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Ensure that Your Business or Reputation is not Damaged by a Bad Web Host

Whilst by opting for an affordable hosting plan does not mean settling for poor support or less features, it is however important to be able to differentiate the cheap hosting companies from the cheap & nasty hosting companies that can cause you financial harm as well as to your reputation ...

Choosing the Right Web Host

It is important to be able to choose both the right web hosting plan for your needs as well as to ensure that the web host will live up to its promises and leave you in the dark with no service, website or email...

5 Key Things to Consider Before Selecting a Web Host

1. The Web Hosting Company's Credibility, Reliability & Track Record

   Probably the worst thing to happen to a website owner is for your Web Hosting Company to disappear from the face of the planet overnight.

   Not only are you are left totally in the dark, without email, without an online presence & without a website but your only choice is to look for a new host (a reliable one this time) and start from scratch again.

   So please make sure the hosting company is financially stable, has a sound track record and is in the web hosting business for the long term.

   For instance any reasonable person would probably choose a well known hosting name over a name like "Bubba's Red Hot Web Hosting"

2. What Type of Hosting Plan & Features Are Needed?

   Generally hosting companies provide the following sort of hosting options;

   • Shared Hosting - cheap options as many accounts & sites are hosted on one server
   • Reseller Hosting - also shared but allows you to create unlimited web sites under your own packages, prices, and brand.
   • Managed Hosting - similar to dedicated hosting but with fully managed solutions - much more expensive than shared hosting
   • Dedicated Hosting - provides a higher level of security, speed, and uptime.
3. Find Out What Their Former/Current Clients Say About Them

   Can your prospective host provide you with success stories for clients with similar configurations to yours? Are they able to provide references from clients who can tell you about their experience using that company?

4. After Signing Up with your Web Hosting Company, How Quickly can you have your Website Up and Running?
   You need to be able to start uploading files to your website's server within a few hours to minimize your site's downtime.
5. Disc Space & Bandwidth Requirements

   Disc Space is the amount of space measured in MB that your site's files use up on the host's server.

   Beware of hosts that advertise "unlimited web space" as somewhere in the fine print the host will have a provision to charge for exceeding a certain amount of space.

   However, having said that, most websites use less than 10MB of disc space & that is probably why hosting companies feel comfortable selling the "unlimited disc space" feature - many low cost hosting packages offer at least 500MB of disc space though.

   Data transfer or bandwidth is the amount of bytes transferred from your site to visitors when they browse your site - or simply put the combined total of bytes uploaded to or downloaded from your site.

   Again many hosts offer unlimited bandwidth but again this is a sales pitch that may not really exist in reality - but again many hosting plans come with sufficient bandwidth allowance.

In conclusion make sure you get the best bang for your hosting buck from this high profile, professional web hosting company.

6 Things you need to know before you sign up for cheap hosting

Drupal is one of the most easy to use and powerful content management system in the world. It's open source and a lot of people contribute to it from application development, theme development and module development perspective. And the most important one to us is that they are all free.

Want to setup an Drupal site, below are the 3 steps you can follow.

1. Find a Reliable Affordable Web Hosting

If you have chosen Drupal CMS for your website, it is very important to find a reliable Drupal-specialized host which will tend to provide expert hosting services. Usually, as for a beginner, a charge lower than $7/month should be good enough for your hosting. You can consider to upgrade them to VPS or dedicated server once your site gains enough traffic.

2. Installation

Installing an Drupal instance is not hard. You can go to Drupal.org, download the installation scripts, and upload them to your web hosting directory. The installation process can be done via Web. So you need to type in the URL in the Browser where you upload the scripts to, and system will automatically guide you through how to create the site. One thing you need to do ahead is to create a Database instance which will be used during the installation

Right now, Drupal has become more and more popular that some web hosting service providers start to include the installation scripts in their service package, by which you can it setup by just some simple clicks.

3. Choose an Appropriate Theme

Theme is used to decide the outlook of your site, everyone want to get an attractive theme for it. If you are technical enough (some CSS and php knowledge), you can create your own theme. Or you can download the theme the other open source contributors have built. A more realistic way is that you can download a free theme and make some adjustment to theme to make it work better to you. You can go to drupal.org/project/Themes/ to find a list of great and free template.

Congratulations! You have owned a Drupal site now. Considering there are many other great features haven't been included in the initial scripts, in order to better leverage the functions of it, some knowledge of the modules will be needed, you can get to know more about addition modules at drupal.org/project/Modules, but for a beginner, above 3 steps will good enough for you to own a powerful CMS site.

