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Selecting a hosting plan is a critical step when you want to start up a website.  In prior posts I discussed choosing a domain name and creation of web pages.  Next we will discuss hosting:  Early on in your decision making process, you will want to shop for a hosting plan.

The next step after creating your website is to make it live on the internet, or publish it.  In order to do so, you will need a hosting plan.  A hosting plan is different from a domain name.  You own your domain name but you rent a hosting plan.  In it’s simplest terms a hosting plan is paying a company to broadcast your website onto the internet.  Let’s go over some of the key important factors to consider when choosing a hosting plan:

SERVICE  The number one thing to look for in a hosting plan is service.  It does not matter that a multitude of features are offered or if the price is low if the service you will be getting with your hosting plan is sub par or even worse, nonexistent.  Once your website is live on the internet you will want it to be up all the time.  For that reason you want to be sure and choose a hosting provider that will provide the best uptime as well the best availability and quality of customer service.

UPTIME  What is the hosting company’s “uptime guarantee”? Many guarantee 99% uptime for their servers.  That sounds great, but it does mean that your site could go down for 1% of the time, which means over 7 hours out of each month! If at all possible, choose a host guaranteeing up to 99.9% uptime.

SIZE  What size, or how many pages will the website have?  The amount of disk space all of your website’s pages takes up will determine the size of the hosting plan you will need.  If your website will be media rich with videos or music or photo files, or a large e-commerce site with a lot of catalogue pages, you will have to take space into consideration as a criteria for choosing the right hosting plan.

LINUX OR WINDOWS  This question refers to the operating systems available for hosting and which one to choose.  BTW it does not matter what operating system you are using on your personal computer.  What programming language was used in the Web site design?  For example, if you designed a website using ASP or ASP.NET, you’ll need to find a Windows hosting plan. If you have a Web site that uses CGI or PHP, you’ll need to get a Linux hosting plan.  Note that if you are simply publishing a basic html website, the choice of hosting Operating system won’t really matter as much until you get into more advanced languages such as PHP or ASP.

TRAFFIC  How much traffic or how many visitors do you expect monthly?  Hosting plans are usually sold at different level plans according to the bandwith that will be required.  Bandwidth = Traffic.  Obviously more bandwidth is better because it allows more visitors to visit your site, but at the beginning this will be hard for you to gauge.  Usually the best way to proceed here is to start with a basic low bandwidth plan, and upgrade later as the traffic begins to flow to the website.

SHARED OR DEDICATED HOSTING  The question of shared vs. dedicated hosting is really answered in a very simple way:  First a brief description of shared hosting, which is sharing space on a server with dozens or perhaps hundreds of other websites.  The main factor here is that you will have no control over the operating system, database structure, etc., and will have to work within the structure setup by the hosting provider.  Dedicated or virtual dedicated hosting is different in the sense that you will have full control over the environment that your website resides in, and you will have the only access to that space.  Dedicated server hosting gives you full control over setup of the operating system and auxilliary programs such as database management or shopping cart or database management software.  Generally customer support will be low to non-existent, since this type of hosting is geared to the advanced user who will be using his own custom setup.  The bottom line:  start off with shared hosting if you are a beginner, until you are advanced enough to progress to your own controlled dedicated hosting environment.

At StartMyWebsiteToday.com our uptime guarantee is 99.9% and we offer 24/7 customer service.  The hosting plans that are offered include a variety: shared hosting, virtual dedicated hosting, and dedicated hosting plans with either Linux or Windows operating systems for every need and budget ranging from the small personal website to large online multimedia sites to those interested in ecommerce website building. To see what is available, click HERE: Hosting plans.

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Guide To Writing A Good Article

A good written article can do your website wonders weather you publish on your website or not. Good articles must have good quality content, if your trying to sell a product don’t write a heavy sales pitch keep your sales pitch to a minimum with suttle hints throughout. Articles are supposed to be interesting, informative and educational so if you keep that in mind when writing your article you shouldn’t go wrong.

The more catchy your article is the more views and clicks it will receive, if people read an interesting post then the chances are they will link back to it or mention it within another post. Good articles must have an attractive title, if you have a boring title then no one will want to read your posts, it doesn’t have to be an amazing title like “click here for a million dollars – Guaranteed” it can just be an interesting or informative title like the one i used for this article “How To Write A Good Article”. Just by using two words like ”how to” that has already got peoples attention as most people want to know how to do new stuff and constantly want to learn, its down to the second part of the title which helps get the clicks ”writing a good article“, not everyone is interested in writing a good article only a select few i.e a particular genre/category of person, so you have to make the second part interesting as well. I used the term “writing a good article” well this is fairly interesting to the type of people I want to read it so it should produce more targeted clicks, to some things up your title has to be interesting, informative and like I said before.

What you do with your article is up to you, if you post it to your website then you will be able to attract good traffic instantly from the social bookmarking sites and over time build links to help get your article higher in google. Remember the term which you have probably heard many times before “content is king”, I’m saying this for two reasons the first one is obvious write the article to the best of your ability and the second reason is don’t copy anyone else’s article its fine to rewrite the article by hand but DON’T use any article rewriting software as the final result will be horrific. Writing articles can take some time and one of my readers mentioned that you can use a speech to text program to write it for you however there will be some mistakes so you will have to read it over several times ect.

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