Match Made in Heaven
Small business owners have special considerations when looking for a company to host their website. Is the web host dependable? Are their prices affordable? Do they offer sufficient support for small businesses? Can they reliably support a shopping cart or other tools needed to communicate with clients? Perhaps most importantly, are they adaptable enough to handle changing business needs and the growth of the business? What if the need develops for multiple domain web hosting?
There are many web hosting companies offering services to small businesses, but each web host is unique in not only the services but the level of service provided to the business owner. Since most small businesses do not have in-house web designers or computer programmers, it is important to look at what services a potential web host can offer and how easy they can make it for a small business owner who may not be internet savvy. Let’s take a look at a few of the more popular web hosting companies and how they can help a small business owner.
iPage
Small business owners will find iPage offers affordable hosting with a variety of services. They offer two different drag and drop website builders that make it easy to design your own site. Clients are allowed unlimited domains, unlimited bandwidth and unlimited disk space. Their service includes a free online store with a choice of shopping carts to best suit your business needs.
FatCow
FatCow targets inexperienced webmasters with an inexpensive plan that provides unlimited bandwidth, traffic and domain names as well as courteous customer service. They offer a single drag and drop site builder with a shopping cart available. While they may offer fewer options, their goal is to provide the simplest tools for new users.
Just Host
Just Host offers an easy-to-use interface through the popular cPanel control panel and an affordable price on its hosting service. They include ad credits for Google, Yahoo and MySpace to get you started when you sign up. They offer a 100% money back guarantee on the unused part of your hosting contract should you decide to drop the service. They also promise customer service calls will be answered quickly by representatives who speak English and will have no problem understanding you or speaking so that you can understand them.
InMotion
InMotion Hosting strives to offer reliable hosting to businesses that are growing, working to adapt to those businesses’ changing needs. While their basic service limits business owners to only two domain names, they guarantee 99.9% uptime and a service plan designed specifically for business websites, built on business class hardware up to 50% faster than other providers. They also provide data back-up for all clients to protect your website from data loss.
BlueHost
Business owners needing instant set-up will find BlueHost ready and able to assist them. They offer the intuitive cPanel control panel as well as many professional level tools for building a site. Their easy to use site builder includes many templates that make designing a site a snap! But BlueHost’s biggest asset is their virtual private server (VPS) protection that allows each site to run as if on its own dedicated server should any problems affect other sites on the shared server that might slow down the server’s overall performance. With their proprietary VPS protection, your share of server performance is guaranteed.
HostGator
HostGator understands that small businesses need a hosting plan that addresses the complex needs that running a small company entails. HostGator has the largest number of customers of any web hosting site with over 700,000 domain owners running over 5 million websites. Along with unlimited disk space and bandwidth, HostGator also provides scripts for forums, photo galleries and membership sign-up that can be beneficial to many businesses.
Since a small business will not be able to afford the time, maintenance and cost required to run a dedicated server, shared hosting is an attractive option. But reliability and dependability of the hosting service is paramount, as is affordability and the support structure they provide. Consideration must also be given to future needs of the company and whether the web host can provide for those needs. It is an important decision that can affect success or failure of the business.
This is a guest post by Ellee Parker, who writes web hosting reviews and guides for Web Host Gear.
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Upload to multiple hosts with Gazup!
Are you constantly sharing files with your friends, site visitors etc? If so, then you already familiar with Rapidshare, Mediafire, DivShare and other file sharing sites.
However, uploading to a single file sharing service has its negative points. For one, the site may be blocked on certain internet connections. Visitors from the same IP cannot download together across many services and lastly, users may not like the site you are using!
Lastly, you may not make some money on the side.
This is where Gazup comes in.
Gazup! is the leading website for social file mirroring online. You’ll be able to upload files to multiple file hosts in one go thus saving you time and bandwidth. Simply upload a file and Gazup will rapidly mirror your file to eight hosts, including RapidShare, MegaUpload, FileFactory, zShare and many more.
Gazup has unique features for both video and normal file formats, e.g. uploading a video will automatically generate screenshots of the videos frames and display a presentation next to the download links.
Gazup also includes link checking, to allow uploaders to "cure" dead mirrors and allow uploaders to customize mirror pages and much more. These type of features mean we can offer a service NO other sites are even capable of doing.
And, lastly, you can earn rewards for using this service. Simply upload a file to Gazup! and you’ll be rewarded one point for every person who downloads your file. You can make $3.00 USD for every 1000 points. But, that’s if you are a member.
Via: Blog Solute
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Host your RAR files for free with rarhost
Do you want to share videos or photos with your friend? One option is send all your files via email. The result is clogged inboxes and a good likelihood that emails may bounce or land in spam.
Or you can use a file sharing service.
We’ve all heard of ZIP files and I’m sure many of you have heard of RAR files as well. Here is where rarhost steps in.
rarhost is a unique new file hosting site, only for winrar .rar archives. It offers much more than just basic file hosting; the system has advanced information about each rar file. For example you can see what the archive contains before you download, ensuring it contains the files you want.
Features:
For the uploader:
- host unlimited .rar files online and share with friends.
- 150mb size limit per .rar, split archives allowed with no upload limit.
For the downloader:
- view the contents of the archive before you download, ensuring it contains the files you want.
- advanced password support, no more downloading a .rar just to find out you need a password!
For members:
- file management system; keep track of your uploads, edit, delete etc.
- check how many downloads your .rar has been downloaded.
- files will only be removed if they have not been downloaded in 2 months, opposed to 30 days.
I’m still not sure about their revenue model yet, but they have been operating since August 2006, so they must be doing something right 
And the best part is that you don’t need WinRAR which is a paid software. You can get hold of a free compression software like 7-zip.
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25GB with Windows Live SkyDrive (Service Saturday)
Take it from Microsoft to jump into the fray for Online Storage and then show why they can attract customers / users.
In an announcement on the Windows Live SkyDrive blog, Microsoft announced some updates to their online storage service.
- Space has been increased five fold from 5GB to 25GB of free online storage
- Control your data. Move or copy it between folders, download as a .zip or copy your photos to Windows Live Photo Gallery
- Synchronize your Internet Explorer browser across computers
- Share your files and photos with your friends easily
- New look and feel
- Several more countries added
Check out the improved Windows Live SkyDrive
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BlogFlat – Get your flat on the web!
BlogFlat is a new hosting site aimed to provide quality blogging services for everyone for free. It is powered by WordPress MU.
From the about page, here is what you can get:
- Your own subdomain (name .blogflat.com)
- Tons of nice WordPress themes
- More tons of useful WordPress plugins
- Customizable CSS code
- Your own e-mail address (name @blogflat.com)
- SEO tools
There is still a lot that can be done to improve BlogFlat. Would love to see a detailed list of themes that are available. I haven’t signed up yet simply because I don’t need yet another blog. Have you got your blog at BlogFlat? What are your experiences?
Via: Blog Herald
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