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Godaddy Shoot Africa Elephant

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Godaddy Shoot Elephant in Africa

Godaddy vs the Africa elephants should be one of the most hot topics on internet. We might have estimated what kind of effect it will bring to godaddy for their CEO's action.

Why godaddy shoot elephant?

Maybe I should replace godaddy via godaddy ceo because it's bob parson's personal affairs, but since he's the leader of godaddy group, he's more or less equal to godaddy actually.

From a recent bob's blog post, he uploaded a video of himself hunting and killing an elephant in Zimbabwe. it made a firestorm over the internet. Here're the reason why he did this:

"I gradually became aware of the problem elephants through talking with my friends there, and the problems they were having with their fields and crops being destroyed. I was seeing people on the brink of starvation, or actually starving. So I was invited by the tribal council to participate in a problem elephant control team and that is what I did."

Why bob is wrong?

It's absolutely wrong for anybody to kill wildlife for any reason. Bob stated he killed the elephant simply because it's destroying the crops and fields in that district. So should the elephant be killed? Can't people give some more space to animals or set up fences to keep space with them?

Bob said he spent around $60,000 ~ $70,000 to this journey, so he said he has no money to donate the elephant protection program. What a lie, his travel fees would be a big donate to deal with human-wildlife conflict but he never done so. What's worse is he even make the hunting story a video and uploaded to personal blog but never say sorry about his work. Here's the video he uploaded:

Think about the killed elephant and any other animals killed by our people, shouldn't we feel sorry for what we did? Save your money and stop paying to this company if you think they're doing wrong as well.

More about Godaddy

Godaddy founder – Bob parsons, survival from the Vetnam war in US Army and setup godaddy after return to US. His story is a legend in the industry, his name and  company is always respected by people. Godaddy's main business is domain registration and web hosting. Till present, godaddy is the world's largest domain registrar, the number of domain registration is uprising per second.

Note: Namecheap, a leading domain registrar based in Los Angeles, announced to donate to Save the Elephants in Response to GoDaddy Elephant Hunt.

Visit www.godaddy.com for official site >>

Godaddy alternative web hosting choice – www.Arvixe.com


Honest Webhost Marketing

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Webhost Marketing

No matter if it's a big web hosting company or complete new, from the time they come into this world, they're doing the same thing – marketing. In this article we'll discuss several hosting companies who have been making business correctly on the way.

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How do the web hosting companies promote their service? Well, since their business is complete internet based. they're actually doing the same thing – SEO & SEM.

SEO is probably the most important part once the website goes online, you're working hard inorder to make your keywords rank high on search engine. SEO is always the primary task to get customers continuing. About details on how to do seo, there're many articles online, but the key point is "continuing". You can't stop the optimization work on your website in order to keep the high rank.

SEM is the final purpose of SEO. As long as you get your keywords rank high, you will consider how to encourage your visitors to pay on your website. You will also have to try the best to keep your existing clients and serve them well to get potential business.

Which Web Hosting doing Honest?

Since almost every hosting companies are doing the same work, then who has been doing good on they way? Ok, here're I have a list of some good hosting companies doing business correctly and honestly.

1. Hostgator – Hostgator is always rated top for many points comparison. Their boss got the right way to promote hosgator from the start and quickly became the industry leader. He also attend some interviews and tell people what they're doing to make hostgator service better and always work with customer complaints directly to solve their issues.

By doing the right optimization, the hostgator team also developped a lot of affiliates, the affiliates program is playing as the main part of hostgator business. if you need to know more about their affiliates and promotional  offer, you can visit our previous post about hostgator special offer.

2. Greengeeks – Why greengeeks come right after hostgator? It's simply because of the kindness of their CEO. you can get in touch with him directly if their support can't solve your issue. As far as I can tell, there's no other hosting company CEO will discuss with people so frequently on hosting forums and answer questions as detail as possible. In return to his hard work, a lot of traffic and new sign ups brought to greengeeks.

3. Arvixe – This name is more and more famous in the industry for it's stableness and fantastic customer support. All is resulted by the right marketing  of arivxe team. Beside the search engine ranking, they always keep up fantastic hosting support and their sign up statistic is rising every day!

4. Justhost – Justhost is definitely the Most successful company who can run business so hot in short time. Their success is based on two points – Outstanding SEO technology and lowest price hosting plan! When their price is the lowest in the industry, they also keep up excellent hosting services to all clients. Within just two years, justhost is rated to top10 list all over the world.

