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

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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.

MOJO Bundle Discount

Download 12 premium WordPress themes for only $29.

Offer ends soon – grab it while you can!

Enjoy HostMonster unlimited web hosting as low as $3.95 per month instead of the regular price of $6.99/month with this HostMonster Black Friday 2013 sale..

Click banner above to see if you qualify for the hosting 2015 and MOJO deals.

I use Hostmonster , blue-host and hostgator hosting for my different blogs . This blog runs on hostmonster. You can also click here to sign up with my hosting provider hostmonster.com [ Get Hostmonster Deal Here Coupon: Gimmemore ]

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2015 WordPress themes for blogs

If you got a domain and webhosting you are pretty much all equipped to get your website all up and running, but you need good wordpress themes for your blog or website to have that look.

I am a member of all these theme providers below and I have used all of them on my different websites

Elegant themes

This has been one of my all time favourites in word press theme providers for 3 reasons.

The most amazing prize for a quality theme provider – One price for 80+ themes
Different types of themes, shop theme , portfolio theme, news theme they got it all
Small them file sizes in spite of the top quality means super fast theme loading times

They don’t need to provide a discount code as such because its a everyday discount at elegant themes with them already having lowest pricesfor wordpress themes bundle on the internet , how ever they also are getting into the crazy discounts promotion for 2015 and here it is . Get it here

Tthis year they are pulling out all the stops with biggest discount of all time! Today they are offering 25% off all new memberships and account upgrades! If you sign up with the discount, you also get to keep that discount for life!

This is an especially great time to grab yourself a Lifetime Membership or Lifetime Account Upgrade (our highest discount on Lifetime accounts was previously 10%, so we are more than doubling that for the next couple days).

If you are a customer on our Personal Plan, today you can upgrade for only $15 and get access to newly released Divi Builder Plugin. If you have been thinking about upgrading to a Lifetime Account, you can save up to $58 if you upgrade today This deal ends soon

Wpzoom themes

WP Zoom themes – They got a nice set of professional news and magazine themes in addition to blog and portfolio themes which are designed different from the elegant themes look – I’ve purchased the$9/mo -$199 SIGN-UP FEE membership option, but there are other –See pricing options

Solostream themes wordpress themes

WP VISUAL THEME

WP-Visual

WP BLOSSOM THEME WP-Blossom

My this blog uses the solostream clear template – Truly SEO optimised and nicely structured blog. This word press theme compares to ( other theme providers like thesis and studio press which are $75 to 200 range ). Its a premium blog theme with excellent AdSense advertising options inbuilt which you can use for affiliate/advertising links as well which is not available inbuilt in some other premium themes.

Theme forest word press themes

You can grab great wordpress themes from as low as $3 from themeforest or the envato marketplace for themes ( click here ) and you can also access their vast collection of wordpress plugins over here . Currently no deals available

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Gadgets deals for 2013

Who doesn’t like a gadget, it’s the generation of smart everything – if you are a busy person and on the move you will need to be connected all the time. Below are some deals to keep you in touch with your inner gadget geek.

Cybermonday and Blackfriday is one of the biggest unites states online sales events in the year, it attracted more than 10 million shoppers and $1.25 billion in sales last year in 2012and even higher in 2013 and growing.

The big Guns of the internet Amazon, DELL , Best Buy..

Yes the big guns like amazon and Best buy will always take part in such amazing days to flog their wares with some sweet deals, why not take advantage of it check out deals from the big guns below

AVG Technologies

40% OFF: Black Friday Deal AVG ANTI Virus

BIG COMMERCE – Open an online shop with success

BING Advertising for your business

SEMRUSH DEAL for 2015

SEMRUSH is one of the smartest and an award-winning SEO tool. This is perfect for an individual blogger, for agencies or for large SEO companies to take care of all their SEO need

As Google has started blocking showing some referral data the value of using these 3rd party tools has increased.

SEM Rush Pro costs $79 per month (or $69 if you sign up recurring), so this free trial is worth about $35 to $40.

