Monthly Archives: March 2022

03.31.22
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Yahoo premium Web hosting services


Yahoo is a small business advisor for e-commerce websites, local marketing, domains, business e-mails, and brand updates. Small businesses choose a web hosting services to build a website for the features it offers, which include:

  • Publish the local website in less than 30 minutes and start selling online with an e-commerce site with stores
  • Free for the first month
  • Domains start at $0.95 for the 1st year when you buy for two years or more.
  • Easy-to-use, simple, affordable, and effective website design tools and templates
  • A customizable online shopping cart that gives the flexibility to customize features to high standards
  • Credit card and PayPal processing
  • Stable and secure servers to ensure 100% uptime
  • Intuitive site-performance tracking, real-time insights to track performance quickly.
  • The provider helps grow and develop a business online, enhances the store with apps from Commerce Central, and helps find customers and increase sales with custom advertising programs through Localworks.
  • Easy to use, robust, sophisticated, reliable, scalable, and invaluable hosting resources that increase customer visibility on 60+directories.
03.30.22
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Remembering The Internet icon GeoCities


A web hosting service started in 1994 by David Bohnett and John Rezner, and it was the third most visited website on the world wide web. Earlier named Beverly Hills Internet (BHI), a small Web hosting and development company in Southern California, later renamed GeoCities. It allowed registered users called ‘Homesteaders’ to create and publish home pages and e-mail addresses, chat, bulletin boards, and community elements with neighborhoods they wanted to belong to with 2 M.B. of space provided. The neighborhood was part of the member’s Web address along with a sequentially assigned “street address” number to make the URL unique (for example, “www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/number”). 

According to their content, the users select cities or regions to list hyperlinks to their web pages like computer-related were placed in ‘SiliconValley, and entertainment placed with ‘Hollywood.’ GeoCities included GeoCities Marketplace, a commercial website, which sold GeoCities-branded merchandise.

The users need to provide personally-identifying and demographic information when they register for the website. In the privacy statement on its New Member Application Form, the website promises not to give anyone personally-identifying information without the user’s permission. The visitors can browse user-created websites by their theme or interest. They enjoyed the user-created websites and built a profound community.

In 1999, FTC received a complaint against GeoCities that it violated provisions of (the Federal Trade Commission Act, precisely 15 USC & 45. The act states, “Unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are hereby declared unlawful.” The agency found GeoCities engaged in deceptive acts and practices in contravention of their stated privacy act. The website sold personal information to third parties who used the information for purposes other than those for which members gave permission. The website illegally permitted third-party advertisers to promote products targeted to GeoCities’ 1.8 million users by using personally identifiable information obtained in the registration process. Subsequently, a consent order was entered into, which prohibits GeoCities from misrepresenting the purpose for which it collects uses personal identifying information from consumers. 

On January 28, 1999. Yahoo Inc. acquired the GeoCities hosting service for $3.57 billion in stock and abandoned this practice to favor Yahoo member names in the URLs.

In July 1999, Yahoo! switched from the neighborhood and street addresses Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) for homesteaders to “vanity” URLs through members’ registration names Yahoo! (“www.geocities.com/membername”). This service was offered previously only as a premium.

 Later in October 2009, the United States GeoCities services came to an end. Yahoo terminated the most user-written website with at least 38 million pages – The vintage personal web hosting site got farewell on October 26, 2009. Yahoo asked and encouraged users to download content to computers if they want to rebuild them on another site, as they won’t be archiving user pages. Yahoo urged users to try the company’s pay Web-hosting service. The company introduced a for-fee premium hosting service at GeoCities. It reduced the accessibility of free and low-price hosting accounts by limiting their data transfer rate for Web page visitors.

By 2008, the domain geocities.com attracted at least 177 million visitors annually and had 18.9 million unique visitors from the U.S. during March 2006. Later in March 2008, it decreased to 15.1 million unique U.S visitors and in March 2009 had 11.5 million unique visitors.

