Archive for August 25th, 2008

Most Essential Features for a Managed Dedicated Server Plan

Monday, August 25th, 2008

by Amy Nutt

For any corporation that requires dedicated web hosting but doesn’t have the expertise to oversee and maintain it, a managed dedicated server plan is the perfect option. To date there are no industry standards to clearly define the management role of dedicated service providers, with hosts offering varying levels of support for a wide variety of prices. Services on offer include operation administration, firewall and antivirus updates, security audits, data back-ups, disaster recovery, and general system monitoring.

The choice of managed dedicated servers on the market is vast and it is important for a corporation to feel they trust in the knowledge and integrity of the web hosting provider. After all, a reliable and dynamic website is vital for customer loyalty. There are a number of key essential features to look out for that help ensure value for money and reduce the risk of choosing an under par website host.

Acquisition and installation

Managed hosting should provide a dedicated server package that caters to the client’s specific requirements. It is vital to ensure the server provider can offer the kind of scalability and bandwidth the organization requires.

What services are included?

Some services are included in the monthly fee and some are additional. It is also important that a host can react quickly to implement and install new requirements for one-off special projects.

Performance guarantees

The major managed website hosts now commonly offer 99.99% network and data centre power uptime. This is only possible if the host has an adequate power back-up system in place and a dedicated team of support and monitoring staff.

Help and support

Many of the top managed servers offer 24 hour help and support, 7 days a week, 365 days per year. One way to test the support desk is to search the various review forums online, which have endless customer reviews with honest accounts of their experiences with a provider. An essential consideration is whether the host provides a dedicated support team. If not, it is likely you’ll spend ages on hold getting through to a different customer support worker every time. The ideal situation is direct access to a dedicated service representative who only works with a handful of accounts.

Hardware replacement time

The fastest offers on the market are for hardware replacement within 15 minutes of a failure, with more companies offering replacement within one hour.

Premium brand hardware

Hardware failure is still one of the largest causes of IT service failure and use of premium brand hardware is a must with the inclusion of RAID, which provides two or more redundant disks in the event of failure.

Application monitoring

One key feature of a managed dedicated server is the regular monitoring of the website, network, and server to ensure optimum performance.

Regular data back-up

Regular data back-ups are vital to protect website and customer information in the event of crashes.

Security monitoring

The host should be responsible for keeping updated on all of the latest security updates to ensure all reasonable steps are put in place to prevent a security breach. In the case of lost data, the host should be able to react quickly to recover lost information and prevent compromising customer security.

Power efficiency

One final consideration is to analyse the power efficiency of the managed server provider. Nowadays customers judge companies on their ability to minimize the impact they have on the environment. By selecting a server provider which aims to cut its energy consumption as much as possible and use renewable energy sources is a positive public relations exercise for any corporation.

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Hosted Exchange Server and SharePoint - A Match Made in Heaven

Monday, August 25th, 2008

by David Grantz

Many small business owners have been searching the internet for a solution to their technological problems and have discovered what a hosted exchange server is. A hosted exchange server allows you to host all of your email needs without you having to purchase a server or any of the equipment necessary to do so. This is, of course, an amazing thing that can save you a great deal of frustration and money. But if you choose to go with a company that offers you the ability of a hosted exchange server among other things, you will be able to get even greater benefits from the company.

SharePointSharePoint is a program that allows your business to move at the speed of light. You no longer have to wait for a fax to arrive, or for an email to send the right documents. With SharePoint you simply place the documents that you want your colleague or employee to look at in one place and they are able to access it. It is extremely simple, and very safe, to use, and is used by almost all large businesses.

How Does It Work? SharePoint works by giving your company a web-based workspace. Think of it as a virtual desk where you can place documents and other resources that you would like your team members to have access to. You can store and change documents quickly and easily, and you can reduce errors by allowing only certain people access to change the documents that you are sharing. It makes things easier on your entire team, allowing everyone to have access to the same materials so that they can get the job done that much faster. It allows your team to feel more confident in their abilities, as they are not just “someone on the totem pole”, but are rather a valued member, given access to the same documents and information as everyone else, thanks to a hosted exchange server and SharePoint.