Take advantage of SEMRush’s free 2-week trial today.
Do you know, how much your competitors spend on AdWords? SEMrush.com will tell you!

Set up a free account on their website & enter the promo code Linked above.

Amazon Shipping Rates and Times to Australia

This page details information on shipping to Australia. Please refer to the links below for more information.

· Standard Shipping Rate Chart

· Expedited Shipping Rate Chart

· Priority Courier Shipping Rate Chart

· Surcharge Chart for Heavy or Bulky Media

· International Shipping Policies

AMAZON Black Friday /Cyber Monday Deals

Check out some Current deals here from amazon –> Amazon black friday deals

Black Friday is held annually on the Friday after Thanksgiving, so it will land on Friday November 29 this year. There is also Cyber Monday on the Monday following Black Friday.

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Shipping for Australians from US

Two providers that i could recommend when ti comes to shipping from US to Australia is Qannu and myus.com. Both provide you with US address on registration and handle the shipping process for you to do hassle free online shopping in the US.

MyUS.com

MyUS.com helps shoppers shopping via us websites to shop without borders by handling the whole shipping process, established since 1997. They are one of the largest leaders today in international package consolidation, serving more than 200,000 customers in over 220 countries.

Click banner above to register with them

QANNU Shipping

Qannu is a unique delivery service for Aussie bargains which allows you to participate in the biggest retail sale in the world and have exclusive brands delivered right to your doorsteps.

I would suggest have a think about what you would probably need through the course of the year and buy and keep it now while the deals are on, if you end up using even 50 % of the stuff you bought you already got a sweet deal.

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5 apps every small business owner should have on their mobile

November 26, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

Small business owners are constantly looking for ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations. Within a highly competitive marketplace, businesses are relentlessly striving to gain an edge over their competitors. The power of mobile has emerged as a major factor contributing to how a small business is able to thrive in today’s technologically dominated business arena.

Increasingly versatile and powerful mobile app development is playing an ever increasing role in helping small businesses improve customer service, boost sales and gain an overall competitive edge in their market.

Here’s our pick for the top 5 mobile apps every small business owner should be taking advantage of:

1. Expensify

Inefficient control over how a business handles its expenses can quickly lead a small company down the road toward ruin. Expensify simplifies the process of expense reporting, expense approval and synergizing with your business’ accounting package. With super handy features like unlimited receipt uploads, to the ability to submit expense reports anywhere, anytime, this administrative app is a firm favourite amongst finance managers everywhere.

2. Trello

Designed to boost productivity and enhance internal collaboration within a business, Trello couples a strong emphasis on visuals with free, flexible functionality. The result is an app that acts to streamline organization and speed up collaboration and co-operation within your business. Project management is simplified thanks to the elimination of reliance upon marathon email threads, out of sync spreadsheets, haphazard sticky note style organization and clumsy software.

3. GoToMeeting

If you are looking for the fastest way to connect and communicate with clients, co-workers, collaborators, suppliers or prospects then this is the App for you. Users reported closing deals 20% faster than they did when using any other communications solutions on the market. This app is all about providing businesses with a mobile, professional, fast and secure way to conduct top level business meetings with anyone, anywhere on any mobile device. This is a fully-equipped boardroom in your pocket that is able to integrate with the other important apps in your workflow like Outlook, Gmail, SalesForce and Zapier.

4. LevelUp

How to get paid is a huge factor for any business, but more so for small businesses looking to stay ahead of the curve and meet the needs of its customers. LevelUp is an App that offers your business the capability to process one-touch mobile payments whilst at the same time enhancing customer loyalty, gathering essential data for improved customer profiling and generating rewards programs. All of this helps your business entice new customers, raise existing customer service levels and track sales performance.

5. Snapseed

For businesses heavily reliant on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, Snapseed provides professional quality photo editing capability for businesses looking to keep their corporate image in tact when posting to social media. Eliminating the need for highly-priced photo editing software and the graphic designers to run it, Snapseed puts the power of professional photo and image editing on your mobile device.

