Showing posts with label hosting type. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hosting type. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Using Subdomains—Benefits and Drawbacks

Most businesses don’t like to use subdomains because they feel like they give them a disadvantage in many areas, such as having a prefix name before your web-site, being ignored by bots and index spiders in search engines and all in all, it just doesn’t look right. So let’s check our facts on subdomains.

A subdomain is substitute or second-level of a domain. A regular domain looks as follows: www.jamesbrown.com . A sub domain looks like this

http://bravenet.jamesbrown.com. Subdomains do not have www on the front of them. All subs start with "http://subdomain/maindomain.com pattern of identification.

Subdomains rank efficiently well. Search engine spiders and bots are not prejudiced when it comes to the ranking of subdomains and regular domains. As long as your site has the right SEO keywords and has been optimized, whether you have a subdomain or regular domain name doesn’t make a difference at all.

Let’s pretend that you site has a lot of categories in it. If you were to submit to a search engine, you could submit each subdomain as its own individual category and still get a good ranking.  Each subdomain would be looked at by search engines as a new site with its own index or home page. You may want to try creating subfolders on the subdomain to get around this so that search engines can read the folder as one set of site information.

People worry about their subdomain getting banned if the main domain name is banned. If the main domain is banned, it will have an effect on the subdomain. You see this happen often in adult content sites that have violated certain agreements that they have signed with a provider that does not want a domain used for adult material.

Again, there is nothing wrong with using a subdomain. If you want to develop each subdomain as its own entity, then by all means, do so.  If not, get yourself a main domain name and use that as a certified landing page.

Monday, April 19, 2010

The Mystery behind Domain Names

There are approximately 68 million .COM domains registered. That’s a  lot of domain names out on the Internet that are either already taken or  just parked in some obsolete spot gathering dust and all kinds of age.  The most common names like loser.com. Jamesbrown.com are already taken  by net investors who resell the rights to the names. Can you imagine  someone having www.elvis.com ? He’s just waiting on the highest bidder!
There  are 900 possible combinations for two letter sequences.  If you’re  looking for “ET” then you just won’t find it!  Even allowing for digits,  again every single web address is taken. Of course, that's ignoring the  fact that .COM registrars now mandate a 3-character minimum length, so  it wouldn't be an option.

Many of the three-letter  sequences are taken. Adding digits to a domain name creates a number of  garbage domain entries. If you're dying to acquire great domains and  unique domain names, they'll free up sometimes only to be auctioned off  through unique domain name sales.

The longer the  domain name that you choose, the more that the possibilities are that it  could be available presuming that you're willing to accept an arbitrary  sequence of letters and/or digits. For example, most organizations have  4 letter acronyms (WQAM.com and AFTA.org so you may have a chance using  over 4 letters to get the domain name that you want in acronym style!

Of  course many of the registered domains are ever, visited, with a huge  percentage having nothing more than a “parked page” (users pay domain  registrars to put up ads for themselves on these type of parked pages).  There are so many combinations and back door tricks to domain name  cataloging and classification until the possibilities are endless.

The  rule is to obtain a domain name that closely resembles who you are  about which gives you and identity and brand on the internet.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Picking a Type of Web Hosting Service

There are various types of web hosting services and it all depends on what you want to accomplish in building your web-site for your business. You should look at the different options which depend on these following factors:

Complexity of your web-site – You may want to talk to a developer on the complexity of your web-site, especially when it comes to graphics and database administration. You may have to consult with an internet specialist on the type of hosting that you need.

Some web hosting services are provided for free but you have to put up with ads that are on the top or bottom of your web site and those ads might not be conducive to the web site that you have developed. If you are going to get a site with ads, then get a free web hosting package that matches with the online ad that’s already there.

Free hosting also has low bandwidth on the internet because of so many people using the free service instead of the paid service. Basically, you also get a free web email account with free hosting services.

Then there is hosting that you pay for that you have more control over when you load and host your web site. You get POP mail access and can create as many emails as you want to which depends on the type of account that you pay for.

Every company has special packages for each and every need. From personal to business servers, even servers for special kinds of operating systems (UNIX, Windows, Linux and Apple) the choices vary depending on what you want to do.

The prices depend on how much space you need on the server to load your applications so you have to take into consideration what you want to put on the server through your web-site.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Web Server Hosting Types

There are different types of hosting services that you can choose from depending on what type of web development and web site that you want to host.

Dial-Up Access Hosting – This is the most basic access/hosting service and these providers also provides a web page for hosting your site. Dial-up access hosting was the first hosting available and is still around. Most ISP’s specialize in just internet access and it’s rare that you will see an ISP do both. These companies make their money off of providing access to the Internet.

Development Hosting - Web site developers are buying their own servers and offering independent hosting services for their clients. This is called development hosting in which they provide web development services along with a host server located at their place of business. The consumer gets charged for the development and the maintenance of the web-site.

Web-Hosting ISP’s. – These are companies that specialize in hosting business web sites. There is no dial up access needed and site owners access their pages via File Transfer Protocol (FTP). This is what the majority of small businesses use to put their site information on the internet. Other services are also included in the Web Hosting ISP package depending on their service plans.

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These types of hosting plans are usually for corporations that need a lot of bandwidth to run their web applications. These companies run T1 access lines for big packets of internet data and have multiple connections to an internet backbone. They have fully staffed data processing facilities and the prices are substantial for using these types of services.

Corporate/Industrial Hosting - Companies like Hewlett Packard, Dell or IBM, run the server infrastructure for most of these host companies.

The SOHO business owner will usually need the Web-Hosting ISP services. It is the middle ground between the basic and advanced services.


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