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What is Semantic Web?

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:47:56 -0500

A fellow named John Markoff wrote a piece for the "New York Times" in 2006 that stirred up quite a heated discussion, one that continues to this day. He proposed, early in the scheme of things but certainly not for the first time, that the term "Web 3.0" be used to describe the Internet's next evolutionary step, which he predicted would be marked by an outpouring of "intelligent applications." Not to sound like a 10-year-old on a road trip, but, "Are we there yet?" No, we're not, but don't get hung up on the number scheme -- if you did, you’d have to peg the forward progress at about Web 2.6 or so -- because the fact is that evolution, of any kind, is not that precise or predictable. Evolution is gradual for the most part, but "punctuated," as paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould famously observed, by occasional periods of rapid change. In the case at hand, there was a flurry of advances that have now leveled off somewhat, but one key "enabling technology" is the still-emerging Semantic Web. What's in a name (or number)? **End Summary** Topics: Web 3.0]]> Web2.0]]> internet applications]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> About the Author: Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans. Visit online for more information.

Alternatives to AJAX

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:59:57 -0500

The short answer is, "Yes, there are a number of alternatives to Ajax for building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)." These include Flash, Flex, Java, SVG and Ruby on Rails, as well as a few other niche players. Now for the details, which make up a somewhat longer answer. Flash and Flex, fellows Adobe’s Flash, originally created by Macromedia, has quickly become an RIA tool of choice. Initially installed as a plug-in, its Player application started shipping with Windows XP some ten years ago now. Flash delivers some of the best RIA experiences, as well as multimedia. On the downside, there is a longer learning curve with Flash. There is also a nagging, potentially problematic security issue. The Flash Player writes files to your computer in a rather secretive way, and there is no way to change the settings without using a "Settings Manager" located at Adobe's Web site. Finally, Flash takes over your camera and microphone. Flash brings a totally different perspective to building rich clients, but Adobe didn't put all its eggs in that basket. The company also introduced a set of tools known collectively as Flex that provides data integration within a framework using integrated development tools. **End Summary** Topics: Ajax]]> Rich Internet Applications]]> Ruby on Rails]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> About the Author: Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans. Visit online for more information.

Targeting Your Audience With Analytics

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:34:14 -0500

In the very first flush of Internet wonder, when the World Wide Web's handsome graphic (inter)face turned the text-only information cul-de-sac into a highway, it seemed that you could slap up any old Web site and get an audience. As hard as it is to believe for those of us who work in the field, there are still people who harbor this quaintly naïve attitude. Their wake-up call can be delivered in the old "bad news, good news" one-two punch. The bad news is that you can't throw any old page up on the Web and draw fans and customers, but the good news is that you can succeed by targeting your audience with analytics. There is, quite literally, a wide world of competition out there today for anyone taking business online. No matter your product, industry, offering or service, there are more people than you can imagine doing the same (or a very similar) thing. Your challenge is not merely to distinguish and differentiate yourself, but to do it in such a way that prompts people to do business with you. **End Summary** Topics: keywords]]> website analytics]]> wesite traffic]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> About the Author: Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans. Visit online for more information.

Protect Your Customers (and Your Company) with an SSL Certificate

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:15:02 -0500

For most people, online security is a matter of remembering a few passwords and scanning for viruses. Most connections from a home computer to a Web server have no protection whatsoever, but there is one facet of the online experience that has always been security-conscious, and that's shopping ("e-commerce," if you prefer). E-commerce sites have an incentive to protect themselves, as well as their customers, so if you want to know about online security, they're a great place to start. Today's e-commerce sites have, pretty much en masse, adopted Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to protect both their customer's credit card data, as well as their own information. You can typically see when SSL is being used, as the URL will have an "s" added to the "http," yielding "https" before the "www" and/or the site's domain name. Most new browsers will also display a small lock icon somewhere in the active window, while some highlight the whole URL entry field (one with bright green) to indicate that an SSL connection is being made. The SSL Certificate On the technology side, SSL is a way to create and maintain an encrypted connection between computers and Web servers. **End Summary** Topics: security]]> SSL Certificate]]> e-commerce]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> About the Author: Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans. Visit online for more information.

