Students Of Success

There are now so many I’d be afraid to count them. Every man and his dog owns a web hosting company. Everyone seems to have a server, be it running on a dial up modem providing very bad service and speed to running in a multi link network operating centre with environmental control, armed security guards and escorted entrance. Wow. But with so many providers out there all differing levels of service and products, how can you know which to go with? Well, I’m glad you asked. Here are some simple questions and rules to adhere to while shopping for your next web hosting provider.

You need to know about their uptime policy. What uptime level guarantee do they offer? This is quite important. If you can’t offer anything better than 98-99% at least then steer away! Is this high? Not at all. It’s a standard in the hosting industry to offer at least 99%. The high end ones offer 99.999% uptime (roughly meaning that out of an entire year, they are only allowed 5.39 mins downtime total!), while others would offer simply 99% or 99.something%.

Uptime and availability are very important. Especially if you had just started a new marketing campaign or been handing out a lot more business cards recently and these new potential clients enter in your website address into their browser and your web hosting provider has overcrowded their systems or has gone down, what will happen? Well simply, it will time out, they wont be able to visit your site and would most likely visit your competitor’s site, which has stayed up trouble free all this time! Is it worth risking your business to a less than competent hosting provider? I didn’t think so,

Bandwidth is important. This is major. Without bandwidth your visitors wont be able to visit you, or even if they do, their visit will be very slow, which could translate into an image in their mind of your business matching (i.e.: being equally slow!). Another factor in this is bandwidth capacity. If you expect a lot of visitors (and if you aren’t, I’d suggest you’re in the wrong business!), you’ll want to be able to accommodate them all. I suggest starting at a minimum of 1GB (gigabyte - this is how bandwidth capacity and monthly allowance is measured on the internet). This will be enough to start out with.

Also make sure that your website isn’t cut off if you go over this limit! Most providers don’t cut you off, but you need to make sure they wont! If you have a burst of traffic, and the limit is reached, new visitors wont be able to reach your site! Most providers will let you go over the limit, but bill you extra in accordance with how much you exceeded the standard allowance in your hosting plan. This is fine. You can always upgrade later as you build your site and expand your online presence.

Storage is the next major point. You need to know you’ll be able to fit everything for your site into the allocated space. IF you run out of space, you wont be able to fit any more web pages or images in. This is a Bad Thing(Tm). You need to make sure you have at least 5MB for personal sites, 10-20MB for basic business or 50MB for advanced and corporate websites.

But how about contact? You also need to know about email accounts. How many are you allowed? If you are a sole trader, you could probably get by with just one and having what they call a catch-all facility enabled. This means that no matter what people send email to (e.g.: sales@yourdomain.com, webmaster@yourdomain.com, etc.) it will reach you. However, as you introduce more and more services or hire people to help you in the general running of the business, you’ll want to provide individual and separate email accounts to each activity, i.e. accounting, sales, manager, etc. Make sure you’re able to easily add what they call POP (Post Office Protocol, the internet language used to receive email) accounts to your web hosting package. At least 5. And demand that they have plenty of storage in case you are sent emails with attachments. Or several emails with several large attachments. I’d recommend allocating at least 20MB to each email account for starters.

E-commerce is a big industry buzz word right now. But it’s very important, especially if you’re considering offering products and services on your website. You’ll need to know that your web hosting provider can fully accommodate you here. Things to ask about are shopping carts, what software they offer, digital certificates and credit card processing. There are many expensive solutions out there, and there are many free ones. Please don’t think that the free ones are lower quality or less useful than the expensive ones because that would be misleading.

I used a completely free one for many months. The only reason why I stopped using it was because I took the online store down because of job transfer. They offer unlimited number of categories and items. If the software your hosting provider is offering doesn’t offer an unlimited number of categories and items, with pictures, review capability and credit card payment processing integration, then walk the other way. These features are way too important and could be all that separates your online store from looking amateurish to professional. It’s not worth gambling on. For payment processes, try to choose someone local (the currency conversion would eat up a part of your profit) or someone with reasonably low fees, but probably not the lowest. I know that PayPal integrates into osCommerce (free shopping cart and e-commerce software) quite well and they make a decent combination.

