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This Blog Webhosting costs only $20,000 a month

July 22, 2017 by admin 3 Comments

You would be surprised to know that some websites pay $20,000 a month for hosting of their website. That’s expensive and many bloggers cannot afford that kind of hosting money.

For many top entertainment and news websites like CNN, MTV their daily traffic can be in the hundred thousand and sometimes even million hits a day for really popular websites.

You would be surprised to know that many of these websites also use WordPress CMS like any small time blogger. But you won’t find them using cheap shared hosting plans like go daddy ($1), bluehost or site ground, like many of us beginner bloggers use.

These websites even though they are using wordpress, they need the hosting servers with the big guns so to speak. Their bandwidth requirements are humongous and they have large spikes in traffic on a regular basis.

Portals like these can go through quite a few up and downs in speed and bandwidth needs, when possibly any of their hundreds of content pieces happen to go viral.

You could imagine large sites like these would churn out hundreds of articles and videos on a daily basis. These websites need constant looking after to make sure everything is running right and loading fast to their viewers.

On large sites like these, you can find people watching hundreds of videos, filling in thousand forms a day for competitions, hundreds of signups for memberships perhaps, and thousands of downloads for a screensaver or a pdf file tutorial. It could be anything like these and these actions use data and bandwidth.

As you would imagine, different websites get traffic usage through different offerings or downloads offered and these all use huge bandwidth and so you need a reliable hosting server.

While we beginner and established bloggers often pay as less as $1 a month for hosting, these websites can pay anywhere from $25,000 to even $50,000 a month for web-hosting. They do get premium service like dedicated engineers looking after the website, 24 /7 monitoring and many more premium services that we would not get on a budget shared plan.

Here are my results of the expensive hosting providers. They are high priced because they cater to high volume traffic websites.

Top 5 Web-hosting Providers for high traffic websites

WordPress VIP Webhosting

Amazon AWS

Rackspace

Google GAE

Pagely

Most of the time, when we talk about hosting large WordPress sites, the conversation starts at VIP. If you don’t know, VIP is the Automatic solution for enterprise WordPress hosting.

Its claim to fame is all of the well-known news, blog and media sites it hosts (like CNN, Times, and TED, Tec crunch).

WordPress VIP Webhosting

https://vip.wordpress.com/our-services/

VIP ENTERPRISE PLAN (from WordPress.com)

Starts at $25,000/mo. ( can be up to $50,000 all inclusive)

Setup fee: $15,000 per site, $5,000 when using a partner – which means you will be paying $35,000 in the first month itself if you go with just a basic enterprise wordpress plan.

If you go with a subdomain add-on and quite likely 2 or 3 developers which you will need for a big site, the price per month could easily hit $50,000 + a month. This plan is good for a network of sites.

What it includes:

· 5 Sites

· Unlimited traffic and storage

· Unlimited Global CDN

· 1 Developer support (additional developer $10,000 per developer)

· Support availability 24/7/365

· Elastic search, live blog, Video press and site monitoring is included

VIP BASIC PLAN (from WordPress.com)

Starts at $10,000/mo.

Setup fee: $15,000 per site, $5,000 when using a partner – – which means you will be paying $30,000 in the first month itself if you go with this basic wordpress plan without any add-ons.

What it includes:

· 5 Sites

· Unlimited traffic and storage

· Unlimited Global CDN

· 1 Developer support ( additional developer $10,000 per developer)

· Support availability 24/7/365

[As compared to the enterprise plan the elastic search, live blog, Video press and site monitoring is not included with this plan and costs extra.]

AMAZON AWS

The two products/services you can use from Amazon AWS for your wordpress website is called “Amazon EC2” and “Amazon S3”.

Because of the technical nature of how amazon servers are organised, you will need a skilled website developer to setup your website with amazon hosting servers.

Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 is the product from Amazon AWS that allows you to host your WordPress website. Amazon EC2 allows you to configure and scale your websites needs and capacity easily to meet changing requirements and demand.

Amazon EC2 pricing is based on four components: the instance type you choose (EC2 comes in 40+ types), the region your instances are based in, the software you run, and the pricing model you select (on-demand instances, reserved capacity, spot, etc.).

The pricing for Amazon AWS is a bit complex compared to other hosting providers.