Isn’t It Difficult To Use? SharePoint is actually extremely simple to use. The web-based interface is customizable, allowing you to change things so that they are the way you like them. You do not have to know any point and click shortcuts, nor do you have to know how to program. You simply point and click and you can place your documents in an easy-to-reach place for the rest of your team. If you have any troubles at all, you can call on your support tech at your hosted exchange server company, in order to help you fix whatever problem has arisen.

Where Do I Begin? If you’re interested in bringing SharePoint into your company, but do not want to have to pay for a server or for the maintenance on it, look to a hosted exchange server that has SharePoint as an option. Speak with their customer service technicians and discover if SharePoint, and the hosted exchange server, is right for your company.

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Increase Website Traffic — 4 Solid Techniques

Monday, August 25th, 2008

by Kurt Schmitt

Methods to increase website traffic are being spun, packaged, wrapped up in e-literature, and sold for a price. Some of these methods work. Unfortunately, a number of them are also known as “black hat” or are borderline black hat and will only work for a short period of time. They’ll probably stop working right about the time you buy the ebook, or get around to reading it and implement it. Since I’m sure you’re taking a long term approach to your website, you’ll want to dedicate your time and effort to creating a less risky, and more lasting traffic strategy.

While the tricks might work for a while, I’d like to talk about some “white hat” methods that result in lasting traffic. They may not be sexy, and they aren’t “secrets” or anything mysterious, but they work. In fact, these methods will work to produce free traffic for many months and years to come.

Article marketing — There are a number of benefits to using article marketing and other than building pages, it’s the number one method I use to increase website traffic. If written correctly, your posted articles will often rank high in the engines and you can end up with several top listings. The article directory sites have a lot of trust and authority with Google, and provide an excellent backlink to your site.

The high profile article sites create a viral effect and other website owners will pick up your articles and publish them. This increases your reach and your backlinks. On top of that, when people read your article and then decide to click through to your site, they’re showing enough confidence in your content to want to read more. These are pre-sold visitors.

Social bookmarking — Social bookmarking is an activity that can have great rewards for your site. It’s easy to create a number of links back to your sites by social bookmarking a few pages. You can also encourage your visitors to do this for you by placing icons with links to popular social bookmarking sites. In addition, you can increase traffic to your own websites by bookmarking sites that link to yours.

Creating content — The more pages you have on your site, the more PageRank your site can accumulate. A higher PageRank value for your site will get your site spidered more often, keeping more of your pages in Google’s index. It also adds to your site’s overall authority. More pages also equates to more value for your visitor, more keywords for the search engines to chew on, and additional internal linking opportunities. All of this results in an increase in website traffic. Building a large content site is not only a proven Web business model with staying power, but also adds real value.

Social media and community sites — Many people think of Reddit and Digg, but forget about repurposing their content on other social media sites. Instead of trying to play the very difficult game of who’s going to Digg me, you should look at user generated content sites that allow you to post a link to your site. Start with the biggest ones first, as they offer great backlinks and the potential for high traffic. These include Hubpages, Squidoo, and Buzzle, as well as a number of up and coming community sites published on the Ning platform and others like Tumblr.

These methods each work well on their own. Yes, if you understand simple SEO principles you can simply build content and eventually you’ll have a successful site. You can write articles and drive traffic, and you can bookmark and republish your content on various social networks. If you combine these techniques, however, you’ll see results much more quickly. While these are not the only methods to increase website traffic, they are safe, effective, and produce lasting results.

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For Good Website There is Need a Right Domain Name

Monday, August 25th, 2008

by Ashfaq Ahmad

Its true that “Right domain name attract the people.” Your domain name can be any length of up to 67 characters, which means you are more likely to find a name that you like, it easy to remember and that fits your business. Helen is the web master of Discount Domains, specialists in all aspects of Domain Names.

The domain name that you choose for your website stands in as a more memorable name for your numeric IP address. They allow for any service to move to a different location in the topology of the Internet (or an intranet), which would then have a different IP address.

The domain name system allows you to assign multiple IP addresses to a single domain name or multiple domain names to be assigned to a single IP address. This means that one server may have multiple roles (such as hosting multiple independent websites), or that one role can be spread among many servers.