Apps are playing an integral part in how businesses optimize their operations – from marketing and driving a social media presence to how they process payment and organize expenses, projects and communication. The mobile phone and the technology to drive business growth have now been put in the small business owners’ pocket.

5 FREE SEO tools and case study of your ranking and banking keywords

November 25, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

There is SEO and then there is SEM, but you pretty much need both to succeed. The good thing is that most big players in the search engine optimization game offer free research tools to their punters to try/test out their tools before buying.

These are the popular softwre companies like SEO MAJESTIC, AHREFS, SEM RUSH and MOZ.com

No prizes then for guessing which of these are my favourites

1. Ahrefs.com

2. Semrush.com

3. Moz.com

4. Seomajestic.com

5. Alexa.com (not a tool – Nielpatel – but he thinks that this also pulls the most relevant keywords from your blog)

Yes my likeability for them is pretty much in that same order. Now I have not been able to afford a full membership, because many of them start at a price between $69 to $150 a month which is a bit steep to me, but you on the other hand – if you have the money go ahead and try it.

I would like to try SEMRUSH if I had the chance & money as i like their interface and they are updating their indexed URL at a good pace to compete with the top guns( You know one of my wish list now – so feel free to buy me one :)

So what this post/case study can help you with

Finding the Keywords Your Competitors Use

Checking Google Keyword Rankings and money maker keywords

FIND a good software SEO Tool

Anyway back to what I intended to show you today, how good is the data really on these SEO tools providers. I am going to compare them to the big daddy of data hoarders (Google webmaster tools and analytics) as google pretty much knows which website is doing what and have the most data on the internet on websites.

It’s pretty simple what I’m doing here

I go to stat counter and webmaster tools and then sync my keyword data from Google to what I have in stat counter dashboard and have a look at the merged and comparison keyword data in stat counter ( click link to see how its done).

This then will give me the keywords that are bringing in the most traffic to my blog and I can see which ones are bringing in the revenue.

NEXT….

Meat lover Australia
Bacon and yoghurt bbq
Lemon and cheese special
Bourbon cucumber weed
Raw prawn chia seed pizza

Next : I do a comparison of these keywords against these SEO tools. I enter my blog url in SEM rush, Ahrefs etc and see if any of them picks up (keywords) that i found via the data matching i did with & found from Google and statcounter data

What I am trying to do here?

The aim of this case study is to find out – if any of the above listed seo tool providers can find out/match the ranking and banking keywords that I have got from GOOGLE WEBMASTER TOOLS/STATCOUNTER (merged) from doing a search on their webpage without signing in on their full membership. So pretty much we are trying to gauge – how good they are with the little data they are giving out before a person signs up to their membership plan for the full data.

Now I’m not going to use my sites for this experiment, even though I have used one of them… but im replacing some keywords with say Dominos pizza kinds of site keywords to make it interesting.

So the keywords will actually reflect the actual case study I have done for actual money maker & Google ranking keywords – but replaced it with pizza keywords

So let’s say those keywords (from stat counter and GWT merged data) were

So my data tells me that this is the money maker (Google ranking) keywords and I need to check with the big guns (Ahrefs, SEM rush etc if they can find that out) with a URL check.

::::::: I did these checks without logging into any of these providers’ websites::::

( I refer to snapshot page in this post as the first results page of the SEO tool provider after I enter url an click enter for results to display )

SEMRUSH

I put in the URL of the website and do a search on semrush.

So Semrush has one of the organic keywords (Raw prawn chia seed pizza) in their list that matches my GWT/statcounter keyword. But point to be noted is that they have many more organic keywords listed for the website but it can be seen only with a full SEM rush membership

[Additional note- Semrush gives you a basic snapshot of also your MAIN ORGANIC COMPETITORS so you can also spy on your competitors for their keywords]

Ahrefs

It gave no keyword data that matched my GWT/statcounter keywords.

