▼ Cheap Web Hosts: Bargain Basement or Bottom of the Barrel?
By Daniel Tynan
Source: c/net

So you've finally decided to set up your own Web site. Your needs are modest, and so is your budget. It's natural to wonder if you can save a little money by using a lowball Web host, a company that charges next to nothing for a little disk space, a few e-mail accounts, and some bandwidth. What could go wrong?  

Actually, a lot: you could end up paying money for nothing, enduring endless hassles trying to get your site to work, and even losing the site entirely if the provider goes belly-up and you're not prepared.  (Read more...)
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▼ Hosting Trek Does Non-Profit Hosting
Source: Web Host Industry Review
 
HostingTrek.com announced on Tuesday that it has introduced the Helping Hand Hosting plan, providing non profit organizations and community focused businesses with all the tools needed to secure an online presence.

The plans are available in Windows or Linux and cost $8.25 a month. The signup fee is waived. The plan comes equipped with the Easy Site Studio (a five dollar a month value), two hundred email addresses for volunteers, free antivirus and other services.  (Read more...) 0105
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▼ Hosts Reach Customers With VoIP  
By Rawlson O'Neil King
Source: Web Host Industry Review

A new voice over IP application can enable Web hosts to provide quick responses and efficient service to both current and prospective customers.  

Budget Minutes (budgetminutes.com), an Internet telephony solution provider, has introduced a new service that allows online buyers to obtain instantaneous access to a hosting firm's support or sales staff through the Web.  (Read more...)
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▼ Traffic Management Tools Fight Growing Pains
By Rawlson O'Neil King
Source: Web Host Industry Review 

The rapid proliferation of network operation centers and peering points has created new demands and challenges for service providers. Increasing numbers of users and bandwidth-intensive applications have put huge strains on networks, creating a growing market for solutions that enable businesses and service providers to ensure reliable performance of enterprise, e-commerce and e-business applications; increase network efficiency; and enable the convergence of data, voice and video traffic.

The combined impact of such new applications is that network performance suffers. At best, performance is inconsistent and unpredictable, and at worst, it is consistently slow and frustrating, which impacts productivity and, in the case of e-commerce, profitability. (Read more...) 
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▼ Unlimited Wealth Creation Through Reseller Hosting
By Ninad Gupte 
Source: WebProNews

Web hosting can be an exciting business start up for aspiring entrepreneurs. All you have to do to set up your business is become a hosting reseller, i.e., provide hosting facilities to website owners. Here as a business owner, you are buying space from a big hosting company, and redistributing the hosting space to other website owners. 

Resellers are nothing but entrepreneurs acting as middlemen, offering you hosting services by leasing time and space from another Web host's server rather than owning their own. Most of the time, the quality of services offered by resellers are so good that consumers do not even have the idea that they are dealing with resellers who do not have servers of their own. Resellers, since they can pick and choose their servers, are basically in a position to provide the customers with the best of services. (Read more...) 
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Armed with the simple mantra — "outdo the competition" — Dan Forootan, President/CEO of EZ Publishing has seen his company grow by leaps and bounds, but he has his eyes fiercely focused on the future. 

"When I first started EZ Publishing, I was already in the publishing industry," Forootan says. "We were trying to set up sites and needed hosting. We had all kinds of problems finding providers that had what we wanted, so we started our own."  

Simple enough; you want something done right, you do it yourself. Forootan, however, had so much success setting up his own server to run the sites he needed, he branched out and hosted other people's sites too. (Read more...)
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▼ Sam's Club Introduces Web Hosting
Source: Web Host Industry Review