Virtually anyone with an email address knows what Spam is, and has, perhaps, considered giving up the speed, convenience, and simplicity of email because of it. Those who have their own websites are more vulnerable than the average person with a single work or home email address from their company or Internet Service Provider. Email addresses visible on a website can quickly become Spam magnets, as automated programs, similar in form to search engine spiders, roam the web, looking for addresses to which new broadsides of Spam may be fired....

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Selecting a web hosting company is like sending one of your children off to college. You may have complete confidence in your son or daughter's abilities but unless they are placed in the proper environment they will not have the opportunity to thrive. Likewise, no matter how sophisticated or impressive the website you have designed may be, if you do not place the site where it can perform optimally you will likely be disappointed in the results. Selecting web hosting is not simply finding a place where your website can reside....

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Once you have your company's web site up and running, it is vital that you do everything possible to keep it that way. Nothing sets off alarms in a customer's head faster than a non accessible web site or one that has features which do not work. A web site is literally your company's window to the world and every aspect of the site; including the design, content, accessibility, ease of navigation, and uptime, says a lot about your company. A fully functioning, attractively designed, feature-loaded web site spells professionalism and expertise, while a poorly designed and inaccessible site reflects very poorly on your business....

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For a website to appear on the Internet, you require a "server" that is usually provided by a web hosting company. Hosting companies are paid monthly, quarterly or yearly. Some companies come with guarantees, too. Recommendations from other business owners and web designers are excellent ways to find a good hosting service. One of the primary features I recommend is that the hosting companies can grow with you. If they only offer one package, and you need more, your web site maybe down for up to 2 days and/or you may have to change the code on any forms you use to match the new "...

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All the good ones are taken. The really good ones, that is. But they don't always stay taken. Domain names often come back onto the market. Even before they do, domain name prospectors are sifting through them to find the gold domains among them. Why domain names become available again Thousands of domain names expire every day. Other domains are offered for sale. The reasons are varied: Carelessness The webmaster forgets to renew the domain by the expiry date. The email address that the domain is registered with becomes invalid, and the domain name registrant doesn't receive the renewal notices....

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So you've decided about your website design and now you are ready to have your website hosted! When choosing the right web host, they are several factors to consider: I. How often is the web server up? II. Does the server provide SSL? III. Does the server provide for server side scripting? (e. g PHP, ASP?) IV. Free or paid? V. What is the upload limit? What is the file limit? VI. Customer support? VII. Suggestions Appendix A - Web host provider reviews ----------------------------------------------------------------- I - How often is the web server up?...

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The best way to explain this is by comparing it to a real-life (brick & mortar) situation. Picture a web hosting company as the owner of a shopping mall. The shopping mall owner invested a lot of money on hiring architects, constructors, engineers, etc. to build it. Now all the stores on it are empty and the owner is going to rent them to smaller businesses that can't afford (or who simply don't want) their own building. As a small business owner, you can rent this store space on a per-month basis....

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