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There are two directions website hosting services can take with their
low-end shared hosting. One is to drop the price and hope users don't notice
the limits and restrictions. SiteGround takes the other route,
charging a little more but making sure you have all the core features
you need. 8.70) on renewal - has unlimited traffic,
emails accounts and databases. There's one-click install of WordPress and other apps,
a powerful cPanel-based management console, and features that some hosts
don't even offer in their premium accounts: basic free SSL, daily backups, Cloudflare CDN
and more. One potential catch is that none of the SiteGround plans include a free domain. You can register one during
signup, but that can be expensive - you'll get a better deal by registering elsewhere.
 The only significant limits here are that the StartUp account is for one website, and you only get
up to 10GB of web space. While that seems relatively low,
keep in mind that most web hosting contracts say storage is for your website, not data.
Even hosts who promise ‘unlimited’ space won't allow you to store
500 ISO's or your entire MP3 collection. If your
website code plus database will be less than 10GB,
you'll be able to use SiteGround's StartUp account.
25) a month on renewal - gets you faster hosting on sites with
fewer users, free PCI compliance, WordPress and Joomla staging (creating a copy
of a site for testing), one-click Git Repo creation and more.
The SiteGround site has links to many other app hosting plans, including WordPress, Joomla, PrestaShop and WooCommerce.
The product range extends up to a range of dedicated hosting plans.
180) a month for 500GB storage and 5TB bandwidth, but the ability to choose a US, European or Asia-Pacific data centre could make this a more
interesting proposition for some. SiteGround's simple product structure
makes it very easy to choose a plan. StartUp is fine for most people
hosting a single site, GrowBig covers hosting
multiple domains, and GoGeek gives you extra performance, though probably
not enough to justify the price. 16) or specify a domain we owned already.
We chose the second option and were offered a ‘free transfer’, but fortunately this didn't
mean we had to transfer the domain, and you're free to leave it
where it is.
SiteGround is actually offering to transfer an existing site to your new web space.
This only applies in simple situations, where domains are
the same, but it still might save you some time.
SiteGround's final ‘Review and Complete’ page displayed the plan we'd chosen, allowed changes to be made
and had forms for all the extra details required:
name, email and physical addresses, phone number and payment details (only credit
cards are supported). While this makes for lots of scrolling, we prefer to be able
to see and check everything the company needs on a single page.
It reduces the chances of nasty surprises, or clicking
Back and running into issues with expired pages or resubmitted
data.
There were some plusses here, too. 3.40) price was available if we signed up for a year only (some hosts only give you the best price on three-year plans).
19.30) a year - and that wasn't checked by default.
It's easy to miss, but you can also choose your preferred
data centre. The locations are London, Amsterdam, Milan, Chicago and Singapore.
Don't worry if you're unsure, because you can always change your mind later.
There's also a monthly ‘trial’ option, as well.
11.90), and as SiteGround offers a 30-day money-back guarantee it's
hard to see why you'd go for this. But if you can think of a
reason, it's available. Submitting our order initially displayed an error complaining that our password was too short.
Additional services Each hosting plan is likely to come with additional services and frills, which
are well worth taking into consideration when making
your final decision. ASP, PHP, CGI and MySQL: Advanced scripting
and database functionality can greatly enhance the design of
your website. You can, for example, include contact forms within web
pages or operate discussion forums and newsgroups.
Email: You will often get Email accounts with your hosting account.
Most providers will give you a large number of POP3 mailboxes.
Be sure you get enough for all your needs without having
to pay extra. If Web-based email in addition to standard access using an email client is available that too is an advantage.
Web-Based File Access: FTP is a standard method of uploading your website.
You are required to have an FTP client to upload
your files but its always better if your hosting provider will also offer in addition Web-based file
access. This is handy if changes have to be made remotely and no ftp client software is available.
Log Files and Statistics: A hosting provider that gives you access to logs and statistics about your website in an easy
to use interface is highly recommended. Content Management Systems:
If your provider will give you free CMS tools for your websites the better.
Auto Installation Tools: Auto installation tools for your website such as fantastico are a great advantage.
Affiliate Incentives: A good host will often have enough clout to
negotiate a few deals for their customers. 50 credit
on the Yahoo Publisher network are not uncommon.
