Webaholics

I am foolish at times. I logged into cpanel today and tried to delete my main domain in it. Ravisblog.com, just because I wanted to upload the newer version of wordpress into it since something went wrong in my last automatic update. Being a web host, I should have known that I will not be able to delete my main domain name in which my hosting account is configured on the server, and I just went ahead and clicked on the delete domain button. And the reply I got was, “You cannot Kill yourself. Suicide is not an option.”

The admin has to delete the domain, and if he does, all the domain s that you have in your account will be lost. So, I just deleted the folders and files in the account, and uploaded the files again, and the blog is back online now.

Web Hosting is not an easy job. I know how tough it is. I have been doing it for about 5 years for gods sake. Managing your servers remotely, negotiating with Data Centres, and getting your work done and by no means displeasing the client. Phew!!, Im thru with it and have let the professionals take over.

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If you dont want your hosting service provider to take you for a ride, you need to know what is what is where is where when you get hosting from someone. For example, you cannot run ASP in linux, and if you dont know that, any hosting service provider that is not as decent as my own indyahozting will definitely take you for a ride, and make you pay for the next 20 years for your hosting, and after that tell you that Linux doesnt support ASP, and that its common knowledge, and so your money would not be refunded. So for him you will either have to redesign your expensive site, or get hosting somewehre elsefor a higher cost and that would be in windows if you do some research.

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If you ever had Thoughts&Things about making money from adsense or adbrite is that easy, it is not. Welcome to the bitter truth. You will be paid a few cents for every click and a cent for every thousand impressions. You can expect to make a dollar a day if you have about a hundred thousand page views per day, and if a 100 of them click you should make about 10 dollars. So there is no legitimate way of making money from these means, unless you force your visitors to click on the links

For example, you could run a blog, and just below the title , you could place an ad unit which would naturally show relevant text ads to the title, and if you make sure that you blend the unit into your template, they will all look like links on your post, and if people click on that, you willd make money, and when they leave, it would show up as bounce rates in your urchin or google analytics account. And if the site to which you redirect your readers to appear more good, they will subscribe to their rss, and you will loose your visitors.

So how to direct traffic to your site. You can do it the nidokidos way. Build up a huge mailing list, fill the tops and bottoms of the mails with subscribe links to the group, and fill it with images that link to your website, and watermark all images with your domain name, and when you send out just one mail, it will reach hundreds of thousands of people, and a few thousands of those people will forward those mails to people in their own mailing list, and the mails will keep on moving around, and every time a visitor clicks on that image, he will be taken to your site, or even if he doesnt manage to click, he will see the link on the image and try to visit the site. That way you will get a lot of visitors, and even if they dont click on the ads of your site, you will get paid for the impressions.

How to manage the traffic? Well, get a woodcrest server that will be able to handle the database load and manage the traffic without any effort and make sure that the site doesnt go down or beocme slow so that the users get the best out of it, and you make the most money out of it.

The money, unfortulately, is in the client’s pockets, and to bring it legally into your pockets, you need to do a little bit of work. Provide service in such a way that no one would have provided before.

First, you need a cool brand name. wehostlinweb is not a cool name at all. Hostgator is a cool name, and I thought, indyahozting is a cool name, and thats why I registered the domain name. Before that I thought webaholics was a cool name, but couldnt get a .com name for that, so I just let it be and now its a blog.

Secondly, you need to promote it. During the initial stages, you need to go with adwords. For that you need to have a decent budget. Without regualr ads, any money that you spend on advertising will completely be wasted, except for a few clients that you may get.

Thirdly, build as many one way links as possible to your site. Turn to blogs, host blogs in your server, offer them a few free months, get friendly with them, and ask them to write about you. Or ask them to do a paid review. Target blogs with good readership. Take over a few of those blogs and ask them to write reviews for you repeatedly, say maybe once a week, so that you get good traffic from their sites.

Then, launch good referal programs. Working with affiliate links is one way, but to get to know clients personally, employ a relationship manager, and getting referals directly and complementing the refferers directly with cash or services would be a better option.

Finally, turn to the forums. There are loads and loads of active forums on web hosting and other related hisam stuff. Get someone who could constantly post things and be active on your company’s behalf there, with your website url on the footer of every message that he posts. If your name is cool enough, and if your site looks good and has got cool packges, you will get business from it.

And there is your money.