Managed Hosting vs Unmanaged Hosting

September 8th, 2011 4 Comments   Posted in Knowledgebase

Maybe you have already running a shared hosting for several years. It is been performing good for a long time, but if your business is beginning to get bigger, which means more visitors to your website. This means that you require working with a dedicated hosting rather than shared hosting. When you’re on the point of make the transition, you will have to choose if you wish to work with managed or unmanaged hosting for your website.

The most significant factors that people are likely to select unmanaged hosting are due to the price. It’s lower priced, and people who’re on a budget will discover that this can be an only answer they can afford. That is good if you are able to deal with the website and also the server. If you have these kinds of solutions, you’ll be able to reduce your cost by picking to work with unmanaged web hosting. However, not everybody is able to do that.

The managed choice contains a more expensive. However, when you think about that using a managed server you won’t need to employ more people to manage the website and the server, you will discover that it is not much of a cost distinction. The managed hosting is able to deal with any kind of issues that may happen, as well as creating backups and updating.

Don’t let cost only be the judging consideration if you are attempting to select a web hosting package. You have to think about what you need from the company, and also always pick the option which will match your particular requirements and become the best option to your business. You have to ensure that you investigate as well as select what is greatest for your business future.

When you finally choose, check the different hosting companies that are offered and ensure that they are able to provide what you want. Look at the costs to get the perfect deal potential. As long as you keep in mind that price is not the most crucial point, you’ll be able to see an excellent web host.

The Different Types of Websites

Today the online world has large numbers of sites. It’s the space where all type of sites being made and also published each and every time. Therefore, what type of sites that people will find on the internet nowadays? Below are some websites kinds.

Corporate Websites
A page that provide information about organization or company. It gives a details about the business, services/products associated to the specific business. It’s also act as their advertising and marketing tool.

E-commerce Websites
One of the most popular kind of websites today. They enable you to do the screen purchasing and also getting a lot of any type of items available on the market without having move from the chair. They offer several payment solution and also shipping solutions to make sure your happiness as well.

Networking and social media Websites
Sites offering in this classification solely made for the reason of socializing for the key program. They enable you to meet different colleagues and also swap more information or whatever you intend to present to your friends’ network as well as other people.

Personal Websites
You will find numbers of personal sites that you could discover on the internet. Since it called, the site perform will be to present about your individual to all people in online world.

Flash Websites
These websites merely designed for the entertainment as the main aspect. Although they even are available in useful way, however they tend to be first-class in visuals and also work with streaming videos simply because the key selling point greater than a text.

Google+, the search giant’s answer to Facebook

google plus imageGoogle is looking to jump into the social networking game and compete directly with Facebook. This would be Google’s 3rd try. The previous attempts included the Google Wave, a communication and online collaboration platform rolled into one package, and Google Buzz, a twitter like service that allowed sharing of videos, photos, and updates.

Google+ focuses on clean interface, and unique social interactions and connections. The simple and elegant interface was created by a former Apple designer. Google+ builds off the Google service called Profiles. Google Proilces is similar to a Facebook profile. Google+ adds in all of the social features like friending, posting, and liking that you find on Facebook with the ability to follow people like you can on Twitter.

Circles is the Google+ way of creating groups of friends that you can selectively share content with and control how they can connect back to you. Hangouts is a quick way to set up a video conference with up to 10 people while Sparks is an integration of Google’s email alerts honed down to its essence: letting you know about stuff you are interested in.


EBay acquires Magento Ecommerce Solution

September 3rd, 2011 No Comments   Posted in Advertising & Marketing, IT NEWS

mqgento aquvired by EBAY

Magento is an open source ecommerce web application launched on March 31, 2008. It was created by Varien, using various open source technologies including Zend framework and PHP. Varien is now Magento Inc. with 260+ employees.

Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce platform built on open-source technology that provides online merchants with unprecedented flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of their eCommerce store. Magento’s intuitive administration interface features powerful marketing, search engine optimization and catalog-management tools to give merchants the power to create sites that are tailored to their unique business needs. Designed to be completely scalable and backed by Varien’s support network, Magento offers companies the ultimate eCommerce solution.

Magento Enterprise Edition is a paid version of Magento intended for larger ecomerce websites.