The research covers the current market size of the Global Internet Hosting Service market and its
growth rates based on 5 year history data along with company profile of key players/manufacturers.
The in-depth information by segments of Internet Hosting Service market helps monitor future profitability but the opposite holds true as well.
That many people online means there should be
enough market share to go around.
Bottom Line: An internet business is a great way to generate
a second income or a primary money generating system that once
set up is completely automated. However if you are starting out now be
aware that you have millions of already established internet marketing businesses
to compete with. Before deciding on what your internet business is going to be make sure that
there is a large enough target audience to make it worth your while.
There's no point marketing something that
nobody is interested in. Cons: Excellent as a lot of these
free tools are, they cannot compete with some fee-based tools as far as in-depth
analytics go.
Bottom Line: Plenty of novice internet marketers doom themselves right from the get-go because they don't bother doing any prior research which is
tantamount to firing first before readying yourself, aiming
then finally firing! The internet has come of age. A few years
back getting a credible web presence usually translated into having to shell out exorbitant hosting fees.
That has since changed! 4/month. Even better yet you can conduct
an online business without ever having to pay web hosting
fees. All you have to do is use a blog! Pros: Starting an online business today need not cost you a single cent upfront!
Cons: Just starting out means that you've got your work cut out
to distinguish your internet business from the rest of
the crowd; a very big crowd!
Bottom Line: You really no longer have an excuse for not getting
a web presence. The old oh-I-cannot-afford-hosting-fees
excuse no longer cuts it! As previously mentioned it is now possible to conduct internet
marketing without putting down a single cent. And as for not knowing HTML (web coding language)!
That excuse too is dead and buried.; knowing html or other web coding language is a thing of the past, these days you can make do quite nicely without.
4. What Is The Fastest/Easiest Way To Make Money Online?
Hands down the cheapest, easiest and quickest way to make money online is through affiliate marketing.
And what is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is simply a partnership between an affiliate (you) and a merchant (the
merchant being the owner of the product). Affiliate marketing may also be referred to as affiliate programs, referral programs and associate programs.
Here's how affiliate marketing works--You (the affiliate) promote or
advertise a product on your site that belongs to somebody else (the merchant).
Basically, the merchant supplies you with a variety of text links, banners or graphics embedded with your own affiliate code.
You then strategically insert any number of those coded links or graphics onto your
website (or blog) with the purpose of referring your visitors to the merchant's site.
When one of your site's visitors clicks on any one of those code-imbedded
links they are transferred to the merchant's site.
If that visitor then purchases something from that merchant you get paid.
It's as simple as that. Pros: You don't have to spend a cent to be an affiliate
marketer. The best affiliate programs furnish you with all the
necessary tools to conduct a successful promotional campaign of
their products. Best of all, there are more than enough well-established and trustworthy affiliate program directories from which you can choose almost
any product to promote! Cons: You need to make sure that the products
that you promote actually achieve what the claim to do
(which in some cases entails trying them out beforehand).
Also you are going to be faced with the issue of being just another
affiliate marketer promoting the same products
as thousands of other internet marketers. Bottom Line: Affiliate marketing is the cheapest way to start
out. However bear in mind that the internet marketers who make the big bucks do so through selling their own products.
So in essence you should promote other people's stuff
up until you've become internet marketing savvy enough to sell
your own product, be it digital goods (downloadable stuff)
or whatever. In the online world once you've got lots of internet traffic
you're made, without it, you're dead! Internet traffic is the true engine that
drives any successful internet business. Those websites or blogs that are raking it
in do so for one reason and one reason alone; they get tons
of online traffic! So how do you get traffic?
There're a variety of ways to get traffic, some of them free and others not so.
A well organized and interesting blog is a good platform with which to gain web 2.0 based internet traffic.
B. Write Articles: Cheap and highly effective method to attract quick relevant traffic to
your website or blog. It does require a certain amount of effort on your part (in other words conveying useful information) to make sure that your article attracts
a ton of visitors to your site. The best bit about
article writing is that you have literally thousands
of article directories where you can submit your articles to.
C. Posting In Forums: Most people trawl forums to find answers that resolve their problems.
You can capitalize on this by checking out forums relevant to your market and posting replies to current or recent questions to
which you know the answers. If you post a genuinely
useful and helpful reply you could end up with several grateful customers.
