Example for an inefficient hosting company is “Operating a web hosting company without specific strategy for BLOG HOSTING”. Weblog applications are the most installed web-apps in web hosting environment. Among them wordpress is the No:1. In his recent post on “WordPress Here to say Adapt” mark iterated many strategies for web hosts.

A must have for Blog Hosting provider is:

• Easy to use web application installer – Fantastico de luxe is am example, It has been widely used in many web hosting environments. Not having a script installed will affect on more with support ticket. Service seekers will find a new one instead of struggling with you.
• Address the Security – A web hosting company which does not have dedicated security administrators in not fit to be called as “web hosts”. Take preventive measure in every possible way
• Engage with community – Blog is so popular not just cos it is easy to write and publish. It is easy to find a solution for every problem you may/will face. Are you ready to help the community in turn improve your business prospect. Web hosting providers should be very active in sharing information to communities
• Blog Experts in Support – It is not a bad idea to have dedicated blog experts in your help desk. Your web host seekers will appreciate more if you have one. Do you have support person who can talk about which plugin is good which is bad, which theme is good, Where will you get good theme
• Offers from you – Start offering free themes, create your own plugin, and help in improving readership
• Offer best backup – Blog platforms are managed by amateurs, probabilities are very high for a blog to show empty posts after new plugin or with update. Adopt best backup strategies

Hexahost, A true blog hosting provider has been serving well with above mentioned strategies. I will be glad to hear from you on any new things that can be adopted. We at hexahost believe customer is a king, Internet is information and blogging is the way to go forward.

Looking forward to have you in our web hosting environment.

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Your weblog has readers, Your Stories are read, your reviews are heard,Your products and services are understood are the basic assumptions each one of you should have. These assumptions are the impetus to register a domain name, Booking a hosting order, allocating a web designer. Soon after making your website your contents are cached, served against searched queries.  Unless you understand and analysis who is coming in to your website, and what they are looking at, Your organic and inorganic traffic will see decline.

Assumptions are just assumptions, they don’t fetch visitors to your site. Web sites will work for you as long us you keep working elements with it. Your reader will come back only if they see fresh contents. Your tools will be used only when you keep improving them with customer interest. Web site visitors log and trend analysis helps you to achieve this. Some of the popular Web analytic tools are,

Webalizer

Analogstats

AWstats

Open Web analytics

Crawl Talk

BB clone

Web trends

woopra

Piwik

Urchin (Acquired by Google “Google Analytics”)

Most of the web hosting provider support Control panel to manage individual customers hosting account. These utilities have web analytics attached by default. Hexahost supports Cpanel for all type of hosting accounts, They have support enabled by default for webalizer and analog stats, Users can enable/disable them too. Awstats has to be enabled if user want to.

What to Analyze ?

It is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of your website usage for purposes of usage understanding and optimizing the site. It helps you to define a working web marketing strategy. Visitor Geo location, Page visited, amount of time spent will help you to optimize site content, look and feel for better user experience. New visitor trend,  incoming keywords, impression, bounce rate, unique visitor are some of the key areas to concentrate in defining web marketing strategy.

Do review the trends often. Do not struck with a working strategy (You may not know the potential). Redefine your keywords based on incoming anchor keywords.

Let us build better working web sites.

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There are about 50,000 web hosting providers to serve 50 Million registered domain names. Almost half of them are resellers, and web site developers. Rather than searching for the Best one choosing a right one to host your web site is a smart deal. Big providers like Godaddy, Blue host, hostgator, host monster, uk2webhost and etc do business in big volumes. Identifying the best from them understanding about how they work is so easy. Simple search on “hosting provider+review” will fetch enough results to follow. They will confuse you with both +ve and -ve results.

Follow my advice to choose a provider based merits and your need.

1. If you are new to web hosting, all you need is personalized support. Can big players offer this ? Will they get in to your site after few months and provide suggestions like features x,y,z will give better appeal. Ask yourself.
2. If you are a Blogger concentrate on writing than maintaining. Choose new entrants who can help you with personalized support. Who can suggest a platform, Theme, widget, plug-in and most importantly SEO.
3. Do they have one click application installer utilities like fantastico ? A new entrant will have tough time without this.
4. Do they have proper control panel to support your hosting, domain names, sub-domain, email, database, backup. Cpanel is the best.
5. Do they have a easy site building tool, This will be very useful for people who do not want to use CMS. RV site builder and RVskins will be handy to have.
6. Test the speed of a host’s network to your location by clicking start > run > type in “command” enter, and then type “ping hostdomainname.com” wait for it to finish and look for the average ping. The lower the number the better, and chances are the faster your site will load. Any number averaging around an 80 would be good. Anything over 100 is very bad except, of course, if the host is based in another country.
7. Get e-mail through the domain name of your website. It’s best to go with a host that provides unlimited auto responders, pop mailboxes, email aliases etc. These services are needed to stay in touch with your visitors, potential customers and indeed your past customers in the hope of back end sales. Using your_name@your_website_name.com also looks more professional and official.
8. Reliability. How reliable is a web hosting company? Most claim 99.9% uptime, but due to the nature of computers and communications equipment, outages will and do occur occasionally. You can contact a company and ask, but they will tell you they’re very reliable. Instead, ask for a couple of sites they currently host, that you can check out for yourself.
   Not only will you see that the site is available, it gives you the opportunity to see how well they perform during peak periods too.
9. Make transactions with a secure server with https:// capability because your potential customers will expect it. Security is of paramount importance to your customer. Visitors who are concerned about the insecurity to their plastic will never become customers.
10. Read TOS, and other policies. Look for assurances like 30 Day Money back guarantee, Uptime guarantee, resolution time

NOTE: Do not get in to Reseller hosting and suffer. Go to a proper hosting provider who talks about his infrastructure.

In my view use 30 Day money back guarantee offered by hosting providers. Test as much as youcan before deciding upton the long term relation. Do take plans for more than 1 Year. hosting is all about short tem option. look before you leap. I trust Hexahost.

Hosting provider i suggest are Hexahost, Godaddy, hostgator and blue host.

HAPPY HOSTING!

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http://hexablogs.com/hosting/your-web-presence-need-more-than-freebies/

http://www.hexahost.com/blog_hosting.htm

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