InMotion Hosting Announces Its Labor Day 2015 Campaign
InMotion Hosting Announces Its Labor Day 2015 Campaign
Culver City, CA (PRWEB) September 06, 2015
Culver City, CA. Web hosting company InMotion Hosting has announced its annual Labor Day campaign in commemoration of the social and economic achievements of the American labor force.
Known for its dedication to the American economy by focusing on localized and domestic customer support for their web hosting clients, InMotion Hosting has striven to empower the American worker since its founding. This Labor Day marks the 14th year that InMotion Hosting has celebrated the national holiday and honored working families.
With the dawning of September, many businesses are scrambling to optimize their functionality to prepare for the Fall holiday quarter. The last three months of 2015 will mark the highest peak in Internet traffic and users ever recorded. Businesses are encouraged to find solid web hosting for their websites, to achieve a higher level of functionality and success.
To find out more on InMotion Hosting's Labor Day Campaign, visit their website at inmotionhosting.com.
About InMotion HostingFounded in Culver City, California, InMotion Hosting (IMH) provides the best customer support for their hosting clients and are an industry leader in business hosting. Their various hosting plans are professional, scalable and efficiently customizable. Each plan offered conforms to the hosting needs of small and large businesses, as well as custom websites for any industry. IMH's technical support is available stateside 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
With their multiple data centers over the United States, more than 200 U.S. based team members, and over 100,000 happy customers InMotion Hosting has locked its place as the premier hosting company of the business community
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Crucial Website Hosting Stuff People Often Miss When Choosing A Web Host
I have used internet just like you have. We have probably been to the same websites and researched for topics the same way. However, since we are different people we interpret things differently. I have noticed over and over that people like to follow the trend, even in the online world. When it comes to choosing the web host I see the same happening here too. People would keep on looking at things that wouldn't really matter much to them. In fact, they wouldn't even notice the absence of these things if they vanished all of a sudden.
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I am talking about web hosting and features that these services offer. If you read a few online articles about website hosting you will be automatically inclined to choose your web host in a certain way. You will look at a huge bandwidth, lots of email addresses, a very powerful server and a hosting plan that makes you different among your competitors. Things don't work that way when you step into the practical world. Today, I am talking about some of the most common things that web hosting companies talk about and tell you the way to choose them in such a way that they would actually matter:
Bandwidth
Many people don't even understand the idea of bandwidth. When you choose bandwidth you have to look at the number of visitors interacting with your website on a monthly basis. It is because your bandwidth tells you the maximum amount of data that can be transferred from your website to its users in any given second. The data being transferred in a second on your w ebsite at any given moment might be much less than your bandwidth. If you are looking at huge bandwidth when you don't really need it, you are only wasting your money.
VPS Vs. Dedicated Hosting
Many would recommend that if somehow your website is not suitable for shared hosting you should go for dedicated hosting. I will never recommend that for as long as we have virtual private server hosting. This is the type of hosting where you are given a virtual server of your own. This is your server with its resources dedicated to your website. You don't share these resources with any company and enjoy full freedom of installing your favorite operating system, web applications and other softwares and tools that you might want to.
The Disk Space
Yes, they will tell you that you are getting hundreds and thousands of gigabytes of hard disk space. What you have to realize here is that you don't need that much space on the server at all. If your website is a basic w ebsite, you don't need that much of space. In fact, even if you are a big website you won't need that much of space. Such huge spaces are dedicated to websites that have a lot of content that goes on them. Think about university websites that have videos, pictures and PDF course outlines and other documents stored on them.
You can also talk about a website that sells many different types of products and has videos and images uploaded of these products. With basic ecommerce websites you won't need that much space. Even if you are thinking of putting up images and videos, you can work with various tools that convert your images and videos to small formats. This way you don't have to pay for so much space to your website hosting company. Lastly, if your company says you are getting unlimited storage, don't trust these words because it is not possible practically.
Reseller Hosting
It is quite unfortunate that many companies don't look into the opportunity o f using reseller hosting when they can actually offer it. Reseller hosting is when you buy space on a server and then rent this space out to other companies looking for web hosting as well. The amount of resources you rent on the server is more than your requirement. You will never use those resources and so the best option here is to offer them to other companies. Different companies have different packages for reseller hosting i.e. you can earn different commission levels with different companies.
