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  • The 5 Most Recommended Web Hosting Providers

    The 5 Most Recommended Web Hosting Providers

    Finding web hosting is easy, but finding the best web hosting? Now that’s a whole other question. The plethora of web hosting services out there makes it a bit like wading through quicksand. Which one has the best deals? Which have the greatest access? What companies have the greatest value for customers? Your website is literally the face of your business. In many cases it is what customers see first, and you need to make sure that it looks great, works great, and feels great. Well, we’ve put together a list of the top 5 Cloud Kompare web hosting providers, and we’re going to leave it up to you to decide.

    1. Storm on Demand

    As a subsidiary of Liquid Web Inc, Storm on Demand has provided top quality web hosting services since 1997. Using only Enterprise Grade parts, Storm on Demand has been the vanguard of web hosting, now serving more than 20,000 clients across 120,000 different countries worldwide.

    Storm is well equipped to handle anything, with state of the art data centers, all backed by the best in server technology. You can expect to find persistent storage, hourly billing (pay as you go), guaranteed resources, and physical processor cores.

    That last one might be a bit confusing, especially if you have never used a web hosting service before. There are some services out there that will actually tell you that you are using a physical machine when you are in fact on a shared machine with other users. It might be difficult to prove, but Storm does not ‘play that game’, so to speak. Instead, Storm strives to fulfill the needs of customers by being honest and offering high-end services. Your website is serious business; you need it to work properly 100 percent of the time, and there is much more than just coding behind that. You need a server that supports all the right plugins and an uptime that cannot be rivaled. A Storm is coming.

    2. GoDaddy

    When it comes to web hosting companies, Go Daddy is perhaps one of the most Noteworthy web hosting services, and with good reason. You’ve seen the commercials on television and you’ve probably even gone to their website to see ‘the rest of the commercial’, as it were. Their risqué tactics have made their service known near and far, but when it comes to providing that service, do they hit the nail on the head or could they do better?

    GoDaddy actually does deliver on service with strong uptime statistics and an easy to use website that will allow nearly anyone to set up and customize a hosting plan. Right now, GoDaddy claims to manage more than 60 million domain names and 13 million customers across a wide range of different locations.

    When you sign up with GoDaddy, you can expect a free domain, free e-mail, and 1-click installs with more than 200 free applications. Security is top-notch with 24/7 monitoring and DDoS attack protection. You are most definitely in good hands here.

    3. SiteGround

    In 2004 SiteGround brought its own brand of excellence to the web hosting market, now servicing more than 250,000 domains worldwide. SiteGround has Data Centers in three countries:

    • The United States
    • The Netherlands
    • Singapore

    Unlike many other services, SiteGround seems to be okay with using open source software including Apache and PHP, making it very friendly for those who like to ‘tinker’, so to speak. With great rates and a dedication to excellence, SiteGround is without a doubt one of the better options out there. Take a look at it and see what you think because picking a right web hosting service is important for your website. Remember, when you are in the market for web hosting, you are in the market for pure excellence.

    4. Liquid Web

    Owning three different data centers, Liquid Web has been a player in the web hosting game since 1997. They offer a number of high-end products including:

    • Dedicated Servers
    • Dedicated Add-ons
    • Storm Cloud Servers
    • Storm Add-ons
    • VPS Hosting
    • Shared Web Hosting
    • Storage/Backup
    • Database Hosting
    • Network Services
    • Security service
    • And more

    As you can see, they have a level of service available for virtually everyone, putting them right at the top of the game, and most likely at the top of your list.

    5. HostGator

    If you’re looking for the best, you’ve found it. HostGator is a high end platform delivering a plethora of different services including unlimited domains, and even one-click WordPress installation. You will never have to worry about uptime again as HostGator boasts a 99.9 percent uptime with three plans available for web hosting.

    Having won more than a few awards for dependability, it is no surprise that HostGator has stayed at the top of the game, and with unlimited server space, there is no reason why you should not give them your unlimited trust.

  • 6 Tips for Attracting Repeat Visitors to Your Site

    6 Tips for Attracting Repeat Visitors to Your Site

    Every website owner would want to have as many people as possible visiting his site. However, with the multitude of competing sites out there, attracting new visitors has become an increasingly daunting task. Even more difficult is getting people to make repeat visits to your site.

    Here are some tips which will increase the chances of people coming back to your site.

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  • Introduction to Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)

    In a previous post title Designing Web Pages: Tables or CSS, I briefly talked about using CSS to layout the content of a Web page. I didn’t go into detail about how CSS files are used in conjunction with Web pages or even how they are created.

    In this post I will provide a simple introduction to cascading stylesheets and how you can link them to an HTML file.

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  • Incapsula: Increase the Security and Performance of Your Website

    Incapsula: Increase the Security and Performance of Your Website

    I am always looking for ways to increase both the security and performance of my blog, so I decided to have a look at Incapsula. A recent comment was left on my blog that introduced me to the service, and I was also recently invited to try out their service. I have recently been using CloudFlare to improvie my blog’s performance, but I decided to see what Incapsula had to offer.

    On July 14th, I signed up with Incapsula and have been testing out their service for the past two weeks. In this post I will provide some information, stats, and thoughts on the service so you can determine if you wish to use the service for your site or blog.

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  • How to Test Your Web Site on a Smaller Browser Window

    How to Test Your Web Site on a Smaller Browser Window

    Many new computers and laptops sold today include a widescreen monitor with a nice high resolution. For many applications, such as games and movies, having a large widescreen monitor makes the experience much better. Movies were meant for widescreen, and games, well they always look better in a higher resolution.

    The one aspect where the widescreen monitors may be more of a pain is in web development. The reason is simple: creating a web site that displays great on many monitor resolutions is not easy. The web site can look good at one resolution and monitor size, but not on another. If you do have a widescreen monitor you can easily test your site with various resolutions with a free application.

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  • 8 Powerful Dreamweaver Extensions For Your Website

    8 Powerful Dreamweaver Extensions For Your Website

    Dreamweaver is one of the favorite web development applications for developers. It is due to large numbers of available extensions. Users’ expectations are kept in consideration in these extensions and are also followed by developers around the globe.

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  • Safely Store Photographs on an External Hard Drive

    Safely Store Photographs on an External Hard Drive

    Photography has long been a passion of mine.

    Not so long ago I would spend hours tinkering around in a makeshift darkroom, processing reels and reels of Ilford HP5 films, developing numerous black and white photographs many of which adorned the walls of both my home and those of my family.

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  • Best Web Hosting Service – Uptime and Bandwidth

    Best Web Hosting Service – Uptime and Bandwidth

    The best web hosting service will allow you a lot of bandwidth and provide you will a lot of uptime. Anything else is considered sub-par.

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