Free Webhosting Should I consider it?

Posted on April 17, 2013 by webhostb

There are many hosting providers which provide the free web hosting. You do not need to pay anything to host your site on their server.

  • Generally they put their ads in your website or place the popup or banner in your website.
  • The free website hosts often make the money in other ways like putting the banners, popup or popup ads on your web pages.
  • Some hosts do not place any ads or banners or popup but they are in hope that you may upgrade and pay for the advance features.

Are free web hosts reliable?

Generally NO. Free web hosting is not reliable for the commercial use. Most of the free web hosts do not provide any kind of technical support for your website. You have to manage your site yourself. If the free web host allows anyone to signup and if they provide the features like PHP or CGI then some users may try to find way to abuse it, which cause the service interruption or it may possible that they need to shutdown the server which will lost your website as well as your data.

You have to choose selective free web hosts which allow hosting only quality websites. The best place to find the free web hosts is free web hosting directory. You will get the users review of the free web hosts from the web hosting directory. That may help you to choose the free host. Before you sign up for the free hosting, you have to check the disk space and bandwidth they provide. You need to go through their Terms of Services (TOS) before sign up.

It would be hard to recommend any free web host as different people need different web hosting features and most of the free web hosts provide different features. Free hosting is recommended for business. That means if your business depends on your web site then it is not recommend using free web hosting as generally they do not provide any kind of technical support and any uptime guarantee of the server.

Rather than considering free web hosting why should not we consider  web hosts which offers reliable, stable web hosting and support…!!!

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Eliminate Web Site Bad Traffic

Posted on April 1, 2013 by webhostb

Nowadays, web hosting has introduced many kind of internet traffic, which we can classified into 3 categories:

  1. Clean/good traffic
  2. Bot/crawler traffic
  3. Threat/bad traffic

Threat or bad traffic can harm the website and also can bring serious effect to the server, if you not have security in mind. Following example explained how bad traffic can bring consequences to your website:

  • You receive so many spam comments in your blog post with different IPs
  • Your website is being targeted by DOS or DDOS attack
  • Your website being injected with malicious code. This will usually happened if you have Javascript embedded in your HTML code.
  • Your website being tagged as ‘The site may harm your computer’ by Google Safe Browsing
  • You being accused by the web browser to be hosting malware

What we really want is to accept only clean traffic to our website. The most easiest way to achieve this objective is to use Cloudflare service. Cloudflare will convert your ‘naked’ and ‘exposed’ website into a protected website. The concept is they will route every single web traffic into their cloud network to filter out bad and good traffic, then just forward the good traffic to your website. This service is FREE for life!

What you need to do is:
  1. Go to cloudflare.com and register
  2. Follow the installation wizard online
  3. Change your domain name server to their name server at the domain registrar
  4. Wait for the propagation complete
  5. Done. You are protected!

Since the connections is routed to their network (because we will using their name server), they can log almost full information of our website traffic, not like Google Analytics or Quantcast, where they do tracking using Javascript which embedded into your website. Their reporting is also informative and we can see daily report on what is going on to our web traffic. Example as below:

From the screenshot above, you can see that I have report on how many good, bot and bad traffic to my website, how many bandwidth has been saved, how many processed request can be saved (by eliminating bad request) and so on.

I am not doing this for their behalf as promotion or what. It is worth to try. I just want to share with you on how to achieve best result with simplest and most effective way!

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How to move WordPress files out of root directory

Posted on April 1, 2013 by webhostb

We can find that people usually install WP at the root directories of their sites.

WordPress can be installed in sub-directory. This is because root directory of you site can be kept clean. We can find lot of files in root directory and also keeping all of them in it would create a mess for all these files.

WordPress can be installed on sub-directory and can be controlled from root directory

We have never thought of it. But yes, we can do it. You will have to just check for settings. You can find the same below:

Above are the general setting details.

Here you can find WordPress URL and Blog URL. At WordPress URL, you can set where you wish to have actual files for WordPress and second use to point where the root directory of your site should be. In this way, you have created in new  sub-directory and use it to store the cores files here and still control the WordPress from root directory. You can check the steps below.

 

  1. Move (or intially put) ALL of the WordPress core files into a subdirectory. (e.g. “/wordpress/”
  2. Change the General settings (see pic above) to the proper new locations.
  3. Copy the index.php and .htaccess file back to the root
  4. Open the index.php file and change the line: require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’); torequire(‘./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’); . If you use a different subdirectory, obviously “wordpress” would be whatever you named that subdirectory.
  5. Log into the backend. Note that you probably used to log in at /wp-admin/ but it will be /wordpress/wp-admin/ now.
  6. Go to Setting > Permalinks and save that section, rewriting and updating your .htaccess file
  7. Make sure all is well on the Front End.
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Hardening WordPress

Posted on March 29, 2013 by webhostb

Security in WordPress is taken very seriously, but as with any other system there are potential security issues that may arise if some basic security precautions aren’t taken. This article will go through some common forms of vulnerabilities, and the things you can do to help keep your WordPress installation secure.

