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How to switch to new web host without downtime?

CheapHostingChoice — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:05:11 +0000

Many webmasters don’t satisfy with their web hosts and have to stay with them, because they think that switching to a new web host is too complicated. They don’t want the down time when they move their website, re-set domain name servers, change email setting. The switching can be a very smooth process and have no downtime if we follow the steps.

1. The first step is keeping your existing web hosting account while you are finding the new host. Make sure don’t cancel your old hosting plan, and don’t tell them you are planning to cancel. If your existing web host knows your want to cancel your account, they could terminate your web site early. That will cause the downtime.

2. Sign up the new web hosting account. At this moment, you should have two hosting accounts.

3. Download your entire old web site. You can use a FTP program to download all files, or use cPanel backup. Then upload your entire web site to your new web hosting account. Your new web host may offer Free website transfer service, you can ask them to help if you like.

4. After you have moved all website’s files to new web hosting account, it’s time to change your domain name servers (DNS setting). Go to your domain name control panel to change the DNS to your new web host. Usually, the web hosts will provide their DNS information in your welcome email as soon as they confirm your sign-up. You should get confirmation email regarding to the DNS change.

5. Once your DNS changes have been made, it takes about 24 to 48 hours for the domain name fully propagated. During this two day period your DNS is propagating world wide, and your site will be bouncing from the old host to the new host every other minute randomly. After waiting for 48 hours, your site will be running on your new host.

6. Now you can cancel your old web hosting account.

If you completed all the above steps you have successfully switched web hosts with no downtime at all.

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GoDaddy SmartSpace – a social site aggregator?

CheapHostingChoice — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:12:31 +0000

What is GoDaddy SmartSpace?

Using the words from GoDaddy website, the SmartSpace is “A complete Web site builder plus your personal control panel all in one.”

SmartSpace offers the fast, easy way to build a Web site featuring your favorite content, like photos, videos and blogs. With Social Page you can display the content from your social networking and social bookmark accounts, such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Digg. There is no technical skills required to use SmartSpace.

SmartSpace offers a personal control panel – MySmartSpace. You can manage your web site online. You can use three pre-build Spaces to create News Space, Social Space, and Entertainment Space. Of cause, you can build your own spaces. There is no software required to launch MySmartSpace, you can access it anytime or anywhere from any PC.

With GoDaddy SmartSpace, you can use chat to talk to your site visitors; you also get FREE hosting with 99% uptime, and FREE secure email.

SmartSpace Features List:

Social Space

* Consolidate your online profiles in one place
* Share everything you love about the Web
* Display your personal content from:
• Twitter
• Digg
• Facebook
• Flickr
• Weather.com
• YouTube
* Display dynamic information from Feedzilla or any other RSS feed.
* Add other fun or useful widgets like:
• Blogs
• Clock
• Countdown Clock
• Favorites
• Notes
• Quote of the day

5-Page Web site
* Build your site with one of hundreds of professionally designed templates
* Customize your site with your choice of fonts, color schemes and 8,000+ high-quality images
* Add or edit text easily with click-&-type interface
* Make you photos ‘picture perfect’ with built-in image editing
* Drop in a guestbook for visitor feedback

Blog Tool
* Publish your thoughts and opinions in your own blog
* Generate and publish RSS feeds
* Post photos, images and videos
* Get feedback from your visitors through comments

Photo Site
* Share, print and manage your photos online
* Improve your photos with the easy-to-use editing tool
* Order high-quality prints and have them delivered to your door

What make GoDaddy SmartSpace different?

In my opinion, SmartSpace is more like a content aggregator (or integrator). It provide an easy and fast way to put everything you like in one web site. Many features of SmartSpace you can get from other good website builders. I think the Social Space is the most impressive feature.

The SocialSpace is a cornerstone of GoDaddy SmartSpace. Many people like to build social websites but don’t know where to start. There are many good contents out there and allow you to use them on your website, like videos from YouTube, photos frm Fliker. Now with SocialSpace, you can combine those lovely contents with you personal stuff, like your Facebook, Twitter. You can also put dynamic contents of anything with an RSS feed to your SocialSpace. All of these can be done with just a few clicks.

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1and1 web hosting 2009 special and 3 months Free Hosting

CheapHostingChoice — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:07:33 +0000

1&1 web hosting company is offering special domain registration and 3 months free web hosting. This special promotion offer Offer valid through December 31st, 2009.

