Affordable Web Hosting Tips for Small Business

Now you don’t need to spend a lot of money acquiring expensive hosting services or even paying high monthly fees. Explore the webs diverse web hosting sites which offer fast access and affordable web hosting tips. In the realm of cyberspace, with so many different options and offerings to take advantage of, you must fully explore the benefits that you can receive from them to avoid crucial mistakes.

There are many companies which provide not only hosting services but also a variety of services that can cater for all of your needs. It is recommended that you look for a service that can provide you both affordable web design and host services together.

That’s why you need to compare and to distinguish the ones that say they are affordable from those which are authentically cheap affordable web hosting services. On the internet, you can find an affordable web hosting plan which includes a wide variety of services such as web stats, e-mail, and anti-spam, e-commerce cart, free SSL, website builder, PHP, MySQL, CGI, etc.

To receive the service you want, it is important to look for affordable website hosting that doesn’t compromise on quality. When looking for the right web hosting service, you will find many companies which provide great affordable web hosting for a small business with all the features and facilities your small business needs. If you don’t know how to evaluate affordable web hosting services, there are lots of websites that provide useful information on how to compare features, services, supports, and prices which can help us take a better decision.

If you are interested in publishing a website, you should not only evaluate the money to spend or invest but also consider an affordable reliable web hosting that can guarantee their price and services for a long time. If you want to develop a sustainable online business, the first thing you should do is find the services of an affordable web hosting company which provides you the guarantee of quality, reliability, high-end technology and good support 24 hours a day.

An affordable web hosting e-commerce is completely possible today thanks to the large variety of companies and entrepreneurs which are fighting to give its customers and prospects high-quality services and better prices. There are many types of hosting, many types of services and lot of companies that offer affordable web site hosting services. The purpose could be for business or non-business hosting.

Cheap can mean bad quality which can prevent you from enjoying your purchase. However, in the web hosting market, you can find providers that offer cheaply affordable website hosting with high-end technology and fast page loading. Once people know how easy it is to create a website and receive the services of a good hosting provider, the next step is to find the best affordable web hosting company. In conducting an affordable website hosting search, you can use the search engines to your advantage. If you have a business website managing large quantities of records its better you get an affordable dedicated web hosting.

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How To Fix 500 Internal Server Error In WordPress

How To Fix 500 Internal Server Error In WordPress

Have you ever tried to visit your WordPress site only to be greeted by a message saying Internal Server Error or something similar?

It’s a scary error, be

How to fix the internal server error in WordPress.

What Does The “Internal Server Error” Message Mean?

Internal server error (sometimes called a 500 internal server error), is a generic error message that your server gives you when it runs into a problem. Basically, it’s telling you that “something” went wrong… but it’s not very specific about what that “something” is.

That’s not a very satisfying explanation – but again, it’s not a very specific error.

What Causes The “Internal Server Error” Message?

Because this error message is so broad, there’s not a single problem that causes it.

With WordPress, the most common causes are:

A corrupt .htaccess file.

A plugin issue.

Hitting your PHP memory limit.

Corrupt WordPress core files.

We’ll show you solutions for how to fix all of those problems. But if you want to quickly narrow down exactly what’s going on, consulting your server’s error logs is a helpful way to diagnose exactly what’s causing the problem.

If your host uses cPanel, you can view error logs by going to your cPanel dashboard and clicking on Error Log:

Unfortunately, as you can see from the image below, these error logs aren’t always the most user-friendly documents to read:

If nothing obvious sticks out in the error logs, you can:

Consult your host’s support for help understanding what the issue might be.

Jump straight into some of the common fixes that I’m about to outline below.

Note: The following are confirmed hosts that offer cPanel hosting:

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How To Fix “Internal Server Error” In WordPress

Here are some of the most common ways to fix this message in WordPress. I recommend that you start at the top (Potential Fix 1) and work your way down.

Potential Fix 1: Generate A New .htaccess File

Your .htaccess file is a configuration file for your web server. WordPress uses it to, among other things, set up.

Because it controls the configuration of your web server, even a tiny mistake in your .htaccess file can cause something like the internal server error message.

Thankfully, this problem is easy to fix – all you need to do is force WordPress to generate a new .htaccess file.

Here’s how:

Step 1: Rename your existing .htaccess file.

To get started, you need to rename your existing .htaccess file. You can do this by either:

Connecting to your site via FTP. You can use FileZilla to do that.

Using your cPanel’s built-in File Manager tool.

I’m going to show you the process using File Manager because it’s the simplest for most users. But the core principles are the same no matter which method you use.

