Are you looking for a reliable, stable and quality hosting company that you can bank upon? The answer would by default be Yes!
These days there are so many options available as far as web hosting
plans and web hosting companies are concerned. A new customer would be
utterly confused by the claims of each and every web hosting company –
about their services and plans offered. But still there are few things
that one can keep in mind before finalizing a web hosting company and
its hosting plan.
There are quite a few things that one should know while looking out for a good hosting company
- Know your requirements. Do not get carried away by the discounts and
bulk offers and additional services given to you as these may not be
used. Selection of the plan that suits your needs is important.
- Does the web hosting company provide Linux hosting plans?
- Does the hosting company have a good user friendly CPanel control panel for the plans?
- Does the web hosting service provider provide round-the-clock customer support?
- Does the hosting company have ticketing or help desk systems?
- What kind of back up plans does the company have? Do they provide weekly data backups?
- How is the infrastructure support like? Does the web hosting company
have DG Sets or options of UPS or any other mode of continuous power
supply?
- What is the guaranteed up time of the web hosting service provider?
- When purchasing the web hosting plan, what kind of software and
hardware are supported? What do they do to prevent security issues like
hacking, virus attacks, etc.?
It is important to know these things and many more about your Web
Hosting Company and its reliability. This is especially crucial when
you are trying to launch an e-commerce site or trying to launch a site
for online business. A 100% up time is ideally suited and important. Websites are like a virtual face of your company.
Remember this rule of thumb, we need to cater to the customer the very
first time and first impression is the last one. You don’t get a second
chance. A reliable web hosting company would ensure that all of the
concerns mentioned above have been addressed.
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by Norhafidz on October 7, 2009
in Google
Google has announced the addition of some truly useful features to make Google Sitemaps an even better tool for the web. They’ve given their site a facelift and made it easier to navigate. They asked for feedback and they listened. Hopefully, the result is something everyone will love.
A feature that many webmasters will be happy to know about is the notification of violations. No longer will they be left in the dark about what is happening. They will know if they have violated the webmaster guidelines and why.
The rules are pretty simple. Create your site that is truly helpful to your users and avoid doing naughty things just to increase your ranking. Linking to bad sites, hidden texts or links, installing viruses, trojans or other “badware” are just a few of the reasons why your URL will not be included in any Google index.
You don’t even need to look far to know if you have a violation. Google notifies you directly on the summary page of your account. They also place a link to webmaster’s guidelines so you can double check that your site is once again in proper form to be included in Google’s index – this is the second new feature.
Google does not want to exclude any sites that are good. It is possible that the violations were unintentional. It may even be that the webmasters truly have overlooked some items on their site. Google says clean it up and get the chance to be re-included.
Re-inclusion is absolutely simple and easy. Once you see the violation notification, check what needs to be fixed. Correct the item that Google felt is a violation of their rules. Now all you need to do is click on the request reinclusion link on your summary page, or the link at the Google Sitemap home page, and fill out the form. Just don’t forget that you don’t need to request reinclusion if you haven’t received a violation.
If you’re a new webmaster and need a helping hand, Google has a help center for webmasters. It has all the information you need to know about Google Sitemaps. If you have questions about Googlebot, crawling, indexing, ranking and the like, this is the place to go. If the answer you’re looking for isn’t there, no worries; the Google Sitemaps community is there to interact with as well.
Google has chosen not to notify certain webmasters of their penalty in certain cases. For example, they will not notify a spammer that he’s been caught. Doing so will only alert him that they have caught on to his game and possibly trigger his making even sneakier ways to get in.
On the whole, these improvements are wonderful additions and long overdue. Google really wants to improve their services and the best way is for people to keep using their products and giving feedback. The team behind Google is definitely listening.
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