Web Hosting thats right for you
You’ve decided that you want a website, you learn that you will need to get some kind of hosting package. But what do you choose? 50 mb of space with 2 gigs of bandwidth or do you need 2 gig’s of harddrive space and 25 gigs bandwidth?
Do you get your own domain name or do you get one somewhere else? How many email addresses do yo need?
If you are starting a new company
You will need to have a hosting package that gives you storage space online and email addresses for as many people as youo have in your company. You will have to have a domain registered to you.
With a domain name, you will have to think about what you want your domain name to be. Preferably the name of your company. If you can, get a domain name that is relevant to your country. eg. If you are in South Africa, get a .co.za domain. If you are in Australia, get an .au domain. Keep that in mind when you register a domain name.
If you are looking for a blog or free website.
wordpress an blogger are both great free services that allows you to create and manage your very own blog. It is still accesable by everyone and Search engines pick it up and indexes it.
If you just need an email address.
There are many services that gives you a free email address. Gmail, yahoo, msn, hotmail, webmail ect. You just sign up with them, and setup your favourite email client to download that mail.
When you decide on what hosting solution you will need, keep these things in mind.
Robert
So close, but no Target met.
Gitui.com is a fairly new blog. Its been going on since early this year. I have only now had a better flow of traffic on the blog. People are only starting to find it now.
Yesterday I set out to get a 100 people to my blog. I was so very close.
I think that its quite important to set goals and try to meet them. Not to be unrealistic. Be within reason. Yes, its dissapointing when you don’t meet it, but it feels so great when you do. If you get very close its gives you persaverence. So I’m going to set out to get my 100 visitors. meet my goal.
Maybe you can help?
What kind of visitor are you?
I visit alot of blogs during the day. Some of them I hang around for a while, others I look at and leave quickly. Today I started thinking, “What kind of visitor am I.”
You get kind of visitors:
1. The Fly by visitor.
This is a kind of visitor that comes to your site, takes one look at it, and moves on. They generally are not all that interested in what you have to say and what you have on your Site/blog.
When I come across a blog about Growing vegetables, I leave quite quickly. I have no Interest in Growing stuff.
2. The Click Happy visitor
These visitor generally don’t stay very long, they click more than the minutes they stay. This is Ok, They are interested in what you have to say, but not really into reading what you wrote.
3. The comment Friendly visitor
These visitors love leaving comments. They like to tell you what is on their mind. Their comments might not always be what you want it to be, but they will comment on it. Some of them might leave comments like “nice post” or something simmilair to that. Its not really worth much, but it still counts.
4. The interested visitor
These Visitors are great! They are actually really interested in what you have to say. They might be visitors that came from search engines or are subscribed to your RSS feeds. This means they are looking for what you have written. These people also like leaving comments. Their comments are more constuctive and worth something. They might be questions, and they love for you to answer those Questions.
So tell me, what kind of visitor are you? What are you interested in?
How much Is traffic worth?
Traffic is what makes or breaks the success of a website.
Without traffic to your website, you might aswell not have a website. There are many ways you can get traffic to your site, You can do the right amount of Search Engine optimization. Sothat Search engines like Google and the like can pick your site up. You can share links with your friends on facebook and other social media websites.
You can do some ofline advertising. On your car, business cards, flyers ect. If you have a service that sells things online. you really need visitors to come and buy stuff from you.
If you really need visitors, you can Buy Visitors. There are many mediums out there that allows you to buy traffic. The most common and most popular is probably Google Adwords. In plain english… you pay Google to advertise your site.
If you have a R100 to use, you use it. You can set how much you want to pay per click.
Its advertising using links. So in my eyes, you pay for traffic. Whats great about Google Adwords, the people who click on the ads are actually interested in what you have.
I pay about 25cents per click. How much is Traffic worth to you?
What is domain Propagation?
I Recently moved the domain www.global-video-pages.com from a server in Germany, to a server here in South Africa, It took about a week for the site to get back online. Why so long?
It was because of DNS Propagation.
So what is DNS propagation?
Once you make changes to your domain with the registrar you purchased your domain from, the changes will take anywhere from 5 minutes to 72 hours for propagation to occur depending on your ISP and how often they update the DNS records.
Domain propagation is the process of your registrar handing off the changes of your domain to root DNS servers, ISPs acquire records from the root servers, ISPs to other ISPs and so on until you see the changes reflect on your computer with your internet service provider. Some service providers update their records more often than others and receive changes faster. As a result of this, often you will not be able to get to your website by its’ domain name but a friend can. Simply wait out until the changes propagate to your ISP.
My blog was down yesterday and the night before. I wanted to change the IP address of my domain. Gitui.com. After about 48 hours I gave up and chaged it back to the old IP address, and it worked fine. Because of that I knew that the DNS propagation was not even started. Because all the records still pointed to the old IP address.
That is briefly what DNS/Domain Propagation is. It will affect your site and all your emails.
