Archive for October, 2010
Many blog owners consider their blogs to be a nice place to share some news and ideas on. Some of them, however, do not expect high number of visitors and keep posting articles for their friends and a limited number of loyal readers, while still hoping for higher traffic. If you check out some popular personal blogs you will see that despite the fact that not many of their owners work out some strategies, spend time on SEO and do much other work to get their websites promoted, they still get nice traffic. Their secret lies in the use of other promotion means, namely in promotion with the help of constant social activity. Thus, if you are interested in getting your blog socialized, keep reading to find the key tips.
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Starting reseller business five years ago or earlier the business owner had only two options: signup for a shared hosting account with reselling feature or order a dedicated server. The initial option was a fine solution for starters since it was cheap, but as soon as the resellers’ business developed they needed a step-up. The problem however was that a dedicated server was still not affordable for them, while the resource usage of both resellers’ and their resold accounts became completely unbearable for a standard shared servers. This led to continuous suspensions of accounts and constant quarrels, some of which were even brought to social media. Finally, either the hosting company met halfway with the reseller offering some discount on upgrade or the reseller quit the company to signup for another shared hosting plan with another host. A lot has changed since VPS hosting has been introduced, so nowadays hosting reselling is not that tough, expensive and risky business.
What is a VPS and How It Works?
A VPS is a Virtual Private Server – an isolated virtualized environment with its own OS (Operating System) and emulated hardware, hosted on a physical server a.k.a. carrier. Those virtual servers are setup within a carrier by means of virtualization technology, which allows to run several isolated boxes, letting them operate independently from each other and provide the performance rates, similar to the ones of a dedicated server. Though there are several virtualization technologies, the common idea implied in all of them is to create conditions, on which several operating systems could function within single hardware set – one physical machine. There are many backgrounds for such an idea – energy use reduction, hardware use optimization, setup and maintenance cost cutting, etc. The main thing is that this idea works well for many business solutions including hosting reselling – let’s take a closer look, at which aspects specifically.
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We have already published several articles regarding WordPress. Those were mostly dedicated to the use of this popular blogging script and you might have noticed that while evaluating its capabilities, we mentioned VPS servers as a desired WordPress hosting platform. Although a virtual server is the most recommended hosting solution for a WP blog, it is understandable that many users would like to find a more affordable hosting ground to run their blogs on. Today we are going to reveal the main peculiarities of shared web hosting services use in terms of WordPress blog deployment and deliver some friendly tips.
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