What about if you want to run a mailing list? You’ll need a database. Actually you’ll need a database for your shopping cart too. Don’t forget that! Your hosting package should include at least ONE (1) database. Preferably MySQL or PostgreSQL. They are very proven database packages that are free to use. But with the mailing list, you may want to keep a list of people that have visited or registered at your website and wish to be notified of updates and changes (keeps ‘em coming back!) and/or to start a free newsletter. Everyone loves freebies. It’s human nature. You can use one of many free and commercial mailing list managers. Ask your hosting provider which one they use and how to set it up. Hopefully they’ll be a free facility in your hosting package as they are very simple to use and set up. I use one on my site that I designed myself. Works quite well. I also recommend MailMan or any other open source package.

You know another great way to keep your website busy and customers coming back for more? Run a public discussion board or forum! This allows you to interact with your website visitors and helps build up rapport with them. This is important. Make sure your hosting provider either has these facilities, can set up for you, or if not, download and install one yourself. There are many excellent quality free forum packages out there. I use them everywhere. Choose one that uses a database to store it’s information. Obviously you’ll need a database for this too.

But what about website maintenance? Well, you could go one of three (3) ways here; 1) Do it yourself, 2) Hire a webmaster to maintain everything on behalf of you or 3) Have a Content Management System (CMS) installed. Let’s look at each one in turn. Do it yourself? I’m not against this, in fact, I encourage it, or at least, in the beginning, to become familiar with HTML, CSS, PHP and all those other internet programming acronyms. They’re all important and you’ll need to become familiar with them, or learn them to a level where you would be comfortable in using them directly to manipulate your website. However, there are time restrictions. You may not have the time to invest in learning these languages.

After all, learning foreign human languages is hard enough, how much harder do you think trying to learn a foreign computer language would be? Your main job will be to run your business, as that is what you do best! Do you really want to distract yourself from your sales and customer service to worry about your website? Some people leave website maintenance for when they have the spare time, others have rotting websites that never get maintained properly. How could we address that? Well, we could Hire a webmaster. A webmaster is someone who is paid to support, maintain and keep a website up to date. They really do require quite a bit of attention. No one likes a dormant boring and sleeping website, especially if that is how their own is described!

The webmaster you hire should have references to support this work, be well versed in internet technologies and languages and have a few certifications to back it up, plus many samples of their work. But you will need to pay them. However, if you ‘re unable to do that just at this moment, you can try using a Content Management System (CMS). A CMS is an automated piece of software which allows you to log into a control panel, select which page you wish to modify, enter or edit your text in a form and press submit. This requires you to have knowledge of how to use a website copy (a web page’s text content) to tell your customers the benefit of what you’re presenting them. It requires sales skills (which you already have attained in running your business) and some text formatting skills. Some of the best CMS packages are very pricey, while others are quite cheap, to the point of being free. I’ve used many free ones to evaluate them and can assure you that free ones are equally and functionally as good or equal to commercial variations.

But what about getting your website up in the first place? You’ll need to make sure that they offer unlimited FTP (File Transfer Protocol, an internet language that allows you to transfer files from your computer to your web space for public viewing) access and web-based file management (in case you need to do some emergency updates away from your main computer, or your holidaying and want to do a little website maintenance from your beach side holiday house on your laptop). Many free web hosting providers offer just web-based upload facilities and this is cheap. You need to make sure you can upload via FTP, if not for you, then at least for your webmaster (if you hire one).

It makes everything so much easier and saves so much time. A web-based solution usually only allows you to upload a few files at a time, and you have to manually browse for your files to select them and marked them to be uploaded. With FTP, you just click on your website folder on your computer and drag-and-drop them into your FTP program. Wham! All uploading in a fraction of the time it might take otherwise!

Well, sure, these are all great conditions and rules to keep a look out for, but what if you run into a problem? Well, you’ll need support. And plenty of it. Make sure your web hosting provider provides you with a phone number, an emergency phone number, a fax number, an email address, an emergency email address and possibly a residential or postal address. 24 hour support is a plus, especially if it’s 2AM and that one last file just refuses to be uploaded, and your website is being non-responsive. If they do not offer 24 hour support, then they should at least offer a special support email address where there is a guaranteed response time, usually within 1-3, maybe 6 hours tops. You’ll need it. Even if just for assurance. You’ll never know when you might need it.

