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February 18, 2008

When Do You Need A Dedicated Web Host?

Web hosting is something that many online businesses struggle with at some point. Who do you choose? What do you look for? What features do you need? Etc. Etc.

All of those questions have been answered over and over in many articles on many websites, so what I’m going to address in this article is when enough is enough and you need to make the move from a shared hosting plan to a dedicated one.

Anyone who’s just starting out in internet marketing can easily get by with a shared web hosting plan, where your website is hosted by a third party on their server along with hundreds of thousands of other websites. Shared hosting plans are cheap, they’re extremely easy to use / manage and they’re more than adequate for 99% of websites.

Eventually though, your sites will either start to receive a high level of traffic, you’ll have multiple websites, have a strong need for security, or wish to run your own customized software and applications that will make a dedicated web hosting plan much more economical.

Here are few quick questions to ask yourself to determine if you require a shared or dedicated web server:

1. Does your website get more than 10,000 page views a day?

2. Do you have 10 or more websites that require hosting?

3. Do you need to install any special software on your server?

4. Do you require a unique IP address?

If you answered YES to 2 or more of the above questions, chances are you need a dedicated server. If you answered NO, you’ll probably do just fine with a shared server for now.

It goes without saying that dedicated servers are more expensive than shared servers, but depending on your specific requirements, they may actually be cheaper than multiple shared hosting accounts.

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Comments

shariha
Posted on 5th March, 2008

Internet Marketing: A ringside view:

If your business involves products or services spread across the globe or even within a region, internet marketing can be effective in showcasing your product/service to the discerning buyer. The first step towards a successful internet marketing campaign would be building a suitable web-site. Your web-site should be simple but elegant looking. Crisp and precise presentation often scores over too many colors, too many promises or in short too much of anything. The prospective customers would be looking for valuable information that he can instantaneously use.

Great web sites often offer some freebies like music downloads, software downloads, computer games, graphics etc. to attract customers. So if the freebies you offer are attractive enough for the target customer profile, the traffic to your site will also rise rapidly. Internet marketing is indeed a long drawn process where you first build a web-site and then nurture it through all its stages till you can figure at the top of the search engine results.

Search Engine optimization and link building are the two most popular methods to improve the ranking of your web-site. Internet marketing cannot ignore these tools even though they come at a hefty price. Enter any search string into the most popular search engines, and you will stumble upon several hundred, if not thousand pages of information relating to that subject. People searching for information tend to look at the first few web-sites that come up from the search result. Chances are that the information they sought would be contained in those pages. Therefore, most searches do not get beyond the first page of the results. Imagine if your web-site figures in the 20th or 21st page, the traffic it can generate for you would be only closer to zero. This makes search engine optimization relevant to make your web-site work for you.

What are the main attributes of search engine optimization? Keywords and link building; these are the two major attributes that would help you to optimize your web-site for the search engines. Keywords are the possible search strings that a user will enter into the search counter. For example, someone looking for a Home Theatre can use terms like “Electronic product manufacturers” or “Theatre Equipment dealers” or “Home Theatre manufacturers” or even “where can I buy a Home Theatre”. Though all these search strings have a commonality, they are also distinct. Therefore, a web-site representing Home theatre should have all these phrases somewhere in their content, preferably in the first page and right on top. Search Engines crawl through several thousand pages at lightning speed and return with the optimal results. Keywords and key phrases should be coined by experts to get the best results.

Link building is another important aspect of internet marketing. Most popular search engines will look at the number of links that your web-site has to other web-sites and blogs. If the number of links is high, it indicates the popularity of your web-site and hence get ranked at the top.

Article marketing – There are several article banks which will accept your submissions and then feed to

People look for information on various topics. So, if you are in the business of solar energy, you can create or hire people to write articles on solar energy, submit to the article banks, with a link to your web-site. This will induce the visitor to look at your site and when the number of articles is large, the number of visits to your web site will also rise in proportion. Article marketing is yet another tool to lead you to success in internet marketing.

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Jeffmakepeace
Posted on 18th April, 2008

Its too long comment. Dedicated server are required if you have dynamic website and also you are going to install SSL certificate and transaction features so it is essential needs.

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