You can access File Manager right from the cPanel dashboard:

Once you open File Manager, look for the .htaccess file in the root of your site.

Right-click it, and choose Rename:

Rename it to something like “.htaccess_old”.

Now, all you need to do is create a new .htaccess file to replace it.

Step 2: Generate a new .htaccess file.

To force WordPress to generate a new .htaccess file, go to your WordPress dashboard.

Then, navigate to Settings → Permalinks.

You do not need to change any settings.

Just click the Save Changes button, and WordPress will automatically generate a new, clean .htaccess file:

And that’s it! Hopefully, your site is working again.

Read: How To Create A WordPress .htaccess File

Potential Fix 2: Deactivate Your Plugins And Find Faulty Plugin

If your .htaccess file wasn’t the problem, the next thing that you can try is deactivating your plugins.

Often plugin issues or conflicts can cause the internal server error. This is especially likely if you saw the error immediately after activating a new plugin.

By deactivating your plugins, you can find the problematic plugin and remove it.

How to deactivate plugins if you can still access your dashboard:

If you can still access your WordPress dashboard, go to the plugin management area and use the checkbox to deactivate all of your plugins at once:

Then, reactivate them one by one to hopefully find the problematic plugin.

How to deactivate plugins if you can’t access your dashboard:

With the internal server error in WordPress, you are most likely not able to access the WordPress admin dashboard. In this case, you’ll need to take a slightly different approach and deactivate plugins using FTP.

Connect to your site via FTP or File Manager. You can use FileZilla.

Navigate to the /wp-content/ folder.

Rename the plugins folder to something like plugins_old.

Once you rename the folder, all of your current plugins will be deactivated.

Now try opening your WordPress dashboard, and if you are able to access it, you should pat yourself on the back. The issue is one of the plugins.

If you go to the Plugins section of your WordPress, it will show the error “the plugin has been deactivated due to an error; plugin file does not exist.”

Don’t worry… we have figured out that the problem is one of the plugins.

To reactivate them one by one:

Rename the plugin folder from plugins_old to plugins.

Now from the WordPress dashboard, activate each plugin one by one.

After activating a plugin, browse 3-4 pages on your blog. Repeat this step until you find a plugin whose activation causes the internal server error.

In a majority of situations, this will fix the internal server error problem.

Potential Fix 3: Increase Your Web Hosting PHP Memory Limit

Still not working? Don’t worry… there are still more things that you can try.

Another potential issue is that your WordPress site is hitting its PHP memory limit. By default, WordPress tries to allocate 40MB of memory for single-site installs (as long as your host allows it).

But if you’re experiencing difficulties, you can manually increase this limit (again, as long as your host allows it).

To do this, you’ll need to edit your wp-config.php file. You can access it either via FTP or cPanel’s File Manager:

Add the following line of code right beforethe /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */ message:

define( 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M' );

Remember – this will only help if your host hasn’t already set a PHP limit that’s lower than 64M.

For this reason, if you don’t notice a change after editing your wp-config.php file, I recommend reaching out to your host to see what your current PHP limit is.

Potential Fix 4: Reupload Core WordPress Files

If your site still isn’t working, you can try uploading a clean copy of the core WordPress files.

For this solution, I recommend using an FTP program over File Manager.

Note: Make sure you have taken a complete backup of WordPress before doing this step.

To do this, go to WordPress.org and download the latest version of WordPress:

Once the download finishes, extract the ZIP file and delete the:

Entire wp-content folder.

wp-config-sample.php file.

Then, upload all of the remaining files to your WordPress site via FTP. Your FTP program will show you a prompt about duplicate files. When this happens, make sure to choose the option to Overwrite duplicate files.

Fixing The “Internal Server Error” Message

At this point, one of these solutions has hopefully helped you fix the internal server error message on your WordPress site.

If not, I recommend speaking to your host’s support team and asking them to go through the error logs with you to pinpoint the issue. And if they can’t help, you might need to hire an actual WordPress developer to diagnose things.

Or, you can always leave a comment and we can try to figure out the issue together!

Let me know if you’ve faced this issue and what steps you took to overcome it…

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The Power of One Focused Hour a Day

The Power of One Focused Hour a Day

One of the biggest complaints that I often hear from aspiring creative is a lack of time. First and foremost, it’s important to understand that our perceptions of time are largely illusions. And one of the biggest of those illusions is the relationship between time and our ability to create value. We can do far more in a far shorter about of time than we think.

With just one focused hour a day of deep work, we can see exponential results from our efforts.