- Update all scripts and plugins/components/modules/themes/templates on your account to the latest stable versions. Old applications can have serious security holes that allow exploits such as injections into pages that allow files to be uploaded to your account. The only way to maintain site security is by keeping all applications and scripts up-to-date.

- Change your main account’s password along with any other passwords you have (mail accounts, FTP accounts). . It is recommended to create a complex password with alphanumeric characters using both upper and lowercase such as Aa1Bb2Cc3. Additionally, you would want to ensure that you do not use a password related to the domain name or site content.

- Avoid saving passwords in any software such as your FTP password. In your FTP client, please begin using TLS encryption for FTP transfers as that will encrypt the password during the data exchange. In FileZilla, this is supported by going to Site Manager and setting your server’s type as "FTPES – FTP over explicit TLS/SSL"

- Scan your local computer for any viruses and trojans frequently. If you have not performed this task recently, please do perform a computer scan as soon as possible to ensure that computer is clean.

- We would suggest disabling remote file inclusions by inserting the following line in your public_html/php.ini file (if not file is there, you may create a new one):

allow_url_fopen=Off
allow_url_include=Off

disable_functions=popen,passthru,escapeshellarg,es capeshellcmd,exec,passthru,proc_close,proc_get_sta tus,proc_nice,proc_open, proc_terminate,shell_exec,system,blob,exec,escapes hellarg,pfsockopen,stream_get_transports,stream_se t_blocking and to help prevent XSS attacks, add the following lines of code to your .htaccess file :

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*iframe.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index_error.php [F,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)
RewriteRule .* – [F]

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SEO – How Pay Per Click Gives You Control

Posted on August 2, 2012 by webhostb

Even if you are running a small byplay you can take reward of a pay per detent design. Pay per click search engine advertising offers any type of business a cheap form of promotion. The saucer is that a pay per click ad campaign is that it can also help PLAY? buying customer not just surfers

Keyword elite is a great keyword enquiry tool. Keywordelite can search the most nonrecreational keywords from google for you. It’s a great keyword tool .

A big perk to using Another bring in of using pay per click search engines to advertise your output is that you are in control of how much you want to spend on an advertising campaign. This is not necessarily true of other forms of advertising. You are in control of how much money you want to deposit into your pay per click advertising account and you can also observe wherever and on what keyword it is genuinely exhausted. You also determine how and when the ads were run and just how much you are volition to pay each time an concerned surfer clicks on your ad. This is much cheaper than rental an agency do this for you. It also places all accountability for your mistakes into one lap – yours!

If you want to make money on the Internet, then you should be managing a pay per click advertising campaign (or ‘sponsored heel’ as they are sometimes called) on at least one of the most popular search engines.

Another fantastic benefit to using pay-per-click search engines that cannot be unnoted as a search engine optimization manoeuvre is that you have the ability to birth your product information only to those who are interested. Thanks to the keyword search outline you can automatize your ad so that it is targeted to those who are already likely prospects. In essence the search engine itself is creating leads and doing market research for you. Yet another big perk is that this naturally raises your rankings in the search engine pages as well because the search engines love ads and links that are focused!

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Social Media Marketing For Toronto and Area

Posted on August 2, 2012 by webhostb

With a population of over 5 million in the GTA, the market is huge, but so is the competition. Social media marketing offers an affordable and relatively easy marketing solution. The key is to learn how to do it right. Social media marketing training can teach you how to harness the power of social media.

The Value of Social Media Marketing

Social media marketing is a multi-channel approach to marketing. It uses social media sites, social bookmarking, blogging and articles to help generate interest in your business. It’s really like the next incarnation of word-of-mouth marketing. Instead of people chatting about you, they are linking to you and sharing those links with friends.

Consider an example:

• The company has a Facebook page. It adds blog posts as notes on its Facebook page. People finding the company through Facebook share the blog posts with other Facebook users. Some users seek out the blog for more information, and find their way to the company’s main site.
• The company also writes a series of articles and posts them in an online article database. These articles also link to the company’s site and appear in Google search results.
• The company’s articles and blog posts are included on a social bookmarking site, increasing the chances of links being shared.
None of these initiatives have cost the company money, yet they have increased the company’s inbound links and attracted interested prospects. They have also led people to share links to their blog posts and articles, which, in turn, link to their main site.

