31 Mar 09 How to decide a Good Web Hosting in 7 ways

I was helping out a member on Digital Point forum and I got this idea, why not just blog it since it became a little bit too long. I am working in IT field with software/hardware integrations, so I know information has a huge value in IT world. This time, I will share how to decide whether you have a good web hosting or not.

I do not want to be stereo-type person to comment, but if it is a good web hosting, following things are generally good reliable hosting you can consider as;

1. They have live support, so before you sign up, you talk to live support and see how knowledgeable they are. Live support is not easy for the provider because you need constant availability and most of the live support people are of course good and knowledgeable. At least, they must answers your questions in a professional way.

2. Google for coupons, for example, if your webhosting name is “supercool”, google “supercool hosting coupons”, good hosting always have coupons for new sign ups.. small ones? very unlikely.

3. Always use 1 month money back guarantee opportunity, if u face unhappy performance or service, always get the money back within 3 weeks.. Never wait until 1 month. Make sure you sign up to the hosting that offer 1 month money back.

4. Check whether they give you minimum 1 free domain name when you sign up, reliable hosting usually have affiliation with domain registrar and they would give you ONE free when you sign up.

5. Always use the word once you decide to sign up, “I am currently a customer of xyz hosting and want to move“, and most hosting would even help you with data migration and maybe also give you further discount.

6. Always look for forums from hosting company, good ones usually install vbulletin (costs 150 bucks for license), if you don’t see vbulletin forum from hosting company, it isprobably, they might be gone in a while.. and remember, if you are member in forum, it’s very good that you can get lengthy questions answered, also, you can have your signature indexed at your hosting forum. Most importantly, hang out 1 week and ask any questions you want before you sign up and look at the response time, normally, if they help you in 12 hours, it is considered good.

7. check the PR of hosting company, sometimes, they do pretty good SEO work and partnership programs, that means they value their hosting address and they want to keep it that way, consequently meaning stability of the company.

Well, there you go..  life is a research, so use your research to get it all better in each and everyway of your life. One hour/One week research will save you one year of trouble.

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12 Dec 08 Much anticipated wordpress 2.7 is finally available

Okay, this is what many of the bloggers have been looking for. WordPress 2.7 is finally available to download. I think it is fantastic for my fans and I am very psyched to get ready for the new update. I will have to update to 2.7 as well.so, all wordpress lovers, it’s time to download and upgrade here.

Don’t forget to view installation guides or upgrading guides on wordpress.com if required. Because they always come in handy for me whenever I have some issues with installation. But normally, I just use my webhosting auto update function and all I have to do is just disable all my plugins and do the auto upgrade.

Thanks for reading.

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01 Dec 08 WordPress Migration with cpanel Web Hosting

Lately, I have seen many people are using wordpress as their mainstream media to connect to their visitors and readers because wordpress is actually very good tool in blogging. Perhaps, the best, to be biased.

As blogging is very popular past a couple of years, people have been using wordpress and blogger as their main platforms. Now, people are more experienced and trying to get good web hosting, sometimes, many of them ended up getting a bad web hosting and wanted to change for new one. I have recently posted how to solve web hosting dilemma and you can read it here. 

Then again, wordpress blog owners have to worry how to migrate successfully from old host to a new web host. Lela Iskandar Suhaimi wrote an e-book about “how to migrate your wordpress to another web hosting“ is pretty simple and useful to all the wordpress blog owners all over the world. So, here, I am sharing this fabulous e-book for FREE. 

It’s basically photo-based e-book, so it’s absolutely easy to read and follow up, you can either print out or refer the book while you are migrating your entire wordpress. I will be happy if this helps you and all the credit goes to the original author.

Any comments and suggestions are welcome. Thanks for reading.

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