When it comes to choosing the right web hosting there are so many factors you must weigh ahead of time. For the individual, there are different hosts (check carefully), and also the somewhat undesirable factor of being on a network shared by who knows who.

Hosting Solutions You Can Live With

Yes the individual may have lots of options, however, a small-to-medium business should, and often does, opt for larger servers, more power, more control, and when available, managed hosting.

Managed hosting (or managed services) include features like:

o Managed and dedicated managed firewalls
o Operating system hardening
o Someone applying the patches and updates at intervals
o Scans to ensure the server isn’t leaking like a sieve (vulnerable)
o Backups done for the company
o Load balancing, and
o Monitoring of the server in a proactive style.

Phew! Think about it. Wouldn’t you rather have your staff concentrating on your actual reason for existence – the business itself? Of course you would!

Hosting Colocation Importance

Another factor to consider is colocation. From single point to multiple server rack colocation, your business servers need proper storage. Factors to consider include enough space, critical temperature control, and security.

And, as with real estate the adage, “Location, location, location!” also is applicable as you choose the right hosting arrangement for your business servers. Data centers close to the “hub” of it all make a difference in so many ways to how your client ultimately receives your sought-after information.

Take your time choosing the right hosting plan, the right hosting servers, and a company with a solid reputation for its client support.

Not all SEO companies are created equal, and SEO Positive, based out of the United Kingdom is one of them. In business since 2008, they have made their mark on the seo world by providing numerous valuable resources for website owners.

Their company, while not limited to these categories, includes major key components to successfully finding one’s website listed in the right search engines under the proper keywords. This includes their ability to assist you with proper Pay Per Click management, and that all-important, strategic link building.

When working with SEO Positive’s SEO team, they help you go through your web site, research your competitiors and your niche within your market. Since the right choice of keywords is paramount to effectively placing your website within searchable reach of the search engines it is only after extensive evaluation and selecting the right keywords that they begin doing “what we do best ‘search engine optimisation’”.

While SEO Positive lives up to its name, honing in on proper search engine optimization for your website, they also provide web design, hosting, email marketing, and lots of very nifty (and free to use right on the website) SEO tools for every visitor.

Their free-to-use SEO tools include: page ranking, link popularity, alexa rank, spider simulation, domain age, keyword density, keyword difficulty, and page rank prediction. Make note, because many of these tools are getting harder and harder to find.

And, the wonderful thing is, their SEO tools do work

With a solid reputation, and years of experience online, anyone in need of an SEO firm should definitely make it a priority to visit SEO Positive.

If you read my “Boy What a Week” and the updated version, you already know that I’ve spent the past oh two weeks now transitioning multiple wordpress blogs (with and without websites) to a new hosting service. This move has been a real eye opener in many ways. And, in all honesty, I can say that it was worth every long night and the sleep deprivation

The reason I’m bringing this up again is, of course, to let you know the answer to that burning question… “Am I happy I made the move?” The answer is a resounding, “Yes!” I’d also like to make a few suggestions that just might help you make the right selection when you go looking to change hosting or find hosting for the first time.

When you are selecting a place to host your domain there is much more to consider than just checking out the price.

You MUST make sure that: (more…)

More often than I’d like (okay I really enjoy it but you have to be careful), taking a trip around the root directory of one’s host and/or the admin areas of wordpress blogs (or any type of database-driven “website) means finding ways to cut back on the use of resources.

Recently, and forgive me but I cannot remember where I was or who said it, but they quoted Yanik Silver as saying if you are running more than (more…)