What matters more than just about anything else is your intensity of focus. As I’ve said before, most of our time management issues are just attention management issues. You have to avoid distractions and multitasking at all costs. If you can do this for just one hour, you’ll get more out of that one hour than most people do out of a day.

Plan Your Days the Night Before

Planning your day the night increases your productivity. Because you’re not utilizing all your willpower making decisions about how to spend your day, you’ll be able to preserve it and focus more effectively.

Make Sure Your Creation Time is Uninterrupted

Your one hour must be uninterrupted. Otherwise, your attention will keep shifting. Instead of doing one thing really well, you end up doing a bunch of things somewhat mediocre. So turn off all notifications. Put your phone in airplane mode or leave it out the room altogether. Say no to everything other than your essential priorities.

Get Into Flow

A big part of the reason that one focused hour works so well is that it produces flow. Hacking flow states on a daily basis is pretty straightforward. The simplest of these hacks is single-tasking. Focus on one thing for 30 minutes, put on some headphones with an instrumental track on repeat and you’ll hit flow pretty regularly. The other thing I recommend is that you pay attention to patterns. Find similarities between the days that you experience flow and replicate those on a regular basisc

Don’t Start Your Day on the Internet

Starting your day on the internet damages your brain. It literally trains your brain to be distracted. This is why I usually recommend that people allocate the earliest part of their morning for a focused hour of uninterrupted creation time. If the first 3 hours of the day could dictate how your life turns out, why leave that to chance.

Utilize Your Calendar

Calendars are far more effective than to do lists. One of the easiest ways to make the time for your focused hour is to download the Google Calendar app. The app has a feature called “goals” that allows you to pick a goal and tell it for how long, what time of day and how many times a week you want to work on that goal. The app finds the time on your calendar and schedules it. Set it and forget it. Now you have a constant reminder of the goal you’re working on.

Make Sure You’re Well Rested

For the last 10 days or so I’ve had a really hard time sleeping. I’ve been waking up in the middle of the night, and have had hardly any energy when I start the day. This article was on my list of high priorities for about 7 days. But due to poor sleep, it wasn’t happening. At the recommendation of my sister, I popped a melatonin, and eventually managed a good night of sleep. On the days that I don’t sleep well my performance suffers. In Alex Pang’s book Rest: Why We Get More Done When we work less, he makes a strong argument for the importance deliberate rest. Being well rested makes a huge difference in your ability to focus for an hour.

One focused hour a day is the equivalent of having two full weeks to work on whatever it is you want. In one focused hour a day you could write a book, build a company, learn an instrument and so much more. What would add more value to your life? One focused hour a day of meaningful work, or countless hours pissed away on Facebook and twitter comparing your insides to everyone else’s outsides?

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How to Find Out Who Hosts a Web Site (Web Hosting Company)

Here’s a quick little tip for anyone looking for a simple way to find out who is hosting a particular website. Trying to figure out who hosts a website can be an annoying task if you’re trying to go through the usual channels by searching a WHOIS database, etc. A lot of times you’ll only get the company or person that registered the domain name, but not the actual hosting company.

Who is Hosting This? is a very simple web service whose sole purpose is to tell you the company that is hosting a website. I really like this because most of the other online website checking tools simply do not give a clear and concise answer to this very simple question.

I came across this website because I was looking for a for the better hosting company, but I first wanted to know what hosting companies some peer sites in my field were using, such as HowToGeek, Labnol.org, etc. I know those sites run smoothly and have millions of visitors every month, so if their servers can handle that traffic, I would be more inclined to go with one of those hosting companies.

Once you type in a domain name, for example, QualityWebHost.in, you’ll get your answer right away:

QualityWebHost.in is actually the hosting company for the Digital Inspiration website. I’ve tried it on a good number of sites and the results have been correct each time. Also, very large sites like Google.com, etc. will not give you any useful information because they have their own IP address ranges and use their own servers. You’ll also see this for other companies like CNET, etc because they manage all of their own hostings.

In addition to websites like Google and Facebook, you may also run into smaller websites that use private registration or extra privacy settings at their hosting company. When a domain is private, the information is hidden from public view and you’ll only see information about the company that is being used to hide the registration or nothing at all, like in the example below:

This site does a pretty good job because you can sometimes tell the hosting company by looking at the Name Servers, but here they are simply using the domain name and not the name of the hosting website. Even if you click on the WHOIS link, everything is privately registered.

If you try to look up the IP address, you will have more luck. Once I did a WHOIS lookup on the IP address, I was able to determine the hosting company. You can also try another website like WebHostingHero. Their site was able to give me the correct info.

