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Picking An SEO-friendly Web Designer
by Dave Davies
As an SEO we get two kinds of sites; those that were designed in the past and where the designer is no longer involved, and the sites where the design is either ongoing or we are working with the web designers from the start. Both of these have their pros and cons [...]
Clustering Solutions and Zero Downtime Hosting Pitfalls
This article discusses the limiting factors to successfully implementing a ‘true’ high availability, multiple-server web hosting system.
Website Builder Tools for a Hosting Company
One feature that is becoming popular amongst hosting companies is offering a web site builder tool to their customers. In this article, we take a look at some site builder software and compare them based on their cost and functionalities.
Featured Interview - HostNine
Interview with Ben Gabler, Operations Manager at HostNine, a shared hosting company, a few days before the company was set to publicly launch its new product called “Reseller Central.â€Â
25 Tips to Increase Conversion Rates
Site owners spend so much time and money on search engine optimization that they often leave conversion optimization to chance. Converting visitors to buyers is part science, part art. No one formula fits all sites, but here are 25 tips that will boost conversion rates on most commercial sites.
Defend Against Black Hat SEO: Your Web Host Can Help
Top-tier web hosting firms design proprietary hardware and software protection to ensure that your business is secure. But site security doesn’t stop with impenetrable firewalls, spam zappers and e-mail scanners.
Strategic Site Migration: Planning For Success
An analytical approach to moving an existing business web site from one Internet Service Provider (ISP) to another will increase the likelihood of a seamless transition. This is especially critical for retail sites and sites that contain large databases of products, customers and other business-related information.
Featured Interview - R1Soft
Interview with Mario Rodriguez, Director of Sales & Client Services for R1Soft, a developer of disk-based backup solutions.
Conversion Rate Optimization - Part 1
Conversion optimization is based on motivations of human site visitors and persuasive site content and design to encourage humans to make a purchase or perform some other action.
Review - Uptime Monitoring Services
Uptime monitoring. Those two words are words that some hosts dread and others love. Customers seem to love them and don’t hesitate to ask for refunds and service credits because of the data that uptime monitoring services provide.
Get more out of your Helpdesk.
I do not know why, but our industry is obsessed with helpdesks. Every part of the customer service experience revolves around the helpdesk, its queues, and its features.With that in mind, let’s try to make the best of our both loved and hated helpdesks.
Installing and Configuring Nagios
This article attempts to provide complete and easy steps for Nagios installation on a Web server or a local cluster.
Managed Hosting. Does Someone Need It?
Who needs to use managed hosting service? Those who know nothing about server management or others who want to focus on business but not technical issues. This article contains posts’ excerpts of different WHT members and their opinions on managed hosting services.
Featured Interview - DemoWolf
Interview with Rob Moore, Founder/President of DemoWolf, a Flash tutorial provider for the Web hosting industry.
Featured Host - Doreo Hosting
Interview with Frank Feingold, Founder Doreo Hosting
