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How to choose a Web Hosting company. |
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My True Story I’ve been in the computer industry since 1978, long before the internet. I’ve saved computer companies millions of dollars. I was on the phone with the folks in Palo Alto on a daily basis when Silicon Valley was developing the WWW. I had a fairly nice network cable which ran to my office. It was costing a lot of money. I had name servers and web servers, and a LAN with network routers and hubs. It was costing a lot of money. I was running Linux as my operating system of choice. I was using Bind for my name servers, and I was using Apache for my web servers. I even had my office on a backup generator. It was costing a lot of money... Hmm, costing a lot of money seems to be a theme. My office LAN with its’ name servers and web servers worked great. I was managing about 60 web sites at the time. I was a true web hosting company and had a small client base. I had complete control over the name servers and web servers. I had backup servers which I built from parts, and all was good. One day I decided to take a vacation day. Once, I was even able to take the weekend off, which in the entrepreneurial world is a rare treat. All was still okay, even though I didn’t have a team of network engineers watching over my systems and network, but I did worry about it. What kind of relaxation is that! All was still relatively good. Then, one day, the network cable to my office went out for a few days, and that was the last time I was going to let that happen. That is the day I decided to stop being a true web hosting company, and decided to be a virtual web hosting company. A true web hosting company has all the worries of keeping it’s servers and network intact. That is their primary business, and they do well at it. A virtual web hosting company uses the services of a true web hosting company, and hires them to do all the worries. A virtual web hosting company is able to host its’ own web sites, and is also able to host client web sites! Myth: All I want is web hosting. If a company can do that, then one is as good as another. I’ve been trying out different web hosting companies for the last few years. I had been using the services of a well-known web hosting company that specializes in hosting for businesses, and is probably one of the most successful in terms of number of customers. It wasn’t until I switched over to my present hosting company that I discovered wonderful improvements that were missing. I have managed to eliminate spam from interrupting my business. That was something my old host was doing nothing about and had no filters whatsoever. If I had stayed a true web hosting company, I could have implemented spam filters on my own. Because I had the wrong hosting service, by managing over 100 web sites, I was getting 600 spams a day. With the new hosting service, I get zero spams. To my extreme delight, I discovered my web hosting company has great ethics. They have a reliability guarantee that their servers AND networks will be up. I think the guarantee is something like 99.5%. Last month, they missed by a tenth of a percent. To my amazement, they immediately issued a prorated credit! Since I use such as great web hosting company, as a virtual web hosting company which does everything, that great service goes to my customers, and when I get to go on vacation I don’t worry about a thing! There are different levels of virtual web hosting companies. In my opinion, some of the large companies who do web hosting situations are sly. Yes, they will do what they are paid for. If you want more, they now have their foot in the door to sell more services. You get what you pay for. If you’re lucky. Here is an example of a virtual web hosting situation you are probably familiar with because you’ve heard their commercials on the radio. There are some really large, well-known businesses who say you can have a web site for as little as $15. Guess what you get for $15. It’s not much at all. Is it dishonest? No, not at all. They meet their terms of the agreement, and they are under no obligations to provide you with an education or tell you all about their underlying motives for making such incredible offers. It’s to sell you more services. The $15 is actually money well spent for some people. If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. The main problem with this $15 offer is that there are usually some parts missing that could otherwise give a small business a more adequate internet presence. The typical part that is most overlooked is a marketing strategy. The $15 is annual, and they will be glad to set you up as automatically renewing, even if they change the prices. The good news is that some small businesses that are not very concerned about internet presence can benefit from this extremely basic service. The $15 provides no services other than what they state in their agreement. Many businesses may be disappointed with their results, but there is a solution to that. When the customer finds that it is not working, they contact the company which has their foot in the door to sell higher priced services. My company, AeroScore Inc., has been building small web sites for businesses located primarily in the NC RTP area and in the Sandhills region of North Carolina. Other ventures of AeroScore are the internet publication of a few very popular sites with a large international audience. One of the publications was produced in 5 languages. The capabilities of AeroScore for the last couple of year, as a virtual web hosting company has steadily increased to the point where it is now at the point where AeroScore can do anything! No job too small. No job too large. I can take a day or weekend off, with no loss to the business. That is the advantage I love the most! On those days when I decide to get away from the office, the only thing that is lost is the continuous improvement of the sites I am developing, and I’m still making money. It is a domain name reseller, virtual web hosting company, a web design and development company that can do anything, including the arrangement of hosting services for my clients, and it has one more thing I really like: residual income. With all this going for it, I am able to sell my services for less. Those people who hire AeroScore get the advantage of the kind of knowledge built from more than 25 years of successful experience. Crank up your speakers and click on the banner for the AeroScore promo. |
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The bottom line: The answer to the question of how to choose a web hosting company is ASK AEROSCORE. AeroScore is small and honest about our limitations, and we do business with the best. If we think your business is so large that it will be too much for AeroScore to handle by itself, we will get you a great referral directly to our “true” web hosting company. |
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How to Proceed: Referrals and Recommendations depend on your Requirements. AeroScore owns ProName, a domain name registration service which specializes in lowest prices and honestly does a good job. If you are not already at the technical level of experienced webmaster and seo engineer, your best step would be to register your domain name at ProName, then contact AeroScore for a consultation about setting up EVERYTHING else. [Unforunately, I need to say this. By EVERYTHING, let me clarify by telling you what I refuse to do. If you want to do a porno site, please stay away! If you want to spam email marketing, please stay away! If you want your site to employ any illegal software or unethical traps, please stay away! Let me repeat that with extreme conviction. I refuse to use my 25 years of compounded knowledge and experience to assist in anyones’ unethical or illegal activities]. If, technically, you are already at the level of webmaster, while signing up for a domain name, you can do an a la carte purchase of various hosting services through ProName (which is affiliated with GoDaddy). Please keep in mind that although there are a variety of services ProName is capable of, neither they nor GoDaddy have the best prices on everything. Lol, talk about honesty. Even though it is my own domain name and hosting services reseller account, I’m telling you not to sign up for every service ProName offers. The truth is that, depending on your needs, sometimes there are better options, and better prices, and there are some vendors who offer particular services that even ProName, cannot match! For example: true multiple domain hosting. It took me a long time to find someone who provides this service with excellence at great rates. Now that I’ve found them I can provide a professional referral you to them. I can also make all arrangements for customers who need that level of service, as part of an entire project. There are a lot of web hosting companies that offer a variety of different services. As a professional webmaster with a virtual hosting company, I can work with you in evaluating your needs and arrange the best services. Smaller startup businesses on a low budget might be able to start with a free hosting account then upgrade to a paid hosting account, then upgrade to an advanced account as their business grows. If you don’t quite need a full web site, there are some real smooth tricks AeroScore knows and you may qualify for free hosting. If you have special requirements for true multiple domain hosting services, and you know for a fact that you need this and this is all you need, please use this referral. AeroScore can do the entire web design, for most businesses from start to finish, including the marketing, at much cheaper rates, more quickly because there is not a long learning curve to contend with. You know how some people just have a knack for something and seem to be better at it than anyone else? For existing web sites that don’t make the grade, my particular specialty is search engine optimization, and I have terrific results to prove it. Can you say “domination of an international market?” For businesses that love supporting local mom and pop businesses, AeroScore is located near the NC RTP in the little town of Wake Forest, NC. AeroScore has an Inc at the end of it’s name, but it is a lean, success machine that can do. If you’ve read this far, I appreciate your attentiveness. Please contact AeroScore. |
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