The bad of justhost is it's sold to EIG company after the big success. if justhost could continue with it's current growth, it's quite possible to compete with the industry leading provider.

5. Coolhandle – You might have not heard this name before but their team is truely one of the best in the industry. They will learn about how customers think about their service then improve side by side. No much motivations on their official site, they will let you determine if they're worth to deal with. As far as I can say, coolhandle is one of the honest web hosting providers.


Hostgator Special Offer 2011

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Hostgator Special price announced

Finally, hostgator announced their competitive hosting plans among the fierce competition in this industry. Every hostgator plans are now 20% off as default! You don't have to compare their service with any other web hosting provider now if you had ever though hostgator price is high.

Promotion to Hostgator Affiliates

Good news to hostgator affiliates, you're now able to create 25% off hosting coupon directly by yourself without any assistance from hostgator support! If you're already a hostgator affiliate you should have received their newsletter about this great change. You also have the chance to win an iPad if you can introduce over 30 signups every month!

How do we think of this promotion?

It's definnitely good news to all hostgator affiliates and it will motivate all of them to try hard and advertise their services. Since hostgator offers excellent customer service to clients and their hosting plans are the art of this industry, the news is valuable to everyone who's dealing with hostgator hosting. If you have already won success with hostgator, congratulations! you can win more with this great special.

Why hostgator announce the special offer?

Definitely for business marketing purpose, since there's not many other web hosting providers who offer such expensive hosting plan, hostgator must do something to get more customers. The competition in hosting business is more and more fierce, if hostgator continues with their old price there's no much advantage we can think of. I think this offer should be launched earlier since there're many excellent hosting providers who can offer services with much lower price.

Who is the biggest competitor to hostgator?

Who should be the biggest competitor to hostgator in this industry? Actually it's really hard to find another so big hosting brand like hostgator, What we can find is other leading service providers like Arvixe and webhostinghub etc. They are all standard cpanel hosting groups with all add-ons, you won't be regret to sign up hosting from either place.

Based their current price value, there're actually several other leading brands be able to offer better price. If you need speed up your website with less money, we highly recommend webhostinghub who's offering $1.95/mo promo at the moment. They proudly to compare with the major web hosts and show their confidence in winning customers by offering leading speed and support. With up to 90 days money back gurantee, it's absolutely worry free to deal with their service.

Go to http://www.Webhostinghub.com for promo details!

WordPress Issues & BottleNeck

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Right before this article we discussed the advantages of wordpress and it's popularity. We also compared wordpress among Joomla and Drupal. In this article we'll discuss about the wordpress known issues and how should you use wordpress if you're going to launch a successful site in the long run.

What's the problem of wordpress?

You might be surprised to see there's some problem for wordpress. Don't worry, it's not security related, here we're talking about the website marketing. What we want to express is, if you're going to put up a big website with lots of traffic, wordpress is not the right choice. Why? Let's see below.

The wordpress bottleneck

When wordpress was firstly released, it's designed specially for personal blogs. Although many people are favorite of it's clean design and powerful article management and you may get all kinds of suggestions to use wordpress, it's never advised if you're going to launch a big wesite with high traffic. The problem is on the mysql database, frequent queries will hang up the server and cause high cpu/memory usage. The wordpress official support also stated this:

"In high-traffic situations, many simultaneous connections to the database can cause excessive load on the server. In this case, connections to the server may not complete, causing the typical "Connection timed out" response in the visitor's browser."

So the basic idea is, wordpress is designed for personal blog purpose but not any others. Who will write blogs up to thousands and even millions of articles?

Why wordpress is still used by some high traffic websites?

Although wordpress is not the right choice for high traffic and large size websites, you still found many famous website use it. why there's no problem? The answer is they configured Load balanced Servers. What does that mean? It means there're multiple servers to balance the website traffic from the backend. If there's not so much dollars available, why should you use multiple hosting servers to support a single wordpress website?

The basic conclusion for wordpress is

1. The bottle neck for wordpress is on mysql database.
2. wordpress is only the best for personal blogs

High Traffic Website Choice

well, there're many choice available depends your detailed requirements on the website. For content management system, joomla should be the best since it's user friendly to both end users and web developers. Tons of free joomla skins and components will guide you in every way about how to running a successful website.