Example: Let’s say you decide to host your WordPress website on one Linux t2.large EC2 instance in the US East region. With an on-demand pricing model, your monthly charge for EC2 will be $76.13.

The total cost of building a WordPress website will vary depending on your usage and the instance types you select for the web server and database instance. Using the default configuration recommended by amazon, it will typically cost $450/month to host a WordPress site.

The total cost for hosting may increase if you use Auto Scaling to increase the number of web server instances in the event of increased traffic to your WordPress site (approximately $75/month for each additional web server- if the web server is active for the entire month).

Amazon S3

Amazon S3 provides secure, durable, and highly-scalable cloud storage for the objects (media libraries, theme files, images, videos, and JavaScript) that make up your WordPress website.

Amazon S3 makes it is easy to use object storage with a simple web interface to store and retrieve data from anywhere on the web.

How Pricing Works for S3:

S3 Pricing is based on five components: the type of S3 storage you use, where you store your WordPress content (e.g. US East vs. Asia Pacific – Sydney), the amount of data you store, the number of requests you or your users make to store new content or retrieve the content, and the amount of data that is transferred from S3 to you or your users.

Example: Using Standard Storage in US East, if you store 1 GB of content, you’d pay $0.03 per month. If you created your account in the past 12 months, and you’re eligible for the AWS Free Tier, you’d pay $0.00 per month.

For more information, see Amazon EC2 Pricing.

Rackspace WordPress Hosting

Rackspace has Australian servers and have a mix of entry level word-press plans and high capacity enterprise plans as well. They provide root access to their cloud server hosting for word-press.

Entry level Hosting is $128 a month

Pricing similar to enterprise plans can be anywhere from $20,000 to $50,000 a month based on your server requirements.

You can get a customised quote from them.

What it includes:

· Cloud Servers

· LAMP stacks, load balancing or caching are implemented for fast speed.

· Full Control to utilize nearly any WordPress Plug-in

· Local SSD High Performance Storage

· Offer root-level access and APIs

· 24x7x365 Support

Rackspace has been helping business run web content management platforms since 1998.

Unfortunately they don’t provide prices for high capacity enterprise plans. For high traffic and large websites, you will have to contact them and request a custom quote.

You can get your wordpress pricing from rackspace over here or use their price calculator for a specific detailed pricing based on bandwith and addons.

Pagely WordPress Plans

Pagely has wordpress managed plans. They provide free white-glove site migration of up to two sites and a 30 day money back guarantee.

They are powered by Amazon Web services.

The Pulsar Plan

$20,000/mo. ($22,800/yr. – No setup fee)

What it includes:

· 1 Production site

· Included disk

· Included Bandwidth

· Included CDN

· Full site/monitoring results

· 1 Hour Guaranteed support response

Pagely VPS -1 (the entry level wordpress plan)

$499/mo. ($5,689/yr.)

This is a WordPress Optimized entry-level plan with staging and database access complemented by 3.75GB of RAM on SSD backed Amazon c4.large instance.

It’s on a Shared Aurora RDS Database Cluster.

What it includes:

· 30 Sites

· 50 GB Disk

· 200 GB Bandwidth

· 1TB CDN

With this plan you can prepay annually and save 5% for now.

Pagely is a webhost that sources its hosting from Amazon, and is also one of their premiere partners. Pagely takes out the technical difficulty you could face setting up a wordpress website with amazon. They offer WordPress hosting for small and large companies alike.

Most of the high priced servers or hosting for big sites is called enterprise plans or custom made to order plans. They provide custom plans based on your website requirements and server architecture.

If you need scaling, or already have an agreement with Amazon for infrastructure, or if you expect your project to grow and want all that Amazon can offer but you don’t want to turn the work into a DIY project, Pagely will likely be the best fit for you.

Plans and Pricing for Pagely – > Here

WP ENGINE

When it comes to support, neither Microsoft nor Pagely have currently matched the team size (hundreds of staff) dedicated to helping clients manage their sites and you get this with WP Engine premium plans.

Small Business Plan – $249/mo.

WP Engine does not provide a price for their Premium or Enterprise plan as you have to request a quote from them, but surprisingly they do provide the features that are included in the plan.

Below are some of the features you can expect from a high end plan like the enterprise plan.

