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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.

https://ananova.com/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.

Share your Web hosting tips and experiences in Business Hosting Journal (BHJ.org)

03.24.22
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Hosting Companies Bans Hate Sites


No hosting company allows hate sites, and the latest example is Godaddy canceling the website registration for the white supremacist and neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. The website posted an extremely misogynistic post mocking Heather Heyer, the young 32-year woman murdered at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, by a neo-Nazi. It certainly appears that he deliberately drove his car into her and numerous others counter-demonstrators.

In this case, GoDaddy spokeswoman said The Daily Stormer crossed the line and “encouraged and promoted violence. In instances where a site goes beyond the mere exercise of these freedoms, however, and crosses over to promoting, encouraging, or otherwise engaging in violence against any person, we will take action.”

Under the GoDaddy ToS, GoDaddy had the power to terminate a domain registration based on the user’s “morally objectionable activities,” including “[a]ctivities designed to encourage unlawful behavior by others, such as hate crimes.”

After that, the website didn’t get any hosting platform, and they tried on Google and then Russian servers but quickly withdrew the registration. The hate content violates the web hosting company’s contractual Terms of Service (ToS), and now the website has a hard time finding a place on the web. No primary web hosting provider is willing to register the Daily Stermer domain and provide hosting.

The Daily Stormer is an American far-right, neo-Nazi, white supremacist, misogynist, Islamophobic, and Holocaust denial commentary and message board website that advocates for the second genocide of Jews. It is part of the alt-right movement. Wikipedia

The First Amendment protects freedom of speech and expression from government censorship and government punishment. Also, Internet neutrality claims to transmit any content, but the land laws of all the countries ban and restrict such objectionable hate content. Legally drew a line and held web hosting companies responsible for not allowing any such website. Furthermore, even the website hosting companies have the policy not to host such websites. It’s within the web hosting company’s rights to decide whom they conduct business with, and they don’t allow the expression of hate, racism, and bigotry on their platforms.

03.23.22
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BHJ – Web Hosting Ranking Site


Business Hosting Journal is one more review and rating website in the web hosting industry, run by SCPL as a statistics and analytical company. The website is updated daily with the latest reviews, web hosting trends, industry news, technology updates, tutorials, forums, press releases, and resolutions to most web hosting issues. BHJ collaborates with SiteGeek to rank web hosting providers in various categories like Shared Hosting, Cloud Hosting, VPS, Dedicated Servers, Local Hosting, and SSD hosting. Daily the website publishes numerous articles related to the web hosting industry. The website is affiliated with a few web hosting companies. It receives affiliate income whenever hosting consumers purchase the hosting plan by clicking the banner links—the affiliate income help to defray the site’s operating cost. The website claims to provide honest hosting editorially independent reviews by website visitors.

BHJ discusses hosting experiences and ranks legitimate hosting providers on a scale of their hosting processes, resources, security, support, and customer services. Thus, it helps the hosting consumer evaluate the most vital features for its business or individual website or application. The hosting industry is completely consumer-centric, and good customer support is crucial for success. No business or personnel continuously pays the hosting provider who doesn’t offer the best value and customer services. Every customer wants a hosting company to resolve the issues before it comes to them.

Before Damage, preventive mesaure must be taken. A hosting provider must ensure 24×7 technical support via experienced experts who can resolve customer issues asap.

Rohit Kumar (BHJ)

An issue may arise anytime in a hosting business, but if somebody is available to address it and get the best solution on time, it makes the best customer experience. Hence, the hosting provider must ensure the technical staff is available via phone, trouble ticket, email to answer questions and concerns. Everybody understands that most hosting consumers don’t want to wait, but they need immediate responses or resolutions to their technical issues.

Every business knows how much downtime can cause headaches, financial setbacks, and setbacks to Google ranking. They always want 100% website content available to their customers or visitors, and they are right in that. A hosting provider must always provide explanations or reasons for the issues or downtime. And if it is due to server maintenance, then intimate the customer well in advance. If the hosting provider fails to do so, then the knee-jerk reaction from hosting customers is obvious. A hosting consumer looks towards the provider and blames them for downtime for every issue. Thus, a hosting provider must always be responsive and provide timely notifications.

Most hosting consumers trust web hosting reviews and rating websites like Ananova, SiteGeek, Chatwoo, and BHJ to get a sense of web hosting reliability. The hosting consumers look for various hosting features in the hosting providers listing, like effective data backups process to prevent data loss, upgrades, updates, maintenance notification, customer support, uptime guarantee, etc.

Rohit Kumar, BHJ, says, “I’m sure, most of the hosting consumers never go through host’s service level agreement, they just take few moments to skim and then took buying decision, which they already thought in their mind.” However, it is always recommended to go through the service agreement, mentioning the uptime guarantee and the host’s redundancy arrangements.

BHJ suggests that consumers go for public cloud hosting providers like ‘Google Cloud’ or ‘AWS’ to host a business website, providing the best backup and disaster recovery plan. They have the best support on cloud computing, and the hosting specs meet the consumer needs and are fully scalable. A customer does not have to worry about disk space and bandwidth on cloud computing. Most websites have quality full-size images, downloads, extensive audio and video, and content. The customer gets as much as required and can scale later as needs arise.

03.22.22
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Gossip to Promote Web Hosting Business


The best promotion is the mouth word when people gossip about the brand, its services or products, and support. Thus, social media emerge as one of the best tools where many groups of influencers are available where divulging informative or viral information leads to gaining much attention. Is that so easy? Then every company would have done that. People listen to whom they know & rely on. Hence, a company needs to invest time and resources to cultivate a relationship to influence and stimulate them to make the buying decision.

People gossip share their thoughts on social media platforms, and the entire discussion can go any direction, as there is no control. The marketing team with selective words can bring a little power in its favor, but it still depends on how the other members behave. They try to get the news, raw facts & figures, organic or inorganic content, but it is observed that the long gossips are there on such google groups, which is mostly not intended. Mostly the marketing team members in such gossip remain anonymous; thus, others don’t give them much attention. Although the marketing team members try hard to hack such gossip with their fantasy leaks. Some utilize their juicy, decadent, and inviting information, but they gain much attention when sharing information in the most strategic, undercover grassroots ways.

The company’s marketing team participates in social media gossip and uses a pragmatic approach to solve problems and set goals. They get a lot of ideas, information, and suggestions, which helps drive vision, energy, confidence, high initiative, and responsibility.