Well, that about does it. Stick to these simple guidelines when shopping for your web hosting provider and you hopefully wont be caught by a shark. There are many that are out there with overloaded servers trying to make a quick dollar, and there are ones that offer great quality services at competitive rates with great customer service. They are rare, few and far between. But once you find that Great Hosting Provider, stick with them and they’ll reward you in many ways for your loyalty and support.

Martin Coleman is a freelance writer and computer programmer. More information about his services and other articles can be found at http://www.martincoleman.com.

Introduction So you have your own website up and running
and you are getting plenty of visitors a day. You are spending
money on your domain name and your hosting and you want to make
up the costs? How can you do this? In this tutorial we will
guide you through successfully generating a residual income from
your website.

Getting Started Remember, not everyone will be able to
make money from their website. It must meet most of the
following requirements or you will not be accepted into most
advertising networks:

* It needs to look reasonably professional or at least not
tacky. * It needs to have some original content, not just spammy
keyword pages. * It needs to attract a good handful of visitors
each day. * It is preferable not to be hosted on a free host
(but not required). * It should have its own proper domain name.
* The pages should load quickly. * Navigation should be easy and
painless. * Clear contact links should be available on each page.

You meet the requirements? Good, now its time to get stuck in!

The Different Types of Ads

There are 3 different types of ads:

1. CPM - Cost per thousand impressions (from the Latin, M =
1000) 2. CPC - Cost per click on an ad 3. CPA - Cost per action
- every signup or purchase

CPM (Cost per thousand) CPM offers tend not to pay very
well because they may not be successful for the advertiser,
however, they do guarantee the publisher (you!) income if you
know the amount of traffic you receive.

CPC (Cost per click) CPC advertising has worked well for
our site, the google ads at the top of most page pay us well for
each and every unique click. They generally pay between $0 and
$1.50 which can work out very beneficially. Cost per click is
liked by advertisers because it does not cost them too much and
they get traffic, and publishers because a signup is not
necessary for income to be generated.

CPA (Cost per action) This tends to be the favourite of
advertisers, they only pay when a signup or purchase is made,
good if used for a targeted audience.

Companies we recommend: Allposters.c
om - A fantastic opportunity to earn loads of money with a
25-30% commission. Google Adsense - Almost
all sites are accepted and the payout is pretty good. Reve
nue Pilot - Another good advertising company with loads of
customizable add formats. Maxbounty<
/a> - Another good CPA company - plenty of ads to choose from
and excellent payouts.

It is important to display ads which are relevant to your
website because otherwise your visitors will not be interested
in the ads. For example, if you run a games website, displaying
ads to dancing sites will probably not work very well for you.

Do not overload your visitors with ads. You should try and avoid
popups as visitors tend not to be impressed by them. With all
the toolbars and visitors closing popups as soon as they open,
they are largely ineffective.

Try a range of different solutions, see what works for you and
your site, and watch the checks roll in! We hope this tutorial
has helped you! Good luck!

Mambo can be particularly useful if you don’t want to do
customization, but simply add a lot of pages to your site.

Mambo is definitely the way to go if you are comparing it with
Typo3. We found Typo3 to be server resource intensive. Typo3 is
also a bit complicated and not suitable for complete beginners
of content management systems.

Both Mambo as well as Typo3 seem to have a lot features at first
glance. They also look good. If you just change the logo, you
immediately have a drag and drop site ready to go. Mambo can be
particularly useful if you don’t want to do customization, but
simply add a lot of pages to your site and take advantage of all
the built-in tools Mambo provides.

Customization in Mambo is difficult. We thought that we could
complement the great design of Mambo by doing a lot of
customization. However, we found that the user-end documentation
was alright, but documentation for customization and
modifications were not adequate. Looked like many sections of
the manual are still under development as of this writing. We
wanted to create custom top menus for a client site, but there
weren’t enough documentation and the time investment was not
worth it to understand the programming.

In terms of content management systems, we would also recommend
Drupal. Drupal installation and customization is easy and
without hassle. Also, documentation is adequate both in terms of
user and development requirements. We created a web site using
Drupal and it was easy to customize the top-menus, which we had
earlier wanted to do in Mambo.

To see how complex sites you can build with Drupal check out:
http://www.spreadfirefox.com. It was created using Drupal.