Advantages of Using cPanel

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:38:35 -0500

It has become such a common term that many people think "cPanel" is a generic name for any Web site control interface. In fact, it’s a company name and a commercial product that hosting firms buy to give customers an easy way to maintain their sites and, not incidentally, reduce the workload for their customer service representatives and technicians. Customers can now do just about any routine maintenance and site customizing, on their own schedule and their "own dime." The cPanel developers also provide a control panel for Web hosts and server administrators, WebHost Manager (WHM), that makes life easier for them, too. Although the present discussion is about cPanel, the fact that the company behind it also does great work on "the other side of the street" should be corroboration of the firm’s know-how. The cPanel software provides customers with powerful tools to perform essential tasks, and does so in a simple, straightforward, quick and dependable way. For all user levels Designed from the ground up for website owners, cPanel employs a graphical user interface (GUI) to present a range of options for site maintenance, design and operation. **End Summary** Topics: cPanel]]> web hosting]]> web traffic]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> About the Author: Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans. Visit online for more information.

Best Steps to Protecting Your Copywritten Material Once It's Posted Online

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:38:31 -0500

When artists create an article, book, poem, lyrics to a song, a Web site, logo or artwork, they may or may not copyright their work before posting it online. The purpose of copyrighting any material is to protect it from being re-distributed without the creator's authorization. The reality, however, of putting copyrighted material online is that although it is not impossible to protect, is still remains very difficult to protect. Many people choose to register their work with the copyright office for a fee before they post it online. This gives them a sense of security that they will have recourse if someone attempts to infringe on the material. Others, who don't wish to spend money for the copyrighting process, have a few options to protect their work online: 1. Creators can mail a copy of their work in a sealed envelope to themselves, securing what's called a “common copyright.” The postmark on the unopened envelope will help establish the date the work was created and that they were the original creators. They can then claim all rights to the work. 2. **End Summary** Topics: copyright]]> copyright infringement]]> writing for web]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> About the Author: Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans. Visit online for more information.

How to Keep Current on New Website Technologies

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:21:03 -0500

One thing we've all learned from the rise of the Internet is that weekly or monthly magazines are no competition when it comes to the best way to stay current and well informed. This is true whether you are trying to stay abreast of geopolitics or high-tech. When it comes down to how to keep current on new Web site technologies, however, it is still "read and listen a lot"-although the sources you are reading and listening to may be arriving in a different format than they did for many years. It is one particular factor in the print production equation-called "lead time"-that makes magazines less useful than they once were. They are still part of the formula for ongoing education, certainly, in any field, although they do not "break the news" as they once did. For that, we have the Internet. It's not just the Web equivalents of magazines-"e-zines," if you like-that fill this void, however. Many new, user-friendly and flexible tools have been developed to keep you updated in the areas that matter most to you. **End Summary** Topics: web]]> blogs]]> RSS]]> ]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans. Visit online for more information.

How to FTP a Web Site

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:19:17 -0500

Once you have finished building your Web site, whether two pages or 2000, it has to be made available to people browsing the World Wide Web. To accomplish that, it must be placed on a Web server, a computer that has been properly configured to deliver Web pages, images and files over the Internet. If you have your own server, you already know what to do. If you are like most people, however, you need to transfer the files that make up your site to that server. When you established an account with your hosting company, they gave you a server address (which includes your domain name), a password and probably a user name, too. With these, you can use a technology called File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to send your site's files to your server. After you perform this step, which involves using an FTP application, your site will be viewable by anyone in the world with an Internet connection and a browser. FTP software There are all kinds of FTP applications, even free ones. In fact, some of the leading Web site design tools, like Adobe Dreamweaver, have FTP functions built in. **End Summary** Topics: web hosting]]> FTP]]> web site]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans. Visit online for more information.