GeoCities Joined a long list of other services, including Yahoo! 360, My Web, Yahoo! Briefcase Farechase, LAUNCHcast, My Web, Audio Search, Pets, Photos, Live, Kickstart, etc. Web messenger and teachers prioritize their products and services to deliver the best products to consumers. The visitors looking for GeoCities won’t find flashing banner ads, questionable color schemes, guest books, streaming HTML marquee tags, and omnipresent “Under Construction” signs. The site touched the hearts of millions of users that “RIP GeoCities” was a trending topic on Twitter. The website where millions first tried their hands at coding and designing before Yahoo scrubbed it.

03.29.22
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Influencers Promoting Hosting Company on Social Media


Social media is full of influencers, listeners, and followers. Everybody cannot become an influencer; hence, the web hosting company is looking for 3-rd party marketing companies—the work suits in the hands of the one skilled to do it. The personnel working in PR or Marketing companies with experience gain the skill to influence or interplay various emotions, thus stimulating social media members to act or compel others to do something. They have millions of followers, which they gain with time; whatever they disseminate is shared, tweeted, and retweeted. The hosting companies understand that paying such companies is worth it, bringing maximum reach and better campaign results.

The profiles of such 3-rd party Marketing or PR companies show that they have been trendsetters, highly respected, and well connected in large social media networks. They are experts in giving the CSR angle while promoting their products or services. They play a role of an activist bringing up social issues and society galvanization. On their merits, its people do everything for their wide range of profits, interest, welfare, or better cause. They maintain a good relationship; hence, their opinion is valued by many people.

Most such influencers post current news, latest trends, science discoveries, new technology, issues, and solutions. Often the marketing and PR companies pay celebrities like sports icons, movie stars, politicians to endorse so that scope or size of reach increases, as they acquired a lot of followers due to their fame.

The PR or Marketing companies are continuously growing in Internet advertising, as they have gained the skill to employ it smartly and effectively.

03.29.22
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Choosing Windows Web Hosting Services Over Linux


The web hosting business can thrive only when it can retain existing customers and keep adding new ones. The web hosting platforms like cPanel & Plesk have provided ease of integration and migration. Still, the web hosting providers are categorized as Windows & Linux web hosting service providers. Each has its allegiance, revenue, and marketplace, as web development goes in all these languages Laravel, ASP, Microsoft’s .Net.

Microsoft offers and is continuously developing tools for the web service provider industry & hosters with products such as Site Server and Commerce Server to gauge the application management, integration, and packaged value-add delivery nuances of Web services and .Net. Microsoft makes it easy at work to integrate and build responsive websites for handsets and PDAs. The company has remained a solid contender for the Linux web services space and has continuously improved and overcome shortcomings.

Linux is open-source, accessible, and cheap to deploy back-end services. Thus, it’s gaining much popularity & accounts as a leading platform for the web. While being economically viable, the hosting platform provides the best security, stability, and transaction support. Most hosting providers offer Linux hosting solutions with plan customization.

The choice of Linux or Windows platform largely depends on the web programming language as ASP, Visual Studio .Net, and .NET run only on Windows and its excellent reliability. Web developers still use these languages as the toolsets and resources make it easier to modify applications, customize them faster, integrate changes, and the ability to deliver them with the best functionality. Thus, bringing dynamism to customer applications as per needs. The customers didn’t need to wait around to get results. Furthermore, .Net applications are considered secure compared to others magnified by ten and hence dominate the web development market. With the best engineering, full support, and Microsoft build products, the Windows web hosting services will stay for long in the web hosting business and keep drawing the attention and momentum.

Microsoft upgrades and enhances the web host’s capability of deploying Microsoft Microsoft architecture in their data centers. Furthermore, it supports the development of an internal service-level management application built entirely using .Net. Most hosting providers endorse ‘.Net’-based web hosting services to small and midsize businesses to use a shared hosting environment and when applications outgrow the use of windows dedicated servers.

The web hosting services market is growing fast, as the amount of application-to-application or server-to-server traffic will explode.

