Monthly Archives: January 2013

01.19.13
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APPLICATION HOSTING


The rental or outsourcing of business applications from an applications service provider instead of installing the software internally is known as application hosting.

Hosting application is also an option as small or medium business may be lacking the technical expertise to manage the process and associated IT infrastructure, backup faculties or security features. Real time monitoring in 24×7 environments being the prerequisite for efficient application management, application hosting providers with required expertise, skills and infrastructure may be the best option.

Application hosting is the solution for you if you want any business process to be implemented swiftly and in most cost effective manner. Application hosting services implies installing and running application on third party server instead of local network.  Real Time Data service can be the answer to your application hosting solution, vertical or enterprise.

The total costs of ownership of an application consists of application licenses, besides the server, systems and   up gradations costs besides IT infrastructure maintenance.  Application hosting services eliminates this cost or reduces the operating cost by a great margin. Thus with software hosting solutions not only you free internal resources for other purpose, you also make capital funds available for your business interests.

Technology is an ever changing feels and the rate at which technologies goes obsolete is high.  A managed comprehensive Application hosting solution enables you to use the latest technology in terms of servers, security tools as well as data protection tools to access your applications in secured and reliable environment. This saves the huge upfront costs involved. For small monthly charges you access the world class technology and capabilities.

Setting up a local network to enable application to be functional may be both time and costs sensitive, particularly for enterprise. Application hosting solves many of these deployment and scalability issues. Your application may be installed and functional at a very short notice and you do not have to worry about the scalability issues. Any number of users can be added any time and you do not have to provision for the future requirements and hence saving in terms of infrastructure costs.

Troubleshooting, support and upgrades managed by Application host Managed Application hosting means that you are not worried about the performance, server uptime, technical troubleshooting or software upgrades. All these features come with the application hosting service and the application service provider ensure that the IT environment is monitored in real time, 24x7x365 manner for security threats and to ensure high server uptime. Application upgrades are also managed by the application hosting providers.

An application service provider (ASP) provides application hosting. It is a business that provides computer-based services to customers over a network. Software offered using an ASP model is also sometimes called On-demand software or software as a service (SaaS). The most limited sense of this business is that of providing access to a particular application program using a standard protocol such as HTTP.

The need for ASPs has evolved from the increasing costs of specialized software that have far exceeded the price range of small to medium sized businesses. As well, the growing complexities of software have led to huge costs in distributing the software to end-users. Through ASPs, the complexities and costs of such software can be cut down. In addition, the issues of upgrading have been eliminated from the end-firm by placing the onus on the ASP to maintain up-to-date services, 24 x 7 technical support, physical and electronic security and in-built support for business continuity and flexible working.

01.19.13
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INTERNET STORAGE


Internet storage is storing files, folders and documents online. Internet storage service or online storage services let you upload important files to a web-based server and access them from any of your other computers and mobile devices; this is a brilliant resource for businesses.

They usually use a virtual drive that exists on your desktop in some manner, and it is linked directly to your online storage space. The contents of this virtual hard drive remain in sync across all of the desktops, notebooks and mobile devices on which you have installed the client software.

You designate which files or folders that you want to be part of the virtual drive; everything on that drive is then automatically uploaded to an online server. From there it is accessible (by logging on with a username and a password) from your other devices, either from another installed version of the application, or via a web interface. And you can grant other people access.

Five services that store, sync and share your files from many options are:

DriveHQ, Dropbox, OpenDrive, SpiderOak and ZumoDrive.

You can review them using their desktop front-end clients. Most of these also offer paid upgrades.

Incidentally, until recently Microsoft offered its own data synchronization service, called Live Mesh, but it’s now defunct. Another Microsoft service, Windows Live Sync, doesn’t have direct syncing access to an online storage space. However, features of Live Mesh have been incorporated into the upcoming version of Windows Live Sync as part of Windows Live Essentials.

The new Windows Live Sync will give you 2GB of online storage for syncing files. Unfortunately, the next version of Windows Live Essentials won’t run on Windows XP.

A note about security: While all of these services employ some basic means of password protection for your files, and most offer assurances that your files travel over ‘secure connections’, the fact of the matter is that you are still uploading your personal and business files to a remote server. So beware.