UPDATE: Above issues can be solved easily by web server configurations such as Varnish for apache and litespeed or nginx efficient web server solutions. You can feel safe to design your site via wordpress platform.

Bluehost is Acquired by EIG

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Bluehost is Acquired by EIG

This news is already a hot topic since from some time ago when the acquisition is just in planning, we're still shocked by confirming bluehost is finally got sold to EIG.

Bluehost overview

Bluehost is one of the biggest and top rated hosting companies by offerring excellent customer support as well as outstanding hosting features. Bluehost is the primary choice for many webmasters for their reliable services. their yearly revenue is over 85 million dollars with thousands of new sign ups every day!

EIG Overview

You might not be quite familiar with this name, their full name is endurance International Group. Their main business is to purchase every possible hosting companies on the internet and earn from those existing markets. Some famous hosting brands such as Ipage, Fatcow, Ipower, Justhost etc are all managed by EIG. So no matter which company you choose to go, you're actually dealing with the same stuff.

The future of Bluehost

Bluehost is a respected name in the industry and of course a big money maker no matter who the owner is. Bluehost is a featured cpanel hosting, we're not sure if it's going to be a vdeck hosting since everything will be managed under EIG technologies. Good news is bluehost has a big amount clients globally so I'm sure the EIG company will take it very carefully to avoid those "transition issues". Just take a look at the hosting industry, independent big famous hosting comapnies are less and less. I'm not sure how much EIG has spent to purchase bluehost but it's indeed bad news to everyone who has experience with EIG. The effect may not be instant but surely you will deal with it.

Who to choose beyond bluehost?

Since bluehost is no longer the bluehost, I'm sure many people would like to switch and start the journey to search another good host. Yes, it's advised to find another reliable and stable hosting provider other than to deal with problems.

WebhostingHub is the best linux hosting choice if you are ready to leave bluehost, it's highly recommended if you like to continue with bluehost's good experience with extra bonus such as faster server and more security protection. Webhostinghub standard cpanel hosting, free domain name, unlimited space & bandwidth. The best of the best is you have up to 90 days trail period.

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Beside Webhostinghub, Arvixe is another top web hosting provider for both Linux and windows support. The arvixe hosting servers are configured with latest server hardware production and OS updates, every products are standard offer in the industry, arvixe is also our golden hosting sponsor and by far the best hosting we have experienced with.

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Top 8 Webhosts from editorial experience

Web hosting Top 8

The top 8 list below is seriously rated via our months experience and user feedbacks, most people who have used their hosting are satisfied, We paste them below for your reference and it will reduce your time when choose the right hosting service.

Hosting Brand Hosting Features Price/mo User Rating
arvixe Bandwidth: Unlimited
Disk Space: Unlimited
$4.00 Rating: A+

Webhostinghub Bandwidth: Unlimited
Disk Space: Unlimited
$1.95 Rating: A+

inmotion hosting Bandwidth: Unlimited
Disk Space: Unlimited
$5.95 Rating: A  

ix web hosting Bandwidth: Unlimited
Disk Space: Unlimited
$3.95 Rating: A+

ipage hosting Bandwidth: Unlimited
Disk Space: Unlimited
$1.99 Rating: A  

fatcow hosting Bandwidth: Unlimited
Disk Space: Unlimited
$3.15 Rating: A+

greengeeks Bandwidth: Unlimited
Disk Space: Unlimited
$4.95 Rating: A  

JustHost Web Hosting Services
 
Bandwidth: Unlimited
Disk Space: Unlimited
$2.95 Rating: A  

Here is a starter guide about the most common hosting options you're looking for. You could always find the suitable solutions from the category lists below.

We have evaluated the Top web hosting providers based on the price, hosting disk space, monthly bandwidth, customer feedback, server uptime and money back guarantee. The top 10 list below give satisfaction to most people.

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2. Unlimited email boxes with excellent webmail interface.

3. Multiple domains hosted under same hosting account.

4. Unmetered bandwidth and disk space.

5. Excellent interface for web log and traffic analyzation.

6. Popular and easy to use hosting control panel.

7. 99% server and network uptime guarantee.

8. No hidden fee.

9. Professinoal and fast 24 x7 Live technical support.

10. At least 30 days no condition money back guarantee.

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