Shawn Burgy asked:


Dedicated Servers and Webhosting:

When you think about normal webhosting it’s often on a shared hosting plan. This type of hosting is usually cheaper than a Dedicated Server or Reseller Hosting. These types of Hosting are usually unmanaged, But with the right company there usually there to help unless you run into a problem. There have been many horror stories from some of these companies. When something like this happens, It’s usually better to find another Hosting solution.

Shared webhosting may also be an option depending on your personal Internet Business needs. Most Small Businesses will eventually need to move forward with Dedicated IP options. These options are of utmost importance if you wish for your Business to do any type of Ecommerce. In these instances you will need a Dedicated IP and Class 2 SSL Certificate.

You do not have to have Dedicated Hosting to implement a Dedicated IP and Class 2 Turbo SSL (Secure Socket Layer). The Dedicated IP can be purchased from your Shared Hosting company and added to your existing Hosting account. This will probably run your about $30.00, $10.00 a year for the Dedicated IP and a one time $20.00 fee. Considering that you have to have them to make your site secure it’s well worth the added cost. Any type of hosting you choose, Your Hosting should be able to provide you with the solution you need. With the SSL you will most likely have to shop around for it. Also your Payment modules may also be a factor in your decision of a Certificate.

Google Check out only accepts certain SSL providers for there shopping cart. So be sure your aware of the ones that your solution accepts. Price will defiantly be a factor, Especially if you run a Small Business as I do. There will be many that are out of the question for the Small Business because of there high cost, Some as much as $5,000 for 2 years. But, There are affordable SSL solutions for around $30.00 a year, Which won’t break the bank but will also give you the security that you are looking for.

If you are looking for cheaper dedicated servers, you should be careful while choosing the right specification and package. Things to consider are operating system, data backup and monitoring service, hardware options, space, bandwidth and technical support. Ask the hosting providers to give you a few websites for references, read hosting reviews before you sign up and be sure that the price is affordable.



Alicia

James Betchley asked:


 

Business Web Hosting

When choosing a business web host there are a few more factors to consider than when just buying a family or personal web space, if your site is to do anything other than purely market your business or if you are setting up an E-Business your hosting plan will need to have some specific features.

Statistics, tell you who is visiting your site, when they are doing it and which pages they are looking at, it will also tell you which page they land on first, all of which help you to market you site more efficiently most even record which browser visitors to your site are using which can be invaluable information for targeting software for example.

Email, is a basic requirement of every web hosting package, but a business site will need more accounts and the ability to manage mailing lists, for communicating with your subscribers an incredibly valuable marketing tool. Another Email utility is that of an autoresponder, which sends out adknowledgments to Email enquireys and also, cleverly saves the contact information automatically to your contact database.

SSL, or Secure Socket Layer security is a must have for anyone intending to take payments over the internet, it is a way of encrypting transfers that makes paying on line safer and more attractive for your customers.

SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation is the process of getting your website indexed and then ranked by the top search engines, such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN, for the uninitiated this can be a very daunting and time consuming process and many good web hosts provide a Free rudimentary SEO service, in any event nearly all will submit your site to all of the top search engines for indexing. An additional incentive being offered although not really SEO ,is the inclusion of Free Google Adwords or similar coupons which help to get you started with one of the many pay per click ad campaign providers. 

As you are no doubt aware it can take months of careful marketing for your website to start to rank in the search engines, this is all time when your site it not making you any money, so you may be loath to shell out for a top of the range business plan for this period. Fear not help is at hand in the form of upgradeable packages or packages that enable you to bolt on extras, these plans enable your site to grow as required, and allow you to had more space, ecommerce options and addition domains as necessary.

In summary choose well, and don’t be afraid to pay for what you get, check out our great business web hosting solutions

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Julio Sanoja asked:


 

1. DOMAIN NAMES

 

Buy the domain name yourself in a leader supplier such as Network Solutions Domain name is an asset, and therefore should be bought by the SME´s under their names. Do not let third parties to buy your domain name. Keep control of your domain name yourself and this will save you time and money in the future.