Disasters both natural and human-caused can fry your computer at any time; a fire, flood or power surge all threaten to destroy your most precious files – think digital photos, music libraries and text documents. Beyond natural calamities, there are numerous other threats to locally-stored data, including accidental erasures, hard drive failure and theft. Since there’s no way to predict if and when disaster might strike, storing copies of your files in the cloud through online storage services is the best way to protect them.

The benefit of using online storage services doesn’t end at file protection. In fact, a large appeal of such services steams from convenient accessibility. Cloud storage services give you access to your most frequently used and important files no matter where you are. Whether on your Smart-phone or work computer, you can access, view and edit your stored data.

As the online storage space continues to evolve, the industry becomes more saturated with competitors. Some of the most robust and flexible online storage services available include JustCloud, SugarSync and Egnyte HybridCloud.

Online storage services should provide practical features that make uploading and sharing your files easy and convenient. For instance, the service should provide folder sharing, offline syncing and file version in case you lose the most recent version of a stored file. Additionally, there should be backup options so files are automatically updated whenever you make changes, and you should have the ability to restore any file you delete from your account.

01.19.13
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HOST


Host (network), a computer connected to the Internet or another IP-based network Hosts file, a computer file to be used to store information on where to find an internet host on a computer network Internet hosting service, a service that runs Internet servers allowing organizations and individuals to serve content to the Internet Virtual host, allowing several DNS names to share the same IP address.

A network host is a computer connected to a computer network. A network host may offer information resources, services, and applications to users or other nodes on the network. A network host is a network node that is assigned a network layer host address. Computers participating in networks that use the Internet Protocol Suite may also be called IP hosts. Specifically, computers participating in the Internet are called Internet hosts, sometimes Internet nodes. Internet hosts and other IP hosts have one or more IP addresses assigned to their network interfaces. The addresses are configured either manually by an administrator, automatically at start-up by means of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), or by stateless address auto configuration methods.

Every network host is a physical network node, but not every physical network node is a host. Network devices such as modems, hubs and network switches are not assigned host addresses, and are consequently not considered as network hosts. Devices such as network printers and hardware routers have IP addresses, but since they are not general-purpose computers, they are sometimes not considered as hosts.

Network hosts that participate in applications that use the client-server model of computing are classified as server or client systems. Network hosts may also function as nodes in peer-to-peer applications, in which all nodes share and consume resources in an equipotent manner. Host is a physical node, can run both server and client programs, provides specific services, and Serves multiple users and devices.

The term “Internet host” or just “host” is used in a number of Request for Comments (RFC) documents that define the Internet and its predecessor, the ARPANET. While the ARPANET was developed, computers connected to the network were typically main frame computer systems that could be accessed from terminals connected via serial ports. Since these dumb terminals did not host software or perform computations themselves, they were not considered hosts. The terminals were connected to the terminal hosts through serial interfaces and perhaps circuit switched networks, but not connected to any IP based network, and was not assigned IP addresses. Today’s IP hosts may, however, lack ability to serve as terminal hosts. A host is a general-purpose computer system connected to a communications network for the purpose of achieving resource sharing amongst the participating operating systems.

01.19.13
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PHP 5 HOSTING


PHP is a server-side scripting language. This programming language has been designed especially for the creation of dynamic web pages and offers web developers a huge range of tools. With its ability to embed into an HTML code and ease of connecting to a MySQL database, PHP has become one of the most widely used programming languages and a basis for many open source applications such as Joomla, WordPress, 4images, Moodle.
The latest, so far, version 5 introduced a completely reworked, advanced object-oriented programming support, as well as many improvements towards better productivity and security. PHP 5 is an attempt to break from the PHP 3 era, while still offering almost complete backwards compatibility. Unfortunately, this PHP version still does not offer native support for Unicode or multibyte strings.

On July 13, 2004, PHP 5 was released, powered by the new Zend Engine II. PHP 5 included new features such as improved support for object-oriented programming, the PHP Data Objects (PDO) extension (which defines a lightweight and consistent interface for accessing databases), and numerous performance enhancements. In 2008 PHP 5 became the only stable version under development. Late static binding had been missing from PHP and was added in version 5.3. Since version 5.4, PHP has native support for Unicode or multibyte strings, allowing strings as well as class-, method-, and function-names to contain non-ASCII characters.

