Archive for February, 2009

Learn More about Hosting VPS and Dedicated

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

A dedicated server or dedicated or managed hosting service as the name suggests is an internet hosting service. This is a type of hosting service, in which a client leases the whole of the server. In this sense it is different from shared hosting where in the several clients will have to share a single server. Dedicated hosting is considered to be more flexible and effective than shared hosting.

Dedicated hosting allows complete operating system and hardware control of the server to the clients. A dedicated server can offer larger and good return on investment. Overheads incurred are also less when compared to the shared hosting.

Various operating systems are offered on these dedicated servers. Some variations of Linux’s operating system are offered free of cost. Commercial and chargeable operating systems are the Microsoft windows server and Red Hat Enterprise’s version of Linux.

The main reason why people go to the dedicated servers are the availability of networks which are high powered. The providers of dedicated Service utilize huge amounts of bandwidth and hence are able to get low pricing for their volume of bandwidth. The expenses incurred if we need to setup a network like that would be huge.

Many providers of dedicated service set service level agreements on network uptime. Some of them offer uptime of 100% guarantee. This is achieved by having multiple vendors who give connectivity and also the providers have redundant hardware. A VPS or a virtual private server is generally termed as Virtual dedicated server is a method in which the server is partitioned into different servers.

Article Marketing

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

Search engines rely greatly on quality backlinks to establish how important a website is. Consequently, it is exceptionally important for any website owner to understand that building backlinks holds the means to building his presence on the web.  There are many methods to boost your backlinks, such as article marketing, web directory submissions, forum posting, news release, podcasting, webinars, to name a few. Article marketing at this time is most definitely the most cost-effective and successful way to build your backlinks.
Typically one article which has been submitted to article directories may in turn result in 5, 10,, 15, 50, 100, or more backlinks to your web site; there is really no saying to the number of links this one article could end up building for you.  Any article you write in your niche will likely build you a number of backlinks down the line.
Not only is this an outstanding way to add backlinks to your website, it is also a superb way of driving free quality traffic to your site.
How does this work.  When you write an article, it is key to submit your article to at least ten quality article directories.   Typically these article directories will allow an author box below the article.  Within this box you would put one to two URLs to your website.   Once your article is approved, then your links are live and you have two inbound quality links.

By placing your quality article within an article directory your site is viewed by thousands of article readers and website owners.   If a website owner feels your article is related to their site, they can then feed it to their site, thus gaining you more inbound links.

In closing you can see that article marketing is a very inexpensive way to build your inbound links.