Attention UK Website Owners!

You know how some business owners hastily look for a website hosting near them or even insist for a web host from the same country as they are? If you are from the UK for example, getting a UK website hosting is really not necessary most of the time and can cost you more money.

4 Reasons why you do NOT need to get a local web hosting service:

• If your potential customers are in England, Wales, Scotland or NI, chances are their internet speed is already really fast compared to many other parts of the world, like Malaysia for example. You and others in the UK can access any website from anywhere in the world without even noticing the page load time. Your visitors probably will not feel the difference if your website is hosted in the US or next door to them. If your intended audiences are in a third-world country, then that is a whole different story. (more...)

Have you paid something at full price and later found out others are paying much less than you for the same product or service?

If you are looking for unlimited domains hosting on PHP and MySQL platform and has been eyeing on Fatcow, here is a word of warning. Do not go straight to Fatcow.com and pay full price! (more...)

Read the Facts Below and Find Out Which Coupon Code Can Save You The Most when Purchasing from Hostgator

If you have decided to get Hostgator as your web hosting, now you probably are in another dilemma - choosing which Hostgator package or plan to use and which price to pay. Hostgator comes with a wide variety of plans, unlike their competitors in the cheap web hosts category like Bluehost or Justhost. To make matters worst, there are also multitude of Hostgator coupons to choose from so which Hostgator coupon code is right for you?

So here is how you choose the right Hostgator plan for you:

1. If want a web hosting for your own business or personal use/blog, choose Baby Gator plan
2. If you are planning to resell hosting plans, or you are a web designer for multiple clients, or you need to create many cPanels, choose Aluminum Reseller plan

Why Baby Gator plan? Do not bother with the slightly cheaper Hatchling plan because it allows only 1 domain to be hosted. Trust us, you will want to host another website sometimes in the future so save the hassle of upgrade now. Most people also probably do not need the extra features in the more expensive Business plan.

Why Aluminum plan for resellers? This plan is the cheapest for resellers. The rest of the reseller plans are just has increase bandwidth and disk space. You can upgrade later very easily when you have more clients or cPanels to create.

Hostgator Discount Coupon

There are countless Hostgator coupon codes out there. To clear things up, we categorized these codes into two (2) main categories:

1. the Trial Coupon codes and
2. the Discount Coupon codes.

The Trial coupon is what most of us want because it gives you one (1) month free hosting. The later or the Discount coupons on the other hand, reduces the total cost by a percentage and most valuable for longer prepayment period. The most reduction we have seen is 20% discount.

Which Hostgator Coupon Code is For You?

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Do you have problem to start your own e-Commerce website? Did your last shopping cart ended up losing you money? We had problems with building an e-Commerce website when we first started. We have heard many horror stories too. Here is a story of our client that you probably can relate to and also can serve as a reminder to us all.

Bob (not his real name) had an idea to sell some watches on the internet. Yes, watches because he thought everybody wear watches so he should have a good market to sell to. Forget about this idea being profitable or not, but lets us focus on the costs for him to start the business. Firstly he went to a web designer to design his website. He spent about $2000 for that.

After that, the web designer advised Bob to get a web hosting account so he can preview his storefront prototype live on the internet. Bob ended up at subscribing to a hosting plan for a year with Lunarpages costing him about $120. Any other web host will cost about the same, be it Hostgator, Godaddy, Bluehost, Hostmonster, iPowerWeb, or PowWeb because 1 year is the shortest period these companies promote and prefer people to pay. Next, Bob hired a web developer who installed an open-source shopping cart, did some customization to fit Bob's business needs and installed the shopping cart on Bob's web hosting service. That was another $3000. Added to that was the payment processor charges like Worldpay setup and miscellaneous integration charges which is about another $700.

To cut the story short, after all the spending, Bob's web store plan did not follow through because he failed to execute the marketing part of the business plan. He spent a total of about $5820. So he lost them all. Luckily his business idea did not involve any stocks to keep.

After sitting down with many e-Commerce startup owners, we came out with these steps to avoid.

Did You Make one of These 13 e-Commerce Startup Mistakes?

These are 13 sure ways to lose money on your e-Commerce venture

1. Your store management panel cannot be accessed from ordinary browser.
2. You cannot quickly setup a store, but require help from web designers, PHP developers or may be more people.
3. Be ignorant on which providers the majority of top 500 Internet Retailers are using.
4. You do not check if your Shopping Cart Software is built on good server to ensure reliability.
5. Software installation on your desktop is required – hence can be maintained from only that PC/Mac.
6. The e-Commerce solution cost thousands for design, customization, search optimization etc. before your business can start.

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