WEB HOSTING REVIEWS AT SITEGROUND 2014

Web Hosting reviews at siteground 2014

I tried SiteGround hosting on one of my WordPress sites to see how it would compare to others. I love fast loading sites, so I am always looking for web hosts that can deliver speed.

After using the provider for 2 years, I am quite happy with it. However, as you are going to find out in this review, there is a but!

But before we get to that “but”, lets get an overall feel of what SiteGround is all about.

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Company Background

In the year 2003, a group of IT professionals pulled their resources together and formed Siteground.com, a Web hosting company, after spending years on the other side of the business. To this date, Siteground remains privately held.

In the US, the offices are in Humble, Texas and New York City. It also has offices in Sofia, Bulgaria to oversee its European operation.

Small businesses and private individuals form the core of its client base in the Web hosting business, with about 150,000 websites hosted through its facilities.

BBB Rating & Reviews

As for the Better Business Bureau’s SiteGround rating, I was sort of surprised to see SG being rated C+ on a scale of A+ to F. Moreover, the company is not a bbb accredited business either, though its not really a deal breaker since there are lots of great companies that do not participate in bbb’s accreditation program.

There were also 31 complaints against SG in the last 3 years, all of which were resolved as far as I could see.

SiteGround’s Web Hosting Plans & Pricing

Their offerings revolves around shared, VPS, dedicated Web hosting, and reseller hosting as well.

All these packages are made available from its array of servers that are exclusively Linux based. Its services also extend to e-commerce solution, for customers who look for extra help in setting up their online shops.

All plans come with free software to design website, a free domain and unrestricted e-mail accounts.

• StartUp: $9.95/mo – Special Offer: $3.95 (60% off) This is the most basic shared hosting plan. Comes with 10GB Web Space. You can host one domain.
• GrowBig: $14.95/mo – Special Offer: $7.95 (50% off) This plan offers 20GB Web Space, and you can host unlimited sites.
• GoGeek: $29.95/mo – Special Offer: $14.95 (50% off) This plan offers 30GB Web Space, and you can host unlimited sites.

In addition to shared hosting, the company offers 3 VPS hosting plans and 4 managed dedicated server plans.

The company’s website claims that only the very fast and reliable servers are used so as to achieve a 99.9% uptime, but it never provides a guarantee for the performance.

Technical support is available through 24 x 7 e-mails support and that responsibility is delegated to its European office.

Signup & Setup

Registration is straightforward and could be done under five minutes. You will have to decide on your desired plan once the registration process is over.

There is a premium support option right at the end of the page, and I decided to take up that option since there was no indication on additional costs (it is free for three months).

But there are items that can greatly inflate the price. If your plan includes options such as Domain Privacy,Daily Backup, HackAlert Monitoring, you would end up paying a lot more compared to the basic plans.

These are all nice to have features, but make sure you include only those options that are immediately useful to you, if you don’t want to pay through the nose.

Upon successful registration, a confirmation e-mail will come your way indicating all details such as account ID and login information. There is also going to be a call from their customer service representative just to check if everything goes well, I really find these friendly services useful.

Uptime and Server Reliability

Siteground has been hosting my personal website over a period of two years now. During this two years span, my site has experienced downtime two times, each lasting no more than half an hour.

Interesting enough, both timings clashed with their scheduled maintenance. And I was adequately warned, in fact three times – a week before the scheduled program, 3 days prior to it and finally 3 hours before the maintenance kicked in.

Arguably, the reason for the downtime is due to the lack of server speed, so the company has decided all their servers would be upgraded to allow more speed.

Out of these two isolated incidents, which seemed to suggest out of speed servers at times of maintenance, the experience has been smooth. In that sense, its uptime can be rated as almost perfect. The site is always up and I never notice any more downtime.

Cpanel

It is near impossible to pick any bone with SiteGround’s Cpanel. It is great as it consolidates all necessary info under one web page. Its ease of use is never in doubt, ever, in order to maintain our site.

Customer Support

The support program from SiteGround is excellent. It truly keeps up to its promise of 24/7 support. Regardless the time of the day, customer support is always on and ready to be of service. The response can be described as fast, and more importantly helpful.

They also make available a number of online tutorials and newbies can always count on them (on their main website) to find tips on setting up their sites.

But not all tutorials are equal, such as the ones on W3Total Cache. The company never seems to make serious attempt to keep these up to date.