When it comes to search engine ranking “cute won’t cut it”.
While search engines can generate a mind staggering volume of
traffic what they feed off specifically is content. Search
engines utilize software known as crawlers or spiders.
Unfortunately spiders are blind to web design they do not index
images or flash animation. Essentially a spider will visit your
website peruse your content and report back to the search engine.

Based on the creepy little crawler findings your site achieves a
ranking. The higher the ranking, the more visible your site
becomes and a greater number potential customers using search
engines will be more likely to find you. Needless to say our
goal is to achieve the best possible ranking. So given that
beauty is only skin deep and content is king, “Why would you
spend thousands of dollars to hire a professional web designer?”
What’s worse; drive yourself crazy looking for original
concepts, matching appropriate color schemes etc, etc, etc…

Nevertheless people are influenced by the esthetic
characteristics of your design, and quality web design lends
credibility to your brand. While design might not be the most
important reason visitors end up finding your site, it is one of
the key ways to keep them coming back again and again.

Before you do anything rash, check out the alternative. Website
templates are ready-made web designs created to be used as a
basis for fast and high-quality website. Each template is unique
and completely customizable right out of the box. What is more,
most quality template shops will provide you with a free sample
template so you can evaluate the quality of the product and try
your skills before you buy.

These quality website templates are also perfect for self-taught
designer such as myself always hungry for knowledge and looking
for inspiration. I can’t count the number of times I have stared
desperately at my laptop in search of a new idea or two. Now
whenever I’m stuck, one of the things I like to do is browse to
one of these template shops. In seconds I’m perusing through
hundreds of different flash animated templates. Once I come
across a design that I find particularly intriguing I’ll
purchase the template download the complete set of source files
and study it. Ultimately I’ll be able to pickup a new masking
technique, duplicate a fancy movie clip, advance my knowledge of
ActionScript or simply find simpler solutions to old remedies.

In sum you have a couple of options available depending on what
skill you posses. If you feel comfortable around html and you
have time to do it yourself remember you’ll always be able to
get online help in a hurry. Check out the template help center
knowledgebase or speak to a website template specialists about
your problem. Also many good quality template shops will
customize your website template for you and even integrate many
useful script add-ons such as contact forms and the like, all
for a small fraction of the cost of going through a conventional
developer.

Dave Collado is a senior design consultant at http://www.Foamers.net and freelance web
designer since 1999. Foamers.net offers quality website
templates template customization, flash templates, phpnuke
themes, phpbb themes, osCommerce templates, SWiSH templates, web
design tutorials, and many other website design and web hosting
services.

You’ve got a blog. And it is going nowhere.

You started a blog a couple days ago, a couple weeks ago, a
couple years ago and it isn’t doing anything for you. You
thought blogging would be a fun way to write about something
you’re passionate about as well as make some money along the way.

So you started off on your merry jaunt with pep and zest,
gleefully self-publishing and building what you hoped would be a
resource for passion, publishing and profits.

Then reality hits.

You find yourself falling behind with your blog and losing touch
with the topics you track and start wondering if it is even
worth it to keep this running commentary online. You have tons
of draft posts saved but never publish them because you don’t
have the energy to finish them. You have lots of comment spam to
weed through and suddenly doing the dishes seems a like a lot
more fun. Your blog becomes a waste of money. Your blog becomes
a waste of time. Your blog becomes dead weight.

Shouldn’t there be some way to make money at this?

The frustrating truth is: most blogs don’t go anywhere.

Thousands of people all over the world start blogs every single
day - and many of them hope to make money from their blogs.
Maybe a few dollars here or a few dollars there… maybe enough
to pay for their hosting.

But they are just wasting their time because they don’t have a
plan.

You can make over $10,000 a month blogging.

You’ve heard about folks building blog empires and making a
living writing about topics they love and are passionate about.
They make revenue every day by hosting ads on their blogs or
earning commissions on related products and services.

But where do you start?

