Bull Crap Free Zone

Tired of all the bull crap about web hosting?  Domain names?  Domain name parking, pointing, forwarding and masking?  Webmaster tools?

Here’s some more questions that plague newbies and some veterans.

What is the best web hosting solution?   What tools do I need to market online?  Why is it that when I discover a great tool or strategy, another one comes along and takes me off course in another direction?  Do I really need …?

After your head explodes from information overload and you want a bit more clarity, come back here, kick back, grab a drink, and take some notes. Remember, you can find many recommendations on the resources page, but today let us talk about domain names and hosting.
There are hundreds of web hosting services out there on the information highway; I trust approximately three of them.

Let me explain what I mean about trust. I would never consider a web hosting solution unless they have been around for at least 5 years, and have done a considerable amount of business. You should not consider a web host that does not have at least a 98% up time guarantee.

Here are some other things you might want to consider before choosing a web host:

• Free setup.

• Best-of-breed routers, firewalls and servers.

• Great Customer Support.

I am going to give you two of the best web hosts that I have found; then I am going to tell you why I use them.

The first web hosting service is called SBI (Site Build It!).

I love SBI and two of my websites use this service. It’s more than just web hosting. It’s really for people who do not want to mess with site design, templates, email set ups, forms, and all the other stuff you have to do when you build your own website. It’s also for people or small business companies that want to focus on content, not site design.

What do you get for their service? How about a bunch of tools to help you build a site that works. Need a ezine or newsletter? SBI can do it. Need forms for site visitors to use on your website? SBI can do. Don’t want to mess with submitting your site to the search engines? Let SBI do it with the click of a button. Maybe you need email auto responders to send out a class or instructions. Just write your email and let SBI send it when someone fills out your online form.

So if you want a powerful online building system and not just web hosting, then SBI is the way to go.

If you don’t need any tools or you are a web pro and know what you are doing and you want to save money. In other words you’re cheap. You just want the best deal you can get for hosting your site or maybe you just enjoy pain and doing all this stuff yourself.

I’ve got the best and most reliable hosting solution for you!

How do you define cheap?

Are you just looking to save a buck?

Hey Einstein! Ever heard of you get what you pay for?

So be careful when you talk about the best web hosting solution.

For example. Did you know that most web hosting providers that charge $4 per month for hosting put your site on a shared server IP address where you can be with another gazzilion websites. Know what that means? You share your IP address with maybe some porn site that gets a million hits a month. Think that might slow down your site server because of overload. Yep. So don’t get mad at me when you decide to go to some “cheap butt” provider and your site visitors have to wait 10 minutes for your pages to come up on the screen.

Is it important to get your email. I might think so.

So don’t just think about cheap. OK?

Affordable Web Hosting Plan

With that in mind, let me give you my second recommendation. Now, remember, this is for those of you who know what you are doing when it comes to uploading your own pages.

Mad Webmaster Domains is one of the best. Why is that?

It offers a variety of choices. It is actually like going to your favorite restaurant and picking what you want to eat. What do they call that? I believe it is called a buffet.

Therefore, if all you need is a one-page website and you do not mind sharing an IP address, then for about $4 per month you can have that. Moreover, if you want a dedicated IP address for an additional $3 per month, they have that as well. Maybe you have a giant site with thousands of visitors. Mad Webmaster Domains.com will even sell you a dedicated server. Do you want to blog and have something that is easy to build? They have that, as well. Maybe you just want to purchase domain names and re-sell them later. This is not a problem. In fact, Mad Webmaster Domains.com allows you to purchase email accounts if, in fact, that is all you want to do.

So, there you have it. SBI is for those of you who are lazy like me and just want a great program to build and host your website. Then there is Mad Webmaster Domains for those of you who are bright and want some good cheap hosting with other site tools.

Just be careful and do some research for the best web hosting solution.

Until next time…

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Paul Ellis (a.k.a. The Mad Webmaster™) has been building websites since 1998. He owns over 150 domain names, 11 websites and The Mad Webmaster™ blog: http://themadwebmaster.com

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