That’s about it! Overall, you should really run into very few issues when trying to determine the hosting company for a website. If you do, someone is really trying hard to hide his/her server from the public. If you have any questions, post a comment. Enjoy!

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What is SSL Certificate & Why SSL is necessary

What is an SSL Certificate?

SSL Certificates are small data files that digitally bind a cryptographic key to an organization’s details. When installed on a web server, it activates the padlock and the https protocol (over port 443) and allows secure connections from a web server to a browser. Typically, SSL is used to secure credit card transactions, data transfer and logins, and more recently is becoming the norm when securing browsing of social media sites. SSL Certificates bind together:

A domain name, server name or hostname.

An organizational identity (i.e. company name) and location.

An organization needs to install the SSL Certificate onto its web server to initiate secure sessions with browsers. Depending on the type of SSL Certificate applied for, the organization will need to go through differing levels of vetting. Once installed, it is possible to connect to the website over https://www.domain.com, as this tells the server to establish a secure connection with the browser. Once a secure connection is established, all web traffic between the web server and the web browser will be secure. Browsers tell visitors a website is SSL secure via several visible trust indicators:

Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates (such as ExtendedSSL):

Standard SSL Certificates (such as DomainSSL and OrganizationSSL) display:

QualityWebHosting.in offers a range of SSL Certificates with the strongest 2048 bit encryption and value add features to ensure your website is protected.

Multi-Domain & Wildcard SSL

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sub domains on the same server with a single SSL Certificate &
single IP address with Wildcard and Subject Alternative Names (SANs).

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SSL Certificate Details

To view the details of an SSL Certificate, go to a secure site, click on the padlock and select “View Certificate”. All browsers are slightly different, but the Certificate always contains the same information.

To view the actual contents of the Certificate click the "Details" tab:

Click the "Certificate Path" tab to see which Trusted Root Certificate has been used to issue the SSL Certificate:

Why is the Root Certificate important?

SSL Certificates need to be issued from a trusted Certificate Authority's Root Certificate, and preferably by a 2048 bit Certificate that's widely distributed. The Root Certificate must be present on the end user's machine in order for the Certificate to be trusted. If it is not trusted the browser will present untrusted error messages to the end user. In the case of e-commerce, such error messages result in immediate lack of confidence in the website and organizations risk losing confidence and business from the majority of consumers.

Companies like GlobalSign are known as trusted Certificate Authorities. This is because browser and operating system vendors such as Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera, Blackberry, Java, etc., trust that GlobalSign is a legitimate Certificate Authority and that it can be relied on to issue trustworthy SSL Certificates. The more applications, devices and browsers the Certificate Authority embeds its Root into, the better "recognition" the SSL Certificate can provide.

QualityWebHosting.in, for over 15 years, been operating the QualityWebHosting.in Ready program for Root Certificate embedding. This program ensures its in-house engineers from America, Europe and Asia are in constant communication with the application, device and browser vendors to ensure the GlobalSign Root Certificate is present everywhere that may be used for SSL sessions.

Read more about QualityWebHosting.in and how it benefits your website security

Ensures the identity of a remote computer

Proves your identity to a remote computer

Ensures software came from software publisher

Protects software from alteration after publication

Protects e-mail messages

Allows data to be signed with the current time

Allows data on disk to be encrypted

Allows secure communication on the Internet

Permits all key usage policies

OCSP Signing

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Who Should You Hire to Build Your Online Web Business?

Hire Freelancer to Build Your Online Web Business?

• A substantial portion of your costs and how much money you raise
• The quality of your product
• How much maintenance you’ll need down the road and when you rebuild
• How much equity you give up
• Your success or failure

So here are a few of my own personal FAQs when it comes to building a web business for the first time, specifically in terms of finding talent and estimating its costs.

Should I hire a full-time programmer, a web development company or an independent contractor?

Independent contractors: they aren’t your employees and usually do freelance work on their own.