How Web Hosting Affects SEO Results

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:20:03 -0500

You will often hear people sigh about the "rat race” and pine for a so-called "simpler time" 10, 20 or 50 years ago when everything was just right. The problem is, there never was such a time, and 50 years ago people were pining for an older era, too. However, there is one group of people who have no illusions about "good old days." Internet professionals, information technology (IT) workers and high-tech folks in general have no desire to go back to DOS 5.0, 5¼ inch floppies and 4.88MHz processors. They may have fond memories of visiting The Well over a phone modem, but they know that going back to that level of functionality would be ludicrous. Tech pros spend a lot of time making the Web faster, easier and more efficient in ways most people don’t even know about. In fact, even some fairly net-savvy folks don't know how web hosting affects SEO results. Factors of good hosting are another set of line items in your SEO, and there are some best practices to follow for optimal results. **End Summary** Topics: web hosting]]> web hosting plans]]> SEO]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility.They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans. Visit online for more information.

Different Hosting Packages and Choosing the Right One for You

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:05:37 -0500

Companies called hosting providers are in the business of giving websites virtual "homes" in cyberspace. There are many types of hosting services and "Web site solutions," and knowledgeable webmasters can customize approaches for their own, unique needs. Still, less experienced people will need sites, too, which is why hosting providers continue to offer three common "packages" - dedicated hosting, shared hosting and virtual hosting. Even among this range of choices, today’s leading hosting companies will offer more personalization, often calling them "managed" and "semi-managed" packages. You need to know the differences between and among these packages, just as you need to compare cost, security, service and expertise among the providers. When you start to know the terms and understand the technology, you can narrow down the list of firms that will eventually produce the winner. Learning about the different hosting packages and choosing the right one for you is a crucial step in getting your business to its peak performance in this networked global economy. Shared packages Sometimes companies (and individuals) will sign up for the least costly plan they can find, especially when starting up their first site. **End Summary** Topics: web hosting]]> web hosting plans]]> web hosting packages]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> About the Author: Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans. Visit online for more information.

Don't Think You Need A Web Host? Top 11 Reasons You Do

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:56:32 -0500

You might think you’re saving money and showing good business sense by using the free Web space that comes from your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Alternatively, you may have gotten a friend to give you a subdomain, meaning your URL would like something like "yourname.theirname.com." Perhaps you don’t have a standalone Web site at all, but have drafted your Facebook and/or MySpace pages into service, making them your de facto Web presence. This doesn’t show good business sense at all. It shows that you are cheap, shortsighted and unimaginative, and those are about the three most unappealing traits anyone could want to project in any business climate-much less a recessionary one that demands first-rate customer service and creative thinking. Here are 11 of 1001 reasons There are so many reasons to have your own Web host, custom URL and well-crafted Web pages that it’s hard to pick the "top 11." The following, in no particular order, should be compelling enough to get you moving in the right direction. #1- You’ll save time. You might think that using your ISP's cookie-cutter site-building tools save you time by getting down to the basics. Wrong. **End Summary** Topics: web hosting]]> custom url]]> web presence.]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> About the Author: Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans. Visit online for more information.

The Google Plan for Interplanetary Domination

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:00:24 -0400

The Google Plan for Interplanetary Domination Google, a company that some conspiracy theorists honestly believe has a plan for ultimate world domination, has a history of pulling April Foolâ€™s pranks that later end up as real products or policies. In the last several years, two particular jokes had to do with the exploration and colonization of the solar system. It is clear from subsequent events that there may be a different angle to Googleâ€™s domination plans, one that doesnâ€™t involve Earth at all. The evidence now being uncovered points to the Moon and Mars as being the objects of Googleâ€™s takeover plans, not Earth. Earth is on its way out anyway, observes Google-watcher Max Fulton, a space colonization expert and 7th grade science teacher in Omaha, Nebraska. Fulton claims that the so-called April Foolâ€™s jokes of 2007 and 2008 Project Copernicus, the lunar hosting and research site, and Project Virgle, the first human colony on Mars were released on April 1st specifically to convince people they were just pranks, instead of the diabolical plans for intergalactic tyranny that they really are. **End Summary** Topics: web hosting]]> google]]> search engine]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans. Visit online for more information.

