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5 Web Hosting Mistakes

Here are 5 mistakes you can make when choosing a web host for your website.

1) Forget to check Domain Name registrar records

Make sure the web company you are buying from has their own domain name, and it matches their company name. There are several places to check domain records like domaintools.com.

2) Forget to look for an emergency telephone number

Please be extremely careful when doing business with any web company that does not list an emergency telephone number on their website. Why use your credit card or send money to someone without a telephone number? Of course, if you are using a third party for payment, this may not be as important to you. See 1 to check domain registrar records.

3) Forget to look for an Email Address

Make sure the web company email address listed on their website is from their own domain name. See 1 to check domain registrar records.

4) Forget to check for ‘Unlimited Bandwidth’

Mention this phrase and more than one web host will cringe. You should know too! Any web host with a cost of less than $1 per gig of bandwidth per month is not realistic. For example, 10 gigs of transfer per month should be at least $10 per month. Bandwidth is the largest or second most significant cost to any web host except rack space in a data center or computer equipment.

5) Forget to check for ‘Unlimited Disk Space’

Let’s see if this is possible: a disk drive is fixed at x GIG, so once it is used up… it’s not unlimited. Of course, you could add another disk drive, but then the server is limited to how many disk drives it can hold. Yes, another server can be added… However, would this be expected on a web hosting account that costs less than $5 per month with no additional charges to you for extra disk space?

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Choose Secure Small Business Web Hosting for an Efficient Business

Web hosting is a vital part of running a business smoothly and any fault results in loss of income and customer satisfaction. Website backup is an important aspect of web hosting that should not be ignored at any cost.

Web hosts should always have a decent backup facility as without a backup all the crucial information that the business depends on for proper functioning may be lost. Though this is a remote possibility, it is always safer to have a backup as there are a number of possible causes for the breakdown of a web server. And in some unfortunate cases, the user may overwrite important files (e.g. in the process of editing the website).

Where to Back Up

If you only use one computer, the backup facility that is present in it can be used to back up your site also. Nearly every desktop is equipped with such a backup feature, hence you can use it while you set up your site.

Another option to protect the data of your website is storing all the information in a separate folder in your system. You can also store the data on a disk and retrieve it whenever needed.

Any small business web hosting supplier should give you an appropriate backup for the data you have on your website. To see how that works at your web host, simply go to your Control Panel. The backup files are in a zip folder which is later saved in the web host server. It is important that all these files including the zip folders should be adequately backed up in the case of emergencies.

Usually online backup files are in a zip folder and saved on the web host’s server. Note that all these files including the zip folders should be adequately backed up for cases of emergencies.

The zip file can be downloaded to your local system for added security. It will help if there is some problem with the web host and you are not able to access the files.

An obvious alternative to all these is to have a safe online backup service that’s separate from your hosting account. Such services exist: Sitevault, CodeGuard and more. You can do this with the help of software that is available on the web.

Codeguard Backup
Codeguard Backup

More sophisticated web hosts like A2Hosting will have an automated backup system built into cPanel. Usually, you can use that to restore your files and databases with one click.

They provide easy automation, and the cost is also not very high. Since this method can back up almost all the data you need, the money spent on it is worth every cent, and you need not worry about whether the backup is functioning properly.

Be Careful with Zips

Compressing the files to a zip format is a risky action as any corrupt files present will cause the zip file to be blocked and it may become difficult to unzip them.

Some kind of a backup system and reliable servers are crucial in the search for a proper small business web host. If you give proper attention to these features in your research, optimum performance is guaranteed.

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A Quick Note on iPage

Just a quick update. I had hosting issues lately and considering moving to a new host. I have read some iPage Reviews by Dolly Mitchell and I think that’s going to be my winner. It says everything is unlimited and that site loads quite allright and it’s hosted on iPage. So I think I will go for it.

The Big Cahony

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Welcome to Cahonies!

Hey, welcome to my blog! My name is Mark and I have decided to start a blog. For my friends and for my own record. It seems this website used to be something different. If you are looking for a band called Cahonies, I’m sorry, this isn’t that. Google can help you.

Now, what I am going to blog about? Honestly I am not sure yet. I have a formal education although I am not working in a corporate environment. I’m working on my own mainly on internet related businesses. Btw, check out this review. That’s the host of my choice.

I take great care of my finances. I set myself for financial freedom and I won’t stop till I reach that goal. Part of that is investing my money wisely. So I think there are going to be a couple posts about that too.

Health is my other favorite topic. Feeling great makes you more effective, more affluent and you will feel you are unstoppable. That comes from vibrant health. And that takes a lot of work and self-discipline.

So why the name cahonies? Let’s see what cahonies mean in the Urban Dictionary:

1. cahonies
Balls – testicles – nuts
“Skinny John must’ve had some BIG cahonies to stand up to that bouncer at the club last night.”

That should be clear by now. You have to have big cahonies to stand up and think different, act differently than the herd. In all the areas I mentioned above.

Stay tuned — Mark