You need a blueprint! You need to know the top strategies for
making money on your blog so your blog pays for itself - and
then some! You need to know where to find a constant stream of
content related to your blog so you never run out of things to
write about. You need to know the top strategies to get your
blog in the highest search engine rankings. You need to know the
best practices to make sure your Google ads get clicked on - and
you get paid! You need to know how to choose a niche that you
love - but is also popular enough that it will make you a
monthly salary. You need to know how to design your blog to be a
click-seeking missile that guarantees your advertisers clicks
and you some commissions. You need metrics and statistics so you
know where your traffic is coming from, where it is going and
how you can adjust it for maximum traffic conversion. You need
to know the top tricks and tips so you can manage your entire
blog empire from a simple set of tools. You need to know what
software to use so you can quickly build new additions to your
blog network that enhance and compliment what you’ve already
got. You need to know which plugins and strategies to use so you
can keep your blogs free of comment spam and hackers.

Visit
www.1800webmaster.com/sixfigure.html to learn more about
successful blogging.

Salehoo: Ireland Ebay Wholesale Products
In years of learning how to make an income online I’ve read many things. I don’t know if you’ve read the book Rich Dad Poor Dad but theres some information in there which is really good if you apply it. Basically if your to spend and amount of money providing that expense makes you more then your in profit. Salehoo is one of those things where this works. It costs $99.95 (I’ll just add it’s currently $67 but this is only a special offer) to join and within 10 day’s of being a member I’d made $450! It’s also a lifetime membership you get which makes it so much better than the monthly fee sites as you pay that once and thats it, you can use it for the rest of your life so it’s a well worthwhile investment. The directories justify the cost of the list by saying that their list has the best suppliers and not only that they have been verified and they accept secure payment methods.

The website also feature a responsive user forum and a very easy to navigate options to help you find suppliers to meet your requirements which is the real benefit of Salehoo dropshippers. Although you do not have to carry inventory it is always advisable to have samples on hand and also the Salehoo Suppliers. These resources offered by Salehoo enhances the chance of getting the best deal possible

Salehoo Wholesaler Of Wireless Accessories:
Security Measures- Despite all the fears of identity theft, online transactions account for less than 4% of identity theft. There are numerous software programs available (some for free) that the user can download to protect themselves from viruses and spyware. Worried about spyware? Download a free spyware program at www.safer-networking.com (called SpyBot Search & Destroy). Ebay powersellers trust Salehoo dropshippers and Salehoo prices.

What you come across a fair bit is wholesale membership sites, so try to join the Salehoo forums. This is why if you find a huge website full of products for resell chances are it is a middleman buying the products in bulk marking up the price a little bit offering a drop shipping service to you and getting you to do all the hard work for less money, which will be the Salehoo customers. See Salehoo Reviews.

If you thought all those billions of web pages are hosted on
expensive and full service web hosting companies, you need to
cross check your information sources again. Of course, there are
free or cheap web hosting companies that provide basic features
good enough for simple html pages. You can take the example of
some blog sites for these. But cheap (as cheap as $1.99 a month)
web hosting service is different as they claim to provide more than
the basic features which require huge infrastructures and funds to
maintain and remain in the business. How do cheap web hosting
companies attract business and what are their tricks?

Trick Number 1: The 24/7 toll-free number that a cheap web
hosting company will advertise on their website. Most of these
rarely work and those that do work seem to work only Monday to
Friday. They are there mainly to create a false impression. What
will you do on the weekend or after hours? You need a web
hosting company that provides real support.

Trick Number 2: E-mail contacts given, which give you a very nicely
worded (auto responder) response, requesting you to be patient
while promising that an appropriate web hosting executive is
handling your query. Don’t you want to talk to a real person at
some point? Email messages could go on forever with no
resolution in sight. Your time, in short supply, is valuable.

Trick Number 3: Unlimited emails in POP3 and SMTP which hardly
give any value to a small webmaster but can have a big impact on
your decision making. Cheap web hosting companies cannot
provide good email service. Yet, you need good email service so
that you can stay in contact with your customers. (better
service=more customers=more sales)

Trick Number 4: Cheap web hosting companies often make
promises of free downloads worth thousands of dollars. You can
check this offer only after you subscribe to their service. You
should be able to check out all aspects of an offer before making a
commitment, thus saving you valuable time and money.

Trick Number 5: The lure of freebies like all platform database
support, preinstalled server side scripts, site builders, templates
and SSL & ecommerce tools. In actuality, if these products are
provided by cheap web hosting companies, they are very limited.
Why limit your business from the start? You need a web hosting
company that will give you the tools you need to be successful
right out of the gate!

