| Web Hosting Explained - In Plain Englsih |
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| You will love to see where your traffic is coming from... |
A web site lets anyone in the world access your information. It can also be your full time sales and marketing servant - presenting your message, taking payments, notifying you, even answering questions.
If you want to get your message out to the internet, you really need a web site with its own domain, like "www.yourbusiness.com". This identifies you to the world and frees you from depending on others. When you host with us, you get a .com domain of your choice, subject to availability. Even if we part company after a year or two, you will keep the right to control (and pay for) the domain elsewhere. Australian customers want to know - can we host ".com.au" domains? Answer: Sure, we can and do host them. Its just that you have to go to inww.com to register them and tell them where your hosting is done.
You want a FAST, RELIABLE site that will give you no stress. You want quick answers when you need technical support for any kind of issues. We don't keep you waiting for days like many others. See what some of our clients have to say...
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| Why free hosting is probably not for you... |
You don't want FORCED ADS from us or any third party. There are free web hosting offers on the internet, but they all force you to advertise someone else's product. You may not even agree with the kinds of ads coming up on your site. If you have a product worth selling, or a message worth communicating, do you really want your viewers to be distracted with ads for dating services, online casinos, credit card applications or free hosting? If your customer clicks on that ad, he might never come back to your site! Is it worth paying 22 cents a day to avoid that happening? I think you will agree that it is.
The other problem with free hosting is that normally you cannot have your own domain name - something like www.travel2auctions.com. Here "travel2auctions.com" is the domain name. But if you sign up with us, you will get a free .com domain name. You can choose any name that no one else has registered. That way - you can bring a brand awareness around your website name and advertise it. As long as there are no trade mark issues, you can keep your domain and bring your traffic to any host.
In Australia most companies are charging $30 to $100 per month for the same kind of features we are offering, not counting the domain name. They have high overheads, a large advertising budget, staff, offices - things like that. You can help them pay their bills if you want. But my comment is, "Its your money - don't waste it!". Our systems are reliable and proven over the last 4 years to thousands of customers around the world. We can still give you the attention you need, but mostly, you won't need us for your basic hosting, because the control panel and trouble ticket system we have in place handles most things automatically. For most people and most of the time it just keeps on working and you never have to worry about it or think about it.
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| E-Commerce and Web Marketing |
We offer solutions to help you get your products on the net, accept credit cards efficiently (whether you are in Australia or USA or elsewhere), get your message across and have different systems using e-mail to help you contact and keep track of your customers. In doing e-commerce it is vital that you have secure server or SSL access. Our sites offer this feature, and allow the purchase and installation of Secure Certificates, which are a recognised way of proving to customers that you are who you say you are. Those customers who need to have SHOPPING CARTS can get a fully installed shopping cart for as little as A$150 (divide by 2 to get US dollars).
We offer various services to maximise your website's exposure. There are web promotion services, traffic exchanges and other techniques which can help you get many customers.
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| Statistics |
The statistics pages that come with our packages mean you don't have to set up counters for others to see (you can if you want). Instead, you get to see exactly WHAT people are looking at on your site, how they found your site (VERY IMPORTANT for web marketing) and what the trends are. We also offer raw logs - which means that with the right software, you can see anything at all you want to know - except people's names and e-mail addresses - they have to give those to you. But you can see which country they are coming from and which search engines are working best for you.
Our product that is maintained for us by professionals in the U.S.A. who guarantee uptime for the sites, and take care of many of the details. You don't have to pay for lots of overheads. But you are backed up by a technical team and a proven software solution that empowers you to do a whole lot with your web site. You get your own control panel which allows YOU to easily set up e-mail addresses on your domain name, look at stats, and do lots of high powered operations that normally require expensive IT gurus to handle for you. Once you have paid for your site and domain name, they are yours.
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| Size of Your Accounts |
| With our standard linux accounts you get either 150MB or 300MB webspace. If you go a little over the 150MB we won't pounce on you. 150MB is a lot of space unless you want a site that is full of your own software products, audios or videos you want your visitors and customers to download (we don't allow copyrighted stuff not owned by you on your site, neither do we allow 'adult' or 'porn' sites). You can fit HUNDREDS of pages with nice graphics on 150MB. And 300MB is more than you are likely to ever need. You also get a huge traffic allowance with the Gold Accounts. Lets face it, if you ever need to use it all, you are very successful - you are getting thousands of visitors per day - and you should not be worrying about the 22 cents a day you are paying to us to reach thousands daily.
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| Is it really any good at such a price? |
Some people will be thinking - at such a low price, how can it be any good? Of course its no good to buy into something that doesn't work. From my point of view, its not worth it to sell something that doesn't work, or breaks down. I have worked as a well-paid software consultant/programmer and would not sell something for a few dollars which would require me to listen to people's complaints all day long. Our products WORK.
So how do we do it? Economies of scale is a part of it, and low overheads. We are part of a large buying pool. The fact is though, there are cheaper offers out there - but if you read the fine print they give you less traffic and not the kind of features you'll get with us. We're comfortable with our margins here. We buy in bulk and pass the savings on. But we're hoping to generate consulting work for ourselves through contacting people in this business - this helps as well. You can get a free trial with us to see what kind of speed you get on our servers. We'd like you to try it out for free - and if you don't like it - no problem! And if you decide you'd like to pay more for your site because it is such good value - we won't take you money, but we'll offer you some valuable consulting services instead.
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| Interactive Sites and Dynamic Content |
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