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'Attract Clients Now' the Online Newsletter from Valiss, Helping You Attract More Clients With Less Effort In this week's issue ??“ Domain Name Registration and Webhosting Explained As I write this week's newsletter, dark clouds are moving in and our weather is taking a quick turn towards fall (I know officially it's fall but we only have 2 seasons in California, sunny and rainy). We were having a nice, long stretch of warm, sunny days in Northern California and it seemed like summer wasn't going to end. We've been spared the bad weather that's been hammering the rest of the country but it looks like our first storm of the rainy season is coming. I've been getting a lot of questions lately about domain name registration and web hosting. It can get very confusing because sometimes your domain name is registered with the same company that does your webhosting but not always. Your domain name can be registered with one company and your webhosting can be handled by a totally different company. With the consolidation of tech companies after "dot bomb", your domain could be registered with a company that no longer exists which is really fun to track down. I'm going to do my best to explain how things work in this week's article. If you want to learn more about your website, your webhost, your domain name, your DNS and other 'techeeze', sign up for my new teleclass, The ABC's Of Internet Marketing...How To Use Your Website As A Marketing Tool. I'll be explaining the technical acronyms in plain English so you can actually have a conversation with your web developer and understand what they are saying! The teleclass is going to be on October 26th at 11 AM Pacific and will last one hour. Sign up today at www.valiss.com/teleclass ==================================================== Hot Links To view this newsletter in full color visit www.valiss.com/newsletters Marketing Tool Of The Week Go Daddy ??“ www.valiss.com/specials/godaddy.htm Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com) is one of the most popular webhosting firms providing everything you need to launch a website. You can register a domain name, transfer a domain name, host your website, and promote your website all using the tools provided by Go Daddy. You can even create your own website in minutes using their website templates. I haven't found another provider that gives you a soup-to-nuts solution at such an affordable price with outstanding tech support. Free Teleclass, The ABC's Of Internet Marketing...How To Use Your Website As A Marketing Tool. October 26th at 11 AM Pacific. Sign up today at www.valiss.com/teleclass Send me your ideas for future newsletter topics valiss-info@valiss.com =============================================== Domain Name Registration and Webhosting Explained =============================================== When you launch a new website you must register a unique domain name with an authorized registrar. When the internet was first starting, all domain names were registered through one company, Network Solutions. Today, there are hundreds if not thousands of websites where you can register your domain name. Some websites charge as little as $4.95 per year for your domain name while others charge as much as $35 per year for the exact same service. Why pay $35 when you can register your domain name for much less at another website? The interesting thing is that Network Solutions is still the keeper of the domain name database and the other websites are domain name ???resellers'. Why does Network Solutions charge $35 per year if they are the keeper of the database? Who knows and who cares! Register your domain with one of the cheaper providers and you'll be fine. People often get confused when they get a notice that their domain name is expiring. They often think this means their webhosting contract is expiring which is not always the case. Most of the time you get a better deal if you renew your domain name for longer than one year so I recommend renewing it for as long as you can. This way you make sure you'll keep the domain as long as you want it and you lock in at a lower rate. If you forget to renew it, you could possibly lose your domain name to someone else which can really disrupt your business. Also make sure you 'lock' your domain in your domain management account so unauthorized people can't transfer it away from you. I have many domain names registered and many webhosting accounts with different providers. I do this to test each vendor to see how well their service works. It's getting pretty confusing managing it and I don't recommend trying this. I recommend keeping your domains and webhosting with the same provider so you can easily keep track of everything in one place. Now when it comes to webhosting, cheaper is not always better. You can get webhosting for free from some companies and the level of service you receive will reflect what you're paying. You're website will be hosted on a server with hundreds or even thousands of other websites. Your website will probably respond slowly and you may have frequent outages. Worse, your email may or may not get delivered because of the slow server and network bandwidth problems. Don't cut costs on your webhosting company. A penny saved will be many dollars of lost business. Webhosting Explained Web hosts are service companies that provide space on their servers for internet users. Web hosts provide online systems for internet connectivity and for storing information, image mediums and other internet content. For the company interested in conducting business on the web, the proper choice of web host is a crucial step in any internet marketing plan. There are several types of web hosting available. Free hosting is the least costly, but the most limited with regard to services and space; though a free web host may be a consideration for an individual professional or small business to start out. The restrictions on advertising, bandwidth and permissible edit sites, may be limiting for a company looking for rapid growth. Shared hosting places your website on the same server as several (potentially hundreds) of other sites. Although these are less restricted than free hosts, they do impose some limitations on site capabilities. Reseller hosting allows an e-business to obtain a large amount of bandwidth and space on its account and divide the space as it sees fit. This is similar to a shared hosting because your server is placed on the same server as others. But you can decide on the amount of the divisions and with whom to share. Less Restricted Web Hosting Choices Dedicated hosting and Virtual Private Server hosting provide very similar results. A dedicated hosting is relatively expensive, but is less restricted than those previously discussed. With dedicated hosting, you, as the user, have a server to yourself. Thus, there are very little restrictions and you are on your own with regard to services. Virtual private server technology enables one server to host multiple virtual environments. These environments have the characteristics of individual stand-alone servers. Essentially, the results are the same, though a virtual private server hosting is less expensive. With Colocated hosting, the user installs a self-purchased server at the data center of the host. The services often provided for other types of hosting, must be paid for by the colocated hosting user, thus the costs associated with this choice tend to be high. In order to use a web-hosting service, your e-business must already have an existing website ready to go. So as you develop your website, one of the crucial planning components is deciding what web hosting service your e-business and site will require. Valiss is the internet marketing expert. They will help you design and implement your entire internet marketing plan, and will then help you navigate the many issues involving your web hosting choice. =============================================== ???Attract Clients While You Sleep??? Business Coaching Program Work with your own mastermind group to create your personal internet marketing strategy Details at www.valiss.com/specials =============================================== Feel free to contact me anytime if you have any questions. Until next time, Ted Ted Prodromou valiss-info@valiss.com 1-(888)-663-0074 Copyright ?© 2005 Valiss IT, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Valiss IT, Inc. 20 El Cerrito Ave San Anselmo, CA 94960 valiss-info@valiss.com If you no longer wish to receive communication from us: http://autocontactor.com/app/r.asp?ID=46311401&ARID=0 To update your contact information: http://autocontactor.com/app/r.asp?c=1&ID=46311401 |
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