I think SEM RUSH did a better job of listing my top 10 competitor’s urls, considering that the domain name I compared for this case study was a .com.au Australian domain. SEM rush returned not only Australian competitors but also relevant .com competitors in their snap shot, while the Ahrefs Top 10 competitors didn’t look relevant at all

[Additional note- Ahrefs give you a good look at the rising numbers of referring pages in their snapshot page .A steady rise in this number is good for SEO. It also gives you a good idea of how you’re US and UK organic traffic is increasing in numbers – under organic traffic heading and chart]

Seo Majestic

They didn’t provide any keywords in their snapshot page, but under pages column in snapshot the three urls/pages were present there that were the get/statcounter keywords pointing to those pages. Only somewhat helpful – not much ( and that is only because I knew what I was looking for , so wish they actually listed what keywords the website is organically ranking for in the snapshot page like the rest )

[Additional note – they do give a trust flow and citation flow ranking , but what I like is their pretty colourful charts showing backlink breakdown and anchor text breakdown – their backlink history graph can also be useful for SEO]

Moz.com

Moz did not give me any matching keywords on their open site explorer page. They did not list any keywords for website in their snapshot page

[additional note – Moz does a good job of giving you a Domain authority (DA) and Page authority (PA) score – I like the spam analysis they did on linking sites – which is sites linking to you, these can be good if you want to disavow (remove) links that are bad and linking to you]

Moz bad links analysis

Alexa.com

Alexa.com didn’t give me any keywords that matched. They had five different keywords to what I got from GWT/statcounter.

Under their headings

Top Keywords from Search Engines

Which search keywords send traffic to this site?

I did not get any matched keywords to my GWT/Statcounter Keywords for the 5 keywords that they pulled of my website, so there you go (nielpatel)

[Additional note : I like the way how alexa give s you a global rank and show you if it’s been climbing high recently and also the stats of how much time people are actually spending on your website (How engaged are visitors) which can give you an idea of bounce rate and if you should improve content + also — > Which sites did people visit immediately before this site?]

Now I do know that I could possibly get much more relevant keywords and ranking data from these SEO DATA providers after signing up for a membership, but aren’t these companies supposed to provide good free data to entice us signing up for their full membership with their free SEO snapshot. Most failed in this and so there is plenty of marketing opportunity to improve I suppose for them.

I hope you have got something useful from this case study , as you can see I prefer to use sem rush for my SEO needs and also use other tools like AHREFS, Seo majestic etc to compare results . If you think there are some good tools that can give me that data I need, do leave a comment or get in touch with me via contact page and i would be glad to add it to this research/case study page

Horse Racing Australia: Bet offers for Melbourne Cup 2015 race carnival

November 2, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

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Update 03/11/2015 (Click Here to see winners of the Melbourne cup 2015 ) Melbourne cup 2015 is here and everybody is pumped and ready to have a punt on the horses. The race that stops the nation is once again here for 2015. People will have their fingers crossed and hoping for a windfall and good times as the Flemington 3200M race for Melbourne cup starts tomorrow noon .

One of the most popular type of betting in Australia is either betting for fixed bets or then tote.

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Whats different between fixed betting and tote betting ?

TOTE BETTING

The Tote (also known as Parimutuel betting) is commonly used for horse racing, while the fixed odds betting is commonly used for sports. Saying that tis is a system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool

In Australia with the Tote the bookmaker displays the approximate odds that they believe you will receive on a punt . This approximation of the value is based on the quantities of bets received to that point. These odds however will change, however depending on how much additional money is placed on each outcome or horse. Because of this you don’t know the actual odds you will get until bets are no longer accepted and the race/event has commenced.

Fixed odds betting

Fixed betting is pretty much what it says , returns are fixed at time of betting . In Australia fixed odds betting is a form of wagering where the punter knows the exact odds he or /she will receive when they place a bet

Fixed odds betting is more risky for the bookmaker than the Tote, because the profit margin is not guaranteed and the bookmaker’s profit will not be the same for every outcome.

Most popular kinds of bets

Win

A win bet is an option where the selected horse must win the race outright. In the case of a dead-heat, the winning price will be halved. The most common type of online bet, the win option gives punters a chance to make full use of the bookmakers promotions. These include money back specials and protest payouts; if you’re horse finishes second or third in a selected race they will refund your win bet and if your horse loses on a protest, they will pay out both win bets.

