Can I Hear Your Web Site?
A web site makes great eye candy, but can your web site engage senses other than sight? Believe it or not, there are actually companies working to add smell and taste to your web sites and emails! For fun, check out www.trisenx.com . At this...
Designing Your Website's Directory Structure
Any kid, and their grandmother too, can make a webpage. There are many "wysiwyg" webpage design applications that let you create a webpage as easy as typing text. But only a few people can create a WEBSITE. The stumbling block is knowing how to...
Starting a Web Hosting Business, part 1
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The Best Simple Software For The Busy Webmaster
Here are a few programs I can't do without. They're free, and make being a webmaster much easier. CGI-Telnet http://www.rohitab.com/cgiscripts/cgitelnet.html A cgi script that allows you to run commands on your server, even if your web host...
The Importance of Website Statistics
One of the best tools you have as a webmaster is your website statistics. The most popular site stats programs are Awstats, Webalizer, and Analog. Usually, they come free of charge and are accessible through your website's control panel provided by...
Why Your Web Host Could Be Out Of Business Tomorrow
What are the chances of you waking up tomorrow and finding your web host and your website gone? Actually much higher than you may think and there are several reasons for this. For starters, the number of web hosting businesses these days is extremely high and growing all the time. This means that there is increased competition. In this kind of scenario only the fittest will survive. It is the law of the jungle and the law of life too. It means that hosting businesses that do not carefully think through their business plan and strategy are in great danger of soon finding themselves out of business.
Competition usually ushers in something else that is also a great danger to the survival of any business. And that is a price war. Many hosts are trying to outdo each other with the price they offer for hosting. Low prices work because some people are only looking for the lowest price. We fail to realize that a low price puts considerable pressure on any business and more so a web hosting business which is dependant on so many other outside services. It makes it a lot harder for them to pay their bills and sustain their hosting enterprise. This is not to say that higher priced web hosts cannot go belly up on you. They definitely can, especially when they do not have a solid business
plan and strategy for survival. There are so many things that can go wrong. Even the hosts who charge an arm and a leg for a tiny amount of bandwidth can easily go out of business. They can fail to get enough clients to sustain their enterprise.
What all this means is that it is very important for every online entrepreneur to take precautions. Look for a hosting company that has been in business for many years. Look for a web host that has in-house employees and is not dependant on the whims of an out-sourced support company based in another country. Be sure to regularly back up everything on your site, just in case.
These are some of the reasons why using a directory becomes useful as you are able to gather some information from a third party with their names at stake. This should help you smell out a bad deal much quicker. About the Author