• Pros: schedules and relationships with contractors are usually more flexible than those with full-time employees because you can start and stop projects and adjust hourly schedules as needed. This flexibility also implies you won’t get locked into the long-term cash outflow of an employee salary. Additionally, you don’t have to worry about employment liabilities with contractors (more on that later). Lastly, contractors are generally cheap in terms of equity because they work for cash.
• Cons: my biggest problem with contractors is that they want to get compensated for their time and unfortunately not for their results. That usually means they have more incentive to take a longer to do any given job and additionally that they’ll do the minimum amount of work to earn their paycheck. I’m not trying to imply that contractors aren’t honest, because I’ve enjoyed working with countless contractors, but I am saying that they’re first priority is getting paid while your first priority is getting a great product. It’s understandable because they have no long-term, vested interest in your company the way an employee does. Lastly, an individual contractor will require a lot of leadership and technical involvement on your part because you most likely will be the project and product lead if you have a small team.
• Recommendation: remember, contractors usually want to get compensated for their time, so you’ve got to be crystal clear with your expectations up front. The more questions you can eliminate in the beginning the less likely the contractor is to say she didn’t understand what she was doing, and the less likely you’ll get sucked into a never-ending contract because you kept going through multiple iterations to fix constant mistakes. This alone can kill your business by pushing you over your expected budget. In the beginning, draft a comprehensive explanation of exactly what you want (a “requirements” document) and if possible provide visual mockups (I like to use a tool called Balsamiq – it’s easier than pen and paper and much more efficient). Then hold a meeting to discuss those requirements in detail, before you begin. The purpose of this meeting is to align your expectations and agree on a timeline. For one of my projects, I personally spent about 10 hours in a room with a contractor discussing requirements and negotiating a price before we began – it paid big dividends down the road. Once you do start, check in regularly – I’d recommend daily. I also highly recommend that you get a fixed contract with contractors whenever possible. This puts a cap on your spending and ensures that you’re paying for results and not time. Once you’ve taken those steps summarize everything in a legal contract, ideally yours. It’s usually difficult getting developers to agree to fixed-rate contracts, but it's worth putting in the extra time searching for someone who will, and the more detailed your requirements and mockups are, the more likely you’ll get your fixed rate. In my experience, contractors are great for doing quick bug fixes and straightforward feature builds on an ad hoc basis, but I’d hesitate to pay a contractor to build your site from scratch – unless you know exactly what you want, understand the technologies being used and are willing to put in the time as a manager.

Web development companies: web dev companies are teams of contractors - you hire the company, and it assigns its contractors to your project.

• Pros: hiring a web dev company generally affords the same benefits of hiring individual contractors, plus a few more. One big benefit is the higher (hopefully) relative quality of work since you can presume the company has vetted all their employees and works according to industry best practices. In short, the work tends to be a lot more professional. A related benefit then is that of management – while you should expect to keep regular tabs on their work, the web dev company will usually provide their own product or project manager who will ensure that the contract stays on schedule so you don’t have to spend as much of your time doing it. This frees your time for strategy and operations.
• Cons: this is arguably the most expensive (cash-wise) option, but you are paying a premium for all the above-mentioned pros. If you hire a reputable dev firm, you probably won’t spend under $10-$20K per month. In fact, it's not unheard of to pay >$20K / month for a good dev firm. They’re also not going to be as flexible as working with an individual. They’ll want longer (usually a month at least) contracts and usually will want to use their own legal contracts instead of yours.
• Recommendation: If you can afford the cost and you don’t want to be locked into a long-term employment contract yet, this is probably your best option if it’s a complicated project and/or if you are building your first product from the ground up, and particularly if you don’t feel comfortable having to actively manage developers yourself. Before approaching a web dev company, put together your detailed requirements and mockups – in fact, you should always do this no matter who you hire. Then get quotes from several different development companies and compare the expected quality and cost of them all. Make a spreadsheet and do a cost-benefit analysis. Also, use your own legal contract if possible and try to lock down that fixed rate. Look for web dev companies like Happy Fun Corp who have extremely talented, communicative and professional engineers, world-class client bases, and founding teams with successful track records running their own tech startups. And of course, look at their prior work – odds are, if you don’t like the websites they’ve built in the past, you won’t like the site they build for you either.

Full-time employees: employees are dedicated, formal members of your team and usually work on a longer-term basis than contractors.