Features included in WP Engine Enterprise plan:

Your get upto 150 Installs
5 Million visits a month
400 GB to 1 TB Local storage
Free SSL Certificates
Intelligent Load Balancing Tehnology

Get detailed pricing here

GOOGLE GAE

On the Google APP Engine (GAE) you can build modern web and mobile applications on an open cloud platform.

Google App Engine can be used to host a static website. Static web pages can contain client-side technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. App Engine provides a free tier for hosting your static website bringing costs down.

This link over here will specifically give you more details on how to host a static website on google app engine.

Out of the box, App Engine supports Node.js, Java, Ruby, C#, Go, Python, or PHP. The Google GAE is open and flexible as its custom runtimes allow you to bring any library and framework to App Engine by supplying a Docker container.

You will definitely need a qualified website developer to work with GAE hosting to setup your website with google-hosting.

MOBILE APP BACKEND

A mobile app backend for 5 million monthly users.

GCP Price: $2,083/month

STORAGE BACKEND

A web-scale Cassandra storage backend running on local SSD.

GCP Price: $1,758/month

Compare with AWS at $3744. GCP also has 80% more IOPS.

[For more details into Google cloud hosting prices you can go to this link here – https://cloud.google.com/pricing/]

Top Tier 2017 Hosting Pricing at a Glance

Provider/Plan	Price	Click for
VIP WordPress Plan	$25,000/mo	More details
Amazon EC2	$450/mo. approx	More details
Rackspace	$128/Mo.Entry Level plan	More details
Pagely	$20,000/mo	More details
Google GAE	$2,083/month	More details
WP Engine	$249/mo	More details

What do you get with these high priced plans ?

With these high priced plans, the more you pay the more you get. Sometimes if your lucky, you can request freebies to be thrown in as a bonus as well.

However most high traffic hosting service providers, give you a set of basic features with every plan. Below are some typical features to look out for in the high ticket plan you are purchasing

Typical features of a high priced hosting plan:

· Dedicated site engineer provided

· Customised server infrastructure for website if needed.

· Unlimited bandwidth

· High amounts of memory/ram on servers

· CDN and caching Inbuilt

If any of these above features are missing in your webhosting plan you purchased, and your plan is more than $10,000 a month – you should be having a chat with your hosting provider.

Cheap Hosting Vs Expensive hosting

Today with cheap hosting you purchase your shared hosting plan and all you get is minimum or skeleton support, such is not the case with premium webhosting.

With the budget or cheap hosts, you don’t even get phone support from most providers today. Many of these shared plan providers only provide online chat support – which is often horrible and inefficient.

This is something you will have to put up with in budget host plans.

With these plans, you have to do the website installation and setup all by yourself. Luckily they have created custom install scripts to assist with this process, which makes the job somewhat easy.

Some of the top shared plans an hosting providers are below [budget hosting]

Hosting Provider	Price of Plan	Offer Link
Bluehost shared plan	$3.95	> Plan details
Go Daddy shared Plan	$1	> Offer details
Hostgator Shared Plan	$3.95	> What’s included

There is also a market in-between cheap hosts and very costly hosts. These are for the mid-sized webhosting companies for small businesses.

Hosting companies like WP engine, Liquidweb ($189/mo –20 sites Use code WordPress33 –33% off for 3 months) and Pagely cater to such mid-sized businesses to large business with robust or custom optimised WP plans.

The mid sized plans from these providers can often be priced between $1000 a month up to the $5,000 dollar a month range. They often customise these plans according to your website traffic,data and infrastructure needs.

Wish list – If you are purchasing hosting from a High Traffic Website hosting provider:

· Unlimited SSD Disk Space and Bandwidth
· Free 256-Bit SSL Certificate
· Secured by ModSecurity and MagicSpam Pro
· Full Acronis Daily backups at no extra cost
· 99.99% LiteSpeed Cloud Uptime Guarantee

This above list is a wish list that you should look to have when purchasing a new premium hosting account and you are willing to spend at least $5,000 a month and upwards on a website server upgrade.

These included features will give you a solid base for the security and stability of your website.

How Big Companies manage their hosting

Many large Internet companies (Amazon, Facebook, and Google, for example) often do run (primarily, if not exclusively) their own data centres because they want/require more control over their data, technology, and costs.

But Netflix, for example, uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) pretty heavily. Netflix uses AWS to do their video encoding, for example, and runs huge numbers of virtual machines in the AWS cloud.

