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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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Google Adwords PPC free Coupons for advertising (small business)

I recently received a mailer from google due to running websites, funny though they banned my adwords ppc account but still send me free ppc adwords coupons to advertise my website DUH!! .

Anyway since i will not be using it , here it is first come first serve

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Individual License deals

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Hope you benefit from one of these deals in 2015 and i will keep posting more as they become available.Enjoy!

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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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Expertise

WP Engine takes care of your business platform even when you are not present. You can expect round the clock support from their expert services. The professional engineers provide managed WordPress hosting by delivering support 800 hours daily round the clock.

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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!

How server technology is becoming agile with co-location

June 5, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

Colocation is the hot new thing in the IT crowd and for small businesses – but what exactly is it? To explain things in a way that is going to be easy to understand for you, colocation is a process that effectively works to give you the ability to own your own hardware and servers, but to locate them in another company’s data centre. What this means is that instead of keeping all of the systems and equipment in house, and paying to maintain them and keep them powered and up and running – even in the event of a power outage or a storm (the consequences of not doing so can be disastrous!) you pay someone else to do it for you.

Colocation is a new innovation driven by the fact that there are many new startups and businesses around who simply do not have the facilities to store something like servers within their own office. These companies want the freedom to have their own servers but don’t want to maintain them, and thus, colocation was the best option.

This practice gives you the freedom to upgrade the hardware as and when you need to, and it also proves to be a far cheaper option as a business owner. Now that we’ve outlined some of the basics of colocation, we can have a look at some of the pros of colocation for a business.

You own the server and the machinery. That means that if you suddenly decide that a machine is too slow for your needs, or that it doesn’t have the memory that your business required to run successfully, then you can simply upgrade it without having to ask anyone else about it. Another benefit to this is that you own the server software that comes with your machinery. You do not have to sit around waiting for a provider to make some upgrades if things are slow or too behind the times. You can just do it yourself. The same things goes if you decide that you want to use ASP or ColdFusion, you can just buy the software and then go and install it all.

Another bonus to using server colocation is that if you move offices for example, you can leave the server that you have in the borrowed rack up and running for the entire time. If you host your own domain, you’re going to find that you have to pay for two lines for a period of time in order to move domains over to a new location or to deal with the possible outages while the servers take time to move over to the new location.

Using colocation means that there is additional security being provided for your machines, and your server is going to be stored and maintained in a secure and well-maintained environment. After all, the company who is going to be storing your servers are also going to be storing their own servers there, so it makes sense that they would take care of things really well. You will also find that many colocation servers are going to offer a service whereby they take care of and manage your server – for an additional cost on top of your service agreement. If you don’t have an IT department this is going to be a very useful service for you.

Hopefully this article has gone some way towards explaining what colocation is, with a quick look at some of the advantages of using it for your business as well. Only time will tell how effective this practice is going to be in the future – but suffice to say, it’s working well so far. For further information regarding the benefits of colocation and how it could help your business, click here.

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.

30 percent off Solsotream WordPress themes for Octoberfest

The 2015 Website Octoberfest Discount Page

Oktoberfest deals 2015

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