Domain Hosting And Domain Web Hosting For Your Business

There are a growing number of businesses that are fighting head on daily just to promote their product and get more customers. In order to do this, they get domain hosting services and build up their own websites. This is a way for them to cover a wide market of potential clients online.

Aside from websites, there are other means of promotion that a website owner can do in order to have more chance of promoting their company. They might opt to create a website, plus a blog, forum and of course a personal email. This is their way of increasing and establishing more traffic to their website.

But regardless of this great advantage, this could also be a daunting task especially for the webmasters to manage and maintain. Just imagine all the variety of accounts that you would need to manage separately for your website, for your blog, etc. That is why most web masters ask for additional pay for all the hard work that is required of them.

There is still a way for business owner to save money on maintenance at the same time save the webmaster a lot of time in accessing the accounts. This is because there are companies that are already utilizing multiple domain web hosting. This will make maintenance cost cheaper and at the same time easier than before.

How does a multiple domain web hosting works? What you are going to do here is that instead of putting one site to separate servers, you are just putting them on one account. This means that you are just making these websites as your sub directory.

Naming is another advantage of this system. There won't be so much confusion and technical conflict just in case sudden changes would come in for the improvement of the site. Everything is done with ease for the web masters since there is only one control panel to do all the tasks.

Domain hosting is very much popular nowadays since more people are utilizing the Internet. If you are looking for a domain host, you can ask people from forums or read reviews. In this way, you will be able to find a company that can provide to your needs.

The task of coming up with your own website for your business is really complex but for as long as you know which tools to use and which strategies to apply, it is not impossible for you to have your own website someday soon. Multiple domain hosting is some effective tool which you can really consider using.

By Emmanuel Stevensen

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Domain Registrars to be Considered For Your Website

In order to make a website work, you need a domain and a host. Most hosts offer promotional plans that allow you to have one Free domain for lifetime. I always take advantage of that. However, host like HostGator does not offer any Free domain. You may wonder why people still like to use it, right? That is because people go after its reputation of being reliable, fast, and good customer supports. With $7.95/month plan, you can have unlimited hosting space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited domains allowed, unlimited subdomains, addon domains, and parked domains, unlimited FTP accounts, and unlimited MySQL Databases.

If you choose HostGator as your host, then it comes down to the decision that you have to buy a domain from a third party domain registrar. Otherwise it will charge you $15/year for a domain. According to some Internet experts, it is wise to have your domain and host service separated. For your convenience, I searched the Internet and listed some of the third party domain registrars here:

• 1&1.com - Starts from $8.99/year with Free private domain registration included. The minimum contract term is 24 months. Coupons or promo codes are not offered for this site.


• Doster.com - Although Doster.com offers $15.95/year for most of the domain extensions, you can buy one domain get one Free with them. Just enter coupon code: GETONEFREE at check out.
  


• Dynadot.com - Current sale for .com is $9.25, .org is $7.75, .biz is $6.99, .mobi is $9.99, .info is $3.50, .us is $ 6.99, .cn is $2.99, .net is $9. 25, and .co.uk is $8.99. Find coupous and promo codes here: Dynadot.com Coupon Codes.
  


• GoDaddy.com - Although it might be the best choice for you so far, you have to buy five domains in order to get its Free privacy registration. Otherwise you have to pay $8.99/year for that. A lot of the times it offers coupons and promotion codes so check these three sites out before checkout: NamePros.com, GoDaddy Coupon List 2008, and GoDaddy Coupon Code.
  


• HostBandit.com - Costs $11/year for most of the top domain name extensions. No coupons and promo codes are offered for this price.
  


• NameCheap.com - it offers $9.69 so far with Free privacy registration included. If you want to buy a domain from NameCheap.com, here are the coupon codes for you.
  


• Misk.com - $10/year for.com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .us, .co.uk, and .org.uk. I can't find any coupons or promotional codes for any of these domain extensions here.
  


• MyDomain.com - $9.95/year for domain extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .us, and $7.99/year for .mobi. Check out Coupons and promo codes here.
  

