CloudLinux

The operating system on nearly all servers has been changed to utilize the first Linux Operating System specifically designed for shared hosting environments. CloudLinux OS is a revolutionary OS that takes each shared cPanel account and drops it into an almost VPS-like container called a Lightweight Virtual Environment™ (or LVE). The LVE will help manage resources on each cPanel account and, by extension, optimizing resource use and population balancing for the entire server. You can now see your site’s resource usage within your cPanel
by clicking the “Resource Usage” icon.

Please note that while bandwidth and space are “unlimited”, CPU and Memory resources on the server are not. Currently, all accounts are allowed to fully utilize a portion of the CPU and up to 1 Gigabyte of memory at any given time. If your site is using more than that consistently, or if you max out your resources, your site will begin to slow down and, eventually, will stop serving altogether until the resource usage comes down to a normalized level while the server continues to serve your neighbors. In other words, your site may appear “down” though the server is up if you max out your resource container.

Should this happen, please take a look at your history in your cPanel and take steps to optimize your site with caching, optimization, and so on. If you are unable to do so, or your resource usage is consistently higher, submit a ticket to support and we will work with your site to find where it’s resource needs are and work with you on a price for that higher container or, if necessary, help transition you to a VPS if your site has outgrown a shared server environment.

Microsoft FrontPage Extensions Disabled

HostNine has made the decision to disable Microsoft FrontPage Extensions across all servers. The last release of Microsoft FrontPage was in 2003, and the software and extensions for the servers were actually “End of Lifed” in 2006.

What an End of Life Date means is that the company that releases the software is stating to anyone that uses that software that they should stop using it on that date. FrontPage extensions were utilized quite a bit beyond it’s EoL cycle because they were in widespread use and changes made to other server technology wasn’t particularly incompatible.

The landscape has significantly changed with regard to extensions – they have never been tested with the operating systems being used today or with current versions of the web server software. Furthermore, they are not being monitored for security issues. Since this is a closed-source product, these issues are not being addressed and security patches are not begin published. As there are higher security risks and far more attacks being perpetrated on web sites than ever before, and these extensions represent a serious liability.

While we urge our customers to cease using Microsoft FrontPage, please note you may still publish a FrontPage designed site, though some advanced aspects will cease to work. The lack of server extensions only limits some of the advanced features of the product. We suggest using the Find feature within FrontPage and search the source code of all you pages for “webbot” without the quotation marks. This will highlight each instance where the code relies on the server extensions. Publishing can be done with the built in FTP application
within FrontPage.

Previewing with /~userid Removed

The ability to see a site at /~userid is intended to be a temporary feature to allow people to preview their site before changing DNS. One of the drawbacks of this is that the traffic is assigned to the server name, and not the cPanel account, we have become aware that some on HostNine’s servers have been using this to “steal bandwidth”. As it also works with any domain name on the server it also allows people to steal bandwidth from their fellow hosting shared server neighbors.

While HostNine allows unlimited bandwidth, many of our Reseller customers do not and do implement a bandwidth limit on accounts, and unfortunately, many people have chosen to utilize this preview feature to permanently load content on another site from the HostNine servers without having this bandwidth counted against their usage. In addition, malware infected sites can potentially show up in your domain name structure and get your site banned and flagged on Google even though your site is innocent if this feature is enabled.

We have disabled this preview feature to both ensure that customer sites are not inadvertently tagged as hosting malware if their neighbor is infected, as well as to ensure all bandwidth use is registered to the correct account.

If you need to preview the site to work on editing it, you can change your hosts file so that you can “move” the domain for *you* before you move it for everyone else. If you are unsure how to do this, please let us know and we’ll be happy to send you directions for your operating system. Just let us know which one you use.

If you are attempting to serve content from a cPanel account without a domain name, you will need to install a domain name or subdomain into the cPanel site for that to take place. If you don’t wish to change the original installed domain name, you can do this by parking a domain name and creating an A Record where your current DNS is hosted to point to the IP of your site, and it will function with the parked name after propagation.

Backup Changes

We have changed backups from Daily to Weekly due to a number of our customers finding issues for which they needed a backup and not noticing they need one until the problem they are attempting to correct has already been backed up, rendering the backup unhelpful for their purposes.

If you need daily backups because your site frequently changes, we can recommend a number of services that will do so for you, and please remember we do require all HostNine customers to maintain their own backup as well. You can take one quickly and easily from within your cPanel.

JUPITER, Fla. (September 1, 2010) – HostNine, a leader in Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Dedicated Servers, and Virtual Private Servers, announced today its soaring affiliate program was ranked #1 among all Web hosting affiliate program by Commission Junction, the worldwide leader in affiliate program management.

