5 Steps in Hosting Your Site

Choosing the right tool for the job makes all things a lot easier and makes the goal more achievable. After doing an excellent job in designing and creating the content of a website, it is time to host your website or blog and here is how you do it.

1. Enumerate your Requirements
It is best to prepare all the things that you'll be needing before you jump down on the first opportunity you see. State the platform you plan to use if it is a Windows based (Net Framework) or Linux based (PHP). How much space and bandwidth you'll need or if you will be needing a database.  How many emails you'll be needing. If they have a one-click application install such as Wordpress, Joomla or whatever CMS (Content Management System) you'll ever need. This list will then serve as your guideline on every step of the way.

2. State your Budget
How much are your willing to invest with the requirements you have stated on the first step? This could be a monthly budget or a yearly budget.

3. Look for a Hosting Company
It is important for a webmaster, web developer or a blogger to know which hosting company delivers its services effectively and accurately according to the list on step 1 you have gathered. It is not an easy task to review and check each hosting companies you'll find in Google searches. Not all hosting companies you'll find in Google are excellent at their job and not all deliver what you need. I do believe that it is important to look for a web hosting review that will help you in purchasing a plan before you regret it in the future. Here are some of the best web hosting services you can ever find. You'll find detailed descriptions of each hosting companies, the services they offer and the price and bonuses they give away.

4. Compare and Enumerate Candidates
In choosing your hosting company, compare the list (step 1) you have made with the services you found on step 3. Once you found the one that fits the description, double check the price and services on their website. Write down your candidates.

5. Decide
After finding the right prospects, compare and determine which would be the best for your needs. Choose a package plan and decide.

Hope you find this useful. If it is, you are welcome to share it using your favorite social networking sites.  Good day to all.

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My New Toy for 2012

Okay, so many birthdays, Christmases have already passed and I have not treat myself lately until today. Now for the first time, I've bought myself a high-end computer and not just a computer but a laptop. It is actually a gaming laptop and I love it, I haven't tested it for gaming though. 

I would like to present to you, my new mistress named Tosha! But before that, let me describe Tosha's features. Tosha is from Toshiba. A Satellite L755-M1M3 with an i7 processor. Packed with 6GB DDR3 memory which I am planning on maximizing while the memory is still available on the market.  Video RAM of 2 GB from NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M and has a hard disk capacity of 750GB. WiFI, Bluetooth, webcam, 2USB ports + 1 USB3 and with an LED screen display of 15.6" widescreen. It comes with freebies too. A USB Mobily Connect with a speed of 7.2 mbps for 3 months (5GB/mo) + 4GB Sandisk Flash Drive + some pressure balls to take off some of the pressure from my credit card bill this coming month.

So I now present you:

My white complexion Tosha

First thing I did as I unpacked Tosha was prepare my blank DVDs for burning recovery discs since they don't come with the package anymore. So remember, it is important to burn a recovery disc just in case you did something wrong and you have to recover its fresh and undisturbed working state.

While burning the recovery discs I was able to cook porridge (lugaw) for tomorrow's breakfast. Made me hungry, I'll probably try some. This is my first post using Tosha and we'd like to thank you for continued patronage. God bless to all.

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Clixsense 4th Payment Proof

Yey! Another premium member joined my referral which gave me another chance to cash-out earnings from Clixsense. I would like to thank Clixsense Team Philippines for its continued growth and for continued honest effort of the administrator.

Clixsense started the PTC business around year 2007 and still is honestly paying their members while Clixsense Team Philippines is a group of all-premium members (yes, all of them are premium members) who wants to assure of a better earning from Clixsense which also gave members a chance to have a residual income.

Joining at Clixsense doesn't require members to have referrals to earn money. For more information about (CSTPH) Clixsense Team Philippines, click here.

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Top 5 Must Have Add-ons for Firefox

To all Mozilla Firefox users out there, here are top 5 must have add-ons for Firefox to make your browsing better, faster and more secured.

Top 5 Must Have Add-ons for Firefox

AdBlock Plus - this allows you to browse websites without having fear of too much loading of advertisements which of course makes your browsing faster. This is good if you are browsing your own blog and you don't want to accidentally click your own ads (prevents you of being banned on your ad networks).

AdBlock Plus Pop-up Addon - just an add-on to AdBlock Plus to block even the pop-up windows.

WOT - this one is a great add-on as well, especially when you browse a lot. This even works with Google searches or even on Facebook links. When you search on Google, you'll see an arrow on the right end of the site and it is categorized in colors. Red is of course, could be harmful to your PC and green is a go! You can even report a site if you suspect something is wrong with it so that site won't be able to harm others anymore.

Memory Restart - when you are using a low-end PC, you'll probably find this very handy especially if you like opening a lot of tabs or watching YouTube videos (which consumes a lot of memory even if you finished watching a video and closed it already). When installed, it is located both on the navigation toolbar and on the right side of the statusbar. You can use this if you feel that Firefox is getting slower. You can also use it to monitor Firefox's consumed memory. Just a warning, if you have customized your Firefox to clear all caches and cookies when closing it, you should probably consider disabling that or just save your online work (probably when you are writing a blog) before clicking the button because it will restart the Firefox. Don't worry you'll be asked before doing so.

Video Download Helper - if you love watching YouTube videos and other streaming video sites and you want to have your own copy to show it to your family or friends in offline mode, then you should have this. My friend found this useful for his Korean tele-novelas (lol).

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3 Steps to Make an Article NOT Interesting

Now here is another topic that I am very good at - NOT making an article so interesting. The reason I wrote this is for us to avoid those common mistakes. I have actually made an article before entitled "How NOT to Attract Readers!" but this article is different because we'll actually concentrate on the article and not the blog. Although this will have the same positive effect on your readers - if you do the opposite :).

 

1. Bad Title

The first and most important thing we should know is that making the title for our article is very critical. Have you ever noticed yourself whenever you are reading your emails and you sometimes found yourself reading SPAM mails? That is because they have a very catchy title. The first two seconds of your blog visitor's time is reading the title so it is very important to make a very good impression.

 

2. Worst Introduction

Okay, you have caught your visitor's attention when they read your article's title. Now it is important that your first 50 words would be worthy of their time too. You have to make them read on until the end. I know it is quite hard. I still am having the same problem sometimes that is why I have lots of unpublished articles here in this blog because I don't find my very first 50 words interesting. One good tip: It must be related to your title. Believe it or not, by doing this you are actually optimizing your site as per SEO's (Search Engine Optimization) requirements. If you do this step, you'll be expert in no time in SEO Blogging. One other thing, Google is actually ranking (PageRank) your site or blog according to how related your content is to your title so be very cautious about making a catchy title but unrelated content.

 

3. Not Delivering Your Offer

Who said anything about an offer? Well, your title says you'll give pointers on how to earn $20 bucks instantly, so where is it? 

 

You've caught their attention so now you must deliver according to what you've offered which is of course what your title said. Imagine yourself seeing a grand sale of your favorite bag, jewelry or t-shirt and after standing on a long line of people to the cashier, you found out that the item your holding was not really included on the sale items. It doesn't matter if your article is long or short as long as you deliver your offer because if not, they'll feel deceived, disappointed and will not ever come back to your blog again.

image from: http://esthersteinfeld.wordpress.com

There you go. That is how you make an article NOT interesting. Thank you for your time.

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