Achieving
financial freedom with Network Marketing on The Internet
By Tasos
Vasilopoulos
Part 10
- Time for decisions - Choose a web hosting company
Introduction
This article makes part of a series of 20 articles. The subject of this series is the creation and promotion of a
website as a cost-effective method to establish a profitable home based business
on the Internet.
In my previous article, “Achieving financial
freedom with Network Marketing on The Internet – Part 9 - Create the pages
that will contain the links”, I have guided you in creating the pages in your
website that will contain the reciprocal links.
In this article I will help you how to choose the
right web hosting company.
Choose a web hosting company.
There are hundreds of companies on the Internet
offering space in their servers for your web pages for less than $10 monthly.
Most of them are good. They offer services to you like:
·
CGI-BIN,
SSI, htaccess, Cronjobs
·
Web-Based
Email (secure)
·
Member
Operations Control Panel
·
Control
Panel Web Users
·
PHP4 w/
Zend Optimizer,
·
Perl5,
·
Sendmail
·
FrontPage
98/2000/2002 Ext.
·
Webstats,
Raw Log Files
·
Built in
osCommerce (Shopping Cart)
·
Secure
Socket Layer (Secure Server)
·
DNS
Control (A record, Cnames, MX records)
·
MySQL
Database
·
Flash,
Shockwave, Midi, Mulitmedia Support
·
And
others
These are tools needed by webmasters who want to
incorporate e-commerce, use databases in their websites and other advanced
options.
You must select a company that offers:
o At least 1GB of space
o At least 5GB of download size per month
o The ability to use an FTP program to
upload your pages
o A control panel to administer your
website
o Full support for cgi and perl scripts
o Statistics for the visitors of your web
pages
I have my websites hosted in Powweb
www.powweb.com
and in ICDSoft www.icdsoft.com.
Both are good companies. They answer my questions in hours. I haven’t
noticed even one whole day of download for the last three years.
Also, have in mind that you can change your web
hosting company whenever you want. Just find another one that suits your
needs, pay for their services and make the changes needed in your DNS servers
(see what does this mean in Appendix C of my ebook at
http://www.netincome.gr/nm-ebook/ebook.htm
or read the instructions that domain name registrars include in their pages).
Of course you will loose the money paid to your
previous web hosting company in case you make the change before the end of the
period prepaid.
Here we have to discuss the option to host your
pages in a web hosting company that offers its services not for money, but in
exchange of putting ads in your pages.
There are companies that offer to give you also a
domain name for free, apart from space in their web servers to host your
pages. For example Geocities gives you the possibility to get a domain of the
kind
www.geocities.com/your-domain-name,
which is not as good as having your own domain name though.
Also allow you to host your pages without paying
any money at all. But in return they add a piece of code in every one of your
pages. This code presents a window over the right side of your pages, which
contains ads relevant or irrelevant to the content of them. They do not offer
the possibility to upload your pages using an FTP program. They give you an
“Easy upload” option, which is not so flexible and fast as an FTP program.
Netfirms has a better offer to you. This company
offers to host your domain name of the kind
www.your-domain-name.com
for free. And, of course, offers space for your pages. In exchange they add an
advertising banner at the top of each one of your pages, which contains ads
relevant or irrelevant to the content of them. They also give you the
possibility to use an FTP program.
But, they do not include full cgi script support
or statistics for the visitors of your webpages.
I wouldn’t suggest basing your home business in
a web hosting company that offers domain name and web space for free, unless
you really do not afford to spend $65 to start. In that case at least register
your domain name for $10 and host your website at Netfirms. Then, when you
will start making money from your home business, change your web hosting
company.
Also, you can find a web-hosting company that
suits your needs at
www.hostindex.com.
Be careful not to pay for services that you do
not need. You do not need e-commerce solutions. You do not need Frontpage
Extensions, even if you do use FrontPage.
Upload your webpages to the Internet
When your will have completed the creation of all
your web pages, then you are ready to upload them on the Internet. Be sure
that all the links in all your pages are valid, that they point to an existing
page. Search Engines hate broken links. Be sure that all your pages are
linked properly from the menu, so that they can be fetched easily from the
Search Engines and thus help in the calculation of the importance and the
relevance of your home page. Be sure that you have optimized your home page
and the other pages properly.
Then, upload your pages using your FTP program.
Detailed instructions are to be found in Appendix C of my ebook at
http://www.netincome.gr/nm-ebook/ebook.htm
or you can search the Internet for FTP programs and tutorials on them.
And here you have reached the first target in
your business plan. You have your personal website up and running on the
Internet.
Now, it’s time the world to learn about it.
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Next article in the series “Achieving financial
freedom with Network Marketing on The Internet” :
Part 11 – Submit your website to Search Engines and Directories.
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About the author:
Tasos Vasilopoulos is a successful Network Marketer on the Internet as Group
Leader of SFI Marketing Group. His main method to promote his home business on
the Internet is websites properly optimized to obtain a good rank in the
listings of the major Search Engines.
Get his ebook with an in depth analysis of all the steps of his method and
find more resources on proper domain registration, effective website design
and search engines optimization in his website at http://www.free-work-at-home-job.com.
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