Actually a domain name is like a real estate. Domain name is seen a virtual property which a web site is built. High quality domain name built a standard type of web site. Therefore there is need a good and right domain name for a good web site. When you choosing a domain name, you must have knowledge about web site’s data or what’s all about your web site. . Your domain name is how people will find your website so your domain name should be one that reflects what your website is all about.

This is why you should aim to name your domain the same name as your website; this sounds obvious but despite what it sounds like many people often opt to not name their domain anything to do with what their website is about. It is important as people are more likely to remember your website name rather than your domain name so when they are looking for your website they will most likely type your website name into a search engine in the hope that your website will show up.

RACsuccess: You fly on Air Balloon or Parasail?

Monday, August 25th, 2008

by Crystal Eikanger

A lot of people like to ride on a hot air balloon. They enjoy the fact that is a very restful experience. In this type of trip, they don’t really care that much about where they are going, they only care about having a peaceful experience. Its like living their busy jobs and lives and just forget for a while, just even for one single day a calm trip on the air!

On the other hand, there are those who view hang gliding or parasailing as quite a bit scarier. The idea of being alone under the wing, and then taking a step off a cliff into a void of nothingness, not knowing if you made the right decision about the air currents that day, can be both exhilarating, and disturbing. But at least you have control over which direction you will fly, and where precisely you will land.

If you are on Rent A Coder (RAC) without the RACsuccess Package in your basket, you are spending your days in a hot air balloon, drifting wherever the wind takes you, with no direction and no ability to control your own future.

If you are on Rent A Coder with the RACsuccess Package in your toolkit, you are under the wing of the parasail and can step off that cliff with the faith that you are able to steer your own direction through the clouds and control your future much better.

The RACsuccess Package is an amazing Rent a Coder tool that contains more than 40 videos and two guides delivered in an e-book format in order to help both coders and buyers to have a successful experience while working in Rent a Coder. It contains information that anyone working in Rent a Coder should have at their disposition.

The RACsuccess Package is a tool that is helping people realize that their usual way of bidding and working on projects as coders is not the best way. This tool is also helping people realize that the way buyers request projects and deal with coders is not the best way. These tips are really a must have for anyone who really wishes to stand out among the competition.

And the RACsuccess Package is not just for beginners and newcomers to Rent A Coder. It’s also for experienced coders, too. It’s not just a read once or watch once and you’re done kind of application either. It’s something that you will want to come back to time and time again to review. Every time I open it, there’s always something new to me in there.

The RACsuccess Package is an amazing tool created by Luis Lazo who is the owner of RACsuccess. Through this software interface, Luis Lazo shares with you a way that you can use as a basis to work successfully in Rent a Coder. I learned a lot of things with what I read and with the videos I watched and I always keep up learning more each time I open the package. Is like is something that I need to go always back to while I work in Rent a Coder.

RACsuccess is a company that really wants to help all coders and buyers that work in Rent a Coder. Its definitely a resource where people can dry their tears of negative experiences, receive “consolation words” and receive the hope of success they have been always longed to have as freelance programmers and buyers that work in Rent a Coder. The RACsuccess Package even to is not given for free, it is there available for anyone interested in buying it because such important information can’t just be given away for free.

RACsuccess is amazing… just amazing… I just wonder why such a service like this had not been created before but the thing is that now it exists!!! I am so happy because of that and I would also like you to feel happy. That’s why, don’t take my word, everything I just said on this article is just a little piece of what RACsuccess has to offer you. Check out their home page, is full of freebies to you!

I am so glad I purchased the RACsuccess Package because I am not just on a hot air ballon anymore but I am going where I want to go, I am going to succeed in Rent a Coder!

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When you have friends, you desire success for them

Monday, August 25th, 2008

by Crystal Eikanger

At the reach of my possibilities, I always like to help my friends. Even when they don’t ask it, I am always willing to offer myself and help them on anything. I also like to open them money making opportunities. I love to send them links to websites, softwares, affiliate news, instructional e-books, how-to videos and other products which I think can make my friends successful.

Well, every one of you reading this right now is also my friend and have I got a wonderful little tidbit to tell you about to help you out whether you need the help or not!

There are many websites out there but not of them give you a free package on how to succeed on one of the best freelance websites in the world: Rent A Coder! RACsuccess does give you this success package if you are the winner of the month and participating on this contest is 100% free. This contest is open to anyone and is an international contest!