These are the third party domain registrars that I can find so far. If you know any of your favorite ones out there, please share them in the comment section with us.

How to Transfer Your Joomla! Website to a New Domain?

Not long ago I transferred my Joomla! website to a new domain but in the same host. I don't know it is wise decision of doing that or not. Anyway my plan is to use my old domain for something else. So I transferred my old domain site manually to a new domain. Here are the steps I've used to accomplish that.

• Install a new version of Joomla! Package if you can. The newest version is Joomla! 1.0.15 and this is the version I am using right now. To do that, I first downloaded Joomla_1.0.15-Stable-Full_Package to my laptop/PC. If you are using other Joomla! version, then you can search the Internet for it, download it to your laptop/PC, and then install it. The idea is to have a fresh installation so that everything is working properly.
  


• I then unzip Joomla_1.0.15-Stable-Full_Package file that I've downloaded earlier and upload them to my root directory of my website server using FTP.
  


• Next type your website's url in your browser. For example I have to type mine like this: http://www.internetoutput.com, hit enter, and it will automatically redirect me to the Joomla! installation page.
  


• If you see everything is green, then you are ready to go to the next step. If not you have to fix those file permissions before you can proceed. Basically you need to log in to your FTP account. On your server site right click on the folder whose permission you need to change. Scroll down to find Properties, click on it, change file permission to be 0777, and click on OK. Repeat this process till all folders' permissions are set to be 0777. I use Windows XP home edition. If you use something else, your screen properties might look different than mine.
  


• Refresh your installation screen. The files whose permissions you've just changed should be green now. So click on Next to proceed.
  


• Read the GNU/GPL license and click on Next to proceed.
  


• Now in the new screen, you will be asked to enter Host name, Mysql user name, Mysql password, and Mysql database name. So now you have to log in to your host account and create a new database. Come back here, enter the required data, and click on Next. If you are not sure of how to create a new database, check out this video: Video tutorial for creating MySQL database and user in cPanel.
  


• Joomla! will ask you to confirm that whether the required data are correct. Click OK to go to the next screen.
  


• If you've entered everything correctly, the next screen will ask you to enter the name for your site. Do so and then click on Next.
  


• Then the new screen will ask you to enter your url, the path to your domain on your server which is provided already(you should leave it alone. If you got so far, it should be correct), your email that you want to use for your new website, Admin password (you must remember it because you need it to log in to your admin back end), and click on Next to proceed.
  


• A new screen will say, "Congratulations! Joomla is installed."
  
  
• Now log in to your host account again, find phpMyAdmin from your host's cPanel and click on it. A new screen will open. It will allow you to backup (export) your old domain's database to your laptop/PC. Since I use hostmonster.com as my website host, it is so easy to fulfill it. For more details, please read MySQL Tutorial.
  


• Open and edit your old domain's database in Notepad before you upload (import) it back to replace your new domain's database. For example, I have to replace the old database name airlinet_joom1 with the new database name airlinet_joom. All the old urls have to be changed to be the new urls. For example: all http://www.mycoolonlinestores.com have to be replaced with http://www.internetoutput.com. After you've done that, save it, and upload the amended database to replace the new database using phpMyAdmin on your host's cPanel.
  


• Download configuration.php file (it should be in your root directory) to your laptop/PC, edit the following lines, and then upload it back to your root directory:
  
  $mosConfig_absolute_path = '/home/hostlogin/public_html/';
  $mosConfig_cachepath = '/home/hostlogin/public_html/cache';
  $mosConfig_db = 'hostlogin_joom1';
  $mosConfig_password = 'passwordfordb';
  $mosConfig_smtphost = 'localhost';
  $mosConfig_user = 'hostlogin_joom1';
  
  where you have to change hostlogin to be your host's user name, joom1 to be your new database name, passwordfordb to be your new database password. In my case I even have to change home to be home1. You can also find out your absolute path on your host's cPanel.
  