Other Reviews of SiteGround

Of course, as always, I tried to find out what other people had experienced with SG. So, I spent sometime reading reviews both negative and positives on major review sites such as Cnet and WhoIsHostingThis. And it seems like the majority of their customers are happy with them. But of course there were some negative reviews as well, but you can’t make everyone happy.

Combining my own observation and the experience of others, here are pros and cons of hosting your site with SiteGround:

Pros:

• The one thing that bought me over is the comprehensive precautions to ward off hackers. Even if you have to type cpanel URL directly from with your blog, you would be channeled through SiteGround’s securely encrypted connection straight to the log-in page on their website. This way, you have the best assurance that your sensitive information remains safe, free from any malicious attempt from any hacker who want to access it while transmission takes place.
• Secondly, I thought it is good that the company does not allow for direct activation of plugins and themes. It has an additional layer of security in place, to ensure that whatever plugins and themes you installed would be clean and safe. Moreover, restrictions are in place if you log in from your WordPress blog, and user is denied further attempts of login if wrong passwords/usernames have been entered repeatedly. This greatly minimizes the chance of your blog being compromised by hackers.
• And there is their advanced caching technology, which can be enabled automatically with the installation of WordPress. This files caching capability can greatly enhance your blog’s performance. An arguably even more powerful caching capability, SuperCacher, comes with more advanced plan but I didn’t test it.
• The server uptime is fantastic. During my two years with SG, I never observed even a short downtime, and I really scrutinized the performance. Granted, it is still a short stay for period just over 2 years, but such track record says a lot about how reliable the hosting service is.
• A good practice here is that not many users are kept on the same server in their shared plans. This is a good thing as it demonstrates their commitment to quality. The company claims that it hosts the lowest number of users on shared servers among its peers in the industry. While such comparison is not in the public domain, I would be tempted to give the company the benefit of doubt as WordPress really loads quickly here compared to other common shared hosts.
• These are really some interesting features that make this web hosting provider stands up vs other web hosts like HostGator. While there are other helpful features, these tend to be commonplace for all other website hosts.

Cons

• If there is any con of SiteGround, it has to be the limit thy place on storage space. With the most basic plan, you are entitled to a measly 10 GB storage. To some who do strictly blogging, it may be enough, but individual preference differs.

Conclusion

Web Hosting reviews at siteground 2014

SiteGround combines efficient hosting services with affordable pricing. Its tech support is inferior to none. The flip side is that the hosting service only suits people who run just a handful of websites (less than 5) within a single account. But for small businesses, it is definitely a value for money and yet dependable service provider. So, to end this review, I do recommend SiteGround if you have a few websites and are looking for a reliable host.

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Here’s why 100,000 people unfollowed me on Twitter

The other day, I was cleaning up my Twitter account and clicked on an analytics button that I had not used before. It showed me the number of people who had recently unfollowed me. 

 What I saw made me gasp
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First, let’s state the obvious. No. I’m NOT going to tweet that.

Now, let’s put this situation in perspective. I currently have about 60,000 people following me on Twitter, all of them are real people to the best of my knowledge. These people found me and stuck with me over the last four years. This graphic implies that in just a few MONTHS nearly 100,000 people found me and dropped me.

My first reaction was “Whoa. Do I really suck that badly?” And your reaction is: “Yes, you really do.”

I know you don’t I?

The unfollow phenomenon

But of course I am not that sucky and neither are you.  Nobody could possibly suck at Twitter so bad that 100,000 people followed and then dropped them moments later.  Even Guy Kawasaki has kept people around his account while tweeting about socks and the sex life of plants.  So, what is going on here?

There are a lot of people out there who are either gaming the system or just trying to look cool by getting lots of people to follow them while they follow few in return.  They’re trying to look like a celebrity who is so in demand that they cannot keep up with their fans.  Perhaps this pumps up a fragile ego or maybe makes them look cool for a job interview or something. They may even be employing automated programs to help them accomplish this.

It is rude and it is stupid. But apparently by the number I am showing here, there is just one ton of people trying to lure me into their ego trap.

I’ve had a couple of people ask me about this phenomenon, thinking that they were doing something wrong because so many people unfollow them so quickly. You’re not. It’s probably just spammers or people trying to look like a big shot.

But of course there is the possibility that you ARE legitimately losing followers, so let’s look at that, too.