In February of 2011, Ebay announced it had made an investment in Magento and acquired 49% ownership. Now Ebay is purchasing the remain ownership of Magento.

By purchasing Magento, eBay is creating what it calls X.Commerce, an open platform that can offer a wide array of end-to-end services to merchants, providing everything from local inventory data and discounts to historical information on pricing, transactions and browsing. It then offers tools for payment and helps close the loop on transactions so retailers know how it all came together. EBay, PayPal and GSI, a digital marketing and e-commerce company that eBay is in the process of buying, would provide some of the basic building blocks for the platform. But X.Commerce would also incorporate other eBay assets and enlist the help of developers who could build on the operating system.


Virtual Private Servers VS Shared Web Hosting

September 2nd, 2011 No Comments   Posted in Knowledgebase

vps vs shared web hosting

For any webmaster shared web hosting is always a good solution in terms of expenses but when it comes to your control over server dedicated server is always preferred. This may be a good solution but it is far too expensive so webmasters must consider other solution like co-location hosting or virtual private servers.

Virtual private servers are normally a part of dedicated servers sharing same hardware. In a dedicated server virtual partitions is made for which different type of virtualization software like OpenVZ are used. Webmasters may better decide which type of hosting they need but one thing is sure, VPS always give an edge over shared web hosting to webmasters.

First thing which gives upper hand is the load of CPU.  In case of huge traffic on your website, you many not suffer the performance of your personal website. Being an independent and completely anonymous to your neighbors, you do not have to share services or applications. This serves just like your servers being in your own home and you have access to the root directory. This is an important factor as webmasters sometimes need to install third party components for which server access is needed and you can easily do it without any limitations.

Another factor to consider in virtual private servers is the reliability. In case any fault occurs in shared web hosting server, every one suffers and surely webmasters become dependent on that host. On the other hand in a VPS hosting you own the server, do have root access and gets dedicated customer support so you succeed in overcoming such issues quickly and more comprehensively. If reliability have any significance to you, then paying little more will not bother you.

Security is also a worth considering factor for every webmaster. As compared to shared web hosting, you do not have to share TCP/IP stacks, disk space or other resources. This makes VPS web hosting a better option for all businesses who care more about their security.

Inspite of what is good or wrong; most of the webmaster who prefer VPS over dedicated servers or shared web hosting give the reason of cost. According to them, they need control over severs which shared web hosting companies do not provide. On the other hand, they could not afford to buy complete server so better they decide to have a part of that server.

In the end, virtual private servers are always a handy option for webmasters looking to get root directory access to their server. At the same time webmasters must check web hosting companies about their data centers so they ensure they are getting for what they are paying.


How to Select Affordable Web Hosting With Maximum Features?

September 1st, 2011 1 Comment   Posted in Knowledgebase, Troubleshooting

In this race of web hosting companies where every company is claiming his services and features to be best, how can a novice can select better web hosting as per his website needs? Though certain parameters have been defined for best web hosting but still it seems a difficult task for those who even do not know these terms. Here I have tried to explain few of the basic features for web hosting providers.

First of all you need to look for customer support of your selected company. If you are getting timely technical support on all issues then you are on the right path pf your website success otherwise you can suffer in the period of response by your provider. Uptime guarantee of servers is the other thing and almost a feature of focus. Most of the web hosting companies claim 99.9% uptime guarantee but only few can ensure this as load on smaller servers can disturb. I think this is why webmasters have started thinking towards CDN Hosting for their websites. that makes any website faster, safer, and smarter.Enabling it for your sites is fast and simple.

Price is an other issue for webmaster but if you are looking for quality services you should not care of it. Just focus on your website requirements and then make a list of companies which offer all those features. Few features can be the web space, bandwidth, email accounts, database limits, free script library (fantastico) and free advertising credits. Then compare them on different parameters out of which price will be the major one. This way you get most affordable web hosting according to the demands of your website.


Super Sale 50% Discount EID Special OFFER

August 30th, 2011 No Comments   Posted in Announcements

Today we at Massaf Web Solutions have decided to offer some real cool deals which are available to all at our web site. So it’s time join or move to the one of the best and reliable shared hosting provider.

Offer does not Applied to Domains & valid till 7 September 2011 use Coupon Code: EID2011.Hurry buy new & upgrade your existing plan to better one.