Place

A place bet offers lower odds than a win bet, due to the increased likelihood of it succeeding. The selected runner must finish in the first three across the line for the bet to pay out. If there are less than seven horses in the field, then only the first two horse’s payout, however odds will increase because of this.

Trifecta

Punters must select the first three horses in any order. Due to the increased risk factor of this bet, the payouts are of greater value compared to quinella’s. A three-horse boxed trifecta costs $6, or $3 for .cents worth (the most commonly made trifecta). There are multiple options for trifecta bettors including straight, boxed, banker and roving banker

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30 percent off Solsotream WordPress themes for Octoberfest

October 18, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

There is no doubt that i Like solostream themes and that is proven in my WP clear theme which i use for my this website. There is no better way or quicker way to change the design of your blog other than getting a good looking wordpress theme design from a design provider and installing it in a couple of clicks on your blog.

The 2015 Website Octoberfest Discount Page

Solostream and then Elegant themes have been my favourites for years and they have served me well not only due to the professional looking designs , but they hardly ever break or create problems for my website and there is always the good support team in case you need them.

Oktoberfest deals 2015

Now solostream dont usually put out an offer for discounts on their themes often as they are already rightly priced for their features , but if they do like NOW when its 30 % off , its tie to grab the offer if you are looking to get a new design for your blog or then looking to give it a fresh look.

For a limited time, they are offering 30% discount promotion on the Lifetime package, which includes 39(!!) Amazing Premium WordPress Themes. Plus Full Access to any new Themes they release.

Coupon Code: OctoberFest

Link to buy : Click here ( an then enter the coupon code after purchase)

Some of the features that i like

Adsense Friendly

This theme is adsense friendly out of the box and is compliant with google adsense policy, you can adjust your adsense ads above the fold , below the fold and in various sizes and this theme has options for all of them.

Banner friendly

This theme is also banner friendly,it accommodates banners of different sizes and different areas and you can turn them on and off as you want

Professional looking designs

The solostream designs are professional looking and always include options to add your popular social media buttons for sharing/promotion of your content.

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Is optimised or managed hosting better than shared hosting in 2015

October 17, 2015 by admin 5 Comments

First i will start off with what is optimised hosting?

[updated 17 October 2015]

In simple terms it means that your hosting provider has provided exclusive hardware or servers for hosting your blog and enhanced the software and plugins to make your blog runs more smoothly and faster than normal blogs and websites. You can also say it is better than shared hosting but more affordable than many dedicated hosting plans

If you are just beginning with your first WordPress blog, you have come to the right place by visiting start a website.info, because my mini optimised or managed WordPress hosting guide is sure to be very helpful to you. Even if you are already into blogging and have some knowledge of all this pricing comparison will help you.

One of the most voiced problems by website owners and bloggers is the problem of slowness in their websites and themes or website continuously breaking, or their websites getting hacked and different optimized or managed hosting takes care of all of this.

Are you a WordPress beginner who is wondering what is managed WordPress hosting or optimised wordpress hosting?

Well they both mean are the same, it’s just two different terms for the same product. Some hosting companies call it optimized hosting and some call it managed hosting

During your website-hosting research, you probably searched Google/Bing for numerous providers and found that prices of managed WordPress hosting is quite higher than the average shared hosting which you can get for as low as $3.95 per month.

You might ask –Why is there such a big price difference?

· Is it really that much better?
· Do I need managed/optimized WordPress hosting for my site?
· Which is the best managed WordPress hosting company?

If you have all these questions, then you have come to the right place.

To sum it up in short for ya, Google search engine which pretty much runs 70 % of all searches online loves a fast, speedy Mobile optimised and secure website and managed hosting enables you to get all of these factors into your website or blog

In the following post, I will help you to select the best managed/optimized WordPress hosting for your WordPress blog and also provide some options for shared hosting just in case the price difference is not really appealing to you. In the past ten years of my own blogging journey, I have used more than 5 WordPress shared hosting services, two managed hosting services and one unmanaged dedicated VPS server.

