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July 26
by Smitha

Private Domain Name Registration - Why and How?

Private Registration helps hide your contact information - name, phone number, address, email address etc. - from your domain WHOIS record’s publicly accessible portion. A ‘private registration’ listing is populated with alternate contact information.

Benefits of Private Domain Registration:

  • Prevents privacy intrusions.
  • Deters spammers, identity thieves, fraudsters, telemarketers, harassers, stalkers and data miners.
  • Gives you full control over the domain names in your account unlike “proxy” services.

How Private Domain Registration Works…

Let’s look at an example that illustrates how a private domain name registration works.

A made-up person Steve Ranches is listed on the public WHOIS for his domain ’steve456ranches.com’, along with his phone, fax, email address and street address.

Domain Name: steve456ranches.com
Registrant Contact:
Steve Ranches
501-000-0001
45 St Stephen Street
Fairfax, VA 22031
US
Administrative Contact:
Steve Ranches
sr@steve456ranches.com
501-000-0001

45 St Stephen Street
Fairfax, VA 22031
US

Here’s how this information will be protected by a private registration: (more…)

Tags: address, benefits of private domain registration, fraudsters, how private domain registration works, phone number, Private Domain Name Registration, spammers, WHOIS
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July 19
by Smitha

Web Hosting Uptime and Downtime

Uptime and downtime are one of the most crucial issues website owners confront. Every minute of downtime means lost business. Your site needs to be accessible to your customers at all times if you need that edge over the competition. But the simple fact is that server downtimes cannot be avoided completely. You will invariably need to pay attention to the details when choosing a web hosting company.

Finding a web host who is able to provide good uptime is difficult given that all web hosts brag about “excellent” uptime. Uptime can range from 99% to 99.99%.

To choose a suitable host for your business with the right uptime, you must first be aware of how much downtime you would be exposed to:

·  99.99% uptime — 0.88 hours (about 50 minutes) per year of downtime  (more…)

Tags: 99.99%, hosting downtime, hosting uptime, minimize downtime, monitoring device, uptime and downtime, uptime guarantee
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July 5
by Smitha

VPS Hosting – The Advantages

Virtual Private Server (VPS) is the preferred choice when it comes to hosting a small to medium sized business. VPS provides users a virtual dedicated environment where the entire server environment is on a single physical machine along with other people’s server environments (it shares the same hardware, though). Each of the virtual servers within this environment is completely isolated from each other and functions like a stand-alone machine virtually in every respect.

Let’s take a look at some of the advantages of VPS hosting:

  • Isolation - VPS runs on an isolated environment and guarantees a portion of the server’s disk space, CPU power, bandwidth, and memory.
  • Stability -  No adverse affects on your operation caused by traffic and activities of other shared hosting customers. (more…)

Tags: Advantages of VPS hosting, hosting small businesses, virtual dedicated server, VPS hosting, VPS vs dedicated hosting, VPS vs shared hosting
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July 1
by Smitha

Why Small Businesses Should Choose a Reliable Web Host

If you are aspiring to start a small business on the web, you would probably start it on a low budget. A good deal of thought and planning is required for a business to succeed with limited financial resources given that the online business market is getting more and more competitive by the day. You can’t afford to be anything less than 100% professional for you to make your web presence felt. An essential component of this professionalism is the trust that you create, build and maintain throughout the existence of your business. This trust, and eventually the success of your online business, is dependent on you getting a reliable web provider to host your business. A reliable web host is the very foundation of your business success online.

Let’s discuss some of the services you can expect from a reliable web host and also see how crucial they would be for your business:

  • Reliable web hosts provide good quality services. ‘Cheap’ hosts offering you the earth is nothing but a marketing gimmick targeted to lure you into buying their services. Remember you get only what you pay for. So being penny wise and pound foolish can mean disaster for your business. (more…)

Tags: good quality services, reliable web host, reliable web hosting, small business success, trouble free services, website performance
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