Trick Number 6: Domain registrars and sister companies of cheap
web hosting companies don’t allow editing DNS zone files and MX
records. Registrars talk about “name server management” when
they actually mean the exact opposite resulting in forced hosting
with them. You should be able to choose the services that you
want for your business. After all, who knows your business better
than you? Locking yourself in with a cheap web hosting company
forces you to do business their way. Don’t do it!

Trick Number 7: Artificially populating user forums is another way of
promoting their cheap web hosting business. Cheap web hosting
companies do this so you will think they have tons of satisfied
users. Really, you should rely on referrals to check out a web
hosting company’s services. This is the only real way to be sure
you’ll get the service you deserve.
Trick Number 8: Display of an unknown or little known award and
trying to impress you that they provide award winning service. Do
awards mean anything anymore these days? Better to rely on
actual comments from real customers.

Trick Number 9: Offering free integration of shopping carts and
payment gateways. Cheap web hosting companies do this
because they know that for many online businesses having access
to an online payment tool is a must. What you actually get is
PayPal, which is well known, and is not their product at all. Why
would you trust a web hosting company that would do this?

Trick Number 10: Free Marketing support. Of course they do it but
what they market vigorously is their site where your name might
be mentioned. Cheap web hosting companies will not do more
than this. In fact, they cannot. Are you paying for marketing your
business? Or theirs?

Being on the lookout for tricks such as these will keep you from
falling into the trap of thinking that cheap web hosting is good.
You can make a better choice for your business. You need a web
hosting company that provides real, complete services that help
improve your business. Do you want your business to be just a
number?

Remember the old adage, “you get what you pay for”.

Greg Cesar knows web hosting! Find out how hundreds of webmasters benefit from Greg’s web hosting and internet marketing knowledge by visiting his Web Hosting website.

Greg Cesar is a successful Internet marketer, web designer and web hosting provider with over 10 years’ experience. He specializes in providing innovative web hosting and internet marketing services that help business owners make more money online. To improve your online business immediately and work with someone who understands what it takes to make real money online, visit:
http://www.hostpartnerplus.com

There are many important factors when choosing web hosting company. Let’s have a look at some of them.

First, you must answer the question: Which type of web hosting am I looking for. If you want to run a single web site shared hosting will be the right for your needs. For those who own multiple domains it will be better to buy reseller account or look around the web hosting industry and find some hosting plan which allows more domains under single account. Most web hosting companies allows only one domain hosted but because web hosting is very competitive market so if you will search carefully you will probably find some providers which offer more. If you want to drive an advanced business and need more system resources then acceptable on shared server you will need your own, dedicated or virtual private server.

As soon as you decide which type of web hosting is the best solution for your project you should make oneself clear about features you will to use. Consists your web site from static *.html files only or contains PHP or CGI scripts? Webmasters using PHP probably will need MySQL database. Most of web hosting providers offer these features in their basic hosting plans but some extremely cheap hosts (with prices about $1 or $2/month) limit you to use static pages only. If you decide to use some of these very cheap hosting plans make sure of the possibility and price to upgrade to higher plan with more features. Don’t forget you don’t need to be programmer to run dynamic web site. There is plenty of free PHP or CGI scripts on Internet.

OK, we made clear about the features like PHP, MySQL and CGI support. Now let’s take a look at disk quote and bandwidth. Most hosts usually offer more disk space then you can ever need unless you run some web site like photo gallery or adult web site. 1 GB should be enough for 80 % of company presentations. A little harder decision-making can be by choosing ideal bandwidth quote. To discover how much bandwidth you need try bandwidth calculator at http://www.marblehost.com/bandwidth-calculator.php. But take the results with a grain of salt and by choosing the web hosting program make sure that your bandwidth limit is at least 2 - 3 x higher. Don’t forget that during the time your site will go up in search engines and get more visitors who can pretty increase your bandwidth.

Last but not least read some web hosting reviews to discover how satisfied the customers of particular web hosting company are. Try to find their experience with technical support and server uptime. Discover how they are satisfied with control panel. Learn about any features which web hosts offers like web site builder or pre-installed scripts.