03.28.22
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Multi-Vendor Marketplace


Most businesses list their products on top marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Etsy, and others to increase sales. While focusing on their e-commerce portals, SMEs list products on branded marketplaces that helped increase revenues by 80 percent. The global marketing websites allow listing men’s and women’s clothing, fragrances, skin-care products, cosmetics, and much more. Their product pages look like brochures. With managed services, these marketplaces make buying, selling, and sophisticated transactions easier.

Most businesses start their e-commerce portals, but one in thousands begin getting traffic. Thus, these businesses find it comfortable to list products on marketplaces where traffic is already there. The e-commerce marketplace provides fully managed services, responding to the complex needs of SMEs and large businesses. Hence they are gaining popularity as more businesses go online. The company gets the liberty to sell products worldwide with hosted applications and even don’t need employees scattered across those selling destinations. The standard, the preconfigured platform, enables companies to list products instantly after signup to get customers.

The marketplace provider installs base e-commerce software, apps, round-the-clock monitoring, caching, 100% uptime, periodic backups, and other plugins on standardized hardware and server infrastructure and configurations. The technical team takes care of performance, complex needs, speed deployments, manages the application, content distribution, network, storage capability, and service-level agreements and licensing. Furthermore, it makes data accessible anytime and anywhere, real-time access to billing information, trouble tickets, and other data associated with their accounts.

The businesses find the cost of listing or launching products on marketplaces much lower than implementing and maintaining e-commerce portals themselves. Thus, they decided to go with branded marketplace instead of making a significant investment in bringing up sites, thus capitalizing on the marketplace’s extensive infrastructure.

Most companies don’t have the skills, technical staff, & technologies for those pieces. Marketplaces like DownTown.us do much more marketing stuff like offering streaming media services, social media sharing, & business listing apart from providing the platform, thus making the companies profitable by increasing the visibility and demand of their products. Therefore, most small and midsize companies are moving into the managed services arena.

03.26.22
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Customer-Centric Web Hosting World


A highly competitive web hosting business understands the value of customer perception and behavior. Thus, incorporating customer feedback, comments and suggestions is the mantra to capitalize and thrive in business. Companies invest in a sustained and continuous research process to know the customer, their preferences, perception, needs, requirements, and the factors driving buying decisions. They carve the hosting plans based on research and past knowledge to target the niche.

A hosting company cannot control or judge consumer behavior but can accordingly evaluate its business operations and environment. The hosting market boundaries are growing; hence, the companies need to identify opportunities in foreign areas. They use social media to measure perception, opinion, and belief, trying to modify customer behavior with conviction. Furthermore, to influence the hosting market to make consumers passionate about the innovative hosting plans and online services. The people care more about the file’s security, easy accessibility, and availability from anywhere. The hosting companies focus on what customers care about, become passionate about, drive their emotions.

The companies who care for their customers become big reputable brands. They have loyal customers who permanently stabilize in their favor. The cheap service providers, selling at a reduced price below market value, even can’t attract them to switch. The company values its customer, and they become trusted hosting providers that give warranties, guaranties, accessories, and services. To keep growing, business applies everything, from intelligent marketing to releasing innovative services or products, aggressive business plans, and sound economic sense.

03.26.22
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Listing Web Hosting Services


After this CORONA pandemic, online businesses have taken a significant stake. Almost every company has come online with substantial investment and started an e-commerce website to facilitate sales, ordering, and other online transactions. Businesses have started relying on online sales much compared to their physical stores. The factory outlets started their online e-commerce portals to provide products or services at lower prices, eliminating intermediaries. Thus, online business has become highly competitive; hence, it requires quality websites and the best web hosting services. No company would like to risk its online presence to host its website on a notorious web hosting provider who has server downtime, provides no security and backups, and have frequent technical gaffes.
Online e-commerce businesses need fast servers, security, backups, and the best look-n-feel to attract potential customers.

The hosting providers set up high-performance criteria with cloud hosting living consistently with their claims. Ananova.com reviews all such web hosting providers to ensure they continuously meet standards and then list them to its top Web hosting providers list.

