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Web News & Tips - Issue #300 $7.00 per month Small Business web hosting from MateMedia Web News & Tips Published by MateMedia, Inc. Your Partner on the Web Providing quality Web services at affordable prices since 1995 MateMedia provides the following services: * Web Hosting (Shared & Managed Dedicated Servers) * Web Design & Development - Custom Web Applications * Database Development & Hosting * Website Maintenance & Webmaster Services * Search Engine Optimization * E-Commerce - Shopping Carts - Sample Shopping Cart * Domain Name Registration * Domain Name Affiliate Program For more information about our services email sales@matemediainc.com or call us at 877-309-7521 - Read what our clients have to say about us IN THIS ISSUE: Become a MateMedia Domain Name Affiliate Free Webmaster Tools Free Scripts for Your Website A Beginner's Guide to Choosing a Quality Webhost Web News A Step by Step Guide to Getting Started on the Web $7.00 per month web hosting from MateMedia A Beginner's Guide to Choosing a Quality Webhost By Jesse Somer Choosing a web host is like choosing a place to eat, you want quality food with good, honest, personable service. If you are anything like me, you’d probably like to have a website on the Internet but you just have no idea how to go about it. All this talk of web hosting, bandwidth, disk space, and other jargon can cause one to say, “This is too complicated and technical, I just wanted to have a place to put all of my favorite skateboarding photos, cool information on ramp designs, and the best places to skate!” To get a website on the Web you have to go through a web host. The question is how do you find the web host for you? If you type ‘web host’ into your search engine like Google you will get thousands of sites. Hit on one of these and like any product on the market you will see all sorts of persuasive propaganda to incite you to use their company; that is if you can decipher any of the technical jargon that only computer-heads can comprehend. Some web hosts offer free business cards with an account; some probably offer free watches…like all consumer industries you the buyer must beware. I’m a writer so I’ll use the analogy of a writer’s journal. The journal I like must not be too big or small in book size. It also must have a good amount of space allocated to each day, again not a whole page but not just a few lines. Of course I also want it to be cheap but of a good quality that won’t fall apart while I’m using it, and I hope it would last for posterity. I just want the diary, some nice pictures in it are O.K. but unnecessary especially if it adds to the price. It’s the same with a web host and web site scenario. You want to get the right deal for you, enough space and enough access to the public that you wish to associate with. As a novice who doesn’t understand all the jargon this can pose a problem. Are you an individual, small business, blog, or a big time corporation? What do you need and how do you get it? As far as I can tell the web hosting business is a lot like the fast food business. The big corporations have strict guidelines, will offer you special deals, and have monthly ‘cheeseburger specials’. But, I’ve always been more interested in the ‘Mom and Pop’ small time diners who have that real caring human approach. You know you are a customer and a person, not just a number on a sales receipt. I believe the hosting companies are the same. A smaller hosting company will probably treat its users with more honest integrity as well as having more flexibility in dealing with your individual situation. They can often tailor web site packages to accommodate exactly what you are looking for as well as the ability to update them quickly when your needs change. My advice is to contact a few of the smaller companies. Look for ones with good reputations or just arbitrarily email them and compare results from different places. Which one do you feel most comfortable with? Go for it; ask as many questions as you can, see how the different hosts differ in their answers. Try one; if it doesn’t work out try another, it’s really easy to move around. Don’t be afraid, you’ve got nothing to lose except the fear itself! E-mail: danielp@m6.net Author's URL: http://www.m6.net Jesse S. Somer, M6.Net http://www.m6.net Jesse S. Somer is a human analyst of the postmodern technical world. He hopes to bridge the gap of understanding between experts and novices involved in the computer industry. $7.00 per month web hosting from MateMedia Increase your rank in the search engines! Check out our new search engine optimization plans Web News $7.00 per month web hosting from MateMedia Everyone's got an opinion. According to new reports from the Pew Internet & American Life project and Lyra Research, people like to share those opinions online. According to Pew, thirty-three million Americans have used an online rating system to rate a product, service or person. A nationwide phone survey of 1,399 US Internet users found 26 percent of adult users have used an online rating system. The leaves may barely be turning, but for some it's already time to start thinking about holiday shopping. Consumers are likely to start shopping online earlier this year, and they're likely to spend more than they did last year, according to research from Shop.org. The 2004 Shop.org/BizRate.com "Online Holiday Mood Study" reports 53 percent of online shoppers plan to start their online holiday shopping by early October. This early activity has the jump on merchants, only 14 percent of which will have launched some form of online holiday promotions in the same period. The majority of online retailers (53 percent) won't start holiday season promotions until after Halloween. The fact people don't like getting calls from collection agencies comes as no surprise. Though, according to new research from, FiSite Research consumers are willing to deal with online collection services. In a survey of 1,000 consumers, 87 percent either had a good or excellent opinion of the idea of an online collection service. Most survey respondents (83 percent) say they'd rather use an online collections service than receive a call from a collection agency. Those who chronically pay some or all their bills late ("late payers" represented 21 percent of the survey sample) were even more inclined to prefer an online service to a telephone call, with a percentage of 86.4 percent. Copyright 2000-2004 MateMedia, Inc. |
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