In the last step there will be necessary to compare prices. Find out if there is some setup fee. Setup fees usually depend on the billing period (if you sign up for 2 years plan you may pay less then if you order hosting for 1 month). Don’t forget to discover how much you will pay for the domain name (some web hosting plans includes free domain name). Then take a look for some promotional coupon codes or special actions and choose the best offer.

Bedrich Omacka is the marketing manager of Marble Host, a reliable web hosting with many preinstalled scripts which can be run without any PHP knowledge.

So you’ve decided to create a website? The most obvious thing
that you need is of course web hosting. Among other things, like
cost and features, you’ll need to decide which server you’ll
need: Windows (NT, 2000 or XP) or Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
etc.). Both have their merits, so the first thing you should
think about when making this decision is if you are looking for
stability, or ease of use. UNIX based servers are generally
superior in the site up-time and stability areas than Windows
systems. However, while they need to be rebooted more often,
Windows servers are generally easier to administer and use. Many
beginners to web hosting will be confused over the pros and cons
of the different operating systems. While, Unix is more stable
and secure it uses a command line interface for administration.
This interface, which is like the original MS-DOS interface, can
be difficult to understand to a website newbie. Also, in order
to keep a UNIX machine stable, one must update the kernel and
software regularly, a process which is more difficult than
Windows. This however, can be made just as easy to do if your
web host has good administration software.

Another thing to consider when choosing which operating system
to use is whether you will be using scripting. If so what kind?
For example, if you will be using a dynamic site, and decide
that you want to go Perl as your language of choice then UNIX
should be your operating system of choice. This is also true for
languages such as PHP, and Pythlon. On the other hand, if you
choose to go for an ASP based site then you should choose
Windows. However, to complicate the matter further some UNIX
systems can run ASP scripts, although the quality of the script
execution can be lesser.

Bare in mind that if you choose a Windows-based web server (this
does not apply to hosting accounts as the host should take care
of it for you) you will need to update the software with patches
from Microsoft’s web site almost weekly to prevent your site
from being exploited. UNIX administrators will only have to do
so monthly or so as UNIX is more secure by nature, and needs
fewer patches and software updates.

Unix operating systems are generally the preferred operating
system, however, in the end, if you do everything correctly, a
UNIX hosted web site and a Windows hosted web site will function
somewhat equally, and both should make you happy. Be sure to
keep operating costs and maintained in mind when making your
decision and you won’t regret it.

We all know that inkjet printers are in the hype and at high
prices. Not all people can afford to buy printers for home and
business use. But nowadays, printers have been inexpensive that
makes it easier to purchase. These types of printers are also
made quiet and reliably fast and people can now produce
documents that are printed with high quality.

The present inkjet printers have been more advanced which came
from the structures of the earlier version of printers. The
printer manufacturers have earned their big shares for the
development of the printers that we have now which includes HP,
Cannon and many more. The people have also benefited from these
printers for business use. It has opened up a lot of ventures
and other promotional things for the people that are important
in putting up their own business. The manufacturers have been
greatly expanding their services with their printers.

The drawbacks of inkjets include fragile print heads (easy
clogging) and costly ink cartridges (sometimes costing US$30 -
$40 or more). This typically leads value-minded users to think
about laser printers for medium-to-high volume printing
applications.

In contrast to additional luxurious technologies like thermal
transfer printer, dye-sublimation printers, and laser printers,
ink jets have the benefit of approximately no warm-up and a
lesser printing cost per page.

As the ink used in most inkjets is water-soluble, care must be
taken with inkjet printed documents to avoid spilling even a
drop of water on the paper. This can cause severe “blurring” or
“running.” Highlighter markers should not be used with such
documents either because the moisture of the highlighting ink
can cause the printing to smudge or blur.

Another disadvantage of an inkjet printer is that it includes
ink bleeding, where the ink is carried to a side away from the
preferred location by the capillary action along the fibre of
the paper; the result is a muddy or smudged appearance on some
types of paper. Most ink jet printer manufacturers also sell a
specially treated paper designed to reduce bleeding, but such
paper is comparatively expensive and sometimes has a peculiar
feel or texture.

For a fast, inexpensive way of printing your documents, inkjet
printers may be the answer. Be sure to analyze your application
to select the best printer for the quality and quantity of
printing to be done.

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