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26 Sep 09 Here’s a Quick Way to Find a Perfect Web Host

You got a cool website name, a trendy design, and the best in the class content, and even lots of traffic, but still you will not be successful if you do not have a good web host to host your website. How good is your design if your server is down most of the time? And how good is your content if your website takes years to load? Nothing matters, if your hosting is not right. It is like, having everything fancy in place, but what is missing is the infrastructure.

Your webhost provides you the infrastructure to erect your online empire; therefore, it is very necessary to find the right web hosting company to host your domain. Here I am going to share some tips that will help you in finding a good webhosting company.

Web hosting quality checklist

These are steps I followed when I chose a web hosting company for my blogs. Follow these ten steps and see if the host you are considering meets all of these criteria or not.

  1. Bandwidth: The more bandwidth you will get the more users you can entertain.
  2. Storage space: If you want to host a lot of website, or host heavy files then you will need a lot of space.
  3. Speedy technical support: You will not like to wait for days before you get your answer like the grand daddies of web hosting make you do.
  4. Easy to use control panel: managing domain should be easy.
  5. Seamless upgrading and downgrading: your web host should help you seamlessly upgrade or downgrade your account without any downtime.
  6. Free e-mail hosting: you will like to have yourname@yourdomain.com; hence make sure your hosting plan allow you to have many e-mail accounts.
  7. Unlimited domain hosting: see if your web hosting company gives you the opportunity to host more than one website or not.
  8. Good infrastructure: See if your web hosting company has up-to-date servers or not. And what about their backup servers?
  9. Uptime: the web hosting that you choose should guarantee at least 99.99% uptime.
  10. One-click software installation: your web host should have one-click installation for WordPRess, Drupal, Joomla, osCommerce, ZenCart, and other common softwares.

Recommendation

At this point, I will say this: if you are looking for a reliable web hosting company that offers Unlimited disk space, bandwidth and e-mail account at an affordable price then you should check Gossimer Unlimited webhosting plan. It is worth a look.

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24 Mar 09 Getting the most out of Gossimer Web Hosting!

Those of us in Gossimer’s Support Team want to reach out to the public by sharing some descriptions of what websites could be missing out on without using our web hosting service. So we’ve brought together the following information:

Gossimer’s Windows Only Hosting has a lot of features, but Tandem Server stands out from the rest. It is an easy-to-use Content Management System, but it produces very professional looking websites. You are not required to use it and with Gossimer’s Linux Hosting, there are other special features that aren’t always available with other hosts, like Auto Correct URL Spelling (limiting the amount of HTTP error pages shown), Unlimited Web Forwarding Rules (for any local folder, sub-folder, file), Direct Download Manager (making the transfer of server-to-server data seamless), and Website Speed Booster (where websites can be delivered twenty times or more faster!). All of these greatly reduce the amount of time in back-office work because they do not require website coding nor separate software. What’s more, customers can make use of their space efficiently because they can control their raw log files, creating rotations, deleting or even disabling them completely.

Gossimer is really unique because it offers private folders in every web hosting package, and private in this case means that they are not included in the web directory and they are only accessed by FTP (in other words, they are not accessible via HTTP). Customers don’t have to learn PHP or programming to have access to their web statistics. They don’t have to set-up a separate account with an external service to get information on the visitors of their website, the number of which are unique, the number of hits, the average duration spent during each visit, the most viewed pages, which search engines brought them there, and which keywords were used. Not only that, Gossimer offers a back-up manager that can have custom adjustments for different directories and when changes are being made or there is a redirect error for any reason, customers can have their own message in the HTTP error pages too!

In comparison to the thousands of other web hosting companies found on the internet today, Gossimer is perhaps the most customizable. It has quality options while offering the lowest price. Obviously, we have a bias as Gossimer’s Support Team, but who better to give details on the in’s and out’s of webhosting than those of us who are on the inside? We know that other webhosts use bad techniques to get their customers; some web hosts offer unlimited webspace but the fine print might say otherwise. Other companies offer a very low price per month, but customers have to pay at least one year in advance! Let’s not even mention a free domain name, where prepayments have to be made for at least twice that amount of time. Gossimer offers 5 free domain name aliases with each hosting package and we will never charge a set-up fee. Add to that a minimum term of six months starting at $1.89 a month, and it’s a steal! Potential customers can get a lot more just by trying out the service rather than paying more than two or three times that amount for only one month with other hosts!