There are other types of Word Press hosting options as well like (VPS, dedicated, etc.) apart from shared and optimised hosting.

Optimised /Managed Hosting Vs. Shared hosting

I have provide the prices for each host and also provided prices for shared hosting, but if your are starting a new blog and want to get a head start I would recommend optimized hosting. If you are a blogger already or small business website , then if you don’t have optimized hosting , you are just putting yourself behind in this competitive market.

I recommend bluehost hosting because I use their shared as well as optimised hosting and their nginx powered software-servers for this are doing a great job.

Techy webmasters have been powering their websites with nginx to make it run faster long before bluehost came up with this offer , so its definitely worth the difference in price. The other thing is they are cheaper than wp engine

Price comparison for Optimized hosting and managed hosting vs Shared

Hosting company	Optimized Hosting	Shared hosting
Bluehost	$12.49* Buy now	$3.49 (42%off) Buy now
Dreamhost	$19.95 Buy now	$5.95 (40% off) Buy now
Hostgator	Optimized- $7.46 * Click Here	$3.96 month (3 yr plan)Click here
Wpengine	$29 Buy now	Premuim Managed hosting
Godaddy	$5.99 Buy now	$3.99 Buy now
Hostmonster	$74.99 First month Dedicated Buy now	$3.95 Buy now

*Most providers the first month is cheaper (due to promotion) for managed hosting and then a slightly higher rate after that. Some hosting providers will provide a cheaper rate for the hosting if you lock in a longer term plan (these could be better for your pocket). All prices are monthly.

I would suggest that for a new WordPress blog (traffic less than 2,000/Day), Shared hosting is the best hosting option to start with. If it’s any higher than that you should probably think of upgrading to managed wordpress hosting

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How did Bluehost come out with their optimized hosting product ?

Many users were not happy with the loading times and slowness of normal shared servers. So a lot of people requested that Bluehost add a new service optimized, especially for WordPress users. These people wanted the power of a fast loading time, and the advanced security protection for wordpress, from the Bluehost servers.

I just signed up for the ‘WordPress Optimized Hosting’ at BlueHost and wanted to share… (What I am happy about). It does seem like they have an nginx / varnish / apache setup going, which seems like over kill, though it works speedily enough. They are priced at $12.49 special price for the first month (check above buy link for more details)

From experience i can say this:
Bluehost Shared vs Bluehost Shared PRO , the PRO wins.

· BlueHost PRO you get:
3.000 mysql tables (sum of all mysql , 1.000 in normal version)
Dedicated IP + SSL
BackupPRO
And better speed, from 5% to 20% speed increase
For WP version of Bluehost you get more optimised things,
more dedicated ram.

In 50% of cases, the things are easy with website speed:

· More RAM = More speed
More Cores = More speed
W3 Cache (or any) = More speed

Hosting anywhere from 5 to 30 WordPress sites

Why just host 1 website on an optimized server, instead of hosting a single website like many other managed WordPress hosting providers, Bluehost lets you host up to 5 sites for their cheapest plan, and the maximum WordPress sites you can host is 30 on the enterprise plan. It also offers Positive WildcardSSL, and with SiteLock enterprise, and premium services that no one else offers

History with optimised wordpress blogs

Optimizing blogs with nginx is not that well known , but a lot of bloggers with technical knowledge of Servers and IT were already optimizing their word press blogs themselves to get the best speed and bug free running of their blogs. These webmasters/bloggers using word press customised with nginx and apache and also running blogs on home servers with good speed while some more nerdy folks were using varnish script or then Nginx customised with W3 total cache.

You might ask “what is nginx”

Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a web server with a strong focus on high concurrency, performance and low memory usage. It can also act as a reverse proxy server for HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols, as well as a load balancer and an HTTP cache.

To put it in simple non techy language they were already optimizing their wordpressblogs to get eh best speed and usability to gain a superior advantage over other blogs. Now with bluehost , Dreampress, Go daddy and WP engine coming out with managed-optmised wordpress from out of the box , that advantage is pretty much gone

What are alternatives to optimised or managed hosting ?