Start With Social Media Marketing Training

Now that your interest in social media marketing is piqued, you’re probably wondering how to get started.

Training is the key. Without it, you’ll be hopelessly lost in a sea of social media sites, and probably exhaust yourself trying to keep up with them all.

An investment in social media marketing training will pay off immediately. Don’t get lost in the shuffle of Toronto businesses. Get started with social media marketing today and get ahead of the competition.

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Why Get an Unmetered Bandwidth Plan

Posted on August 2, 2012 by webhostb

Among the newest trends in budget web site hosting is offering unmetered bandwidth. You could be wondering whether or not it is a good deal if you are looking for web site hosting. Unmetered bandwidth means you can use as much as you might need, right? Well, perhaps not.

First of all, in order to qualify for these kinds of offers you have to have a specific type of website. You can’t have a website that hosts image galleries, or 1 that offers downloads, portals, chat, or popular forums. These offers are also not available for adult content websites. When all’s said and done, the kinds of internet sites that would be most likely to be able to save lots of money with this offer are excluded.

Should you meet the requirements for this unmetered bandwidth offer, however, you can at least rest assured that you won’t get hit with extra charges for going over the bandwidth that you are allowed. These sites do actually keep track of your bandwidth still, and many of them have different levels, so as you use more bandwidth you’ll have to request to have more available, though you will not need to pay more for it. At the time of these requests though the company may try to talk you into switching to a different web hosting package that costs more (but offers more services of course).

In spite of this, most websites really won’t use all that much bandwidth if they fall into the type of web site that can take advantage of these offers. That means that if you may get a alike priced hosting package that offers 10 GB of bandwidth, you would most likely be safe going with whichever host has the best reputation between the two.

Keep in mind that most hosts have a clause in the fine print of the terms of service that says that if you use so much of the resources that your site is affecting the performance of other web-sites on the host they can kick you off. So in the event you somehow manage to fall into the restrictions that they’ve got in place for acceptance into an unmetered bandwidth plan and still use a ton of bandwidth, they can make you switch to a different (more expensive) service plan.

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VPS Hosting Basics, Benefits And Types

Posted on August 2, 2012 by webhostb

For those whose needs fall somewhere in the middle between a dedicated server and shared hosting, there is always VPS hosting. The inherent concept is that the customer gets a virtualized server with its own OS instance. The server is actually one among many virtual partitions using shared resources on the same physical server.

This physical server sits behind all the virtual private servers (VPS), handling resource allocations. As far as the customer is concerned, a VPS looks and behaves just like a stand alone server with a single OS instance. The customer can reboot the ‘machine’ and install, delete or otherwise manage the operating system and the web server and anything else required.

These actions do not in any way impact the other VPS on the physical server. Resource allocations are managed by the server, and so is the virtual hardware response required by each VPS. This separates the clients from each other, and while they share the same server’s resources, it does not restrict them from having different OS or configurations.

The best part of using VPS is that it offers use of a server at a price more comparable to shared hosting than that of a dedicated server. Dedicated servers can cost hundreds of dollars a month. For small to medium scale companies that have just outgrown shared hosting, it might not be a feasible option to make that kind of investment. The only solution here is VPS.

All these limitations are removed, when a customer switches to VPS. With super user authority and access to the root, it’s as good as having a physical machine to play with. Whatever is required can be installed and managed, including the operating system, web server and control panel.

With VPS, there are no such limitations. The client gets root access, starts raw and can install whatever OS and type of control panel required. The client has super user permissions to make use of the resources as necessary.

Those looking at VPS hosting have two basic choices – managed and unmanaged. With the former, the web hosting company takes care of the server and all the client has to do is use it, same as shared hosting. In the latter type, the customer gets access to the machine and the network, and nothing much else. The administration of the OS and web server settings and management are entirely the client’s responsibility.

To sum it up, while VPS is not exactly a dedicated server, it does offer the same control and many of the same benefits, but without the cost. What this means is that if paying for a dedicated server is possible, well and good. If that seems difficult, VPS hosting is a pretty good alternative.

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Three SEO Legends

Posted on August 2, 2012 by webhostb

SEO is considered to be one of the most reliable and oldest methods to drive traffic to your site. Your site receives visitors who take action because they are both targeted and qualified. And the best part is that it doesn’t cost you a penny to get this traffic. Many people are still quite far behind and aren’t sure how to rank their site well in the SERPs. Due to the meteoric rise to “fame” of SEO, many fantasies have appeared and are being touted as fact, making it difficult for people to get a good grasp of how search engines actually operate. Making them effective for you requires a very good grasp of the different SEO elements and how they interact with each other. This article will dispel some of those fallacies and you need to be aware of them before you begin working with it.Learn more about SEO Myths Here!

