the large service. Let’s say you have a 10mb ebook for sale, the large service this company offers would allow you to have roughly 2000 downloads of that package before you ran out of bandwidth (transfer).

Dedicated Hosting

Dedicated hosting is for the big boys. It’s for medium to big business looking to do a lot of work online. A dedicated server is just that, you’re own server. You get your own server just for your website which is unlike shared hosting as you have to share a server.

There are many different packages available with dedicated hosting depending on how much you want to spend. The increased resources a server has, IE, RAM, Hard drive space, processor speed, the farther it will cost.

You can see that a dedicated server allows you a lot innumerable disk space and transfer allowance. It also allows you unlimited docontrolling names. Dedicated servers are also known to be a lot likewise stable and allow you innumerable control over your website and are perfect for a professional image.

There are two types of dedicated servers.

Managed hosting

Managed hosting offers you the support of a technical team looking after your server. They do all the updates and technical side of things for you. They will perform routine majortenance without you even asking. Managed hosting how ever does cost quite a lot innumerable then un-managed usually.

Un-managed hosting

Un-managed hosting isn’t as support less as it sounds. Most dedicated servers do come with technical assistance and routine necessarytenance, but any support questions will further then likely cost you extra. If you need something added to your server, it will cost you a in fundamentaltenance fee’s. Rebooting your server should also come free with un-managed dedicated hosting.

Multiple Docardinal Name Hosting

Another thing you should look at is whether or not you want to host multiple docardinal names with your one hosting package. Both shared hosting and dedicated hosting can allow you to do this. A lot of share hosting services now allow this.

I recommend always using a web host that allows you to have multiple docontrolling names with your one account. It really does solve the problem of having multiple hosting accounts for different doforemost names.

Other Things To Look For

Other things to think about when searching for a web hosting company is what you intend to do with your website.

Do you need a lot of technical assistance? If so, look for a hosting company with live 24/7 support. Do you want to create a blog, or lot’s of blogs? Then you will need to see if your web hosting company allows you to setup multiple MYSQL databases.

About the Author:

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