• Pros: the greatest benefit of hiring a programmer as a full-time employee is an alignment of interests. Full-time employees have a vested interest in your company, both in terms of the time they devote and the quality of their work because they share in the success and failure of the company. In my experience, employees do a far greater job than independent contractors and are much more likely to go the extra mile when doing both what is asked of them and also when coming up with new ideas and features on their own – this is the innovation factor. Shared interest is especially strong if your employee has real ownership in your company (equity, options, etc.). As a general rule, the younger your company is the more equity you should expect to award, which is true because anyone joining your team in its early stages is taking a major career risk by coming on board and must be compensated for that risk. In that same vein, the more equity you award the less cash you can likely expect to pay, implying that if the equity is great enough you can save a lot of cash on this option relative to what you’d pay a contractor or development company. In some cases, this can be a cash-free option even. Assuming you are compensating with both, however, I’d expect to pay an annual salary of $60 - $150K (and in several cases more), plus equity of between 2% - 30%. It’s all negotiable, and your final terms will depend on how talented the person is, how much you need him and what your budget is among many other variables. On a side note, having a dedicated tech team, even one person, actually helps your marketability to VCs and angels as well as ensures your business stays lean in its ability to constantly iterate the technology – this is the name of the game in startups.
•  Cons: hiring a full-time programmer is probably the most difficult option of the three because of the lengthy diligence required to identify and then sell the best candidate on the job, and then because of the enormous risk you are taking by placing so much faith in any given hire. In a startup, every single person on your team is a critical component, and making the wrong hire can literally sink your ship, especially when that person is building your product. In terms of compensation, if you’re paying a salary this option will lock you into a long term cash outflow and as mentioned will also usually cost you some equity. Additionally, with full-time employees, you as the business owner must consider all the legal implications such as worker’s compensation, tax liabilities, unemployment insurance benefits and others. Similar to hiring individual contractors, employees must be led, so you’ll have to devote a substantial amount of time to either hire someone who understands both the minute details and the big picture, or you’ll have to play an active role in technology decisions.
• Recommendation: If you’re looking to build a complete product and you need dedicated, long-term support then hire a full-time programmer as an employee. Because this is a long-term decision, you must identify someone that can take full leadership over the technology aspect of the business and whose competency you absolutely trust. This person will likely be your lead programmer or CTO if you have no one else. Finding truly great talent is difficult enough, but to retain it you have to compensate for it. If you don’t want to give up equity, then expect to award a competitive, if not higher-than-average, salary. If you have no cash or are trying to save it then expect to award a big chunk of equity – it’s a tradeoff, but it’s worth it. Remember, the benefit of hiring employees is an alignment of interests, and if you want someone to go above and beyond and work those 18-hour days alongside you, you’ve got to pay for it. In my opinion, award the equity and be generous with key employees (which is absolutely not to say be careless). Make the employee vest over time, meaning the equity is only awarded upon completion of various milestones. If you’re absolutely opposed to allocating equity – and I know some who are – consider it this way: in the beginning one of the biggest challenges you’ll face is that of raising enough funding to build your product; raising funds usually implies you’ll have to give up equity to an investor anyway, who’ll then give you cash, which in turn you’ll pay to a programmer. What I’m trying to say is if you award the equity directly to the employee, you either don’t have to raise as much investor cash to begin with, or you can build a product first and then raise cash on better equity terms later on in the game.

Which programming language is best?

This is a common question you’ll face when you start interviewing people because many of them will be proficient in different programming languages. I’ll refrain from listing all the different languages and their merits because as a non-technical person you won’t necessarily understand all the differences and nuances enough to really decide on your own anyway. I didn’t when I began. Instead, I’ll point out a couple considerations that should help you make an educated business decision, which you can do.

• Consider competency: strongly consider building your site in the language that your best candidate wishes to use.
• Consider flexibility: go with a language that is well known, widely used and which has a large developer community so that you can plug and play talent if you need to. You wouldn’t, for instance, hire the only person in the world that knows language X, only to then become dependent on that one person anytime you need something fixed or built. Using a well-known language will allow you to more readily find people down the road when you need them and at lower rates. Ruby on Rails and PHP are good examples of these kinds of languages.

Where should you begin your search?

• QualityWebHosting.in/: great especially for finding “cheap” overseas talent; free to list (remember, you get what you pay for).
• https://www.facebook.com/QualityWebHosting.in/: great exposure for your listing; expensive listing fees.
• Recruitment agency: usually expensive, but there are some good ones like Mana staff.
• Social media: use your personal network (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter), you might be surprised.

General words of wisdom

When dealing with programmers, you’ll get a lot of answers in the conditional – the sky is never blue, the grass is never green – because engineers tend to frame their problems in the ethereal and theoretical. If you wake up in a cold sweat because you’re dreaming of strangling a programmer (actual story told to me by a non-techie entrepreneur-friend), don’t be surprised. The key is to understand from the get-go that you are not building a tangible product like a house, and therefore there is rarely one straightforward solution to any given problem. With software and web engineering, there are multiple different solutions to any given problem and several variables and constraints to account for (architecture, scalability, quality, speed, etc). You as the business person need to be the bridge between the theoretical and practical sides of the business. Be as detailed as possible. Over-communicate. Constantly align on expectations. And behind the scenes, allocate at least twice the capital and time for any quote ever given to you. Go for fixed contracts. And lastly, balance treating your people with respect with being firm on expectations. In other words, try to make it a relationship where you both benefit.