Domains: .info 99 cents! .com $6.99

TeamPopular Domains for a special price! .com only $6.99 and .info only 99¢!

* First year of registration on a .com domain for only $6.99; .info domain for only $0.99. Second year is regular price.

Web Hosting: First 3 months FREE

The following Web Hosting packages will receive the first 3 months free. After the first 3 months, regular prices apply.

1. 1&1 Home Package (Linux and Microsoft) (regularly $6.99/month)

2. 1&1 Business Package (Linux and Microsoft) (regularly $9.99/month)

3. 1&1 Developer Package (Linux and Microsoft) (regularly $19.99/month)

* 12 month minimum contract term and a setup fee of $9.99 ($4.99 for 1&1 Home Packages [Linux and Microsoft]) apply.

* Offer applies to new packages only; package upgrades are not eligible.

VPS: First 3 months FREE

* The following VPS packages will receive the first 3 months free. After the first 3 months, regular prices apply.

1. 1&1 VPS II (regularly $39.00/month)

2. 1&1 VPS III (regularly $59.00/month)

3. 1&1 Windows VPS II (regularly $39.00/month)

4. 1&1 Windows VPS III (regularly $59.00/month)

* 12 month minimum contract term and a setup fee of $9.99 apply.

* Offer applies to new packages only; package upgrades are not eligible.

Servers: First 3 months FREE

* The following Dedicated Server packages will receive the first 3 months free. After the first 3 months, regular prices apply.

1. 1&1 Dual Core XL Linux (regularly $199.99/month)

2. 1&1 Dual Core XXL Linux (regularly $249.99/month)

3. 1&1 Quad Core L Linux (regularly $299.99/month)

4. 1&1 Quad Core XL Linux (regularly $399.99/month)

5. 1&1 Quad Core XXL Linux (regularly $499.99/month)

6. 1&1 Dual Core XL Windows (regularly $209.99/month)

7. 1&1 Dual Core XXL Windows (regularly $269.99/month)

8. 1&1 Quad Core L Windows (regularly $309.99/month)

9. 1&1 Quad Core XL Windows (regularly $409.99/month)

10. 1&1 Quad Core XXL Windows (regularly $519.99/month)

11. 1&1 Dual Core XL Website (regularly $199.99/month)

12. 1&1 Dual Core XXL Website (regularly $249.99/month)

13. 1&1 Quad Core L Website (regularly $299.99/month)

14. 1&1 Quad Core XL Website (regularly $399.99/month)

15. 1&1 Quad Core XXL Website (regularly $499.99/month)

* 12 month minimum contract term and a setup fee of $99 apply.

* Offer applies to new packages only; package upgrades are not eligible.

Ecommerce: 3 Months FREE eShop packages

Shopping cart web hosting? You need a PayPal ready and eBay ready shoppng cart. Use this link, get your First 3 Months FREE!

Email: 3 Months FREE select email packages

First 3 months FREE for Email Packages!

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PronetHosting Big Discount Web Hosting Promotion Nov.2009

CheapHostingChoice — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:44:06 +0000

From November 1st to November 30,2009, PronetHosting offers big discount promotion that allows customers purchase any of their web hosting services for only $25 for the entire first year; no strings attached. You can purchase any web hosting service you like (except for dedicated servers) for only $25 for the entire first year. The customer does not need to buy anything else and/or pay for any other services to take advantage of this promotion.

The promotion does not include a free domain. The domain names are sold at regular prices starting at $10.95 per year. If you already have a domain name or want to transfer you web hosting service to pronet, it’s a good time to sign up pronethosting for a big saving.

The customers can cancel at anytime; there are no contracts. If the customer cancels during the money back guarantee period, they will receive a full refund based on the terms of pronet money-back guarantee policy.

The PronetHosting $25/year hosting promotion includes following plans:

* Linux Shared Hosting

* Windows Shared Hosting

* Linux Reseller Hosting

* Windows Reseller Hosting

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Why register a domain name with GoDaddy?

CheapHostingChoice — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:28:09 +0000

When you decide to register a domain for your online business, do you ever think about how to choose the best domain registrar? There are many domain registration service providers, but only few of them offer reliable services at low cost price. There is no reason to pay much higher price for a domain registration when you can get a cheaper price with quality services.