The agony of delete

Maybe … just maybe … you are sucky at Twitter. So to find out, I asked my legitimate and wonderful Twitter followers to tell me why they unfollow people.  I received so many great responses but they did fall into a few distinct categories. Here is a representative sample of responses (I edited slightly for punctuation and grammar)Kevin Manne I may follow people for a specific event, and unfollow after the event ends when their posts aren’t as valuable to me anymore.

Kelli Schmith My “Twitter Why” has changed over the years (yes, years!). As ideas grow stale and overshared, I weed out the sources.

Brenda McDonald  5-10 posts in succession is too much when they are only posting for 10 minutes per day

Lois Martin My main reason to unfollow is when someone posts endless sales pitches.

Joe Kelly I unfollow when they repeat the same handful of tweets, over and over and over

Gina Schreck I always unfollow someone who is using TRUETWIT validation. I feel they are lazy for not checking people out themselves.

Allison Stoodley main reason is they complain too much, second, they disappear for months at a time.

Lori Wizdo  I unfollow anyone too transparently promotional –even if the content is not that bad.

Ben Johnston  I usually unfollow if their stream is nothing but RT’ing the same articles as everyone else is sharing

Marv Dorner Two reasons… dormant account for 90-120 days, or unacceptable posts (racists, vulgar, etc)

Jeff Machado  I unfollow if they have shown no interest in interacting with me – if it’s obvious I’m just a number.

I think this gets down to a few “Maxims for Twitter Non-Suckiness”

1) Take control of your tribe and find/follow real people who will interact with you. It’s OK to give everybody a chance but you don’t have to follow spammy and rude people forever. Create your own experience.

2) Be kind and helpful.  If you get into an argument, take it offline.

3) Share diverse, interesting content and try your best to space the tweets apart. Actually research shows an hour apart works pretty well.

4) Nothing says I love you like a RT now and then but add your own original content too.

5) I think this is most important — It’s OK to find business benefits through Twitter. But business comes through relationships. So focus on building relationships and making friends instead of selling your wares. Trust me. This really works.

And in introspection, I need to fine-tune my Twitter presence, too. The Twitter tribe has taught me something through this little exercise. I’m sure most of the 100,000 people who unfollowed me were not sincere but some of them are … and I could be doing a better job to respect my Twitter audience.

I want to end this post with an awesome quote from Twitter friend Timm McVaigh of Sydney wrote: “Twitter is a numbers game wrapped in a relationship.” I kind of like that.

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How to Promote Your Blog With Only $100

This is a guest post written by Lior Levine, a marketing advisor for a company that offers innovative new cancer treatments . Lior also works for a web hosting company that lists the best web hosting companies available online.

There are hundreds of new blogs created on a weekly basis, and one of the top priorities of new blog owners is promotion. It’s not just important for new bloggers though. It’s a top priority to all bloggers -- even the pros. Promotion helps to increase traffic to your blog and also establishes you as an authority in your niche.

If no one knows about your blog, then how can they find your content to read? That's why it’s so important to know the best ways to promote a blog and, of course, the cheaper the better. While some bloggers choose to spend hundreds of dollars on promotion, this article will tell you how to promote your blog with just $100. Let’s get started...

1. Create a Twitter Account (Free)

Twitter is great for promoting your blog because it lets you connect with like-minded people and find other bloggers in your niche. Best of all, there are hundreds of tools like HubSpot and Twitterfeed that will let you manually or automatically post each of your blog posts to Twitter (and even Facebook) as soon as you publish them. The more of a following you have on Twitter, the more potential traffic you can generate to your blog posts.

2. Monitor Your Social Media Presence (Free)

Once you join Twitter, it’s important to know how well your tweets are doing.Crowdbooster measures your performance on Twitter (and Facebook), and then provides tips on how to improve your engagement along with in-depth analytics. This way you can improve what you’re tweeting, and get more reactions from your followers. Crowdbooster even includes at-a-glance tweet-level insights and audience insights so you can analyze your tweets and retweets and see what your followers like and don’t like. It also provides data on your followers’ activity to help you determine the best times and most relevant content to tweet. Other tools to help you monitor , participate, and collaborate on Twitter include CoTweet and HootSuite , all of which help you to manage multiple accounts and contributors.