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THE BEST SMALL BUSINESS WEB HOSTING SERVICES OF 2017-2018

THE BEST SMALL BUSINESS WEB HOSTING SERVICES OF 2017-2018

If you own a business, you need a Web hosting service. Use this helpful guide to determine the hosting services that best meet the needs of your small business

Does your small business have a website? If not, it's time to build one. Companies without an online presence face an incredibly difficult uphill climb, because we live in a connected world where people discover products and services by searching on the internet—you don't want to miss that potentially lucrative boat. Sure, creating a business website may take months of painstaking planning, debating, and compromise, but setting up a decent website doesn't have to be painful, provided you have the proper tools. And the most important tool is the right web hosting service.

The Small Business Hosting Basics

If you aren't familiar with web hosting, here's a simple explanation. A web host is a company that has servers that you'll use to store and deliver the audio, video, documents, and other files that make up your website and its content. These servers can be of the shared, dedicated, or virtual varieties. If you want to learn more about those hosting types, please visit the highlighted links that are sprinkled throughout this article for primers on each of them. And if you want to launch your own web hosting company without many of the associated hardware headaches, you should look into qualitywebhosting.in

There are dozens upon dozens of web hosting services clamoring for your dollar, including super-popular services (such as GoDaddy) and the lesser-known offerings (such as SiteGround). Large businesses can spend hundreds and (sometimes thousands!) of dollars each year on dedicated hosting or virtual private server (VPS) hosting, the two categories we're focusing on for small businesses with website needs.

One thing we learned while reviewing web hosting services is that reading the fine print is a must, especially if you are concerned about keeping prices low. Many web hosts have several increasingly expensive tiers, with introductory features in starter packages and more robust offerings in higher-priced plans. We recommend a healthy course of comparison-shopping before pulling out a credit card; you'll want to sign up with a service that has the features that best align with your website-building goals.

Small Business Hosting Prices

If you're a small business owner, you're going to want to run with either dedicated or VPS hosting. A dedicated server will likely cost you more than $100 per month; it's definitely not cheap web hosting. The benefit? Your website lives on a server all by its lonesome, so it takes advantage of the server's full resources. You'll probably need to handle firewalls and maintenance yourself, however, unless you opt for a managed server, which costs even more money.

If you want to save some cash, VPS hosting is generally a sufficient—and more wallet-friendly—option. VPS hosting falls midway between shared and dedicated hosting. By building your website in a VPS environment, you won't share resources with the other sites that live on the same server, the way you would with shared hosting. In fact, your site lives in a partitioned server area that has its own operating system, storage, RAM, and monthly data transfers, so you can expect smoother, more-stable site performance. You can get solid VPS hosting for approximately $20 to $30 per month.

Don't be swayed by the big fonts touting the monthly fee: Make sure that a particular pricing tier actually offers what you need. Some hosts charge extra for access to website builders that can help you design your site. Other hosts require you to commit to a three-year hosting agreement in order to get that low per-month price. Or the price is an introductory one, and after a month, you will revert to a higher price. Until you know what features you need and how quickly you plan to grow, you might not want to commit to annual plans.

The Features You Need

When you begin shopping for a site, it's good to have a list of the features you need. For example, you'll want a web host that offers unlimited monthly data transfers and email, a choice of solid-state or traditional hard drive storage, and 24/7 customer support. Even the server's operating system selection is important; Windows-based servers offer an environment to run scripts written in a Microsoft-centric framework, though Linux-based servers are also available (and more commonplace).

Please note that if you're planning on selling a product, look for a web host that offers a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate, because it encrypts the data between the customer's browser and web host to safeguard purchasing information. You're probably familiar with SSL; it's the green padlock that appears in your web browser's address bar as you visit an online financial institution or retail outlet. A few companies toss in a SSL certificate free of charge; others may charge you $100 for that extra layer of security.

The Importance of Uptime

All the aforementioned features are valuable parts of the web hosting experience, but none matches the importance of site uptime. If your site is down, clients or customers will be unable to find you or access your products or services.

To test this important aspect of hosting, we include uptime monitoring as part of our review process, and the results show that most web hosts do an excellent job of keeping sites up and running. Sites with uptime problems aren't eligible for high scores. All services suffer ups and downs, sometimes for reasons beyond their control. Those sites that fail to quickly address the problem are penalized accordingly.