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Web Development Systems PHP or ASP.net? Explained

August 29th, 2011 No Comments   Posted in Web Designing & Development

Web development is an extremely broad term that refers to the developing of websites for the Internet.  That can involve web design, but most web developers consider it to be the programming and coding of websites.  Web development has changed greatly in recent years, with various systems, or languages, that have come into prominence for the development of websites.  The most widely used of those are PHP and ASP.net, and each has their own distinct uses and advantages.

ASP.net (Active Server Pages) is developed by Microsoft and works on their Windows platform.  PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, and has been continually developed ever since then.  It generally runs on Linux servers.  Both systems are used to create dynamic web pages that are able to exchange information and interact with databases.

ASP.net runs on Microsoft’s IIS (Internet Information Server).  In order to code using ASP.net, web developers need to have IIS installed on their system.  This incurs considerable costs for businesses.  PHP, however, runs on Linux software, which is free and open source, and can achieve similar results to ASP.net.

PHP is considered to have greater database connectivity.  It’s easily connects to a number of databases, including MySQL, which is the most commonly used database, and is free.  Microsoft’s equivalent database, MS-SQL, again incurs costs.  PHP code also runs quicker than ASP.net, leading to faster load times on websites.  This is because it runs in its own memory space.

Both systems have their advantages.  ASP.net, although costly, can be beneficial for larger commercial enterprises and mission-critical applications, as Microsoft has excellent technical support if any problems are run into.  PHP relies on the open source community, and solving problems yourself.  However, when utilized by an experienced web development company, both systems can achieve excellent results.


Some Amazing free SEO Tools Online

August 29th, 2011 9 Comments   Posted in SEO & Link Building

When it comes to optimizing your website for the search engines, there are two options. You can either pay a SEO company hundreds of pounds a month to do it for you (of course this will be best in the long run) or you can learn it yourself. Many people shy away from this as they believe you need expensive and fancy software. However, there are some great free tools out there as we have listed here:

  1. Google Webmaster Tools – This is probably the most important tool out there as it allows you to do so much for free. With the free Google tools, you will be able to see how many visitors your website is getting through the analytics program as well as see how you can improve your website. There is also the Google Keywords tool that will help you a lot and many videos from Google themselves on best practice.
  2. Xenu Link Sleuth – This is a great little tool that will allow you to check for any broken links within your website. It is well known that broken links can only be bad news for SEO and by checking for broken links, you will then be able to go in and sort them out or delete them. This is a free to use online based tool that is extremely helpful for almost any website.
  3. mozBar SEO Toolbar – This is a toolbar that can be downloaded for free in either Google Chrome or Firefox and it will allow you to have access to many useful SEO tools at any given time. This is great if you do a lot of SEO work or have your own SEO company as it will allow you to check things at the drop of a hat.
  4. Bing and Yahoo Webmaster Tools – Although Google is by far the most important, Yahoo and Bing also make up a combined total of 30 percent of all searches online so their webmaster tools are important too. They are also free.

There are many other free tools out there and many other free tool bars for Firefox and other browsers. It is usually personal preference which ones you go for.


How to monetize your domain

Few steps about how to Monetize your domain name that you thought you should let it drop because you thought you don’t have time to dedicate to it. It is true, developing a domain name it takes time and dedication, but a good domain name left just like that but that’s not the only case how to make revenue from a domain.

The ‘best’ way would be to grab a expired domain name that is already listed in search engines, but, are you lucky enough to grab such a domain to yourself now days? Similar domains, in most of the cases you will find them listed on auction sites as SnapNames.
But lets presume you got a expired domain name, nice words, very well listed on major search engines, what next? There are two options you could go for

  1. Domain name parking programs (NameDrive, Sedo, iMonetize, Afternic and many others). The traffic of your domain will constantly decrease with the time as it is passing, your best move would be to keep the domain while the traffic is still high, once you notice the traffic and clicks on the ads are decreasing sell the domain unless you plan to follow the example 2).
  2. Check the history of the domain from aboutus.org ex. www.aboutus.org/yourdomain.tld , read more what the domains content used to be, view the cashed version of the content, then dedicate some time and develop a site with a similar content, make sure there are no broken links in your site then sign up for AdSense (Google advertising publisher program) or Yahoo Publisher, now you are done, your next step would be to check your advertising panel and see your revenue growing.

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