The idea that you need to register your URL with the search engines is one of these myths that is quite common. As the internet expands faster with each passing day, so too do the search engines evolve and adapt. Therefore, you are no longer required to register your URL manually to get it listed in the search engines. The fastest way to make sure your site is indexed is by listing your address on a number of top forums and Web 2.0 sites because they get crawled regularly by search engine spiders. Another reason why you shouldn’t directly submit your URL to the search engines is because it might actually make the whole process even longer. So the best option is to get your website listed with a few popular sites and you’ll see it getting indexed in no time. Moving on to our next SEO myth, many people think that they should only be optimizing one keyword on each of their pages. Although many supposed SEO experts teach this one key phrase per page idea, it is still a falsehood. People who work on this strategy believe that the more focused your page is, the better it will rank. First of all, any page that is written with the idea of targeting one keyword phrase will probably come across as unnatural, which readers will pick up. A page like this is also a waste of bandwidth, as you could easily have put in more than one keyword. What is the point of targeting a single keyword when the same page could be optimizing several keyword phrases? You will get better results if you target as many keyword phrases as you can on a page. If your goal is to get targeted visitors, this is the way to do it. If you do some research on where your traffic is coming from, you’ll find that it comes from a variety of keywords. So it’s better for your search engine rank to optimize for multiple phrases.Click Here to get a Free report from AFFILORAMA!

Another myth is the fact that your site needs to be updated all the time, even though some think it has an effect on your SERP rankings. While updating your site regularly with fresh content may lead to spiders crawling your site more frequently, it will have virtually no effect on your rankings. Thus, if your site does not require an update, don’t make a forced change simply for the search engines. They will not be affected in any significant way. A little searching will reveal that many top ranking websites in popular niches haven’t been updated in ages. All in all, SEO may require significant work and effort to rank your site successfully, the in the end the return is more than worth it. The best way to learn SEO is through your own trial and error, and forget about all these fantasies that are completely false.Learn the truth about SEO Myths Here!

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How To Pick The Perfect Web Host

Posted on August 2, 2012 by webhostb

Pretty much anyone can put together a website. Instead of charging you money for server space, some companies are allowing you to use space for free-if you agree to include the company name in your domain name. Give that some thought. How many blogs or websites have a URL made of something like companyname.username.com? If you are serious about the project that you are putting together you will want to bite the bullet and pay for some web hosting. Getting hosting for your project is the best way to keep your options open. No two hosting companies are alike! You should not take the decision to buy hosting lightly. Here are some hints to help you make your choice.

Choosing a package deal can make a lot of sense. In order for you to buy hosting you usually have to already have a domain name for your project in place. Some providers offer domain name services as well as hosting. WebHostUK LTD is one of the recommended company that provides you with “all in one” access to things like hosting, domain name registration, site building, etc. Using one company for all of your web development needs can save you time and stress. Dealing with one company means that you will always have easy access to help features on your various services. Solving issues with your website is harder when you use different companies for different services.

Customer services are very important-look at all of your options. You want to be able to have real conversations with real people when you call the customer service number. Call the number provided by the company and see what the customers service agents are like. If the customer service agents are good they will be able to help you solve your problem, no matter what kind of problem you ask them about. If you are sent from person to person without getting any real help, you should choose another hosting company. It is possible that an agent has a bad day so call back a couple of times to make sure that this was not the case on your first attempt if that call went badly. Another popular customer service option is live chatting. If you would rather do anything than talk to a customer service agent on the phone, look for companies that offer live chat for customer service. It is not good to trust a hosting company that does not offer live people to talk to when you have problems.

Ask your friends and fellow site builders which hosting companies they use. Reviews on forums and official websites can easily be doctored-the best source of non solicited advice is your site developer friends! Don’t be afraid to ask for help; most website owners are happy to help new site builders decide which hosting options are best for them. You might even be offered space on the site owner’s server to help you start building your web project while you do your research on the hosting options that are available to you. Subletting server space is quite common in the web development world. To buy server space for a good price (on someone else’s account) ask your site builder friends for good deals.

You have many different ways of deciding whether or not to do business with a specific web hosting company. All it takes is a small amount of research and you’ll have plenty of options available to you. Subject each company on your “potential hosting” list to strict scrutiny. Being too careful isn’t possible!

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