In the past three months, HostNine has an overall ranking from Commission Junction of #2 of 63 total affiliate programs. In all affiliate programs (3,226) run by Commission Junction, HostNine ranks #40. Commission Junction ranks affiliate programs based on their payouts and success rates—both of which are key priorities for HostNine. Affiliate payouts from HostNine are in excess of $150 per referred sale for high-volume affiliates.

“We have always viewed affiliate marketing as a vital way to broaden our customer base and maintain widespread brand recognition in the industry. By rewarding our partners generously and tangibly supporting their efforts to generate sales, we have built years of trust and countless loyal affiliates. Commission Junction’s top ranking for HostNine backs up what we’ve been saying for a long time, and it means a lot to our team,” said Taylor Hawes, affiliate program manager, HostNine.

Affiliates can leverage dozens of constantly updated banners and Web marketing assets provided by HostNine. The company also has invested heavily in upgrades to its website, which has reduced the order form dropout rate by a whopping 30%. The substantial enhancements are largely due HostNine’s unique two-step order form, further shortening the sign-up process. Affiliates have already praised the changes.

In May, HostNine introduced sweeping upgrades to its line of hosting plans, adding unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, and other features for its worldwide shared Web hosting. Users can also choose from server locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Asia. In August, HostNine removed all annual payment requirements, extending savings to customers who pay monthly. HostNine now offers unlimited shared hosting for just $3.95 a month on a month to month basis. Other companies require anywhere from two to three years up front payment to receive affordable pricing.

“Honesty and integrity have always been our guiding principles, and we decided that advertising a $3.95 per month hosting plan, which really requires an up front payment of nearly $142.50, isn’t in line with the image we want to portray We’re now one of the only hosting companies that actually offers a $3.95 per month hosting plan for a monthly payment of $3.95. We’re not worried about locking in our customers—they’ll stay with us for years because they love our service, not because we force them to,” said Ben Gabler, operations manager, HostNine.

Reseller Hosting from HostNine is available in five levels, starting at just $24.95 per month, which includes 50GB of disk space, 500GB of bandwidth, and a wide-variety of value-added features, such as the award-winning Reseller Central platform (available on all Reseller Hosting plans). Reseller Central is available exclusively to HostNine customers and provides resellers with unprecedented control of the reseller environment through a single, easy-to-use interface.

Dedicated Hosting and VPS Hosting also offer a wide variety of options and generous allotments of hosting resources.

To learn more about HostNine, please visit http://www.hostnine.com.

To learn more about earning money through HostNine’s affiliate program, please visit http://www.hostnine.com/affiliate-program.

About HostNine

HostNine, LLC is an industry leader in web hosting, reseller hosting, virtual private servers, and dedicated servers. Running all Dell PowerEdge servers located throughout ten different data centers around the world, HostNine provides a 99.9 percent network uptime guarantee to its customers.

Your web-hosting provider has a certain amount of storage space available to you; this is your web storage hosting amount. All files that make up your website put together must fit in to this amount of space.

The call for web storage hosting space is on the increase because of video. Video takes up a lot of space, and video is in demand on the web. Even source code has weight and adds to the storage needs of a web page.

Web hosting providers use web storage hosting as a competitive edge, attempting to out do one another in the amount of space they offer. Because of this, most hosts now let users store as much as 1500Gb of content. The basic plans, these days, allow plenty of storage to start up your website and lots of room to expand as you move along. Some plans will allow you to carry manifold sites on a single account. In these instances, you need to be certain that there is ample space to carry your demands.

As web hosting providers meet the challenges of today’s storage requirements, you should always have abundant storage to maintain and grow your website business. You should be capable of creating as big a site as you want, without confronting any upper limits. Web storage hosting shouldn’t be problematic at all.

The website should be in top form

This means that all your web pages are totally clean and do not have any pointless flash or animation. The meta tags should correctly reflect what is on them, this includes keywords, description, content and title. And most importantly, your content should be in top form, useful, and informative. All the hyperlinks on each paragraph or each page should work out fine.

Make the presence of the website visible to Google

In order to get this done, you need at least 35 quality links pointing to your site. Only then will Google even start to take notice of the website. And each of these 35 links should come from different websites. So if you submit to directories, chose the best ones that are high in page rank themselves. Don’t waste your time getting links from sites, that can’t ensure quality listing. That will not really help you.

Research what Google is actually looking for

Therefore if your content is not helpful or unique, don’t expect to find great favors from Google. A website that has just been put together to reap in money without anything concrete on it will not really get you anywhere with Google.

Keep on working on the website

You have to keep improving your website. Meta tags should be reviewed. Php and html should be pulled up. So not forget to improve the navigation, structure and content of your website. The trick is to update. And this goes for backlinks too. just because your website has figured once in top ranking does not mean that you forget to do the base work.