Not Cloud Ready? Why You Should Stay with a VPS

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:45:24 -0400

Cloud computing is a buzzword of the moment, but what does it really mean? Is it really ready for prime time, or should you stay with a VPS? First, some definitions: Head in the clouds? In some ways, cloud computing is like grid computing in that it leveraged shared computing resources to handle applications instead of local servers or user devices. This is the supercomputing model revamped for the company IT folks, promising trillions of computations per second for financial services, personalized data processing or huge, immersive network computer gaming. Cloud computing combines groups of servers using (mostly) low-cost, consumer-level PC components into networks that spread the data-crunching chores around. Virtualization techniques can maximize cloud computingâ€™s power, weâ€™re told, but what is not so clearly stated by its proponents is the fact that cloud computing is still rather hazily defined. Standards for PC and network connections, and software to make it all work, have not been worked out in final form. Right now, cloud computing is a hot new thing, and its potential for accessing and sharing computing power as virtual resources, securely and in a scalable way, is making it attractive to large corporate data centers. **End Summary** Topics: web hosting]]> vps]]> cloud computing]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans. Visit online for more information.

10 Key Reasons to Get Your Own Domain Name

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:13:14 -0400

There is a service you may have heard of, TinyURL, that will assign a short little URL when you want to provide a short link instead of a 46-letter one. Now, that can be handy for forwarding links to pages that are deep down in the directory, especially on Twitter or other microblogging tools that only allow a limited number of characters. But some people actually use TinyURLs for their businesses. They also use the free hosting offered by their Internet Service Providers (ISP). Good idea? Definitely not. From the first you get a URL that reads like random characters, and from your ISP you get one that lets you promote them first. You get few of the benefits of a real domain name. A lot of affiliate marketers use them, because their other choice is something like allnaturalgoo.com/biz/home/8992. None of these gives you a personalized business address that can work in your favor. If you're an affiliate marketer, or starting a new business, and want a fighting chance on the Internet, you need to get your own domain name. **End Summary** Topics: web hosting]]> domain names]]> why get a domain]]> domain hosting]]> ]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> About the author Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans.

Vital Reasons to Choose a Professional Web Host over Free Hosting

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:33:43 -0400

Many now-web-savvy folks will be forgiven for not recognizing the “personal” potential of the Internet right at first. In the mid-1990s, as the AOL diskettes and CDs starting clogging grocery aisles and mailboxes everywhere, it seemed that regular folks were supposed to be on “this side” of the digital divide, consuming goods and visiting portals run by the “real companies” on “the other side” of it. AOL did as much as anyone to (Warning: Cliché Alert) democratize the World Wide Web by allotting its customers a little bit of then-precious server space for “personal pages.” It wasn’t much space, you had to use their built-in tools and the URL could be a mite unwieldy. On the other hand, it was free, right? (Actually, wrong. You had to have a paid AOL account to get it, so it wasn’t really free, was it?) In any event, it was a way to get your own stories and photos (or, perhaps, lies and retouched self-portraits) online for at least a few million people to see. It was a start. That was then, this is now What a start it was. **End Summary** Topics: web hosting]]> web security]]> domains]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans.

5 Ways Of Securing And Obscuring Your Site

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:00:25 -0400

Although the usual reason for having a website is so people can find it—and your products and services—you may have reasons for securing and obscuring your site. In this article we will leave aside the discussion of your reasons, because that’s your business. The security that we will address, then, will be directly related to the obscurity you wish to achieve, rather than be about defending against hackers or malware. In other words, your obscurity is your security since your intent is to keep search engines, searchers and other “unapproved” visitors out. Amazingly, there are still professional web developers that don’t understand that designing sites in certain ways can keep search engines from finding the content. This is a two-edged sword. First, they may do something inadvertently to obscure a site they didn’t want to obscure. Second, they don’t know how to help a client achieve that rare status of being on the web but only visible to people “in the know.” Therefore, there are reasons on both sides of this divide to know about securing and obscuring your site. **End Summary** Topics: website security]]> web site obscuring]]> web hosting]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans. Visit online for more information.

Why Would You Want To Exclude Your IP From Your Google Analytics Statistics?

