So you want to start your own blog site do you?

Welcome to the club, do a free blog setup from word press blog or blogger most known name in web world for the free blog setups. These days it seems that almost everyone has a web site of some kind, and many more on way to be launched every day. After launching site what next? People whom so ever are having website has start put own articles (BLOG) what so ever he experienced till date in his area of capabilities. In It’s challenging enough to design a site and update it in very regular interval with interesting content for readers, but when all is set and done another challenge comes in front of – where to do Web Hosting?

A popular choice for numbers of webmasters, and even experienced ones, is to hire a free hosting plan with a company, those are already has international brand for web hosting such as Yahoo! Rediff, Geocities, Tripod and many more. We all know these are easy to setup and free to use, but they do have restrictions. Maximum free hosters don’t offer all useful features that paid web hosting service provider do such as FTP access, POP-SMTP, or your own personal domain name. Instead of that you’re jammed with minimal features and a generic URL such as www.freeyourwebsitehosting.com/yourdomainname. Here you are making a mistake, your are losing your website’s potential. Either free hosters require you to run banners or pop-up ads on your web site or they will exchange some cross links from your website to make it worth their while for an expensive service what you are getting absolutely free. All these banners, pop-ups and link exchange can prevent the user to view of your web page and ultimately this irritation will drive them visitors away from your website. Lastly, most free hosters have a daily restriction in the terms of bandwidth usage, upload-download usage, sending receiving mails,  so if suppose your websites attracts lot of traffic you’ll exceed your allotted quota and your website will be temporarily disabled. Overall I would recommend free web hosters for only those people that are new to web hosting and want to experience something that how it works. I’d also recommend them for web sites that is going to only informative web sites and don’t plan to produce any revenue from it host with free hosters, but if a web sites that is although is the individual property and personal in nature as well as web sites going produce huge amount of revenues from it don’t host with free web hosters.

Now seriously think and move towards the better side – paid web hosting. Web hosting companies that charge money for their verity of services are on the Internet, and feature a wide collection of hosting packages at various price segments. Let’s begin with so called “budget” The web hosters, who claim to offer you the world for only $1 per month. Having used numerous such companies I feel I must tell you to proceed with caution here, as these companies aren’t all that they are cracked up to be. Many claim to offer 24/7 e-mail support, which in my experience turned out to be 0/0 e-mail support. My e-mails were either never answered or answered a week after I sent them. Even when I got a response it was generic in nature and completely unhelpful. Also, expect frequent outages with these budget web hosts as they rarely even have their own web servers – often they are reselling space on someone else’s web servers over which they have no control. One budget web host I used went down unexpectedly for 6 days, and they didn’t even bother to notify their customers. As a result, my web site was down for 6 days and I lost most of my visitors as well as my hard-earned search engine rankings. Lesson learned: if the reliability and success of your web site is important to you, budget web hosting might not be the answer. However, this is not to say that all budget web hosters are bad – 1dollarhosting.com is one of the leaders in the budget web hosting arena and has quite a good reputation.

Blogging is an reduction of “web-logging”. The simplest definition of a blog is that it is an online log that is organized in reverse chronological order. It comprises of comments, declarations, links, or anything else of interest to the blog writers.

You’ll have to only keep two things in mind,

1. Basic requirements of starting your own blog.
2. You need software to run a blog and a place on the Internet to host your blog.

Taking into consideration the above mentioned two factors, there can be four categories of blogs:

1. Free Webhosting + Free Software
2. Paid Webhosting  + Free Software
3. Paid Webhosting including Price of Software
4. Paid Webhosting + Paid Software

Descriptions for all four options along with their pros and cons are here;

We have also given recommendations regarding the suitability of these options.

1. Free Webhosting + Free Software

Here you pay neither for the software nor for the website hosting. This is a completely free way of blogging

But there are some drawbacks of this system. It offers very few features as compared to the paid services. You cannot post pictures online or design your preferred look for your site.

The companies that provide free software and free domain hosting frequently place a banner immediately above your site. This detracts the visitors from the look of your site. You also have no discretion over the content of the advertisements.

The key advantage of this system is that it is absolutely free. This option is extremely useful for a newcomer who would not like to pay anything, since he/she can try this method to find if they are really interested in blogging.

2. Free Software + Paid Webhosting

This option provides you free software but you will have to pay for the domain hosting.

There is a cost factor involved in this option. Minimum cost of hosting would be INR700-1100 & $14-20 per year. The annual registration fee for domain name would be INR450 & $9 per year for (.com, .co.in, .net domains).

This system will let you do certain things that you were unable to do with the free one. Here, you can modify the look of your site and you can also post pictures. But free software’s have fewer features than paid ones.

This option is highly recommended because by just paying the cost of virtual hosting and domain registration, you can avail great features and flexibility.

3. Paid Webhosting including Price of Software

This is a subscription-based option. There are ongoing costs involved in this option.

Apart from customizing the look of your site and posting photographs online, you will be able to use a software that provides more features than a free one.

This option is recommended for people who do not want to be troubled with virtual hosting and software installation issues. This is the easiest possible solution. It offers great features but at a reasonably high price.