Content is king

This cliché is actually true. So you need to get the content right. Search engines prefer websites that are actually useful for users and provide quality information. Also, other webmasters will be more open to giving you backlinks if they find your website high on quality. Plagiarism is a huge no-no and you cannot copy paste content from other sites.

Keyword is important

The keywords that you use for your website need to be researched thoroughly. They are the base for ranking. Hence, you don’t want to goof up by putting in keywords that bring in the wrong audience.

Page linking

Link the different pages of your website to one another. This serves as a guide for search engine spiders. Text links add to the relevancy of your web page, so make use of them. Creating a site map is a very beneficial step, because it can have all the links to the different pages.

Keep the website simple

Most people go wrong by jazzing up their website too much. The rule is to keep it simple. Therefore, don’t bank that much on flash or animation. They don’t add any real value to your website, and also slow down the speed of the download. This may also deviate traffic to other websites, because no one really wants to wait that long!

Submission in directories

There are hundreds of directories on the Internet where you can submit your website. Backlinks from reputed submission directories contribute in increasing the page rank of your website. However, it may take days before your link shows up. But the wait is worthwhile.

Even before getting a hosting plan you may simply be interested in getting a domain. If you already have a domain name you may be considering of registering it with some of the other host. You can even try registering with one of the host by paying $10 for around a year’s time although some may even be much cheaper. When speaking of SEO we all know that URL and domains are very much important because when these spiders simply come crawling they would in fact index your pages.

So if you are in fact having one of the most unique domain name that matches your URL which is simply designed best, then you start being visible in the eyes of most of these SEOs. Some of the features of the web hosting also does benefit the SEOs efforts to a much greater extent. Optimization for some of the most targeted search is certainly very much effective as most of the host present today simply offer a number of tools that may in fact help with the research in choosing some of the best key words for your site.

Most of these also provide with a handy web application features. These keywords also give you with the graphical statistic about the type of traffic your website may be getting. It in fact provides the complete details like when visitors come and also from where these visitors come. It also shows the spider that visited your site. A number of companies do offer a free service for SEO along with free marketing and tools. Most of the web packages are simply loaded with most unique tools.

Web hosting simply plays a very major role in SEO as most of the results simply depend upon the hosting company. It certainly plays a crucial part as it emphasizes more on the quality work than quantity work. Here cost of the service certainly does not make any difference. You may even find a number of hosting services that are in fact cheap and better. So before looking for any services you need to keep in mind that it is actually the fate of your rankings what you are talk about.  You fate simply lies in the hands of some other company that is watching you.

This is the relation where only trust counts. So perform your research and rush to the services which may not harm your page rankings and make your visibility much better is what you need.

You can in fact save money for now and also in future when you certainly do compare most of their plans for hosting web sites. Considering the cost of your virtual hosting is very much important when you are in the initial stages of launching your online business. In case you have planned to build a very strong online business then it is certain that you may have to pay for hosting for a number of months or even years. So a very dependable and affordable host is what you may be requiring.

The benefit of most of these resellers cheap virtual hosting is that you may in fact save every month and every year for a number of years. So even if you manage to actually save around $ 4 per month by choosing one of the cheap resellers web hosting service then you can manage to save around $ 48 per year and $ 240 in another five years. The amount may not seem to be much big but when looking from the business point of view we can certainly say that any savings is worth the effort. You can in fact save much more amount if you may be looking for more services than just a basic web hosting page.

You can also get a minimal overhead cost with some of the cheapest resellers on the internet. More over where else can you ever afford to open up a store for only a few dollars a month? Just think about opening a good store in the main street in your area or your town. You may simply have to incur nearly thousands of dollars monthly for all the rent, water, repairs and electricity. There may be other charges also that you may have to pay. But with cheap resellers you can simply afford to open up a good store only for few dollars monthly.

These resellers are in fact the lowest over heads that you can ever get. More over the potential of the profits is simply tremendous. You may use a number of features like PHP or even the MySQL or any other as you require. It would only cost you a little bit of extra amount monthly. No matter what business you have you may in fact benefit by using the reseller services. If you are using the reseller hosting facilities then you certainly can sell some of the cheaper web hosting to your customers. You can in fact sell any type of hosting and also narrow all of your ads to reach some of your targeted audiences.

So if you even own a wholesale store you can use it to advertise to your customers. So simply get started with your business by choosing some of the cheapest web reseller services and run quickly.

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For instance, as a startup, the first challenge you face is creating an attractive website. You want to project a professional image, but without breaking the bank. And ideally, you’d like to get something up and running yesterday so you can start selling. Being the nice guy that he is, Ben put together 12 free templates you can use. Our favorite is #8. Incidentally, 8 rhymes with profitable in Chinese