3. Find Twitter Users to Follow (Free)

Once on Twitter, it’s important that you’re following the right kind of people. It’s best to follow those who share your interests and are in the same niche as you. That way you know that they’ll be interested in what you’re tweeting. Follower Wonk is a tool that lets you search for Twitter bios based on keywords. So if you have a blog on technology, you can then search for other blogs that have
the word technology in their bio.

Along with that you’ll be able to see their location, Wonk score, number of tweets, friends, followers, and how long they’ve been on Twitter. Then you can just click on their username to visit Twitter and follow them.

You can even go a step further and add all of these users to their own Twitter list . You can name the list “technology” (or whatever word you searched for) and then use the list to keep a closer eye on their tweets and interact with them frequently. This also helps to build relationships with like-minded users. Soon, you’ll find that they’re also interacting back and even retweeting your blog posts.

4. Add Social Sharing Buttons to Your Blog (Free)

Just about every blog now has social sharing buttons so you can share the post on your social networking accounts and save it to social bookmarking sites. The most important buttons to include on your blog are for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+. You should make it as easy as possible for visitors to share your content, so make sure you put these buttons in obvious places on your blog and on individual articles so they can’t be missed.

The most popular locations for buttons are above the content, below the content, or to the left of the content. There are also social toolbars that will remain in place on any page and are great for encouraging interaction on your blog. A simple Google search will bring up a ton of different solutions.

5. Buy an Amazon Gift Card ($50)

In case you’re wondering, the gift card is not for you. It’s actually for running a contest on your blog. The concept is pretty simple and can be changed based on your needs. All you have to do is come up with an entry system that requires other bloggers to link back to you. You can either have them publish a post on their blog, retweet a post from your blog, or Like your Facebook fan page in order to be eligible. Any one of these methods is sure to help expand your blog's reach and attract new visitors.

6. Donate to Charity ($50)

The $50 remaining is left for donating to a charity. Once you choose a winner for your contest, have them choose a charity that you will donate $50 to it on their behalf. You can then do a write-up about it on your blog and mention why the blogger chose that charity. You could also have them do a write-up on their own blog stating why they chose that charity and also include a link back to your blog.

7. Submit to Blog Directories (Free)

Blog directories are great because they’re kind of like phone books, except for blog owners. There are hundreds of free blog directories out there. You’ll want to make sure to submit your blog to at least the top 25-50 directories available. This can help you get more traffic and help with rankings as well because it creates inbound links to your blog.

8. Interact with Other Blogs (Free)

There are millions of blogs on the web. Why not go comment on other related blogs or let other bloggers know about similar posts you’ve written? You can use some of the blog directories to which you've submitted your blog to find other blogs in your niche. This is something that can be done in 1-2 hours a day and will do wonders for your network. The more you get your name and blog URL out there, the better.

Also, be sure to retweet, Like, and share posts from other related blogs to show your support and encourage reciprocation by those blog owners.

9. Set Up Google Alerts (Free)

Finally, we have Google Alerts. Setting up an alert for your name, blog name, and blog URL is a great way to keep track of what is being said about you and your blog. You’ll be able to monitor both positive and negative comments; be sure to pay attention to both and respond when necessary. If someone gives you a compliment or shares one of your blog posts, be sure to thank them. If someone says something negative or criticizes you, thank them for the feedback and apologize if needed. If it’s true constructive criticism, be sure to act on it and make any changes if needed.

So there you have it. For only $100, you can not only promote your blog across the web, but also increase your traffic and your rankings. As you can see with the power of the internet and social media, promoting your blog doesn't have to be expensive or time-consuming. If you don’t have $100, you could even skip the contest, and promote your blog totally for free!