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

People get excited about their websites, whether they're a Mom posting family pics or a huge corporation like IBM. Whether they are used for fun, part of one's education, or an important business component, websites are something in which people take tremendous pride. So when a new site is launched or new pages are added, the creators want all their family and friends or all their customers and employees to log on and take a look. But what if tracking the visitors to your site is valuable information? And what if all the extra people that come to the site are skewing that information? And that, in fact, is the answer to the question, Why would you want to exclude your IP from your Google Analytics (GA) statistics? Actually, that's only part of the answer to only part of the question, because you may actually want to exclude a number of IP addresses from your GA stats. The visits you, your family, or your employees make to the site could completely cloud the results of you GA stats and render them useless. **End Summary** Topics: google analytics]]> analytics]]> google statistics]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans.

Do You Know What Your Bounce Rate Is-And What to Do About It?

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Just about everything you do with your website's structure, content and design is aimed at one thing-keeping the visitor around long enough to buy, subscribe, fill out your questionnaire or whatever it is you want them to do. There are as many ways to do this as there are "web experts." Generally speaking, you want your visitors "engaged," if not downright shackled to your site, and the way to do it is to ensure that related content is interlinked and displayed in such a way that they "stick around to click around." If their first look doesn't get a commitment (whatever that may be), perhaps the second will. A common term for describing this visitor engagement-or, rather, the lack of it-is the "bounce rate," expressed as a percentage of initial visitors that leave from the same page they arrived at. Using Google Analytics (GA) and other tools, you can get a bead on the number of visitors that "bounce" without viewing any other pages of the site. Don't forget that not all inbound links to your site will be to your home or entry page, so your eventual strategy needs to be site-wide. **End Summary** Topics: bounce rate]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans.

10 Great Ways To Use Twitter To Your Business's Advantage

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Twitter is the latest web-centric communications service to explode onto the scene, and businesses have moved in rapidly. However, a little discretion goes a long way, as the users of "social" sites and services have demonstrated that they will stomach only so much commercialization of what they consider their personal space. As MySpace evolved from an upstart new kid on the block where everyone let everything "hang out" to a part of the Rupert Murdoch media empire, people who'd had enough began looking for other places. This influenced the rise of Facebook. Now that Facebook has begun acting like a "regular old corporation," too, folks are on the search again. Your company can most definitely benefit from using Twitter. The primary use for it in business is to listen, because, as every top-performing salesman knows, listening is more important than talking most of the time. You want to hear from every customer, vendor, client, industry leader, journalist, activist, colleague and competitor who has anything to say about your product, service or business. Twitter has much in common with old-style networking, like early morning meetings at diners and water-cooler chats, except it's been "virtualized" for 21st century knowledge sharing. **End Summary** Topics: twitter]]> business]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from dedicated servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans. Visit online for more information.

10 Questions To Get Answered Before Choosing A Web Host

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

It is particularly important for individuals and SMBs (Small and Medium-sized Businesses) that build their own websites, or spend very precious capital to do so, to find a good web hosting plan. If you are just now getting up to speed in this area, it is important that you know how quickly things change in this industry. In addition, you need to know what the basic components of a good hosting plan are, and learn to compare apples with apples, as they say. It used to be crucially important to pick the right web host, as there were fly-by-night firms actually ripping people off and running away to Belize or somewhere. Things have settled down quite a bit, and there are scores of hosting firms to choose from, all of which are reputable and honest. It may still be true that some hosts have better uptime statistics or offer better deals, but as long as you stay with an established host you should not have any problems with rip-offs. After making a list of potential companies, you should get these 10 questions answered before choosing a web host: #1. Will you get unlimited disk space? **End Summary** Topics: web hosting]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from dedicated servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans.

Introduction To The Basics Of FTP Accounts

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the method that computers of all kinds use to send and receive files over the Internet. It was developed to enable a number of important functions by computer users, including the sharing of data and its transfer between and among computers, including web servers that host personal or business domains. It provides a standardized platform and procedure for storing files on different "hosts" and allows simple offsite backups, too. FTP sites An FTP site is, quite simply, an Internet-accessible storehouse holding files of all types, from programs and data to music, video, etc. To up- or download files from such a location, you must have the login information that includes the FTP user name and password. You transfer files in either a binary or ASCII (text) mode. With a binary mode you transfer "executables" (like programs) as well as media files containing audio and/or video data. The ASCII mode is used for text files such as those that are produced in plain-text editors like Windows Notepad or the Macintosh's TextEdit. In practice, FTP is used primarily for two things. The first is simple peer-to-peer transferring of files, while the other is the maintenance of websites. **End Summary** Topics: web hosting]]> ftp accounts]]> ftp]]> file transfer]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans.