In my experience, most big companies have such diverse web requirements that they are likely to use a mix of their own data centres, third-party hosting and, cloud services.

They can use mostly these three different paths:

(to run their services)

· Own datacentre

· Renting racks at a co-location space

· Hosting it on a third party “cloud”

Optimising Big Websites

When optimising big sites inbuilt coding, custom and third party applications can be used for optimising your website for speed and and efficiency.

Often applications like Cloudflare, MaxCDN, and/or a cache plugin are used to help you scale a site. With word press you can either use third party applications/services like these to increase your speed stability or create custom server or scripts within your server to do these functions.

Many of the top level websites like Facebook and amazon and YouTube that receive millions of hits every day from all over the world, have their own data centres which exclusively serve their own data and content.

They often have data centres spread around the world for faster online access to their customers to that particular area/country just like a CDN. So you can say in theory, they have like their own inbuilt CDN and caching technology in their servers.

The big boys In hosting servers or datacentres

Amazon has their own infrastructure and is also one of the largest web hosting companies on earth. (See Amazon AWS).

These guys are certainly bigger than Hostgator and Godaddy in terms of how much hosting they are using, since they own multiple data centres around the globe to serve a billion users and massive amounts of content.

Amazon Web Services already has a reputation for being able to handle very large loads

Facebook owns their own datacentre’s around the world.They even create their own server hardware from scratch. You would ask why – This allows Facebook to save energy by super-optimizing their hardware to their software and vice versa.

Facebook used to use Rackspace back in 2009/2010 (as per GitHub), but has since grown ^{*a lot*}

Tools to find out website hosting used

Often you wonder, this website looks popular and is quite fast too, I wonder who they use for hosting?

If you want to get a feel for what mix of technology or servers a specific website is using, this tool “BuiltWith – Web Technology Profiler” gives you a fair idea for most sites.

Another tool/service to see who is self-hosting is “Netcraft’s Search Web by Domain” because they list netblock owners.

Summary

All the hosts featured here are reputable and capable of handling high traffic websites including wordpress websites.

When you have big needs for your high traffic website, its best to go with a reputable server provider who ticks all the boxes for your requirements.

Most servers will be able to add services to your order based on what you are paying and often they can offer a free add on bonus on request.

The basic server structure would not be able to be changed much most of the time, so make sure you know what they are running on their servers and if it will work with your website needs.

Good luck and all the best finding your new host and let me know in comments, if you know any webhosts pricier than the ones I listed here. Ciao!

Website hosting coupon domain deals for Godaddy and Bluehost

March 18, 2016 by admin 5 Comments

The competition is already heating up with special promo prices and coupons for hosting and domain names being released quickly.

Most top hosting providers specially bluehost and Go daddy have already started coming out with special promo deals for hosting and domain names.

My favourite blog hosting providers is Blue host, Godaddy, Hostmonster, Hostgator -though I have a few more hosting accounts due to my blogging hobby.

This month Bluehost and Godaddy deals specially stand out. I use godaddy more for the domain buying (though I also have hosting with them), but when bluehost also comes out with a good offer like a Domain free + with hosting it’s definitely a good deal to grab!

Latest 2019 Hosting deals for Bluehost and Godaddy[updated]

Godaddy Deal – $1 Hosting a month [ + Free domain name ~~+ email~~ ] & 0.99 cents domain

— > Click here for discount

Bluehost deal – $3.49 Deal [ +Free domain name ]

Special Promotion Offer from Digital GROG + BLUEHOST

56 Percent off Bluehost Hosting Special deal for this month

Deal just updated – Its not often that you get such a good hosting offer from bluehost at 56 % off. The price – Its an amazing $3.49 a month for 36 months just for Digitalgrog Blog Readers – Grab it here via my link (56% off -$3.49) while it lasts. Bluehost was kind enough to send me this special deal for my readers, due to being an ongoing customer and affiliate partner. If your looking to start a new blog or looking to get a spare hosting account ,this is just what you needed.

[Deal available Limited time ]

The Free domain name with hosting is for 1 year and 2 year hosting plans, check individual offers for details. These plans will expire soon as they are only promo plans so check discount link for expiry details.

Godaddy Offers [2019 updated]:

$1/mo WordPress Managed Hosting from GoDaddy!