Reference:
Best Drupal Web Hosting
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Sean.Raymond is an expert on online business. He has more than 10 years working experience of guiding people to create their own online business. webhostingclue.com is his web site where he shares the knowledge about how to find appropriate web hosting solution for a small online business and promote it online.

And you can contact sean.ray@webhostingclue.com if you have any question about this article.

Grinding is repeatedly killing the same monster over and over, for experience points (exp), money, or reputation. In World of Warcraft I wouldn't generally recommend grinding for exp, as quests are usually the better alternative. But if you already know all the quests available to your character, because you already played several character of the same faction, grinding might be a quicker way to level.

The advantage of grinding over questing is that you don't lose time traveling from and to the quest givers, or searching your quest target. The disadvantage is that you don't get the quest rewards, or the reputation that quests give. But if you are already equipped with the very best gear, financed by your higher level characters, chances are that you don't need the quest rewards. And the reputation with the major cities that quests give isn't strictly necessary either.

The idea of grinding exp is to get the maximum exp per hour. If that doesnt sound bloody obvious to you, you'll be surprised of how many people don't grasp the "per hour" part of it. Many people try to grind monsters of their level, or even a level or two above them, because these monsters give the most exp per kill, But this will do that, not only do the fights take longer, you are also likely to end the combat with less health and/or mana than you started with, necessitating some downtime between fights. So the most important grinding advice is trying to find mobs a bit lower than your level, which still give good exp, but which you can kill a lot faster and with less downtime.

For grinding, you might also need to change your tactics, especially if you are a spell master. For example my priest could kill a monster with spells, but at the end of combat he would be low in mana, and thus need to sit down and regenerate it, which takes valuable time. So instead of using spells all the time, he starts the combat with spells (Mindflay, Shadow Word: Pain), then shields himself and finishes the monster off with his wand. That takes a bit longer for the kill, but during the wand phase he regenerates mana, and ends combat with full mana, directly ready for the next pull again. My shaman only uses melee combat and lightning shield to deal damage. If he finds a spot to which he can pull several monsters one after another, he also plants stoneskin and healing totems, which again reduce downtime, by making him have more health at the end of combat. If you have a warrior, experiment with the different stances, sometimes using defensive stance is a good option, because again you end the combat with more health, and have less downtime before the next combat.

Im not going to give out a list of monsters to grind, because the perfect target for you will depend on your level, your class, and how crowded the most popular grinding spots are. There is no use in trying to grind against strong competition: if your downtime is caused by there not being enough monsters to kill, moves somewhere else. There are some easy principles that make a monster good for grinding: The mob should not be "social", that is you need to be able to pull them one by one. You should choose a mob which does not run away when low in health, because chasing after mobs costs time, and risks aggroing other mobs. Humanoid monsters are often preferable, because they drop cash, and less item loot. If you want to grind beasts, do it not too far away from the next vendor, because you'll lose time when your bags are full and you need to sell your loot.

If you can, grind mobs which give reputation points, for example the furbolgs which give Timbermaw faction. Unfortunately there aren't all that many faction giving mobs, and they are usually heavily camped. A good place to look for mobs to grind is the various caves, for example with yeti or ogres, because the mobs there are often quite close to each other, so you don't have to walk far between two combats. If you happen to be a miner, these caves often also have mineral ores in them, for an added bonus. If you happen to know a quest that requires killing exactly the mobs you wanted to grind anyway, take the quest as bonus reward.

There are a couple of add-ons, like Telo's Infobar, which are able to tell you how many exp per hour you gained in your current gaming session. These are valuable tools in getting grinding right. Finding the optimum between killing speed and exp per kill isn't always easy; you'll better experiment a bit. You might need to quickly logout and log back on to reset the counter if you want to test exp per hour of a particular batch of monsters.

As I recommend grinding only if you already have some high-level characters, if you don't the start with questing. One of the best tricks to speed up leveling is not to play with the character you want to level. Just go dungeoneering with your mates using your high-level characters for some days, and then come back and grind your alt using the rest exp bonus he accumulated, thus doubling your exp per hour. If you grind your low level character all the time, not only will you get less exp per hour, you will also quickly become terribly bored.

Tired of grinding, well take a break, and after you get back check this e-book out. Brains Kopps Power Leveling Guide It will become your bible in World of Warcraft Power Leveling.