What You Need To Know About A Career As A Network Engineer

Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Network engineering is a process in which an independent contractor or company will determine the internetworking requirements for switched networks and then develop and implement the hardware or software in order to meet the needs of the system's users. Network engineers are the spines of the computer infrastructure for any business. The larger businesses have the ability to employ several network engineers whereas other smaller businesses often hire a consultant who is summoned only when the network has problems or needs an update. In order to join the team of network engineers, you must have the necessary skills as well as a love of computers. As with any other career, you also need to follow certain steps in order to accomplish your goal. These are the top five requirements needed to become a network engineer. 1. While you're in college, take another computer related field. Although it's called network engineering you don't need an engineering degree. You also have the option of studying a totally different major or minor than information technology (IT). 2. While in school, try and hook a job in the campus IT office. **End Summary** Topics: network engineer]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from dedicated servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans.

Key Tips for Choosing The Best Hosting For Your Personal Website

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400

There are plenty of hosting options available everywhere you turn - even free ones connected to your Internet account. So much selection can make it difficult for you to decide where it's best to host your personal website. Before you make that important decision, you need to have a grasp on what your needs truly are. The fact is, you don't want to pay for a year's worth of hosting service, or settle for a free but low-grade site, only to find out that you aren't satisfied with it. For the individuals that are new to the whole web thing, here are a few helpful hints to keep in mind. 1. You don't actually have to have a domain name chosen (like www.whatever.com) to have a website. If you are just looking for somewhere to put family photos, so that people can view them, you can check with your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to see what free offers they have. If your site is going to be used mainly for fun, then why not make use of what you already have? You're paying for it anyway. **End Summary** Topics: web hosting]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from dedicated servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans.

Understanding The Difference Between Dedicated Servers Vs Shared Servers

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400

As everyone reading should know (just by being here!), web hosts own and operate the servers, or dedicated "communications computers," that allow users to place websites on the Internet for public and/or private viewing and use. Before choosing a web host, a user must first have a registered domain name and the ability to create the pages that will be uploaded, although some hosts will provide basic tools for this. A user has three possible options for a web hosting service-virtual private servers, shared servers and dedicated servers-but the purpose of this article is to offer help in selecting among the two most popular kinds, dedicated and shared. These are differentiated by the amount of control a user needs or wants, as well as level of responsibility the user must share in the smooth, consistent and continuous running of the website and the server on which it is located. Shared web hosting As the name denotes, shared web hosting means a number of small to medium-sized users upload their websites and "serve" them up to the Internet from a single, shared server. **End Summary** Topics: dedicated servers]]> shared servers]]> servers]]> server]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans.

Your Business Can't Afford To Pick The Wrong Hosing Company

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400

There are literally thousands to choose from, and each touts themselves to be the best. Some will entice with incredibly low prices for the most basic of hosting plans and assurances it's all you really need for your company right now. Others will dangle the simplicity of a template collection for site building, saving you thousands since you wouldn't need a designer messing with your business image. Almost every site will push the claim of having the best uptime, often with cautions that 'the other hosts' don't maintain their equipment as well, so your site may be regularly offline and inaccessible if you go elsewhere. Let's cut straight to how you better make sure you've protected yourself, and the company, by making the right choice - without spending months on research. ELIMINATE 98% OF CHOICES IN MINUTES Promises of great service are easy to fulfill when no problems are encountered, but the true test of Great Service happens when a glitch in the flow actually happens. No matter how hard we try, every business owner knows bumps in the road happen in the real world. **End Summary** Topics: web hosting]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Amy Armitage is the head of Business Development for Lunarpages. Lunarpages provides quality web hosting from their US-based hosting facility. They offer a wide-range of services from linux virtual private servers and managed solutions to shared and reseller hosting plans.