 

2. WEBSITE AND SEO SUPPLIERS

 

Buy all the related services to one supplier, so your total cost of ownership will be lower, and this will give you piece of mind in the future. SME´s should buy all the following related services to one supplier:

 



Internet consulting

Website design

Website development

Website maintenance or webmaster services

Website hosting

Website upgrades

Website SEO services

Website Google PPC services



 

3. TECHNOLOGY

 

Develop the website with Microsoft .NET technology. SME´s website Total Cost of Ownership is lower with .NET technology than with PHP technology. There are many papers in Internet that show this fact. .NET technology has much more added value than PHP technology.

 

4. METHODOLOGY

 

Your website and SEO supplier should use a classical methodology during the project, with different phases, tasks, and deliverables. Normally these type of projects have the following phases:

 



Internet Consulting (these phase will give the three main aspects of the project: scope, time and price). Please visit the Project Management Institute for project management methodologies.

Functional design

Graphical design

Development

Test

Hosting

SEO

Maintenance and upgrades



 

Each of these phases has different tasks and deliverables that should be reviewed and approved by the SME´s before implementing them.

 

Both, the supplier and the SME´s should have a project manager or project leader responsable for the whole project. On the SME´s side, this person should be a business person rather than a technical person.

 

5. STANDARDS

 

There are not yet ISO standards for the website industry, however, the industry currently uses the following two standards:

 



ISO 9241-11 for usability guidelines (efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction)

ISO 13407 for User Centered Design (UCD) guidelines



 

ISO 9241 (Ergonomics of human system-interaction) has 17 parts containing  requirements for hardware and recommendations for software (with a requirement that the applicability of all relevant guidelines is assessed).  The procedure of assessing conformity with ISO 9241 consists of checking the conformity of the product with all the relevant requirements and recommendations in the relevant parts of ISO 9241.  As there are many hundreds of guidelines, this requires familiarity with the contents of the different parts of the standard.

 

ISO 13407 (Human-centred design processes for interactive systems) contains guidelines for human centred design processes.  It is supported by ISO TR 18529 (Human-centred lifecycle process descriptions) that contains a formalised model intended to be used for assessment of the human-centred processes described in ISO 13407. This type of assessment can either be carried out formally (similar to a CMM assessment) where evidence of conformity is required, or more informally in a workshop, where the aim is to help an organisation improve its processes.

 

SME´s should ask their website supplier to use these standards.

 

 

6. BUDGETS

 

SME´s should have two budgets for their website and SEO services. One project budget and one annual hosting,  maintenance and SEO budget. Depending upon the website scope, the budgets should be:

 



Between USD $ 2,000 and USD $ 20,000 for the project budget.

Between USD $ 1,000 and USD $ 10,000 for the annual hosting, maintenance and SEO budget.



 

 

Many thanks for your attention!

 





William

Gerald Faustia asked:


When the small business owner is looking for a web hosting service there are a few things that they have to consider that the owner of a larger business won’t have to take into account. The reason for this is among other things, a smaller business will tend to have a smaller less complex website that they need to have hosted.

When a larger business owner researches web hosting services for their web site, often their main concern is how many feature and services that the web hosting service has to offer. The smaller business owner however; will be much more interested in keeping an eye on the bottom line and will want only the minimum amount of services and features that they will absolutely need.

Due to the fact that there are so many web hosting services on the net and they will each offer a wide range of services and options, just blindly searching through all of the hosting options that are available on the net can be very difficult and confusing to say the least. Finding a web hosting plan in the $5 range for a small business owner is no problem at all but they are service plans that are designed for the simplest websites that have minimal requirements.

If your website is under one-hundred pages and doesn’t have any streaming videos than one of these basic plans may work just fine for you. One option that you may want to consider if you have more content in your website and a basic plan just wont do is to opt for a shared hosting plan as they will have more bandwidth and memory capacity.

However; there are other things to consider other then the technical aspects of a web hosting service, particularly if you are going to be using your website for active Internet marketing. If your website is only being used for advertisement or marketing of services and products only in your local community that is one thing but if you are planning on branching out on the net then you have other factors to consider.

One of the biggest things that you will have to take into account is SEO which is the abbreviation for search engine optimization. Basically, search engine optimization is the way that you are going to compete with similar business on the Internet. There are two ways to go about SEO and one is to pay your web host or an SEO service to do it or you can do it yourself.

Either way you should do your best to become familiar with SEO techniques and service requirements before you head into it. The reason for this is that there are basic tools and services that you will need a web host to have if you are going to be doing your own SEO. There are several methods of SEO and a web hosing service that offers SEO services will offer them at various prices.



Cheryl