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Shared web hosting is when you host your web site on a shared server, meaning you share a server’s resources such as hard drives, memory, etc. with other web masters (usually 200+). When you need more services and reliability than a free web host can offer, the next step up is a shared web host. Shared web hosting is for you if you have an HTML web site or a PHP web site with no more than 3-4 databases/scripts and less than 250-400 visitors per day. These numbers are a general average of most shared web hosting company limits. You should always carefully read each company’s terms of service to know their respective limits. No matter what they advertise or write in big characters on their web site, such as “Unlimited bandwidth”, “3,000 GB Space”, “50 MySQL databases” or “150,000 GB Bandwidth”, the actual server resources have realistic limitations. These limits are always written, using a much smaller font, in their terms of service. The “Unlimited bandwidth” is just marketing, it makes sales; if you have a web site that gets thousands of visitors daily, your bandwidth may be unlimited, but all that traffic might exhaust your allotted memory.

You should choose a web hosting company that has a good reputation and good customer service. If you require support for any reason, they must have a support system in place such as 24/7 chat, email, a ticket system, forums and a phone number. Verify on their web site if they offer all these support methods and do some research on the internet to confirm the reliability of their support.

Most shared hosting companies offer their service at prices averaging $120/year or, if you pay monthly, $15/month. Some companies offer green energy web hosting such as HostPapa, which means they use solar power and/or wind power for their servers. Here is a list of reliable web hosting companies from which you can choose without hesitation, they have proved to offer good service and all have an excellent reputation.

• Web.com
• StartLogic
• HostRocket.Com - Web Hosting
• iPower Website Hosting
• HostPapa Green Energy Web Hosting
  

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You have a web site, but is it getting as many visitors as you would like? There are many ways that people visit your web site. The most common way is search engines such as Google, MSN, Yahoo, and the list goes on. You can also get visitors to your web site by exchanging links with other web masters, buying advertisement, registering your web site with various directories, etc. In this article, I write about increasing your web site traffic using a banner exchange service.

A banner exchange service is an organization/web site that gives web masters the opportunity to exchange advertisements with other web masters. It’s very simple, you place a snippet of code on your web site and the code displays a banner ad on your site. These are the ads of other web masters registered with the banner exchange network. Every time your web site shows their banner ad, your banner ad is displayed on someone else’s web site on the network.

A banner exchange service is usually free. However, the service is still a business and wants to make a profit. In the company’s terms and conditions, it will state a ratio of ads displayed on your site versus your ad displayed on other sites. Ratios differ from service to service. They may vary anywhere from 1/2 to 9/10. For example, a ratio of 1/2 means that for every 2 banner impressions displayed on your site, your ad will be displayed on another site 1 time. A ratio of 9/10 means that for every 10 banner impressions displayed on your site, your ad will be displayed 9 times on other sites. The remaining impressions, or inventory, are used by the service owner. The company may use the extra inventory to show their own ads or sell it to a third party business and that is how they can monetize their service.

Running such a service requires a big server, or several servers, depending the size of the network. Because the service is expensive to run and there is no revenue in the beginning, tons of companies go bankrupt every year, especially in this time of economic crisis. You should choose a service that has been in business for a long time. We have done some research for you and found that Free-Banners.com offers the best banner exchange service. Their ratio is 1/2, but the most important is that they have been in the business for a long time. They have the biggest network of banner exchange on the net with over 150,000 web sites registered in the exchange. The large number of web sites registered in the exchange is a huge benefit because you can be more selective; since there are so many web sites, you can choose to display your banners only to certain countries and categories. Smaller networks can’t offer that because they are just too small. Enough talk! Go check out Free-Banners.com now and see for yourself.

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When it comes to building your website, one of the first things you have to think of is web hosting. Without web hosting, your website can’t be seen by the world.

Most people don’t realize that web hosting can be free. So the question is: if the service is free, how can the hosting company stay in business? The most common way for a free web host to monetize their service is to put ads on your web site. However, there are fewer companies that force their own ads onto your site because clients hate advertisements on their web sites, especially when the ad revenue falls into someone else’s pocket.

Even without placing ads on your web pages, the free host company still has ways of making money off of you. They place advertisements on your hosting control panel, send weekly or even daily newsletters containing affiliates links, give you the option to pay a nominal fee to have some php functions unlocked, etc. The most important revenue comes from the upgrade, they hope you will sign up for one of their paid plans or their affiliate upgraded service.

There are, however, several disadvantages to free web hosting. Some negative points are: server up time between 95  and 99 percent compared to 99.90 percent + with paid hosting, occassional slow server (not that it can’t be with paid shared hosting, but generally more often with free hosting), poor or non-existent customer service or support, disabled php functions  (fsockopen, safe mode, send mail, and more), low disk space and bandwidth limits, etc.

Despite all these negative points, free web hosting is still a good option if: you are just getting started in the web hosting world, you have a small or inexistent budget, you have an html web site that does not require a lot of bandwidth or you have a really simple php web site that does not need certain php functions such as safe mode, fsockopen or send mail to be enabled/disabled.

Not all free web hosts provide such restrictive services, so spend some time with your favorite search engine, compare different free hosting packages and find out which one best suits your web site’s needs. We have done some research for you, we found that ultrawebsitehosting.com offers the best free web hosting on the web. They have been in business since 2002, they offer both paid and free web hosting services. Their free hosting package includes 100mb of disk space, 1gb of bandwidth, 1 mysql database and lots more. Go check them out now!

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