Activate this link and get $1 per month on order of managed WordPress hosting

$1.00*/ mo Managed WordPress hosting

Coupon Code: ClickHere

Get A$.99 .COM Domains at GoDaddy!

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Buy a .WEBSITE domain name for just 99 cents for the first year.

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Save 30% Off All New GoDaddy Products!

Use the promo code above to save 30% off new products and renewals. No minimum spend on this one. While this is the best promo code, warning : it works for some products but not others. If it doesn’t work, try one of the many coupons below.

Coupon Code: cjc2off30

RENEWAL CODES

GoDaddy Hosting Renewal Promo Code: Save 20% On Hosting

This code is still working for hosting renewals. If you have GoDaddy hosting coming up then you may want to renew now, before these promo codes start to disappear forever

Coupon Code: hostvip20

GoDaddy Domain Renewal Coupon: Save $10 On Orders Over $50

This promo code is one of the only codes still working for renewals, and is probably the best promo code for domain renewals: save $10 on orders over $50. If you renew your .COM domain for 2 years, you will qualify for the discounted pricing.

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Not many websitehosting companies now days give an offer where you can get both a domain and a hosting for free at the same time, so this offer is particularly appealing if you’re starting a new blog or then looking for a second hosting account to start a second website or blog.

Youtube video for blog setup from howtoblogtv

[Video on how to set up blog with godaddy]

Both webhosting providers support the most popular blogging software wordpress, which can be installed quickly with a 1 click install. They also support many other blog software scripts, forums scripts and image galleries scripts, if you want to host something other than a blog.

The most important bit is that , you can install more than 1 blog on your hosting account so If you suddenly decide to get another domain name and start a new second blog, you don’t need to buy another hosting account.

The above listed hosting plans prices from these two providers are for a monthly basis, but are charged on a yearly basis, so you will have to calculate the total costs on a yearly basis. Plans are also available for a pay as you go monthly basis, but then the prices are a bit pricier than the ones listed above.

Guide – Building a wordpress blog in 3 steps and more https://t.co/nQGKpA0Mm7 pic.twitter.com/SEosYW3lxa

— DigitalGrog (@undermarrest) April 20, 2018

Why are these Hosting and domain plans so cheap?

These bloghosting providers normally can afford to give these low prices only due to offering these plans to new customers and making money from customers over the longer term, when they extend their contracts. The advertised price is only for the first year, and then it switches back to normal renewal prices a few dollars more. You have the options at that time to switch to a new hosting provider to then remain as a customer with your existing website-host.

Dedicated servers Vs shared plans

These plans are cheaper because the y are shared hosting plans and not dedicated servers or VPS servers which are a bit more costly and not shared servers. The dedicated and Vps servers are generally quite speedy and more exclusive. However if your just starting out with a website or blog, these shared plans will easily serve your purpose at a reasonable price. These above two provided hosting plans are currently cheaper than most other popular shared plans.

Bluehost and go daddy also offer great tips and blogging and website guides on their blog https://garage.godaddy.com/ and http://www.bluehost.com/blog/ blogs and they also offer server checking status tools to check your server status

Hosting of your blog or website is considered the backbone of your blog and one of the main factors that keeps your blog running smoothly without glitches and if you get this important factor wrong with a bad hosting provider, you could be missing out on valuable traffic from your viewers due to dodgy servers that are slow or then having server issues. Make sure you check the uptime of your websitehost; Bluehost and godaddy have a good uptime rating and have just upgraded their servers so speed is also good.

Right now you can get a free domain name with both of them so both deals are good; however godaddy is beating bluehost on price. Bluehost though does have more scripts/software to install and choose from in their hosting panel and have a much more user friendly administration panel.

Website-Hosting deals for our readers from Dreamhost

If you are a dreamer you will like these special prices “Dreamhost deals” that we have as part of our website promotion apart from the one listed above.

Get $25 off shared hosting plans – Click here

Get$50 off Shared hosting plans- Click here

If you do end up clicking the above discount referral links and purchase a hosting a/c or domain do let me know or then get in touch with me if you run into any problems with setting up your blog. I will be glad to help.

