As always, we will keep our content short and relevant.

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US-Based Dedicated Servers are on Sale!

For a very limited time, HostNine is offering 25% off US-based Dedicated Server Packages.

Click here to take advantage of this special offer!

This offer expires 2/15/2012.

Coupon code: DedicatedSale

HostNine Social Feeds +HostNine Blog = Resources For Your Business

Be sure to check out HostNine’s social feeds! We’ve been stocking our Twitter, Facebook and Google+ pages with helpful information related to hosting, analytics, content creation, and other things geared towards helping you run a great online business.

Click here to go to the HostNine blog for a round-up of the best links we’ve found over the last few months.

Do you have any topic suggestions for us? Tweet at us, or give us a holler on Facebook or Google+.

Partner offer: 2Checkout.com

2Checkout.com (2CO) is a worldwide leader in payments and e-commerce services. 2CO powers online sellers with a global platform of payment methods and a world-class fraud prevention service on secure and reliable PCI-compliant payment pages.

2Checkout’s payments platform bundles a gateway and merchant account into one single offering with no need to contract with a merchant bank or manage separate agreements.

You can accept Visa, MasterCard, AMEX, Discover, PayPal, Diner’s Club, JCB and Debit cards (in the U.S.) from one solution through 2Checkout’s fully secure hosted payment pages.  In addition, 2CO provides industry leading recurring billing services, call center support, full SSL certification, and the system is translatable in 15 languages and 26 international currencies for buyers and sellers in over 200 countries.

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Thanks for reading! See you next month!

If you have some specific resources or topics you’d like to see featured in the HostNine blog, give us a shout on Facebook, Twitter or G+. We’re always happy to help!

WORDPRESS RESOURCES


This flexible, free and extremely popular (over 65 million downloads as of December 2011) content management system is the first choice for many Webmasters and bloggers. This list of links covers everything from security best practices to plug-ins and site optimization.

15-Step Checklist To Creating The Perfect WordPress Website

The Best WordPress Tutorials of 2011 on WPBeginner

The 14 Best WordPress Plugins For Social Media And SEO Optimized Sites For 2012 

10 Tips To Optimize Your WordPress Theme

Top WordPress Security Plugins for 2012 | Web Sigmas

11 Quick Tips: Securing Your WordPress Site | Wptuts+

WordPress Security: Seven Ways I Could Hack Into Your WordPress Site

SEO / DIGITAL MARKETING / BUSINESS RESOURCES
Make your site more visible. Learn SEO. Increase conversions. 

Grassroots SEO – Strategy, Process & Life Cycle

Five Questions to Streamline Your Keyword Research

How To Increase Conversions by 50% Overnight » SitePoint

Building Links & Driving Traffic with How To Posts

Sales Oriented Website Needs

5 Ways to Turn Social Customers Into Brand Ambassadors

CONTENT GENERATION RESOURCES
Sure, you can write, but can you write for the web? Learn more about idea generation, blogging best practices, copywriting, headline writing, and more.

How to Write Great Blog Content

A 5-Minute Guide to More Persuasive Copywriting

Ideas for Creative (& Efficient) Content Generation

Proven Headline Formulas | Steal These Formulas For Your Next Blog Post…

WEB DESIGN RESOURCES
No matter what your level of familiarity/unfamiliarity is with web design principles, it helps to understand the basics. Remember- it’s code, words and pictures, not rocket science!

Clear Indications That It’s Time To Redesign 

The State Of Web Design Trends 2012

Don’t Fear the Internet (A fantastic primer on HTML/CSS for non-designers)

Building  A Website In Progressive Steps (a series of screencasts that goes through the process of designing and building a website)

What’s New?

Server Upgrades

We’re happy to announce that HostNine has added significant backend server updates to improve your overall experience. We also changed the pricing AND hardware in our dedicated server packages. Check out the details here.

No matter what package you choose, HostNine gives you an infinite number of possibilities. You can always run an unlimited number of websites and applications in high-resource, fully customizable environments.

Looking for a custom quote? Click here, and we’ll be happy to help.

Connect with HostNine on Google+

HostNine has also created a Google+ page!

Click the G+ badge to stop by and put us in your circles!

What’s Next?

HostNine will announce a new server location for our reseller clients at the end of 2011 or the start of 2012, so you’ll be able to reap the benefits of another international location within Reseller Central to offer to your customers. Stay tuned for details!

H9 Team Update

HostNine GM Taylor Barr attended the Internet Summit 2011 in Raleigh last week, and took in all sorts of great presentations on everything from search and analytics to cloud computing and social media.

Check out his conference wrap up here, at the HostNine blog.

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This years conference “brought the thunder” as keynote speaker and entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk would put it. Gary is an energetic speaker, successful owner of several businesses, and an accomplished best-selling author. He spoke about how the technology landscape is changing right in front of us, how companies need to improve the quality of their customer service, and how marketers need to move to a pull rather than a push model when it comes to targeting customers. 80% of the audience didn’t know him before he spoke, and at the end of his talk there was a standing ovation. Pretty impressive.

Another great part of the Internet Summit is the pre-conference sessions. I was able to catch a great presentation by Matthew Muñoz on using “Design as A Strategic Tool.” The session went beyond designing your website, application, etc and talked about aligning self-interest with a shared purpose and  how to create an architecture of participation within the walls of a company. There are some great tips for all in this presentation. Feel free to check it  out here.

Lastly, HostNine’s CEO Douglas Hanna was in attendance and lead a presentation entitled, “Taking Online Reputation Management to the Next Level.” You can find his informative presentation here.

Overall, the turnout for this show was great, with close to 2000 attendees participating. I had a great time networking and meeting companies that might be great partners for HostNine. We will have to see what happens in 2012!

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.

Below you will find the new header / quick search bar allowing you to easily search through available functions, domains, packages, feature lists, etc

Below you will find the new list accounts page where you will find a few new features making it easier then ever to manage your accounts.

*Note: The links seen such as Modify, Suspend etc appear when you mouseover a domain in your list accounts page.

Want to discuss Reseller Central v3? Feel free to do so at the following location: http://www.hostnine.com/hosting-forums/version-3-feedback/
Stay tuned! More to come!

WIN $5,000 CASH!

Win $5,000 referring clients to HostNine! Beginning February 1st, 2010 the affiliate with the most sales between February 1st, 2010 and April 30, 2010 at 11:59 PM EST will win a $5,000 cash bonus (in addition to the amount already earned through standard referral commissions). 2nd place will be awarded $1,000 and 3rd place will receive a bonus of $500.

The winner will be announced July 1st, 2010 once all sales have finalized.
Place banners on your site, let friends know about our great hosting services, post about HostNine hosting on your blog and do everything you can to refer sales to us and win $5,000!

If you haven’t done so yet, please simply visit http://www.hostnine.com/affiliate-program/ and sign up today as an affiliate for FREE! It costs nothing to join our affiliate program and you can begin earning immediately!

Simply refer 2 people to HostNine and you’ll earn more than enough to pay for an entire year of web hosting and still pocket cash yourself as well!

We’re here to help you. If you have any questions about signing up, how to refer users to HostNine or ways you can increase your earnings simply submit a ticket or email affiliates@hostnine.com for assistance.

Thank you for your continued business and referrals. We look forward to working with you as an affiliate!

Regards,
HostNine Affiliate Team
Taylor Hawes
HostNine Affiliate Manager
affiliates@hostnine.com

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.