The only thing you need to do is to refer as many friends as possible on a monthly basis to increase your chances of winning. You only need to refer one friend in order to participate but if you refer more, then your chances of winning increase.

To participate in the monthly contest, you just need to enter your name and email in the recommendation form and also include the email address of any of your friends and then submit the form. It’s that easy!

RACsuccess doesn’t have any restrictions regarding how many times you can submit the form as long as each friend’s email address is different on each submission. This is a chance you can’t miss to win the contest price! Had you ever thought participating on a contest could be that easy?

Well, the prize is the most amazing RACsuccess package. If you have not heard about it before, it is a product that gives anyone access to videos and two written guides on how to succeed in one of the best freelance website in the world: Rent a Coder! These videos is a must have and is information you really need if you want to get the most out of Rent a Coder!

You can read more about the contest on the RACsuccess home page under the heading that says: What’s New?

And YOU could be the winner this month!

Again, just refer at least one of your friends using the RACsuccess recommendation form to be entered to this months’ contest for a chance to win a free license of the RACsuccess package!

Bye for now and I wish you the best of luck on this month’s contest!

Refer as many friends as you want through RACsuccess recommendation form.

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Should I Create a Website? Do I Need One?

Monday, August 25th, 2008

by Kim and Charles Petty

People always want to follow the latest thing, be it in fashion, sports, that kind of thing. Websites have become a necessity to almost everyone. Companies, businesses, individuals, even young adults have created personal websites with their respective purposes, be it for profit, or for entertainment.

What one must consider, however, before creating a website, are the factors in which must be put to thought before doing so, such as the cost, maintenance, use, web host and so forth.

Firstly, associating with the cost, we must always try to find an affordable host, not spending too much, nor too little. A cheap host does not exactly symbolize a credible reliability rating, but we must always look for value for money deals. Also, regarding the efficiency and server/web host reliability, there are many cases of web hosts not providing the service they had assured other people, some had even shut down and were nowhere to be seen. Keep this note in mind, as if you would like a long-lasting website, this would be the first thing to look for.

Next, would hiring a professional be affordable? Is it the best option? For simple websites, we could always pick up the coding, or even use programs, as it is relatively simple. However, when it comes to more complex coding, and when you want it to do a tad more than just providing information, hiring help in doing so would be the best way. Not only in terms of design, but security is also a key factor in assuring a quality website. If the website also acts as a portal for businesses, security would definitely be the issue here.

So, having considered the things to do before building a website, do we actually NEED one? If creating one would boost sales or promote positive implications to oneself, then by all means, go ahead and do what’s best. Yet again, planning is the key to success, in everything we do.

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Website Builder For Less Money

Monday, August 25th, 2008

by Rex Stevenson

If you are an Internet Marketer or a webmaster, then you will undoubtedly have a need for a cheap professional website builder. If you are like me, then will have these ideas that pop into your head, and you want them implemented pretty fast. Many of them will require a website, and you really do not want to spend a bunch of money, or time on this. This is why you need a cheap professional website builder.

Why Use A Website Builder?

Building a website in only a few minutes - think about that and imagine the possibilities. You might be wondering about the content. The whole website content is based on articles; you can buy some PLR articles on the internet or do your own writing.

How can you do this? The website template must contain the text files from a folder, so just put those in there. It’s simple and it only takes a minute or two. Customizing it might take a little more time, and it lets you choose a simple design or something really special, depending on your taste. The great thing about it is that different sites don’t require different templates; you can just choose the one you used on another site.

Calculating the advantages when using a website builder

This is what I mean that you can implement this idea pretty quick. Let’s say you hear a hot topic going on. Right now, it would be the cost of gas. You then find some PLR articles for this topic. It could be 10 articles, it might be 25 articles. Maybe it costs $10. You can purchase these articles, and use this for your website. You basically just build a website for $10 + the cost of a domain, so maybe $17. Now, just send it some traffic.

Website building was never easier with this software; it builds websites in very little time and saves you from the trouble of searching for designs, content, etc.

So, if you are looking for a simple way to get some of those crazy, or brilliant, ideas into action, then take a look at this cheap professional website builder. It can definitely get the job done for you.

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