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Server Status Page Is Back Online
We noticed a small clitch on the server status page and made necessary corrections.
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The AvekHost Blog Is About To Get Started!!!
Take a moment and subscribe to our blog here at AvekHost.com as we are about to turn up the volume!
Okay, so your probably wondering why is this guy at AvekHost.com all hyped up about and what is going to deliver on there blog. Well the answer is quite simple and listed below:
- Each week we’ll search the internet for some of the hottest free web site templates available on the web and post links to those templates on our blog.
- Rather frequently, we’ll posting available domain names that you can register along with potential suggestions to use those domain names for.
- We’ll be posting valuable free scripts you can use with your web site to make your job as a web master 10x easier and offer value to your clients.
- We’ll be posting how to video’s to get you better familiar with your cPanel Hosting
- Were seeking out some of the best affordable online advertising medians for you to benefit from and posting these resources on our blog.
- There is just so much that we have planned in store to take you and our blog to the next level.
Remember, to subscribe to our rss feed so you won’t miss any of this valuable content. You can subscribe to our blog feed at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/avekhost
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Knowledge Base Upgrade
We wanted to take a moment and let you know that our redesign of our Knowledge Base section is being conducted at this time.
When you get a moment feel free to take a quick peak and see some of the new articles we have provided to offer additional support, resources, and ideas.
As always, thank you for choosing AvekHost.com to provide you with quality web hosting.
This Weeks Featured Free Template Has Been Posted
Just wanted to remind everyone that this weeks featured free template has been posted to our blog. This week we featured another wordpress theme and one that is of course free to download.
Remember, each week we’ll be posting new templates that we found across the web and feel is worthy of sharing so be sure to check our blog each week.
Free WordPress Template of the Week 12-12-08
Last week we promised to search the web to find the best free web templates we can. This week we recommending another WordPress blog template. We choose this template because of the clean design and because of the advertising space it has built in to provide your blog with some extra revenue generating opportunities.
Remember AvekHost.com can provide you with professional blog hosting for just $5.95 per month. If you think it would be too hard to manage your own blog site versus using a free blogging site, it is time to think again. Check out this link to see how easy it is to install a blog at AvekHost.com.
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Our Recent Upgrades
I wanted to take a moment and follow up with you in regards to a recent upgrade that we performed to our client managment, billing, and suppor system. I think you’ll appreciate some of these changes mentioned below…
Quotes/Estimate System Introduced
- Everyday we receive a number of request to provide additional services in which prices are generated based on the individual project itself. Our new quote system enables us to provide a detail quote to you which would be accessible once you log in to the billing system. This new feature saves our sales department time and most importantly ensure accurate quotes in a timely fashion for you, our valued client. Need a web site redesign? How about a troubling script installed? If so don’t hesitate to contact our sales department at sales@avekhost.com so they can provide you with a quick quote!
Network Issues Status Page
- As an extension to the live server status page that we already had, a network issues page has been implemented. This page is designed to allow you to review current and scheduled/planned service affecting issues such as server outages, software updates, planned maintenance, etc…etc… The page is divided up into 3 categories – open, scheduled and resolved. The view defaults to all open and scheduled issues which can be given a subject, status, priority, affected area, detailed description and start & end date/time. We believe the network issue status page will furtrher support our commitment to deliver you the ultimate customer experience. You can view this new page by visiting: http://www.avekhost.com/billing/networkissues.php or through logging in your account.
Support Ticket Rating
- As you already know we are committed to delivering the ultimate customer experience. We also realize that from time to time we may accidently fall short of our goal and when we do we certainly want to know about. Our new support ticket rating system allows you to rate the individual that is providing you with support. Our management staff will be reviewing the ticket ratings on daily basis to our ensure we are carrying out our committment to delivering the ultimate customer experience each and every day. I feel it is also important to share that AvekHost.com we believe in the development of our staff’s skills and abilities and this provides us with another way to provide our staff members with the best possible coaching that is specific to there individual needs. So next time you submit a ticket, please take a moment and let us know how we are doing.
SEO Friendly URLS
- Okay, so this one is a little selfish on our part. We have implemented Search Engine Friendly urls to our announcements, downloads and knowledgebase sections of the client area.
Free Domain Registration/Transfer Option
- Aside from delivering the ultimate customer experience we are also committed to staying competitive to those organizations who offer similiar services. We added this feature so that we can run promotions from time to time and offer free domain names with new hosting account sign-ups.
RSS Feed Now Offerred For Our Announcement Page
- We know that we can’t expect you to view our announcement page every day. We also know that you don’t want to receive an email from us every day. We have enabled an RSS feed for our announcements page for those clients that wish to stay on top of our announcements. You can access the RSS feed page by visiting http://www.avekhost.com/billing/announcementsrss.php. Remember to click the subscrive to this feed link in the top yellow box. We also plan in the future to have all announcements automatically post to our blog which can be accessed at http://www.avekhost.com/blog/.