20 of the Best Website Directories

20 of the Best Website Directories

1. Google – Adding your site to Google is a must.  It is also a free service.
2. Bing – Again, you can add your website to Bing, which is a great search engine, growing in popularity every day.
3. Business.com – This is a paid directory which has multiple categories, allowing you to optimize your listing.
4. Yahoo – Unfortunately, this is no longer free, but it is still a powerful directory to consider if you don’t mind paying the annual fee.
5. Mastermoz – You have two choices of the type of listing on this site. Either use the free basic listing or pay a small fee for a professional membership each year.
6. Wikidweb – If you have a family-friendly site, you can request that your site is added to the Wiki directory.
7. Freewd – A simple-to-use directory that is free, and allows for keywords and meta descriptions. Featured links and deep links can be added for a small cost.
8. Linkbook – This directory features a great category structure that makes it easy to categorize your website perfectly. Free and paid listings are available.
9. URLmoz – You can add your website URL as well as articles, with various lifetime memberships available.
10. Quick Directory – To add your site, visit the appropriate category and click add page in the menu. It is possible to add your site to three separate categories.
11. Pegasus Directory – Another great human-edited web directory that is free to use and SEO-friendly.
12. Sighber Café – Free and paid listings available.  Just select your category or suggest one if you find that the appropriate one is not already available.
13. Directory V7N – This is a paid directory, with a low lifetime fee applied. It’s considered to be one of the best value-paid directories to use.
14. Prolink Directory – Optional memberships are available, including a free listing. You also have the choice of adding deep links for an additional cost.
15. Link Directory – A paid directory with various link types available.  Ideal for all budgets.
16. Linkdir – A free service.  Choose your category and add your link.
17. Best of the Web (BOTW) - (affiliate link) This site offers a paid directory at $150 or $200 to include the local listing.
18. Amray – Offers you a choice of a free basic listing or a premium listing with an annual fee applied.
19. ExactSeek – Free listings are available, provided that you add the correct tags and meta description.
20. A1 Web Directory – Add your listing for free or pay for a lifetime fee, if you wish your review to be completed within two working days.
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Adding your link to website directories does take time, but it’s worth it because of the increased exposure it generates.  Be sure to read submission rules for each site you use.

The Importance Of Web Hosting Reviews

The Importance Of Web Hosting Reviews
If you want to build a site , online platform or any other web-hosted business , you cannot go past the importance of web hosting quality. Therefore , knowing how to search and select the best for you is necessary , especially if you need to get professional services that will scale easily , have a reduced downtime and not interfere with your content or activity.
There are many reviews on the net and certainly not all of them are to be trusted. However , if you follow a few simple rules , you will learn to discern between valuable information and simple marketing tools. Here is a list of the most important characteristics to keep an eye for when visiting reviews.Who created the reviews: Sometimes , the site that hosts the reviews or the top of their services may not be completely unbiased. That means that in order to make sure that the review is honest , you need to verify the source.
Degree of expertise: Even if a user is honest , he may not have the knowledge to know which is actually better. Just because one person has had issues while using a certain {dịch vụ|lao vụ|service} , it does not mean that it is a rule. It might even be a consequence of poor optimization on the client side. Do not always believe a raging review they most always are biased at the least verify the verdict with one other reliable source.
Actual server location: It may be very important for you to understand exactly where and how your data is stored. Especially big operations that demand a lot of bandwidth will require you know for sure where the infrastructure is located. This allows for faster services that in certain applications will make a big difference.
Security: What good does a cost efficient web-hosting service provide if the data is not protected and you leak or get hacked constantly , without it being your fault. When dealing with sensitive information , the host needs to provide effective manners of enforcing security. Do not always rely on cost to know about the best ask for complete documentation , and if not made available to you , avoid that service because it is not prove reliable in the long term.
Web hosting needs to be approached as a long time service rather than a renewable monthly subscription , and as your business grows , you should always choose your server partners with great care. They are after all the ones that provide the physical platform for you and keep your business up and running.
In addition , just because the information changes , it does not mean that you have to jump boat and migrate your entire business to other servers. Also the best hosting in the world will not mean a thing if it doesn’t work for you , so analyze your inquiry from the ground up make sure you understand what is suitable for you and what is not. As long as you get a trusted platform , do not seek others long-term relationships can be just as important.
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GoDaddy Reviews

GoDaddy is considered to be one of the world’s biggest and best web hosting companies. They started in 1997 as Jomax Technologies established by Bob Parsons. Now the company operates in Washington D. C. , Arizona , Colorado , Iowa , as well as abroad – in The Netherlands and Singapore. According to Go Daddy , they have around 10 million customers.
GoDaddy.com is also known as a large ICANN-accredited domain name registar ( actually there are three of them all owned by The Go Daddy Group ). This enables the company to deliver a variety of products and support them 24/7. GoDaddy gives different services from cheap web site hosting , domain name registration , site builder ( free hosting and email accounts included ) , to serious solutions for businesses and e-commerce websites.
GoDaddy assert that they don’t deal with any outsourcers. They own , run and support their data centers what allows the company to provide customers with high-level protection. Among GoDaddy facilities are secure hardware , advanced systems and technologies , network redundancy , on-site support staff.