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Finding a Reliable Host
Finding reliable hosting for your business opportunity is no small task. Actually, it can be a full-time undertaking! This is because most hosting companies focus on the higher end corporate market and overlook the fast-growing small office/home office (SOHO) sector. It is possible, however, if you clarify needs, gather recommendations, create a list of potential hosts and ask questions....lots of them. Clarify your needs: how much disk space and bandwidth is necessary? Will you need CGI or database capacities? What operating system will you require? Will your site change dramatically down the pike, and are you searching only for yourself or for customers? Be wary of web hosting directories since many are owned by web hosts. You should obtain feedback from those with sites and glean webmaster newsgroup postings. In creating a list, include those recommended the most and complained about the least, and determine which hosts offer specific services best suited to your need(s) and which fits your price range. Always ask questions, i.e.: technical questions to gauge their knowledge and accuracy; find out whether they are committed to their customers or their bank account and subject them to an honesty test...offer them the opportunity to upsell you needlessly. If you fall into the SOHO category, you may feel more comfortable with a smaller hosting company who better understands your needs and situation. Please be sure you can add domains to a core plan and resell services, and ensure that they offer a knowledge base. You should also watch for signs of rudeness, impatience and unresponsiveness and make sure they are flexible. A downed site costs you visitors and sales and gives you only another headache in your life of an Internet marketer. Walter Pfarr has over 30 years media experience and has won several writing and community service awards. He is also a prolific grant writer and administrator and is versed in fundraising techniques, special event coordination, development and currently is writing his own e-course and soon his own ezine: PfarrOut. He lives with his wife, Joann, in Oklahoma and may be reached at walterpfarr@mynewsletter.ws
MORE RESOURCES:  Yahoo! News Search Results for URL Yahoo! News Search Results for URL • AdWords URL Longer Than 35 Characters Need Exception (Search Engine Roundtable) We discussed the Google AdWords policy on a max URL character space of 35 in the past. They recently started enforcing this rule back in June of this year. A new Google Groups thread has an issue where on advertiser needs to have a display URL that is longer than 35 characters. So what can he/she do? AdWordsPro Sarah says that you can submit an exception. In short, make your display ... • YouTube videos go HD with a simple hack (CNET) Want to host high-definition videos on YouTube? No problem. Just get your copy-and-paste skills ready because all it requires is changing the video's URL! • High-definition videos sneaking onto YouTube (Ars Technica) YouTube is experimenting with high-definition videos on its site, and you can access the capability using a handy URL trick. If YouTube manages to score enough movie and TV content from its owners, then it might eventually give Hulu some competition. Read More... • Sorry: The requested page could not be found (Kerrville Daily Times) You may have received this message in error. Please try loading the page you were trying to access again. If you got here by typing a URL, or web address, please make sure the spelling, capitalization, and punctuation are correct. • The Sound of Personal Branding (Fast Company Magazine) Some websites need to be arrested for audial assault. You know the ones I mean. No sooner do you click on a URL but the site blasts out some atrocious music that has absolutely nothing to do with the brand. If marketer and music extraordinaire ... • Why Firefox Rocks: Great Firefox Tricks, Part IV (LinuxPlanet) Today I have a useful tip that used to be enabled only on Linux, but now is available for everyone. Have you ever had somebody send you a URL to a web site, only it's so long that the mail system has broken it into several lines? • Mobispine making Telia MMS app for iPhone? (MacNN) The identity of TeliaSonera's MMS application for the iPhone may have already been revealed, an announcement hints. Mobispine has announced the creation of what it calls the "world's first true MMS for the iPhone;" critically, the software relies on the actual MMS protocol instead of a substitute, such as a text message with an embedded URL. The company is also based in Sweden like Telia, and ... • Site of the Day (AskMen) Don't be fooled by the URL, this isn't just a blog for rail-thin fashionites. • Eleven Ways The UAW Is Like Congress [Carpocalypse Now] (Jalopnik) var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Eleven_Ways_The_UAW_Is_Like_Congress'; So we're sitting here in the press room of the LA Auto Show thinking about Carpocalypse Now, the fight for loans from... • CORRECTING and REPLACING China Energy Recovery Board Member, Roger Ballentine... SHANGHAI, China----URL in second graph, second sentence of release should read: www.eenews.net/tv/ |
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