Often people ask me, how much disk space will I need to host my small businesses website? Now this answer will vary depending on the website but to the surprise of the websites owner, a small businesses site (comprising of let's say under 10 pages or a simple WordPress Blog) shouldn't use up more than around 50 to 100MB.
So if your out there looking for web hosting, but don't want to over pay and get features you don't need - look out for some cheaper plans and save some cash on disk space you don't need. Although the fact Unlimited Web Hosting or even just plans with GB's upon GB's of space are becoming cheaper by the day. If it saves you money don't be afraid and get a lower end plan that suits the needs of your small business and not the needs of the web hosting company.
Monday 7 May 2012
Sunday 22 April 2012
Local Web Hosting: Mannum Web Hosting Reviewed
Mannum Web Hosting is a new type of localized web hosting for customers in a certain niche, town or region. Guessing by the name, of this new web host it's for people located in a medium sized country town called Mannum, in South Australia, Australia. Again this is a new approach to running a web hosting business, one that could be very profitable marketing it to the local audience - such as small businesses.
Currently they offer 4 plans - Starter Lite, Starter Plus, Basic and Professional, ranging from only $0.99 per month to $9.99 per month. Included in the Professional plan are a bunch of Unlimited Features such as Unlimited Bandwidth, Diskspace and MySQL Databases which is a nice feature to have if you don't want to worry about going over a limit. The hosting they offer also comes with cPanel, which is another great feature due to it's very easy to use interface.
I think, all in all that this is a very creative business model and one which will serve them well. Although signups aren't limited to Mannum they seem to be targeting that audience and doing it well. If you would like to see Mannum Web Hosting, or even signup visit them at http://tegko.com/hosting/australia/Mannum.html.
Thursday 19 April 2012
Free Unlimited Hosts - The Story Behind a Popular New Industry
Over the last couple of years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of Free Web Hosts around the internet, especially a new bread of web hosts that offer free and unlimited hosting, most with no ads. There main sources of revenue are through the optional Paid Upgrades they offer and Advertisements on the hosts main site, or occasionally on users sites.
OrangeServe one of the first web hosts, on the internet to follow this business model, run by a Free Web Hosting pioneer himself Richard, was really the first host to take advantage of this model, and reaped the rewards from this new and exiting industry. In OrangeServe's hay day they had over 10,000 active free clients and a couple hundred paid ones. Trouble was Richard sold OrangeServe soon after and that's when things began to crumble. Richard who no doubt was a pioneer of the industry, has since run a number of successful Free Unlimited Web Hosts, in his time with his latest project being SharkServe that has since been sold.
Another, still active industry pioneer is a company called DearServe again running on the same business model, but unlike it's predecessors looks promising. It hasn't been sold nor does it force advertisements on users sites, and since it launched at the start of 2012 has always been determined to offer good quality free hosting. Run by Brayden & Jack from a company called Quickk, DearServe has helped pioneer this industry for a while and will be a good one to watch.
So it's and interesting industry and for those who are looking for cheap if not free web hosting, that's of paid hosting quality I would be following these companies and this new growing market closely as it's only going to get bigger.
http://dearserve.com/
OrangeServe one of the first web hosts, on the internet to follow this business model, run by a Free Web Hosting pioneer himself Richard, was really the first host to take advantage of this model, and reaped the rewards from this new and exiting industry. In OrangeServe's hay day they had over 10,000 active free clients and a couple hundred paid ones. Trouble was Richard sold OrangeServe soon after and that's when things began to crumble. Richard who no doubt was a pioneer of the industry, has since run a number of successful Free Unlimited Web Hosts, in his time with his latest project being SharkServe that has since been sold.
Another, still active industry pioneer is a company called DearServe again running on the same business model, but unlike it's predecessors looks promising. It hasn't been sold nor does it force advertisements on users sites, and since it launched at the start of 2012 has always been determined to offer good quality free hosting. Run by Brayden & Jack from a company called Quickk, DearServe has helped pioneer this industry for a while and will be a good one to watch.
So it's and interesting industry and for those who are looking for cheap if not free web hosting, that's of paid hosting quality I would be following these companies and this new growing market closely as it's only going to get bigger.
http://dearserve.com/
Wednesday 18 April 2012
Welcome to Web Hosts Australia!
Welcome to Web Hosts Australia, where we want to be a prominent news provider, and reviewer of Web Hosting companies in Australia. So come to us if you need information and news that some of the best on the scene as well as a comprehensive guide as to who is the best web host, for your Business or Personal website in Australia, and we will even be putting the big international web hosts to the ultimate test.
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