Customer Support
The biggest mistake you can make when you are dealing with a hosting company is missing out on customer support check. You have to know what type of customer support the company is offering. You can find out about the level of customer support offered by the company through online reviews and ratings given by customers. There are many occasions when you need the representatives from the companies to be with you and if they make you wait for a long time, you c ould lose thousands of dollars. Check their response time and different modes through which they are available i.e. phone, email, live chat etc.
99% Up Time
Many web hosting companies will tell you that they have the best servers and so you will not face any downtimes more than 1%. Most website hosting companies like to boast their up time by quoting 99% up time. If you look at this number, it could be quite misleading. 99% up time is not enough for you and you don't want a company that is down by 1%. If we take the example of 100 days, it would mean that your website would be down and unavailable to your visitors for one complete day.
Contracts
Package plans offered by web hosting companies seem quite straight forward. During my research I stumbled upon a few companies that were not that straight forward with their contracts. The package plan you chose seemed quite straight forward but as soon as you agreed to pay you were stuck with a contract. What this meant is that you could not choose another host during the lifetime of the contract without attracting penalties. I would highly recommend you to stay aware of such contracts. Your business can grow and scalability is something you might take advantage of if you keep it in your pointers' list today.
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Web hosting biz Servint hit by network-toppling DDoS attack
Web hosting provider Servint has been hit by a network outage, reportedly due to a DDoS attack.
In a tweet, the company said: "We are aware of an issue affecting a portion of our network. We are attempting to diagnose it and will update as we get information."
Email provider SMTP2GO was one of the company's customers to be hit by the outage, which in turn left its customers without services.
SMTP2GO said: "One of our internet providers (Servint) is continuing to have problems, apparently related to a DDoS attack. We are continuing to monitor the situation and respond as best as possible."
This is the second time in as many days that Servint's network has been down.
Customers took to Twitter to complain.
@neondragonart same issue here, was down for 2+ hours yesterday, and now another 1+ hours early this morning. CS is hard to reach.
— Steve (Honekai) (@steve_honekai) September 3, 2015@servint this is really frustrating. My site is down for over 2 hours now.
— GK (@girishku) September 3, 2015The Register has contacted Servint for further comment. ®
BOOTNOTEHat tip to Pete Preston, Reg reader and SMTP2GO customer for alerting us to this problem.
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UK Secure Web Hosting Offers Introductory Hosting Bonus
UK Secure Web Hosting offers flexible, yet high quality web hosting plans for individuals and small to medium size businesses. Affordable pricing and excellent customer service provides a growing reputation for the firm.
LONDON, UK - Sep 2, 2015 -UK Secure Web Hosting is pleased to announce that they are offering six months of free hosting with each new annual web hosting plan. There are no hidden catches. The coupon code 6FREE should be entered at checkout to receive six months free of charge for each new annual web account. The high quality of the service remains the same; it's just the price that is reduced.
When there is a need to find reliable web hosting UK services offered by UK Secure Web Hosting is well ahead of its competition. The firm offers options which are the highest quality as well as those which are flexible, in order to meet the exact needs of the clients. The paid services are dependable and contain the necessary components to fill the needs of most clients. In addition, there are free services such a minor upgrades and tweaks. There are no hidden costs to surprise the customers. Standard web hosting is as low as 2.99 per month.
The features which make UK Secure Web Hosting outstanding include instant account creation on UK cloud web servers. More than three hundred PHP Scripts are included (Word Press, Joomla, Drupal and others). Customers receive a free transfer from an existing website from the old host and a fast and easy-to-use online website builder. The satisfaction of customers is of prime importance, so a 30-day No Quibble money back guarantee is offered.
UK Secure Web Hosting was launched in 2001. They moved from Lincolnshire to Central London in 2003. Thousands of clients world-wide have picked the firm for its top-tier web hosting services. The solutions for web hosting come in simple packages for customers which range from personal website to small and mid-sized businesses. Three package sizes are available with 1 GB, 5 GB and 10 GB disk space included. Pricing per month is 2.99, 4.99 and 8.33, respectively.
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Never miss these 5 steps while transferring hosting providers
Moving a website from one host to another host can be little tricky. Most newbie webmasters make too many mistakes during the entire migration process and end up with broken sites which take hours of fixing and data loss. Given below is step by step instructions you should follow before moving your web hosting to another hosting provider.