Again, we hope that you come to find these changes to be beneficial. We look forward to bringing future upgrades to our knowledge base section, site navigation, and product offerings in the very near future. Should you have any suggestions on areas you would like to see improve or features you would like implemented be do not hesitate to share those ideas by contacting our support team at support@avekhost.com.
How Much Hosting Space Will I Need For My Web Site?
How Much Hosting Space Will I Need For My Web Site?
If you conduct a search today on Google using the terms “Web Hosting Service“, you likely get over 20 Million results to search through. Conducting the same search on MSN’s Live Search you’ll likely get over 269 Million Results and on Yahoo Search over 1.2 Billion results.
Now granted there are with out question multiple listings within for the same site within these search results but never the less you’ll quickly come to understand that there is a lot of competition in the web hosting industry. It is also fairly safe to say that with more competition comes more aggressive marketing in effort to earn your business. Personally, I feel that many hosting companies mislead consumers through there marketing tactics by selling services they either don’t need or in choosing there company based on the positioning of there hosting plans such as “Unlimited Web Hosting” or “200 gigabytes of space”. So, you as the consumer make choices based on perceived value that truly does not benefit you in anyway. For example, if you are hosting a small business web site that only has a few images and few pages (let’s say fewer than 10 pages) and you’re looking for a hosting company to host your site do you choose the company that offers 200GB for $5.95 or the company that offers 500MB of hosting space for $5.95? Truthfully a site of this size will likely never use the allotted hosting space from either company; but you knowing that GB is larger than MB, might go with the company that offers the 200GB because of the perceived value of getting more “bang for your buck”.
Basing your decision on who to host with merely on the perceived value of the hosting package could send down the path of having some very negative experiences with the hosting of your web site. So how much space do you really need? At the end of the day it truly comes down to what you plan to do with your web site. A site offering movies and music for downloads will need much larger space because the files themselves are very large. A web site that has 100 pages offering “How to Information” for example with a few pictures on each page would require significantly less space than one offering music downloads.
Step 1 – Is to determine what your site will be used for.
Step 2 – Is to estimate what the space you will need. If you plan on allowing web visitors to download music use an estimated size of 5MB for each song you will have available to your clients. Some songs will be larger in size while others will be small. I personally went through my MP3 songs and most were between 2.5MB and 4.0MB and estimating by 5MB will help ensure you have some cushion along with my suggestion in step 3. You’ll also need to calculate the number of pages you will have to display information about your available songs and for your clients to click and download which is in the next paragraph.
If you are hosting a web site that offers information to your clients, prospects, etc. than you can estimate that the average page will be about 20KB in size (again some will be larger and some will be smaller), for each image you can estimate around 50KB in size, and add 5KB for perhaps a java script you might run on the page. Using this calculation the average size per page being hosted would be about 75KB per page on average. If you have 100 pages that will be hosted you will need at least 75,000KB of hosting space. Remember KB (Kilobytes) is smaller than MB (Megabytes) and that roughly 1,000KB = 1MB and roughly 1,000MB = 1GB. Take 75,000KB and divide by 1,000 and you’ll need roughly 75MB to host the pages to your web site.
Step 3 – Triple the amount of space you calculated. Why? To provide you and/or your company with a safety net when it comes to the future needs of your web site. For example, some hosts may include email accounts and databases in the hosting space. In addition, you don’t want to have to worry about upgrading your hosting account every time you decide to add to your site or take it to the next level. In theory a web hosting plan that offers you at least 225MB of hosting space would be more than enough to host your website of 100 pages full of information. Even if you get one that is 5 times the size you actually need you would still only need a hosting account that offer 375MB or for 10 times the size you would need just 750MB. So going back to my second paragraph in this example you really wouldn’t need a hosting account that offers even one GB of hosting space.
You might ask what my point is. Basing your decision strictly on the package size of your hosting plan is not always the best choice for deciding who to host with and ultimately you could be missing out on some very good features, functions, benefits, and most importantly positive experiences by using hosting space as your only choice for deciding on whom to host with. When choosing a web hosting provider, consider these following things:
1. How long have they been providing hosting services?
2. How is there reputation online?
3. Does there hosting package meet my needs for my site, domain, email, etc.?
4. Did they respond within 24 hours to my email? Be weary of organizations that respond to fast as they could be more focused on gaining new customers than servicing existing customers. You’ll likely want to be apart of an organization who services there existing client base prior to servicing prospective clients.
5. What does your gut feeling tell you? Go with your gut!
I hope you find this information to be useful and welcome any questions, comments, and/or concerns you may have through our blog at http://www.avekhost.com/blog/.