Best Hosting Providers

The web hosting providers ranking in the list depends on the customer/visitors reviews and ratings, professional hosting ethics, customers support and services, and brand acknowledgment in the web hosting market. Most website visitors rate hosting providers and consider these criteria necessary to meet website requirements, including a money-back guarantee, 24×7 technical support, payment options, hosting prices, hosting resources, usage, and access logs. Business Hosting Journal (BHJ) considers Ananova criteria can strengthen the web hosting industry as s whole.

03.25.22
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Improving Web Hosting Business


The comments, feedback, and suggestions help the hosting business to thrive. As the problems or issues arise, the hosting provider gains experience. The constructive solutions & challenges get added to their knowledge base. The more the hosting provider gains knowledge, it minimizes its risks. The hosting provider continually and flexibly adapts its business environment and operations. The hosting company’s success significantly depends on its technology, upgraded and updated servers, operations, support, and uptime. These are the crucial factors that dominate the web hosting world.

The hosting companies understand that it’s a customer-centric market, and to gain repeated success, and they have to be on their toes to resolve the issues before the customer comes to know about them. The technical team’s concrete experience, observation, and establishing a situation help them to test solutions, and they need to utilize the resource and assess different conditions from experience. They create various models and plans to strengthen their technical support. Thus, led their hosting company a trendsetter that influences the mass hosting consumers.

03.25.22
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Customer Retention in a Hosting Business


Hosing consumers trust a provider with the latest technology, upgraded and updated servers, provide support, and keep monitoring servers 24×7 for 100% uptime. Most hosting providers claim that they have age-old experience, and in this hosting industry, they have decades of experience. On the other hand, the hosting consumers look for new opportunities instead of relying entirely on the old companies with experience. Although it is always said that “Risk aversion is a tricky minefield,” hence asked to rely on branded providers only for the online presence.

Nowadays, switching has become a more effortless and hassle-free process. But, still, the hosting consumers always want to continue with their existing provider. The other provider comes into their mind with the cycle of doubt and hesitation continuing, and they cannot afford it or want to give more time. It’s observed that in a hosting business, the consumers remain loyal, as they believe that their provider is strong in that particular niche and would compensate for all the traits it lacks.

Nobody continues to stay in a sinking ship; everybody starts moving, some early, some late with a risk, but how much it’s worth to take such risk? These days, hosting consumer makes quick decisions if their present hosting providers fail to meet their expectations. Nobody keeps blind faith; the hosting consumers remain updated with their issues and problems and want their immediate fix. And, if the hosting provider fails to do so, then the result is obvious, switch!

With new challenges, problems, or issues, most branded hosting providers recognize opportunities and use the same to thrive in their business. Their perception of judgment to deal with the problems makes them good hosting providers, and they learn from the experience.

03.25.22
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Ananova Listed Power Hosting Provider


ANANOVA NEWS March 25, 2022

Ananova.com lists the power hosting providers to help businesses running e-commerce websites that do heavy business transactions pick the best web host. Ananova selected the hosting providers by considering security, SSL/TLS to enable “HTTPS” pages, handling payments, guaranteed 100% uptime SLA, cloud resources, snapshot backup facility, and other features, thus helping Webhosting customers to reap the benefits.

The world is moving fast towards online markets, and every business considers it must have an online presence to sell goods to consumers worldwide. The businesses create online marketing plans and strategies to reach, catch & communicate to customers, thus fostering a community around their company.

The Ananova listed hosting provider offers professional e-commerce templates to enable businesses to build a website with all available capabilities. It’s good to have a business e-mail address, blog, and social media presence for a business.

Ananova recommends WordPress.com eCommerce & Business plan for e-commerce sites and shopping carts. The programs offer Premium themes and more than 50,000 WordPress plugins to provide businesses with the best look-n-feel and functionality with the best security and backups. The provider takes care of security, making the website 100% secure to minimize hacking or malicious activity. For an e-commerce website, this feature is a must as customers do share sensitive credit card information while making purchases. SSL/TLS – Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security ensures information encryption.

Furthermore, WordPress allows customization, accepts payments in 60+ countries, and integrates with Top Shipping Carriers.

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