People think that hostgator is a cheater who likes to rip off their affiliate. However, I don’t think they are outright scammers. Even no matter what they do, you will find that something you don’t know about.

There are some “things” you need to know where you will lost your affiliate fees.

First, your customer must stay for 60 days and pay. In other words if they don’t pay the second month of hosting, you don’t get paid.

Second, if they used a VCC you don’t get paid.

Third, if their hosted site has no content on it, you don’t get paid.

Lastly, if your lead pays the second month payment late, you don’t get paid.

I lost over $4,000 in commissions from them last January because people would pay their bill late. The only way around this is to get the people to pay for 12 months upfront.

If they do this your commission will instantly be locked.

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In order to understand what a web host does, first you have to understand what a website is.

For almost all people who surf the net, a website is a destination. The illusion of actually surfing from one site to another site on the Information Highway is extremely powerful one.

However, in reality when we surf, we don’t go to a website, it is the website that auto approach us.

To make it simple to understand, a website is nothing but a collection of files. Some are .html, php files, others are images, others are music files, video files and etc.

A webmaster is a maestro, who puts all these files together into a grouping which we call a website.

Websites are really amazing things. They can definitely blow our minds all the times. You have to always remember that, on some level in your mind, that it’s just a bunch of files, just like what you can see on your own PC hard drive by double click on “My Computer”.

When you surf on a website, you’re actually sending a request to any computer or server around the world to look for where exactly these files are located. When you reach that computer, it will then send you back the files you’ve requested. Your browser such as Internet Explore will displays those files to you, and you view the website through your monitor.

Since it’s just a bunch of files on a computer or server, why can’t we just put our website on our own PC, and let people request it from there?

The mater of fact is, you can. If you have a high bandwidth connection, web server software, and a little knowledge on Internet Protocols, you can really make it.

But, actually a lot of people find out that it is easier and cheaper to have someone to do it for them. The companies which provide this kind of service are called web hosting companies. There are over 25,000 such companies. Most are willing to host your website from anywhere range from $5 to $60 per month, depending on what service you request and what is your budget for having a web hosting service for your own.

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Choosing a good web host is important for one’s to success on their online business. Here are the four easy steps which you can refer to in order to find a reliable web host for your online business.

Each and every websites has its own needs. Thus, a particular web hosting service may be suitable to your website but not to others. Comparing a web host provider which can be found by surf on the web is like comparing an apple with an orange. Most of the people would find it difficult to find out a good web host provider from the poor one since the mediocre web hosting companies normally will offer a lot of freebies stuff to lure in the customer.

However, if you look in further detail, you can easily observe which web hosting company is really reliable. There are four qualities that able to assist you if you want to measure whether a web host company is reliable or not. Here are the four qualities you must take in consideration when searching for a web host:

1.) A good web hosting provider should provide their customers the necessary support in some forms such as tutorials or email. They should be available 24/7 in order to solve all their customers’ problem timely and efficiency. A good web host should guide any of the web site owners, no matter he or she is new or experienced one, with the necessary steps to perform a task he wants to achieve.

2.) A good web host can deal with any problems not only on their end but as well as on their customers end. A web host provider should already know the approach to solve the problem without affecting their customers business. They should have the experience and expertise to resolve any issues that may arise in anytime.

3.) A good web host should be able to provide corresponding services and also features that equal to the money you have made. Selecting a good and trustworthy web host is the first step to success. It is necessary to ensure that you are satisfied of what you have paid for while developing your online business.

4.) All the necessary services and features that customers can implement by themselves, should be provide by a good web host provider with the assistant of tutorials. Video tutorial is the best one. If someone is doing an e-commerce website, then most of the necessary features such as payment system, shopping cart, inventory system and security features should be available for him. The web host also needs to make sure these features able to handle easily.

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There are thousands of web hosting companies available in the market nowadays. This can be very difficult for us to choose which web site hosting companies really provide an excellent hosting solution at reasonable price.

If you have an established domain name, also you sign up for a good web hosting company, you will able to get reports and statistics on who visit your site, where the traffic from and which of your pages your customers are visiting most often, all these precious data from your web hosting company.

Make a practice to avoid free or cheap web hosting services, because you may experience a lot of bad issues such as frequent server downtimes, storage limitation, limited number of email addresses, limited databases provided, FTP upload etc.

Ensure that your web host providing e-commerce services, wireless capability, bogs, forums, chats and all other things that you think you want to add to your site.

For all the features provided, your web host will charge you a fee for monthly service that ranges from $10 to the more expensive $50.00 per month. Thus, prepare yourself to pay between $300 and $500 per year to your web host.

Before sign up to any web host service, you need to estimate your site needs and how fast it will grow. Also make sure that this web host can serve you when your site grows. The last thing you want to do is change host half way unless you think u really need to do so.

Check as well the bandwidth capability provided by web host, this is to be sure that if your website traffic grows rapidly, it will not slow down your website.

Three things to consider before sign up for web hosting company are:

1. Your hosting provider should provide 24/7 support and ready to help you when you face technical problem. Ask what are their response time when customer raise an issue. You can test this out by calling them in the mid night and insist to have their level 3 support, and see how soon they reply you.

2. Ensure they provide a multi-homed network powered by multiple bandwidth providers for redundancy purpose. Some of the web host companies offer a 100% guarantee on its network uptime.

3. You can’t afford to be with a hosting company that will disappear after few months in business.

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Web hosting means a web hosting companies provides the storage, connectivity, and services which are necessary to serve and store your files on a website. The costs for hosting your web are depend on your personal requirements.

There are thousands of web hosting services available nowadays, ranging from individuals to worldwide corporations.

Web Hosting Plans and Packages.
It is different depending on which web hosting company you register to, but normally what features to take in consideration are like what operating system available (Unix, Linux, Windows, etc), varying disk space provided (storage in MB) sizes, data transfer rates (traffic measured in GB), email (POP3, SMTP, auto responders, mail forwarding), databases (how many databases provided), scripting languages (whether they support PHP, ASP, JSP, etc), CGI-Bin access, dedicated or shared IP Address, log files access and reporting statistics, statcounter analysis, secure server (SSL) for e-commerce, shopping carts, fantastisio, and a web based control panel (so called cpanel).

How much does Web Hosting cost?
The costs for web hosting greatly depend on your personal web hosting needs. You can find many different companies providing web hosting services such as-: 1and1 web hosting, Jumpline web hosting, Dataflame web hosting, ValidWeb web hosting, and HousteRoute web hosting, Hostgator web hosting, ResellerZoom web hosting and many more.

What to look for a Web Hosting Plan?
Here are some considerations you should make before sign up for the web hosting services:
-    Is the web host reliable, dependability, stability, and profitability?
-    Is the location of the web host suitable for you (we should consider on whether the web host is local, regional, national or worldwide)?
-    What type of support methods do the web host offer (toll free contact, email, Instant Messenger, Live Chat?)
-    Is the web host able to handle peak traffic volumes for your websites?
-    What type of website monitoring tool the web host offer?
-    What are the support hours? (Is it 24/7 support?)
-    Is the web host scalability and preparing themselves to accommodate growth?
-    Does the web host offer optimum hardware and reliable servers with quality components?
-    Do they have frequent backup and disaster recovery plan?
-    What is the web hosts technical support skill like?
-    What are their support response times?
-    Overall price of the web hosting plans. Do they give discount for premium customer.

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