  Some people may use add-on domain for a website. In that case, they need to update the absolute path as it is. For example: they need to update $mosConfig_absolute_path = '/home/hostlogin/public_html/sub-folder'; instead of $mosConfig_absolute_path = '/home/hostlogin/public_html/'; where sub-folder could be any name that they've created in their server.


• The final step is to redirect all your search engine traffic to your new website. This is the ugly part that most people don't like. For more information, please read Redirect Using 301 or 302?.
  

Oh! One more thing that I need to mention here. After I successfully transferred my old domain site to my new domain, none of the plug-ins (extensions) worked. I have to install all of them again to replace the old ones; but installation is pretty easy if you have save a copy of each one. I hope I did not confuse you because there are plenty of information here to be digested. If for any doubts or any thoughts, feel free to ask/share them here with us.

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Redirect Using 301 or 302?

I recently moved my cool online stores.com to a new domain name, interne toutput.com. I don't know what will happen. According to Matt Cutts' blog, this should be avoided. But if you really need to move your old website to a new domain like me. The best thing I learned is using 301 redirect ( permanently moved) but not 302 redirect (temporarily moved). Redirects using 301 will preserve your current search engine rankings of your pages or a website. It will also make your site search engines friendly too. Here is a tool you can test your redirects for search engines friendly or not: Search Engine Friendly Redirect Checker.

The redirections of my old site were taking place within the same host. Implementation was kind of tricky. First of all I tried to use Redirects within HostMonster.com which is my hosting server. It only redirected the old domain name to the new domain name. Although I redirected all other pages as well, non of them was working. So this was not good for me. I needed each page to be correspondent redirected to the new domain. For example, I wanted http://mycoolonlinestores.com/List-of-Clickbank-Products.html to be redirected to http://internetoutput.com/List-of-Clickbank-Products.html and any other pages as well.

I have tried for many times and it kept giving me errors. Finally this article saved my life: 301 Permanent Redirect by Brian V. Bonini. All I did was putting RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.internetoutput.com/$1 [R=301,L] right after this line RewriteEngine On in my .htaccess file under my old website's directory; and each of the pages worked like a charm. So I am happy these redirect problems were solved that I can move on to other issues. As always your comments are welcome!

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What is The Difference Between Subdomains, Parked Domains, and Addon Domains?

Last week I talked about Transfer My Joomla! Website to a New Host. My new host, hostmonster.com, allows its customers to set up unlimited subdomains, unlimited parked domains, and unlimited addon domains. So I tried to find out what they are, here are the results I've found.

What is a subdomain?
A subdomain is an url for a different section of your website. It uses your domain name and a prefix or a postfix. For example, my domain name is airlineticketswithus.com, a subdomain of my domain might be store.airlineticketswithus.com or airlineticketswithus.com/store/. Setting up a subdomain is Free.

What is a parked domain?
A parked domain (a pointed domain) is a domain name that points to the same directory as your primary domain. For example, if my primary domain is mysite.com, then my parked domain might be myothersite.com. Both primary domain and parked domain will point to the same website. In other words, both domains will lead to one website.

You'll need to purchase a parked domain from a registry like GoDaddy. It provides the best deals for domain registry so far. Your parked domain should point to the same name servers as your primary domain name. You can find your name servers from your web server's cPanel under Domain Manager. In my case, they are ns1.hostmonster.com and ns2.hostmonster.com.

What is an addon domain?
An addon domain is a domain name that points to a different sub-directory on your account. It gives you the ability to set up an entirely different website. For example, my primary site is airlineticketswithus.com, but my addon domain is mycoolonlinestores.com. They are totally independent websites.

You'll need to purchase an addon domain from a registry. GoDaddy offers the best deals for domain registry so far. Your addon domain name should also point to the same name servers as your primary domain name as well.

Suppose your addon domain name is yoursite.com, then in your web server your addon domain name might be accessed as follows:
yoursite.com
primarydomain.com/yoursite
yoursite.primarydomain.com

If you have questions, feel free to ask in the comment section.