How Go Daddy stacks up against the competition? The following comparison clearly shows the benefits of registering a domain with GoDaddy.com.

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GoDaddy Web Hosting Plans 20% Off Special

CheapHostingChoice — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:16:38 +0000

GoDaddy has just opened their new, state-of-the-art European data center and they’re celebrating with "Grand Opening Sale" — 20% OFF any 1, 2 or 3 year hosting plan from Go Daddy. Every hosting plan includes generous storage, transfer and email accounts, live 24/7 support and much more.

This special promotion is only available until November 2nd, 2009. Click the following banner and Get 20% OFF:

Go Daddy is expanding its global presence with a new European data center located in the Netherlands. European customers serviced by the new data center will have their Web sites served faster to European visitors, based on the distance the data is traveling.

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How to start an online business for less money?

CheapHostingChoice — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:30:58 +0000

Start an Online Business for Less Money

With job security not exactly the most stable, this can be the perfect time to embrace your entrepreneurial spirit. And with all the quality, easy-to-use resources available online to take advantage of, it is more plausible than ever to start a successful business with little money and initial manpower. Knowing some of the basic tools can help guide you on your way to starting an online business for next to nothing. Using tools like ready-to-use templates from web hosting providers, and free blogs are inexpensive ways to jump start your online business.

Choosing a Web Host

After you’ve figured out the services or products you would like to provide in your business and have planned out a basic site map including what information you intend on providing on the site, finding a web host should be one of your top priorities at this point. Whether you are researching free web hosting (URL: http://www.freeservers.com/Free-Web-Hosting.html) or paid hosting services, picking the appropriate host for you and your business is an important part of the foundation of your online startup. Some of the factors to consider, along with cost, are how much quality, technical support is available to you, how your data will be protected and if the system provides regular backups of your data, and how reliable and secure the hosting provider is. For those on a tight budget and limited time without the luxury of hiring a group of programmers and designers initially, some web hosts will be able to provide you with appropriate, fully designed templates that you can then customize with your own text, graphics and photos. A team of developers can cost you thousands of dollars and months of time before your site is up and running. These templates are not only professional looking, but instead of having to open up a separate merchant account and shopping around for separate shopping cart software for ecommerce purposes, templates are able to provide full ecommerce sites, accepting credit cards, and other types of online payments if you prefer. The same web hosting provider may also be able to provide you with other tools to manage your business, along with inventory management, customer data maintenance, and tracking of shipped packages. Another one of the least expensive ways to accept online payments is to use PayPal, which is free but charges a small percentage for each transaction. PayPal is quick, affordable and pretty simple.

Using Blogs on Your Business Site

You may not think blogs, as popular as they are, would be useful in your business but blogs aren’t just for individual users with online journals anymore. Blog software, like WordPress, is not only free but can be an important part of your business, allowing you to easily make frequent, journal-like news updates and providing a way for customers to give their opinions and feedback through comments in certain areas of the site that you choose, allowing you to stay connected to them and to each other. Blogs can be used to easily highlight special promotions, and to let customers know what new products or services are in development. Plus blog software allows you to add plug-ins, including tools for adding photos, video, and user forums, so that you can make your site customizable and as consumer driven as you like.

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JustHost Coupon Code

CheapHostingChoice — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:19:41 +0000

I have written a post of justhost “secret link” for getting discount price. Using that secret link to sign up just host web hosting service, you will save 20%. If you don’t use the “secret link”, you can also get 20% OFF by typing “SPECIAL20OFF” into the coupon code blank when you signing up justhost. This is not a secret any more. You can find some other coupon codes through Google search, but all codes you get just could save 20%. For example, there is another 20% OFF coupon, “JHSL20“.

Every body wants save more money. What you saved just like what you earned. I am going to show you a justhost coupon code that could save you more.

The 50% OFF JustHost coupon code is “50OFF”. This is JustHost valid 2009 coupon code. This justhost discount coupon code is working on all justhost web hosting plans. You can save with monthly, 6 months, 12 months, 24 months, and 36 months terms. Using “SPECIAL20OFF” coupon code, you will get the price of $3.95/mo for 24 month payment ( the regular price is $4.95/mo). Using justhost “50OFF” coupon code, you can get the price of $2.95/mo. You will save $48. It is great to get justhost reliable hosting services at such cheap price!

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