Are You Ready to Get Started?

PCMag understands that no two businesses have the same web hosting requirements, so we've rounded up our best-reviewed web hosting companies for small businesses and detailed their offerings in the table above so that you can get a jump-start on picking a service. If an offering catches your eye, make sure to click the appropriate link from the capsules below to read the in-depth review of the service in question.

If you're just getting started with web hosting, make sure to check out our primer, How to Build a Website, and How to Register a Domain Name for Your Website.

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7 Reasons Why Quality Web Hosting Is Critical For SEO

6 Reasons Why Quality Web Hosting Is Critical For SEO

Many business owners focus so much on the aesthetic appeal of their website because they think that’s what will attract new customers.But all the money spent on design isn’t worth a thing if your site isn’t being found.

Hopefully by now you already understand the importance of content. But are you thinking about the backend work that ensures your website gets ranked by search engines? An important place to start is with the quality of your web host.

Web hosting is an often overlooked, yet critical, factor in determining your website’s SEO rankings.   

 

1. Uptime/Downtime

You know how you always see those 99.9% uptime callouts on web hosting companies? There’s a reason for that.

The quality of your web host is a key determinant in how accessible your website actually is.  The poorer the host quality, the more often your website is will be down, which can damage your SEO rankings. On the other hand, if your website is accessible virtually all of the time — especially when Google crawls it — it’s more likely to be found in relevant searches. 

Remember that the amount of downtime your website experiences can fluctuate fairly frequently. Make sure you’re monitoring your site’s uptime, and contact your host if you have any concerns.

 

2. Speed

Your website’s page load speed affects SEO rankings. The internet is a competitive place, and people are no longer willing to wait to see the content on a slow site. You can control some of the factors affecting the speed of your website, such as coding and content, but much of it depends on your host. Just like downtime, speed fluctuates, so check your website’s load time often to see if there are any significant or concerning changes. Some host-related factors that you can check on include the type of hard drive technology, availability of a content delivery network (CDN), and whether the hosting is optimized for your content management system, such as WordPress.

If you’re sure you’ve done everything right on your end but are still experiencing slow loading times for your website, don’t just drop your web hosting company! Try contacting your web developer and your web host and ask if they can help or if there are any options or upgrades available to improve your website’s performance.

3. IP Location

The physical location of your web host can have an impact on your SEO rankings. Search engines may rank websites with IP addressesin the same country as the company higher than ones based in other countries. So try to find a site host with servers in your country to boost your website’s SEO potential.

IP location can also affect your website’s speed. If you’re targeting users in a different country from the one where your host server is located, those users are likely to experience slower loading times, which can have an adverse impact on your website’s success.  

 

4. Security

Poor website security can be truly detrimental to your site’s SEO. Attackers can hack your website, create spam pages, and generate massive amounts of fake backlinks to your site — just the sort of thing Google loves to penalize. By the time you successfully identify the fraudulent page and have it removed, Google will likely have already imposed the penalty and the damage will have been done.

Poor security also increases the chances that your website could get infected with malware, which can lead to your site being blacklisted by search engines or showing a security warning in the search results. Before choosing a web host, be sure they have security technology options available and malware removal support to defend your site from attackers.
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Customers can use SiteLock to scan and defend against hackers, malware, and other vulnerabilities.

 

5. HTTPS / SSL Support

More and more websites are moving toward using https to protect user data in its web traffic. Because of this, Google has specifically stated that SSL is an SEO ranking factor. It’s still a minor ranking factor for the moment, and therefore shouldn’t have too strong an impact, but it increasingly looks like it will become more important in the near future.

If you want to move your website from HTTP to HTTPS, check with your web hosting company to get their specific TSL/SSL certificates. From there, you’ll want to find a checklist of what you need to do to ensure that your website is fully operating in HTTPS. If it sounds intimidating, rest assured — these lists are fairly easy to find and will help you make the switch seamlessly.

 

6. Tech Support

When your website goes down, time suddenly comes to a standstill and panic sets in. These moments will reveal your web host’s true character. Make sure your host has 24/7 tech support help available (HostGator does!). If you want to go even further, investigate the experience of your host’s support staff. This way, if disaster strikes, you’ll know you have a dedicated and capable support team ready to come to your rescue.

Your web hosting plays a major role in determining whether your site’s SEO is a boom or a bust. Making an informed decision and regularly checking your hosting quality is not only a good way to increase your search result rankings, but it ensures your users have an excellent experience on your site and keep coming back for more.  

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