Blog VPS hosting

Vps hosting involves a virtual machine sold as a service by an internet hosting service. It’s like having your own computer but in the cloud ,so you can install and run anything from it . The technology behind VPS hosting is similar to that of VMware or Virtual Box. These programs allow you to run several virtualized operating systems on one machine

Dedicated Hosting

Dedicated Hosting plans can be compared to owning a house. You are allowed and have access to all resources available on the machine. In the Web hosting business, a dedicated server refers to the rental and exclusive use of a computer that includes a Web server, related software, and connection to the Internet, housed in the Web hosting company’s premises.

The Best Managed WordPress Web Hosting Services for 2015

I’ve already mentioned bluehost optimised hosting too many times , so I will just continue with the rest and just provide a little bit more details of feature so what they provide

Dreamhost ( Dreampress 2 – Optimized wordpress hosting )

Dreamhost is also offering managed (optimized) word press hosting. Their price is $19.95/mo when you sign up for an annual plan, take nay shorter plan and you will have to shell out $24.95 a month.

DreamPress 2 Features

Now with SSDs

PHP 5.5 with OPcache & optional HHVM

Dreampress highly reliable managed WordPress hosting service from DreamHost is hosted on virtual private servers and they have added speed enhancing features such as Solid State Drives (SSDs) and optional HHVM (Hip Hop Virtual Machine). You may ask what these fancy terms do, in simple english it will help prevent site slowness, website errors, or frustrated visitors.

WP engine – Some info about wp engine

Wp Engine is mainly an premuim optimized web-hosting provider and has many plans starting from $29 a month – up to $249 + a month including personal / professional / business / premium /enterprise plans.

For E.g.

Their personal plans has the following features

· 1Wordpress install

· 25k month visitors (pay more for more)

· 10 Gb local storage (more than enough)

· Unlimited data transfer

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Hostgator –Dedicated Hosting(VPS Hosting)

Hostgator has dedicated hosting which is managed through virtual private servers. They run a Semi-Managed VPS for their $11.97 plan(Snappy 500 -now 40% off). They have other plans like Snappy 1000/2000/4000/8000 which you can take according to your requirements.

Their Dedicated plans use Virtual Private Servers with no control panel and are considered semi-managed. Support for these is limited, but they provide full root access allows you total control, as well as the ability to install advanced software and completely customize your hosting environment.

Features of their dedicated hosting

· HostGator VPS servers utilize 32-Core AMD Opteron 6376 processors

· 128GB of RAM

· 3.6TB of RAID 10 storage.

They are available 24/7/365 via Telephone, Live chat, and Email for assistance and support.

Godaddy Optimised

Godaddy calls its optimized wordpress hosting product as managed wordpress hosting.

A$5.99/mo
ON SALE – SAVE 40%
A$9.99 /mo when you renew

Features of Godaddy Managed Hosting

1 website
10GB SSD storage
25,000 visitors/month
SFTP Access

Hostmonster

Hostmonster and hostagator both suggest free plugins like W3total cachce and WP super cache to speed up your shared hosting blog. However hostmonster also offers dedicated hosting in the cloud.

WP Super Cache (recommended)
W3 Total Cache

Standard Plan features

$149.99 PER MONTH $74.99*FIRST MONTH

Dual core, 2.3 GHz Intel® Xeon Processor
3 MB cache
4 GB RAM
500 GB (RAID 1)
5 TB/month
Free Domain Name
3 IPs
CentOS 6.5 (64-bit)

Hosting is really an essential part of any online business or blog. Making sure that you use a plan that’s ideally suited to your needs as a blogger or a business is crucial to serving a fast, secure website for your visitors.

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You hopefully now have a good overall understanding of the differences between shared and managed(optimised) WordPress hosting. In short: If you’re running a WordPress website and have $12 to $19 a month to spare, you should almost certainly make the switch to a managed WordPress host.

A good hosting plan you choose can often directly influence your website’s earnings! So make the right choice and get on with starting your website today, without wasting any more time. Goodluck!

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