Best CMS for Your Hosting

After buy a hosting and a domain, the left is building your own website. You can make it by your self, or use some website building softwares. CMS, that means Content Management System. A browser based interface which allows the owner to update the content of their web site whenever they want. It's the best solution to maintain your website in your hosting. Let's check out the most famous CMS softwares.

xoops
XOOPS is an extensible, OO (Object Oriented), easy to use dynamic web content management system written in PHP. XOOPS is the ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more. Read the All about XOOPS page for more details.

drupal
Drupal.org is the official website of Drupal, an open source content management platform. Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal can support a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.

TYPO3
TYPO3 is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules.

e107
e107 is a content management system written in php and using the popular open source mySQL database system for content storage. It's completely free and totally customisable, and in constant development.

joomla
Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

pMachine
At pMachine we develop a feature-rich web publishing system called ExpressionEngine that empowers thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies around the world to easily manage their website.

Mambo
The Mambo project team is made up of members of the community and the Mambo Foundation, an independent non-profit association created to grow, support and promote this multi award-winning content management system to its growing open source community.

Dedicated Server or Shared Hosting?

Dedicated server is the most expensive hosting. The solution is best suited for webmaster with higher skills, everything is under your control,you can own the whole bandwidth, unlimited multiple domain names, powerful email solutions, powerful database support and strong website software support. If you have enough budget, dedicated server is your dream solution.

Shared hosting is very common, and very cost effective. With shared hosting, your web site is hosted on a powerful server along with maybe 100 other web sites. On a shared host it is common that each web site have their own domain name. Shared solutions often offer multiple software solutions like email, database, and many different editing options. Technical support tends to be good. Because your website shares the server with others. This would reduce security due to many sites on one server. It's good for small business and average traffic. But restrictions on traffic volume, software options and database support.

Now we see the dedicated server means you want a big business, shared hosting is for small business, you can make a choice according to your business aim to gain your maximized profit.

Web Hosting Domain

A Domain Name is a unique name for your web site. Domain names must be registered. When domain names are registered they are added to a large domain name register, and information about your site - including your internet IP address - is stored on a DNS server. DNS stands for Domain Name System. A DNS server is responsible for informing all other computers on the Internet about your domain name and your site address. A short, meaningful and easy to remembered domain is a good domain. Generally people buy a hosting with a domain, it's easy to manage, hosting has an internet IP address, and point to the doamin you registered. Then your website is now accessible on the internet.

A good domain has more value than its own, as an investment, you should know the following points:

1) TLD .com version of the domains names are highly priced compared to the other version of tld's for the same domain.

2) Keywords usd for the domain name itself are very helpful to establish a brand and market it easily.

3) A basic idea that what kind of traffic to be expected if we build a site on this kind of domain name. After launching your site your site must also be well structured and should have better content then your competitors to get a better placement in search engines.

4) Length Of Domain The length also plays a major role in valuation of the domain name. Shorter the better. If the domain is short say 3 or 4 letters then it can fetch high prices.

5) Dictionary If it is a dictionary word then it is good. And it can get better prices.

6) Pronounceable If the domain is pronounceable then it will be easy for the users to memorize it and so more and more users can return to your site without going and searching it every time. This also helps establishing a brand name in the market.

8) Singular or Plural Now if the domain name is a singular one then it will get more price then the plural version of that particular domain name.

Best Free Blog Hosting

I have used over 20 free blog hosting since 2001, here is a list taht I prefered:

Weblogs.us - helping people blog freely since 2003
free blog hosting for non-commercial bloggers, No ads, fast servers, ftp access, that's really cool!

WordPress
Good anti-spam Tool: Akismet, a great number of excellent themes and plugins to choose, great interface.

Blogger
Simple and easy, offering a downloadable tool to allow you to publish your thoughts instantly, fast and most popular.

LiveJournal
the original, first-ever blogging service for real people, with the ability to post entries and gave it public, friends only or private viewing, and easy customized.

MSN Spaces
With the ability to publish a weblog via cellphone, linking with MSN messager, easy to share your story, music and photo.

blogeasy
the most opinionated blogs for political conservatives and has the funniest pictures I've ever seen.

Choose data transfer quota for your new hosting

When you plan to run your online business, do you hesitate to choose data transfer quota in budget hosting account? What do you know its meaning? The data transfer quotas are major selling points for many web hosting customers. The available data transfer in web hosting plans is constantly increasing and it's hard to find 100 gigabytes monthly data transfer (one megabyte is 1024 kilobytes and one gigabyte is 1024 megabytes). But how do you find your new site would use how many bytes monthly data transfer? The 100 gigabytes monthly is enough?

So we need to calculate your website's size. First, let's suppose the size of every single page in your site is less 10 kbs, every single page will include web media (such as: images, css files, javascript files) less than 100 kbs. Cause the browser will cache the most of web media, so these are only transferred on the first page view. So the first page view from a visitor uses 110 kbs data transfer and the following page views takes another 10 kbs. If your site (total 50 pages) has 5000 page views a day, and 80% of them is new, the page impression is 10%, then we can calculate the average data transfer monthly:

transfer/day = (100 visits x 110 kbs) + 50 pages x 10% page impression x 10 kbs x 5000 pvs
= 11000 kbs + 25000kbs
= 36000 kbs

transfer/month = 35 mbs x 30 days = 1050 mbs = 1 gbs

With 5 000 monthly page views you will use 1 000 000 kbs. In the more relevant gb unit those numbers are 0.15 and 1.5. Add some heavy spider traffic and a light, popular website needs 2 gb monthly data transfer.

While the above estimates are partly based on real numbers, your reality can be different so keep your eyes open.
Your can enter your control panel to check your data transfer usage. A log analyzer like Awstats can also give valuable data about how the data tranfer is distributed between pages/file types/user agents etc. Then adjust your data transfer quota by real numbers.

Unlimited Web Hosting Plan

An unlimited hosting package from webhost4life. This package is priced at US$4.95 per year and offers Unlimited Transfer / Hits, Unlimited Domain to your site, Unlimited Sub Domain, Static IP Address. That's wonderful, but it's a ASP Web Hosting, what a pity! I still prefer a linux based hosting. I believe it's more secure. And ASP also is not my forte.

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