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A Quick Review of the Top Web Hosting Sites |
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Written by Chad Cook
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Sunday, 11 March 2007 |
A Quick Review of the Top Web Hosting Sites
There are generally speaking thousands of hosting solutions on the internet available now, from the free ones at www.geocities.com to the ones who cost you an arm and a leg. Once we began filtering out the sharks, the copy cats & other crap, I decided to review two of the best and most complete hostings options available on the planet. Be aware however that these are not the cheapest hostings around but these truly give you the most for your money, instead of asking you to upgrade later for an additional fee.
Host 4 Profit is our primary contender weighing at 300 Megabytes disk space and with a traffic limit of 10 Gigabytes per month. You might think that 300 megabytes is nothing compared to your hard disk but for doing business on the web, this should be more than sufficient. Besides being a heavy weight, you are also going to be quick footed by getting limitless pop e-mail accounts and e-mail aliases. You also get unlimited mailing lists / newsletters and autoresponders which means being able to utilize the best marketing tool available, that is construction of your own opt-in list which is going to be your prospective customer base for current anf future product offers.
Managing Your website is a snap with the web based control panel. You can access the extensive online support, your account information, upload / update files via a web based interface, change your password, preside over, add or access your pop3 e-mail, produce mailing lists / newsletter, setup MySQL database, search website statistics reports for your own analysis or if you use a third party analysis software just download the access logs, manage frontpage extensions, offer your site to several search engines automatically, setup a secure server, setup a web page counter, setup a shopping cart, setup a search engine for your homepage, access your instant profit sites, backup your website, schedule daily events, research error logs for trouble shooting your site and you can even design your website from the control panel.
Top hosting companies generally also provide the room for your website and after that you are on your own but Host4Profit goes beyond that by also providing instant plugin sales letter sites and the corresponding products for you to market and keep 100% of the margin (Free Resell Rights).
They also went to the point of providing a no fee membership to one of the superior marketing archives (The Warrior Group) giving access to tons of free reports, articles and e-books on how to succeed online. If you have exhausted the archive (which is constantly updated), you can take part in the deliberation in one of the best internet marketing forums (above 30.000 members) available "The Warrior Forum" which is also included in The Warrior Group Membership.
Once they educate you on marketing online, they supply you with tools like Complete Ad Tracking Systems to prefect your marketing efforts, Affiliate Tracking Scripts for tracking your affiliates if you choose on setting up your own affiliate program and have thousands of affiliates selling for you and more.
If you desire to become an affiliate to this hosting package, you can become an affiliate and earn residual revenue of US$ 10 / Month for each signups and if you can attain the target of 500 signups within 6 months, you will get a completely paid vacation to the Grand Bahamas. How much does all this cost ? A measly US$ 24.95/Month and payable monthly which means you can stop anytime you want.
This means that besides providing your hosting needs, they provide your own products to market with free resale rights or their own proven product by becoming an affiliate, they teach you how to market them online or how to create your own unique products to sell, they get you updated on the current marketing tactics in the forum, they give you tools to market, monitor your ads and everything else needed.
However, the adverse points compared to the other hosting package is that you are required to add another US$ 30,-/year cost for each domain point registered with them and that they have no money back guarantee. This might be because their hosting package charges you monthly instead of yearly. Although their associate program is simple and straightforward, the promotion tools are not as comprehensive as the other hosting package reviewed below.
Our other contender is Site Build It! This hosting package is known for their standard of Overdelivering on their agreement. Registering your own domain name is free and already included in the package. Unlimited space and limitless bandwidth is a huge plus for those relying on building up sites with huge files such as videos etc. Graphic Tools for designing your own website online is available. The part that stands out in the crowd is the unique marketing accessories available in the form of barinstorming and researching profitable topics for your website, publishing your own newsletter and spam proof it first before sending them out and even checking the rate of newsletters read or opened.
Traffic stats and click analysis are also convenient. Another notable aspect is the search engine optimization of your pages, giving sugestions on how to optimize your pages for getting the cheapest and biggest traffic of them all from search engines. Search engines submitting, tracking and ranking is also mighty valuable for evaluating your sites help in getting traffic from the search engines. Pay per click research and mass bidding is perfect for those with an available budget to begin on this type of targeted traffic building operation.
Online help and the newsletter you get periodically provides tips on how to market your website and succeed online. Special tools like link checking and Form building and autoresponder accessories are resources readily available, accessing your e-mail via the web is also possible via the web based control panel, among other numerous services available. A new service for exchanging links containing comparable themed sites will largely increase your link reputation with the search engines.
All in all, this hosting package honestly focuses on the needs on building the cheapest, biggest, targeted traffic of them all from the search engines which are of course how to oversome the trickiest part of promoting your website to the search engines. How much do you have to spend of your hard earned money for this kind of service ? They currently have two options either you get 15 months hosting for US$ 395,- or get 8 months hosting for US$ 249,-. By the way, they do have a 30 days money back guarantee and will refund 100% of your money. The shocker is that after 30 days, you can still ask for a refund but will be refunded on a pro-rata basis meaning only for the remaining months balance.
For those of you who might be interested to become an affiliate and try to sell their products, they do not just sell hosting services, but also a multitude of Electronic Books and Accessories such as Make Your Site Sell 2002, Make Your Knowledge Sell, Make Your Price Sell etc. You can also buy these quality products for your own use. Once you join their 5 Pillar affiliate program which is completely free, just browse through their amazingly considerate and useful tools for you to promote their products. You will find no other affiliate program managed as completely as this. |
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