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For amateurs and novice web site owners just starting out a presence in cyberspace, getting a free web host is often a good start just to get you exposed on what to look for and what to avoid when getting hosted. 

Things like online ads competing with your audience attention on your own site content, slow download times when you reach a certain number of visitors, or unacceptable downtimes that make your site unreachable – all these are easy to read about but are better experienced. 
On the other hand, be wary about sites that have no ads, they won’t last long in the business.  Oh, and those are basically the things to look for you should minimize when looking for a free hosting site.  While they do have to earn their keeps from ads, too much of that can be very annoying to your visitors. Look for web hosting sites that keeps its ads at bay.

You could get a free web hosting site and there are many offering such service.  Just be prepared for all those ads to litter your web pages from time to time and a constricted bandwidth.   Or you play it neat and safe by getting hosted in name sites that have a reputation to protect. They have the bandwidth, the redundancies and the technical support you need. 

But most of them have such a good reputation, you just have to pay a premium in getting yourself hosted.  The others are just struggling to get by with the few they host and while many are excellent web hosting sites, there are a few really bad eggs not worth considering at all. 
If you want bargains, just be careful.  One sure way to evaluate your prospective web hosting is to check out the sites they host.  Are they fast to load?  Any ads?  Contact their site administrators and find out if they are happy and content with their web host.

Yup, web owners are realizing the marketing and advertising potential of getting your presence in such social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.  But they should have known that right from the start.  Marketing is really a social activity. It’s al about broadcasting your products and services to as many people who you want to sell to. 

On the internet, companies have known it to be a most lucrative distribution channel for their brands.  And the rise of social networking sites couldn’t have been more fortuitous than today.  Brand sites often have a link to a Twitter, Linkedin or Facebook site with their marketing executives getting their presence felt on the online social community to better make their brands felt.  Are you doing that for your own products and services online?

You’ve must have heard about back linking as one of the most effective SEO methods to get a high Google page rank.  Back linking is quite simple when you think about it.  But it’s the doable part that can be an uphill challenge.  You have to ask the other site to link to your site with the keywords you want.  Easier said than done.  And there are two things to remember.

• Always review your back linking websites if they are still in existence. Regular site visits shouldn’t heart.  The last thing you want is to have a back link from a site that no longer exists.

• Make sure you are back linked to a website that has not been banned by Google or has its page ranked lowered.  You won’t get far if you do.

It wasn’t at all surprising to see web hosting ads claiming to be a “Green” environment friendly web hosting company. With the save-our-planet movement getting all the hype after a lot of climactic disasters have been hitting the planet lately, the call to be eco-friendly has reached the ears of staid IT managers in their glass houses.

Okay, what does it mean for a web hosting bureau to be green? Well, if I follow the example of companies like Anso.net, you just have to harness the power of the sun and reduce electricity consumption.  A couple of years back, it was reported that Anso had their data center solar powered thereby reducing electric consumption.  Hmm, is being green a good idea for web hosting companies?  Maybe not in the northern hemisphere where the sun gets hidden for half the year.

There are two sexes, two political parties, and there are two operating platforms that web hosting providers are divided on – Linux and Windows.  One is a freebie on an open source kernel and the other is license-encumbered. It isn’t worth getting into a debate on which one is better. Windows had corrected stability issues though it still short of the popularity and robustness of the Linux environment. 

But both do a good job of hosting any number of websites on any server set-up.  It’s often a matter of choice made by the people who set up the web hosting business.  If you’re a Linux buy in charge of setting it up, then you go Linux.  And the opposite is true.  So which one is your cup of tea?

And so much depends on the web hosting bureau providing the bandwidth to get this done.  I’ve notice my colleagues downloading the latest songs and movies right from internet sites.  Be it paid or free, torrent sites or file sharing storage sites like rapidshare and megaupload, sets the trend and seems pretty much clear.

Consumers are now getting wise.  What will they do with all those movie and music discs sitting on their shelves gathering dust?  Storing them as video and mp3 files on a terabyte sized hard drive is now easy and economical.  What’s more, it’s more convenient.  Just a click away and you get to listen to your favorite music or watch movies from your PC with a 32 inch LCD display.  So web hosts, be sure to get your bandwidth ready.

After seeing proof that the search engine business is a lucrative online commerce, Microsoft has started to make its intentions of getting into it in very clear terms. It looks like anything that Microsoft had touched has been turning into a cash cow lately.  When it wanted a piece of the gaming market, its Xbox product line has certainly stolen the rug from under Sony’s Playstation. 
Earlier, it outdid Novell to become the preferred corporate networking standard previously dominated by Novell. So now, with its Bing search engine at MSN, Microsoft just might do the same with Google. If Microsoft failed to buy Google in 2007, guess what, it’s going to clash with it head on.