4. Paid Webhosting + Paid Software

This option provides you paid software and paid domain hosting.

The cost of the domain hosting ranges from $5 to $10 per month while the cost of the software would be at least $45-100$ (one-time cost).

This option gives you great amount of flexibility. You can select your own domain name and have feature-rich blogging software.

This option is highly recommended for businesses since the cost is not a major consideration.

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I know number of companies and freelancers running a web hosting business in small or large indistinct shapes. Some are having good amount of dedicated or VPS servers and some are serving to their clients from the reseller hosting accounts (already explained in my earlier post)

Whom so ever is running a website hosting business, very much aware about all the challenges in the business? Several competitors are available in a click, ready to undercut your price.

Now most customers understand hosting business model very well, they now well that in these days this business as a commodity and shop by price. Several websites, directories, PPC adds, and many ways are available to make it easy to comparison shop.

Now must bubbling question in your mind is how can you get more profits from your hosting business under in these circumstances?

[A] GET THE CUSTOMER

First of all let me tell you one thing very straight a client who is having the minimum space with you and paying very negligible cost to you per month is value for your business calculate the lifetime value of your customer. The best thing with the hosting business is, it’s a recurring piece for you, until client is really not unhappy with your service believe me he is not going to move from your server to anywhere all though moving from one server to another is also not very enjoyable moment. Let’s calculate things with one example, let’s say the average customer takes minimum space slot with you and pays 58-60 Rs. per month. That means their one year value to your company is is near about 700 Rs. So every customer you acquire makes your business (on average) 700 Rs.

If a visitor comes to your website, then leaves to comparison shop, you have more than likely lost that sale. Have you invested in sales copy that compels your visitors to buy from you? Does your website help him to see that you are the best choice for his situation? Showcase your credibility, guarantee services and offer incentives to try your service. Make it easy to buy from you.

[B] HOLD YOUR CUSTOMER’S

Because each customer is hard-won and the value of the customer is so high, you’ll want to make sure you have the support services that keep your customers happy.

Once a customer leaves you for another website host, he’s gone forever. You probably already make customer service a priority, with email answered in a timely fashion and well-trained technical support. Go the extra mile. Don’t wait for customers to contact you. Ask your customer how you’re doing.

[C] UPGRADE YOUR SELL FOR THE EXISTING CUSTOMER EASILY

The customer has already bought from you. There is familiarity and trust. You can easily offer complimentary items to your current customer list.

The major concern of your customer is how to succeed online and generate revenues from the websites. It’s easy to offer online marketing tips and tools, ebooks and additional services. Once he’ll show some interest on it and not finding very comfortable himself for all of that, he’ll get back you to hire these services from you.  It can be as simple as joining an affiliate program for an item your customer may need, then making him aware of the item.

Let me know in case of if you are looking answer for some other questions in same subject.

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As I already shared, Space, Bandwidth, & Support System plays very important role in any web hosting, in my previous articles;

1. http://akashdwivedi.com/blog/index.php/2009/reseller-web-hosting
2. http://akashdwivedi.com/blog/index.php/2009/virtual-private-servers-vps

In all mentioned points above the quality of the bandwidth is as important then the hardware your site runs on. And this is because even your web site is in best ever web server, your site will upload slow in web if it’s connected to poor quality bandwidth. And the solution is for that to think about dedicated or VPS servers.

If you’re reading this article, you might be interested in getting a dedicated or VPS server, or simply learning more about dedicated or VPS hosting services.

First of all, please note, that a dedicated server is rather expensive service, and you shouldn’t waste your money if you don’t plan to use it in full measure.

But if you really have any sensitive website, and want to run a successful business – you cannot do it without a dedicated or VPS server.

Of course explorer the word before making any decision, so let’s enumerate the facts for Dedicated or VPS servers.

Power and functionality:

With a dedicated server you get on average 50-100 Gb of hard drive, plus about 1,000 Gb of data transfer. You may customize the configuration and choose any CPU, RAM, or whatever you need. A dedicated server reduces your dependency on the web host; and bypasses time delays and possible expenses incurred from these.

Freedom and security:

Dedicated or VPS server will give you a freedom. You will not need to share it with other websites. It will also give you additional 3rd party security for your site and emails. A dedicated server will allow you deep access to your server to configure and optimize your server anyway you need. You’re able to choose the software to install.

Respectability:

You simply CAN NOT run a popular website on a shared hosting. It’s not serious.

Summary:

If your website turned into a popular and reliable resource; if you have tons of daily visitors; if you work B2B; if you need additional security and functionality, power and freedom – go ahead and buy a dedicated server. Don’t be sorry about the money you spent! Think about the future!

So what does this all mean if you are looking for a company to host your website?

You need to have your website hosted by a company that follows these checklist and technologies. These all are very necessary for the effective and efficient functioning of your website. It will bring certainty to the process of communicating on the Internet — a peace of mind that your website has the redundancy and bandwidth needed to stay online 24/7.

Additionally, dedicated or VPS servers will allow your customers to experience, reliable and fast services that maximize the performance of your business.

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