Until then /ciao-Jeff

[ Note: Digitalgrog is a Bluehost/ Hostgator/ Hostmonster/ Godaddy /Dreamhost/Ipage affiliate partner and we also have hosting accounts with these services, which means that in addition to using their service, we also receive a commission for referring new customers. To be fair, though, we would still use any of these Hosting services , but do have a preference for some and so we have done a full review of all the hosting partners we use. Ergo, we don’t recommend Bluehost or any featured host just because we’re an affiliate (every hosting company offers a similar affiliate program and you could pick any of them ), but we recommend Bluehost because they are the best, most reliable option. Plus, because we’re a partner, Bluehost offers a special price for digitalgrog.com.au readers: only $3.49 a month and you already have our godaddy $1 special above. That’s a phenomenal price. Links provided above will take you to the latest updated promo deals. Feel free to pick which host suits your budget or preference and good luck 🙂 ]

Real Reviews on WordPress hosting providers

January 7, 2016 by admin 5 Comments

Reliable and good wordpress hosting is a necessity for professional bloggers. If you are setting up your first self hosted blog with paid hosting or then just searching for more information on setting up a blog – You will need a domain name + a good hosting company as a minimum. [Updated March 2016]

Google will give you both good reviews and bad reviews for hosting , but you yourself need to know what you actually need to start a blog – Like Do you need email forwarding, do you need a Free domain name, are you looking for a CMS website.

A newbie blogger can make do with good shared hosting whihc is quite cheap to start with and more popular blogs with high traffic possibly need a dedicated hosting or VPS service.

Unfortunately, If you search for Word press Hosting on Google – you will pretty much get bad reviews on each and every webhost out there, that is providing a wordpress hosting service. It is difficult to get a 100% genuine review that proves that a particular web-host ticks all the boxes.

99.9 % Uptime for wordpress hosting Guaranteed, Really!

I have now been in the blogging game for many years and gone through quite a few hosting providers. I still currently use Bluehost , Dreamhost, Hostmonster and now go daddy and they have done well, but with many ups and downs over time.

To my good or bad luck I just signed up for go daddy wordpress hosting and a week later happened to come across heaps of reviews saying it is very bad host for wordpress hosting, so I am keeping my fingers crossed.[update – I am still using godaddy now 11/07/2016 and it is still a good choice for beginner niche websites]

Hosting Type	Monthly Plan	Features
Shared	$7.95 Month ( + free Domain name )	Free -SSL/TLS Certificates with Let’s Encrypt Free – Domain Privacy Protection
VPS	$15 Month	Plans include 1 dedicated IP address, 100% network uptime and 24/7 tech support – Unlimited Bandwith and unlimited Domains
Dedicated server	$149 month	Perfect for High Traffic Websites Unlimited bandwidth and full Root and shell access
DreamPress	$19.95 per month!	Automatic WordPress Install & Core Updates Hosted on Virtual Private Servers

2015 Aussie deals for Black friday and Cyber monday sale

November 27, 2015 by admin 1 Comment

Updated 25 November 2015 : In previous years, Black friday and cyber Monday was not as big in Australia and it still not really a biggie! Australian retailers and their customers have remained largely ignorant of the biggest online US shopping bonanza on Black Friday / cyber Monday .

[Some links on this post – have not been updated with most recent discount offers , but it will still take you to the vendor website which offer the latest black friday + Cyber monday deals for 2015 )

However Australians have not had to miss out on big bargains available to US customers in Black Friday online sales with a huge number of them shopping online, they bargains are pretty much there for all to grab and if you’re looking for SEO and blog related bargains, you sure are in luck.

For those seeking shipping with deals

Luckily for Australians, a lot of those US stores also ship here, which means Aussies can take part in the shopping mania.

Offers are for a very limited time — some of them end at the end of Black Friday (Saturday 7pm AEDT), while others run for the whole weekend. And then there’s Cyber Monday next week (Tuesday Australian time).

Deals for Bloggers /Online marketers

AS most products that bloggers and online marketers seek are digital products, it becomes easy to snag a nice bargain if it Hosting, Domains, SEO TOOLS, WordPress Themes and downloadable software or Ebooks. Online retailers don’t mind passing on the savings be is USA or Australia as there is no shipping involved.

I was a bit disappointed not finding any deals for Envato ( theme forrest black friday deals ) and also nothing for mail chimp which I would gladly spend money for . However, they were plenty other that I availed off.

I am signed up with quite a few online platforms supporting my blogging like Hosting companies ( Bluehost , Hostgator , Hostmonster ), wordpress themes providers ( elegant themes , solostream themes , and WP Zoom themes), Software for blogs (Max CDN and more) which I use and I will list below.