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11 Mar 09 FeatureCentric Email and Web Hosting

I’d like to introduce you to our Hosting Plans - some of the most reliable and feature packed packages available in the industry (with a 99.9% uptime!). Our plans can serve virtually all of your online needs – whether you are looking at developing a personal website or even looking at setting up a business presence, we can offer you the best solutions! We have, in fact, always guaranteed 100% Customer Satisfaction and intend to give you nothing less than that.

You can purchase plans on either the Linux or Windows platform, along with personalized email accounts (to work in conjunction with your domain name), thus giving you the 2 most important tools to establish a strong online presence!

Pick Your Plan:

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Dedicated IP

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V.Imp:

  • Email Services are billed separately – and not included in the Web Hosting plans
  • Extra bandwidth can also be purchased for any of the above plans

We assure you that you will not find better value for your money anywhere else – we are reliable and our plans pack a punch! We can’t stress enough how helpful a 99.9% uptime is. Mentioned below are some of our features that might interest you:

Web Hosting Features

  • Functionality Packed Web-Based Control Panel: The Hosting Packages can be managed through our FREE web-based Control Panels, which have been developed keeping your needs in mind.  Our Control Panels enable uploading and managing of website content, SSL certificates, bandwidth theft protection, boosting your website speed, etc. – ALL in just a click!
  • FREE Image Gallery: We give you 4images - the most popular tool for you to manage all your photos online!
  • FREE Forum Tool: We also give you phpBB, which is another easy to use tool to setup a forum and manage it in the most convenient fashion possible.  You could also refer to the FAQ section at any point in time – you will not be left with any doubts!  Just in case, you’ll have customer service at hand if you need it.
  • FREE Content Management Systems: We offer you three of the most powerful content management systems to power your website – namely Joomla, phpNuke and Nucleus CMS.
  • FREE Shopping Cart: Converting your website into a shop, and enabling your customers to purchase your products, cannot get any simpler!  We provide you with Oscommerce which is an Online shopping cart tool that will allow you to setup, run, and maintain an online store with minimum effort and absolutely no costs, fees, or limitations involved.
  • FREE Blog: We also give you WordPress, which is a powerful personal publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible.
  • FTP Features and File Manager: You get the ability to upload and download data 24×7, an unlimited number of times.  Adding to this, you get the ability to have up to 100 FTP users.  We also provide you with unique and advanced features like restricting access of a particular user to a folder, set disk quota limitations on a per FTP User Basis and a complete log of actions of each user. Moreover, we provide you with a web-based FTP tool within the Control Panel itself for managing your content.  This tool provides extensive features to update your website, in the event that you are unable to use any dedicated FTP software. With all of these (and much more!) you can upload and manage your website content with absolute ease.
  • Custom Error Pages: You can customize the HTTP errors on your website so that your site visitors are never lost if a page on your website does not exist, you can redirect the user to a local URL, a remote URL, or specify a text (or HTML) message on the occurrence of the HTTP error.
  • FREE Domain Aliases: You can add up to 5 domain aliases with each hosting package that you purchase.  This will enable you to protect your identity and brand image on multiple TLDs or provide a cover for misspellings of your domain name.  If you have more than one brand name then you could also point these to the same hosting package by specifying them as domain aliases.

Email Hosting Features

  • SMTP Access: Using our SMTP service, you can compose and send email using any desktop-based email software such as Mozilla ThunderBird, Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, Netscape Mail, etc.  Do not compromise on the way you manage all your emails!
  • Anti-Spam & Anti-Virus Protection: Our comprehensive in house anti-spam solution enables you to stay a step ahead of spammers and it is capable of blocking 93 to 94% of all spam, and all spam that is blocked is 100% guaranteed junk mail, i.e. genuine mails will never get blocked, ensuring that any of your genuine mails are never flagged as spam and you do not miss out on them.
  • 50 Mailing Lists: Along with every email hosting package, you get the ability to add up to 50 mailing lists with 500 members in each list.  You can configure these mailing lists for sending out newsletters, making announcements, having private or open discussions, etc.  You can also block certain users from posting to your list, restrict the size of messages sent to the mailing list, add and remove moderators, etc.

As you can see, our feature packed packages will enable you to not only launch your individual or business identity online but also give you an edge over your competitors in terms of web presence capabilities.  Further, we can assure you that such features and prices are unmatched in the industry today!  We hope to serve all your online needs in the most optimum way possible, with the least effort and money involved from your end.

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