PHP scripting is the key tool in the designing and creation of a dynamic and informative website. The syntax of php was similar to Perl but was more limited and simpler, although less consistent. The use of PHP script in website designing has exponentially increased the significance of PHP web hosting. With the emerging need of PHP hosts, numerous web hosting companies have started offering PHP hosting services. However finding a reliable and quality PHP host is a tricky affair.

PHP is one of the most powerful tool and is gaining popularity in online business environment. A reliable and promising PHP hosting service is required if you choose to design your website with PHP scripting. A credible PHP hosting provider will maximize the advantages of PHP scripting which include compatibility, resource friendliness, efficiency and support.

A reliable PHP hosting ensures a hassle-free use of PHP script and supports all the features you require as your PHP hosting solution.

PHP hosting service providers should have various service features like price, bandwidth, disk space, technical knowledge, customer support, reliability, efficiency, supported applications, database servers and many other crucial elements.

01.19.13
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MICROSOFT EXCHANGE SERVER HOSTING


Microsoft Exchange Server is the server side of a client–server, collaborative application product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure products. Exchange’s major features consist of electronic mail, calendaring, contacts and tasks; that work with Microsoft Outlook on PC and Mac, wireless synchronization of email, calendar, contacts with major mobile devices and browser-based access to information; and support for data storage.

Microsoft Exchange Server can also be purchased as a hosted service from a number of providers. Though Microsoft  Exchange Server Hosting has been around for more than 10 years, it is only recently that many providers have been marketing the service as “Cloud Computing” or Software-as-a-Service. Microsoft Exchange Server Hosting allows for Microsoft Exchange Server to be running in the Internet also called the Cloud and managed by a “Hosted Exchange Server provider” instead of building and deploying the system in-house.

Cloud computing refers to the delivery of computing and storage capacity  as a service  to a heterogeneous community of end-recipients. The name comes from the use of a cloud-shaped symbol as an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it contains in system diagrams. Cloud computing entrusts services with a user’s data, software and computation over a network.

Microsoft Exchange Server Hosting is designed to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) for your business’ messaging system.

Microsoft Exchange Server Hosting provides the advanced protection that a  company demands, and the anywhere access their people want. Access e-mail, voice mail, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere, anytime.

For most businesses today, e-mail is the mission-critical communications tool that allows their people to produce the best results. This greater reliance on e-mail has increased the number of messages sent and received, the variety of work getting done, and even the speed of business itself. Amid this change, employee expectations have also evolved. Today, employees look for rich, efficient access—to e-mail, calendars, attachments, contacts, and more—no matter where they are or what type of device they are using.

Microsoft Exchange has been designed specifically to meet these challenges and address the needs of the different groups who have a stake in the messaging system. The new capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server deliver the advanced protection that a company demands, and the anywhere access their people want, and the operational efficiency they need.

With Microsoft Exchange Server Hosting, everything in Outlook can now become “group enabled”. Your calendar, task list, inbox, etc. can all be viewed or modified by other users that you specify. The extent to which those users can interact or modify your information is entirely up to your control.

Microsoft Exchange has proven to be the world’s most popular business messaging platform, with an estimated 34% installed base market share; over 10% more than its nearest competitor.

It boosts company productivity through advanced features like always-synced email, files, calendars and contacts; mobile access on devices such as the iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry, advanced Web-mail; shared calendars that let employees see colleagues availability to schedule or rearrange meetings, book conference rooms and plan projects; shared task lists that allow ‘to do’ lists to be created and assigned, then shared with team members; and shared contacts which guarantee that customers’ contact details will never be lost or misplaced.

01.19.13
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HOW TO START A RETAIL BUSINESS


Retail is the sale of goods and services from individuals or businesses to the end-user. Retailers are part of an integrated system called the supply-chain. A retailer purchases goods or products in large quantities from manufacturers or directly through a wholesaler, and then sells smaller quantities to the consumer for a profit. Retailing can be done in either fixed locations or online.

Shops may be on residential streets, shopping streets with few or no houses or in a shopping mall. Shopping streets may be for pedestrians only. Sometimes a shopping street has a partial or full roof to protect customers from precipitation. Online retailing, a type of electronic commerce used for business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions and mail order, are forms of non-shop retailing.