So Here are some of the POPULAR Deals for Black Friday (updated to Cyber Monday )

[These deals are a for a limited time only during the BLACK FRIDAY /CYBER Monday period – please check availability on the deal pages]

The biggest discounts for Australians and bloggers like me on Black Friday are things like software, wordpress themes and web hosting, you can lock in saving ranging s from anywhere between 50% to 75% irrespective of which country you are from.

Domain Registration Deals 2015

Godaddy.com 2015 Deals

You can get $0.99 domains

Grab a domain while it’s cheap from go daddy the top domain registrar on the internet.You c an also get $1 hosting + 1 Free domain by following this link.

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Webhosting for blogs and websites in 2015

Bluehost Hosting

Bluehost is a reliable hosting service for websites and blogs, they’ve been around for a while, and they’ve got a 24-hour customer service. Click on affiliate banner above to get the deal( its $3.25 a month special deal for wordpress hosting)

Bluehost cyber monday deals

Cyber Monday has special deals being offered with shared hosting package at lowest ever price ever @ $2.95/month. That means you will be paying only $35.4 for one year of unlimited premium hosting for WordPress.

Cyber Monday starts at 12:01 am EST and ends 11:59 PST. The pricing is below.

Starter:
36 months: $2.95
24 months: $3.95
12 months: $4.95

Plus:
36 months: $5.25
24 months: $6.95
12 months: $7.95

Pro:
36 months: $13.25
24 months: $15.95
12 months: $18.95

Get the –> Bluehost Cyber Monday Offer
Deal time: 30th November 2015 (12.01 A.M. – 11.59 P.M. MST)

Hostgator Hosting

Hostgator has some amazing discounts of 2015 !! They are doing promotions ALL weekend long (Friday through Monday).

HostGator provides every customer with the necessary tools to get a fully-functional website up and running as quickly as possible.They have a partnership with Weebly, providing an incredibly convenient drag-and-drop website builder,and with their QuickInstall application installer, you can have an amazing website online in no time!

Hostgator is kicking off Black Friday in style ongoing sales through this weekend. This will run from 12 AM central to 1AM Central, November 29th. [ coupon code : dg25percentoff]

Take advantage of the best savings of the year, but only for 1 Hour starting at 3 AM CST today, November 28th. This Flash Sale won’t last long, so head to HostGator.com now to save 80%*! Use coupon code SATFLASH1

Plus 50% Off Marketing, Design, PPC And More!

Managed Marketing and Design services are now up to 50% off for new and existing customers

Hostmonster

HostMonster has confirmed a few of the offers it will be running:

Shared web hosting from $3.95/mo
The entire Mojo Marketplace theme bundle for just $29
50% off selected domains

The Black Friday sale begins at 12am on November 27th and ends midnight on Cyber Monday.

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Download 12 premium WordPress themes for only $29.

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What Type of Web Hosting Service Suits your Business?

May 6, 2015 by admin 1 Comment

Web hosting is a service that every business, regardless of size or market demand needs to address, however, a company’s individual need may vary greatly in the services they require to accommodate their online needs. When deciding how to deal with your business’s web hosting needs it is important to know the basic varieties, including shared hosting, VPS, hosted services and self hosted, as well as the differences between them.

Web Hosting

The first step in finding a company’s web hosting demands is to fully understand web hosting, and the services it can provide. A website host is a server or computer that constantly remains online, making a website accessible via the internet. When visitors access the site they are actually downloading files from the computer in which they are stored.

In reality, any computer can be used to host a website, but professional services use computers specifically configured for power, using large amounts of memory and hard disks to efficiently deliver data and website content to potentially thousands of users at the same time. Any business with a website will require web hosting, and the larger the brand, and the more active the website, the more powerful the service will need to be.

Self Hosted

The self hosted approach is probably best suited to smaller businesses running very basic sites, as it consists of hosting the website independently off of a home or office internet connection. Hosting your own website has a few advantages, including freedom to do as you please with the website.

In addition to this it can be quite powerful, depending on how many computing resources you have to commit to it. Self hosting is not without it’s drawbacks, and these should be considered. Disadvantages of a self hosted site include the amount of technical knowledge necessary to execute it, and speeds can be greatly lacking due to poor upload speeds, as well self hosting may violate your ISP’s terms of agreement and all traffic you host will be reflected on your bandwidth usage.

