19 Abr 09 Find the best Web hosting

The following is a paid review:

When you look for a perfect Web Hosting you can have problems because there are many of them and you can not decide about one or other. It’s difficult to decide, I know, so, we want to help you a little.

Here you are best webhosting, it is  a free research guide to help users choose the right web host for their personal or business website (we can say it’s a review site of hostings). You can find a list of the better web hosting to choose the best web hosting plan most suitable for a small site or for a large e-commerce website.

I know it can be subjective because you can think the list depends of the plans in web hosting choice but i think it is objective,  because you can vote the better web hosting and you can watch it completely free.

But there is more, they have a complete guide for web hosting - they provide both a directory on web hosts and an eductional area in which beginners and even seasoned veterans may learn new things about hosting.

So, you can find the better web hosting, some information about words and areas you have to know about internet. This information is in FAQ, for example, but you have more in other sections.

03 Oct 07 Web Hosting Coupons

Whenever I need to buy web hosting I first, make a list of 3-5 hosting providers and then from that list, I start comparing the various offerings. One very important aspect of comparing offerings is cost.

When considering the cost of a service, one must not forget that there is always the possibility of a discount. Most service providers send coupons to their current customers or to advertising sites for promotion. The best way to get coupons is to look for web sites which aggregate coupon information.

19 Sep 07 WebAsyst, Suite Free Hosted Accounts

WebAsyst is an american company offering an online collaboration suite allowing you to manage all your personal and professional data in an easy and efficient way. There are two ways you can work with their Suite package, either downloading the free version, or now registering for a free hosted account on their website.

 The company, that has always offered 30-day free trial accounts; will allow now users to create free accounts that never expire. These free accounts have however some limitations. e.g. number of entries, storage space, and number of users, but they still allow users to enjoy the benefits of WebAsyst software. Most important, all WebAsyst functions and features available for paid accounts will also be available for free accounts, including free software upgrades.

Customers wishing to remove limitations or add more storage space and users will be able to upgrade to paid accounts at any time. This means that you will be able to combine free and paid services in one account, and even downgrade from paid to free services, if they find that an application offers more than they need.

05 Jul 07 Flare9, creating a website from scratch

It’s been some time since our last review of interesting applications to help create websites with absolute zero knowledge, from scratch to a nice and good looking personal or professional webpage.

Now, thanks to Sponsored Reviews (this blog profile here :-) , we get the chance to discover a new one that promises to provide even to the most novice user, the possibility to create a professional quality website without having to know any HTML code whatsoever.

We are talking about Flare9, a website builder with an integrated content management system where every page is editable via a simple to use WYSIWYG ( What You See is What You Get ) editor and that will help you provide that very important good image for your business or company on the web ( and we all know how important it is to have a well designed page, don’t you agree? :-), at least I am trying it with this blog , LOL ).

It is actually pretty easy to start the process and make it work, all sum up in a few steps. The sign up of the account will take you only 5 minutes and then you are ready to start building the website. You can select first one of the many themes available for you, and later you can customise according to your preferences. If you do own already a domain you can use it or you can register one via their system, where you have also hosting facilities.

Also, the website packages come with a full set of features that most probably you will be willing to have ( Google Analytics support, management of feeds, integrated blog, control of your meta tags to do some SEO and improve your presence on the net, etc). By getting the whole package here you get the chance to have everything integrated from the beginning. The idea is good, no need to work further to improve the pages you have created, everything comes at once. 

So, if you are one of those willing to start your own professional website, with plenty of features and not willing to get a headache in the process, get a look at this service cause it may be interesting for you

10 May 07 MediaMax, 25 Gb free storage account

I had a small problem some days ago with my computer that, despite the several backups I have in countless CDs, made me fear with panic of having lost many important data ( and this is a very bad feeling, you know :-)). So I started searching the web to find a brand-new-web 2.0 application-type where I could store and access all my stuff from everywhere ( I can’t neither understand why I haven’t done it yet ;-)).

Among the several options I found, I have finally decided to open a free account in MediaMax, because they offer 25 Gbytes of free storage!. I went playing with the service for a while and have seen that the sorting options, upload and download features are quite good. The system also automatically sorts your files depending if they are photos, videos, documents, etc.  I have not seen anywhere else such big storage accounts on their free versions.

But this is not all, if you feel you need more, then you can subscribe to the professional plans which offer up to 100 Gbytes. So far, I am just backing up everything important in my computer ( my photos at full size ;-)) and let’s see once I get the virtual drive full :-).

06 Abr 07 Aruba.it, bad service for a hosting provider

Whenever we do a product review we try to see the good points the service has, but this time I am afraid this it will not be the case. I am getting crazy with the service one of my hosting providers is given me. The company is Aruba.it, I initially selected it a couple of years ago because it was one of the first providers to introduce DNN support and pre-configured DNN portals to their hosting plans, but what drives me crazy is their really bad customer service.

Every ticket I enter comes back with just one or two lines answer that never solve my problems, so I have to open a new ticket asking again. The last one was about my lost password to access to my SQL control panel, there is no feature implemente to retrieve it so I created the ticket. Their response was: “your SQL pannel is correctly activated”. Gosh! I knew that already!

Anyhow, although the rest of the service is more or less ok, and prices are not very expensive, they lack plenty of new functionalities ( like wordpress support, for instance) that many hosting services already have available. I am moving soon out of Aruba, so if you are planning to look for a good hosting, just search a bit more and make sure you have a good CS before purchasing anything.

 

05 Mar 07 Ihostasp, providing DNN hosting services

If you are using DNN and need a hosting service that combines all the features that could be needed to  succesfully manage a good site, one option is Ihostasp. It is a hosting service created by developers and that it is useful either for beginners or for professionals.  The installation of your DNN modules could not be easier, as it is a push-this-button and it is done.

You get your daily backup in case something happens, and in the basic version you can have one DNN installation and up to 20 child portals, more than enough for a small company having its corporate website and a few pages mores. Apart from that, it comes with a package of ready-to-install applications like wordpress, forums, shopcarts, etc.

Their stats tool is also very complete, and you get the option of paying everything with Paypal, which is right now, by far, the only thing I use when buying something on the net. And, to end with, if you need a nice template for your website, you can purchase them directly from your control panel.