WordPress Hosting and the Use of Social Media

If you have opted to pay for your WordPress hosting, it will mean that you are looking for some way of making money. When this happens, you need to ensure that people know about your website or blog so that you can gain the traffic to your website.

One of the best ways to gain traffic is through the use of the social media. This has become increasingly popular all over the world and there are many different platforms that you can choose from and each have their own benefits, disadvantages and best way to promote your website.

Twitter is one of the most recent platforms and you have the ability to micro-blog. This is perfect if you have a blogging website because the two really do go hand in hand. Twitter allows you to give short outbursts of information. Facebook has been around since 2004 and is becoming popular for constant status updates. You can use this to offer short bursts of information to let your friends know that there are updates to read.

What Exactly Is Cloud Hosting?

Cloud Hosting is not a program or a script that you install on some web page. It is not a place that you can go and do something that is not available anywhere else, it is a concept. Think about the clouds in the sky or the clouds that you draw on a piece of paper when you are doing your “mind mapping” exercise. The clouds and the drawings all have something in common; they help you to “put it all together” so that you have a complete interconnected system of achieving something. (The clouds in the sky can rain on you, but they do it all together!)

This concept has a lot of different pieces of electronic servers and programming working together, separately, so that you have at your command many different activities happening to make your job of web site builder and manager easier. The scalability that is available is unmatched as well.

With everything that is your files for your pages scattered around, there is the ability to save information should one of those pieces go down.

 

Linux Hosting, Running IIS Web Server

Although the IIS web server is a Windows OS feature, Linux hosting services can also run virtual machines on a Linux server and provide IIS server web service. There are a large number of operating systems services that are only available on Windows and not available on Linux based servers. As a result, a Linux hosting server business may need to use virtual machine to provide Windows based services. Virtual machines are available on Linux platform. The VMM that can be used is a KVM or a Xen based VMM. Both of these VMMs are open source. Clearly, the configuration of this VMM is likely to be more complicated but configuration of open source VMMs are like to simpler than closed source VMMs. From a business perspective, it allows the business owner to offer a myriad set of services even if the host operating system does not support all the services. It also provides the customer fault tolerance that is needed by the customer for mission critical usages.

Shared Hosting Advertising: Video Marketing

Since YouTube is becoming the second most used search engine, it brings a new form of marketing to help with your shared hosting website. You can use videos to help to promote your products and keep people informed of your products.

You can set up your own page for your account that will only be used for your business videos. From there it is up to you what you do with it. You can use it to show off the products that you have to offer or you can create advertisements to promote your business.

This has the main advantage that people prefer to watch something rather than read about it. They will take in more information because they are not struggling to read on a small screen. They can also see that there is a product there and that it does work so they are more likely to buy it. They know that it is genuine and that they are not going to be wasting their money.

Windows Hosting vs. Linux Hosting

 There are many who would say that there is no question! Of course, you need to know what the answer is first for that to actually be of any use to you, however, a few comments about both of these systems are in order.

Many say that the reason that Windows Hosting is the answer is because this is the system put together by Microsoft, so it must be the best! That is not necessarily the answer because Linux is an open Source product and thus has many people working to get it right and to keep it right.

They both use many of the same programs and scripts and that makes it easy for you. They both use FTP accounts to transfer files, they both utilize PHP and CGI, JavaScript and MySQL databases. These are all very popular so there should not be a big issue on either one.

Linux corners the market on price (free) and the Open Source availability, however, Windows is usually easier to configure! This comes from many of the web hosting review sites that compare the two.