Well, it's very probable those people whose problem
you just solved will click on your signature link to see what further useful information they can get from your site.
Most forums enable you to promote your site by allowing
you to paste a link pointing to your site at the end of your
posting (different forums have different guidelines so it's good to read
them up). D. Pay-Per-Click Advertising of which perhaps the most
famous (or infamous depending on your perspective)
is Google Adwords. Paying to get internet traffic through advertising is what
is commonly known as PPC or pay-per-click.
At its most basic, pay per-click marketing involves you composing an ad and bidding for
a relevant searched-for keyword. Your ad will then be listed on the relevant search engine index pages for that same keyword you bid.
E. Internet Traffic From The Search Engines: This is the best traffic
to draw to your website because it is the most qualified and targeted type of online traffic.
What do I mean when I say the most qualified type of internet traffic?
I am talking about people who actively typed in a search term/phrase (keyword) into any search engine online.
Such a person is more likely to purchase, subscribe or do whatever you most desire your visitors to do when they get to your site.
Getting this kind of traffic requires search engine optimization (seo) of your website or blog.
Pros: There're multiple avenues to draw
internet traffic to your website/blog these days, all of which involve
a certain amount of effort, some more so than others.
A well written article costs you no more than the whirring of your brain and the tip tap of your fingers on the keyboard, yet the traffic generated from that
one article could quite easily tanslate into big sales.
Cons: Online traffic is what everybody with a web presence desires, only problem is that it happens to be rather challenging to get a significant amount of it
unless your website has been around for quite a while.
Bottom Line: Internet traffic is the lifeblood of any online business and if you intend to be an internet marketer then you
cannot do without it.
6. Play Not Follow The Leader! Masura Ibuka, a co-founder of Sony once said "You never succeed in technology, business or anything else by following others!"
That quote is equally applicable today in the internet marketing arena as it was when he said it.
If you insist on playing follow-the-leader,
then by proxy you'll always be playing catch-up which is not the
best marketing strategy. Pros: Being the leader in whatever marketing endeavor you pursue automatically
makes your brand instantly recognizable to the public
which translates into more profit because people will always think
of you first for that particular niche market. After all don't forget your ultimate internet marketing goal should be selling your own products.
7. Avoid The Minefield Of Online Scams. I'm sure you don't need to be
told that the internet is awash with scams. A good rule of thumb
to abide by is: If it seems too good to be true then it
is precisely that! Pros: A lot of internet marketers who had been operating smoothly behind a facade of respectability have since been exposed together with their scams.
Still the onus is on you to keep your wits and common sense and not get
duped!
Running an international online business with the capability to
service people from any country means that you want your site to perform well not only in local country specific results but
also global results. You may not realise this but doing a standard Google search and leaving the "full web" option selected doesn't
necessarily give you your website's true location in the Google global results.
It gives you the global results given your location. For example, the results of doing a full web search in my home city of Brisbane
Australia will be different to a full web search from Toronto Canada.
Google gives results based on your location even when you
are not stipulating a local result. If your business can service the world
then you really can't ignore the American marketplace, or if you are in the USA don't
forget about Europe, Asia and the rest. What you
want to know is when someone in the the UK does a Google search for one of your terms,
how high is your website up in the search results? With this little
trick you can figure it out. URL at the end of the Google
search query. This tells Google to spit out the results for the query
based on UK servers. I can't guarantee 100% conclusively that this works as
I expect it does, but it definitely does something and you
should try it yourself and see if your site shows up in a different place in the results.
The "gl" stands for Geographic Location and of course you can interchange
the last letters to test different country results around
the world.
 Choosing a website hosting company
typically involves weighing up many factors, such as price, features, support,
reputation and more. The environmental impact of a
web host probably won't rank high on most people's priority lists, if they
think about it at all - but that could be a mistake. Web hosting is very energy-intensive.
Data centers may have tens of thousands of high-powered computers, most of these with permanently
high CPU and drive usage, generating so much heat that the provider will usually need a massive cooling system to keep temperatures manageable.
The math can be surprising. Web Neutral Project founder Jack Amend calculates that powering the average website produces 4,500 pounds of CO2 a year, equivalent to driving the average new car for more than 10,000 miles.
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