Steps to start a retail business:

  1. Choose a Business Legal Structure – Choosing the proper legal organizational structure for your business is one of the most important decisions you will make. While it is possible to change your structure at a later date, it can be a difficult and expensive process. Therefore it’s better to make the right decision before you start your own business.
  2. Choose a Name for Your Retail Business.
  3. Apply for an EIN – An Employer Identification Number (EIN) is also known as a Federal Tax Identification Number, and is used to identify a business entity.
  4. Decide What Products to Sell – Finding a product for your retail business to sell may very well be the most difficult decision you will need to make when starting a retail business.
  5. Write a Business Plan – Whether it is formal or informal, on paper or on disk, the process of creating a business plan will only help your business become successful. It is one of the most crucial steps in starting a retail business.
  6. Learn the Laws – Understand what business licenses and permits you need to obtain by contacting your city, county and state government offices. Before you start your own business, find out what laws govern your type of retail store. Consider consulting with both a lawyer and an accountant, as each will help you properly organize your business.
  7. Find a Location – Where you choose to locate your retail business will have a major impact on everything your shop does. The difference between selecting the wrong location and the right site could be the difference between business failure and success.
  8. Buy Wholesale Products to Resell – A successful retail business depends greatly on offering the right product, at the right price, at the right time. Therefore, it is paramount to the success of your business to be able to locate the best sources for those products. As you take this step to starting a retail business and decide what products or product lines you would like to sell, it’s then time to find places to buy those items at wholesale.
  9. Establish Store Policies – The best time to establish policies and procedures for your retail business is during the planning stages. By anticipating problems before you open your doors, you can choose how you’ll handle special situations, as well as the normal day to day operations. This helps avoid making mistakes once you’re faced with customers.
  10. Spread the Word – Before you open a retail store, start spreading the word. Create a retail marketing plan, brainstorm sales promotion ideas, begin branding and advertising your retail store. Learn how to use loss leaders, media buys and sales events to the benefit of your retail shop.

These are the steps that would help you to open your own retail business.

01.19.13
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HOSTING WITH PERL


Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.
PERL stands for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose UNIX scripting language to make report processing easier.

It is one of the oldest web programming language around. Practically every Linux based server comes with support for it by default. Perl is a server-side, scripting language that can output dynamic web pages or web applications. Perl code, like PHP, is run on the server and then gives HTML back to the web browser.

Because Perl has been around since 1987, it is available on nearly every platform, Windows or Linux. Perl was originally developed for text manipulation but can now be used for managing email, connecting to other web sites or servers, processing form information, storing information in a database, reading and writing to text files, creating cookies in a web browser, and much more. Perl also support subroutines.

Perl boasts of capabilities of manipulation, modular extensibility and a rapid and efficient development cycle. Moreover one can use Perl as a language for prototyping and also helpful for making different systems to co-exist and work together. Apart from that an interesting feature of Perl and its web hosting solutions are that it can be used for a various number of tasks ranging from guest books to simple forms to extremely difficult programming as well. Perl is used and compatible over various computing platforms. It is a language which can be interpreted over many different systems.

Its usage is best in system administration, graphics programming, CGI programming, network programming and also in various applications which require excess of databases. Interestingly, one can handle and access web data which is encrypted. Data can include ones which are from e-commerce transactions, secure and pass word logins along with others. Moreover, Perl enable web hosting also helps in running CGI Perl scripts and usage of the server’s Perl modules which are pre installed. Thus these features help in becoming Perl hosting very desirable.

There are various vendors which provide high quality Perl hosting which ensure maximum and optimum performance for the Perl scripts of clients. Thus the result is such that the client can get secure and fast servers along with Perl scripts which would be run by the usage of CGI and also many integrated Perl modules.

There are various advantages which are associated with Perl hosting and these benefits can be listed as below:

  • Code: Once Perl 5 has come into existence, it has become possible and easy to create codes which are easy to read.
  • Reusability and Modularity: Perl 5 is defined in terms of modules and components which is easy to share between the different packages.
  • Programming: Little or minimal syntax is used for virtual methods as well inheritance which is dynamic. The file handlers and classes are included in the packages which can be treated like objects.
  • Extensibility and Compatibility: The best part about Perl 5 is that it can very easily embedded into C++ or C applications. Moreover, the documented interface can be used for calling as a routine.
  • DBM Implementation: Perl program can be used to access GDBM, DBM, and NDBM simultaneously and from the same script.
  • Uploading: Perl’s auto load facility allows one to clearly define any arbitrary and random semantics for a sub routine call which is undefined.
  • A number of unbundled modules: The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network has in it various numbers of modules which are of plug and play in nature and has Perl codes which are reusable.