Step 1: Do not sign up with a new host just yet
This is one of the common mistakes newbie webmasters make. They decide to switch their hosting provider and without taking care of necessary tech issues, they purchase a plan with the new host and rely on them to do the migration.
This is very risky. A single mistake on the part of your new web host and you may lose your website, files and everything else.
Do not rely entirely on your new web hosting provider to do the migration. It is your website and you should do the migration yourself, relying on a third party is not recommended here.
The first step is not to contact the new web host and take necessary steps to perform the migration yourself.
Step 2: Backup your website
Your existing web host has provided you a cPanel login for your website, you can use this cPanel login to download all the files, databases, settings and everything else.
If you do not have the cPanel login for your existing web host, please contact your web host provider and request them to provide you your cPanel details. Most web hosting providers have Live chat facilities and a support portal which can be used to avail instant support.
Once you have the cPanel details, login to your web hosting cPanel and go to the "Backup" section. There are three things you would need to backup
To backup all the files in the home directory, search for the "Backup" link within your cpanel and you will see an option to download the entire Home directory as a zipped file.
To backup all the MySQL databases, search for "My SQL database backup wizard" and download each MySQL database as an SQL file in Gzipped format. It is recommended to download each database file individually in .sql.gz format. Do not try to unzip the backup file yet, keep it as it is.
The download may take some time to finish, depending on how many files are being downloaded, their file size, uptime of your hosting provider and your internet connection speed. Some web hosting providers offer the option to email the backup file, so if you see that option, it is recommended to use it.
The same step is applicable for downloading all the email forwarders which you have added to your domain. Download each email forwarder file in 'Gzipped' format.
You should save the following three things in a folder of your computer
Once you have saved everything in that folder, ZIP it to a single file named "Backup.zip". You will need this later.
Step 3: Signup with a new hosting provider
Now that you have backed up everything, it is time to sign up with your new web host. Choose a new hosting provider depends entirely on your requirements. Some of the factors to consider are as follows:
Depending on your requirements, you should choose a new hosting provider and a plan which fits your needs.
After choosing the new hosting provider, you should receive the welcome email from your new web host. You are all set for the migration now.
Step 4: Migrate to your new web host
Now that your new web hosting account is setup, raise a support ticket with your hosting provider with the subject line – "Migrate old website to my new host"
Clearly explain that you want to migrate all the files, databases and everything else to your new hosting account. Attach the zipped directory of your website backup, database backup, email forwarders (refer to step 2).
Now you should wait for the technician of your new web host to upload everything in your new web host.
I highly recommend relying on the hosting technician for two reasons. First, these people are more skilled and they do these things every day, so the chances of making an error are at bare minimum. Second, upload a large number of files from your computer to your new web host can result in file upload errors or configuration errors, so it is recommended not to do this on your own rather ask your web hosting technical support to do this on behalf of you.
Once your new web host has uploaded everything to your new hosting account, you should receive an email from them that all uploads have been completed.
Step 5: Point the domain to the name servers of your new web host
You do this by logging into your domain control panel and point the domain to the name servers of your new web host. The name servers of your new hosting provider are provided to you in the welcome email, when you signed up for your new web hosting account.
To change the name servers, login to your domain control panel, find the domain, click on "Edit name servers" and update the new name servers by choosing "I host my domains with another provider".
Make a note of your old name servers, you will need it if things go wrong from here.
At this point, your website is hosted on two different servers. The moment you update the nameservers, your website will be fetched from your new hosting provider and not your old hosting provider.
A name server update takes around 24-48 hours to complete, so you should wait for some time before the changes propagate across the internet.
After the changes have propagated, visit "whoishostingthis" and do a search for your domain name. You should see that your new domain is being fetched from your new web host and not the old one.
Do a routine check on your website to check to see if everything is in perfect shape. If it is, you may now cancel your old hosting account. If something is not in place, contact the technical support department of your new web host and enquire about the problem, they will assist you further.
If you see that your new host is having issues, simply switch back to your old hosting by reverting back to the old name servers and then your website will be fetched from the old hosting provider and not the new one.
Changing web hosting location plays an important role in the SEO and visibility of a website therefore you should not miss these tech issues while transferring web hosting provider. To summarise the important points, the key steps which you should not miss are:
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