Shared Hosting

Shared hosting is when your site is powered by one server, acting a host to thousands of other websites as well. Shared hosting is a budget friendly alternative, so it is great for small or new businesses, offering an all in one package, with domain name and hosting, bringing your brand to the internet.Major advantages of shared hosting include the cost effectiveness of the service, the ability to provide a custom domain, and an easy to use interface for blogging and forums – all requiring minimal technical knowledge.

Disadvantages are the incredibly slow speeds, and the fact that it has only basic capabilities due to the limitations of a shared server.

VPS and Dedicated Servers

These are the most ideal type of website hosting servers because they provide each client their own individual server space. VPS, or virtual private server, is a virtual machine, compared to a dedicated server that is similar in nature but is a physical system dedicated to hosting the site.

The major benefits of going with this type of hosting is that it offers essentially unlimited domain hosting and offers incomparable loading speeds, often 5 times faster than other approaches. As with anything, there are drawbacks to this particular service, and they include the associated costs as this is the priciest alternative, as well as the amount of knowledge required. These techniques are excellent for popular and intricate websites that see a lot of traffic and have a lot of content.

Hosted Services

Hosted services is the simplest form of web hosting, and involves creating a smaller, or subsite with a larger site. These websites are often committed to one purpose, like blogging, and many are free to use. Advantages of using hosted services include the simplicity and ease of getting started, as well as good speeds because you are dealing with a specialised company.

The biggest disadvantages to this technique include the lack over control over a technicality, and a lack of support for things like plugins. Also the portability is an issue, as you are part of a bigger site, and if your popularity rises it is difficult to witch hosts without losing fans and followers.

Whichever type of hosting solution you choose, ensure you go for one that is able to grow with your business.

Secure Internet Gateways: what are they and how do they work?

April 11, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

While the Internet has become invaluable in today’s modern world, it is also a place that is rife with risks and dangers. So, how can individuals and businesses protect themselves against the dangers of going online?

Both businesses and individuals these days spend more and more time online, with the internet and advanced technology enhancing both personal and business lives in many ways. However, the internet is also a place where danger can lurk in many different guises, which is why it is vital for individuals and businesses to take measures that can protect them from these dangers with solutions.

What is a Secure Internet Gateway?

With an ever increasing number of people going online it comes as no surprise that the amount of crime that now takes place online is also increasing. Even though for most business or agency websites there are often a huge number of genuine users accessing their systems every day there is also a considerable number of people that are trying to access the site either to defraud or shut down the website. This can take the form of malware, spam, DDOS (Distributed Denial of service), Trojan and now also Phishing and bots through social media sites, all designed to gain access to your site maliciously.

All of these dangers are global in nature and these threats are big…and are just getting bigger. For this reason websites need some form of protection from these attacks, and that is where a Secure Internet Gateway comes in.

A Secure Internet Gateway is essentially a secure connection to the internet that help protect any networks, websites and company IT systems from external attacks or cyberthreats as they are more commonly known. This Secure Internet Gateway is designed to allow in any genuine users wanting access to a website whilst preventing those that are seen as a threat from gaining access.

How does a Secure Internet Gateway work?

To provide businesses and government agencies with the highest levels of security when allowing users access to their websites Secure Internet Gateways provide a number of core methods to prevent unwanted threats from attacking their sites. These include:

· 24/7 threat analysis 365 days a year to ensure nothing can get through the Secure Internet Gateway without first being checked

· Security checks made on every users accessing a site and then compared against a list of key possible risks

· The use of necessary counter-measures to effectively combat any kind of threat trying to gain access to the website ensuring that a site remains secure at all times

Although there are a huge number of unique threats out there, most providers of Secure Internet Gateways reduce this number to a much smaller number of general threats. This means that all security checks are carried out in the smallest amount of time possible so that users don’t have to wait long periods before being able to access the site.

New legislation released by various governments around the world is ensuring that many government agencies are now working to strict guidelines when using Secure Internet Gateways to ensure that these sites are more secure than they have ever been before.

For more information on Secure Internet Gateways, take a look at this video:

Author bio: Phil Bryan is a trainee lawyer who is aiming to specialise in family law. He has worked in many fields in the past, including a data centre similar to Macquarie Telecom.

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