These and other benefits of Perl is extremely useful and helps one in getting a faster, reliable and secure server through Perl hosting and its various web solutions.

01.19.13
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HOSTING PROVIDERS


To make your web site visible to the world, you’ll have to store it on a web server.

In order for your website to be accessible by your visitors on the Internet, you need to host it with a webhost, i.e. a company that has web servers connected to the internet 24×7. Web hosting companies have thousands of such servers in data centers.

Those servers can be dedicated to a specific site (“dedicated servers” – which is expensive) or shared between several clients and web sites (which is much more affordable). This is called “shared web hosting”.

The drawback of shared hosting is that if the hosting company shares too few servers between too many clients, then your site could become dramatically slow. This can be acceptable to some level if your primary concern is priced. However, studies have shown that if your home page takes more than 10 seconds to load, visitors will start to abandon your site.

With increasing market of web hosting there are many hosting providers which allow us to create a web site and use it for various purposes. These purposes may include hosting sites for commercial purposes like buying and selling of goods over internet or for eBook writing or for downloading products or for personal purposes. For this these sites provide their client with various plan like $1 web hosting in which these companies provide various features needed for hosting a web sites on the monthly rent other plans include reseller hosting, VPS hosting, Linux based hosting etc.

Finding just the right kind of hosting service to suit your needs can become a tedious task, especially if you don’t know what you are searching for. To begin with, you need to determine what kind of capacity you require from your website, since the web server hosting your files will play an integral role in the smooth day-to-day operations of delivering your content.

All these web hosting companies provide us with almost same features. The main purpose  of these providers is to provide maximum features like online site builder, domain name, cheap web hosting plans, plenty of disk space, data transfer, unlimited bandwidth etc at least expected cost. These providers offer cheap website hosting prices, outstanding services, and free domain names. As the competition is rising in this field so they also provide money back guaranty if you are not satisfied with your current web host.
Various types of hosting services provided by hosting providers are :

  1. Shared Hosting
  2. Virtual Server
  3. Dedicated Server

These services have become even more important with the sudden increase of digital data over the past years. The huge volume of information that people use on a daily basis is not stored in file cabinets; it is stored in servers. At last count, there are roughly 11 billion websites and blogs with more than 225 million domain names registered worldwide.
Making the right choice when it comes to choosing a web host is never an easy task, neither for a rookie, nor for a pro. With the hosting industry expanding at an extremely rapid rate, it is becoming increasingly difficult to sift through the mountains of advertising material and sales pages effectively.

Various cheap web hosting providers are inmotion hosting, hostmonster hosting, blue host, hub, justhost.com, iPage, fatCow, SuperGreen, GoDaddy, and many more.  All these web hosting providers provide almost same features at almost same price.

01.19.13
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Thinking Outside The Firewall


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Ask anyone professionally involved with computers and the Internet and they will readily acknowledge the vital importance of data security. Security experts are also quick to point out that cyber attacks are increasing at an astonishing rate (though somewhat self-serving, their observation is practically an understatement!). However, our biggest concern in the very near future may not be the high number of attacks but rather the sophistication of the intrusions and the increasing points of entry that must defend against. So, it is a time we took a closer look for ourselves at this moving target called Data Security.

Historically, amateur hackers and disgruntled company insiders have posed the biggest threats to computer networks. In fact, more than one-third of all corporate cybercrime is the result of unauthorized access by insiders. From the outside, potent viruses like the Nimda worm and Code Red were merely the notorious products of pesky amateur programmers.
But things can change quickly, especially in the post-9/11 world of network security. Now, in addition to amateurs, hosting industry is facing the specter of attacks from highly motivated expert programmers bent on cyber-terrorism. We just don’t know what new kinds of blended threats we may face. That’s disturbing when you understand that data security is a reactive technology – which means that threats have to become known before developers can defend against them. Unfortunately, this potential new wave of hackers comes at a time when the traditional firewall may soon become obsolete – no matter how good it is. With the proliferation of wireless networks and virtual private networks, intruders will be able to use these connections as well as Web protocols to gain access to sensitive data without the need to breach perimeter defenses such as a firewall.

So what’s the answer? Well, developers have realized that it’s time to start thinking outside the firewall. One approach is the development of early-warning systems that use heuristic analysis, rather than known virus signatures, to detect abnormal behavior. Thus the ability to react to a previously unknown threat in real time. A company called Entercept has a product that uses heuristic analysis to recognize abnormal network activity and immediately block server resources from the attack. This is quite a leap forward from merely generating a log and notifying system administrators who would be hard pressed to react nearly fast enough to avoid serious harm. To deal with guarding multiple points of entry on today’s networks, Internet Security Systems has been developing their RealSecure platform to automatically apply software patches to both servers and clients whenever vulnerabilities identified. In theory, administrators would no longer have to apply patches manually but instead would rely on a self-healing platform that functions similarly to the human immune system in that it identifies threats and fights back in real time.

Still, even these radical measures aren’t much defense against the determined insider attempting to steal company secrets or divert funds or stocks. One company, Savvydata, Inc., is aggressively targeting this type of threat with a security program called RedAlert, which is specifically designed to block crooked or angry insiders from doing harm. RedAlert can protect sensitive data in a variety of applications from being accessed, printed, emailed, copied or saved to a disk by an unauthorized employee on the network and provide a secure audit trail. It can also lock down data in unaccounted for laptops. Although it may not be able to block an executive with high-level access, it will generate an alert and leave a clear audit trail as a deterrent.

With the rapid evolution of today’s hardware and software, it would be naïve to expect that today’s tried-and-true firewall solutions represent the endgame in network security. But rest assured that quantum leaps in applications of safety are rapidly becoming available to deal effectively with tomorrow’s unknown threats hopefully. One thing is for sure – now is always a good time to re-evaluate your security measures and get better informed on new security tools available to protect your sensitive data.

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01.19.13
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HOSTING PRESENTATION


Presentation is the practice of showing and explaining the content of a topic to an audience or learner. Presentations come in nearly as many forms as there are life situations. In the business world, there are sales presentations, informational and motivational presentations, first encounters, interviews, briefings, status reports, image-building, and of course, the inevitable training sessions.

Although individuals most often think of presentations in a business meeting context, there are countless occasions when that is not the case. For example, a Non Profit Organization presents the need for a capital fund-raising campaign to benefit the victims of a recent tragedy.

Presentations can also be categorized as vocational and avocational. In addition, they are expository or persuasive. And they can be impromptu, extemporaneous, written, or memorized. When looking at presentations in the broadest terms, it’s more important to focus on their purpose. There are three basic purposes for giving oral presentations:

  • To inform
  • To persuade
  • To build good will

There are three types of presentations

  1. Informative
  2. Analyzing
  3. Persuading

Audience is one of the most important part of a presentation. There are far more types of audiences than there are types of presentations because audiences are made up of people and people come in innumerable flavors. Individuals could be invited to speak to groups all across the country. What the individual says and how they may say it depends on the makeup of those groups. They may ask you the individual to address a room full of factory operations managers who have no choice but to attend their talk, you they may go before a congressional committee looking into various environmental issues. When an individual stands up to deliver a presentation before an audience, it’s essential that the audience know who the presenter is, why they are there, what specifically they expect to get from your presentation, and how they will react to your message. You won’t always be able to determine these factors, but you should try to gather as much background information as possible before your presentation. There will be times, especially with presentations that are open to the public, when you will only be able to guess.

Audiences can be classified into four basic categories

  • Captives
  • Pragmatists
  • Socially motivated
  • Committed

Hosting means Act as host for (a Web site or other electronic data) on a computer connected to the Internet.

So, basically hosting presentation means to host a presentation online i.e. one can explain any topic to another individual or a group of people who are sitting thousands of miles away from him on the internet with the help of slide show or with diagrams.

Hosting presentation became very popular in such fields as eLearning and web-conferencing. Many electronic courses contain videos, audios, animations, which is easy to accomplish within a PowerPoint presentation.

After uploading a presentation to a presentation hosting service, a user receives an HTML code, which allows embedding it to a website or blog, or sharing it with a friend afterwards. Presentation hosting services’ users can join groups by interests and debate about any subject they are interested in. These portals are also used in advertising purposes.